Question, does everyone think Kathryn is actually an elf? Or is that just a character thing? Or did I mis-type something... I shall check that....
Huh? Alberich was referring to Ysran when he said elf, so you might've confused yourself there when you read my paragraph (if that's where the confusion aroused in the first place).
In any case,
@Lord Orgasmo and I were thinking about this RP during lunch today. The two of us thought up some plot concerns, and I wanted to voice them in this thread to you all (
@Remipa Awesome,
@dereken,
@AtomicNut,
@Lich, and
@Kenaron). To begin, we have four people + whatever NPCs Lich might bring into the fold, six people/players if we include Nut or Kenaron (given if they reply in the future). This had raised concerns as the two of us concluded Tharac's warband must be much, much larger (several hundred?), perhaps more than we can handle at this time. In order to figure out how we could fix these concerns, Lord and I came with a few ideas that our group could possibly use.
For one, we are, for the most part, in the open with no official base to call
home. I suggested that my character (Alberich) could use his expertise in helping build a small campsite or something for our group, but the real problem lies in location. We considered the burnt down village, but it would be an open location and most shelter would be gone and destroyed by the fire the orcs set. Also, we would be freely inviting disease by sleeping on a pile of corpses left behind after the assault.
Secondly, as I stated before, there is a number issue (possibly). Unfortunately, the world is a dangerous place and not everyone would be willing to go fight the Dark Lord without an actual reason to do so. Lord told me that Ysran could do some magic tricks to try and impress the local populace to join our side. I thought this was a good idea, and together the two of us think Ysran could "fool" the populace into getting on his good side by fighting off supposed soldiers of the Dark Lord (which are illusions) with illusions of his own. Another alternative is that we could just bribe them, but that doesn't exactly guarantee their loyalties.
Feel free to add on more to this or dismiss it as ramblings from myself, but I figured we should at least have a discussion.