soundtrack: The Mummer's Dance (Loreena McKennitt), Molto Vivace (Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D Minor Opus 125, Choral)
 

Now. Iddy - that’s how the other elves call her/me, OOCly.
You see, it’s great to be an elf - they are never overweight and don’t have curly
hair - and I have been one for a couple of months now, at night mostly, and it’s really cool,
you know. Now lemme tell you how all this started. I was with Lywn on
the phone one day and she casually mentioned some kind of program with a funny
name that would let you play an online RPG based on Tolkien’s world (we both
have this problem with the word ‘Tolkien’ , you know ;) and how much fun her boyfriend was
having in Lórien and all, and I wrote down the URL and the name of the server and downloaded
Pueblo that same night, while on IRC. I didn’t even install the thing, though, I guess I
completely forgot about it.

About a week later I got really sick, with a terrible flu and a fever, and 
woke up in the middle of the night - it was about 1am - drenched in sweat
and having some strange hallucinations (I thought I was at our teaching
hospital, it felt so weird). When I finally got hold of myself and realized
my body was aching too much to allow me to sleep, I turned Marco Antonio
on (my computer, of course) and decided to check that RPG stuff out. Alas,
I was creating a monster ;) I typed ‘connect Iidlar password’ even though I wasn’t
planning to use that name at first, I was sure I would have time to think about it later,
but… I was dragg… I mean, kindly taken to Imladris by Maelmanadh, later Indoloth,
now Glorfindel (woohoo!). Of course it had been my idea all the time to go live in Imladris,
I would have ended up there anyway, but he was the first newbie-buster to find me so it was
partly his fault after all ;)
I spent the next nights without any decent sleep, building up Iddy’s
character and history and description, and paging/pestering Mael with stupid
newbie questions and, well, we’ve all been new to something at least once in our
lives, you know how stupid newbies can be. I was quite used to mIRC commands and
messed everything up a couple of times, but I think I’ve been a good newbie so far
(of course I’m still sort of a newbie, what were you thinking, that I would have learned all
those +@/ commands by now? I’m not that smart, you see;) I still don’t like RPing
with too many other people, and I still get shy and quiet when there are too many
Features around (I’ve only been RPing for 5 months after all, dangit) and I guess I’ll
always need some 3 dictionaries at hand to RP properly *sigh* but it’s worth it,
I have lots of fun in Elendor.
 
 

I like Iidlar. We have lots of things in common, and she has none of the things I hate the
most about me (of course, do you think I’m stupid?;), but she’s a bit different from the
original Iidlar, who was born in another world and is surrounded by other people and is
in love with a silent blue-haired elf.

I’ve found that this… role-playing, pretending, acting, whatever you want to call it,
is a very… intense mental exercise - and I don’t think I need to remind you that
I’ve only been at this for a short time and that I’m not even good at it - yet. It makes
you see things from an entirely different point of view, and you can learn a lot
about yourself if you want. I do. Just keep in mind that life’s more than Internet,
much as it may feel more pleasant online. When you start having trouble to sit down
for long periods (it does happen, you know… *giggle*), get up and go jog by the beach,
and smile at the people passing by, and if you happen to bump into any foolish Yellow Labs
on the way, please patpat them for me.
 

Ready for many sleepless nights and tons of commands that don’t seem to make any sense at all?
Want to improve your English, your typing skills and your imagination?
Ready to face your new phone bill?
Don’t you have anything better to do than typing along with people you don’t know?
Then get your Pueblo or go straight telnet *yuck*, or try any other MUSH program like MUSHClient or something
of the kind. I don’t know where to find those, tho. That’s what Yahoo! is for, after all.
Elendor is mush.elendor.net:1893, if you want to check it out. You may try other worlds if you’re not familiar with Tolkien  (oh, what a boring
life *you* have then!).
 

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