Heimdall Plot Thread

[Sarah]

Plot planning for Heimdall goes here!

Right now all that's happened is that Shaw has hired Hiram to work on his ranch, defending it from Dragons.

Apparently the Galen will make it's first appearance here too.

[Enriss]

Ok, I was hoping to breath some life into Heimdall. The idea I was thinking of would be a Goblin uprising of a sorts.

I was hoping to create a Goblin character that incites the whole Goblin species into going to war, specifically with the Dwarves.

The way I was planning on having my Goblin do this was to, while he was younger, kill a mother wingless dragon and steal her clutch of eggs. He'd take care of the eggs and domesticate those that hatched and use them to unite the scattered Goblin camps together, all the while getting more Wingless dragon eggs to use as either mounts or warhounds. It would put a little hero worship in him, the wingless dragons normally eating Goblins, and make it easier for him to lead the Goblins.

This way Heimdall would get a little more activity on it and it might even get any people that happen on the site to make a Goblin or Dwarf, which are lacking characters at the moment compared to humans.

So, thoughts? Ideas to add to it?

[Blank]

I think a war is a pretty great idea! We've already got an medical ship in orbit because of unspecific strife in the region, so it would be easy to make it because of Dwarves and Goblins fighting with one another! it'll be hard to focus on the guts of the war, since there aren't any onplanet Dwarven characters or other Goblin characters, but we could do the war from the edges, like how it affects the ranchers or how difficult it is for the medical ship to provide aid when neither side really wants help.

I've got two characters in the area that could be interacted with. There's Hiram, who works on a ranch and he has a tendency to go wandering in the desert, so he could run into your goblin character. And there's Erawan, who's the administrator on the medical ship, and he could come down and try negotiate giving aid to hurt Goblins or getting access to the Dwarves to treat them. Or if you've got another idea, let me know, and I'd be happy to bounce it around until something sticks!

[Enriss]

I had noticed Hiram, and actually was thinking of something involving the ranch. The ranch would definitely be a massive source of food for the Dwarves, something the Goblins would either want to destroy or capture, preferably capture for their own use.

So I see a defense force of Dwarves being stationed there, with Goblin raids and assaults happening regularly. Hiram could, before the Dwarves can get any forces to defend the ranch, barricade himself in and defend the cattle from the small scouting parties the Goblins would be sending out.

As for the medical ship, that would work great too. Arguing with a bigot Goblin over whether or not access should be given to Dwarves that have been captured sounds like fun.

Another idea I had was that the Goblins would attack the space station itself, cutting off communication with the other planets and drawing the attention of the various ships and planetary governments.

[Sarah]

Weeeelllll an attack on the ranch would be less of an impact on the Dwarves as it would on the Humans. I'm sure the Dwarves buy some of it, but the Human ranches/farms are first and foremost there to raise/export beef and other agriculture back to Terra (and other Human settlements), since there's no place to do it on Terra anymore. An attack on a ranch would likely just have most of the Dwarves going "...meh. We survived without the humans before they showed up. We can do it again."

[Enriss]

Well, even if the ranch didn't supply the Dwarves, it would still be something the Goblins would want. Destroying the ranch is something the Goblins would really not want to do. They would much prefer to steal the cattle. An army marches on its stomach after all. The Dwarves I'm sure would hate to let their enemy get their hands on such a massive amount of food, and would try and stop them.

Resource denial is just as important in a war as anything else.

[Blank]

To add to this, there's a sort of subplot I've never gotten to do with Hiram. He's got mermaid oil rubbed on his boots, and something about the smell of it plays hell with dragons/wyrms and they flat out refuse to go anywhere near Hiram. We could have it that the goblins try to raid the ranch, Hiram heads out and the wyrms freak out/refuse to go anywhere near the ranch, and Dengar's forced to try figure out what exactly it is about a single human that has his wryms so spooked.

[Enriss]

Ya, that would be fun to see. Especially since the wingless dragons are such a cornerstone of the Goblins war machine. If such a thing could exist that would stop a dragon in its tracks just by smell alone, Dengar would love to know about it and to destroy it if at all possible.

I'm sure the Dwarves would want to have a word or two with Hiram if he has something that can stop the Wingless

So, want to do the ranch attack with Hiram going Rambo?

[Blank]

Sounds fine to me! I'll draft up something and get it up sometime tonight/tomorrow!