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12-15-2005, 01:58 PM | #281 | |
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So, Encai, I hope you get here in time to get us there. We could, you know, coincidentally end up right next to the resort. Infact... I wouldn't much mind somebody picking us up, interaction seems extremely limited in this RPG. *Looks at Mardil's stunning new automobile* Incidentally, I didn't make this very clear in the last post, but Mr Swanky isn't dead! The lightning struck the gorilla, as it was higher - Mr Swanky should be alive and well. |
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12-15-2005, 02:48 PM | #282 |
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A fight scene. And a joyful reunion. And all sorts of other things, as well as a trip to Mount Doom.
Coming right up.
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12-15-2005, 04:09 PM | #283 |
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If you write about the arrival at Mount Doom, Mardil uses some of his extra cash to buy some ritzy rooms at Mount Doom's best hotel. Alli and Mardil can get into it a bit once they are there, but it doesn't have to be right away. We can argue during the "night", during the dead space between the trials- unless lmp doesn't want us to. And at one point during the journey, Roggie squeezes Mardil a bit too hard and Mardil responds by pricking his hand quite deeply with a knife coated with a slow working laxative that will hit Roggie after they've arrived at their destination. Everyone wonders why Mardil smiles so much after delivering the prick.
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12-15-2005, 04:47 PM | #284 |
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Okay, Durelin, we are at Mount Doom. Please go ahead and redo the trip if you'd like.
I have one more post to make to tie up the the traffic violation and hair dye loose ends, but I guess that can fall in the 'night' or at the beginning of the next challenge, depending on how lmp wants it arranged.
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12-15-2005, 05:06 PM | #285 | |
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And TP: you can write the check-in scene if you like. I've got too much work to do tonight to add anything.
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12-15-2005, 05:10 PM | #286 |
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I can't make a post tonight - out of time. Would someone, Fea or phantom, mind just mentioning Sai's arriving at Mount Doom. I'll do a long post once the next test has begun and get everything in.
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12-15-2005, 05:59 PM | #287 |
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I would've had more things happen and I would've added more details, but some very unexpected emergencies came up today. And actually, I'm not done taking care of them yet, so I won't be able to post a check-in scene until very late tonight- 2 AM or so. But that doesn't matter too much, because Fea put Alli, Sai, and Mardil at Mount Doom, and that's what really matters.
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12-15-2005, 06:53 PM | #288 |
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Okay, Wilhelmina and Fléin have reached Mount Doom. Later tonight (toNight?) I'll put up a check-in post in which the poor old lady gets to relax a bit.
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12-15-2005, 08:49 PM | #289 |
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You're going to have to have Queen Quon come back to life. No, scratch that. Anakron will have Queen Quon not really be dead, show up at Mount Doom Casino and Resort, and we'll have our own "Monster A Versus Monster B" B Movie script, featuring Roggie and Queen Quon. I'll work it into the next Scenario. Which I have to prepare. If I can do it in one day, we're cool. If not, we'll start in very early January.
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12-15-2005, 09:52 PM | #290 |
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If we end up starting in January, will we have a very prolonged "night"?
If so, will we be able to post? It would give ample opportunity for a bit of interaction between characters, not to mention individual character development. A sort of a Council of Elrond for ATM. You know... a reeeeeeally long break from the action in which you learn all kinds of things about each character.
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12-15-2005, 09:53 PM | #291 | |
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And since it's rather late and I do actually require sleep to function (despite what I keep telling myself), I think I'll wait till tomorrow to put up another post. In case anyone cares. |
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12-16-2005, 07:33 AM | #292 | |
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As for me... I'm probably not going to be posting again for a few days. I'm going home today! Yay. Only the roads are horrible due to a precariously timed winter storm, so it's probably going to be an all day trip and then I've got plans once I get there. See y'all t'morrow or the next day and can't wait to catch up on what I miss.
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12-16-2005, 10:51 AM | #293 |
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A Change in Plans
Due to circumstances beyond my effective control, we're going to take a break from the "Test" pattern of ATM. From today until January 2, 2006, Anakron will have given the Offending Party "a couple days" off from the Challenge. Feel free to post as often or seldom as you like.
