Hobbits, Big Folk, all and sundry!
Farmer Maggot has inspected a patch of common ground in Hobbiton and pronounced it absolutely perfect for growing food, fruit and flowers of all sorts - and perhaps even mushrooms!
But which will flourish best in such earth?
Farmer Maggot has a huge collection of mushroom spores - and some other mysterious seeds and cuttings as well - but alas, he’s not very organised and he can’t be sure which is which.
Time for us good hobbits (and other folk) to get out there and experiment.
At the end of the growing season we can get together and see what we’ve grown and who will take the prize!
This will be followed by a TASTING SESSION where everyone can remark upon your carrots or something.
How This Will Work:
- This is primarily an RP thread for Hobbits to post about farming in their allotment. However there will be an optional game element!
- For every RP post you make tending to your crop, I will add on a weight point to whatever it is you have grown - which will count towards the Size Prize! Stop sniggering.
- You may grow specific crops that you yourself choose, pipeweed, taters, carrots etc.- or you may choose a bag from Mr Maggot’s Mystery Assortment!
- If you choose a mystery bag you will also have to choose where to plant it - on wet wood, marshy soil, dry soil, etc and let’s see what happens
- Prizes if you successfully grow any of Mr Maggot’s special stuff - including particularly delicious mushrooms and a new strain of pipeweed
- But if you’re unlucky you might find it’s something completely inedible! Who put that agaric in there?!
- To make it fair everyone can claim up to three patches of earth for planting. You can choose all one crop (and all your posts will go towards the Size Prize) or variants
- I will also post WEATHER UPDATES AND EVENTS: will it be sunny? Will rogue animals raid the field? Respond to tend your crops
- IRL Sil and plants are not friends so let’s not expect too much realism but I will gratefully accept corrections in the general shire OOC if you tag me
RULES
- Mark OOC as OOC. No need for whiteout
- Don’t godmode other players. You may godmode your plants, but if you have picked the mystery bag, I will also godmode your plants.
- Anyone may RP as Farmer Maggot
- All free peoples welcome. Minions must be in semi-plausible disguise and any shenanigans will be met with pitchforks
- Sabotage? I probably won’t stop you but the Shirriffs might
- Please don’t double post until 24 hours has elapsed since your last post