Barrow-Downs Birthday Party at the Fields of Cormallen

[Samwise]

*At that moment, Primrose comes running over. Sam's jaw drops as he notes the array of jewels around her neck*
Sam: Tiny Rose, where'd you get those jools?

Primrose: *Shrugs* An elf gave them to me for knocking down a "nasty thing" that was chasing him. *Looks around* Where'd Mister Frodo go?

Stacey: *Shakes her head* I don't know, but he generally always finds us again...what's going on?

Primrose: Eh...not sure.

[ May 24, 2002: Message edited by: Samwise ]

[Rose Cotton]

READ THIS POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
READ THIS POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


(There has been some confusing plots going on so I'm hoping this might get us all straight again)


Whether the people at the party have, wanted to or didn't want to go through the REG created vortex is not an option anymore.

Because suddenly the vortex expands. It swallows up all the parters and throws them into passages of time and space. All activies are interupted as it is hard to do much when you are spinning through space.

But where will we all come out?

What will happen when we do?

Where is Child?

Where is the REG?
???????????????????????????????????????????

[Veritas]

(This message is not in th story-line)

Yeah, I don't understand it, I was in a Votrex, whatever that's supposed to be, and I thought we were back, but Sam said not and AAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAH! I'm going crazy! Please, please help me us everybody, this is realy f*cked up!

[Samwise]

I did? OOP. Didn't mean to....Never mind the message above! Pleasee go about your general buisness, whatever that may be! [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

(A minute later) Okay, message edited. Hope that helps.
[img]smilies/confused.gif[/img]

[ May 24, 2002: Message edited by: Samwise ]

[Losthuniel]

Celeaewen was walking through a timless space between worlds, looking for Veritas, so she could relive her of the burden of her head, when a rather heavy something fell on her. it was Rosseiliantiel.
" welll that wasnt very smart, Cel, jumping into a big dark, spinning vortex."
Celeaewen looked at her " yet another case of you not being able to talk"
" thats my line!"
Celeaewen smirked " i know"
they wandered aimlessly through the void, looking for any sign of intelligent life, seeing as the elves considered each other not of that highly priveleged category. they wandered for some time, until they came upon a group of people. there was on thing that was slightly odd about them-"there sitting on nothing!" Celeaewen was indeed, right.
" so are we, dumb@$$"
"oh"
they regonized many people from the party (well, Celeaewen did. Rosseiliantiel wasnt there for very long) there was a great shouting match going on, at the center seemed to be the issue of a missing hobbit, and the wayward REG, which no doubt, was very pleased. the elves, seeing nothing for it, joined the fray

[ May 24, 2002: Message edited by: Losthuniel ]

[Losthuniel]

*message not part of storyline* explain to me xactly wat is going on, and xactly WHERE the bloody H*ll we are. plz. cuz i just went to all the trubble of the above post [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

[Rosseiliantiel]

*<not part of plot, this is a message 4 Celeaewen> Basically, we've all been sucked in2 a void, but u knew that, didn't u? frankly, i don't really know*

[ May 24, 2002: Message edited by: Rosseiliantiel ]

[Rose Cotton]

(Not part of story)
What I tried to do was no matter where you were in this messed up story you are now all, including me, in a vortex being pulled somewhere. Make sence?

[Belin]

This much is clear to her, anyway: Belin lies on the ground, gasping in relief. The terrifying, chair-wielding manifestation of Birdie is elsewhere. Rose is here, also lying on the ground after being knocked over from out of nowhere by VanimaEdhel, who seems to have gone elsewhere.

Rose is asking questions.

Belin groans, turning her head to stare blankly at Rose. She hit her head in the fall and isn't at her most lucid (however lucid that may be), although the chair seems to have hit Veritas instead of her. "Ughhh," she says, thoughtfully.

Celeaewen, at any rate, seems to have forgotten about her, for which she is grateful. Irritating as it is to be put to sleep by Veritas, there are more important things to worry about.

