(The exact date is a guess. Must have been between 1999-08-05 and 1999-08-11.)
At last, the Dol Guldur TP has been approved! Gimli, the Erebor +ruler, has given his OK. Bofa and Nori are two Emyn-Engrin LAs that will help me organize this TP.
Shaazgut, the Mordor ruler, has told me that the Dol Guldur players are mostly busy down in Ithilien and might be staying there or move south into Umbar at least until the end of August. Which is fine by me, we’ll take our time travelling to death and worse awaiting us in Dol Guldur... hehe!
I’ve broken the TP down into three phases. This is what I posted on the Tinyplot bulletin board:
I'm going after the lost dwarven ring in Dol Guldur! The TP will proceed in three phases, as far as I can tell: 1. The dwarves will move from Erebor into Mirkwood, 2. we'll travel south, and 3. we'll reach Dol Guldur where everything will fall appart, either because of internal fighting or because Dol Guldur hunts us down. I'm looking for players, alts and puppets that are interested in coming along. Here are some reasons why you might want to be part of the TP IC: You are one of the people that know about the ring, either because you knew what happened to Thrain in Dol Guldur when the ring was taken from him, or you overheard Gandalf or any of the other circle members talk about the dwarven ring. You are an agent of Mordor that tries to lure an old, unhappy and scheming dwarf south to Dol Guldur, or you could try to corrupt some of us, converting our party to the Eye. You are a resident of the areas we are travelling through: Ndaedeldhrim, Beornings, Dalelanders. You can be curious and question us, or trail us, or try to rob us. As to dwarves that might want to join: Any ambitious, unhappy and corruptible dwarves are invited to join, of course! And if you are a stout defender of Good and notice what's going on, you can join, too, trying to keep us from the Dark Side. The dwarves will form a party, travel south, and on the trip greed, mistrust und the corrupting influence of any bad guys we meet will start to break our fellowship appart. If we ever reach Dol Guldur, we'll fail to achieve anything. Some of us might even get captured and tortured and converted to the Nameless One. Interested? Come along! +mail me!
And I’ve started the first phase:
The first phase of the TP has started: The assembly of interested dwarves in the Erebor area. We’ll see how many show up. I’ve talked to people in Emyn-Engrin about it IC, so if you are interested, +mail me and we’ll arrange for some RP to get the right information to you. There are also knowledgeable dwarves on Master Arwin’s trip to Buhr Mahrling, so if you meet them IC, you can get the information there.
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