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This is mainly a invite-only thread, but if you're interested in joining, TG me and I'll see if we can fit you in...

The idea is simple: an FT sequel to "The Lord of the Rings", say, 50 000 years later. Certain civilizations in the universe have detected a beacon, a dimensional anomaly which switches on and off at intervalls. Since there have been reports of people hearing voices, and since there is a possibility that the beacon is psychic as well as dimensional, several civilizations have decided to send exploration-groups in order to find out what the cause of this disturbance is.
The RP begins with the preparations of each taskforce, where the main characters of each nation are presented, and continues to where they arrive at a planet and meet each other. After that, I got a few ideas about what's going to happen, but I'll introduce them gradually on the OOC-thread once the RP has started.

The ideal would be to have 3-5 "good guys", and 1-3 "bad guys".

The rules are simple:

"Good Guys":
1. You RP as your own nation
2. Preferably, no more than 3 main characters each
3. Maximum 5 ships for each exploration group
4. Let you fantasy run wild, be entertaining, don't ditch the thread

"Bad Guys":
1. You don't have to RP your own nation
2. You command a vast army of orks with blaster-guns, mountain-trolls, dragons and dark lords with ugly helmets and light-sabres. (Your army is essentially big, strong and retarded.)
3. Your army inhabits a distant planet, thus, not the same planet where the "beacon" is. After 50 000 years, your "Lord" decides that he wants to have his long-lost ring back and tries to find it by concentrating his mind-powers on it, thus activating it and turning it into a "beacon". Our search-party finds the ring and your "Lord", feeling that his ring is in someone elses hands, sends a couple of his Nazgul-and-company to look for it, while he gathers his troops in order to invade the universe, planet by planet.
4. You don't have a large fleet. Your main tactic is to land small ships on planets and use them as "gateways" to beam your large armies unto the planet and destroy everything in your path. Your strength is mostly in your numbers, you prefer ground-battles instead of fleet-to-fleet combat.
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How could it come to this? Well, the ring can only be destroyed on it's homeplanet, so when it was thrown into the vulcano (which wasn't on its homeplanet) it was only "deactivated". Besides, a couple of seconds after it was thrown into it, the vulcano erupted, thus effectively propelling it out on dry land again. (What's the purpose of throwing something into a vulcano that is going to erupt and throw it out again?... but I guess the author had a different view on that...)

So, anyone interested? Sign-up now! (...if you've been invited, otherwise TG me)

I don't understand.

This is mainly a invite-only thread, but if you're interested in joining, TG me and I'll see if we can fit you in...

The idea is simple: an FT sequel to "The Lord of the Rings", say, 50 000 years later. Certain civilizations in the universe have detected a beacon, a dimensional anomaly which switches on and off at intervalls. Since there have been reports of people hearing voices, and since there is a possibility that the beacon is psychic as well as dimensional, several civilizations have decided to send exploration-groups in order to find out what the cause of this disturbance is.
The RP begins with the preparations of each taskforce, where the main characters of each nation are presented, and continues to where they arrive at a planet and meet each other. After that, I got a few ideas about what's going to happen, but I'll introduce them gradually on the OOC-thread once the RP has started.

The ideal would be to have 3-5 "good guys", and 1-3 "bad guys".

The rules are simple:

"Good Guys":
1. You RP as your own nation
2. Preferably, no more than 3 main characters each
3. Maximum 5 ships for each exploration group
4. Let you fantasy run wild, be entertaining, don't ditch the thread

