Seekers of Truth Discussion Thread - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

piosenniel · 08-10-2004, 03:01 PM

Crystal Heart invites you to play in her game:

Seekers of Truth

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Moderator: Child of the 7th Age (Cami)

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Historical Background: A year after the War of the Ring

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Basic Story line:

This story focuses on twenty-four year old Sandrina Sandrine Lightheart of Rohan, who is the daughter of Henry and Eowyn Lightheart. She is traveling with her cousins on a trip to Gondor to aid them in routine trading activities. Although her cousins Arthur and Samuel seem outwardly friendly, they were actually plotting to harm her.

Sandrina's father Henry is the oldest son in the family and is therefore the heir to the Lightheart property. He holds the title as head of the family. His younger brother Harold is very angry with their father's decision about the land. His sons Arthur and Samuel are also very angry. Arthur comes up with a plan; his plan is to convince Henry that Sandrina needs some first hand experience in the family's trading activities in Gondor and that they are the best people to show her how. The reason that Harold is so angry is because when Henry and Harold were teenagers he had tried to kill him to get the inheritance. Henry defeated him and told him that as long as he was living that Harold would never get this land.

Years passed and Henry never forgot. After his parents death he allowed Harold and his family to live in a small house on the edge of the property and let him and his family earn their keep through the family business, always giving them easy jobs to do. Henry married and Sandrina was born.

Harold believed that Sandrina would lose the inherited property because she was a woman. In his opinion, women are weak and self centered, always focusing on something foolish.He taught these beliefs to his sons, who in turn created a plan to help their father get the land he wanted.

Arthur and Samuel had never given Henry any reason to believe that they were evil. They always did their work and were polite to Henry, Eowyn, and Sandrina at all times. They never stole a thing from them, just waiting for their time to strike. They proposed to Henry that they should take Sandrina to Gondor to help with the family's trading, allowing her to acquire skills that she didn't have yet. Henry agreed, sending Sandrina off equipped with a special sword just for the occasion.

Sandrina, who has never been to Gondor, has no idea where she is going and therefore believes Arthur and Samuel completely. They take her out into the forest, spook her horse, and when she falls they knock her unconscious. They take away her horse, and weapons, and all money that she has. They ride off with her horse and sword. The weapon was a special gift from her father for her protection. They broke and bloodied it with some of the horse's blood, making it appear as if she had been killed. Then they left the horse to die out in the woods just as they did to Sandrina.The brothers left, expecting the young Sandrina to die a slow and painful death.

Sandrina's parents later received word that their daughter was "killed" in an ambush. They grieved and sent out a search party for nine months. Nothing turned up. The memories became too strong for Henry and Eowyn to bear so they moved deeper into Rohan, leaving the estate to Harold.

piosenniel · 08-10-2004, 03:02 PM

The purpose of this story is to discover the missing Sandrina, have her regain her memory, and get revenge on those who betrayed her.

This means that the story is over when Arthur, Samuel, and Harold are all brought to justice; Sandrina remembers who she is; and is safely back with her parents, who also regain their land.

piosenniel · 08-10-2004, 03:03 PM

Starting Location: An Inn in Rohan

Possible Ending Location: The Lightheart's estate

piosenniel · 08-10-2004, 03:03 PM

Timeline

This game takes place in Year 1 of the 4th Age.

The storyline itself or plot covers a total of one month.

This requires a time commitment of 8 weeks from me, the game owner and from the major players.

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NOTE:

This game opened on 08/21 - the 8 week end date for play will be 10/16.

~*~ Pio

piosenniel · 08-10-2004, 03:04 PM

Carry-along characters played by Crystal:

1.) Eowyn Lightheart - Mother of Sandrina. She is a brave woman who is very stubborn. She doesn't like it when she hears people say that women can not do something. That is the only time she will voice her opinion. She is rather quiet, and reserved but determined and strong.

2.) Henry Lightheart - Father of Sandrina. Very opinionated and will not allow anyone to come in between him and his family. He fights when he thinks it is appropriate. He is not shy in anyway. He is skilled in sword fighting and using his mind against an opponent in battle-but thinking out manipulative type of things is not his strong point. He is determined and strong as well. He is also very brave, much braver then Eowyn.

piosenniel · 08-10-2004, 03:05 PM

Crystal Heart’s main character - Sandrina Sandrine Lightheart

Name: Sandrina Sandrine Lightheart

Age: Twenty-four

Race: Human

Gender: Female

Weapons: None because they were all taken from her during the fall

Appearance: Long brown hair and brown eyes. She wears a light brown cloak and other earth tone colored clothes.

