January 22, 2017 Sunday Meeting
5pm
EST (UTC/GMT - 5)
AIM: Valar Guild Meetingplace
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Transcript work by Ar-Pharazon and Varda.
Attending: (6)
Arien-(Valar)/AriehnV, Ar-Pharazon-(V)/ArPharazonV,
Eonwe-(Valar)/Eonwe Valar, Eru-(Valar)/eru68,
Gilraen-(V)/Iryenth, Varda-(Valar)/VardaValar1
(presiding)
Before-meeting
Meeting begins
Membership
Web:
Tolkien Site:
Timeline work
Gaming
Eonwe gives the Games report
LotRO report
Tolkien:
Forum rp story
Guild entry question suggestions
After-meeting:
Flashgaming Reviews by
Ar-Pharazon
Personal gaming Ar-Pharazon
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(Add one hour for Eastern aka Valar time.. Below is in Central time.)
Before-meeting
Varda Valar (3:41:30 PM): Aiya Phar. :-) Still
20 minutes, no rush.
ArPharazon-V (3:41:35 PM): Aiya!
ArPharazon-V (3:41:55 PM): Rush? I've still got so
much to do, I don't think meeting can slow me down much ;-)
Varda Valar (3:42:08 PM): Cool :-)
EonweValar (3:51:06 PM): Heya.
Varda Valar (3:51:12 PM): Aiya Eonwe :-)
EonweValar (3:51:21 PM): Invitations sent to Elladan,
Gilraen, Gwaihir, and Farmer Maggot on my way in.
ArPharazon-V (3:51:30 PM): Aiya!
Varda Valar (3:51:41 PM): Thanks. Keeps me from
crossing streams. Bit early, no problem though.
EonweValar (3:52:10 PM): 10 minutes early doesn't
hurt :}
EonweValar (3:52:41 PM): Gives them a chance to say
"Oh yeah, it is about that time, isn't it..." ;}
Varda Valar (3:52:53 PM): Agreed!
ArPharazon-V (3:53:44 PM): On that note, Arien poked.
Varda Valar (3:53:47 PM): I don't see any others.
Varda Valar (3:53:51 PM): Thanks
Varda Valar (3:55:26 PM): Ran into an interesting
insight.
Varda Valar (3:55:29 PM): Aiya Arien :-)
ArPharazon-V (3:55:33 PM): Aiya!
Varda Valar (3:55:50 PM): A hobbit can understand a
dragon a bit better than some of us might.
Varda Valar (3:56:12 PM): They both live underground.
They both collect treasure that they might not even use.
ArPharazon-V (3:56:38 PM): I'm not sure whether they
are in the habit of sending useless treasure to other dragons on their
birthdays though.
Varda Valar (3:56:42 PM): The dragon hoards it, knows
the current market value of every piece. But never uses it except to
collect.
Arien V (3:56:44 PM): Aiya all :-)
Varda Valar (3:56:57 PM): Welcome :-)
Varda Valar (3:57:33 PM): The hobbit collects mathoms
but wants to de-clutter and passes it to a new hoard or user.
Varda Valar (3:58:22 PM): So perhaps for the dragon,
the market value of his collection is the importance, but for the
hobbit, the use is.
Varda Valar (3:58:57 PM): That one thing makes a
giant difference in behavior, changes the entire society.
Varda Valar (3:59:07 PM): The dragon needs to be
solo, the hobbit needs to be social.
Varda Valar (4:00:02 PM): That's all I was going to
remark. :-)
EonweValar (4:00:19 PM): So how does the dragon get
the current market value of each piece in his hoard? Does he have
investers visit him every other Tuesday to keep him current?
ArPharazon-V (4:00:43 PM): I think dragons are more
"It's shiny, so it must be valuable."
Varda Valar (4:00:44 PM): That's a good question. He
seems asleep, but is the dragon picking up on the market news? :-)
Varda Valar (4:00:52 PM): Aiya Eru
Eru-Valar (4:01:01 PM): Aiya, all.
ArPharazon-V (4:01:11 PM): They might've been able to
placate them with glass and mirrors.
Varda Valar (4:02:09 PM): So much sleeping. Maybe the
dragon is doing something on another level? That are it's just happy to
be guarding what it amassed and vegetates. Not even going out to eat
much, as it would leave the hoard unguarded.
Varda Valar (4:02:46 PM): I'm not making up the
market value bit. May need to go look it up though.
EonweValar (4:03:05 PM): Eh, a greedy person every
decade or so is enough to keep a dragon fed :}
Varda Valar (4:03:22 PM): Good point! Room service.
EonweValar (4:03:29 PM): Heya Eru :}
ArPharazon-V (4:03:43 PM): Aiya!
Varda Valar (4:04:13 PM): Time to get this meeting
going. :-)
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Varda Valar (4:04:21 PM): Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo!
Varda Valar (4:04:24 PM): Membership:
Varda Valar (4:05:00 PM): Great to have you all here,
fellow Tolkien fans and gamers. Thanks for coming and making this a
thing, a moot, a...whatever this coolness is.
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Varda Valar (4:05:27 PM): Web report:
Varda Valar (4:06:01 PM): Story in progress for
Little Jewel, next chapter not quite ready to come up yet.
Varda Valar (4:06:31 PM): (Side note: Eonwe
suggested: "The Valar Guild Experience"(TM),... )
Varda Valar (4:06:51 PM): The Timeline Third Age is
in progress, not yet showing online because
Varda Valar (4:07:11 PM): at the moment it would look
too much like a simple grab from the book rather than a proper project.
