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We can take a stab at it.
Got any suggested times?
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And I may return to LOTRO. I'm wavering in my desire to play The Old Republic, as I don't have a ton of time and paying a monthly fee for a few hours a month is a little weird. So we'll see. I don't want to download anything again, though, and I don't want to pay for an expansion I probably won't like. |
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I will likely be on tonight, if anyone's going to be around.
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They've got the same class imbalances and everything built in already. I'll let you know if Isengard is any good. They are saying they will be rolling it out a day early...so that would be tomorrow.
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Shades of Tyrn Gorthad is now recruiting Barrow-downers for fun, casual gaming on the Silverlode server.
I, Reprimand, am the owner, and Frarr and Crabannan are seneschals. If you see one of us online, let us know and we'll add you. ![]()
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It's a fact.
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Okay, seems they just revamped stuff with the release of Isengard. That should have been expected, I guess. Well, nothing that drastic - at least it seems on first sight.
And great to have the kinship up and running. I think I could join with both of my characters, so that we fill the quota...
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However, so far I like the new expansion. The mob spawn time has been set very high so that doing the kill quests, even in spite of the very high number of players in the area, was really easy. ![]() The only thing that bugs me slightly (so far) is the area feels very small.
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All right, I've added Legate's characters Gimifril and Curufinwen to the kinship, which puts us at the minimum eight members.
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I have now officially joined Shades of Tyrn Gorthad!
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Today I made it to Rivendell, whereupon I immediately slapped Legolas and Frodo around for quite a while. I highly recommend it.
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Well some of the changes are (even more) discouraging...
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Should've read up on the changes, logged into my lvl 14 minstrel and the entire playing style has changed...yikes!
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I already have one Elven house, so I would be up for a change if people want it. Dwarven housing is quite nice and attractive to me, but well, they are underground (and also for personal reasons, my two characters are so much "Ered-Luin-ish" that I wouldn't mind having the kinship house somewhere else, just for the sake of traveling convenience). I haven't seen the Man and Hobbit houses yet, actually. Might do that in my spare time to get some idea.
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Minstrels can't EVER wear medium armor? That seems like an unnecessary limitation. I was able to work around the newly excised ballads and anthems - my new attack order works just fine - but I was really looking forward to wearing something besides stupid hats and purple shoes at some point in the future.
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I think either a Bree or Shire homestead makes the most sense. Ered Luin is waaay out there.
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Obviously, as a dwarf, Ered Luin seems good, but a Shire or Bree homestead sounds good. I think that Breeland would probably be the best thematically, since it contains the Barrow-Downs. On the other hand, I haven't seen any of those two yet, and I suspect that the Shire homesteads will be nicer.
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Also, is anyone currently online? I'd quite like to join the kinship some time soon.
edit: Ok, Legate's added me to the kinship.
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I might be now for a short while still, if it's in my power to add you.
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Housing? (Gramsfoot.)
Okay, so we just spent some time with Eönwë reviewing houses and actually we both agreed that we'd prefer the Shire housing most of all. To sum it up: it is nice, round, has funny corridors heading down, the surroundings are pretty, the setting is really beautiful (and to me it looks rather Hobbitton-y, with the lights twinkling over the water if you enter the neigbourhood at night). I think there is a really nice kinship house situated always near the entrance, near the huge waterfall (forgot to check the address, might do that later sometime if need be).
Otherwise, for the rest of the neighbourhoods, like I said: with Elven/Dwarven characters and housing more or less already there, and with Bree/Shire being a lot more "cosmopolitan areas", these would be preferrable - and out of them, Shire definitely leads. Human housing is... well... I called it "too square-shaped", not that visually appealing in general, sort of having a bleak look, reminiscent of vacant saloons from old Westerns (even if it was, of course, going to be decorated). At least in comparison to the Shire, it really pales. Eönwë had said the same, so at least when it comes to our suggestions, here you go...
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I could go for the Shire. I think the aesthetics should probably be our foremost consideration, and it sounds like the Shire gets very high remarks in that regard.
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I have a personal house in Bree, it's functional but not fun. (I need more thin furniture spaces to store my songbirds, heh.) The Shire sounds spiffy.
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I have tons and tons of decorative items sitting in my vaults that can be used for the kin house, just let me know when we get it.
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As I promised...a few weeks ago I admit...
Here is a picture of a beardless Kuru caused by a graphical glitch. Eonwe, Gwath and myself had a fine old time chatting in kin today and Eonwe visited my house and somebody else's and he discovered one of the games more quirky little features. ![]()
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That is exactly what he means.
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Also, it's festival season.
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What is this..."festival season"?
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Is it? I was wondering why nothing was taking place this year yet, with the 22nd Sept gone and all.
These are the festivals (usually, I believe, they are in autumn, then later around Christmas, in spring and again in summer) which happen every year, once in a while, there are special activities in the main points of the country (like Shire - resp. usually Hobbitton and/or Michel Delving, Duillond, Thorin's Gate, Bree, or in winter in the sort of special city; now that's just speaking from personal experience) and you can win special festival prizes and stuff (like horses, weird artifacts, clothing, and so forth - my main character learned to dance a lot of really nice dances also there, for instance. You can also join all the drinking-guilds, doing all the "opening quests" is a lot of fun, I have enjoyed it a lot the last year in the autumn). Sometimes they might have something special, I don't know what special stuff is there this year... gotta check.
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Haven't done much in the festivals, except for the Yule one last winter. That was awesome. I hope they have the theater again, because you get to participate in a play. By participate, I mean stand on stage and constantly flirt with the audience.
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I think we should probably do a kinship moot at some point during it.
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A moot would have to be during the weekend for me.
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So what day and time would people be able to make it?
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I'll be around intermittently throughout tomorrow and in the afternoon/evening (US time) on Sunday.
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