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Walkers_Shade
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on: December 25, 2005 03:04
NO!!!

I'm not letting this thread die so easily!

If we get kicked off the site, or if we don't want to put up with the mods I say we go here:

http://www.sarac.proboards74.com

I created this for just such a time. I'm the reason we'd be kicked off so I did this to try and make some pathetic attempt at atonement.
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on: December 26, 2005 06:52
You could accuse me of getting stubborn in my olds age (now 754 last Saturday), but I for one wish to remain where I am. Call it a force of habit but I have some very fond memories of roleplaying here, and I've met some great people here.
To all those who have made this thread possible.
To Purplefluffychainsaw, Brenna is a marvel, I didn't think I could become so attached to fictional character. Liswen, well, Amarie is marvelous, indeed I recall you have made every effort to fit into this thread, and you have done so fantastically. Aneras, a late comer, but Narya is already such an integral part of our little story. Siriothos, I didn't know you that well before this thread, but in such a short space of time I can how our characters have bonded. Thank you again. Legolas2, don't blame yourself, but lets hope for here we can start again. Finally to my dear dreamdancer, without you at my side I know it wouldn't have lasted this long. Thank you so much.
Well moderators, thank you as well. You have been patient and helpful, so thank you, and I pray you to allow this excellent thread to continue in the place it began and all of it's integral players wish it remain.
Ball's in your court now.

LMM
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on: December 26, 2005 05:31
LMM,

I appreciate your determination to remain here in CoE but so far, we have only heard from Liswen, Legolas2 and you. Legolas2 seems willing to move to avoid the moderators and the guidelines, which does not bode well for his intentions should you remain here.

We would certainly like to have heard from more of your cast of players but perhaps they have not responded due to the timing; we understand that many may be away due to the holiday just past. Therefore, we feel it only fair to give your group an extension of a few days to give more of them time to log in, read this discussion and respond to it.

Let us therefore make Friday, December 30th the deadline. We will either have heard more of the opinions and intentions of your fellow players by then or we will have to make our decision based on what has currently been profferred by you and only two others.

On behalf of the moderators,
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on: December 26, 2005 06:10
I'm responding! I will do whatever it takes to keep this thread here on CoE- this is its home, and it wouldn't be right to move it. If we do that, I'm sure we'll get so far off track from Tolkien that the thread will lose its center.

I agree with you, LMM. I think we should delete all posts back to that point and start over.

And thanks for your kind comments I adore being in this thread with you- all of yall-, and Ryn does too. She's as determined as I am to keep this thread alive and here on this wonderful site.
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on: December 26, 2005 06:54
It's not that I want to avoid the mods. I just don't want this thread to die because of me and I created that to try and make up for it.

And don't worry, if we can stay I'll get rid of Sarac. Consider him gone.
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on: December 28, 2005 09:11
I'm responding!!!

Okay, I haven't been so active in the last however-long, but I still love this thread to pieces and would hate for it to die. Please, please, try and keep it up! I'll do whatever needs doing.

So please keep it open!
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on: December 30, 2005 03:48
AHRGH. *panics* Looks like I got back from my hols just in time!

I don't want this thread to die either, and I for one would be gratified if it remained here. If we have to go back and edit like crazy, I shan't mind.

Loving the thread and everyone in it.

~ Siri
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on: December 31, 2005 04:48
I know...I said Friday and here it is Saturday. But it took your members some time to respond and then additional time for the moderators to discuss this. We have come to a decision.

It seems that the greater number of your members would like to keep this thread here in CoE. In order to do that, we feel you must be prepared to maintain this as a TR Forum thread; i.e. you would have to drop all the unacceptable, non-Tolkien themes. We can make a recommendation and hope you consider it. Rather than attempting to delete all the posts as has been suggested, perhaps you could begin a second thread named "At the End of All Things-Part 2" Then carry on your story (appropriately, of course) in the newer thread. There you can begin anew and keep it on track.

However, keeping it on track is of the utmost importance to having this thread remain here. I would advise all of you to monitor the posts carefully... just as we will be doing. PM your fellow players when you feel that someone is posting out of line and request they edit or delete it at once. I can tell you that if this thread deviates or wavers even a hair from the Guidelines, it will be closed immediately and moved to MG at once...no further warnings. The ball is now in your court.

Happy New Year,
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on: January 01, 2006 06:58
Looks like I get to be the first to say:

"Thank you thank you thank you *glomplovethanks*"

No, really, thank you. Again! For putting up with us all. And for the new chance.

So, guys, are we deleting or starting anew? I like the suggestion of starting anew, but LMM, I guess it's your choice.