Varda Valar (4:07:16 PM): Aiya Gilraen :-)
Iryenth . (4:07:24 PM): Aiya folks
ArPharazon-V (4:07:35 PM): Aiya!
ArPharazon-V (4:07:45 PM): Nothing wrong with
grabbing things from the book to start with :-)
Varda Valar (4:07:47 PM): Additional goodies for the
entries are being added, along with links.
Varda Valar (4:08:05 PM): Agreed. Don't want it to go
up as looking like pure plagiarism. It will have much more.
Varda Valar (4:08:49 PM): We seem to have need for
more articles on places, and certain battles. Surprisingly important
characters with not so much as a stub.
Varda Valar (4:09:07 PM): It's a fine tool for
showing holes that need filling in the Encyc.
Varda Valar (4:10:19 PM): I'm doing some article
addenda, adding dates for some, and other bits. Feel free to add new
articles, even where we have one.
Varda Valar (4:10:35 PM): Your take on it may make
something more clear, or have additional info.
Varda Valar (4:11:10 PM): I'm also struggling to get
the diacriticals put in. Not something my own language uses, so they
were neglected. My apologies.
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Varda Valar (4:11:26 PM): Gaming report:
Varda Valar (4:11:31 PM): Eonwe, go ahead. :-)
EonweValar (4:11:36 PM): Thanks.
EonweValar (4:11:58 PM): World of Warcraft:
EonweValar (4:12:07 PM): The Lunar Festival is here.
EonweValar (4:12:17 PM): Going now is the first
micro-holiday: Call of the Scarab. See more about it in the
announcement Remembering the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj.
EonweValar (4:12:47 PM): Side note, the
micro-holidays aren't going to last long when they're going, so if it's
something you want to participate in, you'll have to move quick.
ArPharazon-V (4:13:21 PM): Also note there are no
permanent rewards (well, except a banner for whoever wins at the gates
for the rest of the year) so it's not something you should feel you
have to do.
ArPharazon-V (4:13:38 PM): No pets, mounts, titles,
achievements, toys, etc.
EonweValar (4:13:41 PM): Other than to experience
them, aye.
ArPharazon-V (4:13:47 PM): Indeed.
EonweValar (4:14:31 PM): Check out the latest
hotfixes.
EonweValar (4:15:11 PM): WoW Lothar: Saw that Bofur
and Nob were in this week, besides myself.
EonweValar (4:15:32 PM): Diablo 3:
EonweValar (4:15:44 PM): Coming this Thursday: a
Facebook Live Q&A on the Necromancer.
EonweValar (4:16:05 PM): I'm hoping the Necromancer
comes out soon. I know people looking forward to it, hehe.
ArPharazon-V (4:16:21 PM): Any word yet on when
anniversary ends?
Varda Valar (4:16:30 PM): Sauron used to love the
Necromance. :-)
EonweValar (4:16:34 PM): End of January last I heard,
so a little over a week left.
ArPharazon-V (4:16:53 PM): Hmm. Finally got all my
unique bosses yesterday, but still got the pages to gather.
EonweValar (4:17:39 PM): Pages were easier than I
thought they'd be. Just cleared the zones while doing bounties and
ended up with them all soon enough. 1 cultist group possible per zone.
ArPharazon-V (4:18:36 PM): Per act, or per area?
EonweValar (4:18:51 PM): *per outdoor zone at least.
DOn't think I found any in an inside zone.
EonweValar (4:19:31 PM): Per anywhere you can get to
via waypoint, essentially.
ArPharazon-V (4:19:44 PM): Good, good.
ArPharazon-V (4:19:52 PM): Sounds farmable enough.
EonweValar (4:19:54 PM): If a bounty can be there,
pretty sure a cultist group can.
ArPharazon-V (4:20:16 PM): I've got exact locations
where they can, actually, but I wasn't sure on whether one spawned per
act or area.
EonweValar (4:20:24 PM): Plus they're tradable, so
someone else can give them to you if it realyl came to it....
ArPharazon-V (4:20:40 PM): But that would require
being social.. *shiver*
EonweValar (4:20:44 PM): lol :}
EonweValar (4:20:58 PM): Heroes of the Storm:
EonweValar (4:21:10 PM): The Lunar Festival is coming
to Heroes of the Storm as well.
Varda Valar (4:21:18 PM): (You[re pretty sociable
with us!)
EonweValar (4:21:27 PM): Rewards include a Rooster
mount
ArPharazon-V (4:21:39 PM): I can handle a chatroom
once a week, but D3 grinds with pugs.. not so much.
EonweValar (4:21:42 PM): Also, A new patch is up on
the PTR.
EonweValar (4:22:28 PM): Thus ends the Fifth
Battle,... er, my games news.
Varda Valar (4:22:37 PM): Thank you, Warrior Eonwe :-)
Varda Valar (4:22:46 PM): Battle Commander
Varda Valar (4:23:00 PM): LotRO:
Varda Valar (4:23:47 PM): Winterstock player music
event went from January 13 through the 16th, 40 bands playing over
those days.
Varda Valar (4:24:11 PM): It was held in Ered Luin,
Thorin's Gate area at that frozen lake near the Silver Deep Mine.
Varda Valar (4:24:37 PM): We can expect a new box run
Monday.
Varda Valar (4:25:05 PM): The Tolkien Professor will
be giving his next lecture in LotRO Tuesday the 24th.
