Letho
03-22-09, 09:54 PM
Yes, this is me asking you, the good people of Althanas, for help. See, I'm stuck. I have plans for Letho, a clear vision of where I want him to be and what I want to write about him. The problem is getting there. I've been trying to write a solo that would move his story from the point where he is now to the point where I want him to be and I came to realize something I've been afraid of for a while now; I suck at solos. I tried and tried and wound up with two posts max before I'd just scrap them and start over again. Well, I finally got fed up with the stagnation and I decided to ask for help. But enough yammering. Here's the deal.
I want to write a story that deals with some 12-odd years of Letho's life, from the age he currently is (27) to the age of about forty. Writing it as something out of history books, however, is downright boring. So my idea is sort of a retrospective. The thread will occur at the time Letho is already 40 and the participants will reflect back on the knowledge they have of Letho. Yes, I know this is selfish of me to ask, because the thread will revolve around Letho's story, but I can't do this on my own. I'm also willing to offer up to a 1000 GP per participant (I need two) for helping me out with this endeavor. If your character met Letho at some point, then you'd have to write with a future version of him/her. If not, at least there would be no complications there as, due to liquid time, your present can be Letho's future.
The story in the nutshell consists of three parts. The first part, which will be told by a young lass by the name of Lorelei and which I'll control, deals with Letho's time as the Corone Marshal, his time with the Rangers and Myrhia's death. The second part deals with his quest to resurrect her, his conflict with the clergy which fail to revive her, and ultimately his murder of one of the head honchos because the failure of their false gods. The third part takes Letho down an even darker path as he joins the necromancers in an effort to bring Myrhia back to life. He ends up killing a bunch of necromancers because they can't give him what he wants. What I need you for is to help me with the other two parts. I was thinking that your characters would be hired to take Letho down by the aforementioned parties (the clergy and the necromancers).
Well, I certainly made that more complicated than it really is. In reality, the three protagonists of the quest will wind up on the Island of Tempus, where Time Mages (Letho's next target) reside. There they will meet one of the mages that would serve as their guide through the magical land and they'll tell him the story as they go. I figure the easiest way to do this is via journal excerpts of sorts. We start with an excerpt from the earliest days, while Letho was still good and then move on to the gory parts. In truth, all I'm really asking you is to each provide with a single excerpt that would deal with a particular part of Letho's story and play the rest of the interaction as usual. I'll provide the backbone of each story, but you'll be free to play with the details any way you desire. At the very end, Letho himself will appear, probably kill the mage and try to kill the lot of you.
Yeah, that still sounds confusing. Well, if anyone actually went through all that crap and is actually interested, register here or PM me. I would like somebody who doesn't like Letho very much (or just authority figures in general) and somebody who doesn't care much one way or the other, but beggars can't be choosers and I'd settle for anyone. If more than two register here, I'd select the most appropriate, so this isn't first come-first served.
Also, a note to those I'm in a thread with (namely Lakin and Unfulfilled). This is not me abandoning the threads. It's just that I'll have a lot of time on my hands this following week and I'll be able to juggle this one as well. And I know I owe each of you a post.
Shit, that was a long recruitment post.
I want to write a story that deals with some 12-odd years of Letho's life, from the age he currently is (27) to the age of about forty. Writing it as something out of history books, however, is downright boring. So my idea is sort of a retrospective. The thread will occur at the time Letho is already 40 and the participants will reflect back on the knowledge they have of Letho. Yes, I know this is selfish of me to ask, because the thread will revolve around Letho's story, but I can't do this on my own. I'm also willing to offer up to a 1000 GP per participant (I need two) for helping me out with this endeavor. If your character met Letho at some point, then you'd have to write with a future version of him/her. If not, at least there would be no complications there as, due to liquid time, your present can be Letho's future.
The story in the nutshell consists of three parts. The first part, which will be told by a young lass by the name of Lorelei and which I'll control, deals with Letho's time as the Corone Marshal, his time with the Rangers and Myrhia's death. The second part deals with his quest to resurrect her, his conflict with the clergy which fail to revive her, and ultimately his murder of one of the head honchos because the failure of their false gods. The third part takes Letho down an even darker path as he joins the necromancers in an effort to bring Myrhia back to life. He ends up killing a bunch of necromancers because they can't give him what he wants. What I need you for is to help me with the other two parts. I was thinking that your characters would be hired to take Letho down by the aforementioned parties (the clergy and the necromancers).
Well, I certainly made that more complicated than it really is. In reality, the three protagonists of the quest will wind up on the Island of Tempus, where Time Mages (Letho's next target) reside. There they will meet one of the mages that would serve as their guide through the magical land and they'll tell him the story as they go. I figure the easiest way to do this is via journal excerpts of sorts. We start with an excerpt from the earliest days, while Letho was still good and then move on to the gory parts. In truth, all I'm really asking you is to each provide with a single excerpt that would deal with a particular part of Letho's story and play the rest of the interaction as usual. I'll provide the backbone of each story, but you'll be free to play with the details any way you desire. At the very end, Letho himself will appear, probably kill the mage and try to kill the lot of you.
Yeah, that still sounds confusing. Well, if anyone actually went through all that crap and is actually interested, register here or PM me. I would like somebody who doesn't like Letho very much (or just authority figures in general) and somebody who doesn't care much one way or the other, but beggars can't be choosers and I'd settle for anyone. If more than two register here, I'd select the most appropriate, so this isn't first come-first served.
Also, a note to those I'm in a thread with (namely Lakin and Unfulfilled). This is not me abandoning the threads. It's just that I'll have a lot of time on my hands this following week and I'll be able to juggle this one as well. And I know I owe each of you a post.
Shit, that was a long recruitment post.