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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sialia" data-source="post: 1326152" data-attributes="member: 1025">So, it's like this. During last round, I was definitely thinking that I might go for a three round story. I left myself loopholes for going on, if I felt like it. I didn't, for example, kill the whole party, although that was definitely an option I considered. I hate it when the GM favors precious characters so much that nobody can die no matter what. Imagine your top twenty favorite movies/plays/operas without any death scenes. I mean, did anybody else find it a bit odd that what with all the death and destruction in Lord of the Rings, practically nobody we actually care about gets killed? Sometimes I wonder if the ending wouldn't have been better with Frodo going in after Gollum.The thing that saves that for me is his inability to really return home after all the goings on. I think my favorite scene of RotK was the bit where his walking thorugh Bag End looking lost at the end of the film. Ok, so he survives, but at what cost? But in any case, what with Mythago's bias against continuing stories, and me feeling personally a little too worn out on these characters to go on with them, and having so many details to slog through before I can get them moving again, I promised myself I'd ditch 'em and start something fresh for the Final. Bandeeto spent the better part of last evening trying to convince me that I wasn't done with these characters. He had a lot of novel ideas--novel meaning "new" as opposed to an indication of how long it would take to tell them--none of which matched with any sense I had of where this story was going , if indeed I were to go on with it. But after I shot him down about six times, he said "looks to me like you've got a pretty strong idea about what happens next." And I said, "what's that supposed to mean?" and he said "You're not done with them yet." So. I still might start something fresh next round, if the photos take me there. But I if I do, somebody nag me to go back and tell you about what happens to our halflings after this is all over.</blockquote>

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