"Bad Guys":
1. You don't have to RP your own nation
2. You command a vast army of orks with blaster-guns, mountain-trolls, dragons and dark lords with ugly helmets and light-sabres. (Your army is essentially big, strong and retarded.)
3. Your army inhabits a distant planet, thus, not the same planet where the "beacon" is. After 50 000 years, your "Lord" decides that he wants to have his long-lost ring back and tries to find it by concentrating his mind-powers on it, thus activating it and turning it into a "beacon". Our search-party finds the ring and your "Lord", feeling that his ring is in someone elses hands, sends a couple of his Nazgul-and-company to look for it, while he gathers his troops in order to invade the universe, planet by planet.
4. You don't have a large fleet. Your main tactic is to land small ships on planets and use them as "gateways" to beam your large armies unto the planet and destroy everything in your path. Your strength is mostly in your numbers, you prefer ground-battles instead of fleet-to-fleet combat.
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How could it come to this? Well, the ring can only be destroyed on it's homeplanet, so when it was thrown into the vulcano (which wasn't on its homeplanet) it was only "deactivated". Besides, a couple of seconds after it was thrown into it, the vulcano erupted, thus effectively propelling it out on dry land again. (What's the purpose of throwing something into a vulcano that is going to erupt and throw it out again?... but I guess the author had a different view on that...)

So, anyone interested? Sign-up now! (...if you've been invited, otherwise TG me)

Good idea. Bad execution.


There are too many rules.

Well, since I WAS invited(and incredibly flattered by such, I guess my RPing skills are improving) I will partake. If I may, I shall partake as an evil do-er. I'm assuming that all those who play as evil shall be from one nation but will have differing factions of some sort, like command of different armies. If I may, could I be like the equivalent of Sauramon, leading the initial attacks and being pretty much in charge of the armies for a long time.

Also...will we be using magic? I don't really care either way, but just wondering.

So essentially (TGs make me look..) it's about NS players sending a ship or two after a strange dimensional source that ends up being the One Ring on a distant planet somewhere, while a seperate planet is essentially a Mordor gateway to invade the rest of the universe from.

My only problem is I probably could have as large a force as this 'Mordor' based force, due in part of the Counterattack War, though with much of my military still pinned down in fighting and defending certain areas of space from the Dark Eternals, so that might sorta solve that problem if realistic rping of the situation is Rped out all accurately.

Personaly, I 'do' like the concept, if it all is all freeformed away from the canon of the original LoTR story concept some, not sure if the races and nations of Middle Earth are not planets or what. (A small planet full of Hobbits? =o-= )

It would be interesting to consider Rping, since one of the foundations of the Council was a point in their history before Foundation when Aleaic and his friends participated in a holo-play of the same LoTR. (It's in the nation web portal history of the founding, which I should move to the History page instead...)

Not intenting to make this egocentrist and all, but the idea is my nation getting into something it doesn't realize before reality smacks them in the face with it. This along with whatever other rping goes with it from other nations might make a really interesting story, though the fighting part of it might have to be taken in context along the style of my wars with Scands Dark Eternals and all. (Wanked and all is the term I believe.)

Still since the Gaians modeled a great deal of the empire along the ideal of Gondor, it would be appealing to to consider rping out. =^^=

Interesting idea.

I don't understand.

I think Gaian Ascendancys post explains it somewhat better, though this RP is an adventure RP firstly, and a war RP secondly. The main idea is, that each nations main characters (explorers) stumble unto this ring, which they soon realize must be destroyed. Together, they try to outmanouver the dark forces, and win the war "single-handedly", as there might not be time to call for reinforcements. This is basically a character based RP, even though a all-out-war cannot be excluded...

Well, since I WAS invited(and incredibly flattered by such, I guess my RPing skills are improving) I will partake. If I may, I shall partake as an evil do-er. I'm assuming that all those who play as evil shall be from one nation but will have differing factions of some sort, like command of different armies. If I may, could I be Saruman, leading the initial attacks and being pretty much in charge of the armies for a long time.
Also...will we be using magic? I don't really care either way, but just wondering.

Sure no problem... all the better...:)

So essentially (TGs make me look..) it's about NS players sending a ship or two after a strange dimensional source that ends up being the One Ring on a distant planet somewhere, while a seperate planet is essentially a Mordor gateway to invade the rest of the universe from.