Varda Valar (4:25:32 PM): 9:30 p.m. /servertime which
is the same as Eastern or Valar time.
Varda Valar (4:25:54 PM): Since many of us can't go
to those, they are also available on YouTube.
Varda Valar (4:26:52 PM): Here's the first episode,
for those interested in watching. They tend to run 60 to 90 minutes:
Varda Valar (4:26:54 PM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNJ_SBvoETI
Varda Valar (4:27:45 PM): The gang in LotRO has been
getting together for various runs and crafting together.
Varda Valar (4:27:54 PM): Folks online this past week
in LotRO:
Varda Valar (4:28:03 PM):
Bregalad
Celebrian
Dis
Elladan
Erkenbrand
Fangorn
Lenwe
Marigold
Nar
Nimrodel
Varda
Varda Valar (4:28:26 PM): Anything else to add to the
Gaming or Membership?
Varda Valar (4:29:17 PM): StarCraft 2: Fangorn and Eowyn were
gaming together.
Varda Valar (4:29:44 PM): StarCraft/BroodWar: Fangorn and
Varda and sometimes Sauron were gaming together.
Varda Valar (4:30:20 PM): Any sign of more of the
European crowd? Helm? Aragorn?
Varda Valar (4:30:49 PM): We have three Europeans on
right now: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, and Eru. Thanks for staying up late with
us!
Arien V (4:31:01 PM): i ve seen Helm a couple of times
Varda Valar (4:31:11 PM): Good to hear. :-)
ArPharazon-V (4:31:19 PM): Spoke to Fladrif a bit,
battled him in Hearthstone.
Varda Valar (4:31:28 PM): Excellent. Hi to Fladrif!
Varda Valar (4:31:42 PM): Any sign of Menelvagor?
Varda Valar (4:32:39 PM): Oh, additionally, here's an
events schedule for LotRO:
Varda Valar (4:32:42 PM): https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?646193-LOTRO-Events-Schedule
Arien V (4:32:51 PM): he is at least playing and
doing the worldquests sometimes .. he is just not happy with the druid
nerf .. i dont find it so noticeable on my 105 druid which i play
mostly as guardian .. much more survivable than feral but maybe its
mnore noticeable on the topend
Varda Valar (4:32:56 PM): Includes links to player
events too.
Varda Valar (4:33:30 PM): Thanks, Arien. :-)
Varda Valar (4:34:44 PM): We can also still join the
Saturday Roving Threats run with the Alliance. Ask Ibelyron for an
invitation to the raid.
Varda Valar (4:35:14 PM): Any other comments,
suggestions, news?
Varda Valar (4:35:34 PM): Tolkien:
ArPharazon-V (4:35:37 PM): druid nerf...
ArPharazon-V (4:35:40 PM): I'm doing fine so far?
Varda Valar (4:35:43 PM): heh, go ahead.
ArPharazon-V (4:35:52 PM): So.. what druid nerf?
ArPharazon-V (4:36:40 PM): I think guardian did get
nerfed a bit, but nothing spectacular, and feral seems fine to me.
ArPharazon-V (4:36:53 PM): Oh well :-) Continue
Varda Valar (4:37:48 PM): For some reason, I can't
seem to side window with Eru. Is that because he's on Pidgin?
Eru-Valar (4:38:39 PM): I have no idea...
Varda Valar (4:38:41 PM): Just a guess. Seems as if
we might have had that problem before.
EonweValar (4:38:51 PM): I think it might be. It's
been a while since last anyone came to the meeting in Pidgin, but I do
believe some limitations were involved.
Eru-Valar (4:39:01 PM): What is everyone else using?
Varda Valar (4:39:07 PM): AIM legacy here.
EonweValar (4:39:12 PM): AOL instant messenger.
EonweValar (4:39:27 PM): One of the older ones, but
not the oldest.
Varda Valar (4:39:27 PM): (same thing)
ArPharazon-V (4:39:28 PM): I couldn't even get it
going on Pidgin, so I had to use Trillian.. until AIM seemed to fix
itself again, and then I could switch back.
Varda Valar (4:39:57 PM): Interesting. Main thing is
we can all reach each other in the main chat. :-)
Eru-Valar (4:40:02 PM): I tried to IM Varda, but it
says: (22:39:34) Unable to send message: In local permit/deny
ArPharazon-V (4:40:21 PM): Access denied.
Varda Valar (4:40:32 PM): O wow. After you said that,
I could suddenly send a message.
Eru-Valar (4:40:47 PM): Must be a feature...
Varda Valar (4:41:21 PM): Maybe because we both tried
to send? No idea, but yay. :-)
ArPharazon-V (4:41:29 PM): "We don't like what you're
doing, but as long as you know it's wrong, we'll allow it."
Varda Valar (4:41:47 PM): Maybe we had to wake it up.
Arien V (4:41:56 PM): you are listed as offline Eru
^^ , i dont get my messages through to you
Varda Valar (4:42:05 PM): That was what I kept seeing
too.
EonweValar (4:42:16 PM): https://www.aim.com/legacydownloads
*should* take you to the one I use.
Eru-Valar (4:42:27 PM): Strange, I'm set as Available.
ArPharazon-V (4:42:31 PM): Oh, yes, noticed that last
time as well, you're not online in the buddy list.
Arien V (4:42:32 PM): eru68 is unable to receive
offline messages
Varda Valar (4:42:53 PM): Pidgin and Trillian are
supposed to be safer, so it's fine with me for people to use it. Main
thing is the main chat room.