Personality/Strengths/Weaknesses: She is determined to find out who she is. Her weakness is trusting too easily. She is strong and unwavering in her decisions, but because she has lost her memory she is very uncertain.

She is strong and very stubborn. She doesn't like to give up. Everything she does has a purpose no matter what. She is very honest, and she can't stand lying. But she will if it means that she saves her life or her parent's lives. Her weakness is fear itself, that and blood. She doesn't like the sight of blood.

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Crystal Heart’s post first for the game

A young woman walked into the Inn; her hood concealed her face. It was the only form of protection because her weapon had been taken from her. She looked around the Inn in interest. It was much different then the other Inns she had been in, but it seemed quaint enough for her liking. She walked swiftly through the maze of chairs and tables to the front desk. She touched her pouch. There was enough coins for a nice meal, a couple of drinks, and a room for the night.

She sat down on a stool. She pulled the hood from her head slowly and shook her hair out from under it. Auburn hair pulled away and lay in soft curls as it always did. Her unusual mixture of brown and green eyes looked around the room. She didn't open her mouth to say a word. This place was so different then she had first realized.

She wasn't afraid or shy of this place. She just liked to be quiet for a while and take it all in. She learned more by just listening to the people around her. She also learned more about the place she was in by how the people acted, talked, and what they ate and drank. Someone had once told her that it was a type of gift of hers, but she had never believed it. It was only just a skill she had acquired over her years of travel.

She had left her home so many years ago that she couldn't remember where that home had been. She had lost several years of her memory. She wasn't sure how it had happened, but it had and she hadn't regained it back. She had a feeling that she didn't want to remember those memories ever again anyway so she wasn't worried about the fact.

She did remember her name, or at least what she thought her name was. She had been under so many aliases that she had started to forget what her own name was, but she remembered it right now. Her name was something wonderful, at least in her opinion. Crystal Lerena Sandrine Heart. A name that she had thought was regal and noble, even though she didn't come from noble or regal blood.

She decided to order a drink at first. She wasn't sure what they sold here.

"Excuse me, but what is a good drink to have around here?" Crystal asked the bartender. The bartender nodded and handed her an ale. Crystal looked up and thanked the Innkeeper. She took a small sip and gave a smile. It was rather good.

Her memory wandered, but there was still places where she still couldn't remember a thing. In her travelings around middle earth she had been in rather rough fight with a drunken man that had mistaken her as his wife. His fists had been wild and hard against the skull of her head. There was only portions of that she actually remembered. She did remember waking up in a place with a woman over her telling her what had happened to her. She couldn't remember many other things after that. Her memory was slowly coming back, but it was so painfully slow that she had stopped trying to actually remember. She wasn't even entirely sure that Crystal was her real name.

She thought back hard against the bearer, but nothing would budge in her mind. There was just a black portion that just sat there, unweilding against her mental pushes. She itched her neck and felt something she hadn't noticed before. She pulled the rough thing away from her and saw a necklace. It was long with a pendant on the end. She read it: SANDRINA SANDRINE Lightheart. Ah, that was her name. It had to be. She couldn't have found it any where else. She smiled. SANDRINA looked up and watched in interest as people sang. She had could not remember anything about songs. There was a barrier against the memories of her childhood. Like most of her memories they seemed to be locked behind doors that she did not carry keys for. She couldn't even remember exactly why she had come in the Inn. There had been a purpose she supposed. She knew she wanted a drink, but there had been something else. She couldn't remember.

The only thing she could remember was that terrible fall. She had been riding with people that she knew were familiar and that she had known at one time, but she couldn't put her finger on who they were. They had been in Gondor then or so she thought. She had toppled off and had hit her head against something hard. When she had awoken she remembered being in the dark with no money, no weapon, and no means of transport home. She remembered that she couldn't remember who she was or where she was from. She hadn't remembered where home was. She still wasn't sure.

She figured that had been at least a year ago. She couldn't recall time anymore. Everything seemed to blurr. Every once in a while she would remember a tidbit of something, but it only made her confused because she didn't know what it meant to her. All of her memories that she had still maintained were pieced together in a makeshift puzzle that really didn't fit together. There was such blackness all through her memory that she had no idea what things were real and what she had made up on her own.

