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i didn't actually experience that at any point, but that sure is an effective curse!
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warg juice warg juice
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An ask game for writers to procrastinate working on you WIP(s)
I am also procrastinating actually writing. If you’ve multiple works in progress you can give a different answer every time!
🦈Tell us the name of your/ one of your WIP(s)
🍄Decriscribe your wip/one of your wips in the format of “___ + ___ =___”  
🌍What tags or warnings will your / one of your wip(s) need if you intend to share it?
🧭An alternative title to your/ one of your WIP(s)?
⚠️Which wip your most likely to finish or update next?
💾What is your document of your wip/ a wip called? (not the stories actual title but what you’ve saved it as)
🖍Post Any sentence from your wip
♻️A scrapped idea for your current WIP
🤔What’s a story you’d love to write but haven’t even started yet?
🤡How many Wips are you actively working on?
🛠Is there a scene or anything in the WIP you are struggling with right now?
❤️Not a question, just a second kudos to send.
Enjoy!
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nauriel you are Not Helping
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saeblings + gamenight :D
game night!!!!
The heat of the summer evening leaks through the open windows, and the waves crashing gently against the shore is too soothing an ambience for the shouting match that Enerdhil are currently engaged in. 
That is an unfair observation, it is not one of their real shouting matches – they are both laughing too much – but still, it is very loud and… all this over a rule in a game older than all of them except maybe Dirhaval. 
Saelinriel glances at the hand of cards in her hands and considers, for a moment, folding ltogether and escaping the living room that she and her siblings are sprawled on the cushions, and Faroth’s head is in her lap, curled up with his tail wagging wildly. 
But, she’s missed this too much to be too bothered, and so, with a mischievous grin of her own, puts in her own comment that results in two medium sized pillows being thrown in her general direction which she dodges, barely, and soon the card game is forgotten in favor of tossing volleys of pillows and blankets at the others.
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:/
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siblings expansion my beloved tho
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nauriel please
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35%??????
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Est + hope tokens and/or Rani + Share the Fun?
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oh i guess the picture's just. up there now. whatever
anyway! i took my grand time deciding what i was gonna actually do for this one lol, but here we are. not really hope token as in crafted for in-game stats but hope token as in present for a friend that you really hope will remind them that you care and want to help
i'm imagining this as a stone est picked up in moria in one of the instances and/or expeditions into places like the lost treasury. she saw it and it made her think of golodir, and no one especially objected to her keeping it. she didn't do anything with it for awhile, mostly because she very quickly got very busy with mirkwood and things with the wrong number of eyes and/or teeth in foundations of stone and then sprinting off to rivendell. after rescue in nurz ghashu, though, she pulls it out for something to do with her hands more than anything. she should probably be sleeping, like everyone else she's dragging back to rivendell for the grey company is, but she's not
she etches some little designs into it- they're real faint, and you can only really see them if the light catches it right (you can feel it under your fingers though)- the outline of a shield and a single rune. it's not really a Rune Of Power, even if she were to invoke it, but it's still supposed to be one of protection. she gives it to golodir in the morning, and she's really not sure when he managed to get it attached to the leather cord, but the next she sees it he's wearing it like a bracelet flat against his wrist
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any character + barrow brie?
“...this is cheese.”
“Cursed cheese.”
“Who curses cheese?”
“Who knows? But I will send them a strongly worded letter once I find out, mark my words.”
“...”
“What?”
“Please tell me you aren’t seriously considering eating it anyway. Rani, it came out of wight-infested tomb-”
“I’m not an idiot!”
“You do recall the pie incident, don’t you?”
“You weren’t even there for that.”
“I saw how it ended.”
“...”
“...look, I’m not trying to-”
“It’s not like I didn’t learn my lesson…”
“...”
“...but you know who would eat the cheese?”
“Rani, no.”
“Oh come on, you know he would.”
“Rani-”
“It would be easy. All it would take is a nice basket and he would make up some excuse to take it for himself.”
