BS: Fiction Casting Call, Part II

Subject: RE: BS: Fiction Casting Call, Part II
From: sophocleese
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 09:26 PM

If you're going to have Ritenuto, ritardanto and ralletando, then what about giving them a sister or two, Allegra and Sostenuto?

Subject: RE: BS: Fiction Casting Call, Part II
From: Susan A-R
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 09:17 PM

Well, there's Nel (born Eleanor Corindane, to upper middle class parents, to wom she's a VAST disappointment.) She spends half of her time studying magic (with lots of spell components) and the other half as a cook at the local inn. Usually she keeps the two straight, but she adapts all of her spell brews to try to make them taste very good, and some odd things happen to the customers at the Inn. They still keep coming back for more, though, because when she's cooking, the food is amazing. There was this gnome who was VERY angry about the hair on her breasts. . . .

Nel looks fairly fragile, but she has the arms of a cook, and a tongue like a chef's knife when the need arises. She has short dark hair, huge dark eyes, and long fingered hands, (beaten all to hell by cooking, but gorgeous). Oh, and did I mention that her magical familar somehow wound up being this skink named Spaw??

There's Tiel Hawkglyn, a priestess at the temple who has a gorgeous soprano voice. She seems to have a very strong and promising link to the goddess. However, she has an incredible bent for practical jokes at the worst possible moment. She's a big woman, strong, round, and beautiful and with an amazing laugh that fills the entire dining room (or sanctuary.)

Subject: RE: BS: Fiction Casting Call, Part II
From: Matt_R
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 08:44 PM

No Christianity? Dang, that puts this back a ways. There were no Scots then! Just Picts! And they didn't wear kilts OR have the Hieland accent! They painted themselves blue and orange and went around completely naked!

Subject: RE: BS: Fiction Casting Call, Part II
From: GutBucketeer
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 08:11 PM

Hesperis!

Great start! This is going to be worse than the old cliff hanger radio series! Waiting for the next installment.

JAB.

P.S.

If the story does wind its way toward the ruins of James Corscaden, he wanted me to tell you that he hasn't been just protecting treasure all of these years. What do ghosts care about treasure? They can have the golden goblets, strings of pearls, and jeweled encrusted armour that is strewn about the place. However, he gave his sacred oath,as his father and his fathers father had before him down through the generations that he'd protect the Shadow Crystals through life, death, and beyond. And he had kept that oath. The only way he can be released of his burden as LandSworn and the knowledge of the Crystals on to his heir. Oh if only he and is son had not quarrelled on that day many years ago. Now, the Crystals May be Needed, for they hold the key to preserving the valley and all that surrounds it. Only one of his blood can use them... and the blood must be warm and alive, not dead and turned to dust ages past...

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Fiction Casting Call, Part II
From: hesperis
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 06:40 PM

MMario - Hmmmmmm..... Might be too good to pass up...

NightWing - I was definitely figuring him as that kind of guy.

Maybe I should make him the Hermit instead of the Hallmaster for Mages Hall. Then he could be just known as "The Hermit" and "That guy what lives up by the mountain with only an Owl for company", and find myself another hallmaster. He seems the solitary sort, and might only socialize when the Traders come in... That sounds more fitting for him, actually... I may give a usename to the owl though, but I guess varieties of "-wing" are out? Greywing?

I'm going to go to another forum, and see if any more people want to be Temple Mages and Faeries.

There's a Baird's Hall and a Fighter's Hall, and a Thieves' Guild.

LTS - Dragon's Tears is milky and translucent, but with a red glow to it. (It's partly a magical brew.) Anyone who actually drinks the stuff is in danger of spontaneous combustion!

Matt - If you ever met the Morrigan face-to-gaze, you'd piss yourself and then melt like ice to water. (Oh, and btw, Christianity doesn't exist yet in the world I'm writing about, so no Saints. Sorry.)

ATTN:
The first part of the story is up! The cast list isn't. (Not even a draft version of that yet, with all the changes I need to put in it!)

Subject: RE: BS: Fiction Casting Call, Part II
From: MMario
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 04:11 PM

I'm looking at thread titles and all of a sudden iI see:

Ritenuto, ritardanto and ralletando - perhaps two brothers and their cousin?

Subject: RE: BS: Fiction Casting Call, Part II
From: Matt_R
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 03:55 PM

Don't forget that in his younger years at Rivendell, Aragorn was called "Estel" (Hope) to conceal his identity.

Subject: RE: BS: Fiction Casting Call, Part II
From: NightWing
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 03:48 PM

WOW! This thread is expanding exponentially! *G*

Hesperis,

Re my mage character. 'Twould be most appropriate for the owl not to be named at all (since MOST humanoid-type creatures [humans, elves, dwarves, gnomes, trolls, etc] can't pronounce 'Owlish' very well). Doubly appropriate if the mage type person (I think you called him "The Hallmaster"?) ALSO is unnamed: i.e., no one knows what he calls himself and people in different places call him by their own local names.