Eru-Valar (4:42:54 PM): Downloading AIM Legacy now.
EonweValar (4:43:02 PM): Which is the only I *think*
we're all using because the newest one doesn't seem to like us.
Varda Valar (4:43:06 PM): And it did just work.
Varda Valar (4:43:15 PM): Right, Eonwe. :-)
Eru-Valar (4:43:29 PM): 7.5?
Eru-Valar (4:43:50 PM): I'll log out here and try it.
Eru-Valar (4:43:54 PM): Be right back, hopefully.
Varda Valar (4:44:07 PM): choose AIM for
Windows (7.5.14.8) Released: May
31, 2012.
Varda Valar (4:44:18 PM): oboy
ArPharazon-V (4:44:33 PM): He dragged Eonwe with him.
Varda Valar (4:44:44 PM): Strong winds from Eru's
passing by.
EonweValar (4:44:47 PM): Am I back now? The internet
hamster must've tripped on the wheel.
ArPharazon-V (4:44:54 PM): Aiyata
Varda Valar (4:44:54 PM): Aye and aye. Silly hamster.
EonweValar (4:45:10 PM): 7.5.14.8 should be it.
Varda Valar (4:46:01 PM): Aye. We do have it at the
first of each month on the Sunday meeting info. If it helps.
Varda Valar (4:46:13 PM): Used to have it every
Sunday. Tried to declutter.
Varda Valar (4:47:04 PM): Eru is working on joining
the chat room now.
Varda Valar (4:47:40 PM): If there are too many
invitations at once, it blocks the person until the inviter(s) leave
the chat room.
Varda Valar (4:48:08 PM): Meanwhile,
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Varda Valar (4:48:10 PM): Tolkien:
Varda Valar (4:48:35 PM): The forum rp has been neglected a long time.
But now the group is back together in AIM. Maybe we could start up
again?
Varda Valar (4:49:24 PM): Huzzah!
Eru-Valar (4:49:38 PM): Seems to be ok...
ArPharazon-V (4:49:39 PM): I had been thinking about
it recently, but we're kinda stuck in Rivendell as far as I'm aware.
ArPharazon-V (4:49:47 PM): Yay!
Varda Valar (4:50:14 PM): We should probably make a
short bit where we see the Fellowship off, to catch us up to Auros. He
might be there as well.
Varda Valar (4:50:29 PM): Flashback for him, as a way
to do it? Or straight out?
EonweValar (4:50:34 PM): I haven't thought about it
recently enough. I know when I made my last post I ended up days ahead
of everyone else, and so was waiting for catchup.
Varda Valar (4:51:13 PM): We could be used as a decoy
group for the Fellowship's leaving, as just another couple of scouting
groups going out.
Varda Valar (4:52:09 PM): We can think about it, see
if we want to do a flashback with Auros or just the rest of us go see
our prince leave. We'd feel a need to do that, the Mirkwood group and
our friend, Frali, seeing Gimli off.
Varda Valar (4:52:46 PM): Guess we can't just ride
out at the same time, since Auros' story is showing him still in
Rivendell after that time.
Varda Valar (4:52:52 PM): Aiyata :-)
ArPharazon-V (4:53:29 PM): "We gotta go back... we
forgot to take Auros."
Varda Valar (4:53:36 PM): ooops. :-)
Varda Valar (4:55:53 PM): Eru says eonwevalar shows
on his block list all of a sudden and would like to know how to change
that.
Eru-Valar (4:56:39 PM): Now he's back again.
Varda Valar (4:56:43 PM): For me, it's under Privacy
Varda Valar (4:56:57 PM): which is under Options.
Varda Valar (4:57:04 PM): Crazy programs.
Eru-Valar (4:57:21 PM): Eonwe, can you see me typing
this?
EonweValar (4:57:24 PM): I do
Varda Valar (4:57:30 PM): *whew*
Eru-Valar (4:57:36 PM): Good, it suddenly said you
were on my block list...
EonweValar (4:57:37 PM): Don't know how I got on your
block list.
Varda Valar (4:58:08 PM): It seemed to happen when
you crashed while Eru left. Some weirdness, temporary.
EonweValar (4:58:28 PM): I thought it was all of us
AIM didn't like. Obviously it's just me personally, lol.
Varda Valar (4:58:41 PM): Right!
EonweValar (4:58:42 PM): :}
Varda Valar (4:59:15 PM): Ok, so do we want an Auros
flashback or continue as a linear narrative in our forum story?
Varda Valar (4:59:40 PM): We might say, Hey, is that
Auros over there?
ArPharazon-V (5:00:12 PM): He does not appear to
notice us, like he's going on a script...
Varda Valar (5:00:27 PM): /wave
Varda Valar (5:00:52 PM): Ok, taking Tolkien topics,
and I have a request too.
Varda Valar (5:01:21 PM): We can use fresh entry questions
for the membership questions. I'm getting into a rut. :-)
Varda Valar (5:01:51 PM): Need to be ones that aren't
answered by the movies as a mention or are said wrong on the movies.
Varda Valar (5:01:59 PM): Just on the LotR.
Eru-Valar (5:02:18 PM): Something about Tom Bombadil
then...
Varda Valar (5:02:28 PM): Feel free to make
suggestions, even funny ones that can get us thinking.
Varda Valar (5:02:34 PM): True. Tom's a good one.