“...”
“Easy.”
“You’re a menace.”
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Hmm, how about Est and Steady Hands?
steady hands is v fun. swaps your attunement from one extreme to the other- and yellow line has a fun trait that swaps it right back if you use an ability that would normally reset you to neutral. it's super useful* if you are dying bc you can be full battle > steady hands > max strength bubble > immediately back at full battle
*only useful if you do this fast enough. i often do not do this fast enough :) anyway:
Change comes like the flash of lightning. Bright-dark, sight-sound, streak-and-thunder. Here more than ever before you may lose everything in an instant- to stray arrows, to the diving fell-beasts, to one wrong step on the blood-slick slope of the slag hills.
You are sunk deep in the storm. There is no pause between thought and word and flash of light. It’s effective- frighteningly so, from the outside- and it is efficient, deep and sinking deeper until all your thoughts are consumed and all your mind’s eye sees is lines and lines of all the names of lightning you have learned. It is efficient, but still your strength is failing.
You strike at the diving shadows that harry the hilltops, dark claws reaching, wings spread wide, and the screaming barely reaches you. Even here, though, you know the voices of your friends, and they are crying out for you, in warning, and a cold shadow falls over you-
In a breath you reach the other extreme, like the afterimage of lightning and twice as blinding, and you are not most skilled in this but you know a word of protection, an exalted word that can save you, sometimes, if you are fast enough.
(You aren’t, this time.)
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if no one has sent in Est yet, I would like to see a tutorial questline starring her!
est is great because you can put her just about anywhere for most any race :D she spent enough time wandering around on her own before getting pulled into the epic that she could reasonably be anywhere you need
she’s traveled through the vales enough that radagast can voluntell her to travel with a beorning pc to bree. she wouldn’t really get bumped up at all for an edhelion intro, but if you’re a younger elf on elladan & elrohir’s trip to the ruins she could get the role of intro chaperone. most others you could just run into her on the road somewhere when something big scary comes through- nazgul, skorgrim, big spider. depends where and when you are exactly
i think edhelion ruins is the most fun for her though (in that it is not fun for her in the slightest). she gets to have her own objective in ‘go talk to the survivors of edhelion’ quest, and once it becomes clear there’s going to be actual fighting nearby pretty soon she has to try to give you a too-fast combat lesson, and if it’s not quite as pressing as when talagan gave her a too-fast combat lesson it’s still not great
for the actual structure of it, i think your tutorial instance in this case starts in rivendell really briefly- here’s where you’re headed and why, here’s your traveling party, have fun- and then jumps to a night on the road where est is telling you a bit about what happened and then jumps again to edhelion. most of the rest of that intro stays the same, honestly, except for Est Is Here and is also taking a lot of this a bit too personally. you might just get her instead of the twins for the instance at the end, and you definitely have to convince her not to try chasing after skorgrim on her own there as the tomb collapses. she does thank you, later, but she also almost immediately leaves to do her own thing after seeing you safely to celondim. she doesn’t really say where she’s going or what she’s doing beyond ‘looking for some friends’ and ‘doing some scouting’. i dunno when exactly she would show up again in the epic tbh… rivendell maybe, to deliver some plot-relevant exposition or quest vectors
also doing instances with her is awful because she just wanders off on her own all the time. she doesn’t do the thing where npcs are often a bit slower than you and will wait at checkpoints. you just turn around and she’s gone trying to solo the swarm halfway up the hill. it’s awful
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rani for the intro ask game 👀👀?
