Okay. The mods have been discussing this and have decided that we have a GOOD PROBLEM: It's still moving soooo fast, it's hard to keep track of the RPG. It's too fast to know what's what and keep up and know what you should post unless you're on all the time.
For this and other reasons, we have unanimously decided:

2 RPGs post in 24 hours per person.

Make the RPG post as long as you like. If you have something else to say, go back and edit it. Tulk and Miremiel have had success with this in their RPG forum, and we believe it will make this RPG more accessible and friendly to all AU members.

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As the last glimmer of sunlight fades from the western sky, a low, clear bell sounds summoning all to the council. The Elven musicians continue to play. In the council chamber the sound of singing and laughter can be heard faintly, creating a pleasant atmosphere.
Lord Elrond, however, as kind as summer though he may be, does not wear such a pleasant expression on his face. As the adventurers come into the chamber and are direct to their seats, they notice a shadow crossing his face, which seems to deepen as time wears on.

"Look at the Eyebrowlord!" One adventurer comments.

"You have my sword, Sir," another young man says as he enters the chamber and bows to Elrond.

Elrond, however, simply nods at him, seemingly preoccupied.
Finally, when all the Elven lords, the adventurers' guides, and all but one of the adventurers is seated, a tall blond elf, seated next to Elrond, stands.

Glorfindel: "Strangers and guests in the house of the Lord Elrond, friends from distant lands, and my lords, you have been summoned here by the will of the Lord Elrond. There have been strange rumors whispered abroad, whispers of a nameless fear, of a threat so great that it would destroy Middle-Earth as we know it."

He pauses, apparently for effect. Then suddenly he begins to speak again, seemingly endlessly...a monologue, if truth must be told. Some of his audience seems to fade, others start to talk among themselves.
A couple of the adventurers manage to catch on to the fact that in the midst of all these rumors, people---they, themselves!---suddenly began appearing out of nowhere, all over Middle-Earth, and all...

Elrohir (Elrond's son!): Unfortunately for you, the evidence only points towards you. Just as the news is noised abroad that the powers in the East are stirring, YOU appear. Are you spies?




Okay, here's the deal. You may try to prove you are not spies, you may all gang up and convince him you are not spies, you could have Galadriel's voice speak up in your behalf, whatever. Essentially, continue the council. One of you will have to arrive late. In the middle.
When each of you've posted 1x, the mods will reveal your mission-quest-thing.

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[I can arrive late, is that okay?]

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"I am he [she =P] that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death."

Elenya tried to wait until Lothwen received an answer from Elrohir, but she couldn't make herself. She stood up suddenly.
"I'm not a spy, I swear. I just woke up on Weathertop one morning. I met up with Gandalf and some other girls I know after awhile. Gandalf can speak up for me, I'm sure. He knows I'm not a spy. I mean, I love Lord of the Rings! I wouldn't want to spy or be a bad guy or anything..." she trailed off. <i>Great job</i> she told herself sarcastically. <i>I'm sure that made a great impression-really convinced them your just a normal girl.</i>

Pandora sat next to Gandalf and Gwenneth in the council, she had drifted off towards the middle of Glofindel's speech. Not to some random butterfly but to the blonde haired Edhel himself, her A-U husband. She couldn't help but smile at him feeling as if she knew him better than the rest but truly she didn't....

Pandora continued to daydream until another voice filled her ears, it was of Elrohir. She could finally tell the difference between Elladan and Elrohir, the younger one had a small mark beside his left eye. Anyways it was when Elrohir said that one of them was a spy that her thoughts quickly came together and she shouted.

"A Spy!..." She was about to rant and rave when Gandalf placed a hand on her shoulder and stood up, his hand grasping his staff as he looked to the heads of the council.

"Ah my dear friends there may be a spy amoung us but this small group I can assure you is not." He pointed to Gwenneth, Pandora, Anduril, and Dark.

"I met them all in the Shire, in the house of Bilbo Baggins none-the-less. They had not arrived there but two minutes before I walked in and they have been with me ever since. I trust them, I may also add..." pointing to Melda, Elegost, and others who traveled with Gandalf, "...They were also with me for some time so I am sure they are no spies as well." Gandalf nodded to the council again before taking a seat and winking at Pandora with his signature smile.

"Thank you..." She mouthed before looking to Elrohir and the rest of the council.

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Elenriel sat in shocked silence for a moment before anger filled her. Although the elves mistrust of them were understandable, she was tired of the suspicions and the frustration of being unable to prove her innocence caused something in her to snap. “My lords, I am no spy…” she started, struggling to control her emotions. She was about to say more, when she felt a gentle pressure on her shoulder and Prince Legolas shook his head in her direction, his eyes commanding her to remain silent. With that he stood to address the council. “My brethren, I can also assert that Elenriel is no spy. She has been a most faithful traveling companion from Mirkwood, even forsaking her sanctuary during an orc attack to warn me of an enemy arrow. Had she been one of the enemy agents, she would have stood by and done naught in my moment of need. I respect and trust her.” he said before taking a seat. Elenriel exhaled softly and gave him an appreciative smile while mentally chastising herself for losing control of her emotions. “Thank you.” she mouthed before turning her attention back to the council.

