Things haven't quite reached the 'Shut. Down. Everything.' point here, but they're heading that way.  I'm just glad that my son got to have some people turn up to his birthday party this morning.

Hello. Im Aly. Ill be joining the game, or trying to. Never played online before. Nice to meet everyone.

Welcome Aly!  It'll be nice to have someone else posting in the same time zone, for a change.

Quote from: Eclecticon on Mar 27, 2020, 06:47 AMWelcome Aly!  It'll be nice to have someone else posting in the same time zone, for a change.

Welcome, Aly! It is a little bit of an adjustment to go from a tabletop group to a Play-by-Post game, but you catch on quickly.

Look at it like we are all writing a novel together and the game mechanics add the needed direction. To keep consistent - write in 3rd person and in past-tense. (She went, she climbed, etc.) That makes it easier for me to consolidate all of our posts into the PDF books (when I get the time).

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. All we need to do to start is get you a character written up - at least a name and race and we can get you playing.

I set up a blank PC sheet for you in our shared Google Drive, as well as sending you the link to open the drive folder. I look forward to you adding to our story.

Quote from: tomcat on Mar 27, 2020, 02:21 PMTo keep consistent - write in 3rd person and in past-tense. (She went, she climbed, etc.) That makes it easier for me to consolidate all of our posts into the PDF books (when I get the time).

I will point out at this juncture that I have been playing in this game for... I don't know - like twenty years or something, and I have never done this.  I've always been a present tense guy. 

We know.

Knowed?

We knowed that.

My textular predelictions aside, Aly is looking to play a High Elf.  I offered her other cultures, but she said 'nay, stay thy tongue and thy tempting words.  An Elf of Rivendell will I play and none other!'

So let's prepare to welcome Laeral Aurukun.  Aly, would you like to give them the details we've figured out so far?  Then we can workshop the rest to make sure she works with the rest of the group.

Okay - so what i have so far is:
Name - Laeral Aurukun
Culture - High Elf
Calling - Treasure-Hunter. Specifically she is after Aeglos ('Icicle') the great spear used by Gil-Galad, the last High King of the Elves at the battle of Dagorlad to fight a duel with Sauron, alongside Elendil the Tall, and lost somewhere in the Vales of Anduin during the disaster of the Gladden Fields.  She wants it as her personal weapon.
Physicality - in profile pic 
Specialties - Elven and herb lore
Distinctive features - Fierce and suspicious

She has also mentioned wanting a trained owl.  I thought we could base this mechanically on the Woodsmen's hounds - I had a similar idea a while back when I was considering Theodwin (Arbogast's brother-in-law) as a backup PC.

'Aurukun', incidentally, could be a slightly corrupted version of the Quenya 'Órëacúnë' - 'Bow of the Dawn'.  Aly, could it be that she called herself that a while back among Men who couldn't get it together to pronounce it properly, and has since just decided to go with it?

Sure.

Just a heads-up: Aly and I have finished a first pass at Laeral (her High Elf), and she should be hitting the Google drive soon.  Any constructive input into her background would also be appreciated.  Tom, since you've played the only other High Elf in the game to date, do you have any suggestions or things you've learned since Morirusë came on-screen?

I am not able to share things in the share folder. Apparently i dont have permission....?

I've uploaded it (though I had to buggerise around with different Google accounts because G-drive seems to want me to log in with my uni account all the damn time).  There may be further changes, but at least there's something up there to review.

I will look over the sheet and then send her starting XP and AP to do some advancements to the PC.

It seems that you need to have a Gmail account to easily login and edit files in the Google Drive, even if I invite you under another email address. So - I can move the files back to a Dropbox folder if that is easier, or Paul and Aly would need to create a Google login.

Let me know what you all want to do.