Admin Thread--Tol-in-Gaurhoth XLIX - At the Source of Darkness

[Macalaure]

But of those unhappy ones who were ensnared by Melkor little is known of a certainty. For who of the living has descended into the pits of Utumno, or has explored the darkness of the counsels of Melkor?

~Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor

Long has this mystery martyred the minds of the wise of Middle-earth. How shall we, they asked, undo the harms and evils done to this world by the hands of Morgoth? How shall we mend what we do not understand in depth? Will we not be able to alleviate the dark curse of hatred that lies upon the Peoples of the Orcs? Shall they not be brought into the light and the love of Ilúvatar again? Shall we not try and heal some of the marring inflicted on Arda, and thus on each of us?

Thus they thought, but their wishes and longings were all in vain, for nobody knew where to look for that accursed land that they called Udûn, or Utumno, in the tongue of the High-Elves, save that it lay in the cold of the far north. But at last their hopes were fulfilled, when one day in the Forth Age of the Sun Macalaure and Rikae, Rangers of the (Far) North, who ventured far in hostile lands, found the remains of the old dark fortress that was once overthrown by the Mighty of the West. News spread to the loremen of the free peoples of Middle-earth, and eagerly they gathered and quickly took the decision to venture to the north, too, and descend into the darkness of Utumno, keen to learn of what they knew little.

And little they knew indeed.


The Cast:

2 wolves (3 if the village ends up being larger)
3 cobblers (4 if the village ends up being larger)
1 seer (can only see wolves and the assassin; cobblers appear innocent)
1 cobbler assassin (gets the chance to kill a cobbler each night, innocents or wolves are left unharmed - the idea behind this role is to force the cobblers to be more subtle)
x innocent villagers


Various:

No multiple lynchings (last to reach the final vote count will be lynched)
No retractions
Deadline 8pm GMT


Occupations:

Please pick yourself an occupation suitable for a Fourth Age loreman, scientist, sorcerer, explorer, adventurer, treasure-seeker, etc.


List of Players:

Feanor of the Peredhil - visionary whose visions lean toward the abstract
Shastanis Althreduin - loner roane
Formendacil - snowbird
Kitanna - phantom's business partner
Eönwë - seller of pointless fakes
Nerwen - treasure-seeker
Kath - unemployed bum
Nilpaurion Felagund - aged tale-seeker
Durelin - eccentric, misanthropic archaeologist
Brinniel - junk collector
Gwathagor - warrior librarian
Nogrod - pointless philosopher
Lalaith - absent-minded professor
A Little Green - blind astronomer who sells stars at the stock exchange
the phantom - obtainer of rare antiquities
Thinlómien - marine zoologist
Groin Redbeard - dwarven miner
Mithalwen - factotum

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[Kitanna]

I am interested in joining your game, Mac.

[Eönwë]

Please can I join this game of "dark" proportions.

[Formendacil]

Any idea when this would start... or is that utterly subject to the speed with which players join up?

[Nerwen]

Count me in, please. I'll be a treasure-seeker.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I'm in. Minus the question mark.

Oh, and--

I would like to be a visionary whose visions lean toward the abstract...