Oh yeah today has been quite the day. I need a good soak in the tub and a good looking knight for some total relaxation! I think someone in middle-earth has a bounty on my head because it seems that everything was very intent on killing me today, but luckily for me I didn’t die once! In fact I have only died once which was my hubby’s fault for sending me an icq message and right before level 10 causing me to lose my title! But anyway back to my day. I won’t fill you in on the whole thing but here’s some tidbits-
This is me starting my day with a nice new shiny acorn hat and I even got a shell-breaker title to boot! Do you know how many nuts I had to crack to get that hat and title! You can see Lover-Boy over to the right although he isn’t really much to look at, but sometimes when you think you are about to face death you need some comfort!
A while later someone at Asdo’s camp asked me to go into the Old Forest and kill some wolves. What he forgot to tell me was that Old Forest should be called “Very Evil and Spooky Forest”. Which is what I will be calling it from now on!
Here I am running from some trees that were trying to kill me after I unexpectantly walked into them because it is super dark and well I was scared and had no idea what I was looking at or seeing.
Now being chased by trees and wolves-
and still running for my life, but at least I am out of the forest!
Later on in the evening someone asked me to go kill some goblins carrying some firey oil. “No Problem” I say. You can see how that turned out-
Do they not realize that burns!
They are still chasing me and still throwing fire on me! I wonder if Staddle has a fire dept?
Finally with my body covered in burns and a new found fear of trees I head back to Staddle and lay down for a nice long nap (with a body guard incase the tree comes to life).
Awake but not quite ready to go back out and fight I sat down and hung out with a couple hobbits under the gazebo, and well at least the day ended nicely!
We will just have to see what tomorrow brings:)
Conjuring Candles 
Good to see that you came through OK, lol.
My first time in that scary forest was a nightmare as well, trees attack you at every turn, not fun at all if you are by yourself.
I thought trees were our friends, not in this world I guess.
Nice write up, JW. :)I take it you are enjoying your stay at least somewhat then?The 1st time I encountered those trees was back in Beta 2, scared the crap out of me. I had completely forgotten about them from the books because the movies were more fresh in my mind.Very cool that they don’t look different from most regular trees so you end up looking suspiciously at all plant life around your character! 🙂
Yes I am and I pre-ordered the game! Looking for to getting my code!
Haha, the Old Forest can be crazy! Looks like you had some fun tho 🙂
JW is LotRo still in beta or has it been released? wanted to try it out since my husband is a Lord of the Rings fan…we have all the collector movies and books at home. =) and nice screenshot btw!
It is still in beta. You can dl and try it free for the next 9 days or so. It goes live on the 24 I think.If you like it and pre-order before that date you only have to pay 9.99 a month as well!