Wheel of Time Roleplay--A Cruel And Bitter Mercy--OOC Thread

[Ezmeralda]

Since Marrow didn't answer the question in the SoT thread.

What do you want us to do with this Ethan, Marrow? :P

[Hagazussa]

I do have some rather horrible plans for our little Warder student Marrow as he might use him to show how much danger the party is in after a while, but I will not kill your character unless you are okey with it.

[Hagazussa]

One thing I was thinking about is that once the current scene ends and Beth and Beradain have talked with Kirva about their engagement in the morning perhaps we should have some downtime for some parts of the journey, the game is great fun, however just having riding and talking and playing out every day in a month long journey, and that is just to get to the town the male channeler was first seen in, might get a bit monotonous.

I have also been thinking about some new directions for the game since it is just us playing and the game was intended for a whole group of players. Right now Edey call all the shots and the player characters can not do that much to influence things. I was thinking that your two characters, Kirva, Beradain and perhaps a few more would be sent ahead as a scout group. Basically your Yellow and Kirva do not have ageless features yet but your Yellow is extremely strong in the One Power so that a circle with her, Kirva and perhaps Beth's employer would be rather powerful. I am thinking that Edey might decide that if the man the group is hunting see thirteen Aes Sedai he will bolt, but a group of three of them where only one is identifiable as one might be able to sneak up on him.

Another possibility is that if your Yellow actually manages to heal Beradain, yes I know this will den diverge from cannon, but it is possible to do within the setting and there could have been unrecorded instances of it happening that the characters in the books never knew about so it is not a huge stretch, off course at that point probably your healer, Beth, Kirva and Beradain will have to flee so no one will discover what have happened and just drag Beradain in to be gentled again which will again leave them on their own, but then with a powerful male channeler on their side to help them deal with some of the nastiness that is lurking behind the scenes.

[Ezmeralda]

Everything sounds good to me. It's not like we do much interaction with all those other people anyway. As for Beredain, if you can think of a good reason to diverge from canon I'm all for it. I don't mind changes so long as their thought out and informed beforehand.

[Hagazussa]

That is what I thought as well that having a huge party of NPCs can get a bit bothersome and just having a players characters and a few more makes for a tighter story. As for Beradain, well your Yellow might find out how to heal him and it is possible to do in the setting and since she is not so bound by traditions she might just figure it out and that would leave the her Kirva, Beth and Beradain with a bit of a dilemma which can be interesting to play out.

[Hagazussa]

I have thought about it for a little while and one thing we could do to get the dilemmas and interesting plot lines of Beradain being healed but without messing to much with the cannon of the setting we could say you character manage to heal him, but are not sure how she did it. In the books Nyn spends months learning a completely new way of healing from a Forsaken she was pretty well prepared, if your Yellow instead just stumble upon it she might do it but not be sure how to recreate the weave and then we both have the question of what to do with Beradain now that the characters have to deal with but for Sharisy she have to try to figure out what she did and at the same time if Beradain was discovered everyone would just assume that he somehow miraculously only had his abilities badly wounded during his gentling and that they recovered, no one would suspect he was healed. That is one way to do it at least, and it would keep the stakes high for then if he is captured again, or if Kirva or Sharisy is caught for helping him then they can not be healed if they should suffer the same fate.