02-21-2006, 10:46 PM | #941 |
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I just went and read the newest posts... still laughing, cracked a few ribs, and before I go into surgery for them, Udu and Lady Marion, that was too hilarious. Especially, Udu's one. and the Bi-centenial bathroom break, of course. Brilliant *wipes tears of laughter of face*
Rian, cool, you'll have a fight scene as well! Nice post, some angst seeping back in, after all the happy swimming post, I see.
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02-22-2006, 07:40 AM | #942 | |
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02-22-2006, 12:26 PM | #943 |
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Serenoli, the only thing is, is that it means me completley rewriting my last post. I'd prefer it if there was an easier way.
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02-22-2006, 01:52 PM | #944 |
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Oh, TD, what is the problem? Make the last post shorter, but you will have half of the next one ready!
Udu, Great sarcastic post! LMM, ingenious way to wriggle out of it and have your way no matter what. We shall see what Udu says. |
02-22-2006, 03:50 PM | #945 | |
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02-22-2006, 03:53 PM | #946 |
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Ok, if you insist. I will edit and post later.
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Then Huor spoke and said: "Yet if it stands but a little while, then out of your house shall come the hope of Elves and Men. This I say to you, lord, with the eyes of death: though we part here for ever, and I shall not look on your white walls again, from you and me a new star shall arise. Farewell!" The Silmarillion, Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Page 230 |
02-22-2006, 04:34 PM | #947 |
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The intent wasn't to wriggle out, but to fix it so that characters apart from Udu's weren't left hanging.
Now that we've got caught up to each other we'll skip to the aftermath.
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Very funny posts, Udu and Maggie! I loved the bi-centennial bathroom break and the flatulent horses
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You guys demand to not be discovered, and the ML in the story tells people to lay low, yet you want to put the main "good" guys with connections and relatives/friends in a torture chamber? How can that possibly work, without reverting to the (IMO) lame device of wiping out memories? And even then, you can hardly wipe out the wounds - those would certainly be noticed! How do you solve that one? OK, in the spirit of the recent funny posts, here's MY funny post. Let's say I give you permission to capture and torture Alagos. Really, when he returns, I don't see any other thing to write but this (given the FOEAD demand to not be discovered): R: Hey, Tyaron, have you seen Alagos around recently? T: Come to think of it, Rian, he's been missing a week or so. Oh well. I apparently just didn't notice. R: Do you think we should, like, maybe look for him or notify the authorities? T: Why in the world should we do that? We might discover something! R: Oh, yeah - right! A: Hi, Rian and Tyaron, I'm home! R: Ewww! Why are you limping and covered in blood? Where is your nose? And what is that awful smell of burned flesh? Yuck! A: Oh, I was captured and tortured. T: Oh, OK - well, grab me a can of coke out of the icebox, willya? Your deal, Rian. A: Do you want to investigate or notify the authorities or warn the populace or anything? T: Why would we do that? That would be reasonable and intelligent, and we're not reasonable or intelligent! A: True .... R: Hey, are you in on this hand or not, Alagos? A: Deal me in! See, guys, torture is NOTICEABLE, and we keep hearing from you guys that you don't want to be found out! So it seems that the only way is to use your own characters, or some travelling salesperson character like I suggested. Quote:
Udu, I'm willing to give Alagos or Tyaron to you to torture, if you really want to, but only if you can explain how I can NOT end up having to make a post like the one above. Or option 2 - You can say that in an rpg, we shouldn't know ahead of time what will happen - sure, I can go with that, but only if YOU GUYS don't object when I notify authorities and a massive search is started, turning everything upside down and putting everyone on alert to notice anything unusual, because that's what any reasonable person would do. I'm TOTALLY willing to work with you here, but because of the nature of this rpg and the demands from the FOEADs that things be kept quiet and undiscovered, we're gonna have to come up with something ahead of time, don't you think? Let me know if I'm missing something here. I like writing posts with you, and I think we could work together.
