Sagiro's Story Hour Returns (new thread started on 5/18/08)

[Wolfspirit]

I'm assuming that the area that now is (?) called Tal Hae once was (now is?) Pyke Vale.

Supposedly Abernathy lived to be about 997 years old, give or take a few, so I don't think he could have been hanging around from before the defeat of the Empire. If the masking took place about 1000 years ago, even if that is just a neat number, a teenager or younger wouldn't be considered much of a wizard. Of course, there is the possibility that Abernathy WAS older than he even let on, but I think people would have noticed.

Doesn't one of the Company have the nickname of the "Opener"? Kibi, maybe? I think that the Opener needs to use the 3 Eyes (keys) to change things... I wonder if there are now 9 Eyes, what with the new time frame and everything.

Anyway, my last rambling before I go back to studying: Does Het Branoi have the distinction of being a home to seven dark words? If not, then they probably won't find an Eye there. One thing to think about is the fact that a lot of portable things won't be in the same place.

 

[Piratecat]

We're 95% sure that there IS an eye in Het Brannoi.

There were seven Eyes of Moirel; we have two (one taken from Lizardo the great big lizard, and one taken long ago from a crystal skeleton at our recently gifted keep.) According to them, one is unclaimed at Het Brannoi. As far as we now know, the sharshun have the other three -- and you need three to "travel nowhere," whatever that means. We think the sharshun did so to unmake the world.

Interestingly enough, Ernie immediately came up with the idea that "the House of Seven Dark Words" might actually be a home of someone in Djaw! It's certainly the right naming style (such as "One Certain Step," or Dranko's assumed name of "One Slippery Slope.") It's a cool theory that hadn't occurred to me, and certainly sounds better than a scary bad place.

Your theories that "our" reality is the fake one are really disturbing, and unfortunately might be borne out by various hints. We haven't really considered that in character... but I keep remembering that one bad guy saying, "We were here first!"

I believe the word we're looking for is "crap."

 

[Caliber]

This is the part that creeps me out the most. If Abernathy is known as "the Wizard of Pyke Vale", and this alternate Tal Hae is called Pyke Vale, then maybe this evil reality is the real reality and the Tal Hae reality--what we know and love--is the fakey one.

Maybe, originally, the Emperor did win except for the efforts of Abernathy and co, who went back in time and altered things. Now the bad guys have set things as they were. And our heroes have to change it again.

Or did I miss something: Tal Hae was previously known as Pyke Vale, and the "wizard of Pyke Vale" thing can be explained by the fact that Abernathy was really, really old?

-z, head hurts

I read it that the city of Tal Hae was once known as Pyke Vale, and when the Emporer was booted out it was changed to Tal Hae (something the other guys would never have learned)

But the whole already changed and now changing back thing is a lot cooler.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Interestingly enough, Ernie immediately came up with the idea that "the House of Seven Dark Words" might actually be a home of someone in Djaw! It's certainly the right naming style (such as "One Certain Step," or Dranko's assumed name of "One Slippery Slope.") It's a cool theory that hadn't occurred to me, and certainly sounds better than a scary bad place.

Well, how has Djaw changed since the Emperor is in power? I don't think that there are any friendly good places in Sagiro's world...

Technically the unmaking of the world (which in itself implies that the world was artifically made in the first place) could have had two effects on the Eyes. Either the Eyes have a variable existence based on what happened, or they are independant of the unmaking. Since the two eyes remained in the group's possession it's relatively safe to assume the Eyes maintain a constant existence, and will be in Het Branoi.

 

[Zustiur]

Goodness Me.

mmmm Sagiroy Goodness. Or badness if you prefer to think of it that way.

My guess says: the situation is exactly as written, without any between the lines stuff: that is to say, all that happened in the Part 1 past is true, and then the sharshun got hold of a third eye and rewrote history.

Futhermore; Since the eyes of Moirel are required to reshape history, they can not be increased in number. Else it would be too easy to rewrite history.

As for Albernathy being "the wizard of Pyke Vale", I got with the theory that he is called that simply because he comes from the city that the bad guys refer to as Pyke Vale. They just don't care what the new inhabitants called it.

Point 4, that was a seriously powerful switch between part 1 and part 2, and fully deserves all the credit we can impart on Sagiro

Excellent work.

One question for Sagiro: do you speak for Kibi when he is relating what the eyes tell him, or have you been handing him notes to read out?

Zustiur.

 

[Destil]

Well, how has Djaw changed since the Emperor is in power? I don't think that there are any friendly good places in Sagiro's world...

Well, the Delfirians, allied with Skewn, are from the other contentinent... who knows what kind of trouble the're making with his help over in Kivia.

Too much that's good here to comment on all the specifics, guess I'll just pick one point... uhm, nice use of prying eyes. Always liked that spell.

 

[MavrickWeirdo]

I'm hoping that this "go nowhere" world will give us an opportunity to explore some "forgotten" plot-threads such as the "Wilberforce Legacy"

 

[Galfridus]

We're 95% sure that there IS an eye in Het Brannoi.

There were seven Eyes of Moirel; we have two (one taken from Lizardo the great big lizard, and one taken long ago from a crystal skeleton at our recently gifted keep.) According to them, one is unclaimed at Het Brannoi. As far as we now know, the sharshun have the other three -- and you need three to "travel nowhere," whatever that means.

Uh, I get six from that statement. Maybe the seventh is in your sock drawer.

 

[KidCthulhu]

Uh, I get six from that statement. Maybe the seventh is in your sock drawer.

Actually, Morel ran all seven through the washer and dryer, and wouldn't you know it, only six came out of the dryer. I hate it when that happens.

 

[Sagiro]

Actually, Morel ran all seven through the washer and dryer, and wouldn't you know it, only six came out of the dryer. I hate it when that happens.

The 7th Eye of Moirel is inhabiting and animating a crimson crystal sock puppet and remaking reality inside your laundry room!

-Sagiro