Trojan War!

[Lord]

Neone wonna start a trojan war RPG? doesn't hafta end the same way as it did in the real story....if so than try to pick heroes that were in the war.

I pick Achillies

if there are enuff ppl here, than we will start giving char statistics.

Hope u join

 

[Dark Warrior]

Hmmm... I will play, but unfortunately I do not know much detailed information about it, such as the ppl who were in it. If you can give me some info that'll be cool, otherwise I'll make someone up.

 

[Lord]

......i had a site but i forget it......and i dont know detail about it unless i hear the character.....so ask up on ne info ;p

 

[bobo_daclown]

My name is Paris, I am the ruler of a little town named Troy: perhaps you've heard of it.

I remember this summer, I took a cruise around the Mediterranean Sea, and specifically around Greece. I saw the island named Ithaca and Odysseus's mighty castle. At Crete, I saw a dying king. Finally, at Sparta, a gentleman named Menelaus hosted me at his beautiful ranch house.

When the king at Crete finally did die, that eunic Menelaus rode off to see the funeral. I did what any guest would do....

Helen sure had some supressed sexuallity from years wed to a castrated man. Well, as my cruise was to set sail I killed one of my waiters to make room for Helen.

We traveled across the Aegean Sea eastward, back to Troy.

Would you believe it: Menelaus and those damn Achaeans (sounds like {{ah*kay*shuns}} = Greeks) followed us back to my place and laid siege to my flourishing city?

 

[bobo_daclown]

OOC:

Need info on a character, on Greek life, or on the real Trojan war, visit: http://hsa.brown.edu/~maicar/TrojanWar.html

 

[Dark Warrior]

Thanks fer the page, Bobo!

Thanx fer the page hehe

I have read part of it and have decided to play Diomedes 2. If you want more info, go to the site.

 

[bobo_daclown]

Okay... we need a Menelaus to initiate the war and to gather the Achaeans (greeks).

Other really key characters include (officers):
(GREEKS)
Odysseus
Philoctetes
Agamemnon

(TROJANS)
Hector
and me (Paris)

We also need foot soldiers for both sides. We'll all probably die, but we will do so honorably... muhahaha

 

[poohlive]

I shall play the heroic Odysseus.

 

[bobo_daclown]

OOC: Ooh, very good... we need a deceptive character to match Paris's cunning way out of battle.

 

[bobo_daclown]

OOC:

Hopefully we can get a Menelaus in here. I will, however offer my services as multiple characters if we can't.

In other words--JOIN IN!!! to all those viewers.

 

[Lord]

Darn

Ims till achillies.rite? neways......damnit i cant remember the army he lead....can u?

 

[bobo_daclown]

He was one of the primary achaean leaders (greek)

 

[poohlive]

I remember that part of the story. Achilles was leading the greek army, and was kicking ass, until one of the gods shot or told one of the trojans about his weakness, and killed him. Then the greeks nearly...
That is, until Odysseus' little genius plan.

 

[bobo_daclown]

Yeah I ... err Paris ... has the obligation to cowardly fire a arrow thatta way.

The way I see it... as long as Philoctetes doesn't fight, I'm okay though... because it is prophesized that Herekles's bow must fight in the war, and Philoctetes inherited Herekles's bow when he became a god.

Luckily, Philoctetes (you remember him as the saytr in Disney's Hercules) is stranded on an island since he was injured and now his open, oozing wound won't heal... and it stinks really (really, really, really) bad.

 

[poohlive]

Actually, the story I read, which was the anthology of Homer's Illiad and Oddessy both say that Odysseus was the one who inherited Herakles's bow.
In fact, it's part of a entire chapter in the Oddessy where Odysseus goes to the afterlife and sees Herakles there, or part of him(it says that the human part of Herkles died and went to the afterlife, and the god part went up to Olympus). And they both look at each other, the shadow of the bow with Herakles, and the bow itself with Odysseus.

 

[bobo_daclown]

RE: Herekles's bow

Philoctetes comes into the story at the moment when Heracles 1 was about to die. Heracles 1, having abandoned all hope, ascended the pyre. And resting there he asked every one who passed by or came up to see him, to put torch to the pyre. But no one wished to obey him, until Philoctetes came by. And for having the disposition to comply with his wishes, Philoctetes received as a gift the bow and arrows of Heracles 1 and then lighted the pyre.

Years after the death of Heracles 1, the seducer Paris came to Sparta and abducted, with or without her consent, Queen Helen, taking her to Troy. And because of this, a powerful fleet and army gathered in Aulis in order to sail against that city and claim Helen back. And among the ACHAEAN LEADERS who joined the coalition who fought in the Trojan War, was Philoctetes, lord of Olizon, Meliboea, and other Thessalian places. For he, as many other leaders, had sworn the Oath of Tyndareus

Philoctetes contributed with seven warships to the alliance but, as it will be soon seen, he did not reach Troy until much later.... And while they were offering to the god, a water-snake came out from the altar and bit Philoctetes.

In any case the wound caused by the snake proved to be incurable, and the stench which it produced was so difficult to endure, that the commander in chief of the army Agamemnon decided to get rid of Philoctetes....

This is how Philoctetes, instead of fighting at Troy, spent many years in Lemnos, using the deadly weapon he had received from Heracles 1, not to slay Trojans but instead to shoot birds in the wilderness which he turned into meals in order to survive. For the army abandoned him setting out but a few rags, as though for a beggar, and leaving very little food.

So in the tenth year the seer Calchas declared that the city would be taken if the Achaeans had the bow and arrows of Heracles 1 fighting on their side. However, some have said that this prophecy was uttered by the Trojan seer Helenus 1 when he was captured by Odysseus.

See http://hsa.brown.edu/~maicar/Philoctetes.html

 

[poohlive]

Good interpretation, but you didn't finish the transcript did you Bobo....
Here's the rest, just for you.

When the Greeks were on their way to Troy Philoctetes was bitten by a snake which caused a festering wound. Because of the smell of the wound, the rest of the Greeks abandoned him, with the bow, on the island of Lemnos. Odysseus is said to have been the instigator (in Ajax's speech, Ovid, Metamorphoses, 13) or to have abandoned him on the orders of Agamemnon (Apollodoros, Epit. 3.27).

Towards the end of the war, the Greek seer Kalchas prophesied that Troy could only be taken with Herakles' bow. Odysseus therefore went back to Lemnos and tricked Philoktetes into coming back to Troy with him. Philoktetes' wound was eventually cured and the bow used to kill Paris.


So, I was half right. It was Oddyseus who brought the bow to the war, but you were right on who the owner of the bow actually was.

 

[Lord]

Achillies

Bah, lets begin this rpg......

 

[bobo_daclown]

My name is Paris, I am the ruler of a little town named Troy: perhaps you've heard of it.

I remember this summer, I took a cruise around the Mediterranean Sea, and specifically around Greece. I saw the island named Ithaca and Odysseus's mighty castle. At Crete, I saw a dying king. Finally, at Sparta, a gentleman named Menelaus hosted me at his beautiful ranch house.

When the king at Crete finally did die, that eunic Menelaus rode off to see the funeral. I did what any guest would do....

Helen sure had some supressed sexuallity from years wed to a castrated man. Well, as my cruise was to set sail I killed one of my waiters to make room for Helen.

We traveled across the Aegean Sea eastward, back to Troy.

Would you believe it: Menelaus and those damn Achaeans (sounds like {{ah*kay*shuns}} = Greeks) followed us back to my place and laid siege to my flourishing city?

OOC: I think my post from before... this one--is a fine beginning