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AWESOME set by the AMAZING Lembas!!!

(OOC: I am sorry that I have to jump in now, but I was with my father in the weekend and he doesn't have a pc.. So I will start in the council)

Lhunardaien sat quiet next to Nocturen, and she was listening to all the people who were saying that they were not spies. She was also thinking of how she could defend herself, how could she say that she wasn't a spy?
After a while, she heard several people speaking for an A-U member. But alas, she hadn't met someone from Middle-Earth, so she had no-one to defend herself.
But then she decided that she had nothing to loose, and she stood up. 'I don't have anyone to defend me,' Lhun said,' and I have no idea how I can tell you that I am no spy. I can only tell, that I was walking in a forest, and suddenly I fell, and when I stood up again, I was in Bree, and there I met my companion Nocturne. In Bree we bought clothes, food and horses with our jewellery and old clothes. From there we travelled to Weathertop, where we had our nightcamp. And this early morning we went to Rivendell, what we reached in the late afternoon. I can't tell you anymore, because I don't know what I can tell you more than this. I hope .. that you all are wise enough to believe me..' said Lhun, while she was talking softer and softer. At the end of her speech, she sat down again, and she saw some encouraging nods around here, from Legolas, Elenriel and Gandalf, who seemed to believe her. But what would Lord Elrond think?

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Gwenneth sat between Pandora and Lothwen. She pursed her lips, studying each member of the council, picking out the ones she recognized. Then a small gasp escaped her lips. Aragorn! her mind raced. For a few moments, her eyes could not leave the kingly, noble looking man. But over there -- it must be Legolas! There was a maiden sitting next to him, looking as much like an elf as he, though Gwenneth noticed her rounded ears.

She was listening carefully to Glorfindel's speech, but felt as though her stomach had tied itself in a knot when hearing Elrohir's accusation. Thinking of nothing to say, she sat there, dumbly. Even if I did explain, how could they believe me?
A wave of relief fell over her as Gandalf stood and explained for she and the other girls. Gwenneth sat straighter, trying to appear innocent as she felt the eyes of many flick their way. She, too, sent Gandalf a greatful smile. Now her only hope was that the other A-Uers would have someone to vouch for them.

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[I think it may be best if I'm the one who arrives late, I haven't got to Rivendell yet. However, I shall try to rectify that now.
So, if you'll cast your mind back to my last post I was leaving Dale for the road through Mirkwood...]

Darrell glanced around again. He was sure he could... there it was again. Gripping the hilt of his sword he gave himself a stern talking to. Pull yourself together, you are getting paranoid now. But just because he is paranoid doesn't mean things aren't out to get him.^^

Darrell continued his trek through the forest his sword swinging at his side. Not being elf made it was rather heavy, and he found it an annoyance some of the time, but he did feel better in having it. At leaast he would have the means, if not the skill, to defend himself. The most he'd done of sword play was a bit of sparring with his friend Cian back in Dale.

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After several hours of walking (this being days after he left Dale. Gotta get the time scale right folks ) he saw daylight ahead. He changed his pace up a bit and soon emerged from the forest, catching his breath as the clear day showed a fantastic veiw of the Anduin vale, with the Misty Mountains looming in the distance.

He turned back to face the forest see there was nothing following you, scaredy c... the reason the though cut short was because, emerging from the forest, was a large, ugly, hungry looking warg. Oh (insert expletive of choice here) was the only thought that crossed his mind as he quickly drew his sword. The warg began to close up and Darrell began swinging his blade, eyes fixed on the creature, realising how much it would suck if he died in Middle-earth before he could see most of it.

[This post is only half done. I shall return shortly to resume writing it, as I must abandon the computer temporarily. Please continue as normal, the ending of this post will not directly affect any one else. And hey, I left it on a nice cliffhanger for you ]

Nocturne next stood up, taking a deep gulp. Her heart started to thump heavily, she could feel herself shaking as well.
"Like Lhundarian, we have no one else to defend us - but I'm sure that some of you..", Nocturne hesitated, if she was wrong - she would be thought as a mad person, but she carried on, "The people who are the members of A-U, can ask me as many questions as possible about myself to assure you that I am no spy."
She then sat down with a pleased smirk and whispered to Lhun, "Where is Frodo?".

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[Darrell - I've already said that I'll arrive late, and I would kind of prefer not to change that, but you could do like Lhun did and just pretend you were there all along.]

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alright, summary of my trip...

we make it to Bree, and are glad for a break, but then the ringwraiths show up, so we (me, frodo, merry, pippin, sam) run outside of Bree, I see weathertop, I think "what the heck, let's go there", unfortuantely Merry & Piipin still set the fire, and the Ringwraiths show up, I happily remember the ringwraiths are scared of fire, which is good, because I have no weapons and cannot use them very well anyway. I scare them off with fire, but only after the witch King stabs frodo. Dang. So, we rush to Rivendell upon a horse named Quickfoot we bought in Bree. We arrvive, and I send Frodo to the care of the elves. Then...

