Application; capeandcowl
[PLAYER INFO]NAME: bluemoon
AGE: What am I doing?
JOURNAL: Still trying to figure that out, haven't managed yet.
IM: It's around already, and if you figure out what I'm doing please contact me to tell me
E-MAIL: You've got this too
RETURNING: Terry, Bratziska, Rin
[CHARACTER INFO]CHARACTER NAME: .............................................................. the One Ring, the Ring of Power, the Ruling Ring, the Master Ring, Isildur's Bane, the Precious etc
FANDOM: Lord of the Rings
CHRONOLOGY: After falling down into the Crack of Doom and melting :(
CLASS: It is the most villainous of villains. It is the villain's villain.
SUPERHERO NAME: Glorvan Mincor (glore-vahn meen-core)
ALTER EGO: One Ring, The catalyst for the end of life as we know it?
BACKGROUND:Probably everyone knows Middle Earth, even if they don't think they do, because when Tolkien wrote LotR he created the high fantasy world. Elves and Men and Orcs and Dwarves and Dragons and Wizards and little folks in the corner of the world who enjoyed peaceful lives, called Hobbits - or Halflings, depending on who you ask. And from there games - franchises - have been ripped off created, books have been written, movies have been made, and fantasy as a whole has been shaped into something all new. And yeah, well that place? That's where the Ring is from.
And hey, if you know about Middle Earth, you likely know about the Ring. Barring that, you know about something like the Ring. It is the Artifact of Doom. And a very doomy doom is it.
In Middle Earth, the Timeline of Arda - the history of the world, which I shall not EVEN put into full detail because omg do you know how long this is already going to be - goes like this: The world was created. The First Age started, and lots of things happened. And then came the Second Age. The Second Age is what concerns us.
Early on in the Second Age Sauron came back into the core of things in Middle Earth. "Came back?" I hear you ask? Well, yes. Back in the First Age, he was the chief lieutenant of the first Dark Lord, Morgoth aka Melkor. This is one of those things that doesn't much concern the ring so we're leaving it at that. Point is that he went off for about a thousand years, afterwards he did come back, and some 500 years later he began constructing Barad-dûr (that big black tower that his eye sits on top of) in the land of Mordor, up by Mt. Doom aka Orodruin aka Amon Amarth. Sauron "used the fire that welled there from the heart of the earth in his sorceries and his forging", and the mountain became a great source of power for him and apparently connected to himself and his power in an odd way; it's dormant when he is and active when he's up and doing stuff. Given all this, it's no surprise that he chose it for the seat of his rule, and that it was involved in so much that he did. Anyway, soon after he had begun construction on the Black Tower he began seducing/deceiving people and stuff, and several hundred years after THAT what we're really concerned with started happening.
Sauron came up with a plan to enslave all the free peoples of Middle Earth, and so disguised himself as Annatar, or the "Lord of Gifts" and went to the elves and befriended the Elvish smiths of Eregion and their leader, Celebrimbor. He counciled with them in art and magic and hinted that he was an emissary of the Valar, the immortal citizens of the Blessed Realm where the elves occasionally visited, and as a race had spent some time. To be tight with the Valar was to be tight with the elves mostly, and the elves liked what he was suggesting. Not all the elves trusted him; Galadriel and Gil-galad (who was High King of the Ñoldor) were two who really didn't, but NOBODY LISTENED TO THEM. So Sauron proposed this great plan for forging rings of power to do cool things for everyone and Celebrimbor&co decided that was a fine idea.
Que the Rings of Power.
The Elves made 19 rings: 3 for themselves, 7 for the dwarves, and 9 for men, and Sauron was involved in the forging of all but the 3, which is why they remain helpful and good things while the 7 and the 9 are designed to corrupt.
At this point Sauron, who figured everything was going just great and according to plan, went to Mt. Doom and in secret forged the One Ring, and poured a great deal of his power into it by cutting through his hand that was holding the gold, and letting his evil bind with the molten gold. He poured all his cruelty, hate, and malice into the ring, and most of his power was forged it, which was necessary if he wanted to make it strong enough to bind the other rings and their bearers to his will; the other rings of power were no joke. As a finishing touch he inscribed some lines in the Black Speech of Mordor, written in fiery Tengwar letters. You've probably heard them.
Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,
ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.
One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them
One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
He then put the ring on and the elves went oh crap and realized they'd all been had, so they took off the 3 rings and hid them as well as they could figure out how. Sauron started a war, lots and lots of elves died, Sauron conquered a lot of things, seized the 7 and the 9 rings that he'd helped forge, and overall did very well for himself. But at last the Elves, with the help of an army from Númenor, destroyed Sauron's army and drove the rest back into Mordor. This whole mess is known as the War of the Elves and Sauron, which is clearly the most creative name for a war ever.
From then on Sauron became known as the Dark Lord of Mordor. So the Dark Lord sat down, finally finished building Barad-dûr, and started handing out his 16 rings to various men and dwarves. The Dwarves proved to be too darn stubborn for him to do much controlling, so with the power of the rings they mostly just became fabulously wealthy and got eaten by dragons for their troubles. The dragons also destroyed 4 of the rings before Sauron collected the other 3, which is the present state of things. Men proved far less resilient, and when Sauron handed out the 9 to various kings he could easily control them with the One, and they all faded into wraiths, and became the Nazgûl, his most feared servants. In the mean time there were various conflicts which once again I'm not going into. Mostly the Ring is powerful, rah rah fight fight, Sauron becomes god-king for these dudes who live in the East and South, and Sauron gained control over the orcs and trolls and stuff. In fact, he got so powerful that he took on the titles "Lord of the Earth" and "King of Men".
Uuuunfortunately for Sauron, "really really powerful" does not translate to "all-powerful" or even "undefeatable", and him claiming those titles made some other guys really mad. The last and most powerful of the Númenórean kings, Ar-Pharazôn, marched in to Middle Earth with an army of absolutely staggering size, intent on kicking some butt over the arrogance in those titles - the men of Númenor were pretty proud in those days. Sauron, seeing this and realizing that there was really no way for him to win if he just went into open battle decided that politics would be a better tactic. He assumed a fair incarnation, and came to Ar-Pharazôn's camp to surrender and swear allegiance to the king. He allowed himself to be taken as a prisoner to the island of Númenor, which is in the sea halfway between Middle Earth and Valinor, the undying land. And all of this, you see, was part of his terribly cunning plan.