ArPharazon-V (5:02:44 PM): Like, what Rohan commander
accompanied Gandalf at dawn in the battle of Helm's Deep?
Eru-Valar (5:02:45 PM): Also the Barrow Wights.
Varda Valar (5:02:56 PM): Aye, our poor Erkenbrand-V
was left out.
Varda Valar (5:03:26 PM): Kind of need these to be in
some form of question, as Phar just did. But I can figure something out.
Eru-Valar (5:03:52 PM): Who's horse did Frodo ride to
the Ford of Bruinen.
Varda Valar (5:04:07 PM): Asfaloth, aye. Noro lim,
aka giddyup!
Eru-Valar (5:04:25 PM): Yes, though movie only people
will say Arwen's of course.
Eru-Valar (5:04:51 PM): They can be then tossed into
the Sammath Naur
Varda Valar (5:05:18 PM): And who did Frodo ride with
over the Ford of Bruinen? Actually do a version of that now.
Varda Valar (5:05:22 PM): and right!
Eru-Valar (5:05:42 PM): Who is the leader of the
eagles?
EonweValar (5:06:05 PM): "How did Merry and Pippin
end up as part of the Fellowship?"
Eru-Valar (5:06:11 PM): Yes.
Varda Valar (5:06:29 PM): (Sammath Naur is that place
in Mt. Doom that Frodo went to chuck in the Ring.)
Eru-Valar (5:06:52 PM): Who is Fredegar "Fatty"
Bolger?
Varda Valar (5:07:10 PM): What did he do that helped
Frodo escape?
Eru-Valar (5:07:15 PM): (I'm just thinking of
non-movie things really.)
Varda Valar (5:07:36 PM): Good job. I should work
later to make questions from them. Thanks.
ArPharazon-V (5:07:37 PM): Whose mushrooms had a
shortcut?
Eru-Valar (5:07:54 PM): And what were Farmer Maggot's
dogs called?
ArPharazon-V (5:08:00 PM): Was his name mentioned in
the movie?
Eru-Valar (5:08:05 PM): Yes
Eru-Valar (5:08:16 PM): Maggot I mean.
ArPharazon-V (5:08:25 PM): Hmm, might be bad by
association then ;-)
Eru-Valar (5:08:36 PM): Never mentioned Grip or Fang
though.
Varda Valar (5:08:37 PM): Some of those questions are
actually answered in the game. But they had to be paying attention.
Varda Valar (5:08:40 PM): or Wolf
ArPharazon-V (5:08:49 PM): Though I do like the idea
of incorporating chapter titles into the questions.
Varda Valar (5:08:59 PM): Not a bad idea
Varda Valar (5:09:14 PM): The movies incorporated
them too, a nod to us lore-nuts.
Varda Valar (5:11:19 PM): Enjoyment of the LotRO game
is increased by seeing so many book things and people incorporated.
Eru-Valar (5:11:53 PM): Very true.
Varda Valar (5:11:53 PM): It's good to have some
questions from all three books.
Varda Valar (5:12:22 PM): People will have read maybe
the first two and not read the last, for instance.
Varda Valar (5:12:28 PM): or skipped one.
Eru-Valar (5:12:28 PM): Which Prince rode to the aid
of Minas Tirith?
Varda Valar (5:12:35 PM): Imrahil
Varda Valar (5:13:14 PM): Who did Aragorn give the
title of prince to?
ArPharazon-V (5:13:28 PM): I don't know that one. Is
it Eomer?
ArPharazon-V (5:13:40 PM): Or Merry or something?
Varda Valar (5:13:51 PM): This may be a good way to
test if the questions are good for entry or too tough.
ArPharazon-V (5:14:09 PM): To be fair I really
should've been rereading the books about.. oh.. 5 years ago ;-)
Eru-Valar (5:14:12 PM): Which Ranger brought Aragorn
the standard which Arwen made for him?
Varda Valar (5:14:18 PM): Halbarad
Eru-Valar (5:14:35 PM): Faramir was made Prince of
Ithilien.
Varda Valar (5:14:39 PM): Aye
Varda Valar (5:15:11 PM): Eru's questions over the
books made me go back and look more closely, a lot more closely, after
a Maia test.
ArPharazon-V (5:15:15 PM): Ah!
Eru-Valar (5:15:32 PM): Who was the nurse in the
Houses of Healing?
Varda Valar (5:15:34 PM): It was educational on how
many holes my memory had.
Varda Valar (5:15:36 PM): Ioreth
Varda Valar (5:16:24 PM): It was funny, as I thought
I knew the books pretty well. Definitely didn't at that time.
Eru-Valar (5:16:24 PM): Unfortunately the movies
tured Athelas into a cure everyone could use.
Varda Valar (5:16:32 PM): Aye, that was weird.
Varda Valar (5:16:48 PM): And lembas, only given by
the hand of an elf queen.
Eru-Valar (5:17:00 PM): Yes.
Varda Valar (5:17:06 PM): Galadriel gave them out, so
she was actually moe than a "Lady".
Varda Valar (5:17:10 PM): *more
Varda Valar (5:17:38 PM): But then, the lembas did
seem to be distributed among those in that person's group.
Varda Valar (5:17:42 PM): Delegated.
Eru-Valar (5:17:48 PM): If she'd taken the Ring she
would have been a queen.
Varda Valar (5:17:58 PM): Aye, a scary one too!
