Reawakened Mordor - RPG

[ColletteTook]

Distraction so happened to be one of this hinderance of a hobbit's near professions, and certainly a talent.
She nodded curtly and seriously and looked around, her mind moving quickly.
They had lost their weapons, and had none but clothes...but she smiled as she thought of something.
She began to sing, to the orc watcher's annoyance, a song about love, and elves, and friendship, and hobbits and more love.
It seemed to be cuasing the orc substantial pain ( to her satifaction and he finally lumbered over to her, hands over his ears growling up to her face, where Collette seized her change and grabbied the big stupid animal by the wrists and slammed his head into the bars, over and over again with all the strength she could muster. Saruman was drawn by the yell of the orc and the loud, sickening crunches against the bars...Aranel began to work her plan.

<<In return might i remind you, Morai, that you spell Collette wrong. I will edit and fix the bow thing>>

[Morai]

<< My, my, I guess that makes us even!>>

Luckily there was a barred window nearby. Aranel picked up her fife, blew the highest note she knew. She hoped that the wind would carry it to the ents.

Unfortunately Saruman wasn't distracted enough to ignore Aranel. He took her fife and sent her to a seperate dungeon. This room had no windows. Inside were several forms of torture. Aranel gasped......

[Judge Simon]

"Like your new quarters?" Shade asked from the cell's doorway. He had both of his arms leaning on the door frame and he was looking in at Aranel. He smiled evily. "It seems to be one of Sauraman's interests." he waked over to a particularly painful looking type of rack "This is one of the older ones" he said and then he nochalantly snapped his fingers. Two orcs seemed to emerge from the darkness and grabbed Aranel's shoulders roughly, force marched her over to the diabolical device. They locked her wrists into the metal manacals. The insides of them were filled with small metal spines, so it seemed to Aranel that the restraints were biting in to her wrists. The leg restraints were the same way.
"Now, this rack was specially designed in the depths of Mordor, Sauron never used it much. It wasn't very useful for extracting information, its guests never did last long enough to give anything worthwhile. But for you, I think it will work well enough" Shade told Aranel as he stood over her. He limped backward to the wall and motioned to the orcs. One simply stepped back but the other walked behind the machine. The orc turned the wheel behind Aranel hard. The creaky machine pulled into order, but Aranel remained silent. She wouldn't give Shade the pleasure of screaming. Shade shifted his weight onto his feet and walked back over to her. He placed his hands onto the wooden table, putting his weight onto the splintery thing.
"I guess you think you are so full of strength, right Aranel?"he said leaning over her, "So full of pride and honor" he said running the back of his hand against her face "well that will soon change" Shade finished and he lifted his hand and struck Aranel hard across the face. He readjusted his weight on the table as he conitued to lean over her. As he talked the other orc had moved to the back with the other and had placed his hands on the wheel as well. As Shade shifted his eyes ever so slighty in thier direction, they turned the wheel. Outside the dungeon cell the was a loud crank and was followed immediatly by a loud earpiercing scream...

[ November 10, 2002: Message edited by: Judge Simon ]

[Morai]

Saruman looked the fife over. Nothing seemed different about it, though at the top was a signature in gold. He pressed it to his lips and blew. No sound came from it. The Sorcerer had his mouth shaped in exact form.

"Strange." He muttered.

Meanwhile, Aranel wasn't doing well. Tears of pain streamed down her face. She was so stressed, she was sweating blood. Aranel heared a faint marching. The elf struggled then passed out.

[ColletteTook]

Hope dwindled and went out, and she was drowned in darkness. She cried out and laid on the cold stone floor for what seemed an eternity, and heard the foul creature she had pummeled grunting in her general direction, though he was still a bit delerious from the blows she had administered, stronger than she really was.
Now her energy was spent, pride and dignity forgotten as she felt the whip upon her back. She screamed out, not mercy but for hope
U-chebin estel anim! ( i have kept no hope for myself) she screamed, and the orc laughed, and beat her hope faded, jaded, and gone.

[ November 17, 2002: Message edited by: ColletteTook ]

[Morai]

While unconcious, Aranel sank into delirium. She dreamed of Mirkwood. There she was, eating with her love Halbereth, when he proposed. Aranel said yes, and they planned there wedding.

Meanwhile Saruman was still having problems with the fife. Finally he tried casting a spell on the instrument. Suddenly it rose in the air. Spilling from it's holes was golden light brighter than the sun. It shined words on the wall in elvish long forgotten. The words read:

"This fife can only be unlocked by it's true mistress, Aranel Nowane, Piper of forgotten lands"

Saruman reconised the print, it was Quenya.

