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 Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 8:51 pm
Quote: I saw that you were still talking about the event between the matron mothers in your new posts. Okay, before we start pointing fingers. Let me verify this bit to clear my slate. I was not talking to the other matron mothers. My first post in my house was the only post that talked about events prior. But when you showed this to me I apologized and the post has long been fixed. Quote: Serethiel had us start over completely. She wanted a new start. Quote: A plot for the city, a background, somewhere to start off from. Let me ask you this. What was the original plot for Ulorbbath? Did Draveir or any of you actually sat down and thought of a plot for each of the cities? Because from what I remember, there really was no for sure plot. It was just a bunch of people making up their own s**t as they went along. That's what made it fun in my opinion. But now ya'll wanna make a plot for everyone to follow along. That's not really fun because it limits us so much. And a good plot only matures better anyways. So even if we think up one now, we might have the same issue by trying to make it more interesting as we go along or trying to fit in some core details or new characters. We started over. That's what Sere wanted. Now can we just go on with our lives? Because the longer we wait, the more unmotivated people get. Don't laugh at Reivan. Reivan is a perfect out spoken example as what's going to happen if we just keep the whole subforum on lock down. This is partially the reason why I was against the whole swipe. I knew it was only going to get more difficult. Because I know how everyone likes to keep this place organized. But you don't have to organize a plot on top of everything else. Maybe you guys are looking too far into it.
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Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 10:30 am
I guess I'll jump back into the discussion now. I assume I count as an older member, or at the very least as one with experience. I've been here with another character for a good few years now, sure I'm not as loaded with Undergaia goodness as most of you, but I do have loads of free time and with that free time I have actually managed a handful of ideas that might not be shot down with a destruction spell.
1. Ulorbbath originates from high priestess of Lolth killing some big creature/avatar and claiming it's lair as her city in Lolth's name. Centuries pass until current era. Big creature's relatives/ avatar comes back for revenge.
2. Ulorbbath springs up from matrons bickering over terrain. Houses are long removed descendants of the original matrons. War happens and houses are thinned out as wars continue to happen over centuries until current houses are standing. Lolth, being her ever chaotic and testing self, decides to look the other way and lets Ghaundaur (or another non-drow deity, I count the Elder Eye as non-drow since he isn't uber concerned about drow) 'sneak' in some influence. She then plays innocent and watches to see if her matrons can get rid of the invader.
3. God war upon the drow pantheon. We 'loose' a deity who is then replaced, turmoil ensues. If Lolth is 'lost' then even more turmoil stirs as males catch on with the idea of 'Holy S***!!! We're free!!!' factions are made, now powerless matrons actually have to cooperate to repel those they once lorded over (with heaps of back stabbing for both sides). Lolth returns and the drow definition of order resumes (with a heaping of beheading for the rebels). If it's not Lolth then her clergy go around slaughtering those not of the faith since they are easy targets, perhaps even raiding surface temples. Since no deity really ever dies in FR without a good reason the 'lost' deity will simply be stuck with Ao, getting a lecture on how to actually do their damn job.
That's it for now though. Again, these are only ideas that I came up with.
And on a side note, I too have modified my only post in Lil Elgus Hiran. It's something of an empty post, but I've made it that way so whatever story does come into use can be adapted easily.
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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:20 pm
I kinda like the idea about revenge.
It seems simple enough and can be worked to fit more of the houses.
If it is revenge against the highest house, Rylinndar.
From like renegade, those who want to over throw the current system.
I'm totally stealing from real life at this point. However it would be original sort of...I'm kinda thinking of like an underground group.
Who want to squash the Ruling houses, because they believe in a fanatical leader who claim to truly be the voice of the Goddess.
I remember that Sere, said something about making a new Undergaia. So yeah, that is all I got.
Weird how I went from revenge to radical.
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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 1:33 pm
In my opinion, there are two or more levels of plot which could be pursued by any given story line.
1) Macro level... plots which involve Ulorbbath as a city interracting with outskirts of the city and/or other cities or populations near or distant
2) Intra-city level... plots which involve various factions within the city, and adventures mostly within the borders of the town
3) Micro... plots which exist mostly within the confines of a house or faction compound, or tavern, shop or district.
I think at the moment, there should be nothing stopping people from at least being able to begin micro level plots and stories. Tie-ins to greater Intra-city and Macro level plots might be able to be developed from that, but starting with micro level plots has the greatest potential to spark the manufacturing of ideas without disrupting any major plans Sere or other staff might have. I am with Sy on wish slightly that the old stuff wasn't cleared, but I also see that it was not a terribly bad solution. I identify with Quen's point that things are really busy for some people, and UG does go dormant from time to time.