She smiled softly to herself as she recalled what one of the people she had met in similar type Inn had decided to call her. Crystal, like her voice was his reasoning. She had carried it around without a last name, telling everyone that she was Crystal. She remembered someone saying that she had a kind heart and had decided to make that her last name. Other then that she had had no memory of her real name.

Until today. She had been sitting here thinking when she had found the necklace around her neck and remember that her name was Eowyn Lightheart. She had recalled that the heart part of her name had sounded familiar. She couldn't remember when she had had a normal bath last. She usually got very wet in her travels and her and her clothes had ended up clean. Now that she thought about it, she wondered if her accident had really been a year ago after all. Maybe it had only been about three weeks in actuality. Or had it been longer? A month maybe? She had no idea.

She frowned in frustration. There just didn't seem to be any hope for her to remember anything about herself and what she use to be. This was her now, whatever it was she had become. At least she had a real name to fall back on. Maybe if people called her that then she would start remembering more.

As their songs drifted to her ears she wished that they would unlock something in her, something that would make sense to her. She had was sick and tired of guessing about her past and making up theories about what she supposed she knew.

She sipped her ale and wondered if she would be a loner without a home, without a memory, without a purpose for the rest of her miserable life. She hadn't been happy wandering around like an invalid, wondering what and who she truly was. There wasn't a thing that she could do on her own to unlock her vital memories. She put her head in her hand and sighed deeply.

She sat upon that stool when something hit her. A whirlwind of memories that just came to her. There had been something in the air, a smell that she remembered. Memories of her childhood came back. Her mother's name, Eowyn, her father's smile. Her father, Henry. He had had no sons, just her. She was their heir.

And then she realized why the people had left her for dead after she had fallen. She remembered who they where. They were her father's brother's children, her cousins. They had been angry at the fact that everything of the Lightheart's would go to her when her father died. That she would be the heir of their grand family. She would be the one that made decisions and would own the property that they had been blessed with.

She suddenly remembered her home, every small detail of every room. She had lived right here in Rohan.

She looked around the Inn, looking for familiar faces even if she could not recall the names that went along with them. She hoped she could find someone that knew her.

08-10-2004, 03:01 PM	#1
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	Seekers of Truth Discussion Thread Crystal Heart invites you to play in her game: Seekers of Truth ~~ Moderator: Child of the 7th Age (Cami) ~~ Historical Background: A year after the War of the Ring ~~ Basic Story line:* This story focuses on twenty-four year old Sandrina Sandrine Lightheart of Rohan, who is the daughter of Henry and Eowyn Lightheart. She is traveling with her cousins on a trip to Gondor to aid them in routine trading activities. Although her cousins Arthur and Samuel seem outwardly friendly, they were actually plotting to harm her. Sandrina's father Henry is the oldest son in the family and is therefore the heir to the Lightheart property. He holds the title as head of the family. His younger brother Harold is very angry with their father's decision about the land. His sons Arthur and Samuel are also very angry. Arthur comes up with a plan; his plan is to convince Henry that Sandrina needs some first hand experience in the family's trading activities in Gondor and that they are the best people to show her how. The reason that Harold is so angry is because when Henry and Harold were teenagers he had tried to kill him to get the inheritance. Henry defeated him and told him that as long as he was living that Harold would never get this land. Years passed and Henry never forgot. After his parents death he allowed Harold and his family to live in a small house on the edge of the property and let him and his family earn their keep through the family business, always giving them easy jobs to do. Henry married and Sandrina was born. Harold believed that Sandrina would lose the inherited property because she was a woman. In his opinion, women are weak and self centered, always focusing on something foolish.He taught these beliefs to his sons, who in turn created a plan to help their father get the land he wanted. Arthur and Samuel had never given Henry any reason to believe that they were evil. They always did their work and were polite to Henry, Eowyn, and Sandrina at all times. They never stole a thing from them, just waiting for their time to strike. They proposed to Henry that they should take Sandrina to Gondor to help with the family's trading, allowing her to acquire skills that she didn't have yet. Henry agreed, sending Sandrina off equipped with a special sword just for the occasion. Sandrina, who has never been to Gondor, has no idea where she is going and therefore believes Arthur and Samuel completely. They take her out into the forest, spook her horse, and when she falls they knock her unconscious. They take away her horse, and weapons, and all money that she has. They ride off with her horse and sword. The weapon was a special gift from her father for her protection. They broke and bloodied it with some of the horse's blood, making it appear as if she had been killed. Then they left the horse to die out in the woods just as they did to Sandrina.The brothers left, expecting the young Sandrina to die a slow and painful death. Sandrina's parents later received word that their daughter was "killed" in an ambush. They grieved and sent out a search party for nine months. Nothing turned up. The memories became too strong for Henry and Eowyn to bear so they moved deeper into Rohan, leaving the estate to Harold. Last edited by piosenniel; 08-10-2004 at 03:45 PM.