Yes

Personaly, I 'do' like the concept, if it all is all freeformed away from the canon of the original LoTR story concept some, not sure if the races and nations of Middle Earth are not planets or what. (A small planet full of Hobbits? =o-= )

Yes, no planet full of hobbits :)

Not intenting to make this egocentrist and all, but the idea is my nation getting into something it doesn't realize before reality smacks them in the face with it.

You have a way with words...

Still since the Gaians modeled a great deal of the empire along the ideal of Gondor, it would be appealing to to consider rping out. =^^=
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I'll post more tomorrow, I've been rewritting and then expanding upon the history of the pre-Foundation and then the Foundation period of my realm, so unintentionally I ended up doing a lot of private writing today on my comp.

Yep, I know words. Lots of curse ones too. =^^= I can't drink like a good German-Irishman can, but I can curse up a storm like em when I'm steamed enough.

Personally though, I would like to know when we'd be starting all this. And I'd put all of this a year after my coming crash landing rp I'll have with Ahb, done after I eventually finish my Sunset thread. That would be a good timeline, though my exploration assets can appear at any time. Just need a thread to start it all in. Also need to know who else is in, but I call the good-guy 'gondor' like nation, minus the Denethor bit. =^^=

I was planning on starting this on monday sometime... or friday, but I don't post on weekends...

Since I was invited, I will attempt this.

Welcome in... :)

Alright, that clears it up alot.

I'll do it, but I request being a good-guy and can I use Planeswalkers?

Alright, that clears it up alot.

Are you in?

I'll do it, but I request being a good-guy and can I use Planeswalkers?

Sure, be a good-guy... but as for planeswalkers... well, I was hoping to keep this as FT as possible... you can use planeswalkers, but they are only allowed to create fire- energyballs etc... no calling of animals to fight for them etc.

I shall represent the rest of the active Istari. One of the Three has already been claimed and the third was not part of the story (And was even completely omitted from the movies).

I shall play the second one, one known as Mithrandir or Gandalf.

OOC: You know, I hate to point this out, as it'll seem like I'm being a git, but there's been tons of Tolkien-themed nations and roleplays, Menelmacar, Melkor Unchained, half a dozen Saurons, Aelosia, Thelas, Taurenor, "The Great Shire of Hobbityla" and so on... So, why not add a bit more scope for originality, and make it more of a re-telling than a sequel?

Oh, and there's at least five Istari, the other two, the 'Blue Wizards' don't come into the story at all though.

Well, if you truely want an epic, you could retell the Silmarillion, it would only take a few years to do....

Oh, I stand corrected on the missing two. Thanks Ctan.

It's funny how the other three are not really used in the "Epic Tale". Radagast is barely mentioned and the blue wizards are not. Makes you wonder what he had planned for them. Were they mentioned in the Unfinished Tales?

I shall represent the rest of the active Istari. One of the Three has already been claimed and the third was not part of the story (And was even completely omitted from the movies).

I shall play the second one, one known as Mithrandir or Gandalf.

Sorry, you have to use real characters from your own nation... Gandalf doesn't count...

I meant the role, not the character.

Sure, but I'll have an equivalent of him myself... so that will be fun...:)

With my race being cheifly Psions, I really can't see the other roles of the Fellowship being my place, unless you want me to play the Ringwraiths (not using my nation, of course).

I am trying to match my race to the roles in the story. Just making sure you know I am not just trying for the most powerful character but only something that would match someone from Balrogga.

With my race being cheifly Psions, I really can't see the other roles of the Fellowship being my place, unless you want me to play the Ringwraiths (not using my nation, of course).

I am trying to match my race to the roles in the story. Just making sure you know I am not just trying for the most powerful character but only something that would match someone from Balrogga.

Maybe you didn't really understand me... This RP is based on the lord of the rings, but we don't have the same characters.... except for Saruman and the Nazgul. Your "heroes" have to come from YOUR nation, and they can be anybody, from ship-captains to pilots. Preferably, NOT characters from the lord of the rings, but "normal" people from your nation... if you follow that simple rule, you can be anyone you want...

