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27th August 2005 - MERPmoot2005 & a BIG "thank you" for DM Aule |
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his was the first ever NWN community meet
which was a great day where nine of us
finally met!
In attendance were: Myself (DM Kev), Avalyn, DM Aule, DM Olorin, DM
Lorien, Luthianna, Clone, Argon, and Guyror. Several of us took pictures,
all of which can be found on our Forums here.
I didn't take a huge amount but they are quite amusing. Unfortunately
I'm not in any of mine, but the others will have some of me in theirs.
Guyror was a lucky bugger and escaped being photographed altogether
as he had to leave early.
It was a great day out and a lot of ideas
and thoughts were exchanged which I found very useful. But most importantly,
they are all really nice people which has made me think of them beyond
irc and I certainly plan on meeting them again. With a bit of luck,
there will be another MERP Moot within this year.
DM
Kev
Untold Tales Of Tolkien I + II
WCN - Wireplay Community News - Manager |
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Avalyn's MERPmoot Report
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y first assignment was something I had
been preparing for for a long time, I was to journey north in search
of a tavern where a reputed group of veteran adventurers were to meet,
I had to say I was nervous, I was only a lad of nineteen years, easily
the youngest of the group, My journey began as I woke just before
the hour of seven, I had packed what little I remembered and began
to make my way to this place. It was a long journey, Having to hitch
a ride on four carriages just to make it to my destination, in my
haste, It seemed I had arrived somewhat early, some hour before anyone
else was scheduled to arrive, but I waited and pondered on this group
I was to meet. After time the carriage they were reported to be travelling
in arrived and I looked about, one strange looking individual walked
up to me, I was frightened, was he trying to steal my cookie bag?
He walked up to me and said "I recognised you by your cookie
bag" I was still hesitant, fearing for my cookies... I laugh
and look around. We see no sign of these others we are to meet. So
we decide to make our way to this tavern... We talk of simple things
as we walk, mostly of this group we are to meet and the directions
to the tavern. Finally (with the aid of a map) we find the Tavern,
The Eagle and Child. We walk in, expecting to see the what we assume
to be an odd group already in there....but nothing. I then receive
a message by bird that they are waiting back at where the carriage
arrived, we sighed and sent a message in return, telling them to feel
free to make their way to the tavern.
Time passes as we wait near the tavern, as we try to guess what group
is the one we are waiting for, Suddenly, we spot an odd group, young
people, old people, and someone who looks so much like his dwarven
character its unreal...we decide to follow them, as they havent noticed
us... we know its them as they turn in the tavern, we follow them,
until they get to the back, where we planned to meet them and they
looked around, we appeared from behind them and announced our presence.
And so the meeting began... We talked of much, drank and ate merrily,
it was a good day... My assignment for much of the day was to make
notes of certain things...I shall now give some of the best moments
in quote form..
Kev: "If you Kiss me, Youre Fired"
Avalyn: "I wanted to make an Idiot Savant with low int, but knew
everything"
* Argon Coughs "Shiryu!"
Kev forcing me to write: "If I make another stupid comment like
that, I will be fired"
The fact was also noted that Argon looks just like his characters,
but with hair, and eats much the same way.
It was a Very good day, and everyone there was nice...the food was
good....a good steak pie...a good mixed grill and a good chocolate
pudding...though if you see a video of a certain someone with chocolate
on their face...it was edited to look like that, ok?
Avalyn
NWN Wireplay Deputy Community Liason and God of Pie |
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s many of you will know, the original
general management team for Wireplay NWN, myself and Avalyn, was recently
restored. DM Aule pretty much took my place for over a month, making
many of the key decisions and making many of the major changes to
the mod.
However, I would like to take this opportunity to fully praise
his efforts and commitment after discovering that I have given absoloutely
no recognition of this whatsoever. For this I apologise unreservedly
and to reassure him and others that his efforts have been fully appreciated.
What I did was very unproffesional and will not happen again.
DM Aule is an asset to the NWN community and after meeting him today,
he is more than just a script maker via irc, he is also a friend.
DM
Kev
Untold Tales Of Tolkien I + II
WCN - Wireplay Community News - Manager |
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must REALLY REALLY thank P 'n' Luth for
being so UTTERLY hospitable and sorting out the affordable acommodation
at Magdalen College.
I'd have been knackered gettin' that arranged from up here Ithink.
Thanks! It was great to meet all of you at last. Good god I've spoken
to some of you on a near daily basis on Teamspeak for not much shy
of a year so I felt i knew some of ye pretty well anyway.
What shall i take away from this apart
from the sunburn, indigestion (that was my fault entirely) and the
confirmation that I look just like my character (oh dear). Well its
got to be how lovely Oxford is and how much me feet ache tryin to
see as much of it as possible (must be these +2 Ironshods, I'll have
to upgrade to +3s).
Along with Lorien, Argon and Clone, I stayed overnight. Lorien snuck
away early before his park 'n' ride ticket ran out, but the 3 of us
went and pestered P n Luth again and we wandered around the city and
sat down at the marvellous Head of the River Pub for a few drinks
and a meal and spent a very enjoyable couple of hours chatting and
joking and laughing at the silly drunken buggers in boats colliding
with eachother and punting backwards or in circles on the Isis. One
chap spilled an entire can of strongbow........er..... as he hit the
water...... but some people have no sense of style or decorum do they
*coughs and shifts uneasily*.
Kept waiting for Luth's accent to slip but to her credit i think she
never uttered one single "Yebuggamarra" that I am aware
of. Never mind hinny.
We were temporary invaders into your busy but peaceful lives, club-footed
tourist yobbos, but you were ever so patient, and despite the 6 hours
there and 7 hours back and the utter lack of mystery as to who I was
(damn my beard), I look forward to irritating the hell out of both
of ye again some day. Tough luck! Yer me mates now...
Veld
Peace, Love, Ale 'n' Jack
May the road rise up te meet ye as the alcohol kicks in! |
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