"Shade, come quickly!" He shouted....

[ November 11, 2002: Message edited by: Morai ]

[ November 12, 2002: Message edited by: Morai ]

[Judge Simon]

"Shade, come quickly!"

Shade rolled his eyes and looked up at the orcs
"As soon as this one regains herself, let me know"
"Sir, should we just leave her like this?"
"What? You mean on the rack? Of course." Shade finished as he slowly made his way up the stone steps. The dungeons were ungodly cold and Shade was glad when he reached Sauraman's throne room. He limped in and noticed the glittering letters on the wall. Shade looked at them but he could not read the writting.
"thats nice, what did you want? I was about to have some fun with that miserable little halfling."
"Shade, where is that elf?"
"Who...Aranel? Well she's down in the dungeons as well, but you can't talk to her at the moment."
"Why?"
"She passed out right now. Give her about an hour."
"The moment she wakes up I want to be informed"

Shade nodded and walked out of the room. Before he re-entered the dungeons he drew about himself a heavy black cloak to keep himself warm. With one hand leaning on the stone wall, Shade went to where Collette was being held. As he got closer, the snaps of a whip grew louder and the groaning of Collette more evident. He approached the door and looked through the small barred window. An orc stood towering over Collette and Collette, back horribly bloodied lay on the floor barely moving. Shade slipped the iron key into the lock and pushed open the door. Shade limped in and over to the orc. The orc had the whip raised ready to let it fall onto Collette's back, but Shade put his hand to the orc's arm and took the whip from him. The orc snarled for a minute and then left to stand right outside the door. Shade bent down painfully onto one knee to look Collette in the face.
"So, little hobbit, have you gotten a chance to get comfortable with your new home?"
"Shade, if I had the strength, I'd choke you with that whip" She said, venomously and then turned her head away from him.
"Of course you would, oh Collette if only your friends had listened to you...none of you would be in this mess. You were right about me all the time. I've just come from Aranel's cell, she passed out from the pain of her torture and I don't even want to tell you the condition of Faye and Radae. But you, you seem to be doing the best of all of them..well thats something to think about...I'll be back later Collette for another one of our little chats." Shade slowly stood up and turned. He limped back out of Collette's cell and locked the door.
"Leave her be for awhile." He said to the orc, standing guard. He didn't give the orc back the whip and Shade trudged on to where Radae and Faye were being kept. Much of the floor was gritty with stones and made it difficult for Shade to walk. He stumbled only once, right onto his wounded knee. He gritted his teeth and slowly stood back up using the wall and an orc for support.
"Sir, are you alright?"The orc asked in a low growl.
"Fine,"
"Sir, the she-elf, she has regained consciouness, you wanted to be told."
"Yes, I did, thanks" Shade looked down the hall at Radae and Faye's cell. He'd have to deal with them later. Walking as steadily as he could, with whip firmily in hand, Shade went to Aranel's cell. He pushed the door open and looked down. He saw Aranel lift her head weakly in his direction and then left it fall back down.
"Get her on her feet, Sauraman wishes to see her." Shade ordered. The two orcs undid her bonds and forced her to her feet. Half dragging her up the steps and into Sauraman's throneroom with Shade leading the way...

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[Morai]

All she saw was blurred colors. When they reached the throne room, Shade had to help her stand. Aranel's arms and legs ached near numbness.

"Well, well, Piper of Forgotten lands, I have a favor to ask of you...." Saruman sneered.....

[ColletteTook]

Meanwhile------

The Ents had heard the short, shrill cry of the fife from afar, the fife that was distinguishable from all for it was Aranel's own. They began to assemble a rescue party, hoom but not too hasty now.....
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Collette turned her head away from Shade's words, and stubbornly fought the pain to sit up. It seered, and she could feel the blood seeping and sticking to her tunic.She prayed for Aranel's safety, for Radae and Faye, and now Shade had given her a hint. She was doing the best of all of them, for she was stubborn and righteous and now, from seeing the sun from the high small stone opening, her hope twinkled once more and she knew that she would be the one to save them.
Her thoughts ran quickly, for this was not a slow hobbit, just a clumbsy one.
Collette grouped the wall for footing, as her knees shook violently underneath her throbbing weight. She used all her strength to clamber silently up the bars and hold herself to the ceiling corner.Her body throbbed and bled more, she felt woozy from loss of blood, but grit her teeth, and waited for the dozing orc to notice her sudden dissapearance.
"Pig! Here Pig!" she taunted, though her couldnt see her.
He entered the cell, scratching his head in confusion. Collette seized her chance and launched herself on his back and, being a theif, her hands naturally found their way into the pockets of his filthy breeches and pulled from them the cell keys and scrambled to lock him in her own cell.
His cries had soon alerted many other dull witted orcs to his aid, but Collette hid from them easily.
She had the keys to the cells now, and she WOULD find Faye and Radae.
She would see to it personally that they would make it through this, and she had meant to kill Shade herself, even if it meant her own death.
She moved along the hallways like a shadow, despite her pain and agony and the now mroe steadily loss of blood that occasionally made her stop, for her vision was going white.
She heard Shade's cry from down one of the further halls. He had obviously discovered her dissapearance.
"Dont worry Shade" she said aloud, as she recovered another dizzy spell, gasping for air. "We shall meet again, and you shall meet your demise by a halfling. Lo! What an honorable death" she half-laughed and precceded to find where Faye and Radae were.

