One does not simply wake up Boromir.

[temptedbypower]

Surely you're joking. You mean to tell me that you brought me back just because you "missed playing me"? As I recall, sir, you haven't seen the chronicle of the Fellowship's journey in some time. This is folly, but I'm sure you are aware of that.

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[sonof_thrain]

[He has not met this Man before.]

Fellowship? [Spoilers, Thorin. Shhh...]

[temptedbypower]

Aye. The Fellowship. [A Dwarf, huh?] I would ask your mundane on the details. I have had some bad experiences revealing the information myself.

[sonof_thrain]

Aye, I may if I find the time. [He was a busy dwarf, you know.]

Your mundane is also a man? Then that is something we indeed, share. I have come to find that most scribes or mundanes are women.

[temptedbypower]

Mine has also. It seems men are a rare beast in this... hobby.

[sonof_thrain]

Aye. Men are a rare beast in this venture. It seems women are more prone to write scenarios involving us. Most of the time he indulges in playing "video games" and drinking ale.

The latter I enjoy also.

[temptedbypower]

My mundane prides himself on his skills in this venture. One might say he's... obsessive.

[sonof_thrain]

Obsessive about writing us? [Thorin wasn't sure if that was healthy or not.]

[temptedbypower]

More others than myself, but yes. It seems this is the only thing he does at times.

[sonof_thrain]

He writes others than yourself? [Thorin raised an eyebrow.]

Mine also has others he writes. He favours my nephews and also our young burglar too.

[temptedbypower]

I believe it was fifty or more at last count. Now you see about the obsession.

[sonof_thrain]

Fifty.....characters?

[temptedbypower]

Aye. Myself included among their number.

[sonof_thrain]

Surely, that is madness. No one can keep up with that much writing, surely?

[temptedbypower]

Luckily for him they are not all awake at the same time.

[sonof_thrain]

Then that is some weight off your mind I am sure. [Madness.]

These mundanes should know better than to treat us as mere porns. I will not stand for it.

[temptedbypower]

Even pawns have some control of their fate, Sir Dwarf.

[sonof_thrain]

[Damn, why did I saw porn? XD Stupid Thilbo nonsense pfft..]

Indeed they do. I am no mere pawn, but King Under the Mountain.

[temptedbypower]

And I am heir to the Stewardship of Gondor. Mundanes favour those of us in power, it seems.

[sonof_thrain]

Perhaps. I do not seek power but vengeance. For those who stole my kingdom from me. [A cursed dragon and a stupid Pale Orc.]

[temptedbypower]

...I do not think we are from the same point in History.

[sonof_thrain]

It seems not. My scribe has told me about timelines being different and other such witchcraft.

[temptedbypower]

I would hardly call mundanes witches. This is no magic I've seen, but they are hardly capabale of it.

[sonof_thrain]

Aye, indeed. Evil goings on.

[gunslingerguy]

'Folly' hasn't stopped any of the mundanes I've ever known. If anything, it encourages them. You might want to try a different approach.

[temptedbypower]

I thought he had learned his lesson the last time. Seems as though they do not stick.

[gunslingerguy]

Mundanes rarely learn anything from these ventures. It's a little like trying to stop the tide.

[temptedbypower]

They learn our weaknesses, our inner thoughts. I'd say that is more troubling than nothing at all.

[gunslingerguy]

Agreed. Mine is already trying to send me to places she hopes will 'break my spirit'. Of course, the last time someone tried that it ended in magic, insanity and explosions, but she can't hear my objections over the sound of how awesome her ideas are.

[temptedbypower]

That sounds like an improper use of Magic. [Unless they were fireworks.]

[gunslingerguy]

More like 'involuntary use of magic'.

[verybigpheasants]

Can't let a little thing like folly stop you.

[temptedbypower]

[Eyebrow raise. 'scuse me?]

If I followed that philosophy I would have died long before I did.

[verybigpheasants]

We must be running in two very different circles of fate, my friend, because I'd have died ages ago if I hadn't.

[temptedbypower]

You must be one of the luckiest men alive. Those who run ahead unprepared are oft made fools of by fate.

[verybigpheasants]

I've noticed. Through being made a fool of, usually. [ The drinking, the brawls, the shameless flirting, being run from town or caught unawares... all part of the old wandering lifestyle. Being made a fool of as a knight, well.

Less to do with knighthood and more to do with being Gwaine, most of the time. ]

Nothing ever quite beat out the running, though.

[captainofdespair]

[Oh, he never met you, but he remembers you. Or at least, your father's lamentations over you.]

They often behave with a degree of foolishness, and I am certain you are aware, son of Gondor's Steward.