[OOC] The Elder Scrolls: Fruits of Contention - Chapter 1 (Completed)

[Peik]

@POOHEAD189High Rock is my pet-project in this RP, seeing as I played it in the NRP this spun out of. If you have any questions, feel free to PM me the CS and we can work together on it.

@Leidenschaft

Damnit, here I was thinking that I could keep getting away with condensating all Western European cultures into High Rock.

welp

[Leidenschaft]

@PeikHA HA

Have I got news for you, as to how I portrayed High Rock culture then.

[Peik]

@PeikHA HA

Have I got news for you, as to how I portrayed High Rock culture then.

@Leidenschaft

pls no

i want to keep referencing victorian era novels

[POOHEAD189]

Well you're not completely wrong Lore wise, with them using Celtic/Gaelic/Gallic/Anglo Saxon names.

[Leidenschaft]

@POOHEAD189There's also a few Germanic/Norman names the further east you move because of it getting closer to Hjaalmarch around Northpoint and Jehanna.

FoC canon, the King of Jehanna is a Nord who rose from being a warchief in Hjaalmarch that came to claim his cousin's throne. I ran it a lot like GoT and Crusader Kings in the NRP. I was watching/playing a lot of both at the time.

@PeikI mean, you can. I was canonizing Fiore and Liechtenauer Fechtbuchs as fencing treatises under not!Fiore/Liechtenauer. Though, I was pulling mainly from 13th-15th century Europe, with Jehanna being a little 1000s Scandinavia, all with the court-intrigue and feuding turned up to 11 in accordance with it being filled with Bretons.

[ButtsnBalls]

Ok guys, the votes are in, and it's time for:

The Award Ceremony

Most Emotional Tear-Jerker

Solveig at the Chasm, by @Leidenschaft

Nominations

This scene really stuck out to me because it was one of the most effective scenes I've seen in this game at capturing the absolute desperation and despair that have been articulated so far, and Solveig's experiences are genuinely harrowing and haunting. For as much as Do'Karth tries to assure Jorwen that she is a good person who will choose her own destiny, this really smacks of exactly what Jorwen was afraid of, and the toll it's taking on her. This more than anything really cemented that the characters in this story aren't necessarily heroic, and there's going to be some real dark moments even among the "good guys".

@Dervish

By this point in the game, while I had experience a vast array of emotions, the one that moved me to tears was when Solveig had to choose between life and death, and the struggles of her choice afterwards.

@MacabreFox

Best Action Sequence

Suicide Bombing, by @MiddleEarthRoze and @Frizan

Nominations

not only was this a heart-gripping scene, as the scope of their plan unfolded, and both characters suffered grievous wounds for their courage and bravery, it was also one of the best action scenes in the game. I hadn’t read anything so daring before!

@MacabreFox

I absolutely, positively adore this scene and it was done in such a way that really captured the chaotic personalities of both Sagax and Roze, and the absolutely insane lengths they were willing to go through for this small victory. It was beautifully written, easy to put myself in the scene, and it was definitely the point that I fell in love with both of these characters.

@Dervish

Finest Dialogue

Jorwen and Solveig; Family Reunion and Making Peace, by @Leidenschaft

Nominations

In the relationship of father and daughter, Schafty-kins shows us time and time again, a realistic relationship. One that is evident as his ability to play the role of a father through Jorwen, and his ability to create a dynamic between Solveig and Jorwen.

From the beginning of FoC, Schaft showed us Jorwen’s traits as a father during the rescue of the Forsworn children, and even throughout the rest of the game. Again and again, I’m always amazed to read how much skill, even though it might not be many words, that Schaft has been able to give realistic depth to Jorwen. Though this isn’t limited to just Jorwen, but through the relationship with Halla, and Solveig.

Even in Solveig, after she meets Sevine for the first time, and listening to how Sevine described her father in a light she didn’t know, their reunion downstairs is emotional. And the same night when Jorwen comes home to Halla, and chastises her like a little girl.

@MacabreFox

There have been a number of really amazing conversations in this game, as well as some of the best character development I've seen in a roleplay, but the reason I am nominating this scene is because a very constant bit of conflict that Jorwen has struggled with is his relationship with Solveig, and it has been that way since the very beginning of the game. All the fights they've had, all the fears and doubts, both of them finally, in this moment, had the courage to have such a small, simple gesture of love and affection towards each other that really spoke volumes more than a monologue ever could about how they both were flawed, but were willing to try to make up for all those lost years and hardships. I really just want to give a shout out to Shaft for making Jorwen, Solveig, and Halla a really believable and true to life family unit.

@Dervish

Most Unexpected Twist

Farid Kills Orakh, by @Gcold

Nominations

Even after Farid busting the door down and threatened the Orc, I didn't think he was actually going to succeed in hurting or killing him. This was another brilliantly written bit of action, but for me, was totally unexpected. How naive of me to assume someone would come in to save the day, or that Farid would come to his senses.

