Genesis Mud: Tolkien's Army of Angmar

Tolkien's Army of Angmar: Genesis Mud

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You pick up the eighth scroll from the ground. The ancient vellum has inscribed on it messages from adventurers like yourself who posted notes on the notice board in times past. The spectral minion who guards the board room has transferred these old notes to the scroll to keep these messages for posterity.

You read the scroll, showing messages from December 1998:

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Name: Deproelius
Message Date: Monday, 21 December 1998
Comments:
Dear little alleged Mage-killer.

I hate to burst your bubble, but about the only place that you are infamous is inside your petty little mind. Anyone who covers their tracks by posting anonymous notes shows everybody else how pathetic they are.

Using expletives in your notes doesn’t make you seem tougher, either.


Name: Mage killer
Referred by: From Geocities
Message Date: Thursday, 17 December 1998
Comments:
Re:Locklear

Again and again you say empty things. Can you please come to the point instead of talking a lot of **** and hacking about people do not write right or saying they are dimwitted. On your answer I cover my name in a alias, yes that’s true. Its because of the reason I do not want you to be ready in genesis when I strike against you. And on your answer you do not know me or none does, that’s not true, I'm infamous.

Still you make yourself a fool. If you do not have anything important to say then I suggest you to shut the **** up.

I hope you play more genesis, I'm missing you little one.


Name: Mr. Boffin
Referred by: From Geocities
From: Somewhere in Gondor
Message Date: Wednesday, 16 December 1998
Comments:
Master Hobbit --

I am amazed that there is a hobbit of the Grey Company who I do not know...

I find myself wondering who you might be, and how you know Anything about our Lord's plans?

Mr. Boffin
Ranger of Gondor


Name: Anderson, Head of the Clan
Referred by: From Genesis
From: Glencoe
Message Date: Tuesday, 15 December 1998
Comments:
Mr. Hobbit.
I always thought your chief weaponry were stealth and secrecy. Guess I was wrong.

Regards/ Anderson


Name: Master Hobbit
From: Fornost
Message Date: Wednesday, 16 December 1998
Comments:
Those nancy boy mages had better watch out, because we’re goin’ to open again, and knowing good ol’ Elessar, we’re gonna be unbeatable!

Name: Thalamus
Referred by: From Genesis
From: The Golden Isle
Message Date: Monday, 14 December 1998
Comments:
What exactly is wrong with Locklear's reasoning and logical ability, Bonk?

I think _you_ should expand a little more on the topic in your so called 'response' instead of just throwing a few cheap insults.

Thalamus.


Name: Locklear
Referred by: From Geocities
Message Date: Monday, 14 December 1998
Comments:
Re: Bonk

Hmm... perhaps I should have stated that 'I don't class magekiller as a killer of mages/mage killer/killer of Morgul Mages' ... aka a magekiller.

Personally I think you are being overly pedantic. But if you want to take cheap shots, here is one for you.

Buy yourself a dictionary.


Name: Bonk
Referred by: From Geocities
From: Oranea
Message Date: Friday, 11 December 1998
Comments:
I just wanted to respond to Locklears note Re:magekiller.

Your logical ability and power of reasoning is not especially impressive. Your own note and respond to this "magekiller" prooves it. Reread your own note, before commenting on others....

Bonk, of the brothers of the way.


Name: Nitramin
Referred by: From Genesis
From: Ithilien
Message Date: Wednesday, 9 December 1998
Comments:
Greetings all!
A while ago, I was musing about what might cause one of the fallen Numenoreans to think that he had the right to address the subject of correct Ranger conduct, so I guess that this is a little ironic, but I should like to throw in a few words about the behaviour of the Morgul Mages.

First of all, I don't think our enemies of the lost tower are all that stereotypical. When I think of my encounters with these foes in Ithilien and elsewhere, I get a rather diverse picture. I have met young apprentices who were certainly not above me in power of either body or mind. Some of these would not feel above following me around a while either, pestering me while herbing or on patrol, calling me a bloodthirsty barbarian for defending my land against the Haradrim, cutting body parts from the corpses of my slain enemies before my eyes, or sending me sarcastic letters by messenger pigeon. And then I remember encounters with the most powerful of the Mages, such as Stern himself, whom I seemed to have a disturbing habit of always ending up on boats with in my youth. He would be more like the mages described in the earlier letters, arrogant, powerful and, I admit, very frightening. But he most certainly has both a style and a personality of his own.

I think you should keep in mind also, that the first few encounters with mages will yield only very superficial impressions. Their bodies are not all that they conceal with robes, their dark power is, as Locklear mentioned, based on a wealth of dark knowledge which they would not dream of sharing, and this must of course render them secretive and arrogant. The mages must indeed be as reluctant to disclose their personality to outsiders, as most Rangers would be towards strangers who appear to serve dark causes. So, to the casual observer they all appear as dark robed hissing creatures, who refuse to introduce themselves (often in itself perceived as arrogance). And besides, some arrogance must be expected I assume. After all, their Lord and Master is the last of the ancient powers to wield his might openly in Middle Earth, and even if he is no longer more than a dark shadow of his own treason, he remains a Maia, and very powerful.

Those who are forced into repeated contact with these foes will start to appreciate personalities beneath the cowls of the black robes, and even if they are all equally dark, and all rather arrogant, I do not think it fair to classify them as stereotypical.

The opinion of an enemy,
Nitramin Caleniel


Name: Denethor
Referred by: From Geocities
Message Date: Tuesday, 8 December 1998
Comments:
Arrogant and haughty versus didactic, self-righteous and sycophantic

Pick your poison
The mages have chosen theirs, the rangers have as well
Denny


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Having read the scroll, you drop it back in the pile, where the spectral minion places it in the right location. Now you can return your attention to the board room.

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