Your characters must remain at Mount Doom Casino and Resort, and vicinity. Here's a geography for your rpging fun: The great cataclysm of the destruction of the Ring caused the Sea of Nurn to expand westwards, then northwards, such that it now extends between the western mountain range (no books with me so I can't bring up all the names) of Mordor, and the arm that extends northeast before halting, separating "Nurnia" from the desolation of Mount Doom. The Sea of Nurn widens and extends northeastward, coming within 25 miles of Mount Doom on the western side. Between the Sea and Mount Doom lies the new city of Lost Angles, wherein lies Trollywood, the centre of the film industry of Mordor, such as it is. You guys drove in on the east side, even if you thought otherwise. At this northern extremity, the Sea is called the Pathetic Ocean, since it's way too small to be a real ocean, so it got to be said about it, "how pathetic", and the name stuck. So what if it's circular logic? I'm the moderator. nya. That's it for now. Have at it. From time to time I'll add pieces of info such as geography, this, that, and the other t'ing. So be ready to start back up ON January 3. Have a happy Christmas! |
12-16-2005, 02:12 PM | #294 |
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*sighs* This is what happens when I have mid-terms right before Christmas break.... Sorry, Celuien.
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12-16-2005, 02:22 PM | #295 | |
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12-17-2005, 06:29 PM | #296 |
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I've just found out (yesterday in the car) that my parents don't think it necessary to have the internet at my house and therefore my access is going to be, severely to a point of I'm just going to say right now "I have no access", limited.
Sorry guys. I'm not going to have more than extremely sparse and extremely limited internet access until the second weekend of January. If somebody could be so kind, have Alli go to her room for the entirety of the trip? If people try to get her to come out, her answers will be short, snippy, and stubborn. She's going to be moping that Mardil had her tranquilized, that he had a knife to her throat, that etcetera, and that she's still attracted to him. Oh, and she's watching a lot of television coverage of the Mario incedent. I'll post if at all possible, but it probably won't be.
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12-20-2005, 10:43 AM | #297 |
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Behold! A new list
Up to P20. 1034 things.
$2 bills 18th November 2005, Fea's psych class 20 year old goody-good 2nd cousin 24 hours in seven day week 25th of October 2005 28 hour shifts that end when there's too much light outside to fall asleep 50 Cent and other rappers that can't really rap and have horrible personalities 6 am flights 60s folk music groups 6th Form A levels Aberdeen Accidentally deleting replies to PMs ache that comes from flossing after a long hiatus Aching muscles after a new exercise routine Active voice acute paranoia adjectives used in place of adverbs adults who do not remember how it is to be young adults who think moody teenagers care about the difficulties of being a parent adults who think teens' negative thought are due to hormones and moodiness alone Adverts adverts that are noisier than programmes Adware after-date paranoia Ages 20-25 airports alarm clocks Alcarillo's teacher Alexander Pope's works algebra All cats, except ones with no claws that can play without biting and come when you call them. allergic conjunctivitis allergies and all of their varied symptoms Alsatians Alternating sun and rain within a day American spelling Ancient Philosophy teacher annoying English teachers annoying guys who provide the voiceovers at the end of infomercials and commercials Annoying people Anti-Cyclonic Depression (i.e. clouds and general greyness and an absence of any weather, even rain) Any piercings other then earrings Anybody who doesn't understand the concept of personal space Anyone who thinks it's incorrect to make up words Anyone who thinks not having a significant other lowers your value as a human being Anyone who thinks that something is wrong with a girl who has no interest in fashion, looking "pretty," marriage, or dating Anyone who uses more than two acronyms in the same sentence anything boring anything that keeps one from playing WW games AP Physics II apathetic English teachers Apathetic teachers apostrophe mis-users Aristotle Art projects involving negative space or still art or soldering Art teachers AS levels Asparagus ATM thread being longer than ATS ATMs attempting to accomplish Orkish havoc characterized as "doing nothing" attendance office at school with wrong information attraction to the opposite sex authors of 'bad-ism' allegories Axe-murderers (in a soon to be released ATM near you....) Baby on Board babysitting Bad architecture and office rooms full of cubicles that make every worker feel like s/he's a creature in some kind of weird sci fi exhibit Bad attitudes bad email software bad habits Bad housemates Bad lawyers Bad moods Bad scripts bad thinking behind banning computer access while allowing long phone calls bad translations bad weather badly designed tests Bags of candy that come to an end too soon Balrog Wingers Banjos banning of the internet Bar chords...hardest notes to play on