*tosses a possible idea in air* DMW "return"

Yakima · Post by **Yakima** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 6:19 pm

No, i am not going to saddle myself with a second Weyr to run.

However, I've been thinking a lot about the Dark Moon stuff since, well, doing the records as well as writing Kaia, one of my girls for Ty's special girl-clutch.

When I closed Falas and sent everyone forward, like a really bad Lessa rerun

, I never considered what happened after everyone left to go forward. Philippe and Juniamaa stayed a bit, then left. That was about it. So, Iv've been doing some plot setting for Dark Moon after L'gal took his final group forward.

A lot has to do with the unwritten fact that I take my dragon and go back in time to see J'tha - and I tell him everything ('cause I'm stupid) and then J'tha starts to arrange everything.

Dark Moon simply vanished. Azala, when I talked to her after she closed it and gave up on it, told me I could do whatever I wanted with it. Vaugly, I think she mentioned me using her characters.

Now, J'tha individually told K'man, L'gal, and S'mar there instructions, telling them when to go and when to arrive. What if he also went to E'lan and told him the same thing, telling him that Falas would be in need of help and that Dark Moon will be abandoned. Much of this relying on what I tell him and that J'ren is scrambling for riders and such. Dark Moon can be a WeyrHold or now simply a hold. Perhaps like Southern Weyr was in the beginning as a retreat for dragonriders that needed healing and such. So, Dark Moon riders go to Falas Weyr on E'lan's request from J'tha. Before the ending of the Pass. However, I'm not taking all the riders, just some of them. Perhaps, maybe, though I don't want a 'free' gold, Yukith and Azala. E'lan, yes. Perhaps some of the other riders she had that were more cannon and hatched at Dark Moon Weyr. Her other riders went 'back' to where they hatched from.

So...has Yakima been reading to many Pern books or what?

Just a thought. I don't want to offend anyone if I do this. I need to look over what little information I have on her riders and figure out who I would 'take' forward with me. I really don't want people to be upset if I snag Yukith. Heh. I know she was the youngest of Azala's golds, Zaranth being the first Weyrwoman's and the crabbiest. Heehee...of course, Aein and Zaranth could come forward and sit in retirment. Oh, that would really irk Flynnth, to have her mother around. LOL

Anyway, off to draw a cool map of DMW 'cause I want to color something!

Post by **Dray** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:55 am

I'm very confused. XD

Are you asking to use DMW as a retreat-Weyr for clutching purposes so that you can hatch other dragons, or as a plot-device-Weyr, where you're simply writing different stories around it?

(I've been wanting to get in on some Pern-stuff lately but definitely don't have time to start up my own -- that, and I don't know any of the history behind where all the Weyrs are, and I think I'd feel a little guilty for setting up ANOTHER new one. :P The planet's getting overrun with them~)

Yakima · Post by **Yakima** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:34 pm

Truthfully, Dray, if you want to take Dark Moon yourself, you can. *shrug* I was just going to use it for plot purposes in the Eleventh Pass, have some of the old riders come join Falas' Wings. After Falas' little closing act, with the mist and everything, I sent all my riders to Dark Moon Weyr. They 'renamed' it Falas' Rising Moon. Mardanith clutched five total clutches in that time, before she came forward with L'gal, and most of those riders are still stuck in that time. By the time Falas 'reopened' in the Eleventh Pass, Dark Moon was once again ruins and deserted.

Falas Weyr flies Thread over the lands that Dark Moon once protected as well as the islands of the Western Ring Islands (Falas Chain). They also assist the other major cannon Weyrs if they are asked to for whatever reason (mostly Fort and Monaco Bay...Fort because that Weyr gave Falas a few riders to start the Weyr out, along with the FGPC first hatching group, and in this Pass, Monaco Bay because that's where Ainnith's egg was brought and where Nysheth hatched and stuff.)

I've been thinking about offering up Dark Moon to someone else who wants to start there own Weyr. I love the layout for DMW, with the cliff and waterfalls, but I have Falas and the FGPC - I don't need another. And a new, fresh group of riders would be enough to start it up.

(<-this is being said to everyone, not just Dray). Though, I wouldn't just give DMW to anyone. Azala trusted me with it (not that she cares anymore, I'm sure), so, yeah. E'lan, the Weyrleader of DMW for the longest time, as actually one of my riders that she choose. I helped her make some decisions on clutches and stuff sometimes.

*makes note to add to Falas' history and perhaps Dark Moons...*

Post by **Dray** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:04 pm

It's a cool history, at the very least! (And the layout does sound gorgeous!)

I'm not sure I could do it justice, but it would be nifty to see it running in character, at the very least. :P If you're still looking to give it to someone else and someone hasn't snagged it, I will see about brainstorming up some ideas for it. (I know that Pern-style RP tends to get stagnant pretty quickly, but having one that doesn't focus solely on candidate bonding and queen-rider/Weyrleader antics might be fun. :3) I'm assuming it'd be in the 11th pass as well, then!