Using the power of the Ring, (which the Númenóreans didn't know about because despite the 1500 years and counting of conflict the elves preferred to keep that sort of thing hush-hush) Sauron easily began to corrupt Númenórean civilization from inside out. He quickly rose from a prisoner to adviser to the King, got a grip on or in the minds of most of the men of Númenor and dominated their minds and wills, and kicked out the old religion and managed to get it replaced by human sacrifice and devil worship and to establish himself as High Priest all in a very short amount of time. Like I said, the fact that he had the One Ring on his person for all of this is probably why he could, do this, let alone so quickly; the Ring, after all, is powerful and was made to manipulate.
Anyway after all of this and driving persecution of the Elves and outlawing the speaking of Elvish and the learning of Elvish and all sorts of other things, Sauron finally went to Ar-Pharazôn, who was by then getting pretty old and was afraid of death. Sauron persuaded him to make the greatest armada that the world had ever seen and go to war against the Blessed Realm, and to "wrest it and its 'immortality' into his own hands." Really he was creating a situation where (he thought) the Valar would wipe out the military force of Númenor, so they'd stop bugging him and keeping him from his own plans for world domination.
Things didn't go quite according to plan.
Ar-Pharazôn believed Sauron's lies, and assembled the greatest armada the world had ever seen, which launched for Valinor. And when the got there, the Valar were stumped as to what to do. They were staggered that anyone was even trying this sort of thing. They themselves weren't in any danger, but the armies could have brought ruin to Valinor itself. However, they didn't react quite how Sauron was predicting. Instead of trashing everything, the Valar appealed to Eru, aka God, and he trashed everything instead.
The appeal of the Valar resulted in epic divine smackdown, wherein as soon as Ar-Pharazôn set foot on the shore the armada was completely destroyed, and Númenor was swallowed by the sea and nearly all of its people killed, and finally the Blessed Realm was removed from the circles of the physical world, sort of curved so that only elves would ever be able to reach it again.
(Unsurprisingly) Sauron had not really been expecting this. He was vastly diminished and broken by everything that had happened, because of how deeply he'd sunk his energy into the corruption of Númenor. In addition, his body was destroyed and he forever lost the ability to take beautiful forms. Still, he wasn't dead. He had the Ring.
Creating the Ring had simultaneously strengthened and weakened Sauron's power. As long as he had it, he was vastly powerful and as long as it existed he couldn't die. Still, by binding his power into it, he'd become dependent on it. But the point at the moment is that Sauron, despite all of this, wasn't dead. Much like Voldemort he'd simply become a not-ghost, and so he and the Ring made their way back to Middle Earth, where he now ruled with the Ring through terror and force.
Meanwhile, a few faithful Númenóreans who had not been killed by the flood came to Middle Earth and founded Gondor and Arnor. Then, led by Elendil, King of Gondor, and his sons, they allied with Gil-galad (you know, that elf who didn't trust Sauron WAAAAAAY back when) in the Last Alliance of Men and Elves. Together they went to war and, after a very long time, finally defeated Sauron. Gil-galad and Elendil were both killed, but Isildur, the son of Elendil, cut the One Ring from Sauron's hand with his father's broken sword, Narsil, on the slopes of Mt. Doom. He claimed it for his own, instead of destroying it like he should have, but mostly things seemed to be resolved! Sauron's physical form was destroyed, there was much rejoicing, and Isildur had a evil Ring of power to do with as he willed.
Not that this lasted long.
Not long after all of this Isildur was riding along and was ambushed by orcs. His men were killed, and he slipped on the Ring, which makes the wearer invisible, and jumped into a river to escape. But the Ring betrayed him and slipped from his finger. Isildur was killed and the Ring and was lost for millennia, until it had almost passed even from legends.
TWENTY FIVE HUNDRED YEARS LATER our story picks up again, with two creatures very like Hobbits.
Up until this point, with the exception of that last bit with the ring betraying Isildur, this story has seemed to be more about Sauron than the Ring, and in a way it is. Sauron gets the credit for all of what he did, after all, and the Ring is merely a tool he used in doing so. However, as begins to be proven remarkably quickly, the Ring is not merely an inanimate object. It betrayed Isildur, and even that in itself implies something. In order to be able to betray something, you need to be able to do the opposite. In order to be a traitor you must understand loyalty and be able to act against that; had the ring merely fallen off of his finger it could not be called a betrayal. But it was more than that.
When Sauron forged so much of his power and so much of his hate and greed and lust for more power into the ring, he granted it a kind of sentience. So, using its own power, it began to act - or, at least, act in such a manner that, for the first time, it is obvious that it alone was acting.
In the year 2463 of the Third Age, the Ring was found by chance on a fishing trip by a little man named Déagol. He was out on this trip with his cousin, Sméagol, whose birthday it was and who had apparently just turned 33, and thus possibly just officially come of age - if traditions held over land and over years, in any case. Déagol thought that this ring he'd found was remarkably lovely and highly desirable, sentiments that Sméagol shared. This was hardly unusual, as the Ring seduced mostly everyone who looked at it, and the results were also not entirely unexpected. The cousins fought, and in the end Sméagol murdered Déagol, and took the Ring and so cleverly hid the body that it was not discovered. The Ring slowly continued to corrupt him, and he became a sneak and a spy, aided by the invisibility granted by the Ring. Not unexpectedly, these actions hardly made Sméagol very popular, and at last he was kicked out of his town/village/whatever. He crept off, the Ring poisoning his mind, and slowly made his way up into the Misty Mountains, and then down into the heart of the mountains, to a lake. There he stayed for 500 years, hunting blind fish and occasionally goblins, and was twisted body and mind. Still, Hobbits are more resilient little creatures than many would credit, and so despite how far Sméagol (who by then was known as Gollum, for a gulping noise that he made) had fallen he had not yet faded into a wraith, which is the usual fate of one who keeps any of the great rings for so very long.
After 500 years in the dark, the Ring decided that there was really nothing more it could gain by staying with Gollum, and so it abandoned him. One day when he was at the side of his lake it abandoned him, and there it was found by a very unlikely creature. A Hobbit, by the name of Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo was out in the Misty Mountains because he'd been more or less conned into going on an adventure by Gandalf the Grey, one of the Wise and a formidable Wizard. But it was Bilbo who found the Ring, and who used it to escape when Gollum tried to attack and kill him. Gollum first wanted to eat him, and then later when he began to suspect that Bilbo had the Ring, wanted to murder him; given how well he could at that point see in the dark, it's maybe a good thing that Bilbo had a ring that could turn you invisible. Instantly the Ring began to work on Bilbo, as it always did, and in the usual way of things he invented a story for himself and others about how he'd won the Ring in a game of riddles with Gollum. Everyone who gets the Ring wants to legitimize their ownership - Gollum always claimed it was a birthday present. Anyway, Bilbo stuck with this story for a while, and Gandalf suspected, but nothing particularly untoward happened. Bilbo went off and finished his adventure, during the course of which a ring that makes you invisible was particularly useful, came home far richer than he had been and settled down. And didn't age. Meanwhile, the Ring continued slipping into his mind, strengthening its hold on him, playing the long game.