the guitar Baranthil's town baseball playoffs BD breaking Beans Because you don't need to beer commercials that make you thirsty Being a poor college kid being bashful around people you know you'll get on excellent with Being called to do something at the end of the day Being Forbidden from entering The Barrowdowns being introverted Being left at school because answering machine didn't work right being out of clean clothes Being peerless on New Year's Eve Being told you have to do something Being too ill to walk being too shy to say what you think or feel being too sick to flirt (watch out, ATM ladies - 'she was just about to flirt with the cute boy when suddenly she felt sick enough to puke') Being unable to turn down a good RPG Biases 'Big Brother' television Bigots Biology Lab partner who looks down your blouse Black Eyed Peas black flies black licorice blades on small hacksaws blisters from flip-flops blisters from unbroken argyle flats blisters from unbroken flip flops blisters from wearing huge boots Blow up christmas things Books that look interesting on the covers but are not inside. books written by Roald Dahl boredom boring days at work boring English teachers Bowling machines Boys Braces Brand Snobs Breast cancer British spelling British Telecom British television miniseries British transportation system Britney Spears budget cuts bugs Building renovation Bullies Bullies burning of fossil fuels bus drills in gym class where they make you jump off the back of the bus Business accounting such that labour is a liability Busy trains busy-work Cailin's argumentation teacher Cailin's Medieval Irish project Cailin's pronunciation teacher Cailin's vocal coach Calculus Campaign electioneering phone calls / adverts candles that fail to produce enough scent to counter stinky shinguards canonicity CAPs lockers CaptainofDespair (cameo role?) Casual discrimination, especially from anti-discriminatory bodies / people Cat litter Catch 22 'Caucasian' used to categorize or describe white people Cauliflower celebrity magazines Celebuial's college's security guards Celebuial's dance teacher Celery cell phones Centipedes chapped lips Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (book & movies) 'chavs' Checking bulbs are working chewing gum spat out, covering pavement Child Molesters. children who cannot see how much they mean to their parents Christmas Christmas adverts Christmas sweaters with pom-poms Chronically drunk college kids cigarette smokers cigarettes Cigarettes Citations City of Madison classes where everybody's opinion is different from yours Classes where homework isn't checked every week classes you hate but still do well in classy heels required for business attire Clogged toilets Close-minded people Coke Cold snaps cold viruses colds college applications college applications as more important than wreaking Orkish havoc in an RPG college dorm parties college placement tests Collegiate insomnia comic sans font commercial breaks, especially long and frequent. Commercials for weight-loss pills or exercise machines Commericialised Christmas Common names Communists Commuting for education computer game which does not let you save your progress whenever you want Computer problems computer viruses computer-monitor induced headaches Computers that keep breaking down computers that screw up while using them Concertgoers who tap out beats half a beat behind the band Confusing people who do something that means one thing, then tell you something contradictory Confusing sombody's sexuality conjunctivitis Conscience constipation 'cope' corsets country music Crass commercialism Creepy teachers criticism about, not to, a person Crossovers in fanfiction crystal clear bad memories customer service departments that keep you on hold a little bit longer than forever Customs checks Cutting red tape Dandruff dangling prepositions Dark circles under eyes David Cameron David Davis days that are too warm for windows to be opened for fresh air deadlines Declaring feelings to somebody and them not returning them democracy dentists Department of Motor Vehicles depression Deus Ex Machina diamonds diarrea (you ATM players are really in for it!) difference between English and American spelling Differences in levels of education Dill Diplomats Dirty bathrooms dirty dishes disappointment of having asked someone out only to learn that s/he doesn't feel the same way Discrimination against the stupid Disgruntlement Disney Disputes with long time friends Distraction Distraction due to hot guys / girls / food distributors of speed cameras dog bites dog clothes dogs that bite (mean, nasty, clothes wearing dogs that bite in ATM) dogs that can't be housebroken Doing things the right way door to door sales people double negatives Drama Queens Dread Backspace Button Of Doom ... which works like internet 'back' command dread from finding a check you thought you mailed to pay a bill drivers who drive through a flood at top speed drivers who ignore pedestrians Drug-addicts. Dry coughs Dust Dying prematurely early classes easy driving tests Easy driving tests! elastic bands in braces emergency rooms employers who send your parent on a business trip on holiday empty tubes of chap stick Encai's English teacher English English classes English metric inconsistency English teachers who don't read Tolkien English teachers who don't understand English english-latin mumbojumbo Eomer of the Rohirrim (cameo