rani ‘i’m gonna cause problems on purpose’ sandyhill my beloved
probably a hobbit intro, but you could make it work for others if you wanted. you’re out for a walk or running errands or something and you run into rani, who is ostensibly on the job as part of the quickpost. she stops to chat and also to gossip, as one does, and in the middle of this you hear something coming down the road (with accompanying dread aura) and you get off the road
rani would love to go take a look at whatever’s coming down the road. you tell her this is a bad idea. she does not care. ‘here, take this [class appropriate weapon],’ she says. ‘where did you get this? where were you holding it?’ you say. ‘don’t worry about it,’ she says. (she bought it perfectly legitimately because she thought it looked cool) ‘take a few swings with it at that tree over there.’ (combat tutorial)
you turn around and she’s gone, already halfway up the hill to snoop. new objective: follow rani (quietly!). do not let yourself be seen
+dread
black riders on black horses come screaming down the road. +lots more dread. +fear effect sending you both running back down the hill
‘what was that???’ you want to ask. rani has no answers for you even if you do
rani: suddenly afflicted with a sense of responsibility that she’s been avoiding as long as hobbitly possible. ‘you should head home,’ she says, with terribly unconvincing calm. ‘maybe… maybe tell the bounders about this. yeah, tell the bounders. michel delving isn’t far.’
‘what about you?’ you say. ‘don’t worry about it,’ she says. (she’s gonna get back to delivering the mail. it’s fine! the riders went the other way. she definitely knows what she’s doing)
i don’t know that this one does a whole lot by way of typical introduction stuff- kinda just dumps you out in the world the way the mossward intro does. maybe you put a little run in with some neekerbreekers or one or two of the brigands who catch you in the normal hobbit instance before rani leaves. you just get dumped in the shire, really. you probably still get roped into talking to the sackville-bagginses, no matter how much you insist you weren’t anywhere near them, nor are you a bounder or a member of the quickpost, and you’re certainly not employed by the mayor’s office, and oops you’re fighting goblins and hanging out with this halros guy now. you keep meeting rani in the most ridiculous of places, and she keeps insisting she’s here on quickpost business (sometimes this is even true). she offers you a job with the quickpost. you maybe have already joined the quickpost (rani also 0% has the authority to hire people on the quickpost’s behalf, but that’s neither here nor there). you say goodbye to rani
you are in moria. there is a lynx-cat in the mines. rani is following it. ‘what are you doing here?’ you try to ask her again. ‘don’t worry about it :)’
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LOTRO intro game with Sileär?
sil is fun bc you can do a high elf intro in mordor or a more current day one, in which case she’d be in rivendell (elf still being the most plausible pc race here, but yknow you do you lol)
mordor version: honestly she gets to keep most of the things the actual helf intro has. location gets moved around a bit, but otherwise she’s doing that. you’re most likely there as one of the younger elves in the alliance; mostly meant to be a message runner. you’re sent to deliver something to sil & halthel, and this should be a perfectly routine thing really, but you’re right on sauron’s doorstep. what even is routine any more
so things go wrong, naturally
you and silear get separated from the rest of her company and she’s very intent on 1, making sure you don’t die (combat tutorial) and 2, getting back to the rest of the company (escort/follow the npc quest). this is a little later than the actual helf intro is set- a couple years at least into the siege of barad-dur. silear’s company was up among the feet of the ered lithui, possibly running around those watchtowers that are full of wraiths and fell spirits in post-war of the ring dor amarth or camped nearby to watch them. your message for silear was where she and halthel were supposed to meet people from a few other companies for some vague secret mission (you don’t get to know all the details then, but they’re running off to chase gaunt-lords). incidentally, that’s also where sil gets stabbed with a morgul blade, but i’m getting a little ahead of myself there
so you’re trying to get back to the rest of her company. that goes fine, you get back, you give them your message. there’s a bit where they invite you to sit down and eat with them and it’s nice and chill and nothing happens. you find a bedroll and stay the night in their camp, intending to head back to echad-in-edhil in the morning, going at least part of the way with silear and halthel for purposes of Not Wandering Mordor Alone if it can be avoided. then you wake up in rivendell in the third age and get a bit of a summary of ‘war over, sauron gone (for now), also silear got stabbed and is in a morgul coma still. if i break from game mechanics a little bit, you can be trollshaws level and join the epic around book 4/chasing shadows (though even that’s a little lower level than i’d be thinking, but 50 in rivendell doesn’t have a great epic entry that i like and that doesn’t lose a ton of important early vol 1 stuff or skip you straight to vol 2). if we don’t break things, you just kinda get to be level ten or so because Game Says So. silear wakes up, you say hi, you both end up on the trip to edhelion and you do the epic as normal from there. you may get to have sil as an npc who shows up for in their absence stuff later
rivendell intro: if you start as a fairly young elf in rivendell, you probably meet a silear who’s just woken up. she’s still pretty weak, but she can do something like really mild sparring or training with someone who is just learning themself (she is trying very hard to be patient with everyone involved). it’s a very chill intro honestly, with no early awful experiences for your guy! probably just works as an alternate tutorial instance that then leads into the thorin’s gate prologue stuff- get put on the expedition to edhelion as a history lesson or just to get some travel experience and then get sucked in by the epic vortex
ok the rivendell one is way less involved actually lol. hang out a bit, have tea with sil and bilbo, get sucker punched by just how much the epic is. tada!