Some years after all of this happened, Bilbo adopted a young Hobbit named Frodo, who was both his first and second cousin, once removed. They went on, the Ring in the background, except in how its grip on Bilbo's mind continued to strengthen. And then, on his 111th birthday, Bilbo decided to vanish.
He slipped on the Ring during his birthday speech and caused quite a scare among the Hobbits of the Shire, and though he planned to leave the Ring to Frodo, along with everything else, almost changed his mind at the last minute. Gandalf had to persuade him to leave it behind, and even so he almost didn't. Still, when he did, it was a monumental moment, as it was the first time anyone had willingly abandoned the Ring.
Gandalf began to suspect terrible things, so he waited for Frodo and told him not to use the Ring under any accounts, and then he left.
Seventeen years passed without incident. Then incidents started happening with a vengeance.
Sauron became aware of the One Ring's existence and location and started hunting for it, sending the Nazgûl out into the world to hunt it and bring it to him. So Frodo sets off on a quest of his own, and has lots and lots of adventures of the nasty sort that were largely the Ring giving him trouble, either directly - seducing his companions, seducing HIM, playing tricks on him, trying to get home and be noticed and to gain control over him entirely - or indirectly, merely by it's existence. And at the same time it was quickly and busily tying knots in Frodo's thinking and binding him to itself, perhaps more than it ever had before. Frodo took it off on a quest to destroy it at the only place it could be destroyed - Mt. Doom, where it was forged. He was joined by many companions, lost most of them, and then later picked up another - Gollum. Gollum led them into Mordor and tried to steal the Ring and kill Frodo and his only remaining companion, Samwise Gamgee - Frodo's gardener. Gollum was foiled, and Frodo and Sam made the long and weary trek across the lands of Mordor right up to the Crack of Doom, in the side of Mount Doom, and inside, where at last this long and weary journey they'd been on for nearly a year could be brought to a close.
There, finally, the Ring's grip on Frodo's mind snapped shut.
Frodo refused to cast the Ring down into the fires of the mountain, and instead claimed it for himself - at this point it's always somewhat unclear to me if it's Frodo or the Ring itself speaking. Gollum turns up again to try and take the Ring, and either Frodo or the Ring or both tell him in a commanding voice, "If you touch me ever again, you shall be cast yourself into the Fire of Doom."
Like Gollum is going to listen to that.
He attacks Frodo, bites off his finger with the ring attached, and then sure enough falls into the Fires of Doom, still holding the Ring. So that's the end of that, Sauron is destroyed, Middle Earth is saved.
Huzzah.
PERSONALITY:The Ring occasionally seems a study in opposites -- for example, it is both highly treacherous and very loyal. It has betrayed just about every single person who's carried it, usually to their doom. Yet, at the same time, it spent centuries patiently trying to get back to Sauron, who forged it. Still, it is strongly suggested by most everyone in the know that with the right bearer, it would be relatively easy to turn the might of the Ring against Sauron and overthrow him once and for all. Clearly it has no loyalty to its maker for the mere fact of its creation. Instead the Ring appears to be self serving. It swings freely, attracted to power, and the might of one who can bring its full potential to bear. When it is claimed and understood well enough to have a new Master, it is loyal to them- until something better, or even more convenient, comes along. Sauron forged his greed into the Ring, and it is greedy; it always wants something better, something more. Everything and then some, and it is willing to destroy until it has it, or until no one else has anything that it cannot have. After all, at the end of Return of the King a Hobbit claimed the Ring, and Sauron was made suddenly and terribly aware of this new foe, who could end him. Clearly in the end it betrayed its maker. It has no lasting loyalties. It wants power for itself, not to be a power used by others, and doesn't much care who it uses in attempting to obtain that.
When the Ring was forged greed, cruelty, hate, malice, endless desire and pride, treachery, a selfish disdain for all others, a lust for conquest and war and rule of all and a whole host of other negative emotions and desires were forged into it. So, evil it has been from the beginning and evil it shall remain. It's one of those things that no really, you can't redeem, it'd be best just to toss it into the sun or something and be rid of it. Of course, because the Ring was also made to be manipulative -- the main reason it was created was to manipulate, for that matter -- it will let you (and indeed lead you to) believe anything about it that you want, as long as this grants it power over you.
It is good at convincing people that really it can't just be pure evil, surely even if the guy who made it was wicked through and through the Ring really can't be, surely. It's just something so powerful, and all that power can so easily be used for good. It is fair to look upon (and will retain that when it becomes human; fair of form and voice -- a 'gilded tongue' or 'silver tongue' you might say) and, of course, has a power that is intoxicating. Still, no matter what one may believe when one first picks up the Ring -- or, in the City, those who take up with it and become friends/allies/SUPPORTERS/whatev -- the Ring will inevitably corrupt its bearer, and to a lesser extent everyone who's even close to the one bearing it. It cannot be redeemed or used for good, not in the long run. It corrupts everything. Ever heard that saying 'The road to Hell is paved with good intentions'? Yeah, well for anyone good who picks up the Ring, yes it is indeed. And it doesn't care enough to care. It can wait if necessary but doesn't have much patience in the long run; it just sort of wants things, and will do what it needs to in order to get them as fast as possible. It twists things until it's no longer convenient and then drops them and moves on and leaves them not even knowing what to do with themselves.
Needless to say it has absolutely no respect for life. At all.
In Lord of the Rings, clearly there aren't computers and things, but generally green hills and forests and ~harmony with nature~ represent the forces of good, while technology and progress and burning all trees to power the 'Machine of War' represent the opposite number. So, though the Ring isn't exactly up to speed on the modern world, for obvious reasons, it will be all for industrialization and all that. This being the case, (plus, MAGIC~ at home) it will likely get used to technology a bit more quickly then some of ye olde earthe imports and in particular be in favor of anything destructive.