role?) errant pronunciations of the name "Bach" Esgallhugwen's brother Esgallhugwen's brother's bird Essay writers using big words to say simple things Essays Ethan frome Euphemism to sell something hard to stomach Everybody who was mean to Gil-Galad in junior school Everything that can go wrong on a Monday morning Evil bowling alleys with malfuctioning computers and unhelpful help evil, sarcastic, sadistic teachers Exams exams ex-boyfriends excess mucous Excess phlegm (and I mean, really in for it!) Excitement. Exhaustion Extra maths lessons extroverts who try to make conversation when you are not in the mood facial spots Fake Christmas Trees fake food (ie spray on butter, etc.) Fake powdered Christmas drinks fan fiction Fanfiction Farael's beard fathers who think they know everything about computers & delete your programs Feeling of overeating feeling older than your age Filipino used to teach Films based on books that radically alter storylines final exams finding a whole chick pea lurking in your braces 6 hours after your last meal Finger- or toenail injuries Firefoot's locker neighbour Fires First ay of school First week of school fish Fish that snap lines Five year old asking if another five year old is Fea's daughter Flash Harrys flash software Flashless cameras flat tires Flies flight delays Flourescent lights flu Fog food poisoning Fordim Hedgethistle foreign homophones Forests and hills levelled for a gold course forgetting how to draw Forgetting ideas Forgetting what you wanted to post Fossil fuels Fourth draft of research papers. frat parties French teacher Freud friends being sick Friends talking about you behind your back Frodo and Sam with cameo roles in LMP's Mordor RP frog ring tones Frozen milk fruitcakes fume and stench Funerals furry animals general heat Generic, uninventive Tolkien fanfiction geography teachers geometry German Getting a grade you don't deserve getting a paragraph in reply to a five page letter getting lynched on the first Day of Werewolf getting up early Getting up on weekends Getting worked up over nothing Giant Pandas girls that claim to be LOTR fans because of Legolas Glirdan's dance teacher Glorification of drinking and being drunk. going to bed when it's light out Going to school after a long weekend Going to the dentist going to work on Saturday Going to work on Saturday to Mordor. Gossipmongers government trying to improve people Governments that only throw money at good schools Grammar Green Bay Packers ground spitters Group projects Groups of people who walk four across in a hallway only four people wide Grumpiness Guitars gullibility Guy Fawkes Day guys who think pretty girls are always dumb halitosis (bad breath caused by gingivitis) Hard maths tests 'have got' Having a dancer's feet when you really are only pretending to be a dancer having no common language having the wrong textbook with a looming test Having to reval two hours to get to school for a single class having to share a laundry facility with 140 women having to spread around the reps Having to work until 12:30, 1:00, or 2:00 in the morning havng to wait until LMP says so to watch that madly fun sounding RP unfold hayfever headaches Heart of Darkness Heatwaves Heavy backpacks heavy traffic Highschool freshmen history of language History seminars about interestng sounding subjects Holiday reading that must be journaled. Hollywood Hollywood and its fruitcakes Homework Homework Homework Homophones Hookbill the Goomba hormone driven girls Horrendously early Christmas preparations Horseflies Hot water running out when hair is full of shampoo hot weather Housemates who wont play trivial pursuit hovering parents How xxxx is that? huge workloads Hugs 'n' Learning human tongue hummers hundred degree greenhouse Hurricanes hurting knees Hypocrites hypocritical parents i.b. exam (?) Idiotic bees ignorant fools Ignorant people. Impatient people inability to breathe Inability to hold a standard. Inability to take short showers inability to turn down food dares Income tax forms Incompetency Incompetent people on the day, despite lots of practice beforehand inconsiderate customers incorrect written use of its and it's incorrect written use of your and you're Infuriating internet connections that randomly commit suicide every so often institutional food internet when it isn't working interpretation other than the artistic creator's intolerant people inventor of shoes that are loose around the ankles but tight on the toes irrational fear of phone calls Irregular verbs Irresponsable pet owners Isaac Newton Isaiah Jack Russells Jamesian English speakers Jam-throwing chavs JK Rowling (cameo?) Johnny Depp (cameo?) Kath's psychology teacher Keboards with rubbish spacebars. know nothing nurses 'kotex fits. period' (billboards in ATM) lack of a good Porter lack of published Quenya Lack of snow lack of the Assigned to Mordor RPG (now that would be weird!) Laitoste's family members last day of holidays Law school application process lawn mowing Lazy people not setting up sound systems Lazyness leaches Leaders that use their powers for evil Leaking rooves Leaving a post at school, then having to hack into the school network to get hold of it again. Leggyboppers lemmings Level 81 in the Pit of 100 Trials in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door liability paranoids library freeloaders light Mayonnaise lima beans lima beans linguistic imperialism litter litterbugs little