For instance, the void seems to have sucked everyone in, or at least, that's what she thinks Rose is saying. "Good," she thinks vaguely, "that means I don't have to stand up." She wonders briefly what it is that she's lying on--she must not really be lying down at all-- but gives this up for an unworkable conundrum.

Rose is still asking questions.

"I don't have it," Belin mumbles. She thinks about the REG and its recent activities. "Good riddance," she decides. "No wonder everyone's confused." Hopefully Child can explain all this once she gets rescued.

She decides to add another question to the bristling legion of them: What, exactly, has happened to Mithadan?

[ May 25, 2002: Message edited by: Belin ]

[VanimaEdhel]

Menelduliniel looks around, not in the Vortex.

Suddenly, she sees something. She pushes her husband, Legolas, out of the way and sprints through the woods, and stops in a clearing.

"Yrch!" she whispers, "Would I that the others were here, but...they are not, so..."

Menelduliniel prepares for battle...

[VanimaEdhel]

Menelduliniel gets out of her party dress and into her mithril battle armor. She gets out her daggers, Tinuithil and Tinuanar (the burning blade: burns flesh other than mine when it touches it) draws them and prepares for battle. She also grabs her bow and quivor of arrows.

She slips through the woods, and fires a few shots into the orcs. As they look around, she sneaks up and fights them.

She gets slashed across the leg, but keeps fighting.

Soon, 30 Orcs lie on the ground. Menelduliniel looks around, seeing Legolas in the tree with his bow and arrows. She nods to him, not too happy that he helped, but...putting up with it, and stalks towards camp, happy that she got to fight.

[Samwise]

Primrose:*Looking around at the swirling vortex* Eh--what happened?

Sam: I--DON'T know, Tiny Rose...

Stacey: Ai... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] *Pulls up her sleeve, revealing an odd-looking communicator/teleporter thing on her wrist that looks like it came out of an old Sid & Marty Kroft show (which it did). *Reaches out and grabs Sam's hand* Sam, grab Primrose.
When he does, Stacey pushes a red button on the side of the device, and the three disappear from the vortex

[Child of the 7th Age]

Child stared about in disbelief. Things had become very confusing. She had a clear mental picture in her mind--every single soul from the Barrow-downs had been sucked into a vortex. Now this vortex did not look too good. It looked like something she had once read about.

Now, Child was still carrying her annotated copy of the Silm, and when she looked at that volume something in her mind woke up.

Oh, no, this can't be, she sobbed. This isn't the vortex, it's the void. THE VOID!!! Now, she had not been very attentive when she had read the Silm, and, to tell the truth, she hadn't understood a lot of it. (We don't have to tell that to anyone else!) But there was one thing she did remember.......

Someone else was in the void, and that someone was not a creature you would care to meet up with......MORGOTH, MELKOR, whatever.....She was so scared she couldn't even remember how to spell his name.

Child's brain began to click. There were many things she was not good at, but she was good at understanding stories. Think, Child, think. Why are we here? Maybe the red-haired Princess was just an agent of someone like Morgoth? Maybe the newbies were just a plant to get us here?

What would Morgath want with most of the posters? Probably absolutely nothing. But wait, there were one or two he might hold a grudge against. Oh, oh, Sauron was the chief assistant of Morgoth, right???? Now, admittedly, two villains like that would never completely get along but Morgath still might not be thrilled to have seen Sauron go up in smoke.

Oh, dear, I am afraid some of our posters are in big trouble--if your name is Legolas or Gimli or Galadriel, you'd better look out. And if your name is Frodo Baggins or Samwise, you are in even bigger trouble. And if you happen to be Primrose Gamgee, you may be in the biggest trouble of all. The easiest way to attack a father and an honorary uncle is through their little one.

Child felt sick to her stomach. But what happened to me? I'm not in the Void, so where am I? Child had no idea until she turned around and saw the strangest site she had ever seen. For striding up to her, with stars swirling and golden aura, was the figure of Elbereth.