POWER:As has been mentioned, the Ring's primary function is control of other objects of power (specifically the other 19 Rings) and their bearers. This is being cut rather than adapted for the City. The Ring also functions as a universal translator (guys have heard and understood stuff in languages they just don't speak while wearing/holding it). This is also being cut. It is effectively invulnerable, aka anything short of a volcano that runs approx 1,250°-1600° C (2,000°-2912° F) or hotter is USELESS in destroying /damaging/making small scratches on it. This is being vastly scaled down. It can indefinitely suspend the aging process of its bearer. This is being cut. Long enough of being held/worn will lead to it physically corrupting its bearer until they fade to a wraith. This is being cut. It can grant visions of the past, present and future. This is being cut. It is not omnipotent, it does not grant invulnerability to its bearer, nor is said bearer undefeateable. Of its various canon powers, the following are being ported in. All of these powers are canon, but as they are frequently interconnected to the extreme, I shall first list the powers themselves and then how they work. YES I'LL NEED A PERMISSIONS POST YES I'LL HAVE ONE. We good? We're good.
1. Mental dominion and control 2. Limited shapeshifting 3. Multipurpose enhancement of various things.
MENTAL: The Ring has vast control over the minds of sentient things. To see it is to want it - murder has been done after brief GLANCES at it. It is highly addictive; Frodo, Bilbo and Gollum all displayed similar physical and spiritual/psychological effects to drug addition. Almost no one willingly gives it up, no matter how short a time they've held it, and REALLY no one has without friends telling them THEY HAD TO. In summary: the Ring is magical heroin. Except everyone wants it. The Ring WILL corrupt its bearer, regardless of their original intent. It may take time but sooner or later, it will. It has some control over the minds and wills of most everyone it's around/who have seen it. The degree varies from person to person, mostly it turns into highly persuasive and limited mindreading/telepathy. This is the least accessible ability and varies in how much folks can do.
ENHANCING: It bestows an aura of terrifyingness and power (sometimes) to the person using it. It amplifies any inherent power of the person wearing it. By strengthening ill-wishing and hate and negative emotions enough, it can curse people.
SHAPESHIFTING: It can turn into a ring, which isn't canon but in canon it's not a person either :D As a ring it can adjust its size and weight to be heavier/lighter and a perfect fit or not a perfect fit for purposes of ESCAPE. It can turn itself and one other person invisible by shifting cells so that they don't reflect light so well and using mental tricks to take care of the smoke. Person has a shadow and can't see as well, huzzah. This also (somehow) makes the wearer really highly visible to those on the non-physical plane of things, or who can see on that plane. It is v. difficult to destroy in canon, in game this is being scaled down so no, the only way to kill it won't be throwing it into the sun. Instead it's getting some slowish regenerative/healing ability and still be tougher to hurt, but far from impossible.
It is worth mentioning that all of its powers are being tweaked slightly so as to be more accessible. We don't have many wizards/elf-lords/etc here, who are supposedly the only ones who could quickly learn to access the full power of the Ring. SO, in the interest of greater lulz, the Ring's controls are getting dumbed down, so to speak, enough for your average loli to be able to work great evil should plot call for such. They are also being made easier to access, so that people don't have to go around wearing it all the time in order to do anything.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:[voice]
[HELLO, CITY. Look at your jewelry. Now back to me. Now back at your jewelry. Now back to me The voice is very smooth, very charming and polite. It's a handsome voice itself, warm and rich, a golden tenor. The perfect 'trust me' voice. This makes up some of the words being spoken, because the language is extremely harsh.]
Ashdautas durbatul snagaûk. Ashdautas vrasubatlatûk.
Mirdautas vras.
[A pause.]
Snagaûk, ta-folun.
[Another pause, then in a musing/questioning voice:]
Nar zauta-folunan...?
[More pause.]
Am I to understand that the Westron is still the most common language? I suppose that makes sense, given the circumstances of my arrival and the manner of greeting of your sentinel, but in such surroundings I had begun to wonder. This is an interesting magic, in any case. Is it connected to the reason for so casually handing out items of power?
[Slight sigh.]
Let us speak clearly. I am still uncertain as to my purpose in being here. I am still uncertain as to the allegiance of this land. I seem to be surrounded by clever inventions that are half magic, half machinery. The air is impure and the ground has been rendered to stone for as far as I can see... [oh wait] with the exception of a few trees, that have been caged. Are the men of this age such cowards? I am surrounded by metal and glass and monsters and a swelling tide of humanity.
Afar angathfark.
I do not understand how I came to be here or how the world has changed. Perhaps one of you could answer my questions and explain what has happened.
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:It was an odd and new experience, being human. The slick, slippery blood and the gritty muscles, the sound of one's own breath and the sensation of it rushing into the lungs and then back out again in a cool/warm wind, the feel of one's heart beating and the sound of it in one's ears. Quite a different set of sensations, for a being used to nothing but cool and intractable gold and that which could be felt by it. Heat or cold, softness and hardness, smooth or rough surfaces. Everything so different.
When it had been a Ring - when it was a Ring - it felt both less and more. Everything was felt differently, seeing was done entirely without eyes (unless the bearer lent their gaze without meaning to). The Ring had been used to seeing mostly through memories and used to feeling through the same or in an odd, indescribable, almost omnipresent way. Everything and nothing, it being almost impossible to feel anything at all for sure without power, impossible to know things without a knowledge of where it should be, feelers spread out that could only feel so much and only under certain circumstances. But it was used to navigating that shadow world, and now to have everything different, to have proper senses, to have eyes, to have fingers and skin to touch with, to have a body so subject to the whims of the merest gust of wind-
It wasn't sure it would ever become quite used to everything new, and that made it endlessly fascinating. But there was still only so much of its attention that could be eaten by the mundane normalities of existence in the flesh, especially now that there was so much that could be done so easily. Movement- as simple as thought, you merely picked yourself up and walked to where you wished. Communication - you opened your mouth or you picked up the telephone and you spoke. And power.
Power seemed so much easier to spot. Desires were so easy to fulfill. And people were so easy to manipulate. The City was already rotting, bloated and ready to burst. All that was left for one to do was dive through the core, through the putrid layers, and cut it in two. It would barely take a breath and everything would come crumbling down.
The Ring smiled, and it was a charming and beautiful smile, and whispered in the ear of the girl that she deserved far better than what she had, but that he could give it to her. He'd be an ally, he'd be everything she wanted, all she needed to do was help him in return. And then, perhaps....
And she smiled and picked up the knife.
Somewhere, the City began to crumble.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:Pretend that I can actually speak the Black Speech of Mordor fluently. Also pretend that the stuff I've been using is pure Black Speech not the degraded form that goes around in the third age mostly. Yeah pretend all those things. Also pretend I can speak fluent Elvish/Dwarvish/etc when/if that comes up.
