[OOC] The Hivemind In Character!

[randomling]

Jeph,

Hm: oppressed people. You could always be Nerezi. The Nerezi have monks, and they (or at least, those on the front line) would certainly consider themselves freedom fighters. The Cellsori and Nerezi are at war, and have been for decades, over mining rights to land which Nerezi tribes live in. It's conceivable that, somewhere high in those borderland mountains, is a monastery which trains people for the wars they fight. Many of the human and dwarven combatants in Nerez are monks or monk/rangers. In fact, I will even allow you to multiclass as a monk/ranger if you're from a Nerezi order. How's that for a nice DM?

It might also help to explain why you're friendly with Gruchet - a large part of the Nerezi population is made up of orcish tribes which are not evil or at war with the human and dwarven populations.

That help?

 

[Jeph]

Yes, indeed!

 

[randomling]

Yay!

Look forward to seeing the background, then!

 

[Jeph]

I hope you don't mind If the soldiers from both sides do some quite beastly things. War is hell.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

War is worse than hell. At least if you're in hell you know you must have done something bad to get there. People died in wars because generals were too stupid to realise that "if we send 10,000 at the enemy maybe enough will survive to kill them" wasn't a very good tactic.

*re-reads own posts*

Sorry to go off on one there. [/rant]

 

[randomling]

I hope you don't mind If the soldiers from both sides do some quite beastly things. War is hell.

Yes, war is hell. And soldiers from both sides do do horrible things on a regular basis. We're talking about 14-year-olds getting killed.

But you should bear in mind this isn't World War 1 - it's not a day-by-day massacre on both sides, it's a skirmish war. Small bands on both sides fighting each other and getting killed or injured: patrols on the Cellsori side, tribesmen or monks on the Nerezi side. It's not Helm's Deep night and day, it what I'm saying.

But yes, brutal and horrible things do happen.

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Not to be a pest, but how close are we to a start?

Actually, i'm not really in a hurry, i'm just really looking forward to the game, and was curious if we were almost there.

 

[Jeph]

Yes, war is hell. And soldiers from both sides do do horrible things on a regular basis. We're talking about 14-year-olds getting killed.

that's not really a strictly war thing, as Romeo and Juliet was about 12 or 13 year olds, I think. (Juliet was supposed to be a bit young for marriage, and the marrying age at that time period was quite low.)

 

[garyh]

Not to be a pest, but how close are we to a start?

Actually, i'm not really in a hurry, i'm just really looking forward to the game, and was curious if we were almost there.

Ditto!

 

[Jeph]

Ditto!

Ditto ditto! Especially since all three of my IC games seem to have fallen flat.