I think my first post needs to be changed, because I got confused and said that we were going to Bree, when actually we're going to Rivendell (as far as we know). I'd be very greatful if Pio would change that for me.

I did the same, please edit my first post too Pio.
Thanks and cheers! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

--Fool Of A Took [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Thanks Nil. Im sure the timeline will be useful for everyone in the game.

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 11:02 AM January 18, 2004: Message edited by: Phervasaion ]

Indeed! Thank you, Nil.

dragoneyes and Fool of a Took

The references are changed.

Chocolate - good chocolate - will be accepted in payment! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Bringing this forward:

Game Plot… I hope it is ok. If any of you have problems with it or would like to add anything please feel free to PM me.

First Meeting (Done)

Dwarves warn the group

• Ivy Burrows (ElenCala Isil) finds out from dwarves about the hungry Orc troops and Wargs, she then tells Melody.
• Other player’s posts can be about feelings and worry. You could be excited, nervous, scared anything really.

Emergency meeting

• Ivy and Melody call an emergency meeting but no one knows what this meeting is about (not even Tom).
• So I will need posts about this. How are you feeling about this sudden change. I will need arguments too. Whether or not to go on the journey at all.
• Then at this meeting it is decided that they will set out to Bree instead.

Going Away Party

• The night before the hobbits set out family and loved ones will throw a small farewell party. Only small because of food supplies.

Hobbit set out to Bree

Journey There

• Being followed by Wargs.
• Other dangers can be made up on the way there.

The Arrival at Bree

• Collect food and other needed supplies.

Set out from Bree

• Now remember they have wagons of food, which will weigh them down. Maybe we could have posts of complaints etc.

Spotting of Orcs

The Orc Battle

• Many will die.
• Only a few will survive.

Home sweet home

• The few survivors make it home with the needed supplies so it’s a bittersweet arrival.

~Niluial [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Well my post is up.

Thanks Pio for changing the posts, that will be a truck load of chocolate for you [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img].

Gorbadic and Phervasaion please check your PM's... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

~Niluial

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 12:13 PM January 18, 2004: Message edited by: Niluial ]

Greetings All,

I will not be on the net until Friday or Saturday evening because school has started again and it is a new grade. Today was my first day at this new school and I am already sitting with 3 assignments, so I will be back soon. Sorry I couldn’t tell you sooner, my computer was giving me problems.

If something very serious happens (doubt it) email me at niluial@hotmail.com because all emails get sent to my cellphone, but please only if there is an emergency.

All posts can be about Emergency meeting or before the meeting!

Best Wishes,
Niluial

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 1:08 PM January 21, 2004: Message edited by: Niluial ]

Ive noticed that this game isnt very active. Wha' Happned. C'mon post.

dragoneyes, Elentari, Oro

Check your PM's please.

~*~ Pio

It looks as if in Fool of a Took's last post that the Hobbits now know they can't go to Rivendell because of what the Dwarf told ElenCalaIsil's character.

Can all of you perhaps post a little on this predicament and make suggestions on where you might go instead. You'll need to pick Bree in the end, but that doesn't mean you can't think up other places.

And when someone makes a suggestion, others can bring up why that might not work. And of course, there is now the added fright of hungry wargs and orcs on the loose that can be discussed.

Does this sound OK?

sounds fine to me ill do that right now actually.

I was really waiting for someone to perhaps tell the people outside of the house what's going on, or can my character's dad magically know about this new meeting? We need some kind of message sent out or how can the rest of us know?

Can you include that in your post - that a message was sent out?

Ok guys my mom is letting me on the net for a while, not long though. Ok I am going to be working on a post which will be up by tomorrow. The post will just guide you and help you a bit. Something to get the meeting started and the journey on track. I am sorry for not being here much but it is the first week of school.

Best Wishes,
Niluial

Ok my post is finally up, sorry it took so long!

