Thar Shaddin

I'm SOOOO sorry for dropping off the face of the planet. I've had a lot of other projects on the go these days. I've got a draft in progress for Thad here, and I'll be posting as soon as humanly possible.

OK, so, on account of RL, and a shit-ton of personal ish therein, my whole creative life has ground to a halt. I'd like to pull out before this goes too far and develops into bad feelings. I can't expect you guys to keep waiting around for weeks/months at a time for me to carry my weight, and I can no longer seem to summon the time and energy that you guys deserve from a fellow writer.

I'd be happy to surrender my Zou and Anja accounts to you guys, or to an interested mod/veteran here, if you want to keep the story going. I'm not at all perturbed by the thought of someone else playing my creations; in fact it would please me, were they to live on in some form or another, or leave some sort of legacy. Frug probably has some idea about how such an account transfer would work, I really don't have a clue. I'll be retiring my other characters as well, and generally pulling out of the whole play-by-post scene, but if you'd like to stay in touch, please email me at joachimheise at gmail dot com. I also hope it wouldn't be inappropriate or awkward were I to pop into chat once in a while and say hi.

It's been a pleasure and a rewarding experience writing with you guys. You, and Thar Shaddin as a whole, have helped to lay my literary foundations, and I'll always remember that. I don't take this step lightly. All the best,

-Joe

This is very sad, because you are so imaginative and your stories so great. I don't think anyone could do as well as you. Is there any hope you could reconsider? At least put up the piece you said, you have almost finished. I, in any case, am so curious as to what should happen next. I wish at least that this section could be completed. i.e. what happens with Morry, what happens when Thad and Dianelopa get back to Anja. I suppose we could wipe them all out and end the story, or wipe out Anja and the rest of them go back to a "they lived happily everafter". Make a quick end winding the loose ends up. Just one or two more posts. At least then it's done and not hanging in the air.
Morry what do you think?

Wow. That makes me really sad. But on the other hand I understand that these things don't last forever and eventually life has to take hold and you have to sacrifice other things that you love. I'll miss writing with you a lot Joe and you better hop into chat because :[

I think I can try to NPC Zou. I have somewhat of a hold of his character, although I don't know what he was like in life. I'll have to read up but I can manage. I don't think we have to kill anyone but I can help guide things away from Anja, since I don't think anyone can do as good a job with her as you. Thad could die; it might be an appropriate response from Anja and those working with her for failing them. Or, they could at least try to kill him and Dianelopa can save him somehow.

I think Dian and Morry have an interesting weird dynamic going on and I think we can continue to develop that without Anja. Maybe find a new larger plot and rope in another person to keep going with?

that sounds good, Morry. let's see if we can find someone else who might want to jump in the story here and then see how we can develop Dianelopa and Morry. Maybe doing away with Thad is a good idea. And Anja.. well perhaps she sort of retires. She is after all very very old.

Dianelopa wrote:that sounds good, Morry. let's see if we can find someone else who might want to jump in the story here and then see how we can develop Dianelopa and Morry. Maybe doing away with Thad is a good idea. And Anja.. well perhaps she sort of retires. She is after all very very old.

Let's put Anja to sleep. She'll be in a sort of hibernation just in case someone (Joe!) might want to play her again.

The authorities will eventually figure out what ravaged the bodies during the robbery and could potentially identify Morry as the most likely suspect. They'll want to take him and probably execute him, and if that were to be a threat, I can only think of one person he would try to go to for help.

:]

I'm sure there are ways to fit a third person into something like that. The group could potentially end up on the run and find adventure through that.

I love seeing the ideas bubbling already! Anja can totally crawl into some horrible cocoon, cutting off her ties to the surface world completely. Perhaps Benjamin and/or Puck's bodies could be found washed up somewhere, or if any of you want to play them or continue to use them as NPCs, they might have a story to tell with regards to Anja's sudden reticence.

Where Zou is concerned, we'll have to badger Frug about effecting an account transfer. I'm sure there's some super-easy forum guru way of doing it.

As far as posting one final time as Thad, I dunno. I wiped what I had done, I wasn't happy with it. And Thad really is your character, Lopa, not mine.