I understood that they needed to be from our own nation but you made it sound like we were going to act out the mission of the Fellowship using characters from our nation. That would mean you would need us to fill in the roles played by the Tolkein characters. You even stated you were going to have your own character fill the role that Galdalf played in the novels.

Using this, it can be expected you need a ring bearer and his escorts (The Fellowship) to go along with your character. That means we need to fill the roles those characters filled. We will be using our own nations for the characters. That is the way I understood it.

Now, I took a look at my nation.

I have three basic types of citizens. Two of them are psions and the third would be unplayable in this setting. No Kythons will be used here. Period.

That leaves my Childer or my Ta'Nar. They both are pure psionic energy entities. The Ta'Nar are the ones in control and the Childer are the humans and AI they have "evolved" into Childer status. That leaves me choosing between an energy being that excells at low level Psionics (Childer) or one that excels at high level psionics and magic (Ta'Nar).

In your opinion, what role would either of my two races fill in your vision of the FT Fellowship?

Please note, I am not trying to be diffacult, only seeking to allow you to understand the reasoning that seemed to be causing the confusion probably on both our parts.

Sorry for that... well, it's up to you which one to choose, they seem both ok. As for filling the roles of the Tolkien characters, that's up to you, I don't think it's necessery. Personally, I don't think we need any "ring-bearer", a person with developed psychic powers and resistance would do just as well... the FT fellowship, as you call it, can consist of anybody, so it's really quite free on that matter...

Well, I will place my role in this RP in your hands. You can chose how I participate in it.

Well, I will place my role in this RP in your hands. You can chose how I participate in it.

Well, you detected a "beacon" and sent a task-force to check it out. That's it... everything else is up to you, you don't need to follow anything from the Tolkien books, just use common sense... how your captain would react etc... I'll post the link tomorrow, or today...

Thank you for the invite. I have to say I was quite surprised and honored by it.

I'll join, but I'm not garanteeing anything. I don't have to much experience in RP's, and I'm hnot sure if I have the time it might take to stick with this, but I'll give it my best shot and hope for the best. This looks like fun!

Are there still good-guy roles available? If there is, I would like to be one.

Thanks again for inviting me. I appreciate it!

When will the actual RP thread be posted, or is this it?

Sorry I hadn't posted in this thread as of late, I 'finally' got my Foundation story done and uploaded to the nation website, as well as revamped the entire history page somewhat, and corrected other things.

But I'm curious as to what and when the formal thread will start here too. =^^= I think I called the 'Gondor' nation type bit, just in case I didn't. I'm lazy at the time I'm writing this post. =zz=

If there's still room for one more, count me in. (Sorry about the slow response on this Asfaltum, but I've been keepiing a sharp eye on the escalating situation in another RP that I'm in.)

Considering the current state of Commonwealth military commitments (there's a few right now) elsewhere, my task force won't be very large. Most likely a cruiser/carrier (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12138102&postcount=5), a logistical vessel (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12181215&postcount=7), and three light cruisers (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12140008&postcount=6).

Sure, be a good-guy... but as for planeswalkers... well, I was hoping to keep this as FT as possible... you can use planeswalkers, but they are only allowed to create fire- energyballs etc... no calling of animals to fight for them etc.

They're actually use advanced space vessals when in space. And don't worry, I'll only use my Nascents (basically they're my Planeswalkers-in-training, they are different from the nascents in the stories.)

Hello everybody!
Sorry for having been a little inactive lately... everybody who has signed up until now is welcome to join the IC thread.

Here's the link (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=12238342#post12238342):)


Have fun...


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I am most saddened to say that I must back out of this RP due to lack of time. Sorry for teh incovenience.

Hmmm, well dosn't matter, such things happen...

Anybody else who wants to take Taledonias place as the bad-guy?

No thanks.
I'm only good at playing my own bad guys.

Doesn't matter... the IC-thread is probably dead anyway...

Bumping IC thread...