Oh, and happy new year to all, from Elanor and Brenna. ^^
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on: January 01, 2006 09:10
thankyou bereth, and all the mods! I know this thread has probably been a thorny bother in your side, and I couldnt love yall more for putting up with us and giving us another chance ^_~ I promise I'll do my part to keep us from being painful!

I like the idea of starting over with a new thread. That way we could discuss our plot and all in an ooc thread before the first post is made, and have some things planned that stay in line with the guidelines. And a new thread gives us a fresh start, and I know for a fact that fresh starts are often more inspiring.

Happy New Year yall!! *major glompage* :heart:
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on: January 01, 2006 11:16
Thank God, *phew* once again we're saved. Well I for one would be in favour of a new thread. We can do a little rewind in time, to as we arrive back in Rivendell. Believe me I am far from out of ideas, indeed we have only scratched the surface so far.
So I'm thinking we start again from the meeting, and take it from there. Sarac by now will not in anyway, shape or form feature in this new storyline. Of course he can be mentioned, indeed I believe that it would make a good plotine with Narya and his son, estranged mother and child. Indeed without his influence it will be interesting to see what becomes of them in the thread.
Anyway I will outline more later, but first ideas people! IDEAS!
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on: January 01, 2006 04:12
Gee LMM I was getting worried about you.

As for ideas I know you guys were planning to bring in someone from Murder In Rohan who was obsessed with Brenna or something like that. I think that would bring plenty of drama seeing as how she in engaged.

Also having Elemak and Narya together would just make Narya anything but comfortable. I also think he should find out eventually that Narya is his mother.

That's all I got for now.
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on: January 03, 2006 01:03
*letting out of HUGE intake of breath*

Thank goodness and thanks to the mods!

I like the idea of bringing in the Murder in Rohan backstory, and besides, returning to Rohan will give Liswen and myself the chance to expand on our little subplot (I'm not saying too much here! Gah.)

Sorry. I'm a bit (understatement!!!) short on ideas and high on relief. Must rush for school.
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on: January 03, 2006 02:41
MIR! Of course, we'll need Fae! *runs to get Mook*
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on: January 03, 2006 03:00
I havnt seen her online in a long time

This is random, but I'm thinking that there may be a general mistrust of Glorfindel in whatever villiage he and Ryn live in, just because a few of their neighbors may be narrow-minded... or maybe trouble occured there while they our chars were away, and they might get blamed for it.

If I come up with anything plotworthy I'll let you know!
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on: January 04, 2006 03:18
*looks around confused*

Who are all these people who keep talking about? Did I miss something?
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on: January 04, 2006 07:05
Let me see if I can explain.

Murder in Rohan is the thread in which Glorfindel, Rynwyn and Brenna meet for the first time. The plot basically started off with Ryn and her friend Fae looking for the person who 'betrayed' her friend/first love- Reothed- and murdered him. She ran into Glorfindel (who had been tracking a band of orcs), among others, while on the search. They decided to travel together, and eventually their 'investigation' led them to Brenna, who had been the one hired to kill Reothed. She ended up helping them so she was forgiven for what she'd done... its a long story. There was a plot to assassinate Eomer King that our characters fell into trying to stop and ended up being accused as the culprits. That thread hasn't *quite* ended yet, but we can guess where it does.

Cuan was the one who tried to kill Eomer, and he was an old friend (am I right?) of Brenna.

Hiligan is Ryn's brother, and Fae is her firiend (and maybe Hiligan's wife by now)

mook is Fae's creator

In the end Brenna didn't kill Cuan, though she told everyone she did- she let him get away. So Im guessing that Glorfindel and Ryn still think he's dead. Imagine what a surprise it would be if he showed up again. And if he has a romantic interest in Brenna, that ought to be mucho fun for Samen but I don't know purple's intentions with him.

Hope this helps a bit! MiR was long in the making, and maybe we could pull something from it to help in this new thread.
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on: January 04, 2006 01:58
Once again my dear, dear Savannah you have hit the nail of the head, well done! MIR would be perfect, seeing at it is wehre Glorfindel started out (back then I didn't think he would last, how wrong was I!) but Cuan in this new thread would be perfect. So now I need to write an intro, and I need a title, hmmm.....
ok ideas are VERY, VERY welcome here....
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on: January 04, 2006 03:21
I'm posting yet again...

Maybe instead of picking up right where we left off, we could simply mention the passage of whatever length of time took place between the ending of ATEOAT and the beginning of this thread, and start the with everyone preparing to set out for rohan or (if we want to skip the journey) everyone arriving there.

Maybe Brenna wants to have her wedding in her homeland, so thats another possible plot addition, if purple wants it that way.

