Cloaked Mystery

Ellis

”Well, you want to survive, right?”

Ellis

”That’s the problem with you,” Ellis sighed. “You jump straight to threats. I’m not antagonizing you. I’m just warning you that you better behave.”

( @highscribeofaetherium this happens after Ellis talked to Zahlin, but we can still RP that part.)

Ellis

Ellis spotted Ottoline across the room and walked over.

”I’m going to keep training you,” he told her. “We need to get you a real sword—don’t worry, not to practice with. I’ll talk to Nahim about that later.” He glanced across the room…[Read more]

@highscribeofaetherium

No…

@savannah_grace2009

Ellis told Fennin what his decision was and he told Zahlin that he was going to train Hedieh. He hasn’t mentioned it to anyone else yet.

@beth-torres

Yeah, I think that would be fine.

@savannah_grace2009

Ellis was in the middle of talking with Zahlin, but I guess we can just say that that this is after that.

@rae

That’s specifically for tradgedies, but same basic idea. The last two would be “falling action” and “resolution.”

Kate

”She came here angry,” Kate snapped at Nahim. “And I laugh at the idea that she could have killed me. After what I’ve survived? Dragons. Starvation. Men with the power to destroy at a touch. War. Compared to what I’ve faced,” she glared at Nora. “you’re nothing. You think your better than me for a hundred reasons, but none of them are valid!…[Read more]

Kate

”It won’t be anything like being crushed under a building,” said Kate. “More like being hit by a 10 ton dragon tail. I don’t think you’d be standing after that.”

@rae

no

Kate

”It didn’t help him two nights ago when you got him hit over the head with a sword.”

@highscribeofaetherium

You brought the topic up.

Brilliant. Well, we can just ignore it.

Ellis

Ellis glanced behind him. Kate and Nora were in an argument again.

He turned back to Zahlin. “If it gets out of hand. You can’t get rid of me that easily. You say you don’t bully people, but I can’t imagine you doing anything else.”

@highscribeofaetherium

I think @rae ran out of dragon pictures.

@rae

It doesn’t sound boring to me, although I’ve barely read any of the chapters you posted (I’ve been meaning to get around to it, but there’s a lot there.)

It might be helpful to strip the plot down to its basics. Are you familiar with freytag’s pyramid? It’s basically a chart that shows the elements of plot: exposition, rising action, cli…[Read more]

@beth-torres

Btw, feel free to have Carrie come in whenever you want. The rest of the characters are in the dining hall, so you could just start with her walking in if you weren’t sure how to start.

@rae

Yeah, that’s helpful. I think partially what I could use help figuring out is if he there is someone more interesting.

Kate

Kate laughed. “You think anything you’re wearing can protect against pure concentrated force? And you can call me ‘Lady Atmor,’ not ‘Young One.’”

@rae

Kate

”You think you’ve been through more than me?” hissed Kate. “My entire city was destroyed—by dragons—when I was six! I’ve been hunted my entire life! I’ve spent the last year of my life fighting a war! And I’m carrying a bunch of spells that could throw you a mile. I was saving them for dragons, but I would be just as happy to use t…[Read more]