mirelótë in lotr
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Headed off into the wilderness to found their own polities, in a few cases, or became successful and independent Dwarf merchants, or invented seafaring piracy to the bafflement of the relevant shipping industries. One started a religion.

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Any chance the pirate will cut it out if she just mentions that she has resurrection now and thinks it's not a stable situation to bring their dead loved ones into? What kinda religion?

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Uh, seems to hold that the people who lived trapped under the mountain for four thousand years are prophets of some god who doesn't match onto any of the existing ones very well and tasked with restoring the kingdom they were born to. The pirate doesn't have dead loved ones.

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...okay. Uh, what are the victims of the piracy inclined to do about the pirate.

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She owes them a lot of money and one of the people she took hostage missed her daughter's birthday party and would like a formal letter of apology.

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Would anyDwarves like to buy a planet. Who is the pirate even selling her stuff to?

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The pirate is selling her stuff on the internet and to other humans occasionally. 

 

(Dwarves will hella buy a planet.)

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Good, now Mirelótë doesn't owe people money anymore. What does the pirate like about being a pirate?

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Her fate is in her own hands and she has a ship and it's very aesthetically satisfying and also these people haven't even arrested her, they just keep telling her 'that stuff belongs to someone else' as if maybe she hasn't thought of that.

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Yeah they're passing on all the actual debt to Mirelótë and if it's going to keep accumulating she's inclined to put the pirate on another planet. Has she considered fishing? She has to fence her goods anyway, if she were fishing she could skip the part where she upsets people.

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That's the fun part, though.

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...the upsetting people qua people being upset, or the aesthetic of piracy.

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....both? She hadn't put much thought into the difference before.

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Has she considered historical reenactments or, uh, pentesting, or some kind of unorthodox consensual cleaning service where you take everything out of a cluttered house and get to sell it as recompense for decluttering the house?

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...those would maybe be okay if she couldn't be a pirate but no one has even arrested her for being a pirate and being a pirate is more satisfying.

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Oh Ambela is hella gonna arrest her for being a pirate if she can't talk her into doing something else. Ambela has lots of terraformed planets which will be delighted to have an ex-pirate on them. Unless the pirate has bought into a Dwarf dispute resolution service in which case hers will talk to Ambela's, but Ambela somehow thinks she has maybe not bothered doing that.

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The pirate kinda thinks she can take her, to be honest. But no, she has not bought a Dwarf thingy.

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Ambela was not proposing fisticuffs. She has this magic ring, see.

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Pirate pulls out a knife and throws herself at Ambela and goes for the magic ring.

The magic ring thinks they should totally mind-control her into not doing that.

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Ambela thinks the pirate should encounter a portal mid-lunge.

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Awwwwww but that's not anywhere near as fun, says the ring, as the portal goes up.

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Tough.

She goes through the portal and peers down at the pirate, who will have had a soft landing ten feet below with that much momentum off this little cliff.

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"Are there people here?" calls the pirate.

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"Not yet! But all the plants are edible and there is a nice cave that way if it rains!" Point.

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" - when're there gonna be people?"

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