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Isedd and/or Isena?
so isena & isedd- well they kinda just end up in the human intro anyway, but it does rather defeat the purpose of this if the answer is just ‘normal human intro, but also i&i are there’. so maybe you’re set up as someone like adina or jon & tam- you’ve been living at alse’s for some time, but trouble’s been brewing in the bree-lands and it’s gotten a bit too close to home for comfort. isena & isedd get you and adina and everyone together and declare they need to make sure you can protect yourself at the very least long enough for one of them to get to you
well. mostly this is isena’s project. isedd’s here to help with demonstrations (get repeatedly knocked over by his sister for educational purposes)
combat tutorial, basic equipment, etc- actually yknow, isena probably only does the tutorial combat for the might & agility classes. isedd gets to play with the casters
trouble arrives at alse’s. could be some random orcs who’ve wandered south from nan wathren and the cirith nur encampment- i think that makes the most sense for timeline reasons. them or some blackwolds, but i don’t know that the blackwolds would be the most likely to attack alse’s place outright at this point. even if isena and isedd don’t have a huge reputation of any sort, it’s still known that they’ve got like. an entire bear who hangs out there. there are definitely rumors that there’s more than just bear, too
anyway! there is trouble. probably something is set on fire, because that’s usually how these go. depending on your class, you get to watch isena or isedd do something very flashy and dramatic to scare off the last of the orcs. you get some real basic quests to clean up the next day- like stout axe intro type; clean mess, take these things up to tam, entertain adina for a bit (even though she’s taking all of this far better than anyone else). at the end you come across isena & isedd talking to a friend of theirs you don’t know too well and listen in (someone from the toradan-mundol-reniolind crew most likely. isena and isedd met them a little earlier than in est-verse here and their fates may not get au’d this time). they catch you- well, bear catches you, really- and explain that they’re leaving soon
they insist that you’ll be fine here, and they’re leaving bear, and that they’ll hopefully find the root of a lot of the recent problems and fix things and be back home by summer. they also say that if you really need help, you can go find their friend. it’s not the most convincing speech in the world, and adina and alse and tam and jon all agree. they leave anyway, and not long after you find something you missed during cleanup- a letter perhaps, or some weird trinket that gives you the worst vibes, and trying to figure out where the hell all the rangers went is what leads you out into the actual game world and to ‘unravelling the thread’
(you run into isena and isedd again somewhere in rohan, where they offer you an absolutely terrible explanation for what the hell they’ve been up to all this time)
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LotRO Ask Game
Inspired by @a-lonely-dunedain
Send me the name of one of my OCs, and I'll give you a brief overview of what an alternate start to the game would look like if that OC was the NPC who shows new players the ropes and connects them with the Epic.
(For the purposes of this game let's say any region can be a start region, regardless of level and relationship to the Epic. If necessary, we can even make up new ones.)
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