Plot ideas

[Sinbad]

*comes in flapping hands* Sheesh, this place is starting to get busy

Great points everyone. I guess we are about to reach consensus Let me just check on the news and I´ll post a summary of notes in in an hour or a half to see how far we got till now.
You guys are great

[Sinbad]

Okay… *rubs hands* Let me try to sum up our ideas that we have gathered in a way that seems to gain general agreement here. :-)

1) Seeing that there are no more objections, I think I can announce that the first fact of our plot is decided upon namely: plot placement. Our plot will take place after season two.

Now for the detail stuff and let me know if I summed it up all right or if there are disagreements. Details will have to be discussed in the further course of this thread but I would like to leave actual actions etc. open so players can put in their imagination.

2) Maeve and Sinbad will be reunited at the very beginning of our plot. This happens with Rumina´s intervention who has lost a part of her powers when trying to get hold of Maeve after she had been separated from the crew. Maeve ended up being rescued by Dim Dim and was taken to his dimension and Rumina´s attempt to snatch her away resulted in her powers backfiring or something. Rumina was weakened and needed a year to regain her former strength and powers (thus, we´ll have an explanation for her absence in season 2)

3) Rumina gets to mess around with the crew in the course of bringing them back together

Stuff that still needs to be settled:

1) RUmina´s involvement: what is Rumina´s role in reuniting Maeve and the crew? Possibilities
a) She somehow manages to kidnap Maeve. The crew come to the rescue
b) She arranges a meeting to get Maeve into the open and away from Dim Dim but then fails to get hold of her. Maeve and Sinbad meet on accident

2) What about Bryn? Possibilities:
a) We leave her out completely for now and find an excuse why she is away from the crew
b) She stays with the crew as Sinbad´s friend, not his love interest

Both possibilities offer the opportunity of playing out the sister-card at some later point as either a major or a minor plot idea. Firouz offered taking over Bryn, so we would not have to worry about a player.


Other stuff that´s still needed:
1) We definitely need support for Rumina. I hope magicalmoonstar can be swayed

Hm… I think that about covers it. It might be I forgot something, but then please remind me.

[firouz]

Sounds fine with me. It would be interesting to have Sinbad trying to keep Maeve from killing Bryn. Just like in the Trickster, where Sinbad had to keep Maeve from killing Bryn.

Maybe we can twist the story and have Bryn working with Rumina when she was young. When Rumina turned Maeve's brother into a hawk, Bryn was there helping Rumina. Bryn was much weaker than Rumina at the time, and still is, so somehow one of the villagers killed her, just like Sinbad killed Turok. Bryn's body was lost in the fire, the village was burning. Dimdim, seeing Bryn as an aid against the dark forces, snatched up Bryn and brought her back to life (she did not die completely when Dimdim brought her back, just close to death). I personally also suffered a near-death experience. When Bryn came back, she had no memory and changed personally (just like me, except I have faint memory of a little bit of my past). Dimdim cared for her as his child. He placed the rainbow bracelet on her. Bryn learned the white arts. When Dimdim took Maeve, he knew that Maeve would kill Bryn, so he hid her from Maeve. Bryn heard about Maeve talk about killing Rumina. That name range a bell and Bryn remembered Rumina but nothing else. She was scared that this new person that Dimdim took in was after her sister, and therefore may attack her if she was found. Thus, Bryn ran away. Dimdim was very sad of Bryn's departure but did not tell anything to Maeve about Bryn. Bryn still not very strong with her powers so she bought a sword for protection. She practiced her fighting skills just in case her magic was not enough. However, on of the villagers noticed her, and remembered her wrath. The villager collected a group to finish her off. Bryn held her place for some time, but the villagers were enclosing her. She took a run to the cliff. The villagers shot arrows at her and hit her a once times. It was raining and there was a storm. The arrow hit her in the leg, and she slipped over the edge of the cliff, hit her head on a rock, and fell into the water. The villagers could not see her from the cliff and could do nothing during the storm. The storm was strong and washed Bryn far out to sea. Bryn was unconscious from her fall. This further triggered her memory loss. Bryn woke up on an island (the same island Sinbad lands on) with no memory but her name (she had written Bryn on her sword). She tended her wounds and made the island her home. The island inhabitants found her and used her as a "sacrifice." But she escaped, and that is when she found Sinbad.