ArPharazon-V (5:18:11 PM): Heh, reminds me of the
Fellowship of the Ring game where lembas was *the* endgame food, and
thus could be found everywhere between orc camps and looted from orcs.
Varda Valar (5:18:15 PM): She did act as ruler in
Lothlorien. Whatever title she used.
Varda Valar (5:18:28 PM): ouch. Looted from orcs. :-)
Eru-Valar (5:18:48 PM): As if they'd even touch it.
Varda Valar (5:19:09 PM): Athelas was good for a few
things by regular people, but healing the Black Breath was only by the
King. It was how they could know him. The reason for the name of
kingsfoil.
Eru-Valar (5:19:32 PM): Yes.
Varda Valar (5:19:35 PM): Lembas burned Gollum. I
wonder if it did the same to orcs?
Eru-Valar (5:19:59 PM): I'd imagine it'd upset any
servants of Sauron.
Varda Valar (5:20:02 PM): New weapon!
Varda Valar (5:20:12 PM): Throw your lembas at the
big bad!
Varda Valar (5:20:26 PM): Might have to tie it to a
rock.
Varda Valar (5:20:51 PM): Now that's Tolkienesque
gaming.
Varda Valar (5:21:13 PM): Shelob would have been too
strong.
Varda Valar (5:21:40 PM): Sam's going along rather
than being sent back in Shelob's tunnel could be one question subject.
Varda Valar (5:22:34 PM): Maybe something about that
insane bit where Sam, Frodo, and Gollum are taken to Osgiliath and
Frodo reveals the Ring to a Nazgul, throwing off the whole decoy story
for Aragorn.
ArPharazon-V (5:22:46 PM): Argh, hit wrong key by
mistake. Someone else is going to have to pick up the transcript.
Varda Valar (5:22:48 PM): You missed nothing, Phar.
Varda Valar (5:22:59 PM): At least on this end.
Varda Valar (5:23:06 PM): I'll fill in the hole.
ArPharazon-V (5:23:19 PM): No, not the hole.
Everything.
ArPharazon-V (5:23:26 PM): Up to now.
Varda Valar (5:23:30 PM): oboy
Eru-Valar (5:23:41 PM): ArPharazonV has left the room.
ArPharazonV is on your blocked list.
Eru-Valar (5:23:48 PM): But he's not when he
returned...
Varda Valar (5:23:49 PM): ack
Eru-Valar (5:23:53 PM): I love technology.
EonweValar (5:24:00 PM): Is that Pidgin or AIM
telling you that, Eru?
Varda Valar (5:24:02 PM): heh. About as much as JRRT
did?
ArPharazon-V (5:24:06 PM): any case, I was going to
say I'd considered the Sam/Shelob question
Eru-Valar (5:24:06 PM): AIM legacy.
Varda Valar (5:24:10 PM): Are both up?
EonweValar (5:24:11 PM): Interesting.
ArPharazon-V (5:24:12 PM): but I didn't know how
you'd phrase it
Varda Valar (5:24:21 PM): Pidgin did the same thing.
Eru-Valar (5:24:33 PM): I've only seen it in AIM.
Varda Valar (5:24:46 PM): ahh
EonweValar (5:25:16 PM): Can't say I've seen that
happen in AIM, and it would be odd to have a setting that does that.
Eru-Valar (5:25:32 PM): Luckily it seems to have no
effect.
Varda Valar (5:26:46 PM): Are both Pidgin and AIM up?
Eru-Valar (5:26:56 PM): No, only AIM.
Eru-Valar (5:28:24 PM): Alas my time is up for the
evening. It's been a pleasure to meet with you all again, namarie!
Varda Valar (5:28:25 PM): ok
Varda Valar (5:28:29 PM): Namarie!
Varda Valar (5:28:33 PM): Thanks for coming. :-)
ArPharazon-V (5:28:51 PM): Namarie Eru!
Varda Valar (5:30:05 PM): So, about 6:30 pm Eastern
time.
Varda Valar (5:30:10 PM): Good to know.
ArPharazon-V (5:30:32 PM): 'alf hour after midnight
for me
Varda Valar (5:32:27 PM): ugh
Varda Valar (5:32:35 PM): 5:30 pm for Eonwe and me
Varda Valar (5:33:07 PM): It can be tough for people
to break into the busy part of the day and come here. Reason we see so
few non-Europeans.
EonweValar (5:33:29 PM): The time means actually that
it's time for me to head out now as well.
ArPharazon-V (5:33:31 PM): Around midnight before a
monday? I can imagine many people would already be sleeping :-)
ArPharazon-V (5:33:34 PM): Namarie!
Varda Valar (5:33:34 PM): No one gets it easy.
:-) Proud of all who manage to come here, especially regularly.
Varda Valar (5:33:39 PM): Agreed.
EonweValar (5:33:55 PM): Take care all, good night,
sleep well, and hope to see you next week :}
Varda Valar (5:33:58 PM): Namarie!
Varda Valar (5:34:34 PM): Ok, for the record,
Varda Valar (5:34:48 PM): Phar clicks on the chat
room and hits Save Conversation.
Varda Valar (5:34:59 PM): "Save this conversation"
ArPharazon-V (5:35:37 PM): Right-click ;-)
Varda Valar (5:35:44 PM): Right click, thanks.
Varda Valar (5:36:06 PM): I'm now trying it, hoping
for a cleaner copy than the automatic log.
Varda Valar (5:36:26 PM): Both can be done at the
same time, so there's something to fall back on.
ArPharazon-V (5:36:33 PM): Indeed!