@MiddleEarthRoze

I think the whole sequence, and how it was built up from beforehand with the Tamrielic Gazette, did a fine job of showing the whole 'Those affected by the consequences shall never understand the decisions' tagline of the RP.

@Peik

Funniest Comedic Moment

Keegan Getting Rekt, by @Gcold

Nominations

This scene will always stick out to me as one of the most comedic scenes of the game, from Keegan's inner monologue, his heroic but utterly baffling manner of trying to attack the Spriggan, to getting his ass kicked in the worst possible way, it all pulled together to make a post that I legitimately laughed out loud reading.

@Dervish

My mind is blank, and my explanation is equally so.

@Peik

Dankest Meme

Our Lord and Savior

CLIMB KIT!!!

Witness the dank lord in its original glory. Seriously, read the entire page and the next; it'll cure cancer.

And that's it, guys. Please stay for the alcohol filled orgy after party.



Edit: award winners have been inducted into the Hall of Fame, on the OOC front page.

[Peik]

My mind is blank, and my explanation is equally so.

@gcold

Y'know this sounds wiser than what it tries to convey

[Chrononaut]

<Snipped quote by Leidenschaft>

pls no

i want to keep referencing victorian era novels

@Peik

Oh yeah m8, "Look hither, it's a house of seven gables" or "Is that vampire count from Monte Cristo", or "I knew this woman, Jane Eyre".

Don't let context stop you, I've referenced Discworld probably four times and we're not even on flat planet riding on the back of four elephants atop of a cosmic turtle.

My mind is blank, and my explanation is equally so. - Gcold

Y'know this sounds wiser than what it tries to convey

@Peik

Reminds me of buddhist Koans.

A monk asked Master Haryo, “What is the way?”
Haryo said, “An open-eyed man falling into the well.”

[ButtsnBalls]

@Life in Stasis, I see you lurking.

[Life in Stasis]

@Life in Stasis, I see you lurking.

@gcold

Oh indeed. Heard some good things and was perusing. Do carry on.

[Dervish]

<Snipped quote by gcold>

Oh indeed. Heard some good things and was perusing. Do carry on.

@Life in Stasis

What kind of good things?

Like our free lunch buffets, Sunday night orgies, or competitive Hungry Hungry Hippo tournaments?

[Peik]

<Snipped quote by Life in Stasis>

What kind of good things?

Like our free lunch buffets, Sunday night orgies, or competitive Hungry Hungry Hippo tournaments?

@Dervish

_{nobody told me about the orgies}

[Dervish]

<Snipped quote by Dervish>

_{nobody told me about the orgies}

@Peik

You mean you didn't get your invite in the mail?

Let's blame Shafty boy for that one.

He's always dicking around.

[ButtsnBalls]

<Snipped quote by Peik>

You mean you didn't get your invite in the mail?

Let's blame Shafty boy for that one.

He's always dicking around.

@Dervish

This is why you never stroke the Schaft

's ego.

[ButtsnBalls]

Now that our hall of famers have been properly inducted, it is time for the next community activity. Before anything, know that new community activities will be introduced every ten days (subject to change), and will be OOC focused.

Our first one is fairly simple: what happens if your FoC character(s) meets another one of your characters from another RP? Things to write about are conversations, observations and possible trade/exchange. Try not to do bloody murder, as the interdimensional godhead frowns upon such behavior.

Due ten days from now; get started!

[Leidenschaft]

<Snipped quote by Dervish>

This is why you never stroke the Schaft

's ego.

@gcold

I'm a grower, not a shower.

Now that our hall of famers have been properly inducted, it is time for the next community activity. Before anything, know that new community activities will be introduced every ten days (subject to change), and will be OOC focused.

Our first one is fairly simple: what happens if your FoC character(s) meets another one of your characters from another RP? Things to write about are conversations, observations and possible trade/exchange. Try not to do bloody murder, as the interdimensional godhead frowns upon such behavior.

Due ten days from now; get started!

@gcold

Jorwen meets Sevari, oh boy.

[MacabreFox]

Oh boy!

Sevine meets Vera Addley! ;D she'd probably tell her to sober her ass up. But I'd love to write something like this! I just finished working on The Twelfth Labors contest that's run by Terminal. I like this idea a lot :)

Mucho bueno @gcold

[POOHEAD189]

@MacabreFoxIs the contest still on the First Labor?

[MacabreFox]

@MacabreFoxIs the contest still on the First Labor?

@POOHEAD189

It is! It ends on the 12th :)

[Graviloquence]

@gcold That sounds like an amazing prompt! (By the way, sorry for not participating in the first one; I have only been around for a few pages so I didn't feel like I've seen/participated in enough to have a say in the voting.) I do have a quick question, though: would it be acceptable for me to use a character not present in an RP on this site? My two most active RPs/PRPs are Elder-Scrolls themed, and I'd like to use a character from outside the universe.