Something like the way that Aragorn was called "Strider" in Bree, "Aragorn" by most of the elves, "The Dunedan" by Bilbo, and still another name -- an alias, to be blunt -- in Gondor (if I remember correctly Aragorn served as a captain in Gondor during his younger, roaming years ... quite a while before the adventure of The Lord of the Rings began; see the section on the history and the lords of Gondor in the Appendices of The Return of the King, toward the end)

So in the area of "The Hall" he is master of, he would be known as "The Hallmaster". In a different part of the country, he might be "The Owl Wizard". Elsewhere, he is known as "Grey Owl". Still other people in still other places where he tends to only appear at night might call him "The He-Owl", thinking him (how correctly?) to be a skin-changer. In yet another place he might be called "He Who Walks By Night". Translate one or two (last couple might be best for this) into whatever tongue you are giving the invaders as well, 'cause he's BOUND to be VERY widely traveled.

Regardless, he answers to whatever he's addressed by (sometimes) and is generally polite to even the most foolish of requests. However, while polite, he does NOT suffer fools gladly. He generally loves children, especially since children are very rarely fools.

Possible bit of business:

The Hallmaster enters an inn where he is not known. The innkeeper is uncomfortable at the wild animal on the mage's shoulder, and addresses the mage:

IK: Pardon me, yer lordship, I'm sure, but is that an owl?

HM (glances in astonishment at the bird on his shoulder): Why yes, it is. hmm, Great-horned owl, Bubo virginianus. (turns back to the innkeeper) Indeed sir, you are correct. It is an owl.

IK: 'E's not wild, is 'e?

HM: She's a female owl.

IK: Well, she's not goin' t' be attackin' anyone in the inn, will she?

HM: I don't know, just a moment. (He turns to the owl again and makes some odd chirrups and coughs. The owl ponders for a moment, looks around, and coughs and chirrups in reply.) She says not. Unless that rat that's on the floor next to the end of the bar gets any farther out in the open.

(At this there is a scurrying of people away from the end of the bar, with much brushing of skirts and pant legs.)

IK (starting to back toward the bar): Well, all right then. 'Cause I don't usually 'low pets in 'ere.

HM: Hmm, perhaps I had better go then. (Turning to speak to the owl again) My dear, he doesn't like pets in his establishment. I had better leave. I'll be just outside when you've finished your beer.

THAT'S the kind of guy he is.

Oh, and here's what the owl looks like: about two feet worth

BB,
NightWing

P.S. He's not really a skin-changer, is he? *EG*

Subject: RE: BS: Fiction Casting Call, Part II
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 03:06 PM

Mmmmmmm. like the sound of Dragons' Tears, is it like Baileys?? Or Potcheen.....?

I think it should be green Potcheen with a sort of oily rainbow effect in it...... external application only!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Fiction Casting Call, Part II
From: Matt_R
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 02:03 PM

Yeah, but she ain't ever met a Scotti like Maithu Ruadh before. Throw stones at a raven? Hell, I'll take a Sawzall to her! RRRRRRRRRR!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Fiction Casting Call, Part II
From: Micca
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 01:56 PM

Matt, do not meddle in the affairs of the Goddess, or issue challenges, look what she did to Dearg Doom last time!!!! tied to a Standing stone... and very dead....

Subject: RE: BS: Fiction Casting Call, Part II
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 10:08 AM

Ok, hesp, to answer your question--no! LOL!! Dearg Doom is Gaelic for "The Red Destroyer", and is one of Cuchullain's other names. Ha ha...since I have red hair, I've adopted the name. It's also a kickass song by the Horslips. Oh dang! I need to send you my first tape, I sing it on there. As Jenellen told me "black as hell!" Lyrics are here.

I don't know about the "official" deity of the Invaders, but Maithu's a follower of St.Columba. A' Grian!

Subject: Fiction Casting Call, Part II
From: hesperis
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 09:13 AM

Hello! The old thread is getting a bit long.

For new people, I'm writing a piece of fiction, and I'm wondering if any mudcatters want cameos or even maybe roles.

What I need is:

AD&D style name:
Gender:
Preferred race:
Preferred role:
Alignment - Valley, Neutral or Invaders:
Possible description:

I need Faeries, and a lot of Temple Mages (female). I have enough Invaders, Gnomes, Elves, and Dragons. I could possibly use a few more people to be tradespeople in the village: stablemaster, blacksmith, etc.
I also need a God for the Invaders. (A chauvinistic one.)

If you want to be the MAJOR villian, PM me before posting your character, as I don't want anyone to know who it is.

Micca - I may only be able to bring the Morrigan into this as three ravens on the battlefield. (But maybe I can work in a scene with Matt - I mean, Maithu.)

LTS - Beer is going to be Beer, '3 day Ale' is the House brew, and is more expensive. No sherry, I hate the stuff! Basilisk (cheap whiskey), Wine, and Mead. Oh, and Dragon's Tears, but don't drink the stuff!

(The first thread is here. if you're new to this Call, read it first.)

I will be putting up info on this at: ~*hesperis*~ Sacred Dance, Sacred Music, and Sacred Story, in the Mudcat pages. (It's not up yet though.)

Phoaks, thank you so much! This is awesome already!

~*sirepseh*~