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11-21-2008, 04:00 PM
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Realizing that I would be the first to break my no-longer-than-two-weeks-between-posts rule if I didn't get up something soon, I made a post ...
(to be replaced hopefully later today with something a bit more appropriate  )
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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 Ã¥ â„¢ 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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11-21-2008, 10:03 PM
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Not quite up to your usual standard of long and well-thought-out posts
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11-21-2008, 10:31 PM
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.... (argh computer problems - I'm trying to make a laughing face but it keeps editing it!)
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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 Ã¥ â„¢ 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 RÃan : 11-21-2008 at 10:32 PM. |
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11-21-2008, 10:49 PM
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Whole new meaning to the idea of 'elven scouts'.
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"5. Plain Rings with RUNES on the inside. Avoid these like the PLAGUE.-Diana Wynne Jones Tough Guide To FantasyLand ...it's not much of a show if somebody doesn't suffer, and preferably at length. Suffering is beautiful in any case, and so is anguish; but as for loathing, and bitterness... I don't think they belong on the stage at all. - Isabella, I Gelosi |
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11-22-2008, 01:34 PM
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"elven scouts" - Oh, that's perfect!!! And I missed it!!! I was trying to think of a Girl Scout name with Havens or something in it, and I completely missed Elven Scouts!
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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 Ã¥ â„¢ 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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11-22-2008, 08:45 PM
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I think this joke is good enough that we should keep it.
Leave that post up, Rian, work the Elven Scouts into it, and add a new post with more suitable content later. Subject to the approval of the threadmaster, of course 
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11-23-2008, 03:25 AM
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I second that motion. Keep the joke!
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11-24-2008, 03:39 PM
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I love humor, so let's keep 'em!
As a tidy game-master, though, I'll ask that we bracket these fun posts with "joke post" at the beginning, and "now returning to our regularly-scheduled RPG" at the end, or something like that. Bring 'em on! I love a good laugh
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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 Ã¥ â„¢ 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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11-24-2008, 03:42 PM
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Some thoughts as I try to compose a real post ...
We'll have to watch sleep references, and avoid human-type sleeping styles. I think Earniel and I fell into a bit of that with our sleeping at the forge overnight kind of thing ... do we need any edits? What do you guys think? How long do elves need to pack? If H. has something going at the forge he has to finish, we need to allow some time for that. I always had the feeling that elves just kinda pick up and go, but I suppose they have commitments ... I think I'll just make a vague kind of leaving time to avoid problems.
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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 Ã¥ â„¢ 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 RÃan : 11-24-2008 at 03:45 PM. |
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11-24-2008, 04:15 PM
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So if we keep the post, does that mean Hallindel is suckered into buying cookies?
I am aware of sleeping for Elves didn't quite go as sleeping for Men, but I do think even Tolkien's Elves needed to actually sleep some times. Some of the Elves in the Silmarillion had prophetic dreams, so for dreaming, they must have some method of sleeping! I always supposed they could go longer without sleep, and were more able to do lucid dreaming. As for the leaving of Mithlond, we can always just put our Elves on the road after a small time-jump of say a week or two. They can then remember or consider in their minds all the things done before the leaving, like goodbyes, or dealing with previous commitments, getting leave, etc...
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11-25-2008, 03:42 AM
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Who wouldn't be suckered into buying cookies from two such adorable elflings?
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11-25-2008, 01:49 PM
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RÃ*an, may I request a small edit for Halweg? He's not really a dreamy type, and while he was a bit surprised at first by the speed of Hallindel's planning for the journey, he should have adapted to the idea by now. He would be focussed and would no doubt bring up the matter during dinner, to ask both ladies what they, or Alagos and Tyaron had in mind as destination for the trip. He would intend to be involved in any further planning.
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11-25-2008, 05:46 PM
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Of course you may request one
I'll get rid of that bit, and in fact, I"m going to trash the whole post! - I'm very unhappy with it. I think I have an hour now; I"m gonna give it a shot.
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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 Ã¥ â„¢ 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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11-25-2008, 05:49 PM
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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 Ã¥ â„¢ 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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11-25-2008, 06:23 PM
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Eh, finally got this bear of a post edited and out of the way - you threw me a loop, Earniel, when you set up a conversation! I was planning to just have them leave for the next post. Of course, since I sent Alariel out the door towards Hallindel, I should have expected it.
Let me know if I need any edits for Hallindel, please IIRC, you said she was quite young when she left and didn't remember much.Onward!
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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 Ã¥ â„¢ 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 RÃan : 11-25-2008 at 06:25 PM. |
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11-25-2008, 06:41 PM
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Oops, sorry.
Didn't mean to put you in a tight spot, I thought you had a plan for the conversation when Alariel came over. No edits needed. Hallindel would have been in her teenage years, young for elves, but old enough to have some memories, but I think she might just want to hear about Gondolin again, whether she remembers it well or not. Some stories never get old, you know?
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11-25-2008, 06:44 PM
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So you skipped the whole 'dinner party'?
Well, if you weren't happy with it ... I think it's good that Gondolin gets mentioned explicitly, as that is what was meant to be the inspiration for the whole story, as it were.
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I had never thought of it as a lead-in to a conversation, but that's just what it looked like, of course. Anyway, that's why these RPGs are interesting - ya never know what's coming! Quote:
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11-26-2008, 06:47 PM
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Oh, very nice! I like it
foot surgery is scheduled for a week from tomorrow - my goal will be to get them on the road before that.
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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 Ã¥ â„¢ 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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