The Hall of Barad-dûr: Mordor OOC

[Nessa Saelind]

I support your fresh interpretation of New Year, New Me, Tara

[Raisins]

@Lady of Shadow You told me to poke you here. Honestly not sure how much I'd be able to play in the Army thread in here, simply because I am not actively a part of it, so perhaps Free RP might be best in terms of accessibility, though in Mordor I am not sure where any of my characters in particular would come in in regards to what you've suggested as a story line so far... Do you have a specific plan for her escape that I could work around or is she helped to escape?

[Winddancer]

@Fuin Elda @Lady of Shadow if your story has anything at all to do with the army, feel free to use the army thread for it. You dont have to be IN it to use it :) Thought I would let you know, sorry for butting in!

[Nessa Saelind]

To my esteemed minions A question: If Mordor had a Black Library where a certain Evil Librarian™ worked where would that library most likely be located? Barad-dûr, Umbar, Minas Morgul? Or all 3 cause why not have branches in all 3 cities

[Winddancer]

I would think where Sauron was, imo.

[Baphởmet]

Oh! I get to put on my "I'm going to be going back to school soon to study library science" shirt again!

Barad-dûr - I would assume they have something more akin to an archive, just records of accounting, law briefs, etc that aren't open to the "general public"
Umbar - Umbar would absolutely have a public library in my opinion, perhaps even two given the population size as a human capital and trading center
Minas Morgul - as a former sister city of Minas Tirith, I think they would have had one at one point but it might have been converted into a much more private, exclusive specialty library for the higher ups like the Nazgûl to study occult stuff

and because now that I'm on a roll, I might as well continue with my completely biased and, probably, uninformed opinion
Angmar - same as Minas Morgul I think, exclusive, private, and very specialized that might also double as an archive for record keeping
Dol Guldur - honestly this one I'm not sure of, they might have had something Khamûl and Sauron before had for personal use but nothing public

This is of course, my own headcanon and can easily be proven to be biased and inaccurate by someone with more lore knowledge than myself

[Nessa Saelind]

Awesome headcanons there Frost! I was aiming for a more specialised library/archive with restricted access that contained rare manuscripts and incunabula. The ones if you are allowed to enter you need to sign forms with your blood in triplicate and if you look at a manuscript wrongly or even breathe inappropriately near one you will be gutted and your entrails will be used for auguring

[Moriel]

In my headcanon, there's one of those in Minas Morgûl

[Baphởmet]

This fills my tweed coated heart with joy

[Baphởmet]

Hey minions! If you wear an eye you should be casting your vote for MotM!! Stop being such a disgraceful bunch of coal biters

[Nessa Saelind]

I hope this letter finds you well

Dear reader,

It did not found her well Sorry, sorry, this just reminded me of all those I hope this e-mail finds you well and I'm out here tempted to respond with: The e-mail finds me sitting on the couch stress eating crisps, but thank you? I shall see myself out, no need to push me into Mount Doom

[Troygan]

Well I already have my two character, Mauren and Uthurg stuck at Minas Morgul twiddling their thumbs, not knowing what to do. My last post their was literally padding :/

[Winddancer]

Well I already have my two character, Mauren and Uthurg stuck at Minas Morgul twiddling their thumbs, not knowing what to do. My last post their was literally padding :/

Are you waiting on someone specific? If not, people might not know you want they to interact with you :) Try getting some interest here: memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=196 Let us know what you are trying to rp and I am sure people will join in :)

[Troygan]

thanks

[Baphởmet]

Echoing Windy, was there something you wanted to do with your characters? I'd be willing to help out in terms of creating a story or helping you advance an arc you already had in mind.

[Troygan]

@The King in Yellow Actually I was thinking maybe Mauren and Uthurg could go out spying somewhere, and maybe even interact with someone's character(s)

[The Black Serpent]

I can help train charecters in the Army thread. We can go on missions and stuff and gain rank :)

[Troygan]

Sounds great @Draugän Nuruhuinë

[The Black Serpent]

@Troygan join in! :)

[The Black Serpent]

OOC @The King in Yellow @Winddancer : guys ur Rp is amazing. Love it!

[Winddancer]

@Draugän Nuruhuinë Thank you! <3

[Baphởmet]

@Draugän Nuruhuinë many thanks, I am glad we can keep you entertained

[Raisins]

@Winddancer You've got my discord so that will work for missives.