French cars with no guts living on the third floor when you take dance classes Llamas local press Locker combinations that get stuck London metropolitan road system London public transport system London Underground Long distance relationships Long rehearsal hours long road trips Lord of the Rings note books ... sold out Losing / misplacing things Losing a post on downs due to crap internet stuff Losing elections Losing wallets Lost passports M25 Motorway make-up work at school after illness mandatory meeting right after sweaty excerise Mario Marketing executives Mary Sues math Math exams scheduled at seven in the morning on a Saturday medication tolerance Memorising lists Memory lapses men who hit women men who proposition random girls Men who unintelligently assign a woman's bad mood to hormones (is there an intelligent way of doing it?) Mermaids mice Mice Mice that don't do what they're told Michael Moore Michigan winters migraines Milipedes Milk Mismatched socks misused homophones Mixed messages mobile phones modern world's way of taking all the fun out of life Mondays monosodium glutimate mormegil Mosquitos Most vegetables Multiple lynching in Werewolf (need to work this into ATM somehow...) musicians' managers. 'my bad' My philosophy is... 'myself and ______' Mysteriously temperamental showers nagging mothers nagging parents nagging thoughts you realize you should have listened to Napoleon Dynamite Nazis Neighbours staying up late laughing loudly or playing music neighbours who put up large aluminum sheds which block all sun from your garden New computers news report sound bites Newspapers exaggerating PC stories nightmares Nightmares nights when there is a full moon (so it's always a full moon in Mordor) Nilpaurion Felagund No graphing calculator rules No paper currency smaller than a five pound note noisy air conditioners nonstandard word users Non-teenagers Norman Conquest Not being able to refrainfrom sarcasm, cynicism, or snide comments not being able to spend time with your girl/boyfriend not being in the same class with your friends Not having enough money Not having enough time for PMs Not teaching foreign languages until the age of 12 nuclear bombs 'nuculer' Numbers outside basic maths 'official Wendy's guy' offspring who don't understand the difficulties of being a parent off-topic posts Old ice cream Once respectable people who sell their soul by acting in lousy commercials online college application forms Opponents to the metric system Organic Chemistry osteopaths who try to crush you Outsourcing Overdone christmas decorations Overplayed songs Oversalted popcorn overzealous political correctness Packing pain from first ever dance class Painting apartments on Friday night and having to go to work on Saturday panicked atmosphere that unprepared students create before tests papercuts Paranoia parents parents parents and their children parents when they're in a bad mood Parents who abuse their children parents who brag about their children parents who cannot understand their children Parents who don't like tongue piercings Parents who mould consciences parents who name their kids badly parents who think that you're nervous about leaving for college in the morning when you're not Paris Hilton Parking around malls Passive voice Patina that doesn't work Pedestrians who walk in the street when there is a perfectly good sidewalk ten feet away. Pens that don't work people always in a rush People in chatrooms with names like 'webcamguy16wantstits' People misusing the word assign People on IM who sign in and out repeatedly People on robotics team People right in front of you who randomly stop People that can only answer questions by saying 'yes', 'no' and 'I don't know' People that don't understand introverts like me. People that don't use proper or close-to-proper spelling in messages and chatrooms. People that think they are so great and so funny while they aren't. People who "don't get" fantasy or sci-fi. People who "don't get" Strong Bad. People who act knowing that their actions are going to hurt/upset/offend People who allocate blame to political correctness or bureaucracy randomly People who are constantly worried about offending someone people who are easily offended People who are easily offended should go to Mordor. people who are horrified by 'weird' food combinations people who are overly worried about offending others People who assign people to Mordor for convenience in the RPG People who assume that to live a life with no romantic interests must be the greatest of hardships People who ATM for convenience People who believe that they are the only important beings in the universe people who believe they are animals People who blind with their brights after you flash your brights to warn them of a speed trap People who bring smelly food to the cinema People who buy stupid things People who buy the last tub of Ben and Jerry's People who can't be quiet People who can't comprehend that two people of opposite genders can be friends with out being romantically interested in each other People who care too much about pro football People who chat in-thread people who claim that the advert breaks are no louder than the programmes people who complain about not being able to find shoes one time in their lives People who delight in interfering or spreading ill news People who dismiss Tolkien without reading it People who distribute tacks over pavements People