[Aradaewen]

<>SORRY! I haven't been on in a long time. What kind of example is that for my fellow RPGers? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]<>

Radae's head felt bloated and full of water. Her back ached horribly, for it had been whipped like Collette's, but unlike Collette, was not dripping and oozing blood. After the orcs had whipped her, they had strung her from the ceiling and left her chained there by her ankles.

<>Space saved. Goin' to dinner. Finish this lata.<>

[ColletteTook]

<< ooc: i hate to be the grump, but you have been out to dinner for a few WEEKS and now im claiming your saved space....sry.>>

bic: Collette scampered down the hall, her eyes now adjusted to the claiming dark of the stone corridors, so she blended with the shadows and crept along, the sneky things she was.
She heard a quiet moan, and a drift of hair.
"RADAE!" she cried, and tried conceal her excitement, and obvious pain, form not only her back, but from the site of the porr dragon.
Unfortunately, Shade was NOT blunt, and dumb like his orcs, and had figured her plan fast, and she could hear his drumming footsteps.
Her hands shook, and just as she had found the right key, she dropped the bunch. Her hands trembled so hard, as she tried to discern the indetical rods in the iron mass, and made a cry of dispair as he drew nearer and nearer.............

[Morai]

<<Collette, sorry to break the news, but Radae logged out for good. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] She said she longer had intrest in this rp. I guess it's up to the three of us to finish it>>

" I need you to help me. All you have to do is play your little stick and unlock it for me. If you do, I'll let you go. Ha! I'll even provide an escort to the Undying Lands!"
Saruman boasted.

" Even if you do, I will never be happy. I know better than to trust a ruffian like you. Eru would sink all of your ships once he'd find out." Aranel snapped.

"As you wish, more dungeon time for you. If you change your mind, let me know." He replied as orks dragged her off.

That night, the elf was haunted with nightmares. The same thing happened each time. All of Aranel's companions died before she stop it. Then her self will disapeared and she gave Saurman full ownership of her instrument....

[ColletteTook]

Collette cried in an exasperated tone and unlocked the door. "Collette I knew it!" Radae said as gleefully as she could manage. "Radae listen to me" Collette whispered quickly as she heard the boots in the distance falter as he talked to an orc guard. She tossed up the keys to Radae. "You have to get yourself out. NOW. I want you to find Faye, and Aranel, and go as fast as you may to the Ents and tell them to goings on."
Radae unlocked herself and tried to land on her feet in a cat-like manner as best as she could. "Where do you think YOUR going?" Radae asked, as she left her part out completely.
"Im going to kill Shade, and it will probably be the last thing I do. Now flee! flee these walss as I will never!" she said, and Radae swept down to hug the miserable creature. Collette cried out painfully, and the dragon quickly withdrew her hands to find them covered in blood. "Go!" Collette growled, gritting her teeth as the footsteps were heard nearer, and with one last fleeting glance, Radae fled from the room.
Collette leaned outside in the hall (with much difficulty), and seeing Shade approaching from the distance, she realized he would die with his own sword, as she did not have one.
"Greetings Shade." she said casually.
" I shall put you back in your cell you filth" he snarled.
" Lost the keys I stole. Fancy that." Collette mused, still not looking up. Her head was reeling with ways to steal his dagger.
"You are a pitiful thing Collette." he laughed, and drew his sword, knowing her clear intentions.'
" I do not desire pity. 'Tis you who craves that. Mayhaps they will though. Mayhaps they will pity you after you suffer under your own sword, gripped by a halflings hand, a pitiful thing." she clucked, and jumped past him and eized the dagger, holder and all....