Yakima · Post by **Yakima** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:14 pm

I know that Pern-style RP tends to get stagnant pretty quickly, but having one that doesn't focus solely on candidate bonding and queen-rider/Weyrleader antics might be fun. :3

Why do you think I have Philippe at Falas, dying and coming back to life and what not. *evil smirk* Having /myself/ at Falas makes things much more intersting. Truthfully, I sometimes forget to mention J'ren or Kahii, even if I love there characters. K'man is my favorite rider ever...along with M'len and Philippe...J'par and Synde...ect. I just needed a new Weyrleader/Weyrwoman and a new face to torture.

I wouldn't mind Dark Moon kinda like a 'sister' Weyr to Falas, as it was in the past. Run seperatly but they keep in touch. E'lan, however, is, at the very least, coming back to me...not that I need another bronze rider but he was a Falas original and I like the concept of J'tha running around before Thread ended planning this because I can back in time to meet him.

And yes, the Eleventh Pass is where Falas is so it would be the Eleventh Pass, Dray.

If Dray, or anyone else who might be interested, would like to adopt Dark Moon, let me know and any information I have (like the map I'm working on, the holds I stuck with it, including New Hope Hold which was founded after Falas' misty excile), I can hand over to the new 'Weyr Manager'.

I'm making the map to look like the one at Falas...I wonder if I posted the FGPC's yet...I know I had to make the weyr's smaller on the cliff face...heh...

Dragon/firelizard image would be up to the new owner.

XD As long as it's okay for me to use it in the past should I write more candidates from the past.

*goes back to shading cliff faces...

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Post by **Dray** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:21 pm

I like the idea of some kind of Weyr/Hold mix. :P Takes the heat off of being a 'real' Weyr, especially when Falas and another Weyr are so close by. I'm still thinking on that, though, so who knows. Sounds like a great getaway spot, at the very least. ;P

Keilin Alyr · Post by **Keilin Alyr** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 7:01 pm

Does this mean you'll be incorporating Dark Moon into your main timelines but have someone else acting as ghost-owner, or just taking some of the riders and "adopting" out the Weyr itself? Would Dark Moon be a fully functioning Weyr or simply a story foundation?

I kind of miss Dark Moon in its prime to be truthful. I never managed to create a character for a clutch, but I did enjoy observing and reading, and the images were among my favorites (so I'm eagerly awaiting the return of Calyeni). Guess you can call me a long-term professional lurker.

And it's a wonder you can take on all this complex timeline stuff without ripping out your hair and going insane. *chuckles* I was starting to feel a twitch when I closed down what little I had of Aster Weyr (9th Pass), destroyed it in its timeline, and migrated my riders to Astrel. I started notes on another Weyr later (founded in the 6th Pass), realized it was the rebirth of the old Weyr, and it was closing in on some complex potential paradox. I just shook my head and discarded everything.

Then again, I don't exactly have a reputation for finishing... much. *chuckles sheepishly*

Yakima · Post by **Yakima** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 7:30 pm

Keilin Alyr wrote:Does this mean you'll be incorporating Dark Moon into your main timelines but have someone else acting as ghost-owner, or just taking some of the riders and "adopting" out the Weyr itself? Would Dark Moon be a fully functioning Weyr or simply a story foundation?

Dark Moon would be under the soul direction of someone else. After L'gal and Kizanzee went to join the rest of the Falas Riders in the 11th Pass, in Turn 2018, Dark Moon was still the home of a number of dragons and riders. There was no gold dragon, only one bronze, and evetually they either died out or migrated to other holds and such. At that time, it became Dark Moon WeyrHold (like Honshu WeyrHold found by F'lessen in the Ninth Pass...Skies of Pern, I thinks...). Evetually, the holders moved, too. Maybe they thought there were ghosts in the Weyr or something. Heh...

I intend to at least take E'lan, the former Weyrleader back to Falas Weyr. He was, after all, my rider.

I don't have a wing list of Azala's riders from Dark Moon so I don't know who she all had, other then the ones I found in records of other Weyrs.

I don't want a lot - it would be too much like cheating. Which is why I'm debating on bringing Azala and Yukith forward, too. I kinda liked them in character.

Whether or not DMW would become a full fuctioning Weyr, with clutches and the like, would be up to whoever takes it. Like I said, It would be nice to still have it linked to Falas, having the two fly Thread together as they did in the past (Falas only has a few miles to protect, after all, when not helping Monaco and Fort.

) The only link to Falas would be flying Thread with it and interaction between the Weyrleaders for that purpose. If Dark Moon begins to have plots and wants to include Falas riders, one only has to ask.

Philippe is always willing to get into trouble...when he comes back to live at least. He's a little useless right now.

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tosses a possible idea in air DMW "return"

tosses a possible idea in air DMW "return"