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The LotRO early acccess launch went very well. They sneakily opened the servers half a day early, but luckily our kinship leader sounded the alarm very quickly and we all rushed over. I got the names I wanted, we got our kinship name registered, and by 9pm a throng of us were sitting in the Bird & Baby sampling the best beers Michel Delving has to offer.

Life on the RP server is great. People were a little slow to start general RPing, but everyones settling in now and things are picking up. I don't have much RP experience myself, but so I mostly wait for others to start and then go along with it. But I think at least my hobbit might get a bit more active next time she pops into The Pony, or passes a neighbour in Buckland.

My elf was out in the wilds of Ered Luin the other day, when .. cut some because this entry looks a little too long )

There's two hobbits in our kinship who come online together and go everywhere together. It's really sweet and funny. I passed them on the edge of an elf town once, and it was so cool to see two cheery little people, in their simple shire clothes, standing amoung elven architecture and busy elven warriors dashing by. They had come on a day-trip to see the town, and were off back home to The Shire, so I bid them farewell and told them to look after each other. "We always do!" one said, and the other just giggled. Then they ran off down the road and it all felt so middle-earthish. I love this game!

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Since I'm going to be on a rolplay server for LotR Online I've been looking up a few sindarin phrasebooks so that my elf character won't look totally stupid everytime another player greets him in his own tongue. But that's not what I'm posting about... in my search I stumbled across this from a Q&A with David Salo which may amuse some of you. )

Maybe I'll just stick to japanese...

Oh, here's the rest if you're interested.

I'm feeling : restless restless

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Aha, I found the embeding thing. Now presenting.. Star Trek meets Monty Python


I blame [info]jereeza for me finding this :)

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I'm feeling : geeky geeky
I'm listening to: I'm waiting for the man - the velvet underground

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Although I also really liked:

"Kill elves.

Take ears.

Food! "

I've gotta find more trolls to do quests for :) yay monsterplay!

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I'm feeling : amused amused
I'm listening to: Easy Livin - Uriah Heep

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So.. my pretty-boy elven champion character (a duel-weapon weilding warrior type) was innocently standing in the auction house in Thorin's Hall (in the mines or Ered Luin) looking to buy some high quality pipe-weed. When suddenly a dwarf runs up behind me and... )

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I'm feeling : excited excited
I'm listening to: Kashmir - Led Zepplin

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Ok, I'm trying not to be a total LotR Online bore, but I was clicking through my latest screenshots and I thought this looked especially cool for something taken on the fly.



Btw, it wasn't my idea to go to the Barrow Downs at night. (Although the sun was starting to come up by this point.)

I can't wait till the real game starts and I'll be able to install the high-res textures, they look amazing in comparison to whats in my pictures. Then I'll have to take all my travelling piccies again :D Oh my poor harddrive....

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I'm feeling : cheerful cheerful
I'm listening to: The Crystal Ship - The Doors

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Ok, finally got my new lotro pics up. I took way too many, but everythings so pretty. And I tried to get more ones showing the gameplay, not just pretty scenery.

Some of the graphics quality isn't as good as a should be (apart from the jpg compression itself) because I had to lower my graphics from the beta event, and I forgot to fix them all up again.

I'm feeling : sleepy sleepy

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EDIT: made this public to help spread the word that LotR Online is awesome while people still have the chance to get eligible for lifetime membership.

So it turned out that the people running the european servers are doing things totally different from the US, which was very annoying while I figured out what was going on and replanned around it. The worst of it.. no open beta for europe :( Now I'm even more thankful that I'm in the closed beta, but I feel sorry for those who aren't. However, the CVG (euro-server guys) have regained my favor with two things...

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(The US didn't get official roleplay servers)

2. We had an awesome event last night. And I say that despite the server freezing up completly for about 5 minutes due to two server's worth of people trying to cram into one town. Actually, that was one of the most fun parts as the chat filled up with the gleeful shouts of the people hanging matrix-like in the air, and we all kept outselves entertained until the first call of "hey, I can move" when we all got back into battle mode, and idley killed baddies until the CVG guys could return. And then... can you hear wings flapping? big wings?? can you smell burning?

I made a gallery for the event. Satine, the blonde lass, was the GM we were following to help rescue some members of the CVG team who got kidnapped. I'm the sneaky guy with a knife.

I've also got some more pics of general gameplay/life in middle earth. I'll upload them later today, with explinations on them.

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I'm listening to: Nice n Sleazy - The Stranglers

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OMG I'm playing Zork

I'm feeling : nerdy nerdy

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If You Ruled the Land . . . by wackyweasel
Your first name:
How you gained your rule:
Your title is:Great and Merciful Ruler of All the Land
Your symbol is:the fox, because you're foxy!
You rule from:a clear, crystalline palace, and change in the basement
At your side is:the band who plays your theme song
Your enforcers, troops, and guards are all:centaurs! They should NOT be so hot . . . oh well!
Your most popular law is:"National Pajamas Day"
Your least popular law is:Regulation of a national favorite color
Your worst enemy is:Johnny Depp - possibly hotter than you in good light
Your popularity rating is:: 44%
Your chance of being overthrown is:: 82%
Quiz created with MemeGen!

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I'm feeling : hot hot
I'm listening to: I'm Sorry I Havn't A Clue (BBC7)

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I tunneled my way into irc!! I have caht again!!!!!!!!!!!


*insaneteuncing* wheeeeeeeeee laaaaaaalalaaa yaaaaaaaayeeeeeeeeeeiieiieieieiie

In other news, my paid account ran out and I don't plan to pay more yet. but the 3 icons I'm left with are a good mix, so I don;t mind
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And I almost did forget yesterday, but I think about it all year round so I guess thats ok. Anyway, it's time for my favourite poem again.

Dulce et decorum est

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas shells dropping softly behind.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!- An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.


In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, -
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.


Wilfred Owen, 1917

"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" means "It is sweet and proper to die for one's country"

I'm feeling : contemplative contemplative

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Happy Birthday [info]celamity!!

(damn, you beat me to it)

*gets choklit burfday cake out of dwagin-proof hidey-hole and gives everyone a slice*

I'm feeling : bouncy bouncy

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DRUID

You are the Druid, an enigmatic figure of the forest. Druids are often associated with witchcraft or sorcery. Druids are masters of healing, and they are very in tune with their spiritual selves. They enjoy being a part of nature. Druids see beauty in all things, especially the natural world around them.

Color: Brown
Animal: Deer
Gem: Aquamarine
Symbol: Tree

Image:http://www.deviantart.com/view/17570242/


Who would you be if you were a character in an epic fantasy? (beautiful pictures)
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What's with the pointy ears?

I'm feeling : hungry hungry
I'm listening to: aarghh! radio 2! why????

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There's been several major things happened in my life recently, but none of them have managed to push me to write in this journal. But this man I could never ignore.

I just heard the Softrat has died. I couldn't decribe how much respect I had for him and his attitude towards life and knowledge. And of course, his humour. There are few people in this world will be completly straight-spoken without also needing everyone around them to agree. That is confidence and honesty, though some would mistake it for arrogance. And this is what burned a deep impresson of the Softrat into my memory 6 years ago, even before I met him in person.

Goodbye Squidgy,
I'll be raising a glass for you soon. Well done for having a damn good innings.
*teuncehugs*,
'TarBaby.

I'm feeling : sad sad