Assigned to Mordor Planning/Discussion Thread

[Celuien]

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

I have the final two candidates for the game lined up, but am waiting for their firm agreement and information, so their names remain under wraps for the time being. That said, WWXIII is going to be starting up soon, and I'm in it, so we still have a good week or so of planning time before ATM launches.

Great! Can't wait to get started.

Welcome, tp and Encai!

[piosenniel]

Encaitare and the phantom

Please put your character bios and first posts directly onto the planning thread as you get them ready.

Thanks!

~*~ Pio, game moderator

[littlemanpoet]

Our 6th and 7th players are guy who be short and Kath.

Pio, please add their names to the list of those who can post to this thread.

Guy & Kath, as with Enca & tp, you can post your lists, character descrip, and first posts here. I'll let you know right here what may need to be changed.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Welcome aboard, my doves! This is possibly the most excited I've been to begin writing. I don't know two of you half as well as I should like (Durelin and Celuien) and I like all of you slightly more than half as you deserve. I'm glad to be writing with the esteemed likes of ye all. Not you, phantom. I'm terribly upset to be writing with you. Words simply can't express my remorse properly.

Can't wait to see bios and posts!

PS: yay for peer pressure!

[piosenniel]

Everyone's now on the various requisite lists.

And I'm supposing that the game is now closed for taking on any more players . . . yes?/no?

~*~ Pio

[Kath]

Guy & Kath, as with Enca & tp, you can post your lists, character descrip, and first posts here. I'll let you know right here what may need to be changed.

In that case ignore my last PM! I've done the lists though not the bio or post yet.

I assigned:
Saying pronounciation rather than pronumciation
ATMs
Yoda
Overzealous political correctness
Role of Ranger
Geography teachers
Hayfever
Fathers who think they know everything about computers, and then delete programs because they don't know what they're doing or because if it's not theirs it can't possibly be important
Inability to breathe
Hypocritical parents
PE teachers who don't understand asthma
Overly neurotic parents
Hovering parents
Adults that think teenage gripes are just due to hormones
Parents in general
Osteopaths who try to crush you
Going to school when it's pointless
Lying TV people who say the adverts are no louder than the programmes
UCAS applications and personal statements
Online forms and filling them out
Figuring out where to go to university
Being banned from the internet
The logic that means you are banned from the net for tying up the phone lines but are then allowed to be on the phone for 2 hours
People you think are your friends who then turn round and stab you in the back
The internet when it isn't working and you have to restart the computer before it will let you log back on
Adverts
Sneezing when halfway up a climbing wall with a belayer you don't entirely trust
Paranoia
Going to the dentist
School
Procrastinating
Being too ill to walk

Wow, I complain a lot! Other list later as I have to get off the net.

EDIT: here it be

I have been assigned for:
Being a hypocrite
Paying with too much change
Assigning minor irritations to the most miserable, dangerous and evil place in the world without a moments thought
Being a person
Cutting queues
Being pedantic about spelling
Leaving my phone on in class
Using non standard words
Speaking English
Using 'myself and . . .'
Not liking white chocolate
Being unable to turn down food dares
Misusing apostrophes
Making weird faces and comments to those who like black liquorice
Continually complaining about languages
Making off topic posts
Liking a thread but not being able to think of anything to say
Being a conspiracy theorist
Not listening to nagging, seemingly irrrelevant thoughts
Being an offspring who doesn't understand the difficulty of being a parent
Being a child
Procrastinating
Having bad habits
Being a soda and coke drinker
Not signing positive reps (admittedly by accident)
Moaning about having to do tests
Being a girl
Discriminating against the stupid
Being told to do something and immediately not wanting to do it as a result
British spelling is true spelling
Using dangling prepositions
Speaking
Worrying about offending others


There. Bio and post on the way once I've written them.

[the guy who be short]

Originally Posted by Kath

Wow, I complain a lot!

