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Nóm
05-09-2005, 08:46 AM
It's an RP taking place among some goblins, a few easterlings and other associates such as wargs, and maybe even a spy, traitor to west, or slave North-man can show up. It takes place during the victories of the wain-riders over Gondor and the Northmen in the Third Age.


See here for more information: The Plundered Pint (http://www.thetolkienforum.com/showthread.php?t=17361)

The storyline is free-flowing. Basically, just a bunch of goblins doing goblin things, lot of fighting, distrust, scheming. Right now I imagine that two goblins who seem somewhat high-ranking are in charge with running a Goblin-Inn. Hehe! Anyhow, one is scheming against the other. Whatever unfolds from this... doesn't matter.

Roles that would be especially appreciated:

1) Very High-ranking goblin, or an Easterling of rank whose many duties would include over-seeing this goblin Inn. He might show up at times and check the tavern out and make sure the place is functioning the best a goblin place can. He would promote, punish, kill, whatever was needed. Small role though, he isn't around much, and when he is coming, news of usually gets there first!

1) Random goblins who are regular guests at or who are employees of the Tavern.

The nature of this Inn and Tavern.

If you want to join just start posting and jump in like you would any other tavern. No permissions needed unless you have an idea that would seriously alter the way things are run.

Details, if you care to concern yourself:

It is one of many refreshment places located thorughout the mountains with the purpose of serving workers. This Plundered Pint is located behind an entrace that eventually leads back to a network of tunnels with dwelling places for slaves, guests, and Inn workers.

How the tavern is supplied: There are fresh streams of water in the area. Right now there are a lot of spoils, and the slaves down in the caves include North-men who make breads and other goods. There are slaves entering Mordor who grow crops to the south as well, and a lot of grain and such comes up from there. Probably about set up for Nazgul to enter Mordor. Sauron still up in Dol-guldur would be "He" unnamed, but he doesn't really come into this. For the most part we don't need to concern ourselves with the details of where everything comes from, and it can be written in as best suits the need of the stories we want to tell.

Easterlings would only stay here if they had a good reason like a meeting with goblins, were especially wicked and wanted North-men slaves to badger, or were lower ranking soldiers who couldn't afford or get to a drink anywhere else at the time. So at any given time 80 or 90 percent of the guests are going to be goblins.

Payment system. Easterlings pay in gold or other goods. Local goblins usually get to stay free since they pay in labour, but for special services, unusually good food and drink, or anything thats hard to come by, they end up getting charged whatever the guy running the place says. There are often disputes over payment, and sometimes goblins try to charge more than they should.


Most of the profits aren't really profits, as they go back into the cycle of goblin labour taking place in and around Mordor. Any profits are generally had in the form of excessive high-quality goods among the higher ups. But its a goblin place, how organized and stable could it be?

YayGollum
05-09-2005, 09:22 AM
Don't sell the guys short, lady. It could be very organized and stable. Not all goblins are stupid meat shields for evil masterminds. oh well. Here are my two profiles.

Name: Bugburz

Race/Sex: an Ainur of adaptability/Male

Appearance: short, hunched over, and weaselly looking dude, black skin, big nostrils, nasty teeth, sharp eyes, wears brown rags and black Orc-mail, has a small round shield with a red eye on it

Weapons: bow and poisoned arrows, scimitar

History: showed up in that Void type place, sang along but wasn't very sociable, wandered down to that Arda place just to check everything out, avoided contact with other Ainur mostly so he could discover everything uninterrupted, he was nearing the end of his exploration of Middle Earth when he showed up just in time to see some elves showing up, he didn't get why so many of the Ainur were taking on the physical forms that they were, and since he knew that these guys weren't Ainur, he became one of the Teleri types of them and integrated himself easily, had fun with watching them discover and learn and invent things, hung out with them for so long that he got really used to his body and never used any evil and unfair powerses that a normal Teleri wouldn't have, he was captured along with plenty of others and turned into a large Orc, since he was so used to the body, it was as easy to corrupt him as it was to corrupt the others, he had never used any of his powers or talked with any other Ainur, so he didn't know any better and ended up in some big group of Orcs that eventually had to fight Noldor, the corruption wasn't very fun for him, but he grew to enjoy being evil, never used any powers that a normal Orc wouldn't have, got seriously injured in one of his first fights with Noldor and reflexively turned back into his spirit form, he then decided that working for Mel was too dangerous, so he went exploring again, since he had gotten so used to being an Orc, he thought he was being original when he turned himself into his current form of a much smaller Orc made for tracking, he hiked over to the Misty Mountains and started to carve out his own kingdom, ages later, hid from the Beornings until other Orcs moved in and he stayed with the smaller types like him, moved around to get to know plenty of Orcs in plenty of regions, since his powers were hidden even from himself, none of the bosses ever figured him out and he worked just like any other Orc until he met up with Raoul

Personality: very fun, mostly ranting and grumbling to himself, resents authority but isn't stupid enough to rebel, likes to flee instead of fight, he hates all animals, is very disappointed with the fact that Orcs seem to be killed way too easily and has decided to distance himself from all of them when he has the chance, he likes to think that he's in a clan of his own and has no problem with killing anyone who messes with him, Raoul is good for him, though.

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Name: Raoul

Race/Sex: Warg/Male

Appearance: just a giant timberwolf type thing. Big and scary looking? Why not?

Personality: loves to intimidate and horse type play around with Bugburz since he knows that the Orc hates it, he hates Orcs and Wargs since Orcs were evil to him and the Wargs aren't independent enough for him, other than that, he's achingly sarcastic and crazy.

Weapons: just his teeth and claws, I guess.

History: stuck with his pack until he thought he had learned everything he could from them, left when they were out hunting humans, when he was just finding out that sticking with a pack got him all kinds of food, he was brooding in a cave and found Bugburz, before he could pounce on the Orc, it looked at him with a look just as blood-thirsty and they started trading insults until they forgot their hunger and found out that they hated pretty much everything just as much, they teamed up since they secretly wanted companionship, Bugburz taught him some Westron.