We should probably just move on without Caboose for a while, because right now he's playing Arkham City. Trust me, when he plays a new game, all he does is eat, sleep and play!

I can relate to that.

Curse you, videogames! Curse you!

Ahem, this means that it is Ahrenil's turn I guess? Or has Tellie posted her character yet?

Heh. Me too. When I encounter a game that caters to my needs, I go 'buh-bye, reality!'

Anyway, yes, it is Ahrenil's turn and no, Tellie hasn't posted her character yet. I really wish she would bring back the raging bad-@ss Zaeed Wasabi.

So, when we encounter him, he would go like:

"*greets us* Wasabi! *rage rage rage because that(s how he rolls* WAAAAASSSAAAAABIIIII!"

Yeeeeeeeeeaaah. I like him and his personality. I don't know why, but I guess you could say ... *puts on a radical pair of sunglasses*















I got hooked up on Wasabi. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHH. Double entendre FTW!

And before you guys go raging on me, I know Zaeed's proper last name. Its Marazzi, yeah? Yeah. OK.

OK, before I post can I get one thing straight from you guys? What transportation should we use to go to Mournhold? The Legatus says we should use boats, but I'm not sure of that plan anymore. Simply because I clean forgot about Lord Revan's situation. He was in the border between Cyrodiil and Morrowind, if I remember correctly. So if we take boats, that means going south towards Topal Bay and then looping around so we can dock in Mournhold.

In short, we will bypass him COMPLETELY if we use boats. If we go by this, which I imagine all of you don't want to, we could have him captured by the army of the dark elves and then taken to Mournhold as a POW, and then he could meet our group. In Revan's last post, his character meets a prisoner of war. If that POW's warden comes back, well.. you get the picture. With Lord Revan's authorization, we can have this.

Or just ignore the poor Legate and go by carriage or horses, and thus meet Valero. Which choice you guys choose, I will follow.

God, I really screwed up in this one. T____T Sorry guys.

Well, one other way is by ignoring mournhold completely. Granted, this will require the guys and girls to discuss the alternate plan first and vote on it. But anyway, here is my reasoning, or Semir's if you want.

1: The legatus' plan was to put it mildly, simplistic. It is also rather obvious. While the boat was supposed to be subtle according to the guy, Semir expects the docks to be under observation. Now take our motley gang of mercenaries and have them board an unmarked boat. A small merchantmen or whatever the legatus thought appropriate and sneaky. Now have said boat leave the harbour at night. Boat, strange passengers boarded in the dark, plus it leaves at a weird time. Can you say suspicious? Hell, even if we leave along with a lot of other boats in the middle of the day, we'll still stand out. News of all those mercenaries at the party, and the lot that left after receiving letters from the champion of Cyrodiil him/herself, will spread like wildfire. Yeah, that wasn't very subtle, not since people were talking about it.

2: As Semir already said, he doesn't like the prepared disguises. Sure, we know he can do disguises, but the disguise needs to be geared to the situation and level of preparation available. Doing a peasant or other low-class civilian is easy, mercenary likewise. Nobles or even middle-class merchants take more time, both in ways of appearance and the necessary documents. Pretending to be a member of a highly exclusive, elite order with a religious backbone takes months, at least. So in short, the robes might work. Ordinators? Yeah, Semir isn't going to place any bets on that one.

Ordinators are ridiculously visible and are kept to very strict standards by every level of the population, not the least of which being other Ordinators and the priesthood. And in Mournhold those standards are probably the highest. It is the capital after all. He wouldn't just need to learn the right words, but when to say them, in what tone, how fast or slow. How to walk, how to react to things and other people. To make it all seem natural. Experience can cut down on the amount of needed preparation, but he doesn't have that. Not disguising himself as an Ordinator or something similar. And this is just for the guy who has disguises as part of his job description.

Actually, we can go with the disguise plan. We just need to liberate some Bonemold or Chitin first. Those sets also come with face concealment, are military in nature which will help when meeting the Dunmeri army and they're used by less important folk.

3: We don't actually have information on how to contact the Mournhold informant. Ok, this is nitpicking. Anyway, we could solve that by retconning one of our Blades into having the info. The more elegant solution would be to have it waiting on the boat.

4: By the time we reach Mournhold, the front will have moved. I also expect that we'll then have to go to said frontlines. So basically we'll be spending precious time doing catchup. Better perhaps is to go straight to said frontlines and try to infiltrate there. This is also where the most up to date information regarding the search can be found. I'm assuming the Dunmer didn't just decide to invade Argonia because last sunday had such nice weather. We could copy that information and use it for our search. The most risky option would be to wait till the Dunmer had found it, then run in and snatch it before they can whisk it away.

5: If the Argonians are the ones to find the loot, we'll have similar issues as with the Dunmer scenario, but it is less bad. The Argonians will be sufficiently provoked to want some payback. They'll be looking to counterattack and probably utilize the roots as an equalizer. So far, they've been doing poorly after all and they'd lose badly outside the swamps it seems. This gives us a larger amount of time to do the snatching than with the Dunmer scenario.