Oh, no. I can't be here. Mortals aren't supposed to be here. I'm gonna die. Wait a minute, I'm already dead. Maybe that's why I can come here .......What am I going to say to her? Child faints dead away!!

[ May 24, 2002: Message edited by: Child of the 7th Age ]

[Samwise]

Stacey/Sam/Primrose: WHOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Thud. Boff! Ugh!

Stacey: *At the bottom of the two hobbits* Erg--could you two get off of me?

Primrose: *Rolls off of her father, who in turn climbs of off Stacey's back and helps her up* What in the name of Middle-Earth is going on here!?!?

Stacey: *Straightens her glasses* Y'got me, Prim.

Sam: *Looks up into the dark sky. Most of it is full of a slowly twisting purple mass, assumedly the vortex they just fell out of. He looks at Stacey's wrist.* What exactly is that contraption, Miss Stacey?

Stacey: *Covering it up again with her sleeve* Ah--to tell you the truth, I forgot what it's called. Let's just say it's what they call in my world "technology"--granted, 1970's technology, but... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

[Losthuniel]

Celeaewen wandered around the Vortex, trying to find someone intelligent to talk to, who was not already engaged in a shouting match. all of a sudden, a burst of colour appeared. it seemd to be the party ground. Celeaewen leapt, thinking it was a way out. how wrong. her nose connected with something solid, even though nothing appeared to be there. she shook her head, and backed up. it seemd to be showing an image. it was of an elf maiden, she was dressed in a beautiful party gown, and was walking through the woods, when she came upon a band of orcs. five minutes later she magically reappered, fully clothed in Mithril armour that would have cost King Elessar his treasury and something besides. Celeaewen shrugged it off, and the fact that the elf maiden had reappered in full plate armour in five minutes, when really the orcs would have had time to lay waste to the enitre party field before she arrived. Celeaewen continued watching with mild interest. she heard the mithril- clad maiden yell something to Legolas, who climbed upa tree as the battle began. he looked uncertain as to wether to shoot the amromued maiden or the orcs. she drew her daggers, and seemed to be laboring under the delusion that they were magical weapons, when Celeaewen, who had learned a bit about magic in her centuries with Galadriel, could see that there were absolutly no runes on them, and that they were ordinary, as ordinary as her own throwing daggers. by some strange Virtue, the maiden managed to sneak up on the orcs, even though she was wearing plate armour. somehow, the elf managed to shoot orcs, knife them, and not get killed, even though they have scimictars, and she hasd 2 knives. yet stranger, the elf got slashed across the leg, EVEN THOUGH she was wearing armour, and did not twich. Celeaewen was shaking with silen laughter when a snort came behind her. it was Rosseil.
" thats an MS and no mistake" Celeaewen nodded. the thing she had seen definitly had the makings of an Mary-Sue. H*ll! it WAS a mary-sue. Celeaewen's train of "thought" was innterupted by a very worried hobbit walking around muttering about "voids"as Celeawen and Rosseil's eyes met and they blached. if child was talking about wat she thought she was talking about, they were all worse than dead.

[Lindolirian]

Lindolirian finally leaves his corner and walks out....

see second page close to the bottom... thats when i come in

[ May 24, 2002: Message edited by: Lindolirian ]

[Samwise]

Primrose: Well, this is definitely sobering.

Sam: To say the least.

Stacey: *Looking at her soiled dress* Well, it seems we're not really needed, here, you two. *Looks up at the swirling vortex* Let's go back to Bag End. I'm a mess.

Sam: [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

Stacey: *Placing a hand on his shoulder* Frodo's okay, Sam--I'm sure he is.

Sam: Okay, Miss Stacey, if you say so.

*The three start walking off the feild in the direction they came*

Stacey: If anyone decides they actually need us, they only need to read this post to find out where we are.