[Judge Simon]

OoC: "she clucked" heh heh heh heh...Collette, you're great, have fun killing me! [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

--BiC--

The halfling had caught Shade off balance and he fell to the floor with th e creature on top of him. She had managed to steal his dagger and loosed it from his sheath
"Revenge is mine, you son of Sauron, minion of evil" She said stabbed Shade deep into the stomach. Shade felt his whole body go tense and in a last moment of consciouness, he drew from his boot a smaller twisted dagger, Collette didn't notice and she continued to put all her wieght onto the blade. He raised the dagger behind her and plunged it deep into her back. She screamed and rolled off his stomacj pulling out the dagger from his stomach as she went. Shade struggled to his knees, even as blood oozed from his stomach, blood didn't bother him, it was everywhere any way.
"I never pitied you or any one else for that matter, I'm glad to have lived my wretched life the way I wanted, hope you did, because here it will end!" He said as in a final effort stabbed at Collette. He didn't see where he had hit her, but he knew that he had. He had fallen onto his chest and lay still. Collette, still drawing breath, picked Shade's dagger and thrust it deep into Shade's back. He didn't move at all. He was dead...

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[Morai]

A scream snapped Aranel out of her hypnotic trance. Pushing past Saruman, she ran to Collete. Aranel played another signal. Faint marching was rising up the stairs. The elf tried to stop Collete's bleeding. Blood, too much blood....

[ColletteTook]

Collette blinked the blood out of her eyes.His blood or hers? she wondered, but her trembling hands that tempered in effort to confort her wounds told her it was her own. Her vision blurred and blackened as she drew a breath with difficulty. Her vision wavered in and out the picture of Aranel, tear stained, bent over her body.
"Go to the ents, Go to the ents" She muttered dazedly.
"We are going to fix this up first Collette" Aranel said, seeing the large wound horizontally seered across her entire collarbone. Her back, already whipped, was none but skinless meat now, as she lay in this puddle of her own blood, Shade's blood mixing, his body not far.
She ignored Aranel. "I finished him! I got him!" she said with a maniacle smile on her face. She took another shuddering breath.
"Go find Faye and go to the Ents. Leave me here so all will know by my carcass that a halfling slew the traitor!" she pleaded, and went unconcious.

[Aradaewen]

haha die shade- diediedie!!!! *jumping on his mangled body* [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

guys look- I'm really REALLY sorry that this RPg didn't work out all that well. (It was me first try.) I hope we can see each other some more in ABD. *turns like to walk away, but comes back with an afterthought* Oh yeah.. Collette... DON'T die. k? [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] thanks again.

[Morai]

<<Radae, I think this rp is going great. Don't worry, we'll finish it for you>>

Aranel scooped up Collette in her arms. Stepping over Shade's carcass, she limped towards the stairs. At the door Aranel was greeted by the ents....

[Judge Simon]

OoC&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;Look at me! I'm a scary carcass WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

**haunts every single member of the RPG**

[ColletteTook]

&lt;&lt;here's my last post: i have to finish myself off in one more rpg and its bye bye barrow Downs!&gt;&gt;

The ents took Collette into their care, like a young entling of their own. THough she fretted, halucinated and fevered through the weeks, she did indeed recover, though not as the obnoxious bouncing hobbit once upon a time.
She was matured and serious.Though still very young, the age of her heart showed within the age creases suddenly formed in her palin face, making her look wise and beautiful in her own hobbit way.
Scars would always remain, not only upon her back but deep beneath it's flesh, gnawing until her heart could stand it no longer and gave away.
THese were her last words as she left the company. What was no become of Saruman was beyond her predictions.
"I have served my time, and my life is useless lest i find buisness in other places." she told Aranel, and hugged her tight before she left.
Radae hugged the little halfling, and handed her her sword, now newly engraved with the words : Collette the Light Bringer, slayer of Shade and Shadows.

[Morai]

Aranel said farewell to her friends.

"I'm heading towards the Undying Lands. Someday, I hope to see you again. Farewell, may you always hope!" The elf spoke. Walking away, Aranel played a happy, yet sad tune. She knew that she'd miss them.

The years passed. Aranel went to the Undying Lands, and married her love Halbereth. Collette stayed in the Shire, and remained there till the end of her days. Faye followed the last of the Fleeing Elves. Aradaewen disapeared, never to be seen again. Some say she died of a broken heart....

[Bêthberry]

Because Aradaewen, the game owner, has disappeared, I have contacted Collette Took about moving this game to Elvenhome. She has agreed that the game is over, and so I will be moving it to Elvenhome Monday January 13, in the evening, BD site time.

Bethberry