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
ps I HAVE NO IDEA WHY I'M DOING THIS.
AGE: What am I doing?
JOURNAL: Still trying to figure that out, haven't managed yet.
IM: It's around already, and if you figure out what I'm doing please contact me to tell me
E-MAIL: You've got this too
RETURNING: Terry, Bratziska, Rin
[CHARACTER INFO]CHARACTER NAME: .............................................................. the One Ring, the Ring of Power, the Ruling Ring, the Master Ring, Isildur's Bane, the Precious etc
FANDOM: Lord of the Rings
CHRONOLOGY: After falling down into the Crack of Doom and melting :(
CLASS: It is the most villainous of villains. It is the villain's villain.
SUPERHERO NAME: Glorvan Mincor (glore-vahn meen-core)
ALTER EGO: One Ring, The catalyst for the end of life as we know it?
BACKGROUND:Probably everyone knows Middle Earth, even if they don't think they do, because when Tolkien wrote LotR he created the high fantasy world. Elves and Men and Orcs and Dwarves and Dragons and Wizards and little folks in the corner of the world who enjoyed peaceful lives, called Hobbits - or Halflings, depending on who you ask. And from there games - franchises - have been ripped off created, books have been written, movies have been made, and fantasy as a whole has been shaped into something all new. And yeah, well that place? That's where the Ring is from.
And hey, if you know about Middle Earth, you likely know about the Ring. Barring that, you know about something like the Ring. It is the Artifact of Doom. And a very doomy doom is it.
In Middle Earth, the Timeline of Arda - the history of the world, which I shall not EVEN put into full detail because omg do you know how long this is already going to be - goes like this: The world was created. The First Age started, and lots of things happened. And then came the Second Age. The Second Age is what concerns us.
Early on in the Second Age Sauron came back into the core of things in Middle Earth. "Came back?" I hear you ask? Well, yes. Back in the First Age, he was the chief lieutenant of the first Dark Lord, Morgoth aka Melkor. This is one of those things that doesn't much concern the ring so we're leaving it at that. Point is that he went off for about a thousand years, afterwards he did come back, and some 500 years later he began constructing Barad-dûr (that big black tower that his eye sits on top of) in the land of Mordor, up by Mt. Doom aka Orodruin aka Amon Amarth. Sauron "used the fire that welled there from the heart of the earth in his sorceries and his forging", and the mountain became a great source of power for him and apparently connected to himself and his power in an odd way; it's dormant when he is and active when he's up and doing stuff. Given all this, it's no surprise that he chose it for the seat of his rule, and that it was involved in so much that he did. Anyway, soon after he had begun construction on the Black Tower he began seducing/deceiving people and stuff, and several hundred years after THAT what we're really concerned with started happening.
Sauron came up with a plan to enslave all the free peoples of Middle Earth, and so disguised himself as Annatar, or the "Lord of Gifts" and went to the elves and befriended the Elvish smiths of Eregion and their leader, Celebrimbor. He counciled with them in art and magic and hinted that he was an emissary of the Valar, the immortal citizens of the Blessed Realm where the elves occasionally visited, and as a race had spent some time. To be tight with the Valar was to be tight with the elves mostly, and the elves liked what he was suggesting. Not all the elves trusted him; Galadriel and Gil-galad (who was High King of the Ñoldor) were two who really didn't, but NOBODY LISTENED TO THEM. So Sauron proposed this great plan for forging rings of power to do cool things for everyone and Celebrimbor&co decided that was a fine idea.
Que the Rings of Power.
The Elves made 19 rings: 3 for themselves, 7 for the dwarves, and 9 for men, and Sauron was involved in the forging of all but the 3, which is why they remain helpful and good things while the 7 and the 9 are designed to corrupt.
At this point Sauron, who figured everything was going just great and according to plan, went to Mt. Doom and in secret forged the One Ring, and poured a great deal of his power into it by cutting through his hand that was holding the gold, and letting his evil bind with the molten gold. He poured all his cruelty, hate, and malice into the ring, and most of his power was forged it, which was necessary if he wanted to make it strong enough to bind the other rings and their bearers to his will; the other rings of power were no joke. As a finishing touch he inscribed some lines in the Black Speech of Mordor, written in fiery Tengwar letters. You've probably heard them.
Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,
ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.
One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them
One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
He then put the ring on and the elves went oh crap and realized they'd all been had, so they took off the 3 rings and hid them as well as they could figure out how. Sauron started a war, lots and lots of elves died, Sauron conquered a lot of things, seized the 7 and the 9 rings that he'd helped forge, and overall did very well for himself. But at last the Elves, with the help of an army from Númenor, destroyed Sauron's army and drove the rest back into Mordor. This whole mess is known as the War of the Elves and Sauron, which is clearly the most creative name for a war ever.
From then on Sauron became known as the Dark Lord of Mordor. So the Dark Lord sat down, finally finished building Barad-dûr, and started handing out his 16 rings to various men and dwarves. The Dwarves proved to be too darn stubborn for him to do much controlling, so with the power of the rings they mostly just became fabulously wealthy and got eaten by dragons for their troubles. The dragons also destroyed 4 of the rings before Sauron collected the other 3, which is the present state of things. Men proved far less resilient, and when Sauron handed out the 9 to various kings he could easily control them with the One, and they all faded into wraiths, and became the Nazgûl, his most feared servants. In the mean time there were various conflicts which once again I'm not going into. Mostly the Ring is powerful, rah rah fight fight, Sauron becomes god-king for these dudes who live in the East and South, and Sauron gained control over the orcs and trolls and stuff. In fact, he got so powerful that he took on the titles "Lord of the Earth" and "King of Men".
Uuuunfortunately for Sauron, "really really powerful" does not translate to "all-powerful" or even "undefeatable", and him claiming those titles made some other guys really mad. The last and most powerful of the Númenórean kings, Ar-Pharazôn, marched in to Middle Earth with an army of absolutely staggering size, intent on kicking some butt over the arrogance in those titles - the men of Númenor were pretty proud in those days. Sauron, seeing this and realizing that there was really no way for him to win if he just went into open battle decided that politics would be a better tactic. He assumed a fair incarnation, and came to Ar-Pharazôn's camp to surrender and swear allegiance to the king. He allowed himself to be taken as a prisoner to the island of Númenor, which is in the sea halfway between Middle Earth and Valinor, the undying land. And all of this, you see, was part of his terribly cunning plan.
