wilderlogs | THE LAST HOMELY HOUSE ※ RIVENDELL ※ LOG 2

THE LAST HOMELY HOUSE
OOC POST
The group is told to take a week of rest in the Last Homely House as the injured and sick among them heal. The Elves promise them that at the end of that week, there will be a great Council, with representatives of several peoples in attendance.

Until then, they can wander the peaceful halls of Rivendell, which are filled with travelers from all over the Wilderlands who are making a rest stop while they travel through the lands of Middle-Earth.

The most notable part of Rivendell is the Hall of Fire, a great feast hall where people can eat, drink, and be merry. This is the great social hall of Rivendell, where the Elves and their visitors share news of lands far beyond, tell stories, or perform music. The music here almost sounds divine, especially when the Elves sing and play, but they're just as eager to hear songs from other lands, so if any of the squad decide to share, they'll be glad to listen.

Some of the hall's guests are a touch more lively than the others, like a party of dwarves staying at Rivendell. Their stories are a mite more adventurous and if you get in their good graces, they might be willing to share some of the beer they brought with them. Listening to their stories or their talk about their craftmanship is a way to get into their good graces.

The Elves love learning, so there are libraries the group is allowed to browse, though they mostly only contain tales of Middle-Earth (for now), though the Elves seem to be collecting what books about other lands they can. These libraries often have viewing stations with telescopes pointing at the sky. The Elves have been almost delighted by the changing skies, enjoying the challenge of trying to understand how the sky has been knitting itself together with the addition of new worlds.

There are also beautiful balconies here, overlooking the gorge and the waters below, and terraced gardens filled with flowers, bushes, and flowering trees. Their rooms are open to the outdoors and have beds that seem grown into the shape of bed-frames instead of carved. The bathrooms actually have running water. The Elves have figured out how to direct the clean running waters of the gorge in primitive indoor plumbing. Water for hot baths has to be heated first in brass cauldrons over coal braziers before getting dumped into the bath.

It's time for the squad to rest, eat, and regroup. If a great Council is going to be called involving them, it might be a good idea to make sure they go into it as a united front, lest decisions about their fate be made for them.

NOTES
✦ Joint log: Since this camp period won't be particularly long, everything will take place in a joint log. Players can post starters with prompts for others and tag into other players' prompts.

✦ Post in actionspam format. Plots and mod-run events in the game are meant to be in actionspam format to keep a brisk pace.

✦ Cursed Weapons/Powers: So they know about how they'll be treated: those with cursed weapons and dark powers will be tolerated by the Elves after entry. While they'll get the same general treatment, the Elves around them may at times seem uncomfortable. Those with cursed weapons will only be distrusted a little, as the weapons themselves will seem more suspicious than their bearers. Those with dark powers or some kind of dark nature (such as being a vampire, Necromancer mage, werewolf, etc.) will be treated with the greatest distrust.

✦ Fairy Swaps: The Elves may be slightly alarmed by the Brugh fairy swaps but get over it easily. However, if the character swapped in is one of the "dark" characters, the swap might be extra cause for alarm. (A potential prompt idea).

✦ Npcing: There will be two npc threads. The "Random Encounters" thread is for characters to have a totally random encounter with an npc. These npcs will be fellow travelers from lands beyond. While they can't give much information about the group's status as Chosen Ones (that will happen during the Council) they can provide info about events in the Wilderlands beyond that may come to affect the squad in their travels. The "Specific Requests" thread will be for more specific issues your character might want to discuss with the Elves. While they'll push any Chosen Ones discussion off to the Council, they're willing to discuss issues with the characters, like if they have questions about having received magic, about being bound to their weapons, etc. The Rivendell Elves have heard a lot of gossip from all over and can potentially provide info based on things they've heard.

✦ Clothes: The group will not yet be fully equipped for their travels (that will happen upon leaving) but everyone will at least be given new clothes since theirs are dirty and sometimes torn. Characters without appropriate travel footwear will also be given light and sturdy boots that will somehow be in their size without their size being asked. They'll also be given basic toiletries like scissors that can be used to cut hair and beards. There are no razors, however, because the Elves don't need to shave so they don't keep them on hand.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[It's a good white lie! All of Trance's white lies are good. She's just not prepared for what she's up against this time. It's not her fault. They don't exactly have Jedi where she's from.]

Isn't that for, like, hitting people and stuff? [Implied: there are no people here for hitting. Well, except Trance. Please don't hit her.]

Mostly.

[Revan grins. She's very good at hitting people.]

But it's also meditation.

[Tremendously poor at idleness, Revan gets more mileage out of moving mediation, whether it's droid repair or lightsaber forms...but both droid and sabers being in short supply here, she makes do.]

Rev Bem doesn't look anything like that when he meditates. It's more like... [She closes her eyes and holds up her hands in her best approximation of a meditation pose. She makes a little humming noise for added effect, although Rev usually sounds a lot more growly when he meditates. It's not really a sound she can make.]

I do that sometimes, too. Without the humming.

[That part seems like it would get extremely annoying for shipmates extremely quickly.]

The important part is being able to forget yourself.

[Well, there's only a few of them on a really big ship, and on the Maru is just seemed more important to let him do whatever he needed to not want to eat them. Fair tradeoff and all.]

You... forget yourself? How do you remember yourself again, afterwards?

[That is either some cluelessness or some Jedi Master-level zen, and Revan stares for a moment as she attempts to figure out which.]

Generally you don't get so far you can't find your way back.

["Becoming one with the Force" is a euphemism for dying, and Revan's got no plans for that anytime soon.]

[A little of column A, a little of column B. Either way, Trance doesn't look at all fazed by the staring, just curious.]

Ooh. That makes sense. [She laughs a little] That would probably be pretty embarrassing. Are you good at it? Kind of forgetting yourself, I mean.

[Not being embarrassing. Trance is pretty sure she's not that, just from... well, being kind of a stalker.]

[Is Revan actually capable of experiencing embarrassment signs point to "no."]

Moving meditation? Sure.

["Sitting still" isn't really her strong suit.]

Maybe you should try to teach people. I can think of a couple that could use the help.

[Somewhere in Rivendell, Harper's ears should be positively burning.]

Is it very hard to learn? I was never very good at Rev Bem's kind of meditating.

[Time to duck the question of how long it took her to learn, because she doesn't remember.]

I don't know how well it would work for non-Jedi. We start learning when we're children, to help us feel the Force.

[Yes, Revan, you definitely don't have to explain any of that, good job.]

[Trance doesn't even blink, considering some of the things she's seen children get up to. At least they're not teaching their children to fly suicide missions with nova bombs. Right?

And she's no stranger to words going over her head, so that helps, too.]

Oh. Well. No better place to find out? Maybe more people would want to be jedi.

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