More entries will be taken for this page through October. Please
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When: end of Sept 30 meeting to the beginning of Oct 7 meeting.
Where: This year's marathon chat is in the Valar Guild's Discord in
meeting_place.
What: Free chat. Also feel free to put in Tolkien Moments and safe
url's related to Tolkien and the anniversary.
Who: all the same folks that are welcome at meetings such as
members, polite family and friends and fellow Tolkien fans.
Participants: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Celebrian, Elrond, Eonwe, Ioreth,
Pallando
Feel free to post your comments about the anniversary on the forum.
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Gaming Screenshots of Anniversary
Events:
How do I take a screenshot?
In LotRO, F12 removes
quickslots etc from the display. N toggles names on and off. F11
makes a screenshot that goes into your computer's Documents folder
under Lord of the Rings Online.
In WoW, use your keyboard's version
of PrintScreen (PrntScrn on the top row on mine) to make the
screenshot. The image goes into the game's folder under Screenshots.
EVE Online Anniversary screenshots:
"Lance Doomsday": Video: Oct
4 video by Elrond. He fired his Lance Doomsday as his firework. You
can see it from space!
"Sunday at Jita": Oct 7. Pallando-(Valar) is coordinating, using
Discord. Valarites came together at Jita to shoot "fireworks" at
about 17:30 GMT/UTC, which is 13:00 / 1 pm Eastern and noon Central. Video
1: Oct. 7 by Pallando. Explosions in the game contributed by
Arien, Celebrian, Elrond, and Pallando. Video
2: Oct. 7 by Pallando. Explosions in the game contributed by
Arien, Celebrian, Elrond, Pallando, and Sauron. Screenshot
1: by Arien-(Valar). These four are of the above Video 2. Screenshot
2: by Arien-(Valar) Screenshot
3: by Arien-(Valar) Screenshot
4: by Arien-(Valar)
Lord of the Rings Online
Anniversary screenshots:
October 4: noon ET run:
Varda as Fainan screenies marked V,
Fangorn as Fangbark screenies marked F.
Bree: 116V
Meet-up outside the West Gate. 115V
Bree West Gate 117V
Going to the West Gate 120V
Fountain outside the Prancing Pony, shooting fireworks. 15F
Dragon firework above us at the fountain. 122V
Sign of the Prancing Pony, as we enter. 23F
Sign of the Prancing Pony, entry. 127V
Inside the Prancing Pony for a drink. 24F
Inside the Prancing Pony, drinking near Butterbur, our bartender.
Michel Delving: 128V
Near entry area, starting fireworks. 130V
Fireworking. 31F
Dragon firework coming right at us. 133V
Fireworks. Unimpressed hobbit npc discusses pie. 136V
Ride to the Bird and Baby for a drink. 34F
Riding past the memorial area, with npc hobbits commenting. 138V
At the sign of the Bird and Baby, shooting more fireworks. 38F
Outside the Bird and Baby, shooting fireworks just because. 141V
Inside the Bird and Baby, with drink. 44F
Wider shot inside the Bird and Baby, while drinking.
Thorin's Hall: 74F
Riding towards Thorin's Hall. Npc dwarf talks about axes. 145V
Front of Thorin's Hall. You are there. 151V
Frerin's Court, with the statue. 149V
Star in the dwarf statue's hand, one of our fireworks. 159V
Riding into Thorin's Hall because it's just that big. Dwarf npc says
Ormulf trusts us. 160V
Dwarf statue greeting us just inside. 171V
We went to the bar. Fainan/Varda checks the kegs while
Fangbark/Fangorn has a drink with the bartender. 61F
Fainan doesn't seem to like the drink much. 65F
Fireworks near alcohol. What could go wrong? 175V
Leaving Thorin's Hall towards Frerin's Court for the next leg of the
trip, a dwarf npc warns us not to cause trouble.
