Come to a strange place; we'll talk over old times

Apr 13, 2007 14:58

Calling peladon, Bill and maybe watervole too - do you recall the saga of Dorian di Chrysaetos and Jehanne de Valerian ( Read more... )

ancient history, textbook enigmatic, psychic paper, rp, delenda est carthago

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greenmood April 13 2007, 15:30:23 UTC
Hehehe.

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lizblackdog April 13 2007, 15:34:07 UTC
You know something of the life of their own these people can take on? I walked around in shock for days after Dorian and Jehanne were killed... the worst of it was, he could have saved himself, if he'd been willing to denounce her. No one was more surprised than he was to find he couldn't do it.

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greenmood April 13 2007, 16:14:36 UTC
I totally know what you mean. I don't know what specific RPG you're talking about, but I used to be way into that. I was amused because I sat there for probably close to a minute with this "WTF" look on my face trying to figure out what was going on after I read your post.

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lizblackdog April 13 2007, 16:24:03 UTC
It was called Delenda Est Carthago, it belonged to watervole, and we played it by snail mail back in the days before everyone had Internet. It was a deeply life-changing experience for me, being involved with it, for many reasons.

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ext_9692 April 13 2007, 19:15:08 UTC
Sort of. It's been a while and it wasn't something I was directly involved in (unless my memory is even less reliable than I thought) I just had a quick scan over my collection of old diplos and copies of the Eagle's cry(pack-rat, moi?) to refresh my memory and found the piece of card included with a turn announcing exalted_mugwump's birth. He's grown.

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lizblackdog April 13 2007, 19:34:19 UTC
Hahaaaaaaaa! Just a bit! My Gods, he was four months old when I first met him.

You still have old Eagle's Cry copies? Can you scan any?

...I know what you mean, one didn't remember things one wasn't involved in so well, and the Jehanne/Dorian affair really only involved Chris and me, and whatsisname who played that murdering bastard Ewan Morgan.

(hold a grudge? moi?

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ext_9692 April 14 2007, 00:16:55 UTC
Yup still have copies all of them. I don't have a scanner myself and the quality of the printing on th early ones isn't great but I might be able to get a few scans. I've found the ones leading up to the deaths (49-52) it looks like most of the rest of Flamindom was concerned with catching Tubilderborst and electing his successor at the time.

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lizblackdog April 14 2007, 00:42:24 UTC
Oh, my Gods, I'd semi-forgotten the whole Tubilderborst/Oblongs/Jamie Bloody North drama. Now that was some good stuff.

Ah, the memories. Khan Gurbit Chevalier's rousing speeches to his troops... the Border Horse... the Fireguard... rum and raisin ice cream in a satin-lined dungeon...

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ext_9692 April 14 2007, 00:27:08 UTC
I hesitate to remind you but she wasn't Jehanne de Valerian in the marriage announcement either. The report of their capture has Dorian trying to do a runner while Jehanne was fighting a superior force was he related to Sir Robin?

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lizblackdog April 14 2007, 00:39:32 UTC
That's pretty much it. Although, in fact, she told him to run away and save himself, bless her valiant heart. He didn't need telling twice, either... he did truly love her, but that didn't stop him being a self-serving bastard. If he could have got away clean at that point he'd have survived.

And no, she wasn't referred to as Jehanne De Valerian, but her marriage to that scumbag Ewan Morgan had been annulled by then, and therefore that's how I will refer to her. It's a matter of principle.

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On memory.... anonymous April 14 2007, 14:01:12 UTC
THe talent for self destruction is one that has sadly been most well developed in many. And of all, the Fool-minion ability to take shelter by seeking the hurricane's door was ever beyond belief ( ... )

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Re: On memory.... lizblackdog April 14 2007, 14:19:04 UTC
I had forgotten the daughter of the Kharijis, you know. Thank you.

Also, Ewan Morgan and Jehanne's marriage was never consummated, which is how it could be deemed never to have existed. She told me so herself, and surely she wouldn't have lied?

*grin*

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Re: On memory.... ext_9692 April 14 2007, 14:34:23 UTC
IIRC the Caliphate (at least your one) fell before the game shut down so no it doesn't stand in some distant dream. Did you forget your lj login or just think it would be inappropriate to use while claiming that reminiscing about Delenda was "strange and past strange".

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Re: On memory.... lizblackdog April 14 2007, 14:38:51 UTC
He's always anonymous, it's traditional...

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