THE LAST HOMELY HOUSE ※ RIVENDELL ※ LOG 2

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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.

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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.

Comments

[awfulcer]

Huh.

[Welp.]

So were you around when the pyramids were made?

[coiledscales]

I have seen pyramids, but I'm not sure if they were the pyramids you refer to. Probably not, considering...

[awfulcer]

[Dixon gives him a blank look, then makes a hand gesture like "are you going to finish that sentence because I have no idea where you're going".]

[coiledscales]

[ It's called inference and implication, Dixon. Alacruun gives him a little side-eye and then shrugs. ]

Considering we come from vastly different worlds. I doubt they're the same.

[awfulcer]

[Dixon meets Alacruun's glance with an eyeroll of his own, as if Alacruun were inferring some context no reasonable person would arrive at.]

Far as I can tell you don't know all that much about my world. Maybe it's just like yours but without dragons. Considered that?

[A pause.] Or without elves. Those too.

[coiledscales]

I have and I have discarded it.

[ Alacruun sees no reason to explain his train of logic. Mostly because he's pretty sure Dixon would lose track less than a quarter of the way through, as short of a train as it is. ]

[awfulcer]

Well, you shouldn't have, because it might still be true. [Not like Dixon has any actual basis for that argument aside from digging his heels in, but you know.]

Point is, you got no idea where I'm from. You ain't even asked.

[coiledscales]

You are not from Faerun.

[ Alacruun pointedly does not phrase that as a question of any sort. ]

[awfulcer]

No, I'm from Missouri.

[coiledscales]

Exactly.

[ Alacruun arches an eyebrow. ]

...I believe I saw a map of your world. It is nothing like mine.

[awfulcer]

How do you know? I could be from the Milky Way. Revan is.

[One of these things is true.]

If you know I'm from Earth, it's only because I told you. Everyone's just acting on assumption.

[coiledscales]

No; it's a train of logical progression. I saw the name "Missouri" on a map. You say you're from Missouri. Ergo, you're from said Missouri.

[ Walking him through this. One step at a time. ]

[awfulcer]

There could be more than one Missouri. We've got two Washingtons.

[coiledscales]

On two different worlds? Doubtful.

[ Alacruun does not buy that for one second. ]

[awfulcer]

We've got two in one country, it seems like if they were on different worlds that'd be more likely. They'd be more spaced apart and harder to get switched.

[Not like...he ever has done that...as an adult...]

[coiledscales]

There's also the issue of the likely-hood of the same world with the same name replicating itself...

[ Alacruun doesn't know about all the different Earth timelines yet. ]

[awfulcer]

[Welcome to having your bubble burst, Alacruun.]

That ain't just likely, it's true. Plenty of the other folks around here come from Earth and even cities from America, but their world's completely different than mine. It's got superheroes.

[So there.]

[coiledscales]

Superheroes. I've never heard the term.

[ Stop making words up, Dixon. ]

[awfulcer]

Why did you think that one guy showed up wearing Spandex and a cape and calling himself Superman?

[Stop having a different frame of reference, Alacruun.]

[coiledscales]

...I honestly don't pay much attention to people who call themselves grandiose titles, unless they're actually a threat.

[ Your frame of reference is dumb. ]

[awfulcer]

Okay, well, that's a superhero. They wear Spandex and they save people with superpowers.

[Dixon enunciates each word like he's talking to someone dumb, which is pretty whatever-the-opposite-of-self-aware is.]

[coiledscales]

Adventurers with no fashion sense, then.

[ He does have a frame of reference, thank you. ]

[awfulcer]

No, they're not adventurers, they have home bases. Like the Bat Cave, or the X-Mansion.

[Dixon's weirdly defensive about this!]

[coiledscales]

...of course.

[ Alacruun does not see why that matters at all, but sure. You do you, Dixon. ]

[awfulcer]

It means they're not adventuring. They're defending.

[This distinction is important solely for pedantry.]