[Losthuniel]

Celeaewen saw the glittering figure aproach Child, and saw her faint dead away. Celeaewen, decided, sensibly, that since she had a certain talent for offending people, having any kind of conversation at all with one of the Valar was DEFINITLY not a good idea, so she broke and ran, trying to find a nice convenient place to hide. seeing as it was a Vortex, aka The Void, incredibly dangerous to ANYONE, Living or Dead, and ever-changeful, there is nowhere to hide but in the mass of people. Celeaewen only hoped that some one with a civil tounge in their head would do the talking. now where in the name of E-wait, best not do that she's right there, Was MITHIDAN?

[Birdland]

After Birdie finishes LOLing through the last page of posts, the confusion (caused by her and Pio's inadvertent dual posts) seems to resolve into:
THE VOID!!

Birdie float/walks in nothingness. Absolute, complete, utter nada. The mother of all Voids Void.

Birdie has heard vague rumors of the Void in the discussion room, but is not real sure just what it is, since she pig-headedly refuses to buckle down and read the Silm. Frantically she pulls out Mithadan's PDA and signs on to her favorite cheat-sheet "The Encyclopedia of Arda"

"Void. Void. Void", she quickly scans the "V's". "It's not here!"

Thinking fast, she swing over to "Google" and types in "Tolkien+Void". The mighty search engine quickly supplies 20 pages of links.

"Let's see...Void...Ilúvatar...singing...Melkor...discord ...DISCORD!...more singing...more Void...more discord!" Birdie gets a sinking feeling in her stomach.

"I'M LOST!!!!"

"Child! Pio! Mithadan! Rose! Primrose! Lidarose! Tuberrose! ANYBODY"

A chair floats slowly by. Other than that, the Void is null.

OK, thinks Birdie, what did Ilúvatar do to get rid of the Void? He sang! That's it! I'll sing!

"Give my regards to Broad-way,
Remember me to Harold Square."

No, No! That can't be right. What to sing? What to sing?

And then softly to her own surprise, Birdie began to sing:

"In western lands beneath the Sun
the flowers may rise in Spring,
the trees may bud, the waters run,
the merry finches sing..."

[Rose Cotton]

Alone.
Completly alone.

Rose stood in the void. She had not relized it was the void because she had only started to read the Sil. But she felt afraid and lost. There was a thretening air about the place.

Then in the distance Rose hears a cry. It sounded like Birdland. She was going to go try to find her when she stopped for a moment.

Why did she want to help Birdie? Wasn't she one of the people ploting to use the REG for ransom? Nomater. They were all in the same boat now. She'd forget what had happed before.

As Rose searched she started to hear singing. Not knowing why Rose started to sing too. Her sweet voice (sorry to brag) in harmony with Birdie's.She felt her tension leave her as she sang:

"In western lands beneath the Sun
the flowers may rise in Spring,
the trees may bud, the waters run,
the merry finches sing..."

[ May 25, 2002: Message edited by: Rose Cotton ]

[Rose Cotton]

Rose kept singing as she tried to find Birdland. She tried to keep her voice as loud as possible. Maybe then others would hear and sing also. Rose didn't understand it, but she felt it would help.

[Rose Cotton]

(Not part of the story)
Yay we're on page 13!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Back to the story)

[piosenniel]

Veritas and pio stood back to back - pio her sword drawn and Veritas brandishing her now blazing staff. The time space continuum had stretched itself out and folded over and rejoined itself like a giant mobius strip. No place to get off. From somewhere near she could hear Birdie singing. It seemed a hopeful song, and pio wondered what phantasms had prompted such a bright refrain in so grey a world. In counterpoint, she heard a harmony echo Birdie's song in a clear small voice. That must be Rosie, she thought.

'Where's Child?', she wondered out loud. Veritas motioned with her free hand toward a small heap just on the other side of the REG. 'Fainted, again?!', she said.

The two surveyed the area as best they could, before putting away their weapons. Stepping toward the now still and silent REG, Veritas prodded it with her staff to see what would happen. It looked normal, and somehow innocent just sitting there, its toggle switches now in the 'off' position.