Now when Maeve comes back and finds Bryn on bourd, oh she is going to have a fit. Sinbad loves Maeve but refuses for her to hurt Bryn, even after Maeve tells him that Bryn is Rumina's sister. This would be interesting. Could put Sinbad against Maeve, although he would still love her. Also Rumina would try to convince Bryn to join her against Sinbad, which for the most part would be unsuccessful.

[Sinbad]

There´s a whole lot of good ideas going on and it would definiely be exciting to bring in Bryn that way. I do have a suggestion however.

I think it would be better if Maeve did not know right from the beginning that Bryn and Rumina were sisters. I´m trying to think rpg dynamics here and lettin Maeve, Rumina and Dim Dim know all or most of the details of her backstory would be a bit like uncovering cliffhangers that could carry through part of the later story.

I imagine that Maeve would probably be sceptical around Bryn anyways, but for jealousy reasons. After all, she has been away for a year and we know she does not like the thought of other women being around SInbad too much. Especially whe she finds out hey have been sailing together for a year now. So this could be nice and interesting dynamic between the two of them from the beginning, not based on jealousy and competition on Bryn´s side since she has no romantic interest in Sinbad but because Maeve would be sceptical.

The sister card as I called it should be played out later. Rumina knows, of course. Whether Dim Dim knows... maybe, but I´d say not necessarily, even though I do like the bracelet idea.
I think, Maeve should not know. And this is why:
- like this, we can play more for tension. Rumina revealing that at a point that seems apt to her would be far more interesting and intense to rp than Maeve knowing from the beginning. it´s like building tensions here, one by one. I we place them all in the beginning, we will have less up our sleeves.
- if Bryn was involved with Rumina changing Dermott into a hawk I think that would not be too logical. After all Dermott seems to trust Bryn. He would not be around her if she had been involved with his curse.

@firouz: On a side note. damn, you have some pretty complex and good ideas with a lot of potential. You so should be writing fanfiction if you´re not doing that already

[Dermott]

@firouz, Sinbad

I think there should be a reason for Dermott liking Bryn in the first place since she joined the crew. It would have made more sense that he stayed on Sinbad's shoulder instead of Bryn's arm (the Ladyhawke fan inside me takes the upper hand for a second ;D) or that he went in search of his sister. But instead, he chose to befriend that unknown girl.

Perhaps Firouz is right, if Dermott had already knew Bryn at the time of his curse, this could have make more sense. Suppose that she was basically good, even as a child, and that his Sister brought her along during her wanderings to make her understand she had to join the dark side.

But in Erin, while their elder sisters were at each other throats, Bryn and Dermott became friends. Maeve never saw Bryn, Dermott hide her because he know how much Maeve hated Rumina and that she won't like Bryn either. When Dermott was turned into an hawk, Bryn was desperate and shocked. Then her mother left her husband Turok and her other daughter Rumina and run away with Bryn.

At this point, following Ed Naha's outline, Rumina, to please his father, destroyed her mother home village and killed his sister, who years later was bring back to life somehow and given a rainbow bracialet.

So Dermott knew she thrustworty, but he didn't tell her the truth because he was aware that belonging to a dark family was a burden to her, and that she had always longed for a normal life.

@doubar
Sorry, Perhaps I was in a hurry when I put down the previous post ;D ;D

@firouz
Wow!! I bow to your imagination.