who do not believe in the philosophy that when something is boring you make it fun, and when it’s still not fun after you tried, you drink lots of tequilas and dance on the bar People who do not understand the need for representation People who do not understand the satisfaction of a half-formed desire People who do things behind your back People who don't indicate at roundabouts People who don't know directions and give false directions. people who don't turn up for meetings they set People who don't turn up when invited weeks in advance People who don't understand cross cultural views of personal space People who don't understand introverts People who drive exactly the speed limit People who drive really slow and stop at corners that don't have stop signs and generally act lost. People who drop pronouns People who find love no proper motivation to move to Scotland People who flash-blind people with their photography people who forget about the "grey area" in between what's black and white people who give away spoilers to books and movies without warning People who give instructions on car driving when you're fine People who glare people who hate white chocolate people who have no regard for others People who litter instead of using a trash can 15 feet away people who make fun of people with asthma People who make out in the hallways at school between classes People who misuse the word work People who offer unsolicited academic advice People who only complain about bad things, never mentioning the good people who pay with change people who pronounce it Ray-min noodles people who repeatedly don't show up when you invite them People who run their stop/yield sign and then glare at you like you should've stopped for them people who say 'it's not rocket science' people who spill liquor wantonly people who spit gum out on to the pavement people who spread stupid tales around the workplace People who stand in the middle of a crowded hallway People who step on your feet People who tailgate when you are going the speed limit or above People who talk during performances People who talk loudly into mobiles People who think dog taxes exist so the government can do nice things to dogs People who think everyone should get out and vote. People who think families of more than 2 children are huge People who think popularity equals quality. People who think Republicans should go to Mordor. People who think that - just because you dance with someone in a flirty manner - you are in love people who think that a Straight Edge lifestyle means you've got a gang mentality People who think they are the bomb because they have a Honda Civic People who think Tolkien is boring People who think writing is a waste of time and effort People who use ATM thread as a blogspot People who use dictionaries as if English were a dead language People who use others as a dumping ground for problems people who use personal grief as an excuse to treat other peple badly people who wearing sockless sandals bring small space heaters to warm up the space under their desks People who wont go to the back of a bus when it fills up People who would deprive us of a story people with gender double standards people you thought were your friends stabbing you in the back permanent paranoia of law enforcement officers Personal space desecration Personal statements on college applications pervasive media perverts Pharmaceutical company ads Pharmaceuticals Phonetics Phony fish oil ad Phys. 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12-20-2005, 11:30 AM | #298 |
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And you alphabetized them . . . At last - someone as obsessive as I am! ~*~ Pio
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12-20-2005, 09:45 PM | #299 |
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Boy am I glad I left that to you, Guy. I may be obsessive, but not THAT obsessive.
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12-20-2005, 10:05 PM | #300 |
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Wow... kudos, Shorty. This is how cool you are for doing that -->
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12-21-2005, 05:31 AM | #301 |
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Thanks guys, but technically Microsoft Excel sorted them alphabetically for me, and LMP did most of the listing.
Alas, I was going to write a post but I'm being swept away to the North (not that far) for two days. Encaitare, Fléin's odd and dubious attraction to Wilhelmina must remain only in my mind for a few days yet. Yes, I'm serious. |
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12-25-2005, 03:12 PM | #304 |
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~*~ Announcement ~*~
You are all invited to post in The Yule Log in Rohan. Just read Bêthberry’s introductory post and join in at The Green Man Free House for the next few weeks. Come share a story of ghosties, and ghoulies, and sharp toothed goblins for the days of the Winter’s Yule while the fire burns bright and warm and the drink flows freely. ~*~ Pio
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12-27-2005, 03:25 PM | #305 |
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I have a colossal post (four pages of single spaced size 10 Verdana in Microsoft Word) to put up when I get a chance (meaning when the computer I have the post on is the same one as the computer I access the internet with).