'Veritas, let's get the laptop hooked back up to the REG and run some diagnostics. I think I see the cable link up dangling from your pocket.'

Once engaged, the REG seemed to develop a low level hum, desafinado, slightly off key. The laptop ran its dignostic check, but could find nothing wrong.

'Oh look!, said pio. 'There's a new ebony icon down there on the left. Looks like a Gate of some sort with the letters DoN inscribed on it. Click on it - let's see what we get.'

'You sure you want to do this?!' said Veritas. 'Remember the last time we clicked on an icon?'

'How much worse could things get?' replied pio. 'Besides, this is still a party, let's have some fun!'

'For an elf, your ideas of fun are very strange -- and dangerous.' pio just smiled and clicked on the icon. A vibrant sable screen appeared with 2 large, locked doors in the center, edged in silver. On each was a large star, and in the center of each star were set gems of pure dazzling light. Below the doors was set a many branched luminescent white tree and at its roots was inscribed the invitation - 'Do You Want To Play?'

Birdie, Rose in tow, and the now awakened Child had made their way to the scene at the laptop. The five looked at each other, and then looked back at the enticing screen. Child, ever the voice of reason, opened her mouth to urge caution. Birdie and Rose leaned toward her as if in agreement.

'Of course, we want to play!' said pio, finger moving toward the enter key. She winked at the others and motioned them nearer with her free hand.

'Click!'

The logo screen for the game came up.

DOORS OF NIGHT

click HERE to open

Such an innocent invitation. How could she refuse the choice.

The sound of that small 'click' was overshadowed by the collective gasp from the remaining four companions, swallowed up in darkness.

****************************
meanwhile, back at the ranch, er. . . um Fields of Cormallen, a small group of expert trackers led by Mithadan were preparing to pursue the REG and its abductors.

[Veritas]

This time it was not a great void they came in, but it was like they landed on antoher planet;It is a village, with big houses, two under one roof, with a small park on the other side of the road.
"This can not be!! This is the place were a lived my childhood!!!" Veritas is screaming.
"No, you're mistaken, this is the place were my school used to be, that building over there!" Pio points at a little field with grass and trees.
"I don't see any school, nor two houses under on roof, this is Minas Tirith!" Child sais.
"Can it be, that we're all seeing something different? My eyes say that this is a forest." Birdie.
"I'm home! I'm home!" Rosie is dancing all over the place.
"No, you're not home, you're seeing an image from your memory." Pio's the first who dares to say what they were all thinking.
"What are we going to do now?"
"Make fun, that's were we came for!" Veritas tries to be a bit optimistic, but she isn't.
"How can you make fun, if you're all seeing different things?"
"If there's a way we came here, than there must be a thing that can take us back, or make that we see all the same."
Pio points at a laptop, the wizard programms it again, an dthey go into the forest of Birdie.

***************
After a while, when the group was in the forest, Mithadan comes to the laptop with a few people...

[Veritas]

After have walked for an hour or two, the Party comes to an old temple, overgrown with plants.

"Is this where we're looking for?" wishpers Child. The place seems to be so quiet and peaceful, they don't dare to talk loud.

Veritas walks over to the entrance, and the rest follows her.
In the tempel hall shines the sun through the high windows, and they see in the middle a grave.

Rose is the first one who talks:"Look, it is the grave of a person; 'Died on fourth Forelith 1119, in the First Age' I can't see wich name." She's wipes with her hand over the stone, but it seems as if the name's distroyed by someone.

"Why would the REG take us her?" Birdland doesn't understand, "And why is the name gone?" She looks around and walks over to a door, hidden after an old curton.
"Come over here, I see a light."
The Party follows her into a little room, only Pio stays by the grave, thinking about who it could be...

In the middle of the small room floats a shining thing in the air.
"It looks like a Silmarill, how strange..." Veritas can not make a clue out of all these things.

