Any intrest in an adventure RPG? (LLL discussion part I)

[Coffeehouse]

Feawen What a nice name you have!

[feawen]

la la la la la la la la la la la la la la


im so bored!

[Mari]

Same here, but if you want to spam, you ought to go to the Teacup

[feawen]

that was not spam i dont spam! oh the shock of it! it was a hint for people to post more! lol

[Mari]

Hehe I see. I can't post though, busy with getting to like horses. Sorry!

[Earniel]

I'm all set up for the next day, now I'm just waiting for people to wrap up their evening activities. (No rush, people.)

Weren't you out hunting, Feawen?

[Coffeehouse]

While your at it Willow, could you also ask the Catering Service we seem to be using, to bring some decent tea?

[Willow Oran]

Sorry, Tea is strictly reserved for hobbit characters. You have a problem with having real food while on a quest? We haven't strayed thatfar into implausibility yet.

[Coffeehouse]

Haha okay that joke failed miserably It was a pun at your conversation with Tabril. Talking about getting replenishments.

[Aikanáro]

Actually, we might well have some herbs. Something not entirely unlike herbal tea could be plausible.

Of course, Tabrîl's not sharing.

[Curufin]

See, Abasi's from the far east...

Now if he can just find some bergamot...

[Willow Oran]

...maybe it's just that it's coming on 2am here, but that pun went far enough over my head that I didn't even hear the 'whoosh' as it went past.

Infusion. Herbal tea is modern misnomer.

[Aikanáro]

Ack! Curséd modernity. I *did* know that, once.

I love the way Haldis can now tell when Tabrîl's insulted. Even when she doesn't point it out.

[Curufin]

I've been lazy as Abasi lately. I suppose he's still sitting in a corner sulking?

[Willow Oran]

Most probably.

Bring him out of the corner, why don't you?

[Curufin]

Sounds good.

*goes to do just that*

[Willow Oran]

Blast, double post. Abasi can help Tabrîl answer.

[feawen]

morning everyone!

Coffeehouse ill let you decide if my arrow hits the deer! even if it misses we'll have to find another one and you can have the next shot!

[Coffeehouse]

Thanx Feawen We'll see what happens

But first I have a few thoughts about the character Tabril and a question or two:

1. Tabril makes a point of that she has next to no similarities with anyone in the company (except a few with Abasi) and that her people, the Kindi (correct me if I'm wrong), are too let's say, exotic or different, that none of the rest of us would understand her & their ways.

2. One of the reasons Tabril also seems reluctant, to the point of insane paranoia, to divulge almost anything about her people is that any such information might endanger her peoples.
It's understandable though. If the Kindi is a small tribe, with a long history of 'isolation' and a distrust of the outside world (for whatever reason). It is perfectly alright that she does not want to share information.

3. But, when avoiding to speak, in any real sense, about her people, and when spelling out her own thoughts, Tabril frequently (along with Abasi) speaks of the rest of us as uwindi. Ok so I googled it, and found two pages from this forum So it's a made up word?
But I'm digressing..
What I'm curious about is how Tabril, who if we look at the posts that have been written about her/by her in LLL, is able to so easily dismiss what the peoples of the company would understand or not.
Let's do a couple of general facts:
-Many of the people in the company, including Quickleaf, have lived for several hundreds, if not thousand years. And
-Most of the companions were hand-picked by Gandalf to travel on this quest with Radaghast. I would therefore presume that most, if not all, of the individuals on this journey are pretty unique and not at all ignorant.
-None of the people in the companionship are overtly dependent on anyone else. Pretty self-reliant individuals you'd have to say

Yet Tabril (& Abasi) seem very eager to presume so. The word uwindi is used again and again, yet Quickleaf's an elf, we have a dwarf, and several humans, and yet we're labelled under the same name. So naturally I'm curious. What does uwindi mean?

But let's take Quickleaf as an example (because I can speak for him).
He's now been all over Mirkwood for at least a few hundred years now. The notion that he would somehow not understand anything about the Kindi, understand the ways of their warriors (Tabril as an example) or any other code of conduct they might have, is kinda naive

My answer to Tabril's way of assuming things about us uwindis is as groundlessly based as our assumptions about her people. But that's a shame, because I think everyone would be thrilled to be introduced to a new tribe (not physically but through Tabril's own telling), and a different way of living.
The reason I'm writing that is that I'm really wondering if that constant I'm different, you'll never understand me really is getting the character anywhere..


I am only making some observations, so I hope it's not taken the wrong way I could be really, really mistaken on my observations

[Ingwe]

Coming home now, we all went on a trip, will be able to post something here in a few hours. Cya folks later. Must post before wireless drops off again.