Varda Valar (5:37:12 PM): *picks up a gavel from the
shelf gingerly*
Varda Valar (5:37:17 PM): *swings it*
Varda Valar (5:37:33 PM): *the gavel keeps growing
larger and larger. So does the hammerpad*
Varda Valar (5:37:42 PM): *thooooooommmmmm!*
Varda Valar (5:37:54 PM): *stones reverberate*
Varda Valar (5:38:07 PM): *Behave!*
Varda Valar (5:38:26 PM): *both shrink back to normal
as if they never did anything nutty, so innocent-looking*
Varda Valar (5:38:46 PM): *replacing the hammer on
the conveyor belt shelf*
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Varda Valar (5:38:51 PM): After-meeting!
Varda Valar (5:38:54 PM): Free chat. :-)
Varda Valar (5:40:32 PM): Could still use more entry questions, if anyone
happens to think of one out of the blue. I'll keep coming up with more
also.
Varda Valar (5:41:01 PM): What weapons did Gimli use
might be trickier than it sounds.
Varda Valar (5:41:06 PM): hmm
Varda Valar (5:41:09 PM): hmm
ArPharazon-V (5:41:25 PM): I'm gonna start with an
axe.
Varda Valar (5:41:39 PM): sounds like a good
start. ^^
Varda Valar (5:42:00 PM): Seems as if I remember his
throwing some too.
ArPharazon-V (5:42:15 PM): Yep.
Varda Valar (5:42:28 PM): Here's hoping he managed to
collect them again.
ArPharazon-V (5:42:50 PM): In the words of the over
20 year old now Warcraft 2 troll axethrower...
ArPharazon-V (5:42:55 PM): I got axe for you!
Varda Valar (5:43:00 PM): So he'd go out after his
throwing axes while Legolas went after his arrows.
Varda Valar (5:43:06 PM): heh. :-)
Varda Valar (5:43:13 PM): I axed for that.
Varda Valar (5:43:55 PM): Guess our ladies of the Sun
and of the Rangers are away?
Arien V (5:44:53 PM): well half
Varda Valar (5:45:03 PM): Partial eclipse!
Arien V (5:45:09 PM): hehe
Varda Valar (5:45:31 PM): If you happen to have any
suggestions for entry questions, I'd sure like to take a look :-)
Varda Valar (5:46:16 PM): Email is always open.
Varda Valar (5:46:49 PM): Phar, guess you can give
your report whenever you get around to it. Don't want to get you killed
in-game!
ArPharazon-V (5:47:27 PM): Currently hunting lunar
festival coins in Eastern Kingdoms, but I can give parts of the report
as I fly ;-)
Varda Valar (5:47:48 PM): Cool. The pauses don't show
in the transcript. :-)
ArPharazon-V (5:49:50 PM): Allright, personal gaming
report!
ArPharazon-V (5:49:56 PM): 3 flashgames for ye this week!
Varda Valar (5:50:14 PM): yay
ArPharazon-V (5:59:55 PM): http://www.kongregate.com/games/flori9/circloo
is the first! A weird physics platformer, deceptively simple. You
control a ball in a circular level which gets a new outer layer every
time you reach the circle goal, just by moving to the left or right.
ArPharazon-V (6:00:08 PM): All about gravity,
momentum, and good use of the obstacles along the way.
ArPharazon-V (6:03:44 PM): http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/duck_roll
is the second game. Puzzle game, roll the duck block to the exit,
moving other block along the way to make bridges etc.
ArPharazon-V (6:03:46 PM): *blocks
ArPharazon-V (6:04:00 PM): Minimum moves needed is
shown in the corner.
ArPharazon-V (6:08:25 PM):
http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/duck_roll is the third! Defensive
game, build walls with soldiers and cannons on them to hold out against
wave after wave of attackers.
ArPharazon-V (6:09:02 PM): Filled with achievements,
each of which give upgrades to your troops, economy, etc. Which in turn
makes it easier to get more achievements. Collect em all!
ArPharazon-V (6:09:23 PM): ehr
ArPharazon-V (6:09:25 PM): Wrong link
ArPharazon-V (6:09:31 PM): http://www.kongregate.com/games/SpaceCatStudios/master-of-fortresses
that's it
ArPharazon-V (6:10:05 PM): Some stuff is kinda
overpowered though, which makes it easier to get a head start :-)
ArPharazon-V (6:12:07 PM): Grindy, a bit out of
balance, with achievements and upgrades. What more could I want from a
simple game as this? ;-)
ArPharazon-V (6:13:47 PM): Blizzard gaming!
ArPharazon-V (6:14:36 PM): Diablo 3: Level 61 now for the
season. Got all the unique bosses for the anniversary event, unlocking
an old-school devil portrait, next I will work on 7 pages from prophets
for the angel portrait.
ArPharazon-V (6:15:32 PM): Ended up minimizing the
difficulty and putting all my focus on movement abilities, just to
grind through the labyrinth faster for those uniques, and it still took
quite a while. I think I'll keep the same for the pages.
ArPharazon-V (6:16:46 PM): Heroes of the Storm: Malfurion
leveled to 10! Another portrait and possibility for master skin
unlocked. To replace him as warcraft support hero, I went for the
cheapest one available at the time, and bought Lili. But haven't tried
her out yet. I think I'll make some sort of wind-based spec.