The other issue that I can see is that Mournhould isn't near the sea, and a group of Ordinators trekking across from the coast while the war is so far away will likely draw attention. We could probably make some decent time heading over land, and with all the attention focused at the Argonian-Dunmer border struggles we could probably cross the Cyrodil/Morrowind border quite easily.

Once inside Morrowind I suggest we disguise as civilians, or maybe just say we're mercenaries looking to earn some money on the front lines. It could give us a free ride there, since people are going to see our faces eventually, I doubt even Ordinators sleep with their masks on.

Im wondering if Taedril should disguise himself with his face revealed, so that the group seems less suspicious. At least if people saw one of us unmasked they would suspect the others to be outsiders less.

I'm assuming that if we do go with the Ordinator plan, we don't actually put on the disguise till we're right outside Mournhold. We could dirty and scratch up our armour a bit and pretend we're from an exterior patrol who were sent to deal with some Argonian deep raiders or Argonian hired mercenaries. Delay any questions from the gatekeepers by sounding tired, cranky and in need to report somewhere else pronto.


As for Taedril going unmasked. That's a pretty good idea actually, even moreso if he pretends to be the commanding officer. His eyes might stand out a bit, but I'm sure we can figure out something.

That said, I suggest we continue moving towards the docks for now. At least till Revan brings in his ideas. If we decide to change our course later, we can always make a night-time landing outside any towns and away from observers.

Whatever y'all decide, I planned for Valero to get into trouble with the Dunmer, then get carted off to wherever the groups destination is.

Welp, five days have passed. (or is this the fifth day? change of month is always confusing)
Anyway, I think it is Saqin's turn now.

*Sigh* I guess its my turn tomorrow, if anyone else is there? (this is grif11 with a new account) If we've given up again, I probably wont join another roleplay. This is probably the shortest we've got, not even outside the Imperial city, for Azura's sake!

I'm guessing the roleplay is slow because of everyone catching Skyrimitis...

That and football playoffs compacted with two project deadlines last week. Fortunately, no more football and no more deadlines til next year.

No skyrim for me. Anyway, it's Caboose's turn now, right?

Yeah, I'll get in contact with him, he's been away too long!

I'm back and sorry about the long hiatus (however you spell it). I'll be making my next post tommorow. I just have had too much going on and haven't gotten round to comming on the forums. Very busy. Yeah and sorry about missing my last post as well. I really felt bad about it but there was nothing I could do .

I'm having trouble understanding were this is going so I havn't made my post yet. If someone could help me I would be greatful. I've read it again and again but I don't really understand what is happening around my character or were everyone is going. Probably though I'm just trying to read it too late at night (or morning ) and I'm sorry if this sounds a bit stupid to ask.

Well to put it simply. After getting our briefing from Martin and the other guy, we left the palace (picking up our gear at the entrance) and have now gone to the docks where we are supposed to board a ship headed for Mournhold.

As for anything else. Not much happened other than some arguing over whether or not Martin is a good Emperor and some slight racial conflict.

Ok thanks . I'll get onto writing my post now.

If there are any continuity errors just tell me and I'll fix them . I also hope its okay that I threw in a random plot device. Hopefully it will make things a bit more intresting but I don't know if that is okay with everyone.

Just in case.

AHRENIL, it's your turn.

This roleplay needs to speed up a bit more to make it intresting. It's just the waits are far too long. I would have suggested skype for contacting people but giving out these things on the internet is always a bit shady. If anyone has any solutions that they think would work we should discuss them. Hopefully thats okay with you guys and we can get this roleplay going .

And another long wait. If nothing's up by sunday, I think I'll post again.

As for Skype, I don't have it and even if I did have it, you bet I would completely forget about its existence. But why not use pm? I've got mine set up to send an email whenever I receive a pm.

I think the problem is that this forum is too small and fairly inactive. We need to get more people to register, specifically roleplayers.

That would be a good idea. If we get more people to register that we know are roleplayers it would speed up a lot more. I guess pm's would be okay I just hope people check their E-mail. If anyone knows anybody that we could poach from other forums to join the roleplay we could really get things going. It might also be help if we lowered the maximum post time to 2 or 3 days to make people pay more attention. That would make things more relevant.

Instead of skype/email, why not use the chorrol chat room? We used to use it for RPs from time to time back in the day. PMs are always good too, if you're planning things b/w only two characters.

Maybe once a week we could all be on, figure some stuff out, and then if anyone misses the meeting we can post a summary of the details or a transcript of the chat in the planning thread.

Is it the one below the news section? I've never been able to get on there and when I tried now, it led me to a no longer existing site. (waiting4oblivion actually)

Ive got the same problem with the chatroom.

Also, I think we should just get rid of the line. Hardly anybody is active so it shouldnt make us totally unorganised... hopefully.

Yeah chat room doesn't work for me either. I agree with Solo Rolo and that we should get rid of the line or at least until more people start posting more frequently.