WELCOME TO WHITEWALL - Group Overview

From: Jimbruce <john.hughes_at_...>
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 05:11:57 -0000

Welcome to the Whitewall mailing list, a Yahoo-Group dedicated to the two and a half year siege of the Gloranthan city of Whitewall, as detailed in the HeroQuest roleplaying game and associated books and supplements. Whether you're a wizened old timer or a Gloranthan newbie, we hope that the list will entertain and inform, and that you'll have a chance to add to a growing story that will be told again and again.

 It might seem a little strange sending out a welcome after over one hundred posts, but that's just an indication of how quickly the group has taken off.

Our aim is to explore the siege of Whitewall, the last free Orlanthi city, and to produce a document that details `Generally Accepted Whitewall' - a description of the city, the forces and heroes present, the main events of the siege, and a little of the range of human drama that occurs there. We hope that this document will inspire many further scenarios and stories.

Our first task is to detail and agree on a few basics: a description of the city, the approximate composition of the forces involved at various stages of the siege, the major heroes on both sides, and the broad progress of the siege. This should take only a few weeks.

With this foundation in place, we can proceed to the story seeds, intrigues, heroquests, battles, hero duels, boasting contests, romances, betrayals… the fun stuff. Whitewall is an epic that stretches over two and a half years, and attracts heroes from across Dragon Pass and the Lunar Empire, so we have an enormous canvas to draw on.

Not every topic will necessarily be of interest to everyone, even if we had the time to read everything.. If you want to say, describe various areas of the city, or detail the trollkin pickpockets of the outer market, then be proactive and GO AHEAD! Announce your interest on the list, speak to other posters interested in your topic, try to reach a consensus on any areas of disagreement, and, most importantly, produce a summary document.

As the number of posts grow, finding a particular nugget becomes increasingly difficult. To share your work, please post a summary document to the FILES area.

The left hand menu at our Yahoo Groups home

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/whitewall/

contains some useful tools,

There is a POLL open where you can record your interests and see who else is interested in a particular topic. We can also use polls to help sort through consensus issues.

The DATABASE records our nascent but growing list of people at the siege, and any list member can add to this list. However, some of our gurus are experimenting with more elaborate online databases, so stay tuned for developments.

The FILES area contains some foundation documents for discussion, which will probably be updated fairly frequently at first, and several folders to upload character and locale documents.

The LINKS area contains background information on Whitewall and Heortland. Please add any relevant links of your own.

Cheers

John Hughes

(one of your friendly list moderators, and a Kallyri to the death. :))  

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