Eccentric Flower talk:200907/NOTRO

Mel:

Cool, thanks!

-- 05:27, 22 July 2009 (BST)

Mel:

I'm gonna use this as a parking place for various LOTRO-related comments while you are gone, since probably nobody else is much interested, anyway.

The main thing I have to report is that Kinslo found a group last night after you left to do Finding Dori (wonder why he didn't go to Moria with Ori and Oin, anyway?) and we ended up with a group of 6, of which I was the high one at 34, but mostly right around that same level, and so of course with so many we had no trouble at all. And I may not have been 34 when you left, actually, but I discovered that I was very close shortly thereafter and went and killed things until I leveled.

Oh, and I also got that scholar quest that was down in the swamps with the books (you'll remember that from the other day) and I did that one, although I haven't turned it in yet. And I took Zaina and did some running around in the Trollshaws in search of lebethron and she stayed alive, which was somewhat reassuring. I was really intending to play the alts more and Ceinnwyn less while you were gone (note that I seem to be considering Ceinnwyn my main now, I guess because she's now the highest level by quite a lot) but I may change my mind and get some of that group stuff over with instead. We'll see.

I did like the optimistic article above. I really would like to think this game will be around long enough that we'll get to see more of its world.

-- 14:36, 6 August 2009 (BST)

Mel:

Thursday in LOTRO: There was Guild Drama. Again. Edgerickan (however you spelled it) decided to leave, for reasons that aren't quite clear to me, and several people evidently decided they loved him more than they loved the guild and went with. Which is a bit odd to me, but what can you do. The clearest explanation I got was that he "felt unappreciated" - and well, I guess having more than one person follow you to another guild ought to make his little heart go pitter-pat, then.

I played everybody BUT Ceinnwyn tonight. Well, and Meleuriel, just because I didn't get around to her! The most notable thing might be that I ran Anerulias to that middle town in the Trollshaws - she hasn't been to Rivendell yet but I'm not crazy enough to try that on my own.

-- 08:50, 7 August 2009 (BST)

Mel:

OMG, Big Guild Drama!!! (Big enough to call for exclamation points.) Let's see, well, first of all, I don't think that Briannas or Slidron either one were there when Edge pulled his big noisy exit Thursday night. And also I failed to mention before that the big noisy exit involved sending the whole guild a message - which was interestingly coy about exactly why he was leaving. The consensus, near as I can tell - among people who are not particularly his friends, at least - is that he got an offer to be an officer in a new guild and he's pretty much actively recruiting people out of Captains to join. So of course that didn't go over too well. Plus, even still on Friday, people just couldn't shut up about it, which I think exacerbated things. So tonight a couple of people mentioned in chat that they were grouping with Edge and Slidron snapped, or something. He threw the people out that had said that and he sent out a mail that basically said you had to choose between Edge and the kin. And then I guess there was backstage drama about that, because a few minutes later Slidron resigns from being an officer and then he leaves the guild.

The good thing is, the short-term effect of it seems to have been good. As in, the air is cleared and Briannas is back in charge and she promoted a bunch of people to be new officers and the people who are still around seem pretty happy to be there. Briannas also was very clear in saying that who you're friends with is your own business. (Although I think people really ought to shut up about Edge in chat for a while, myself.) Oh, and I'm not 100% sure about how many people Slidron threw out, but at least two of them immediately came back.

In other news, I got my first taste of Dol Dinen tonight, and it did not go well, really. Although I got a couple of quests done in the process. There were two Captains groups running around Dol Dinen, and I was in the second one and all the people who really knew what they were doing were in the first one, or so it seemed. Aside from just being uncoordinated, nobody was watching out for MY health and so a couple of orcs or trolls would decide to pound on me and nobody would come to my rescue, and then after I died, of course everybody else died too, because there was nobody to heal them! Anyway, clearly it's a hard zone but I think it was probably a bit harder than it needed to be. Ceinnwyn is 2 bars from 35 but doesn't have enough money for a horse, still, because she keeps having to spend it on training and such!! But I'll worry about that later.

-- 10:41, 9 August 2009 (BST)

Danima:

(These are fascinating to read, in much the same way as stumbling across letters from, say, the 1920s. The details may change, but human-scale politics is eternal.)

-- 19:50, 10 August 2009 (BST)

Mel:

Boy, ain't that the truth.

-- 23:50, 10 August 2009 (BST)