08-10-2004, 03:03 PM	#4
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	Timeline This game takes place in Year 1 of the 4th Age. The storyline itself or plot covers a total of one month. This requires a time commitment of 8 weeks from me, the game owner and from the major players. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: This game opened on 08/21 - the 8 week end date for play will be 10/16. ~~ Pio Last edited by piosenniel; 09-23-2004 at 11:52 AM.*

08-10-2004, 03:02 PM	#2
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	The purpose of this story is to discover the missing Sandrina, have her regain her memory, and get revenge on those who betrayed her. This means that the story is over when Arthur, Samuel, and Harold are all brought to justice; Sandrina remembers who she is; and is safely back with her parents, who also regain their land.

08-10-2004, 03:04 PM	#5
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	Carry-along characters played by Crystal: 1.) Eowyn Lightheart - Mother of Sandrina. She is a brave woman who is very stubborn. She doesn't like it when she hears people say that women can not do something. That is the only time she will voice her opinion. She is rather quiet, and reserved but determined and strong. 2.) Henry Lightheart - Father of Sandrina. Very opinionated and will not allow anyone to come in between him and his family. He fights when he thinks it is appropriate. He is not shy in anyway. He is skilled in sword fighting and using his mind against an opponent in battle-but thinking out manipulative type of things is not his strong point. He is determined and strong as well. He is also very brave, much braver then Eowyn.

