Posted by Grallon on May 9, 2000 at 05:47:48:
Well, I seem to not be able to quit cold turkey. But I still do wish to, so I am going to try to get my fixes in short posts and try to ween myself like the patch. Here is Erlien's role. If you have ever read Asimov's foundation series, the format should be familiar. At the beginning of each of the chapters in that series, there was an experpt from an "encyclopedia Galactica" that is published far after the time of the events that are taking place in the story, and the exerpts are used to clarify and solidify the various elements of the Story into one Epic. This role is an exeprt from a fictitios encyclopedia from a time far far far in the future of Thera...after the Ragers have razed the Tower and all other magical institutions. Is the role long? Yes. Does it take liberties with history? Yes. I wrote it in this format for two reasons. 1) I had always laughed my ass off at the "mage kill parents/village/lover/etc." theme that seemed to gravitate to the Village...so I descided to do one like that, but to at least make it a bit original. 2) This sort of historical view of Erlien's life from the far far future, would allow me to take some liberties with reality, and chalk it up to historical mutation of the story. Ambitious? Yes. Overly ambitious? I do not think so. I think I could have pulled it off if I didn't get jaded and delete.
Sure deleting is poor rp. But Deletion is hardly ever for Rp reasons. Anyway, On to the role.