"Hé, guys, I think I now who it is!" The elf sais, "Come back, I'll show you."
When the rest of the party just steps into the big hall, Veritas sees a very known face at the entrance of the temple...

"I know who it is as well." Mithadan and it's trackers...

[Losthuniel]

Celeaewen and Rosseil were in a bit of a fix. they were trying desperatly not to be noticed by the shining white figure, and trying not to arouse anything that might be living there. the only thing for it would be to band the remaining party surviovors together and- do nothing and hope that someone found a way out soon. Rosseil and Celeaewen wandred around, looking for other guests. instead, they found the laptop. it was pulsating AGAIN, and there were big black doors on the screen.then Rosseil and Celeaewen did the sensible thing. they broke and ran. as they were running, celeaewen tripped over a little black box-the REG. ROsseil picked it up, and tey ran some distace away from the evil laptop before setting it down and turning it over. Celeaewen's idea was to use the green wire to amuse herself until someone rescued them. Rosseil's ideas were a little more complex, running along the lines of rewiring the REG to take them all home. Celeaewen wrenched off the lid (which came quite easily after all it went through) and was elecrocuting herself with the wire. Rosseil pushed her out of the way, and began to mess with the wiring, trying to find out how it worked, while Celeaewen sat and sulked, plotting Veritas's extreme injuries

[Frodo Baggins]

"OOOOO" Frodo's head is spinning and he almost feels like throwing up. "Sam??? SAM????? SAM!!!! Where are you?"

OK a few questions, what has happened, what is a REG, and why am I in trouble??

[Losthuniel]

<<a REG is a Random Events Generator. they add strange things to the RPGs. i have no idea why you are in trouble.>>

[Samwise]

Well, Mister Frodo, the short of it seems to be that most of the folks from the party are stuck in some kind of vortex or void. These are the last two quotes from our little group, thought up by Miss Stacey, who wanted to get out of it:

Primrose:*Looking around at the swirling vortex* Eh--what happened?
Sam: I--DON'T know, Tiny Rose...

Stacey: Ai... *Pulls up her sleeve, revealing an odd-looking communicator/teleporter thing on her wrist that looks like it came out of an old Sid & Marty Kroft show (which it did). *Reaches out and grabs Sam's hand* Sam, grab Primrose.
When he does, Stacey pushes a red button on the side of the device, and the three disappear from the vortex

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Stacey/Sam/Primrose: WHOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Thud. Boff! Ugh!
Stacey: *At the bottom of the two hobbits* Erg--could you two get off of me?

Primrose: *Rolls off of her father, who in turn climbs of off Stacey's back and helps her up* What in the name of Middle-Earth is going on here!?!?

Stacey: *Straightens her glasses* Y'got me, Prim.

Sam: *Looks up into the dark sky. Most of it is full of a slowly twisting purple mass, assumedly the vortex they just fell out of. He looks at Stacey's wrist.* What exactly is that contraption, Miss Stacey?

Stacey: *Covering it up again with her sleeve* Ah--to tell you the truth, I forgot what it's called. Let's just say it's what they call in my world "technology"--granted, 1970's technology, but...

Stacey: And you're not in trouble, that I know of, sir, Sam was just concerned 'cause he hadn't seen you since before everyone was supposed to have gotten sucked up. He, Prim and I were heading back to Bag End, but seeing as how you seem to have gotten missed by the vortex/void thing, we'll come back!

[piosenniel]

Pio perused the wizard who was standing apart from the rest of the group, apparently caught in a different time loop. Veritas was gesturing and pointing and her lips moved as if talking with someone. The problem is, assesed pio, that the wizard dropped her staff on transport. 'This is going to hurt!', thought pio to herself, 'And me more than you!!'