ArPharazon-V (6:18:05 PM): This week's brawl was new,
Bloodlust, whereby both teams consist of a single role of hero
(warrior, assassin, etc) on the Dragonshire map. Every now and then, 2
heroes of each team (or all heroes!) get bloodlust, increasing movement
and attackspeed for a short time. Makes for some exciting teamfights.
ArPharazon-V (6:19:53 PM): Hearthstone: Not much to add.
Putting some xp on the heroes. Brawl was interesting though. Choose 10
non-duplicate cards for your class, each turn instead of drawing a card
you discover a card out of 3 random cards from your 10.
ArPharazon-V (6:21:44 PM): WoW:
ArPharazon-V (6:21:47 PM): So much stuff again.
ArPharazon-V (6:22:10 PM): Where to start...
ArPharazon-V (6:23:13 PM): Finally got my feral
hidden appearance, the owlcat form, after getting the third screech
from Feralas. I'm now using the white skin that came with 200 world
quests as hidden, which I'd accomplished the week before, and am really
liking being an owlcat :-)
ArPharazon-V (6:23:38 PM): I now have 3 out of 4
hidden for druid, and the fourth one should be the simplest, as the
main ingredient there is exalted reputation.
ArPharazon-V (6:24:17 PM): I also unlocked another
skin for collecting 8 rare archaeology artifacts, getting me the
pink-grey rock form for bear, my favorite!
ArPharazon-V (6:24:37 PM): Been after this one for a
long time, and I think I can say it was the thing I wanted most from
this expansion.
ArPharazon-V (6:24:53 PM): Between the owlskin for
cat and the rockform for bear, I'm quite happy with the way I look in
both specs now :-)
ArPharazon-V (6:26:01 PM): Our raids are going well!
We started Nighthold, and have taken out.. *counts* 6 out of 10 bosses
on normal difficulty already.
ArPharazon-V (6:26:19 PM): They're quite fun, and a
bit nostalgic too. One of them involves eating cake ;-)
ArPharazon-V (6:28:46 PM): I've gotten a new pet from
the old Northrend raids too, a ghostly blue whelp dropped from
Sindragosa. That makes 10 out of 17 for me, or out of 16 for the
achievement.
ArPharazon-V (6:31:10 PM): As for world quests,
steadily continuing on. I've now done over 200 *different* world
quests, and it's finally slowing down a bit because most of the ones
remaining are duplicates I have no desire to do again unless it's for
achievements or emissaries.
ArPharazon-V (6:32:32 PM): As of today, I've
completed 30 different pet battle worldquests, giving me a Pocket Pet
Portal! I can now store 1500 pets instead of 1000.
ArPharazon-V (6:32:42 PM): I only had 785, so still
plenty of room ;-)
ArPharazon-V (6:34:11 PM): For the Family Familiar
achievement, I'm finally done with the humanoid achievement, and also
started undead and even the critter part, after facing the same tamer
for the fifth time. So making good progress there.
ArPharazon-V (6:35:21 PM): As for appearances from
old instances: Finished normal slave pens, and started on heroic slave
pens. Definitely takes me back, and it's the first instance I'm farming
which is also available as timewalk, so it's not one I've totally
forgotten :-)
ArPharazon-V (6:35:59 PM): Pooh, what else..
ArPharazon-V (6:36:06 PM): Holiday events!
ArPharazon-V (6:36:48 PM): Call of the Scarab is/was
this weekend, and I did a few world quests there to aid the alliance
effort a bit. Not much special, though it did use the summons we had
all the way back at the War Effort when the raids first came out. Very
nostalgic indeed.
ArPharazon-V (6:37:40 PM): Lunar Festival also
started, with 3 new toys, a costume for a dragon head, body and tail.
Already had the currency for them, requiring 60 coins in total, and am
currently working to get the stockpile back up in case some other new
stuff comes next year too :-)
ArPharazon-V (6:40:26 PM): And finally, this week's
weekly quest was timewalking in Northrend. I'm saving badges for the
new Pandaria stuff as I go, before it arrives at 2 more timewalk events
from now. My druid is barely on schedule for the 5000-badge mount, and
might need one or two extra timewalks when the time comes. But my alts
are both well ahead on schedule for the 2000 things. So all the most
expensive things will be gotten the first time it rolls around!
ArPharazon-V (6:40:41 PM): Alas, with all the stuff
to do I've not had time to continue Suramar questing. Maybe next week,
eh?
ArPharazon-V (6:40:48 PM): That's my report for this
week!
Arien V (6:52:39 PM): grats
Varda Valar (7:09:42 PM): Very good.
Varda Valar (7:09:45 PM): Thanks
Arien V (7:35:32 PM): Night night and Namarie :-)
nicely done
Varda Valar (7:35:42 PM): Namarie Arien :-)
ArPharazon-V (7:38:31 PM): Namarie Arien, late though
it may be!
Varda Valar (7:38:42 PM): It will be on the
transcript. :-)
ArPharazon-V (7:38:59 PM): Indeed :-)
ArPharazon-V (9:08:53 PM): saving and sending
transcript
Varda Valar (9:09:03 PM): Thank you.
Varda Valar (9:09:09 PM): Between us we'll have it.
ArPharazon-V (9:09:19 PM): good :-)
ArPharazon-V (9:09:20 PM): saved
Varda Valar (9:09:21 PM): Namarie Gilraen too
Varda Valar (9:09:29 PM): Rest well, Phar. :-)
Varda Valar (9:09:52 PM): Namarie
ArPharazon-V (9:09:57 PM): namarie!
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