I miss...
Cracked-out Lord of the Rings role plays. The greatest fun I've had in LotR 'verse was one in which Arwen got kidnapped by Sauron and turned into the Dark Lady of Mordor after overexposure to Morgoth. Talk about your teenage rebellions. But she was a really awesome pawn for the bad guys because hi, she's about to be Queen in Gondor, she's Galadriel's protege/granddaughter, and Elrond's baby girl. She can do damage. And the hobbits trust her. We actually wound up with Pippin and Merry being her Pages o' Evil.
Another fun one was after she had accidentally conferred damn-near-eternal-life on Eowyn (we had Arwen interpreted as a sort of mini-Melian/Galadriel with sorcerous abilities). She and Eowyn had become bffs, too. Arwen and Glorfindel had been having a sort of courtly love thing going on for 3 centuries (even though he was about to get married any century now). ... And Legolas was like James Bond's elf twin(omfg I miss that Legolas player! Leggy was so hilariously smarmy). Of course that game had Arwen and the twins all but sleeping together, until an unfortunate invasion of Mary Sues killed it. ... And yeah, Mary Sues can even kill crack!verses where Elrond is making inappropriate remarks to Gandalf and Sauron's lieutenants are so busy having sex they haven't gotten around to invading yet (no, Sauron was not amused). The Mary Sue Invasion started with a gorgeous gypsy riverpirate elf who poisoned Elrohir. Elladan then slept with her and made everyone say it was perfectly okay about her poisoning his twin ... Arwen was convinced that Elladan had been bespelled, so she kept trying to turn his new wife into a toad. The next Sue took over Lorien, and kept Haldir so busy with sexings that when Sauron attacked, he missed it. ...
That game died due to a psychotic mod. Sigh. Not only paranoid but she started playing Elladan, Elrond, and Aragorn, hated that Eowyn and Arwen were friends, then began dictating exactly how I ought to be playing Arwen (bookish, shy, sweet, and bffs with her characters, including the gorgeous gypsy riverpirate elf who poisoned Elrohir-- and if I didn't think that way I should consider taking some other character, and didn't I know that I totally sucked as a player in general?)... I figured that it was time to just let her play Arwen too, and bowed out. ... And then proceeded to be stalked, because omfg how dare I leave? But I was such an awful player! But how dare I leave! Yeah I quit all rps for a good year after that. It's why anytime I pick up my old LoTR chars they stay in pan-fandom games.
But the whole evil!Arwen was hella fun. Especially when she got round to torturing Elrond and her brothers. ... those scenes were so wrong. Funny, but wrong. Elladan eventually killed Arwen, but true to form she broke him in the process, and he wound up picking up where she'd left off.
Really awesome Discworld role plays. Whatever happened to kick-ass Lord Vetinari players? I shouldn't ask, since Lord Vetinari is hard as hell to play, but... well, I can wish right?
Another fun one was after she had accidentally conferred damn-near-eternal-life on Eowyn (we had Arwen interpreted as a sort of mini-Melian/Galadriel with sorcerous abilities). She and Eowyn had become bffs, too. Arwen and Glorfindel had been having a sort of courtly love thing going on for 3 centuries (even though he was about to get married any century now). ... And Legolas was like James Bond's elf twin(omfg I miss that Legolas player! Leggy was so hilariously smarmy). Of course that game had Arwen and the twins all but sleeping together, until an unfortunate invasion of Mary Sues killed it. ... And yeah, Mary Sues can even kill crack!verses where Elrond is making inappropriate remarks to Gandalf and Sauron's lieutenants are so busy having sex they haven't gotten around to invading yet (no, Sauron was not amused). The Mary Sue Invasion started with a gorgeous gypsy riverpirate elf who poisoned Elrohir. Elladan then slept with her and made everyone say it was perfectly okay about her poisoning his twin ... Arwen was convinced that Elladan had been bespelled, so she kept trying to turn his new wife into a toad. The next Sue took over Lorien, and kept Haldir so busy with sexings that when Sauron attacked, he missed it. ...
That game died due to a psychotic mod. Sigh. Not only paranoid but she started playing Elladan, Elrond, and Aragorn, hated that Eowyn and Arwen were friends, then began dictating exactly how I ought to be playing Arwen (bookish, shy, sweet, and bffs with her characters, including the gorgeous gypsy riverpirate elf who poisoned Elrohir-- and if I didn't think that way I should consider taking some other character, and didn't I know that I totally sucked as a player in general?)... I figured that it was time to just let her play Arwen too, and bowed out. ... And then proceeded to be stalked, because omfg how dare I leave? But I was such an awful player! But how dare I leave! Yeah I quit all rps for a good year after that. It's why anytime I pick up my old LoTR chars they stay in pan-fandom games.
But the whole evil!Arwen was hella fun. Especially when she got round to torturing Elrond and her brothers. ... those scenes were so wrong. Funny, but wrong. Elladan eventually killed Arwen, but true to form she broke him in the process, and he wound up picking up where she'd left off.
Really awesome Discworld role plays. Whatever happened to kick-ass Lord Vetinari players? I shouldn't ask, since Lord Vetinari is hard as hell to play, but... well, I can wish right?