[Winddancer]

I read this thread first and having just woken I was like whaaaat? What missive?? :P Duh :P

[Raisins]

You're special this is why we love you Windy. LOL

[Baphởmet]

You better love her; otherwise you'd be in a spot of trouble, deep in minion territory as you are. We are very protective of our Lady of Torture around here.

[Raisins]

I am a fearless creature if you haven't recognized that yet I am nearer to minion than elf most days Aig would tell you lol.

That or I'm trying to give Feanor a run for his money in terms of Batshire Crazy

[Winddancer]

I am way speshul, that's fur sure :P I am hoping to catch up on posts wednesday <3

Frost: <3

[Vinyatur]

Hello everyone! I was (quite) active at the old Plaza for a while. First in Gondor, then in Mordor mostly. Haven't seen myself in any of the surviving archive threads unfortunately, but I recognized a lot of the names and topics like Lava Snake Racing, which I think I ran for a while actually... Anyway, I'm still evil at heart, hopefully all of you wretched souls are as well.

[Baphởmet]

Welcome back @Vinyatur! I swear that name sounds familar. We're glad to have you be to torture have fun with

Feel free to kick back in the Spa, schedule a fight in the Necromancer's Guild, train some Warg, or terrorize the locals!

[Marceline]

Welcome, @Vinyatur!

[Moriel]

There’s another name I remember! Welcome back, @Vinyatur!!

[Winddancer]

Welcome back! :D

[Troygan]

Am I supposed to write Mauren being shot in the Black Host rp?

[Baphởmet]

Question for everyone/anyone: I am thinking about running a little story arc here in Mordor, a neo-noir, spy, espionage kind of story. Human characters infiltrate Minas Morgul and seek to sabotage it from the inside out as the Third Age is winding to a close but before the War of the Ring has officially kicked off (think the Americans, but in Middle-Earth). I don't have a whole lot plotted out for it yet so this is more a temperature check to see if anyone is interested. If no one's interested I think I have enough to run it in the Free RP, the same goes of one or two others want to join in, but if (lo and behold) more people want to participate I could turn it into a full on RPG with its own thread and everything. So, after all that, what is everyone's thoughts? Good idea? Bad idea? Meh but could be improved on? Throw Fleeg into Mt Doom awful?

[Moriel]

Minas Morgul, you say? *Sombelenë peers around the corner*

I like this idea and am in whether you want the WK's personal secretary as an antagonist or just want to focus on the humons

[Baphởmet]

I hate gifs on the Plaza so you'll just have to imagine the "Both? Both. Both. Both is good." meme here I want the majority of the focus to be on the humans, but a thriller (or any story for that matter) is only as good as the antagonist, Sombelenë, and any one else within reason, can appear here and there to help the action along

[Galadrihell]

@Call of Bearthulhu I’m in

[Winddancer]

I would rather not play one of the humans, but if you need minions as background posts or to interact with then will happily provide those :)

[Nessa Saelind]

*rummages through DAI* Depending on what year you set this in I think I can throw not one, but two wee human "idiot adventurers" at you @Call of Bearthulhu so I'm officially in

[Baphởmet]

@Goosil Brilliant! (yes you can play a goose if you think you can pull it off)

@Winddancer believe it or not, that's a huge boon to me (who would otherwise have to play all the background minions otherwise) *throws a hundred different minions your way*

@Nessa Saelind I'm considering setting the year at 3014, the same collective year as most Imladris RPs and Angmar, for continuity's sake (as well as my own sanity)

[Winddancer]

Btw will it be silly or serious? Or seriously silly? Or serious, silly?

[Baphởmet]

Serious, with a side of serious fried in serious with serious to drink. Neo-noir is my favorite genre I've never tried to write but have long admired and I figured that the best way to dip my toe into the genre would be here on the Plaza

[Winddancer]

Phew! <3

[Baphởmet]

Despite evidence to the contrary, I can play very serious characters

[Moriel]

Super cereal.

[Nessa Saelind]

@Call of Bearthulhu - awesomeness one "idiot adventurer" is for sure coming your way whenever you set this up and I am looking forward to this.

[Galadrihell]

I’ll have you know I’m fully capable of roleplaying as non bird characters

[Winddancer]

Well, tbf I have only ever read your serious stuff :O (Dont tell anyone!)

[Baphởmet]

@Goosil What?! Why was I not told about this?!

@Winddancer Lies! We all know you're a closet Fleeg fan