[firouz]

Sounds okay with me. More surprises is better: Sinbad unexpectedly reunites with Maeve, the crew and Sinbad being shocked that Bryn is Rumina's sister, further infuriating Maeve. I just love to see Maeve yell at Sinbad for not letting her kill Bryn. Bryn would stay good and refuse to join Rumina against Sinbad, even though Rumina claims to be Bryn's sister, but Bryn does not know about it, and therefore is skeptical that Rumina is telling her the truth. This could also bring in an internal conflict with Bryn debating whether she should help kill Rumina. And can she face the fact that Sinbad and Maeve are after Rumina. Killing Sinbad is totally out question, but how much can Bryn take? And what about Maeve. Bryn has no feelings for her except that Maeve is very important to Sinbad, and Sinbad is Bryn's friend, if not that she may feel a little attached to him.

To Dermott's suggestion, how about Rumina and Bryn came to Erie and helped destroy Maeve's village. Rumina turned Dermott into a hawk, in front of Maeve. Rumina told Bryn to round up the boys on the other side of the village, thus Maeve and Bryn never meet. Bryn still gets killed and as on with my previous story. The only thing is that while with Dimdim, Bryn befriends the hawk Dermott when Maeve is busy practicing with Dimdim. This way we can get rid of the whole alien stuff and make Dimdim the provider of the bracelets. Maeve would never know Bryn because they never meet, and Dermott would not tell Maeve about Bryn because he knows his sister's temper around other females and does not want Maeve to scare away or hurt Bryn, who is nice to him. Irony, because Bryn runs away from Dimdim's place because Maeve is there and Maeve wants to kill Rumina, which Bryn faintly remembers her sister.

As for the fanfiction, I will write sometime when I have it all mapped out and when I have more time. Writing does not come easy for me. One thing they say, scientists, not to mention chemists, are not very good writers. Until then, I will try to make this an interesting plot. I prefer acting over writing. I could have never written your in-depth internal struggle of Sinbad.

[Sinbad]

@firouz: This sounds like a very interesting idea to play out. If the others agree, we shall include Bryn into our plot but I would be in favour of one thing: we should definitely have some time pass until Bryn´s secret of being Rumina´s sister is revealed. It will definitely make things very interesting, but I see the need of taking things one after the other in the beginning. Reunite Maeve and Sinbad and give everyone enough time to work through Sinbad´s last year and them being apart, his turning away from almost stepping over to the "dark side" etc. etc.

Rumina could keep the knowledge of Rumina being her sister for a good while to use it as an advantage, a secret to be revealed in a moment when it confuses the crew the most or something like this. That´s the condition I´d have for this, given the others agree with the idea of bringing in Bryn´s backstory like this. I do not have anything against it and think it´s really good stuff, but we should keep it off until a further into the plot for the reasons I already mentioned in my previous posts

Edit: I do definitely not want you to feel I´m putting down your ideas because they are truely good ideas and like them. But placing it a bit further down the road of their adventure would be better because there has to be time to dea with the past year and the reunion and too many things pressing on them at once would turn into something heavy to rp which also would very likely take us directly down th serious road and not allow us to establish some bantering and renew common grounds. But later along the plot, definitely

[firouz]

That's exactly what I was thinking. Rumina still needs to regain her energy where Sinbad and Maeve meet. Thus, Rumina would not play much role in the beginning, just watching from her stirring bowl in vengeance. She notices her sister, thought she died years ago, and plans to reunite with her. Maeve is introduced to Bryn, to her dismay, and joins the rest of the crew. They talk about their adventures while Maeve was gone, and Sinbad asks how Maeve got out of Dimdim's dimension. Maeve eyes Bryn and has a private chat with her. The Bryn-Maeve competition grows on the boat until Rumina, finally regained enough magic, appears and tries to take Bryn to the dark side. This erupts the relationship between Bryn and Maeve, with Sinbad being the middle man trying to calm down Maeve. At one point, Maeve attacks Sinbad with her sword for trying to stand in front of Bryn. I just love to see Sinbad get some bruises. Will Maeve defeat Sinbad? Who knows. But I consider Maeve to be as equally strong as Sinbad. Bryn tries to use her magic against Maeve, but Maeve is too strong. Bryn still does not know how to control her powers.