If anybody else posts, don't bother with Alli. An overview is this: she waits impatiently for instructions, finds out the proceedings are delayed a few days, and meets up with some of the Wrong Sort in a seedy corner of the casino to call in a favor. Shortly thereafter, she is gone from the casino. If anybody (Mardil, maybe? P'raps Sai?) feels like following her, her desinations are as follows: into casino, sketchy corner, private room (for a few hours), street, coffee shop. Before she enters the shop, she forgets to look behind her. Once there, she sits alone in a dark corner staring moodily into her drink. I'll account for Roggie's whereabouts later.
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12-28-2005, 10:21 AM | #306 |
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Would anybody *looks at LMP* mind if I brought Queen Quon back into the picture in my next post? It would only mention her appearance, then the post would probably end.
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12-28-2005, 07:12 PM | #307 |
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Do it. Queen Quon needs to come back in anyway, as both she and Roggie are going to appear in ATM as if in a new hit movie of monster versus monster. Maybe you could have her in her oversized make-up room or something. Or not.
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01-03-2006, 03:24 PM | #308 |
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My dear LMP, surely I won't have to keep revisiting Roggie's story to make sure the world is made aware that he is not a monster and is simply... of man-shape, but greater?
Totally misunderstood. Balrogs are just like people... even if their fumes are carcinogenic.
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Anyway, we're underway again. Sundown will be at 7pm, Wednesday, January 11. Happy hunting! And may the celebrities find themselves with all their dignity missing. Oh. Yeah. That's true already. Then whatever you can take from them! Have at it. Should be fun. Edit: Sundown will be as of 7pm, Sunday, January 15. Last edited by littlemanpoet; 01-07-2006 at 08:02 PM. |
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01-04-2006, 03:27 PM | #310 |
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Oh dear, restarting already. I'll have full access back on Sunday when I'll post, and hopefully Pio or someone else will place, Alli's Casino-and-surrounding-areas piece. Apart from that, I'll simply have to play catch up when I get back to school. I'll fill in the blanks where necessary when possible.
Good gaming 'til then, m'darlings. And LMP, you can't pick your master when you're a slave, can you? Who ever said that the Balrogs worked willingly for Morgoth? Perhaps they feared retribution if they didn't follow his orders and pretend like they followed his dogma? Just because Balrogs are less courageous than you, shouldst thou scorn them?
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01-05-2006, 11:58 AM | #311 |
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*Wanders in*
Starting up again? Sigh... A little sooner than I expected. I have a ton of maths to do, and I just stepped in a bucket of paint whilst wearing my suit. A combination of these factors mean I cannot / don't want to post today. I'll get something done on the morrow. By the way, unless anybody has got him already, I'm calling dibs on Mr. Depp. |
01-05-2006, 05:00 PM | #312 |
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Ok I have an idea but it has led to a question. Does the thing to be taken away have to be able to actually be physically taken?
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01-05-2006, 06:06 PM | #313 |
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Celuien - Valde would like to join Panakeia, as I just can't pass up the opportunity to see William Shatner in Middle-earth, even if it is only through my character's eyes.
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By the way, this is the Cap it all records building. It's visible from the Trollywood Freeway (the 101 on this map - sorry for adding it.)
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Kath, use your imagination and make it work in ATM. |
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01-06-2006, 03:01 AM | #316 |
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Cheers! Now to see if it will . . .
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That Capitol Records building is ugly, isn't it?
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01-06-2006, 10:33 AM | #318 |
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Schedule
Some concern has been voiced regarding the earliness of our start. Though I was clear back in December that we would be starting on january 3, I'm sure real life is more pressing and one can lose track of such things as rpg restarts. My main reason for starting when I did was that some of you voiced concern that this not drag on into February. As it is, we have three weeks to go unless we cut out one of the three remaining scenarios:
Scenario 3: Celebrity Hunt: Jan. 3-9 Scenario 4: Werewolf in Mordor: Jan. 10-16 Scenario 5: University Hospital of Mordor: Jan. 17-23. That gives us a week to spare. Maybe the concerns about February are not so pressing? Maybe that extra week can be worked with? If you like, we can stretch this first week a few days. If so, I'd like us to plan together how the rest of the time is going to fall out. Let me know, everyoffendingone. |
01-07-2006, 12:27 PM | #319 |
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I'm fine with extending the current challenge a few days or so. February isn't an issue for me.
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01-07-2006, 01:03 PM | #320 |
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Save filled.
I think it would be wise to extend Celeb hunting by a few days, considering the fact that most of us have just started. |
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