*Snork*

Things I have sent to Mordor:
People using incorrect Jamesian English.
People who can't use capslock.
Chavs.
My thirteen year old self.
Users of non standard words.
Politicians.
Nightmares.
American spelling.
English.
Food poisoning.
Prolonged conjunctivitis.
Illness.
Early birdsong.
All language.
Lack of published Quenya.
Political correctness.
Off topic posts.
Misleading names, like Jellyfish.
Excess phlegm.
When you like a thread but can't think of anything to say.
Ridiculous conspiracy theories / theorists.
Teachers who fail to make maths engaging.
Balrog wingers.
Elastic bands in braces, particularly when accidentally ingested.
Films that radically alter the storyline of the book they're based on.
Finding a whole chick pea lurking in your braces 6 hours after your last meal.
The local press.
Parents between children's adolescence and when we start liking them again.
Eomer of the Rohirrim.
Heatwaves.
Coldwaves.
Sweat patches.
The backspace button.
People who don't understand introverts.
Extroverts who try to engage in conversation when I'm not in the mood.
Being shy around people I know I'll get on well with, once I know them better.
Not having time to respond to PMs.
The time consuming nature of Sixth Form.
Procrastination.
Fossil fuels.
The pervasive media.
Homophones.
People who drop pronouns.
Sudden returns to school.
People who blame bureaucracy and political correctness.
Confusing spellings, such as the -ent and -ant suffixes.
No free periods on a Monday.
Discrimination against the stupid.
The system that allows less intelligent people into positions of authority.
Not having a feudal society based on intellect with the phantom as our leader.
Computers that keep breaking down.
Guy Fawkes Day and the lack of decent British festivals.
The phrase "red tape."
David Cameron.

Things I have been sent to Mordor for:
I enjoy algebra.
I like allegory. Well, some.
I like liquorice.
British spelling is true spelling.
I use dangling prepositions.
I speak English.
I'm about to join a fan fiction game.
I like exams. Honest.
I like fish. Well, depends on the type and if it's already cooked, but generally.
I like geometry. Maths is fun, people. Accept it.
Ich spreche nur ein bische Deutsch. If you ignore grammar rules, that is.
I'm not opposed to nanny states.
I am in many aspects an ignorant fool.
I love maths. And yes, that's an "s" you see there.
I'm not sure on the use of "myself."
I am. Human, that is.
I use language.
Verily, I enjoy non standard words.
I worry about offending others.
I would actually like to be a politician, much as I detest them. I'd be honest and represent the people and... ah, screw it.
I am a raccoon. Well, I'd like to be, just for a day or so.
Same with squirrels.
I am, on occasion, utterly stupid. Depends on what's being discussed.

I'm in the process of naming my character. I have a basic history circulating in my head, but post to come later - I still need to become acquainted with the delightful Green Dragon.

[littlemanpoet]

Originally Posted by piosenniel

Everyone's now on the various requisite lists.

And I'm supposing that the game is now closed for taking on any more players . . . yes?/no?

~*~ Pio

That is correct. I have already had the unpleasant duty of turning down one interested party, who, if there is a second generation of this, I promised to invite.

Warning to players: I am going to handle this the way the phantom handled WWXII, in this sense.... if you fail to post often enough and believably enough during a given week's test, your character will lag behind and have to catch up. That means that some characters may not succeed in getting out of Mordor. Just so it's clear, each Test will take one week's game time. I plan on five tests, which means five weeks. Since deadlines have handily been assigned to Mordor, I intend to fully implement them. This game will be over precisely five weeks after it starts, no exceptions. In addition, if you fail to post for an entire week without giving warning (so that your character's catching up to the rest of the Offending Party cannot be adequately planned for by me), your character will become embroiled in a Mordorian Werewolf village and wind up among the multiple lynchees. Promise.

Edit: Oh, and if the above warning is not quite within the bounds of Shire rpg rules, Pio and I will work out an amicable solution so that the goal implied in the warning can be achieved.

[Celuien]

Ah, the Offending Party is complete. Welcome to TGWBS and Kath. Here's looking forward to the trials and tribulations of our tests.

EDIT: With regard to the storyline: I have a special fondness (of sorts) for bureaucratic hospitals, should that be a challenge.

As a side note, if there's any place for history in this story, I think I can connect mantle-clocks in the Shire and hobbit legal customs with the rise of anakronisms and bureaucracy. Though I'm not sure if it's appropriate for this game or better left for future sequels.