As for Maeve's return, how do you want it: that Maeve is transported to a port that Sinbad is going to dock and while in the woods Sinbad, who is searching for Dermott (he flew off once he found out Maeve was transported), hears cracking and pulls out his sword and grabs the intruder who happens to be Maeve. They are both surprised, expecially Sinbad who is holding his sword to Maeve's throat. Or should they both be holding swords to each others' throat. Another idea is that Maeve could meet Bryn first. A third idea, Maeve could be transported to a village which is under attack (by Roman forces or something) and she helps the villagers fight the attackers but is severely wounded and almost dies as the village is burnt down. A burning house falls on her and knocks her out. Dermott, feeling Maeve's presence, flies off and Sinbad follows him. They ground ashore and search for Dermott. Sinbad finds Dermott in the burnt village sitting on a piece of wood next to the fallen house which is covering Maeve. Sinbad sees part of a foot sticking out from the rubble. He tries to lift the part of the house covering the person. He needs help. As the others lift the house just enough so Firouz can drag the person out of the house, he looks at Sinbad. But Maeve is not dead, just severely wounded and needs medical attention fast or she will die. But never fear, Firouz is here.

[Sinbad]

Good ideas for the reunion
Just a quick note before I go to sleep and then leave for two days. I think we have to leave the plot a bit more sketchy and not plan out every detail. What we need is a skelleton, the rest is up to characters interacting. It´s part of the fun that is rp-ing that not everything is planned and predicted An rpg, quite contrary to a joined fanfiction or roundrobin, mostly lives from interaction. You have a sketchy plot in the form of some background. (In our case: at which point are the characters at the outset of our rp-ing, what do we plan to get the ball rolling (reunion with Maeve and short info on how (e.g. trouble on some island, Maeve is there) and:what other background of the charaters is important ) Therefore, let´s keep it more simple, this is a different kind of storytelling

[Doubar]

Oh dear. So many – and mainly long posts…
Okay, am almost sure I’m leaving some things out but simply want to get rid of my opinion. I personally would be okay with having Bryn in this story … as long as she stays only friends with Sinbad (am sorry for emphasizing this again and again, but it’s really important to me).

