What, exactly,
are we doing? I haven't seen many people argue with the idea of going south, so are we all agreed that we should head south after we cross the obstacle that is the Great River, or does someone disagree and want to expand on why (other than what has already been said)?
Speaking of which, do the majority of people still want to cross the river at Larathor? Or has anyone changed their mind/come up with a better idea?
I, personally, still favor going north and trying to find a way to swim/ford the river. That, of course, has the disadvantage of taking longer to go down south into the larger cities, but I don't know if we'd be able to wave down a boat, and hitting another city is probably not a good idea. I've already said my bit on that, though. The only new thing I've thought of regarding that is whether our mother is influential enough to push for our retrieval, and if she's (over)protective enough to try it. (Finding a potentially powerful artifact that could help with the war efforts has to have earned her some brownie points with the Council, even if we were the ones to originally "stumble" across it.) Then again, elves don't seem to have much in the way of organized law enforcement... hm. Something to ponder.
In any case, I'm interested in seeing how the votes going so far, so I'm going to go ahead and tally them up. Feel free to correct me if I miscounted something; I confused myself multiple times here so I probably made several mistakes or misconstrued what you meant. I've also included votes from people who reacted positively to an idea, but didn't actually commit to choosing it over something else, so correct me if I'm wrong to assume on that count. Anyways, here's the votes so far:
Cross the river now: bombzero, Phantom of the Library, etc.- 16
-Cross using the rope: fergus, racnor, Felius- 3
-Bluff it: forsaken1111- 1
-Paddle across/Log it: MikaTheCrazy, The Alchemist, GlyphGryph, Lord Allagon- 4
--Run it: racnor, ibot66- 2
--Bearstraction (I think this plan is nonviable now, but I'll count it up anyways): lockman766, Grek, Baneling, Ancre, Felius, Ehndras, - 6
---Night crossing: lockman766, (someone else)- 2
---Day crossing (waterproofing first): Grek, Felius, racnor, Baneling, Lord Allagon, MikaTheCrazy, The Alchemist, GlyphGryph, ibot66- 9
Go north and find a better place to cross: Deep Waters, Draigh, Cellmonk, RAM, Angle, NoahTophatz- 6
Go south and wave down a boat: 0
Go south until you get to another town: 0
Go north and hug the mountains, avoiding everything and everyone until you get to the elven homelands: Draigh- 1
Go south and into the big cities, searching the libraries for information about necromancy: 7
-Sell mana potions to the Order wizards: racnor, Ehndras, Deep Waters, Lord Allagon- 4
-Become a butcher: GlyphGryph?, Ehndras?, bombzero?- 3
Spam zombies: [I couldn't actually seem to find anyone who really wanted an undead army versus a golem one... zomgolems, yeah, but no focusing on the undead. Did I miss anybody, or is a mostly-zombie army really that unpopular?]- 0
Focus on golems: adwarf, lockman766, Cellmonk, Grek, Elvisdogs?, EveryZig?, Ehndras?, Angle?, The Alchemist?, Mythril Leaf?, Draigh, bombzero- 12
Since this is a much older issue than the others, I've included votes from users that may not even be paying attention to this topic anymore. Tell me if there's anyone you haven't seen around here lately and therefore should be excluded.
Forgive me if I'm being presumptuous, Monk, I just really want to know in what direction we're heading right now. ^^;