The first part of the thread will most likely be easy enough if we just have our characters either journeying or arriving to rohan- and I vote for the latter. Last time we skipped over the journeying anyway, and unless we looked over a map and determined how long it would take (and it wouldnt be very easy going with a pregnant, hormonal-rampaging ryn) we'd probably gloss it over anyway.

When they finally get to said villiage (I'll have to go back in MiR and find the name of it) they could maybe find things in disarray- maybe rebuilding after a recent attack, or find that an attack had just occured... I wouldn't want ryn and glorfindel's house to be burned down to the ground or anything, but maybe it can have been ransacked.

I'm just throwing in ideas. I'm so happy we're getting another chance!
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on: January 05, 2006 01:55
I think starting in Rohan would be a good way to get away from all the "bad" plots we've had around Imladris and the sea. It would make it seem more like a new thread as well. The idea of mistrust in Glorfindel is a good idea, one that fits in my eyes. It also adds a bit of intrest to his and Ryns child: what would the Rohirrim think of a "half-breed"?

As for the wedding, Brenna wouldn't really care about having it in Rohan, so I guess it would be up to Samen (and therefore Walkers_shade). However, it deffinatly could be a plot line to add in. And Ryn's child will be too: how far gone is she, Sav?

Cuan is not so much an old friend of Brenna's as an old accomplice, one of the gang that she was part of as a child. It's all in their DB, but basically the "Rats", orphaned or run away children, lived in caves under Edoras, thieving to survive. Brenna was one of the origanal three, and Cuan was the next to appear. Walkers_shade, I give Samen permission to get rid of Cuan, as long as you leave it for long enough for the plot to develop. ^^ To be truthful, one of the reasons I let him go in MiR was to have him as a fall back for this thread (as well as it showing the return of emotion in Brenna).

EDIT: Walkers_shade/Legolas2, I just noticed you changed your screenname. :blush:

EDIT#2: Forgot to mention: I planned for Brenna to go back to Rohan to grab some stuff from the catacombs underneath: money and stuff. Not sure if that's possible or not. Will elborate later: am meant to be off pcs. Luff yah all.

[Edited on 5/1/2006 by purplefluffychainsaw]
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on: January 05, 2006 04:39
purplefluffychainsaw : we should be careful with the runaway, thieving children - that is more Dickens than Tolkien and I fear that might not be considered along the guidelines by the moderators

here is an example form a thread called "Thieves of Gondor"
"We have already told you that Thieves in groups similar to Dickens' Fagin/Dodger DID NOT EXIST in Tolkien's world."

But to start the threas a little along (in Rohan) seems a good idea to me - that way we can really start from the beginning.

And, by the way - thanks to the mods for giving us another chance....

talk to you all soon

Liswen


[Edited on 5/1/2006 by Liswen]

[Edited on 5/1/2006 by Liswen]
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on: January 05, 2006 11:01
Well, I'm a pretty easy-going person, so anything the others want to do is fine by me. I've just gotten back from Canada so I'm really jet-lagged. I something I say doesn't make sense, it's just coz me brain isn't working very well. I was just wondering how Narya would fit into all of this, as I don't think that she had any purpose in Rohan. Again, if something's wrong, it's because I'm jetlagged.
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on: January 06, 2006 02:54
Okay if Im getting this right we're strating up again after we've all gotten back from fighting Krev, everyone's healed, and Sarac's been banished. So now we just need to have Sarac find his way out of the group, Elemak in and then we'll move on down to Rohan?
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on: January 06, 2006 05:51
We've had about 3 or 4 votes to begin the thread as our characters are arriving to Rohan, or after they're already there. I think the general opinion is to leave Rivendell out of it completely. Of course its up to LMM in the end, but if we DO start in Rohan, we can skip having to worry about the details of Sarac's leaving, his son's coming, everyone getting over being seriously hurt, and writing about the journey from Imladris to Rohan, which probably wouldn't be much fun. We can squish all of that into flashbacks or general comments.

I'm not really sure how far along Ryn is, purple. I got confused about the timeline for ateoat a long time ago but if we don't want to wait forever for the bundle of joy to arrive, I'm sure we can push up the clock some. Opinions?

And the thing with Brenna going back to look for stuff would be cool as long as the mods approve. I don't see why they wouldn't... they never balked at your mentioning Brenna's past in MiR and that's a TT thread. but I guess we shall see.
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on: January 06, 2006 02:47
I ask for gold and I get platinium! EXCELLENT! SO TO ROHAN IT IS! I'll need to write a recap, in dream format of course, but we are now back onto the path I oringinally intended we should follow. Ah, back to Rohan, home on the range (I think), it's kind if ironic that Glorfindel and Ryn have spent most of their relationship there (six years+ now) and stil we have yet to write anything about it.

