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Join Date: Feb 2003
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Walking off to look for America
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OK! Now I'm jealous! I should move to Finland.
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Now about the others whom I met during the week (and the number of Downers I met had just increased sevenfold!). Greenie, whom I didn't actually know well from the Downs, turned to be a very nice and amusing girl, her and Volo both being far more talkative than I expected them to be; and Volo is a really friendly fellow with very original thinking. Aganzir is a true personality, as one would expect, and also very intelligent, helpful and cheerful (although sometimes maybe too much ![]() I am mentioning the people's good sides, of course, don't think there won't be any bad sides of them which I wouldn't have spotted. I had whole week for that. This is also why I am writing about their good sides... you know, it's easier to point out the things which are not too many... ![]() Quote:
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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I guess I'm supposed to say something as well...?
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Haha.
I was just listening to some of the "secret" recordings from our roleplay while searching through my school-papers... ![]() I must agree to things said by others on Rune and Legate. They are both charming guys and very much open to our "northern madness" as well. At some occasions Rune even beated us on it - and yes, Legate's laughter just sticks; I mean I can still hear it ringing in my ears... It's funny to think of it now in this way, but even if they were quite different personalities there was something strikingly similar as well... maybe it's the "Downerism" of them (a different syndrome from what someone outside the forum might think of), or the weird sense of humour so much appreciated up here? Maybe the ability, quoting Kath here: Quote:
![]() From outside Finland I have now met three 'Downers (Brinn, Legate and Rune) and they have all being great personalities and nice people whom it has been a pleasure to get to know in person. Thanks guys for your visit! It was a perfect way to end one's holidays! Btw. I also met Spawn the first time so I totally agree with Lommy that it seems we need Rune to trigger us into seeing her. So Rune, you should visit us more often then... or then we should just be able to do it ourselves - and after meeting her I know we really should. She felt like a really nice person indeed even if the meeting was shortish. And she dances salsa admirably... ![]()
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*thinks good things about everyone* I'll just say that everything/one was a very pleasant surprise. Deep and honest thanks to our three hosts, for the idea, for the courage, for the success and a job well done. Lily and Noggie, especially much respect and thanks to you for all the food. Rune and Leggie, I bow for the mead.
That's it, but if somebody wants to hear positive things about any of us, ask me yourself. Negative things about us are restricted to me. ![]() Surprisingly the meeting resembled the Downs very little, but I still got an overdose of the Downs for the moment, I'll take a few more days of rest now and rather go to school. But first.... this and this, after which I was thrown out of my own house. ![]() |
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Walking off to look for America
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Oh dear! That was a really weird movie...
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I too feel very distant and alone out here on the edge of all things, though I have to wonder if that might not be preferable to the insanity that seems to be overtaking the Finnish forests.
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Mighty Quill
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Walking off to look for America
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Yeah, living in Alaska... there is not many BDers here, 'cept me and Lauri...
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It was from before I arrived, I would ofcourse not have tolerated that level of sillyness!
Anyways it was a very good downer meeting, I had of course already met Lommy and Spawn two years ago. . . but back then we only met for an afternoon. Everybody was very nice, all with their own kind of madness. It is hard for me to say how Greenie was compared to here, as I have had no interaction with her on the downs. Volo was kind of how I expected him to be, but he needs to put his foot down once in a while, otherwise those girls will surely walk all over him or at least drive him even madder. ![]() Legate was somehow more quiet than I imagined, not that he was actually quiet. . . anyways I was really happy to see him picking up our crazy stories and continuing them, at times he even started them. I think it was him who started the story about the Czech window cleaners, who could not live if they got seperated from their windows. Both Aganzir and Nogrod was quite like their online selves, at least they where the kind of people I thought them to be. Of course it helps that I seldom go into details when I imagine how people are. Basicly Aganzir is a former KGB agent and and Nogrod is the human answer to Tom Bombadil.(this is good) It is too bad Annina is not a downer as she is really a funny girl, but she will probably stick to stalking the werewolf games. (Alas) I think this will do. . . I was not disapointed about any of the persons I met, infact this trip was greater than I could have hoped for. |
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In that far land beyond the Sea
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Yes, actually, I could second this and... maybe I should add... Annina! I know you are stalking this, so now stop that, just go and register! Now!
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Hauntress of the Havens
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: IN it, but not OF it
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*speechless with envy* I should have allowed Rune to carry me away with him to Denmark if I had known this would be happening... ![]() ![]() Tiny edit: *waves* Last edited by Lhunardawen; 08-13-2008 at 10:31 AM. |
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells
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Hauntress of the Havens
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: IN it, but not OF it
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In that far land beyond the Sea
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Hauntress of the Havens
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: IN it, but not OF it
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Uh-oh, it's starting to look like a battle of the ex-es...
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Woman of Secret Shadow
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells
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Nice picture Aganzir!
Now let's challenge other 'Downers to gather more into one pic... ![]()
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Facing the world's troubles with Christ's hope!
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Excellent picture, Aganzir, it looks like y'all were having a great time!
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Finland: the Heart of Downerdom on Earth.
Someday...someday I'll visit there, too... ![]()
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Princess of Skwerlz
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles)
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Thanks to all of you for sharing your experiences and the photos with us! Eight Downers at once is indeed a record, and I foresee that my record of meeting the most Downers personally (usually singly, doubly or triply at best) is in grave danger of getting broken. The only solution - I need to come to Finland too!
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Of course I would not do that to you. . . almost everybody else, but not you.
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Facing the world's troubles with Christ's hope!
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Yes, someday when I have money to blow I'll go over their. Maybe I can get my Volvo then.
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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My hands are itching - I think I have been possessed by the spirit of a late great aunt who cut the hair of the man sitting in front of her on a bus with her nail scissors as she thought it was too long (he was asleep and didn't notice... )
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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Okay, so still flooding the thread with pictures, but these are probably the last ones from me.
Here's how our car looked like, without Nogrod. Lommy is sitting behind Greenie. ![]() I was told to post the following picture. These guys played the elves in our RPG. They did much work to get into their characters. ![]()
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Nov 2007
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Goodness that car looks small. Let's see how many more Downers you could fit in the car before they all fall out!
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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Alive without breath
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla
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So, you're saying... Rune has his own gravitational pull?
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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So cool.
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Alive without breath
Join Date: Jan 2003
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The blasted video won't work. Oh well.
Consider yourselves on the next front page, whatever happens. ![]() ![]() I think that it is high time you Finlandians all came to Blighty for a visit. Or we should arrange a meeting of Downers in some random place... How about... Antarctica? The Penguins will be happy.
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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I was talking with Lauri yesterday and I think we agreed that somebody should arrange a BD get-together. And we should film a movie while we do it...
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Nov 2007
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I still can't figure out what you guys are doing in that video. Could someone explain what y'all were doing with Thinlomien hitting that ducted tape pole with her head.
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
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Count me in for the B-Downs Cruise.
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