Using the power of the Ring, (which the Númenóreans didn't know about because despite the 1500 years and counting of conflict the elves preferred to keep that sort of thing hush-hush) Sauron easily began to corrupt Númenórean civilization from inside out. He quickly rose from a prisoner to adviser to the King, got a grip on or in the minds of most of the men of Númenor and dominated their minds and wills, and kicked out the old religion and managed to get it replaced by human sacrifice and devil worship and to establish himself as High Priest all in a very short amount of time. Like I said, the fact that he had the One Ring on his person for all of this is probably why he could, do this, let alone so quickly; the Ring, after all, is powerful and was made to manipulate.
Anyway after all of this and driving persecution of the Elves and outlawing the speaking of Elvish and the learning of Elvish and all sorts of other things, Sauron finally went to Ar-Pharazôn, who was by then getting pretty old and was afraid of death. Sauron persuaded him to make the greatest armada that the world had ever seen and go to war against the Blessed Realm, and to "wrest it and its 'immortality' into his own hands." Really he was creating a situation where (he thought) the Valar would wipe out the military force of Númenor, so they'd stop bugging him and keeping him from his own plans for world domination.
Things didn't go quite according to plan.
Ar-Pharazôn believed Sauron's lies, and assembled the greatest armada the world had ever seen, which launched for Valinor. And when the got there, the Valar were stumped as to what to do. They were staggered that anyone was even trying this sort of thing. They themselves weren't in any danger, but the armies could have brought ruin to Valinor itself. However, they didn't react quite how Sauron was predicting. Instead of trashing everything, the Valar appealed to Eru, aka God, and he trashed everything instead.
The appeal of the Valar resulted in epic divine smackdown, wherein as soon as Ar-Pharazôn set foot on the shore the armada was completely destroyed, and Númenor was swallowed by the sea and nearly all of its people killed, and finally the Blessed Realm was removed from the circles of the physical world, sort of curved so that only elves would ever be able to reach it again.
(Unsurprisingly) Sauron had not really been expecting this. He was vastly diminished and broken by everything that had happened, because of how deeply he'd sunk his energy into the corruption of Númenor. In addition, his body was destroyed and he forever lost the ability to take beautiful forms. Still, he wasn't dead. He had the Ring.
Creating the Ring had simultaneously strengthened and weakened Sauron's power. As long as he had it, he was vastly powerful and as long as it existed he couldn't die. Still, by binding his power into it, he'd become dependent on it. But the point at the moment is that Sauron, despite all of this, wasn't dead. Much like Voldemort he'd simply become a not-ghost, and so he and the Ring made their way back to Middle Earth, where he now ruled with the Ring through terror and force.
Meanwhile, a few faithful Númenóreans who had not been killed by the flood came to Middle Earth and founded Gondor and Arnor. Then, led by Elendil, King of Gondor, and his sons, they allied with Gil-galad (you know, that elf who didn't trust Sauron WAAAAAAY back when) in the Last Alliance of Men and Elves. Together they went to war and, after a very long time, finally defeated Sauron. Gil-galad and Elendil were both killed, but Isildur, the son of Elendil, cut the One Ring from Sauron's hand with his father's broken sword, Narsil, on the slopes of Mt. Doom. He claimed it for his own, instead of destroying it like he should have, but mostly things seemed to be resolved! Sauron's physical form was destroyed, there was much rejoicing, and Isildur had a evil Ring of power to do with as he willed.
Not that this lasted long.
Not long after all of this Isildur was riding along and was ambushed by orcs. His men were killed, and he slipped on the Ring, which makes the wearer invisible, and jumped into a river to escape. But the Ring betrayed him and slipped from his finger. Isildur was killed and the Ring and was lost for millennia, until it had almost passed even from legends.
TWENTY FIVE HUNDRED YEARS LATER our story picks up again, with two creatures very like Hobbits.
Up until this point, with the exception of that last bit with the ring betraying Isildur, this story has seemed to be more about Sauron than the Ring, and in a way it is. Sauron gets the credit for all of what he did, after all, and the Ring is merely a tool he used in doing so. However, as begins to be proven remarkably quickly, the Ring is not merely an inanimate object. It betrayed Isildur, and even that in itself implies something. In order to be able to betray something, you need to be able to do the opposite. In order to be a traitor you must understand loyalty and be able to act against that; had the ring merely fallen off of his finger it could not be called a betrayal. But it was more than that.
When Sauron forged so much of his power and so much of his hate and greed and lust for more power into the ring, he granted it a kind of sentience. So, using its own power, it began to act - or, at least, act in such a manner that, for the first time, it is obvious that it alone was acting.
In the year 2463 of the Third Age, the Ring was found by chance on a fishing trip by a little man named Déagol. He was out on this trip with his cousin, Sméagol, whose birthday it was and who had apparently just turned 33, and thus possibly just officially come of age - if traditions held over land and over years, in any case. Déagol thought that this ring he'd found was remarkably lovely and highly desirable, sentiments that Sméagol shared. This was hardly unusual, as the Ring seduced mostly everyone who looked at it, and the results were also not entirely unexpected. The cousins fought, and in the end Sméagol murdered Déagol, and took the Ring and so cleverly hid the body that it was not discovered. The Ring slowly continued to corrupt him, and he became a sneak and a spy, aided by the invisibility granted by the Ring. Not unexpectedly, these actions hardly made Sméagol very popular, and at last he was kicked out of his town/village/whatever. He crept off, the Ring poisoning his mind, and slowly made his way up into the Misty Mountains, and then down into the heart of the mountains, to a lake. There he stayed for 500 years, hunting blind fish and occasionally goblins, and was twisted body and mind. Still, Hobbits are more resilient little creatures than many would credit, and so despite how far Sméagol (who by then was known as Gollum, for a gulping noise that he made) had fallen he had not yet faded into a wraith, which is the usual fate of one who keeps any of the great rings for so very long.
After 500 years in the dark, the Ring decided that there was really nothing more it could gain by staying with Gollum, and so it abandoned him. One day when he was at the side of his lake it abandoned him, and there it was found by a very unlikely creature. A Hobbit, by the name of Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo was out in the Misty Mountains because he'd been more or less conned into going on an adventure by Gandalf the Grey, one of the Wise and a formidable Wizard. But it was Bilbo who found the Ring, and who used it to escape when Gollum tried to attack and kill him. Gollum first wanted to eat him, and then later when he began to suspect that Bilbo had the Ring, wanted to murder him; given how well he could at that point see in the dark, it's maybe a good thing that Bilbo had a ring that could turn you invisible. Instantly the Ring began to work on Bilbo, as it always did, and in the usual way of things he invented a story for himself and others about how he'd won the Ring in a game of riddles with Gollum. Everyone who gets the Ring wants to legitimize their ownership - Gollum always claimed it was a birthday present. Anyway, Bilbo stuck with this story for a while, and Gandalf suspected, but nothing particularly untoward happened. Bilbo went off and finished his adventure, during the course of which a ring that makes you invisible was particularly useful, came home far richer than he had been and settled down. And didn't age. Meanwhile, the Ring continued slipping into his mind, strengthening its hold on him, playing the long game.