And I like your background-story, Firouz, but … ah … I’d rather go with Dermott saying that Bryn deep inside is a good one (although she might as well have dark blood running through her veins). She might have been there with her sister in order to destroy the village and its inhabitants [or like Dermott put it: father and daughter wanted to teach the little one what she was supposed to do]- but why not make her realize that, as she sees her sister and father act, this is not what she wants to be living for. Why not make her realize in just that moment that she’s not like her sister. She might run away in the middle of the assault, trying to make out what to do - whether to leave her family or stay and become what her dad and sister want her to. In the process she could get to know Dermott. And please, that’s just an idea of mine: but it could have also happened that Bryn met Dermott in the village’s near bouts. He could be asking things like “Why are you doing this to us?”, catching Bryn off guard with this question. They have a short chat – thereby recognizing that Bryn is different from her family. He with this could have picked up on just the same doubts she already had and awake the “good” side in her. When in the next moment Rumina arrives there, having already been searching for her sister, she demands Bryn to kill Dermott as she sees no use in letting a simple peasant live. Bryn refuses and Rumina tries to do it on her own – what Bryn is able to stop. She could tell Dermott to run away and save himself. This’d give us the opportunity of Maeve and Bryn having never met but Dermott knowing Bryn and knowing she’s a good one. While Dermott runs away the sisters could have fought each other -> Bryn gets awfully hurt and is being left behind by Rumina who’s sure she killed her sister (and maybe even regrets it). And now she starts running after Dermott who in her eyes has to pay for this. And yeah, well the end is quite simple. She finds Dermott but this time Maeve is near him. With the little magic she already holds she tries to defend Dermott and with the will to protect her brother she even might be able to stop the assault on him. Rumina then changes her mind and decides to make both of them suffer by turning Dermott into a hawk and making that self-confident peasant suffer by knowing she’s not been able to protect him.
And now, to come back to what Firouz suggested: DimDim finds Bryn (whether he knows her story or not … I don’t know. Would both be possible) and feels both – the darkness but also the good she’s holding inside. He takes her, heals her wounds and gives her that rainbow-bracelet as a help to advance that good side in her. Due to the near-death she looses her memory. DimDim chooses to raise and teach her … BUT … gives her to Chaipra! This would explain just why neither Sinbad nor Maeve have ever seen her before. As we all remember from season one none of the crew knew Caipra, which means that even while DimDim taught Sinbad and Doubar or had Maeve with him, he hadn’t had much contact to his wife.
Rumina all the time thinks that her sister is dead and Bryn gets taught in the white arts (which would explain why she can use some nature-spells even after her memory loss). Now, why she’s in the world out there could be told by Rumina finally finding out Bryn is still alive and growing strong in the white arts. She decides she’s lost her sister many years ago and goes hunting for the good Bryn (who now could be a potential thread to her). Bryn escapes, tries to leave the country by ship… a storm comes … the new memory loss … getting washed ashore on the island. We already know that. Now, why it has been the same one Sinbad got washed ashore on could have been due to what little help DimDim has been able to give from his dimension or simply an accident.
Oh and aye, this would as well explain why Dermott never told Maeve about Bryn. He as well assumed Rumina had killed her and since the siblings never got to see Bryn afterwards ( this being-with-Caipra-thing!) he had no need to tell anything. And when he saw her on the ship he recognized her, knowing she’s good…

Whoa, guys. I didn’t really mean to write such a long thing but it simply came in mind. It’s okay if you don’t like this version but me … ah, guess I’d really prefer a (mainly) good Bryn to a bad one that’s simply lost her memory.

Although … yeah. Both options leave the chance to write out different aspect of Bryn, such as her inner debate whether to turn to the dark or light side…
But even with "my" version we would be able to build up the tension as Maeve might still mistrust Bryn ('caus her hate against Rumina's too big to believe Bryn indeed is good) thus causing Bryn to doubt her good side herself. She could be torn between to what she has been born and the way she has been raised. It could still cause a tension between the two ladies having Sinbad (who of course believes in Bryn's good side) standing between them...

But, concerning some other things:
According to Sinbad I as well think that Rumina should keep that knowledge for a while. She could even start to realize that her sister can become really helpful (trying to get her to the dark side knowing it would bring out the seed of mistrust in the crew … would be a wonderful dark plan, don’t you think so too? ).

And about the questions Sinbad set up at the very top:
No1: option number two for me please.
No2: option number two again…

Okay, dears. I just want to let you know that I did not intend to cut anyone out. It will be quite hard to decide just which background story we’re going to chose ‘caus all have been so interesting. And another thing: have written this offline. It’s 1 a.m. over here and I so wanna get in bed. The last post I read was Sinbad’s (4.58 p.m.). I know that you, Sinbad and Firouz have posted again since, but I’ll read that tomorrow. I’m simply posting this now and will then welcome my warm and cosy bed … *zzzzzz*

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@firouz: you experienced a near-death… My God! What happened?