Duillond: 181V
Welcome to the elf town of Duillond. 186V
Fireworks. Stars stream from Varda's hand disturbing a dragon. 184V
Fangorn/Fangbark of course had to do a tree firework. 78F
Fireworks and the moon. 198V
Inside the festival cave, we couldn't drink but we could shoot. 94F
Cave firework shots. 212V
The library allows drinking, as scholars become thirsty, and ents
need their draughts. 98F
More drinking in the library.
kin house: 223V
Outside on the border of our island at sunset, a dragon flies
watched by us and the statue. 109F
Outside on the border, another view of the dragon shot also showing
the boar fountain. 225V
At the top of the island, we sit on our mounts to watch the ships
sailing. 112F
At the top of the island, mounted, enjoying the sunset. 236V
At the top of the island, Fangbark sets fireworks near Galadriel's
mirror. 237V
His fireworks go off near seagulls. 125F
Fireworks, and the dragon is back. 115F
Fireworks being thirsty work, Fangbark then takes a drink from the
convenient water bowl. 271V
Inside the kin house, we drink with Ursula, Ancalagon-V's greeting
bear. 130F
That was good, so another drink with Ursula. 276V
What else would one do in a reflecting pool but have a drink? 134F
Drinking in front of the door to Mordor, because that's what it
takes to be willing to step through. 151F
The Valar have their cooking firepit on a golden floor, of course. 163F
And they drink there too. 280V
Fireworks may have melted the upper kin house floor, oops.
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7pm ET run:
Anywhere one of us hunters felt like porting! No posing, just a fast
screenie if lucky. We shot fireworks and danced and hollered. Much
fun was had.
Bree: 115V
Bree and the West Gate under the stars. 116V
Meeting up of Fainan/Varda and Fangbark/Fangorn outside Bree Gate. 117V
Mounted outside the Prancing Pony, Fangbark with his warhorse. 119V
We shoot towards each other to give a different effect. Thorin's Hall: 120V
Porch area outside. Shooting towards each other with a batch, then
dancing while they blast. 121V
Inside at the Great Forge with fireworks. 123V
Inside the clubbing area of the underground bar, fireworks at the
entry with the greeting statue. 124V
Should we really be shooting off fireworks on top of kegs of
alcohol? 126V
Yes, we should.
Ost Guruth: 130V
We start firing towards each other. 134V
We fire side by side. 135V
That one blasted out well.
Dale: 142V
Time to shoot with a bit of blasting water too. 145V
And towards each other.
"The
Journey". Eonwe visited every continent in WoW, stopping by a
major landmark or city, and sent us postcards. The link goes to the
anniversary page on the Valar Guild Games Site.
Please email your Tolkien
Site piece to Varda to be put online any time in October, and
also receive a special acknowledgement on the piece that it is for
this anniversary.
Theme (not required): /drin
"Choice"
by Ioreth-(V). Written as the 100 word drabble challenge form using
the theme of /drink.
"On
Track" by Ioreth-(V). Short story including the theme of
drink.
The
State of Online Gaming 2018. This is Eonwe-(Valar)'s
annual report on current gaming by members, as sent in by members,
for the Games Site Mass Update 2018.
Feel free to update any time by emailing Eonwe
(NOSPAMdeneltir@hotmail.com).
Responded to the Games Site Mass Update 2018 and therefore
considered active full members for 2018, with a credit for helping
the GSMU on the Membership page:
Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Bofur, Celebrian, Elrond,
Fangorn, Gimli, Ioreth, Menelvagor, Mirabella, Nar, Nerdanel, Oromë,
Pallando, Scatha, Tulkas (computer broken and will be without one
the rest of the year, and he's sailing south), and Ugluk.
Verifiable gaming activity without responding in a timely manner to
the GSMU, and therefore considered active full members for 2018:
Aranuir, Beleg, Bregalad, Dis, Falco, Gorlim,
Lenwë, Luthien, Marigold, Melkor, Meriadoc, Nimrodel, Thranduil, and
Varda.
