This ought to be fun
Oct. 21st, 2004 11:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperI appear to have been dragged back into roleplay on Two Moons MUSH. This is entirely the fault of the new player for Doreel, who is actually an old player but who was thinking about getting active again and who therefore asked for the character.
For those who are not familiar with the character Doreel, he is sort of a quasi-Book Character--not actually in the Elfquest comics, but he is the central character in a sample adventure included in the Elfquest RPG. He got incarnated on TM way back in 1995, and just about every major tinyplot involving him has had me at the helm; what can I say, I'm kind of partial to the old dear, and have seen him through four player changes. He started off on TM the same way he's in the RPG--a son of the High Ones who's gone insane with grief after his entire tribe gets wiped out, and he hides away in a remote grove he's shaped with his power. But on TM, by now, he got captured (by a party led by my character Rillwhisper ;) ) and even healed. Mostly. It took half a dozen magic-users to do it: Savah, her lifemate Djhala, Kiralee, Ynderra, Leetah, and Mender were likely all involved. I say 'likely' because Doreel's healing was unfortunately punted off-camera, just because the plot was a bear to organize. Savah's changed players since then, as did Leetah. Leetah and Mender are now both playerless, as well.
But. This also leaves some leeway in interpreting exactly how well Doreel got healed. He's had a lot of healing power poured into him, and he's marginally functional now, IC--his memories are patchy, but they're clear enough that he's deeply troubled by what he recollects about his past actions. (And this is why I've always been partial to Doreel--unlike, say, Winnowill or any of the other Batshit Insane magic-users we've had in play on TM, Doreel isn't evil. He just needs some redemption. And I'm a sucker for redemption plots, what can I say!)
Where do I come in for this round of Doreel goodness? I've got exactly one alt left on the game: Ynderra of Lostholt. One of the healers who was involved in Doreel's capture and healing. And the one who Doreel almost damn near made kill him with her own power, because Derra almost broke under the onslaught of his wild sending. Ynderra's been badly shaken since then, not terribly confident in her power anymore, and slipped out of Lostholt some time ago. What she told the tribe when she left was that she was going to seek her missing sister Myriel (another tie-in to Doreel, as Myriel's cub Trouble was heavily involved in an earlier Doreel plot) and her missing lifemate Kai. But what she didn't tell the tribe was that she's feeling deeply rattled and uncertain of her place in the tribe. I mean, do you really need a second powerful healer around when you've got Leetah? And Redlance, Ynderra's grandfather, is right there to do the treeshaping, so it's not like she's needed for that, either.
And although she's never been to Blue Mountain or laid eyes on Winnowill (at least, she didn't while I was playing her; her creator![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ysabel might have done something with that of which I am unaware), Ynderra knows all her tribe's stories about the Black Snake and the dangers of a healer who goes bonkers because she isn't needed. So Derra's been hanging out with the Cat Elves, having had this idea that she'd look down there for Kai and possibly also his mother Jeela (though she didn't find them). And while the Cat Elves' chieftain Rahna has (again, mostly off-camera because the RP hasn't worked out) surreptitiously bent over backwards to make Derra feel as at home as possible to get her to stay--the Cat Elves don't have a healer anywhere in her league--Derra's not found what she needs among them.
So she's wandering again. And guess who she just ran into: a haunted Firstborn, aimlessly wandering westward from Sorrow's End, not at all knowing what he's seeking and fighting with the powerful urge to flee right back to his grove and hide. And Ynderra has done a 180 from 'absolutely terrified of the elf who destroyed her sister's cub, captured several tribesmates, and almost made her kill' to 'oh gosh! He's so SAD, the poor thing! I should HELP him!' Ah, the advantages of playing an irrepressibly perky character. Even when she's angsty, Ynderra is upbeat. ;)
So now we have an extremely mismatched pair of elves travelling the savannah: short, perky, wolf-blooded she-elf and tall, radiant Firstborn with hair like intermingled starlight and sunlight and eyes like a wounded cub. It took six magic-users to get Doreel functional; can it take just one to get him happy? Only time and RP will tell!
This should definitely be fun.