[firouz]

I am fine with either way. I will be playing Bryn, lucky me. But I still think Bryn was evil (like me) in the beginning, but turned good (also like me) after a near-death experience. Something could have happened during her near-death experience, such as she could have seen god. She would know that she almost died, as Dimdim could tell her. She would then look to Dimdim as her savior and turn good. I personally do not like the idea that Turok married a white mage (where is the logic in that) and that Bryn ran away from her family because she did not like to join the dark side (makes no sense). Instead she would still be dark, like Turok and Rumina, but be less dark (like Rumina is no where as evil as Turok, she actually wanted to marry Sinbad). And for Bryn being with Capria, why did they not cross in Double Trouble? And why did Bryn play no role in helping Capria in that episode? I like my idea better, but I guess I have to ask the captain. Also by having Rumina hold off telling the crew about Bryn does not seem very logical to me. Although I thought of having Rumina loose her powers, be taken up by the crew to save her life (eventhough she is bad, Sinbad does not believe in killing), they take care of Rumina, and Scratch gives back Rumina's powers after she is "inside" the Nomad and no one suspecting. Perfect trap, don't you think? Lets just stick to the fact that Rumina did not show up until she regained her powers. What Rumina does during this time, well just ask the lovely black sorceress from the east.

[Doubar]

Ah well. Yeah. You've got a point there. I did in deed not think of DoubleTrouble. *blushes* But well, Bryn could have been away on some educational journey at that time...

No, seriously. First of all I want to apologize to all of you for having written such a long thing tonight. Guess I lost the track there and simply wrote down what was coming to my tired mind.
I think the main point now is (just like Sinbad already figured out) to set some major points. We do not need a detailed background story right form the beginning. In my eyes only a few questions should really be answered as they are most important to how we start the interaction between the crew members:

1) Is Bryn deep inside her heart good or bad?
2) Does Dermott know her?
We need this point too to sort out which kind of interaction he’ll have with the returning Maeve: Whether he has to try and keep that knowledge away from her or explain everything or whatever.
3) Does Rumina recognize/ know about Bryn? (Which I guess would be most likely) And in case she does: why didn’t she do anything about her earlier (which could have already been answered by her loosing a good potion of her energies after scull mountain and the attack on Maeve).

I think if we sorted out these three points we basically have all the facts we need at the beginning (at least when it comes to the whole background-thing). Just what story does really lie behind all this can as well be decided at a later point of time. And when talking about that: as soon as Sinbad returns I’ll suggest him to open up a whole “plot-area” where we can make threads about every single thing that needs to be discussed (e.g. the background story, events from the past, future events, Maeve’s return, …) I think this would be a real help since I don’t think we’ll be able to really keep track if all this is discussed in only one thread. If you don’t think this’d be a good idea just let me know.

Now, another thing I wanted to post down here. I for one would like to see Bryn and Maeve meet without any old-hatred-and-fear- thing. They should simply meet there, be introduced and then get to know each other. Of course Maeve can slightly mistrust her… this whole another woman on the ship thing and she could even feel some darkness inside of Bryn. But I don’t think we should really add some severe fights between them. Not at the beginning at least. Most of us are starters in the rpg-realm and we somehow came to the conclusion that we wanted to bring back season 1 humour. Now, if we followed the Bryn fearing Maeve line and Maeve hating the brunette it would bring in a dark and threatening atmosphere that I personally wouldn’t like to have as a constant in our rpg (if the others however think different and want to take it, I’ll follow. ). I mean, if the two are constantly chasing after one another we would, on the one hand, be able to develop some really thrilling atmosphere but on the other hand would also have everyone mistrust everyone somehow. Bryn fearing Maeve, Maeve hating Bryn, Dermott being torn between the two maybe even making Maeve be angry at him, Sinbad trying to calm the two of them down (which would not leave much chance of bantering and a possible “returning to the good side”-plot), the crew being unsure about what to do and so on. In my eyes this constellation can once be used as a brilliant storyline in our rpg for sort of an “episode” but … nha .. not right from the beginning.
Dear Firouz, I really hope you don’t feel I am being unfair to you. And in the end of course my opinion doesn’t stand for the rest. If those who’ll have to fill the story with life (Maeve, Dermott, Rumina, Sinbad and of course you) want to take your version then it’ll be fine with me.