08-10-2004, 03:05 PM	#6
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	Crystal Heart’s main character - Sandrina Sandrine Lightheart Name: Sandrina Sandrine Lightheart Age: Twenty-four Race: Human Gender: Female Weapons: None because they were all taken from her during the fall Appearance: Long brown hair and brown eyes. She wears a light brown cloak and other earth tone colored clothes. Personality/Strengths/Weaknesses: She is determined to find out who she is. Her weakness is trusting too easily. She is strong and unwavering in her decisions, but because she has lost her memory she is very uncertain. She is strong and very stubborn. She doesn't like to give up. Everything she does has a purpose no matter what. She is very honest, and she can't stand lying. But she will if it means that she saves her life or her parent's lives. Her weakness is fear itself, that and blood. She doesn't like the sight of blood. ---------------------------------- Crystal Heart’s post first for the game A young woman walked into the Inn; her hood concealed her face. It was the only form of protection because her weapon had been taken from her. She looked around the Inn in interest. It was much different then the other Inns she had been in, but it seemed quaint enough for her liking. She walked swiftly through the maze of chairs and tables to the front desk. She touched her pouch. There was enough coins for a nice meal, a couple of drinks, and a room for the night. She sat down on a stool. She pulled the hood from her head slowly and shook her hair out from under it. Auburn hair pulled away and lay in soft curls as it always did. Her unusual mixture of brown and green eyes looked around the room. She didn't open her mouth to say a word. This place was so different then she had first realized. She wasn't afraid or shy of this place. She just liked to be quiet for a while and take it all in. She learned more by just listening to the people around her. She also learned more about the place she was in by how the people acted, talked, and what they ate and drank. Someone had once told her that it was a type of gift of hers, but she had never believed it. It was only just a skill she had acquired over her years of travel. She had left her home so many years ago that she couldn't remember where that home had been. She had lost several years of her memory. She wasn't sure how it had happened, but it had and she hadn't regained it back. She had a feeling that she didn't want to remember those memories ever again anyway so she wasn't worried about the fact. She did remember her name, or at least what she thought her name was. She had been under so many aliases that she had started to forget what her own name was, but she remembered it right now. Her name was something wonderful, at least in her opinion. Crystal Lerena Sandrine Heart. A name that she had thought was regal and noble, even though she didn't come from noble or regal blood. She decided to order a drink at first. She wasn't sure what they sold here. "Excuse me, but what is a good drink to have around here?" Crystal asked the bartender. The bartender nodded and handed her an ale. Crystal looked up and thanked the Innkeeper. She took a small sip and gave a smile. It was rather good. Her memory wandered, but there was still places where she still couldn't remember a thing. In her travelings around middle earth she had been in rather rough fight with a drunken man that had mistaken her as his wife. His fists had been wild and hard against the skull of her head. There was only portions of that she actually remembered. She did remember waking up in a place with a woman over her telling her what had happened to her. She couldn't remember many other things after that. Her memory was slowly coming back, but it was so painfully slow that she had stopped trying to actually remember. She wasn't even entirely sure that Crystal was her real name. She thought back hard against the bearer, but nothing would budge in her mind. There was just a black portion that just sat there, unweilding against her mental pushes. She itched her neck and felt something she hadn't noticed before. She pulled the rough thing away from her and saw a necklace. It was long with a pendant on the end. She read it: SANDRINA SANDRINE Lightheart. Ah, that was her name. It had to be. She couldn't have found it any where else. She smiled. SANDRINA looked up and watched in interest as people sang. She had could not remember anything about songs. There was a barrier against the memories of her childhood. Like most of her memories they seemed to be locked behind doors that she did not carry keys for. She couldn't even remember exactly why she had come in the Inn. There had been a purpose she supposed. She knew she wanted a drink, but there had been something else. She couldn't remember. The only thing she could remember was that terrible fall. She had been riding with people that she knew were familiar and that she had known at one time, but she couldn't put her finger on who they were. They had been in Gondor then or so she thought. She had toppled off and had hit her head against something hard. When she had awoken she remembered being in the dark with no money, no weapon, and no means of transport home. She remembered that she couldn't remember who she was or where she was from. She hadn't remembered where home was. She still wasn't sure. She figured that had been at least a year ago. She couldn't recall time anymore. Everything seemed to blurr. Every once in a while she would remember a tidbit of something, but it only made her confused because she didn't know what it meant to her. All of her memories that she had still maintained were pieced together in a makeshift puzzle that really didn't fit together. There was such blackness all through her memory that she had no idea what things were real and what she had made up on her own. She smiled softly to herself as she recalled what one of the people she had met in similar type Inn had decided to call her. Crystal, like her voice was his reasoning. She had carried it around without a last name, telling everyone that she was Crystal. She remembered someone saying that she had a kind heart and had decided to make that her last name. Other then that she had had no memory of her real name. Until today. She had been sitting here thinking when she had found the necklace around her neck and remember that her name was Eowyn Lightheart. She had recalled that the heart part of her name had sounded familiar. She couldn't remember when she had had a normal bath last. She usually got very wet in her travels and her and her clothes had ended up clean. Now that she thought about it, she wondered if her accident had really been a year ago after all. Maybe it had only been about three weeks in actuality. Or had it been longer? A month maybe? She had no idea. She frowned in frustration. There just didn't seem to be any hope for her to remember anything about herself and what she use to be. This was her now, whatever it was she had become. At least she had a real name to fall back on. Maybe if people called her that then she would start remembering more. As their songs drifted to her ears she wished that they would unlock something in her, something that would make sense to her. She had was sick and tired of guessing about her past and making up theories about what she supposed she knew. She sipped her ale and wondered if she would be a loner without a home, without a memory, without a purpose for the rest of her miserable life. She hadn't been happy wandering around like an invalid, wondering what and who she truly was. There wasn't a thing that she could do on her own to unlock her vital memories. She put her head in her hand and sighed deeply. She sat upon that stool when something hit her. A whirlwind of memories that just came to her. There had been something in the air, a smell that she remembered. Memories of her childhood came back. Her mother's name, Eowyn, her father's smile. Her father, Henry. He had had no sons, just her. She was their heir. And then she realized why the people had left her for dead after she had fallen. She remembered who they where. They were her father's brother's children, her cousins. They had been angry at the fact that everything of the Lightheart's would go to her when her father died. That she would be the heir of their grand family. She would be the one that made decisions and would own the property that they had been blessed with. She suddenly remembered her home, every small detail of every room. She had lived right here in Rohan. She looked around the Inn, looking for familiar faces even if she could not recall the names that went along with them. She hoped she could find someone that knew her.