Some years after all of this happened, Bilbo adopted a young Hobbit named Frodo, who was both his first and second cousin, once removed. They went on, the Ring in the background, except in how its grip on Bilbo's mind continued to strengthen. And then, on his 111th birthday, Bilbo decided to vanish.
He slipped on the Ring during his birthday speech and caused quite a scare among the Hobbits of the Shire, and though he planned to leave the Ring to Frodo, along with everything else, almost changed his mind at the last minute. Gandalf had to persuade him to leave it behind, and even so he almost didn't. Still, when he did, it was a monumental moment, as it was the first time anyone had willingly abandoned the Ring.
Gandalf began to suspect terrible things, so he waited for Frodo and told him not to use the Ring under any accounts, and then he left.
Seventeen years passed without incident. Then incidents started happening with a vengeance.
Sauron became aware of the One Ring's existence and location and started hunting for it, sending the Nazgûl out into the world to hunt it and bring it to him. So Frodo sets off on a quest of his own, and has lots and lots of adventures of the nasty sort that were largely the Ring giving him trouble, either directly - seducing his companions, seducing HIM, playing tricks on him, trying to get home and be noticed and to gain control over him entirely - or indirectly, merely by it's existence. And at the same time it was quickly and busily tying knots in Frodo's thinking and binding him to itself, perhaps more than it ever had before. Frodo took it off on a quest to destroy it at the only place it could be destroyed - Mt. Doom, where it was forged. He was joined by many companions, lost most of them, and then later picked up another - Gollum. Gollum led them into Mordor and tried to steal the Ring and kill Frodo and his only remaining companion, Samwise Gamgee - Frodo's gardener. Gollum was foiled, and Frodo and Sam made the long and weary trek across the lands of Mordor right up to the Crack of Doom, in the side of Mount Doom, and inside, where at last this long and weary journey they'd been on for nearly a year could be brought to a close.
There, finally, the Ring's grip on Frodo's mind snapped shut.
Frodo refused to cast the Ring down into the fires of the mountain, and instead claimed it for himself - at this point it's always somewhat unclear to me if it's Frodo or the Ring itself speaking. Gollum turns up again to try and take the Ring, and either Frodo or the Ring or both tell him in a commanding voice, "If you touch me ever again, you shall be cast yourself into the Fire of Doom."
Like Gollum is going to listen to that.
He attacks Frodo, bites off his finger with the ring attached, and then sure enough falls into the Fires of Doom, still holding the Ring. So that's the end of that, Sauron is destroyed, Middle Earth is saved.
Huzzah.
PERSONALITY:The Ring occasionally seems a study in opposites -- for example, it is both highly treacherous and very loyal. It has betrayed just about every single person who's carried it, usually to their doom. Yet, at the same time, it spent centuries patiently trying to get back to Sauron, who forged it. Still, it is strongly suggested by most everyone in the know that with the right bearer, it would be relatively easy to turn the might of the Ring against Sauron and overthrow him once and for all. Clearly it has no loyalty to its maker for the mere fact of its creation. Instead the Ring appears to be self serving. It swings freely, attracted to power, and the might of one who can bring its full potential to bear. When it is claimed and understood well enough to have a new Master, it is loyal to them- until something better, or even more convenient, comes along. Sauron forged his greed into the Ring, and it is greedy; it always wants something better, something more. Everything and then some, and it is willing to destroy until it has it, or until no one else has anything that it cannot have. After all, at the end of Return of the King a Hobbit claimed the Ring, and Sauron was made suddenly and terribly aware of this new foe, who could end him. Clearly in the end it betrayed its maker. It has no lasting loyalties. It wants power for itself, not to be a power used by others, and doesn't much care who it uses in attempting to obtain that.
When the Ring was forged greed, cruelty, hate, malice, endless desire and pride, treachery, a selfish disdain for all others, a lust for conquest and war and rule of all and a whole host of other negative emotions and desires were forged into it. So, evil it has been from the beginning and evil it shall remain. It's one of those things that no really, you can't redeem, it'd be best just to toss it into the sun or something and be rid of it. Of course, because the Ring was also made to be manipulative -- the main reason it was created was to manipulate, for that matter -- it will let you (and indeed lead you to) believe anything about it that you want, as long as this grants it power over you.
It is good at convincing people that really it can't just be pure evil, surely even if the guy who made it was wicked through and through the Ring really can't be, surely. It's just something so powerful, and all that power can so easily be used for good. It is fair to look upon (and will retain that when it becomes human; fair of form and voice -- a 'gilded tongue' or 'silver tongue' you might say) and, of course, has a power that is intoxicating. Still, no matter what one may believe when one first picks up the Ring -- or, in the City, those who take up with it and become friends/allies/SUPPORTERS/whatev -- the Ring will inevitably corrupt its bearer, and to a lesser extent everyone who's even close to the one bearing it. It cannot be redeemed or used for good, not in the long run. It corrupts everything. Ever heard that saying 'The road to Hell is paved with good intentions'? Yeah, well for anyone good who picks up the Ring, yes it is indeed. And it doesn't care enough to care. It can wait if necessary but doesn't have much patience in the long run; it just sort of wants things, and will do what it needs to in order to get them as fast as possible. It twists things until it's no longer convenient and then drops them and moves on and leaves them not even knowing what to do with themselves.
Needless to say it has absolutely no respect for life. At all.
In Lord of the Rings, clearly there aren't computers and things, but generally green hills and forests and ~harmony with nature~ represent the forces of good, while technology and progress and burning all trees to power the 'Machine of War' represent the opposite number. So, though the Ring isn't exactly up to speed on the modern world, for obvious reasons, it will be all for industrialization and all that. This being the case, (plus, MAGIC~ at home) it will likely get used to technology a bit more quickly then some of ye olde earthe imports and in particular be in favor of anything destructive.