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02-22-2006, 05:00 PM | #949 |
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We don't mind being "found out," Rian. No one has gone about legitimately trying to "find us out," either. Have you? Where is a post from you wherein an elf of yours actively pursues a hunch, if one exists in said characters, about any ONE of the Nine? Where? Have you written one? Has anyone written one? Butterbeer was on the right track when he initiated the Melwen investigation, when he created investigators that were willing to follow clues. Oreturion exists; why doesn't he follow hunches? But it has to be reasonable. Nazgul have certain powers that the average Middle-earthian does not possess; therein lies the fun of playing one, and the reason why they are so terrifying. But at the same time, how many powerful Elcves are here in the story, too? A lot. What's preventing any one of them to excercise THEIR Tolkien-Canon powers of observation and divination? Nothing. Now, talking swords do NOT exist. A horse CAN be conditioned to accept a Nazgul rider. There ARE animal spies always working for the bad guys in Tolkien's work. At the same time, we have Galadriel's mirror, elven insight, etcetera. The elves belong to whomever decided to write them in this RPG; it is the player's responsibility to research what powers and strengths are available to their character and use them as they need or want to.
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02-22-2006, 05:08 PM | #950 |
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02-22-2006, 05:18 PM | #951 |
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Bring it on! (It's about time)
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
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02-22-2006, 05:21 PM | #953 |
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OK, my WWF post has been posted - it was fun! Constructive criticism welcomed - I've never written a fight scene before.
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
02-22-2006, 05:24 PM | #954 |
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Then don't write scenes on front porches, surrounded by houses. Write them in enclosed areas, Rian. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure that one out. You couldn't have your confrontation inside? How many TIMES have all of us in this damn RPG gone over that, while it was being written?
SO - Valandil has Turin's sword? I didn't know that; how'd he come upon Turin's sword? "Our Side" has not requested that "your Side" not try to legitimately find us out, Rian. Talking swords is ridiculous; might as well have a crystal ball. Maybe the problem is that some of the writer/players with characters on the FOGAL side just lack an abundance of imagination and/or the courage to come up with sound, Canon-proof and LEGITIMATELY CREATIVE ways to write their stuff. You sound like a broken record, when you go on and on that the FOEAD writers requested that the FOGAL writers not "find them out." Use your imagination, and avail yourselves of the myriad of Canon-sound powers at your collective disposal. That's what some of the FOEAD writers do, and very well I might add. As do some of the FOGAL writers, but still no one has been brave enough to come up to and try and follow or be interested in a Nazgul as actually perhaps being a Nazgul, and not just a student or Chancellor, or vixen.
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02-22-2006, 05:28 PM | #955 |
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Chill ladies. We all know why things have or have not been written, we've been over it a thousand times.
What say we three head over to the tea-cup for some calming drinks and start thinking about ways to make up for lost time on the investigation front?
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! Last edited by Rían : 02-22-2006 at 08:55 PM. |
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What do you guys think? edit - anyway, now that the PETA lawyers are on to your side, you don't have a chance!
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! Last edited by Rían : 02-22-2006 at 08:53 PM. |
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02-22-2006, 09:46 PM | #958 |
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To all concerned with the dungeon scenario - let me know if you want any edits.
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02-22-2006, 09:54 PM | #959 |
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any response to the PETA lawyer, or is he already dead in a ditch somewhere?
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
02-22-2006, 10:12 PM | #960 |
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Udu, why can't they all speak with one another? Why are Buz and Viv being relegated? Why is it that for the six months or whatever that I have been in this RPG that I cannot seem to get it through any of my FOEAD brethren's heads that unity works better than irrational, mean-spirited disunity? And why does Buz and Viv have to be treated like s*** by their peers, for coming in with good intent, NOT to destroy or torture either Khamul or Udu, but to help Lilly in her pain and talk and or fight with Khamul and Udu as EQUALS, EQUALS ALL, O.K., with the Second only getting a bit more say & power as he is second to the ML but he is NOT the ML himself. So why do you shut my two guys up, and only take speaking to Tolvadok seriously? Why couldn't all of us talk, huh?
WHY DID YOU BIND AND SILENCE MY CHARACTERS? We are on the same side, Udu. Man, I give up. I just give up at this point. That's it. I'm just going to hang back and watch, from this point out. Kill my Viv and Buz, why don't you. Go right ahead. It's just as distressing to me to have my characters shunted aside and silenced and tortured like they were common failures and lowly nothings, then to kill them and take their whole spirits and bodies outright. [Offensive material edited out - Eärniel]
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