Ok then, my marvelous, manical mind is at work once more and it would seem to me, that depite the events at the quite confusing debate, Glorfindel has stood firm on his decision to opt out of any further quest action. His primary concern is now Ryn and the baby. DD, it'd think by now she'd be out five to seven months along, so we're near, but still so far to go. As for dear Ailia, now it's time for her to take a more prominent role.

As for the others, well as far as Sarac goes I believe he should have pulled his disappearing act BEFORE we actually set the events in motion. Of course the others are entirely up to you. However I think I should mention that Glorfindel will basically be shunning everybody atm, even spending less time with Ryn. His sleeps are now so disturbed he no loner sleeps even in the same room as her, but he still says nothing. Long hours he just lies there and stares blankly at the ceiling. Even so, he will not even acknowledge Samen or Ailia, the former for being so darn insulting to him (that's the Noldorian Pride) and he wants more than ever to extract the ATEOAT text and 'dispose of it.'

So our scene will open at the of their first week in Rohan, to spare any tedious details of settling in and travel. So, anything else?
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on: January 07, 2006 06:06
just a note: remember that this time we won't get any warnings if we stray from the guidelines. We'll be kicked. Bereth told me that we have to be careful with 'flashbacks' and dream sequences and such as well, if we're referring back to the old thread. I don't think we should even mention Krev, and that does pose a problem with connecting the threads, but, you know...

I think we should also be careful of the subject 'the end of all things'- I'm not saying throw it out, but just to find out how far the mods will allow us to take it. I'm not sure about their thoughts on that... and if I seem like I'm nagging, its only because I care. *clings to thread* I don't want us to be kicked after getting a last golden chance! I'm just giving a reminder to be careful

And LMM, lets say Ryn is six months. That should give her a good time trying to waddle from place to place I want to say that the name of their villiage is Othem, but I can't really remember. That's all I have for now. Must run! Busy day!
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on: January 08, 2006 12:55
If you picked up on the name I used in MiR (and I seem to remember you did) then it's Otham. *^^* I used the first name that came into my head, not expecting us to linger there, and it happened to be the name of *my* village. Smo.

Ah, Liswen! Thanks for that warning. I'll be careful what I post. I wasn't going to really do much more than general explinations to the others anyway, as both Cuan and she have long since grown out of that kind of thing.

Do we even need to link back to the old thread? We all know what's happened. If anything needs to be written in then it's the traveling in between whiles, especially as it seems we're going to be skipping that.
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on: January 09, 2006 01:44
I must confess that when I write then I must be in a very funny mood as I find myself mildly annoyed by dd's last post! GAH! Mondays always mess with my mind.
Anyway, times are indeed troubled and of course I HAD overlooked the fact that we are on ONE LAST warning. Those two words I have come to loath over the past few weeks, but it is for the good of the thread. Ok, all valid points. Ok, so could we please have some input on what you intend to have your characters doing when the thread begins. Also when and where, shall we be on the road, or already in Rohan. More importantly what state shall relations be in the group?

Wait, wait! Scratch that, in fact I think that if we carry on like this we'll be here until June, and I for one want to start roleplaying asap, otherwises all the fun will be gone. So unless there's aob, then I think we can begin.

[Edited on 9/1/2006 by LoremasterMiar]
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on: January 09, 2006 06:07
I say we just get on with it already.
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on: January 09, 2006 07:01
sorry about annoying you I didn't mean to- and sorry to anyone else who was annoyed or offended by my post. I tend to get needlessly paranoid, and I apologize for my insanity...

depending on where the thread begins (and I vote to start it in Rohan), Ryn will probably just be hanging around being in a terrible pregnant mood. If Glorfindel has been paying less attention to her she'll most likely be irked about that, and whatever else I can dream up. so yea, lets get the thread started I'm itching to post
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on: January 10, 2006 04:48
Very well, without further ado, let us commence. Let's keep it clean people!
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on: January 11, 2006 02:59
*looks around the threads confused*

Might I ask where we are keeping keeping it clean?
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on: January 11, 2006 06:00
yay for the start of the thread! *throws confetti* I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to post, but hopefully sometime today.

Its called The Road goes ever on and on... a suiting title, I do believe ^_~
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on: January 11, 2006 06:08
Ok, threads openned and I have posted. All systems go, and L2 we watch what we post. Thats where we keep it clean!
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on: January 11, 2006 11:13
Uh... seeing as how we've discussed this for about a half month I feel a bit strange about asking this but where LMM are we and what book are you talking about?
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