And about the return things you suggested: all three of them sound really interesting. But maybe we should wait for with what ideas the others may come up. After all they’ll have to write the whole thing out, too.

So, yet another long post made by me. Am sorry to stress you this much, folks.

@firouz: Once again, I want to make sure you don't feel offended by me. Your ideas are brilliant and I admire you for having so much of them. But simply think that maybe we should not force things too much ...
Oh and wanted to add: I didn't say that Turok married a white sorceress. But let's assume it has been a simple mortal woman. Mortals hold both potentials. They may decide freely if they want to be bad or good (just like everyone of us can) and Bryn has inherited that possibilty of being good ...

@dermott: hey, your idea for the background is great, too. It covers both: some aspects Fiurouz liked to have inn and the fact that Bryn deep inside is good... ;D

[firouz]

Of course, Bryn could be born evil (less evil than Turok or Rumina, but still evil) but change to the good. the only way I logically see that is that she looses her memory, injured, and cared for by a good person (Dimdim). Bryn remembers Rumina after she overhears Maeve (they do not meet though) but remembers nothing else (She's like: "Rumina, that name sounds familiar." Then she relizes its her sister, gets scared, and runs away. I explained everything else in my previous posts.)

When Maeve meets Bryn, they do not know each other, and Maeve is like "who the hell are you." Bryn does not know Maeve and actually is pleased to meet the mighty sorceress whom Sinbad talks little about, but Bryn can sense it. Bryn does not know Rumina (first time mentioned to her, probably overhearing from Maeve on the ship) is her sister (head injury I mentioned earlier). Maeve and Bryn gradually become friends, sort of. This is when the humor can be added. When Rumina calls Bryn her sister, Bryn does not believe her.

Maeve: "What! You are housing Rumina's sister! How dare you Sinbad! Don't you have more brains than that, you sea dog!"
Sinbad defends himself, saying "We did not know Bryn was Rumina's sister. And by the way, I am not a sea dog."
Maeve: "Out of my way, I will kill her myself."
Sinbad: "Not over my dead body."
And they start arguing on and on, Maeve trying to get past Sinbad, and they end up fighting physically, until someone stops them. Doubar dags Maeve away or something. The crew tries to console Maeve down below, but it is no use. This leaves a lot of explaining for Sinbad. Sinbad loves Maeve and would never doubt her. He may has to keep an eye on Maeve, making sure she does not kill Bryn. (Sinbad: Now I know why they say having a woman on a ship is bad luck.") Maeve never had complete faith in Sinbad. They could still use humor, like The Siren's Song. Instead of being skeptical of Allana, she would be skeptical of Bryn.

Does Dermott know her: I already made a suggestion in my previous post. Of course Maeve would be angry at Dermott for befriending Bryn, but Dermott did not know Bryn was Rumina's sister, and Maeve would never lose her temper at Dermott. She gave her live to him, anyway. Dermott is, though a little more considerate to Bryn. This allows for a little argument with Dermott and Maeve.

About Rumina: I gave a suggestion in my last posts.

[Doubar]

Aye, you already wrote down your ideas. And so did I with my opinion. But, to be honest, this part of my post was mainly aimed at the rest of us. After all, we should find a solution everyone's okay with and will therfor need all the crew members' opinions. But thanx for your post anyway.

*already pities Sinbad who'll have loads of work waiting for him when returning from his land-leave*

[firouz]

True, true. I am wondering how our lovely sorceress from the east (Rumina) thinks about my ideas. She won't have much in the beginning, except talking to herself and scolding Sinbad in her cave, since she is regaining her powers and won't make contact with the crew until she regains them. Dermott would have to agree if he does not mind arguing some with Maeve. In am sure Sinbad doesn't, after all that is most of want they did in Season I. Fight Maeve, I don't know. I get love to see Maeve defeat him. I don't mind consoling Maeve. How about you Doubar? And where the hell is that peasant witch. (excuse my language).