POWER:As has been mentioned, the Ring's primary function is control of other objects of power (specifically the other 19 Rings) and their bearers. This is being cut rather than adapted for the City. The Ring also functions as a universal translator (guys have heard and understood stuff in languages they just don't speak while wearing/holding it). This is also being cut. It is effectively invulnerable, aka anything short of a volcano that runs approx 1,250°-1600° C (2,000°-2912° F) or hotter is USELESS in destroying /damaging/making small scratches on it. This is being vastly scaled down. It can indefinitely suspend the aging process of its bearer. This is being cut. Long enough of being held/worn will lead to it physically corrupting its bearer until they fade to a wraith. This is being cut. It can grant visions of the past, present and future. This is being cut. It is not omnipotent, it does not grant invulnerability to its bearer, nor is said bearer undefeateable. Of its various canon powers, the following are being ported in. All of these powers are canon, but as they are frequently interconnected to the extreme, I shall first list the powers themselves and then how they work. YES I'LL NEED A PERMISSIONS POST YES I'LL HAVE ONE. We good? We're good.
1. Mental dominion and control 2. Limited shapeshifting 3. Multipurpose enhancement of various things.
MENTAL: The Ring has vast control over the minds of sentient things. To see it is to want it - murder has been done after brief GLANCES at it. It is highly addictive; Frodo, Bilbo and Gollum all displayed similar physical and spiritual/psychological effects to drug addition. Almost no one willingly gives it up, no matter how short a time they've held it, and REALLY no one has without friends telling them THEY HAD TO. In summary: the Ring is magical heroin. Except everyone wants it. The Ring WILL corrupt its bearer, regardless of their original intent. It may take time but sooner or later, it will. It has some control over the minds and wills of most everyone it's around/who have seen it. The degree varies from person to person, mostly it turns into highly persuasive and limited mindreading/telepathy. This is the least accessible ability and varies in how much folks can do.
ENHANCING: It bestows an aura of terrifyingness and power (sometimes) to the person using it. It amplifies any inherent power of the person wearing it. By strengthening ill-wishing and hate and negative emotions enough, it can curse people.
SHAPESHIFTING: It can turn into a ring, which isn't canon but in canon it's not a person either :D As a ring it can adjust its size and weight to be heavier/lighter and a perfect fit or not a perfect fit for purposes of ESCAPE. It can turn itself and one other person invisible by shifting cells so that they don't reflect light so well and using mental tricks to take care of the smoke. Person has a shadow and can't see as well, huzzah. This also (somehow) makes the wearer really highly visible to those on the non-physical plane of things, or who can see on that plane. It is v. difficult to destroy in canon, in game this is being scaled down so no, the only way to kill it won't be throwing it into the sun. Instead it's getting some slowish regenerative/healing ability and still be tougher to hurt, but far from impossible.
It is worth mentioning that all of its powers are being tweaked slightly so as to be more accessible. We don't have many wizards/elf-lords/etc here, who are supposedly the only ones who could quickly learn to access the full power of the Ring. SO, in the interest of greater lulz, the Ring's controls are getting dumbed down, so to speak, enough for your average loli to be able to work great evil should plot call for such. They are also being made easier to access, so that people don't have to go around wearing it all the time in order to do anything.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:[voice]
[HELLO, CITY. Look at your jewelry. Now back to me. Now back at your jewelry. Now back to me The voice is very smooth, very charming and polite. It's a handsome voice itself, warm and rich, a golden tenor. The perfect 'trust me' voice. This makes up some of the words being spoken, because the language is extremely harsh.]
Ashdautas durbatul snagaûk. Ashdautas vrasubatlatûk.
Mirdautas vras.
[A pause.]
Snagaûk, ta-folun.
[Another pause, then in a musing/questioning voice:]
Nar zauta-folunan...?
[More pause.]
Am I to understand that the Westron is still the most common language? I suppose that makes sense, given the circumstances of my arrival and the manner of greeting of your sentinel, but in such surroundings I had begun to wonder. This is an interesting magic, in any case. Is it connected to the reason for so casually handing out items of power?
[Slight sigh.]
Let us speak clearly. I am still uncertain as to my purpose in being here. I am still uncertain as to the allegiance of this land. I seem to be surrounded by clever inventions that are half magic, half machinery. The air is impure and the ground has been rendered to stone for as far as I can see... [oh wait] with the exception of a few trees, that have been caged. Are the men of this age such cowards? I am surrounded by metal and glass and monsters and a swelling tide of humanity.
Afar angathfark.
I do not understand how I came to be here or how the world has changed. Perhaps one of you could answer my questions and explain what has happened.
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:It was an odd and new experience, being human. The slick, slippery blood and the gritty muscles, the sound of one's own breath and the sensation of it rushing into the lungs and then back out again in a cool/warm wind, the feel of one's heart beating and the sound of it in one's ears. Quite a different set of sensations, for a being used to nothing but cool and intractable gold and that which could be felt by it. Heat or cold, softness and hardness, smooth or rough surfaces. Everything so different.
When it had been a Ring - when it was a Ring - it felt both less and more. Everything was felt differently, seeing was done entirely without eyes (unless the bearer lent their gaze without meaning to). The Ring had been used to seeing mostly through memories and used to feeling through the same or in an odd, indescribable, almost omnipresent way. Everything and nothing, it being almost impossible to feel anything at all for sure without power, impossible to know things without a knowledge of where it should be, feelers spread out that could only feel so much and only under certain circumstances. But it was used to navigating that shadow world, and now to have everything different, to have proper senses, to have eyes, to have fingers and skin to touch with, to have a body so subject to the whims of the merest gust of wind-
It wasn't sure it would ever become quite used to everything new, and that made it endlessly fascinating. But there was still only so much of its attention that could be eaten by the mundane normalities of existence in the flesh, especially now that there was so much that could be done so easily. Movement- as simple as thought, you merely picked yourself up and walked to where you wished. Communication - you opened your mouth or you picked up the telephone and you spoke. And power.
Power seemed so much easier to spot. Desires were so easy to fulfill. And people were so easy to manipulate. The City was already rotting, bloated and ready to burst. All that was left for one to do was dive through the core, through the putrid layers, and cut it in two. It would barely take a breath and everything would come crumbling down.
The Ring smiled, and it was a charming and beautiful smile, and whispered in the ear of the girl that she deserved far better than what she had, but that he could give it to her. He'd be an ally, he'd be everything she wanted, all she needed to do was help him in return. And then, perhaps....
And she smiled and picked up the knife.
Somewhere, the City began to crumble.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:Pretend that I can actually speak the Black Speech of Mordor fluently. Also pretend that the stuff I've been using is pure Black Speech not the degraded form that goes around in the third age mostly. Yeah pretend all those things. Also pretend I can speak fluent Elvish/Dwarvish/etc when/if that comes up.
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
ps I HAVE NO IDEA WHY I'M DOING THIS.