Posts from here can be about worry, feelings and excitement for the party and maybe even for the journey!

~Niluial [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

I will post either today or tomorrow on how old Hob is faring, but most likely tomorrow because there has been a death in the family recently and it has resulted in most nights being spent with family eating dinner and talking long into the night.

But as soon as I get the chance I shall post, I've got the idea in my head, it just needs to be written.

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 12:21 PM January 24, 2004: Message edited by: dragoneyes ]

I would have posted this weekend but ive been away and only just got back. I'll have to get a post started tomorrow and it should be up tuesday evening at the latest.

sory i havent posted all weekend,I got in trouble because of school. I'll post soon enough though.

Ok its fine just try and get posts in soon… thanks!
~Niluial [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Ok well I am working on a post. It will be about Melody and Tom, packing and the start of the party! Thanks for posting. My post will be up latest Friday!

~Nilly [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

Hi everyone!

Just thought I should post this, as it'll come in handy when we reach Bree:

I can't remember the exact quote (shame on me! I'll post it when I find it!), but it say's some where that the Shire is essentialy a colony of Bree, so however strange Shire folk think Bree is, Breelanders would probably thing them stranger, and maybe even say something about how they left, and couldn't take care of themselves. This would probably be stronger than in Tolkien's books, because at the time, the Shire would be relatively new...

Just my thoughts, I hope they were helpful. Does anyone else remember where there was something writen concerning the matter? I'll try to find it, but right now I should really be doing school work... [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

My post will really be up in a few hours. I just need to make a few corrections! The post will skip to the evening of the party! Well see you then…

Come on Nilly. You said your post would be up last night [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] .

Teleri

The Shire was not really a colony of Bree, that is Bree didn't think of it as England thought of the American colonies.

But, in 1601, Argeleb II, 10th High King of Arthedain at Fornost, granted land beyond the Baranduin River to the many Periannath who migrated there. The peoples of Bree and the land where the Shire was founded was under the King of Arthedain's dominion.

You can find a short reference to this in RotK; Appendix B and a longer one in the Prologue to FotR - Concerning Hobbits.

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 3:54 PM February 02, 2004: Message edited by: piosenniel ]

Ok guys we need to start getting the party posts in so we can start the journey! So please try and get them in ASAP.

Elentari you are going to have to post sometime soon or be killed off [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

Enjoy your day,
~Niluial [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 2:23 PM February 03, 2004: Message edited by: Niluial ]

Elentari and Niluial -

Please check your PM's.

Pio, Game Mod

Hi. I've finally posted! Sorry I didn't post earlier... *runs away from angry Nilly & Pio*

I have come down with a cold, so I am not sure when I will be back on, Sunday the latest! Please get posts in, my party post will be in on Sunday and the setting out for the journey post on Monday, till then enjoy your weekend.

~Niluial

P.S. Thanks Elentari!

Oro -

Please fill in the save you put up on 2/5.

We like to see them filled in within 24 hours in the Shire.

Thanks! (You also need to clear your PM's)

~*~ Pio

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 2:45 AM February 08, 2004: Message edited by: piosenniel ]

Gorbadic

It has been 16 days since you last posted on 1/23.

A lapse of 2 weeks without posting and without an explanation on the discussion thread means that you have forfeited your participation in the game.

Your character can now be carried by the other gamers as they wish.

~*~ Piosenniel, Shire Moderator

Bwah...I'm sorry about that. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

I've filled my save now anyhow, so Daisy is ready to go [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Since the game has lost one of its Hobbits - Gorbadic, I am going to fill the Hobbit spot.

Here's my character bio, and post is now up on the game for Madoc.
_____________________________________________

NAME: Madoc Willow – second cousin to Gorbadic Willow

AGE: 37

RACE: Hobbit

GENDER: Male

WEAPONS: Stout blackthorn walking stick; sling with a small pouch of rounded rocks for missiles; small knife used for skinning coneys

APPEARANCE: Of average height for a Hobbit of his age, brown curly hair, and brown eyes. Normally a quite stout Hobbit, he has grown lean during the extended winter. His clothes hang loosely on him; brown breeches, homespun shirt, black vest, and a worn, ankle length dark brown cloak.