I'm going to stash Benjamin and Puck away for possible use. I love NPCs and they're both fairly fleshed out as separate characters, so they'll be around to cause mayhem yet. Do you want to write Anja's (possibly temporary) goodbye Joe, or should me or Lopa?

You know this might be a good spot for a new thread. We can allow a bit of time to pass maybe, like a week, and then something can happen with Thad. I think Benjamin could threaten him or even send a henchman to collect or kill him. They're probably pretty pissed off about the robbery. The Guard will be starting to figure out what happened at the robbery and Morry will be avoiding attention, and being annoyed about being permanently stuck with Zou.

Jayne would like to join us and I told her to introduce herself in our plot discussion and we could all figure out how she could fit in. It's nice to have a 3rd person I think, so I hope she'll work out.

It might be cool to omit any sort of narrative explaining Anja's disappearance. Let the possibilities rather be shown in the contemplations of the surrounding characters. That also leaves the truth open and flexible for a later time. And really, that's not just laziness on my part. I think it would actually be cool.

As for Thad's death, perhaps some fatal irony is in order. Morry kills him, but the perceived threat of Anja and her shadowy, unfathomable powers forces Dianelopa to throw in her lot with Morry despite this. Plus, friends close enemies closer, kind of thing. Or Benjamin could somehow take care of him, yeah. However, I don't think Benjamin would threaten, at all. If he did, it would be something casually insidious, so veiled in cordial mannerisms as to be utterly enigmatic, and deeply unsettling (did he mean what I think he meant? ye gods...) Death from that quarter would come swiftly and without warning or apparent motive.

Anja wrote:It might be cool to omit any sort of narrative explaining Anja's disappearance. Let the possibilities rather be shown in the contemplations of the surrounding characters. That also leaves the truth open and flexible for a later time. And really, that's not just laziness on my part. I think it would actually be cool.

As for Thad's death, perhaps some fatal irony is in order. Morry kills him, but the perceived threat of Anja and her shadowy, unfathomable powers forces Dianelopa to throw in her lot with Morry despite this. Plus, friends close enemies closer, kind of thing. Or Benjamin could somehow take care of him, yeah. However, I don't think Benjamin would threaten, at all. If he did, it would be something casually insidious, so veiled in cordial mannerisms as to be utterly enigmatic, and deeply unsettling (did he mean what I think he meant? ye gods...) Death from that quarter would come swiftly and without warning or apparent motive.

I like the idea of Morry killing Thad. That's probably just me being insane but y'know.

Also I think showing rather than telling about Anja's appearance is good here too, since her not being around would alter the entire structure of Marn's underground scene. So I'll definitely be including either Benjamin or Puck in further posts to describe that.

Who's Jayne?

sorry, it's Jayna. I told him or her to post in this discussion if she wants to join us, which she hasn't done so far. But she seemed eager to join. Well, let's see. It's only a couple of days.
I think both of your ideas are fine and perhaps we can get going. If you want I could get Thad out of his hideout and separated from Lopa, thereby allowing whatever needs to happen to him. Should he be on the way back to Marn? And Lopa being alone then can run into Morry.

Hello, I'm Jayna. Dianelopa told me to post in the discussion thread so we could work something out :D I'm in the process of reading your guys' story thread to get what's been going on so far.

Morry is too weak right now to do much of anything so don't worry about posting again. We'll just assume that Lopa stayed with Thad out of worry and didn't let him go back to Anja. Morry needs about a week recovery period before anything can happen with him involved, unless it's Lopa taking pity on him. He will kill Thad while he is not under control.

If you want, I can start a new thread, or you can. A thread break here would be good methinks.

Hi Jayna! I read briefly over your character and she will work well with our plot I think. We only need to find a reason for her to stick to Morry or Lopa. Maybe she gets caught pick-pocketing by someone important and Morry or Lopa "rescues" her. Maybe Morry kidnaps her against her will because he's a creep like that. Take your time reading everything over and give us your own ideas :]

I like the idea of Lis getting caught robbing somebody important -- that sort of thing doesn't happen to her usually because she's careful to only go after easy targets, so maybe she got cocky and aimed higher than she should have. It would also give her an excuse to have run into Morry or Lopa.