Handling a wizard's staff is always a tricky situation. One can never know how it will react to the touch of someone other than its chosen wielder. Bending close to the staff, pio extended her index finger to within a fraction of an inch of the smooth wood. She could feel the thrill of electricity, like a living current, caress her fingertip as if tasting the intent. 'Mellon', murmured pio, as if incanting a protective spell. The wand extended it's power to engulf the elf and raising itself, positioned itself firmly within her grip. Pio raised the wand and touched Veritas, whose startled expression had just accompanied the word: Mithadan.

Veritas closed her eyes briefly, the power of the wand flowing into her, and then opened the to refocus on the here and now. Pio sttod looking at her own intact hand with amazement, and Birdie, Rose, & Child had gathered near to offer her their support if needed.

'Where are we?', asked the wizard, now fully restored to herself.

'Funny you should asked that question,' came a mellifluous voice from the shadows to their left.'I've been pondering that question for a very long time - a timeless time you might say.' 'But where are my manners. Welcome to my world, such as it is. It's lovely to hear voices, that is, other than my own ringing about in my head. Come tell me of the outer world? And how fares Middle Earth in this Age?'

It was a casually asked question, and Child, being the great elucidator that she was stepped forward to detail a short (for a hobbit, that is) history of events.

Her mouth opened and the wheels of thought were just about to be set in motion for a good long dissertation, when pio, her sword drawn stepped in front of her and hushed her with a shake of her head.

pio's eyes had grown large - to accomodate themselves for the lack of light in this place. She turned to face the Being in the Shadows and motioned the others to stand behind her.

'Give us your name, O Seeming Fair One', she demanded. 'If we are pleased, we will exchange information with you. Come forth and let us see you.'

'Such bravery for so such a small creature', mused the voice drawing nearer. 'But you are intruders in my world, and by courtesy should reveal yourselves to me.'

A dark figure stepped closer into the shading greyness. 'And as for 'choosing' to exchange information, we'll discuss that later. We have all the time we need to learn about each other.'

[Rose Cotton]

Rose,as she sang found Birdie.

They both stopped singing. Then before Rose could say anything Birdie put her finger to her lips. Then she grabed Rose by the arm and dragged her to where Pio and Veritas were sitting with a laptop. Child was walking over too. The screen said 'Do You Want To Play?' Rose was nervous but she found that she was curious too.Then they were transported again

For a moment Rose was happy to find she was back in Hobbiton. Then Pio said that it was just a projection of her memory. Rose then found herself in a forest.

They came to the unnamed tomb and Rose grew unesay. When she heard a voice behind her she quickly put her hand on her dagger. Rose wasn't about to trust the stranger.

Pio had motioned for Rose to stay behind her but when the stanger had spoken Rose rushed forward, her knife out.Her normally pleasant face was now suspitious.

"What do you mean by that?" she said."You better tell us whats going on or you'll be in trouble. It's five ageinst one as you see."

[ May 25, 2002: Message edited by: Rose Cotton ]

[ May 25, 2002: Message edited by: Rose Cotton ]

[Rose Cotton]

The figure in the shadows laughed softly at the young hobbit girl confrunting him.

"You better silence your miget or I might grow angry."

[Child of the 7th Age]

Midget, Child fumed, what do you mean by midget?

Child was making up all kinds of insulting responses inside her brain, but decided it might be better to keep her mouth closed and refrain from speech, at least for the moment. She had a sinking feeling that this was not going to be very good.

Her brain was splitting in half. She remembered waking up from her faint with the beautiful gold and silver Valar nodding over her. Never had Child felt so small. For the first time in her life,Child wished she was an Elf so that she might stay in this beautiful place they called the West.

Elbereth had bent over her. Child had thought she would be blasted to the ends of the earth. But the strangest thing had happened. Elbereth had leaned over her and laughed, a sweet and clear laugh like a tinkling bell.

Then she had said, "Well, little hobbit, you have definitely fallen into the wrong story. Go back with your friends and help them."

Then, all had gone black and she had woken up in the Void with her friends, and now this miserable large thing was calling her a midget!!

[Birdland]

"Well, Rose, we were obviously singing the wrong song."