PERSONALITY/STRENGTHS/WEAKNESSES: He is an even dispositioned lad, easy to be around, except for the fact he likes to play practical jokes. In these hard times, tempers are short and Madoc has been careful not to push his friends and neighbors too far. He is an excellent hunter and has a green thumb when it comes to his garden. Often shares the surplus of his hunting ventures and the garden with his neighbors. Unfortunately, there is little game to hunt and the soil so frozen that nothing will grow. He has a tin whistle on which he can passably play a number of favorite Shire tunes. And is a fair dancer, especially after a pint or two.

HISTORY: Born and raised in Tuckburrough. His Da passed away just last month, caught a cold that settled in his lungs and never recovered. Food was scarce as were medicinal herbs, and the poor man just faded away. Since then, Madoc has taken care of his aging Mother, Pearl, and his younger sister, Prisca, who is thirty five. Their pantry is growing quite bare and Madoc has found himself ranging farther and farther afield for what game he can find.

He has heard of the expedition being got up to venture to Bree for supplies and wishes to go along.

_____________________________________________

Off to Bree, then!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

That you Pio so much for filling the position!! Welcome to the game [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

~Niluial

ANNOUNCEMENT
 

Note to All Players

The move to the new board restored all your signatures to previous game posts.

Don’t bother fixing them!

Just remove signatures from the new posts you place on the game.

~*~ Pio, Shire Mod

Alas for Gorbadic, but thank'ee Pio for filling in.

I have been infested with a terrible illness over the last few days, and have been constantly pestered with state testing. (curse the US o' A) But, I should get a post up soon enough as those tests are over for the time being. :rolleyes:

PARTY POSTS
 

Can everyone whose character is going to attend the farewell party please do a post by the end of the weekend.

The Hobbits should really be on the road soon toward Bree by the start of next week.

Thanks!

Pio, Game Moderator

Just put one up Pio. Its good to have you on the game. I havn't seen alot of Nilly lately, anyone know where she's been?

Bringing this forward:

Game Plot… I hope it is ok. If any of you have problems with it or would like to add anything please feel free to PM me.

1.) First Meeting (DONE)


2.) Dwarves warn the group (DONE)

• Ivy Burrows (ElenCala Isil) finds out from dwarves about the hungry Orc troops and Wargs, she then tells Melody.
• Other player’s posts can be about feelings and worry. You could be excited, nervous, scared anything really.

3.) Emergency meeting (DONE)

• Ivy and Melody call an emergency meeting but no one knows what this meeting is about (not even Tom).
• So I will need posts about this. How are you feeling about this sudden change. I will need arguments too. Whether or not to go on the journey at all.
• Then at this meeting it is decided that they will set out to Bree instead.

4.) Going Away Party (NEARLY DONE)

• The night before the hobbits set out family and loved ones will throw a small farewell party. Only small because of food supplies.

5.) Hobbits set out to Bree


6.) Journey There

• Being followed by Wargs.
• Other dangers can be made up on the way there.

7.) The Arrival at Bree

• Collect food and other needed supplies.

8.) Set out from Bree

• Now remember they have wagons of food, which will weigh them down. Maybe we could have posts of complaints etc.

9.) Spotting of Orcs


10.) The Orc Battle

• Many will die.
• Only a few will survive.

11.) Home sweet home

• The few survivors make it home with the needed supplies so it’s a bittersweet arrival.

Anyone feel free to talk to Hob, I don't mind at all who.

Also, would it be terribly wrong of me to ask that the word 'okay' be removed from the hobbit's vocabulary as it irks me and I don't think it's very, well, middle-earthy.