"What's that?" Pippin pointed to a large circle of people sitting in a circle outside. Could it be the Council of Elrond? Riniel wondered. She turned back to the two young hobbits. (Sam had followed after Frodo) "You two stay out of trouble. I'm going to investigate." Riniel headed for the Council. However, she didn't think it was the one from the stories. Not everyone was there, and some odd ones were. And most of them were girls. That wasn't like the book. Wait...could it be more people from A-U? It was certainly possible...but how, and why?
Riniel spotted Pandora and Gwen's faces in the crowd, as well as Gandalf's. Oh, good. They made it here. There were a couple others'...Legolas, and...Boromir? She was amazed.
Then Riniel caught what they were saying. "I am no spy!" cried Pandora, or something to the effect. Then Gandalf said something about all of these people not possibly being spies. Uh oh. This could be bad. Elrond thought they were all spies? For who? Sauron. Oh yeah.
Riniel hung back for a moment, but it was a fatal mistake to hide behind the bushes.
"Who are you?" Cried Elohir. "Certainly you are a spy!"
"No, no, I swear!" said Riniel. "I am just another person, like all of these people! I want to help!" She turned desperately toward Gwen and Pandora.
Then Gandalf spoke. "I know this girl as well, Elrond. Her situation is the same as the ones I mentioned before, only she fell ill and this delayed her appearance in Rivendell."
Elond scowled. "Let's hope you have good judgement, Mithrandir. If you vouch for all of these people, we will certainly have looked over a spy!"
"But none of us are spies!" Cried Riniel. Elrond glared at her. Gandalf gave her a disappointed glance. Whoops. Riniel sat down and refrained from speaking for the rest of the council.

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Anduril inclined her head in the direction of Gandalf, but still stood up, tall and reagel she adressed the esembled elves. "My Lords, it is true that we are strangers to this land, and though many here have defended some of our company we have no real proof we are not spies. We all seem to know each other and many of us have found the company of key figures in this world. However i doubt that we could have tricked gandalf and Boramire is a true man. It is true we are all part of an Fellowship, namely called AU. But if we were spies why should we travel so openly to your lands, why would we be so incompetant at defending ourselvesin the face of this councill and why would we apper in strange attire and all openly show our fellowship. No my lords we are not spies, we are simply a group of men and woman unexectedly in extrodinary cirmemstances." She sat down, but now Elladan leaned foreward saying,
"It is true what you say, but you couldtrying to trick us into beliveing you to be as you are, to lure us into a fasle sense of security!"
She nodded, acknoleging his words "True we could be, but we are not, you can only choose to trust us or not"
He looked at her for a long moment, then lent back, apparently satisfied with what she had said.

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Elenwe sat next to an Elf, she had no idea who he was and he hadn't spoken to her. She looked from person to person as they all explained how they had come to Middle Earth. There was a pause and she stood up slowly, her long brown hair swished slightly in the light wind.

"I must also assure you all that I am not a spy, I have come here purely by accident just as everyone else has. My journey started just on the borders of the Golden Wood where I landed after falling out of a tree near my home. I went on to Lorien and met with Lady Galadriel who told me that I should leave on the horse that she gave me and make my way to Rivedell. I did so and began to leave when I was stopped by Sharku here," Elenwe paused and gestured to Sharku and continued. "He needed someone to help win carry his baggage to Rivendell so I agree to help him. We met up with FaZ and Luthien and some others, I don't recall everyone who was there. We then made our way to Rivendell where we found many people that we knew. I also met Lady Arwen late last night as I'm sure she wouldn't mind confirming." Elenwe said and paused again, looking over to Arwen.

"I did meet Elenwe last night, we talked and she was confused about why she was here. I found her to be honest and I found no traces of deception in her voice or her manner. I found her very pleasant in fact" Arwen said softly to the council.

"Therefore I hope you'll believe me that I am no spy or no threat to the people of Rivendell." Elenwe finished and nodded to Lord Elrond and the other council members before sitting down again.

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"Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come."

Fwee!

(GAH! YOU all post WAY too much...guess thats my fault tho...i dont post for two days and there are 12 new pages...too much reading...compy too slow *dies*)

Dark passes by Weathertop, prefering to not sleep there. Knowing that she might have to encounter Aragorn and the hobbits. Continuing on she hums random songs, watching for shadows and squirrels.

(GAH! YOU all post WAY too much...guess thats my fault tho...i dont post for two days and there are 12 new pages...too much reading...compy too slow *dies*)

Dark passes by Weathertop, prefering to not sleep there. Knowing that she might have to encounter Aragorn and the hobbits. Continuing on she hums random songs, watching for shadows and squirrels.