I think the restrictions should be loosened a bit though, and since Sere HAS actually given the rest of the staff more authority to handle things while she's in SE Asia, I for one thing we should go ahead and say "GO!" I'll post about it in CREW forum, but i think it's time to just let people free to do as they will.
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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 4:57 pm
@Moonlite- Quen posted earlier that, no, there had not been a set in stone plot for Ulorbbath in the beginning. What she is trying to do now is come up with a story that explains why the city is in the state that it is in. You make it sound like Quen is attempting to control everything when she is not. It makes sense to have a solid background for the Rp so that it does not collapse later on. The plot is not supposed to limit your creativity, but give it sound structure to build upon.
I am against Ulorbbath's rp starting off with the city battling another. To me, I believe we should first get the city and the houses running for a while before looking to start a fight. Just to get everyone settled in, if you would, to their character and house again. It's been months since I have even thought about roleplaying as a drow and it will take me a bit to get back into swing of things. sweatdrop
As for ideas...here is one I considered~
A plague sweeps the UnderDark. I could not decide if I wanted one of the Gods to unleash it or perhaps a group of miners, to one of the greater houses, to uncover it.
If it were one of the gods, I think it would be a splendid idea if he or she infected the spiders of Ulorbbath. At first it would start out small, one maybe two lesser houses would fall ill. I imagine the city would blockade the houses and slaughter its member to stop the spread of the disease. The spiders of the house, of course, would be spared. Soon the illness would spread to houses that hold higher positions. Eventually, the drow would discover what was carrying the disease and causing its quickening spread. Most of Ulorbbath would interpret the plague as a loss of Lolth’s favor. The city would fall into chaos. Despite that the spider is sacred to Lolth I could see many of the lesser houses destroying the creatures in attempt to save their own skins.
I’m sure some of you are like,” What about the priestess and high priestesses who can control the spiders? They could just command them to stay away.” But I thought of that, too.
There would be many drow without the powers of a priestess to protect themselves. Merchants, slaves, males, and females of lower rank would be in danger of the plague, because they would be unable to keep the spider at bay. Most of those drow in fear would start killing the creatures.
Now, even I think a chaotic goddess like Lolth would have a problem with her city perishing, because of pathetic plague. Well… she would until she saw half the city stomping on her beloved spiders babies. In Lolth's anger, excluding only the houses that held her greatest favor and had not resorted to squishing her beloved creatures, would take away the priestess’ spells and powers and let the lesser houses suffer their fate.
The houses that stand in Ulorbbath today are the few left that survived from the outbreak and the newer budding houses that have come up in recent years.
That's all I got~
Just thinking out loud..... sweatdrop
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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 8:06 pm
@Helliouse: I love your idea! I fully support the idea of a plague spread by spiders. I guess I should make it formal then to see if we can get the plot set then.
I officially nominate Helliouse's plague idea as the background for Ulorbbath.
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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 8:21 pm
Captain Chemosh @Helliouse: I love your idea! I fully support the idea of a plague spread by spiders. I guess I should make it formal then to see if we can get the plot set then. I officially nominate Helliouse's plague idea as the background for Ulorbbath. I also liked your ideas actually Chemosh, however, I agree with you that Helliouse's idea is great.
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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:35 pm
as much as I love the plague idea, I have a question or two before tossing in my vote, will we be actually running through said plague or with this be an event that has already happened and we begin in the aftermath of said plague?
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 4:13 pm
Holy s**t, woman. Why didn't you tell me about this idea of yours sooner?
I like it. >:}
If everyone else agrees to it, we will work off of it.
Reivan, this will be something that already happened. This, and Tor'Afin's rise in rank. In fact, we can incorporate this with Hun'Afin destroying Aleanduis.
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:55 pm
Alrighty then ^.^ -starts dusting out the cobwebs and eagerly waits the "go ahead" to start again.
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 3:59 pm
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 8:16 pm
Quenthal Holy s**t, woman. Why didn't you tell me about this idea of yours sooner?
I like it. >:}
If everyone else agrees to it, we will work off of it.
Reivan, this will be something that already happened. This, and Tor'Afin's rise in rank. In fact, we can incorporate this with Hun'Afin destroying Aleanduis.
I had just thought it up that day.
redface redface redface
I'm glad everybody likes it...
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 6:56 am
Might I ask, how we are starting this off?
Do we wait for Rylinndar to post information on this...diease...or do we continue one with what we are doing and have the whole fill in as we go?
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 11:28 am
If we do end up voting on this matter, I'll go for idea two. That way the other houses can busy themselves with well... themselves... while Rylinndar gets everything up and running.
-Kicks the cleaning slave to have him get rid of the dust around the cobwebs-
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:10 pm
You don't have to wait on Rylinndar for anything.
However, something final needs to be established so that we are all on the same page.
And for future warning, we're going to be heading out to the field these next few weeks. My time will be even more limited.
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