For those who are not familiar with the character Doreel, he is sort of a quasi-Book Character--not actually in the Elfquest comics, but he is the central character in a sample adventure included in the Elfquest RPG. He got incarnated on TM way back in 1995, and just about every major tinyplot involving him has had me at the helm; what can I say, I'm kind of partial to the old dear, and have seen him through four player changes. He started off on TM the same way he's in the RPG--a son of the High Ones who's gone insane with grief after his entire tribe gets wiped out, and he hides away in a remote grove he's shaped with his power. But on TM, by now, he got captured (by a party led by my character Rillwhisper ;) ) and even healed. Mostly. It took half a dozen magic-users to do it: Savah, her lifemate Djhala, Kiralee, Ynderra, Leetah, and Mender were likely all involved. I say 'likely' because Doreel's healing was unfortunately punted off-camera, just because the plot was a bear to organize. Savah's changed players since then, as did Leetah. Leetah and Mender are now both playerless, as well.
But. This also leaves some leeway in interpreting exactly how well Doreel got healed. He's had a lot of healing power poured into him, and he's marginally functional now, IC--his memories are patchy, but they're clear enough that he's deeply troubled by what he recollects about his past actions. (And this is why I've always been partial to Doreel--unlike, say, Winnowill or any of the other Batshit Insane magic-users we've had in play on TM, Doreel isn't evil. He just needs some redemption. And I'm a sucker for redemption plots, what can I say!)
Where do I come in for this round of Doreel goodness? I've got exactly one alt left on the game: Ynderra of Lostholt. One of the healers who was involved in Doreel's capture and healing. And the one who Doreel almost damn near made kill him with her own power, because Derra almost broke under the onslaught of his wild sending. Ynderra's been badly shaken since then, not terribly confident in her power anymore, and slipped out of Lostholt some time ago. What she told the tribe when she left was that she was going to seek her missing sister Myriel (another tie-in to Doreel, as Myriel's cub Trouble was heavily involved in an earlier Doreel plot) and her missing lifemate Kai. But what she didn't tell the tribe was that she's feeling deeply rattled and uncertain of her place in the tribe. I mean, do you really need a second powerful healer around when you've got Leetah? And Redlance, Ynderra's grandfather, is right there to do the treeshaping, so it's not like she's needed for that, either.
And although she's never been to Blue Mountain or laid eyes on Winnowill (at least, she didn't while I was playing her; her creator
ysabel might have done something with that of which I am unaware), Ynderra knows all her tribe's stories about the Black Snake and the dangers of a healer who goes bonkers because she isn't needed. So Derra's been hanging out with the Cat Elves, having had this idea that she'd look down there for Kai and possibly also his mother Jeela (though she didn't find them). And while the Cat Elves' chieftain Rahna has (again, mostly off-camera because the RP hasn't worked out) surreptitiously bent over backwards to make Derra feel as at home as possible to get her to stay--the Cat Elves don't have a healer anywhere in her league--Derra's not found what she needs among them.So she's wandering again. And guess who she just ran into: a haunted Firstborn, aimlessly wandering westward from Sorrow's End, not at all knowing what he's seeking and fighting with the powerful urge to flee right back to his grove and hide. And Ynderra has done a 180 from 'absolutely terrified of the elf who destroyed her sister's cub, captured several tribesmates, and almost made her kill' to 'oh gosh! He's so SAD, the poor thing! I should HELP him!' Ah, the advantages of playing an irrepressibly perky character. Even when she's angsty, Ynderra is upbeat. ;)
So now we have an extremely mismatched pair of elves travelling the savannah: short, perky, wolf-blooded she-elf and tall, radiant Firstborn with hair like intermingled starlight and sunlight and eyes like a wounded cub. It took six magic-users to get Doreel functional; can it take just one to get him happy? Only time and RP will tell!
This should definitely be fun.
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Date: 2004-10-22 02:28 am (UTC)LOL! That does sound like fun! All the best to Ynderra and to Doreel too. ;o)
Hm.. I seriously considered apping for Tyleet once upon a time, did you know? Back when I was almost 18/7 on TM... *sigh*
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Date: 2004-10-22 03:25 am (UTC)And heh. Tyleet IS one of the most underplayed BCs on the MUSH. Or at least, she has been ever since her original player punted her. :)