At least Birdie seemed to have found most everyone she started out with, but the hardy Piosenniel seemed to view the shiny, mist shrouded stranger with the same trust you would afford a talking snake offering to sell you a used car. The usually erudite Child stood in tongue-tied dismay. And Birdie had one heck of a tension headache.

Had her singing summoned this creature out of the Void? If so, it was the first time Birdie's singing had ever drawn an audience.

"I should have sung something Elvish...or Valarish" Suddenly the song "Volare" got stuck in Birdie's head. Now she knew why she had wanted the REG in the first place. She'd been seeking more stability to her thought processes.

And all our petty thievery and prankishness had led us here, to the Big Kahuna. Or at least one of the Bigger Kahunas.

"Uh, excuse me, sir." squeaked Birdie, You're name wouldn't by chance start with an..."M"?

[Rose Cotton]

Rose was fumeing. Miget? She could tell Child was angry too. But who was this? Who did Birdie think it was?

Well that didn't matter. Rose wasn't going to trust him. She silently thanked all that was good that she had had the sence to snach a weapon beforehand.

Then Rose tried to think of all the people she had read about in the Sil so far that had names that started with 'M'. Then she froze. It couldn't be HIM? Could it?

Then the stranger stepped from the shadows to where they could all see him clearly.

[Rose Cotton]

(This is not part of the story)

Um, I just want to say that this is some of the most fun I have ever had. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

I wonder if last year's party was this exiting.

Anyway, thank you guys for a great time.

(back to the story)

[Veritas]

As Veritas saw the person in the sunlight, she would say "Aah, it's ... on the tip of my tongue, who is he?"
"Welcome to my humble home, again, my friends." Rose didn't like his voice,too slimy.
"Home, a tombe is your home? Why do you want to prefer to live in this tombe?" Child was angry.
"If you're dead, you sometimes want to be at the place where they gave you your last honor. Although my friends were not so friendly." the gost admits.
"Say, are you, sorry, were you that friend of Gollum, that had the ring, and was killed by Gollum?" Birdie asks. Whe she sais Pio walks slowly towards the person, her heand on her sword, she didn't trust him, sertanly not when he was a friend of Gollum.

"YES, yes I was, I was it who found the ring, and that gollum took it from me." He cries, "And I want revenge, that's why I gave the REG to Mithadan, he would be able to found Gollum with his laptop, and bring him to me, using the REG, but YOU, you spoiled the hole thing! And now you're going to feel what it's like to be killed."
He storms to the Party, but Pio was faster and hits him with her sword, but because it was a ghost, it didn't matter.

Suddenly Mithadan and his three trackers came to help the gost and a heavy battle began.
Rose took one of the trackers, just as Child and Birdland.
Piosenniel was fighting with Mithadan, and the wizard was trying to do something with the gost, but that wasn't easy.

[Frodo Baggins]

The Valar speak Quenya, Birdie. Jut to help in clarifying that. I Made it!! Somehow.... I realized that you were having allthe fun. Well.. Deagol??? Fancy meeting you. And I dont see why you call Child a midget, since your pretty much a hobbit youself, A southern Stoor of the Galdden Fields to be precise. You don't know me, but my cousin took the ring from Gollum, Smeagol he was to you. And What do you mean a tomb? I thougt your body was never found.
Heh! At least Icaought up to you!! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

[ May 26, 2002: Message edited by: Frodo Baggins ]

[Rosa_Baggins]

Rosa is still lieing on te ground sleeping and snoreing that could wake the dead.
"ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!"

[Losthuniel]

Celeaewen was bored, very bored, as were a good deal of the people stuck in the Void. the half of them hadnt red the Silm, and if they had, they didnt connect the dark place they were standing with that void, and Celeaewen simply was too bored to care if wayward evil Valar happend to visit. Rosseil,oon the other hand, had feverishly trying to figure out how to send them home.
" Let us hope our presence may go unnoticed"
Celeaewen stared. Something fishy was going on here.