ElvenRunes.com - Gossip Corner

Tuesday - 27.07.04
Diamonium: “The airplane lands bumping forth and back from the rocky and sandy airport of Estonia, the wind is strong and the eagles are circling above to dig deep, whenever the foreigner touches ground. Dodging the eagles and stomping the worms, two brave czech have finally reached Estonia, what a sight! On the verge of Mount Doom, the visitors are warmly welcomed by Reno and Vidomina – but out of nowhere a portal opens and out steps Kunduk (the evil Orc), casts hold on the whiteskins and steals the loot (Fero and Shake) and runs off.
In the evening many MUMErs meet in the center of Old Town, where the first glances are drawn and beer is quaffed by dozen. As it gets dark, people start heading for home, but for Orcs the party has just began. Kunduk feeds Fero and Shake with fish and vodka, meat and beer, bread and whisky – the outcome is inevitable.”
Wednesday - 28.08.04
Diamonium: “In the morning Fero makes a personal record of being sick and having a hangover in a new country, all within 16 hours.”
Hector: "Me, Vidomina, Fero, Marduk, Nator and Shake lab abit at my place. Then we go show foreigners some places around Keila and then Marduk, Shake and Fero go sightseeing in Tallinn.”
Diamonium: “You could see clouds rolling overhead, as a speeding car races through the gates of Estonia, gatekeepers screaming, ‘enemy has been sighted’. The leader seems to be Drucano and can see two characters recoiling themselves, they are Smrtihlav(Luke) and Ozon! But they meet a warm welcome! As the sun draws back, dozens of estonians and visitors Fero, Shake, Luke, Ozon share drinks and dried meat at Kunduk’s and Marduk’s place.”
Blenda: "The boat there was completely mad and will be a trip none of us will forget. The sight of us coming out of the tax free shop, 5 minutes after we got on, with 3 bags full of alcohol won't be forgotten. Sitting up on the deck, sun shining, watching the 'Skärgården' slowly go past... life was good. Obviously things changed a little when Khazdul had a few too many... Damn, that was scary! Don't do that again! Winzy was great, taking care of him, putting fingers where no one else wanted to put them! When Khazdul was finally under some kind of control everyone pretty much just crashed down on a chair! Cept me who found a 30-40ish year old drunk .ee lady in need of assistance! She couldn't find her cabin so naturally, as the gentleman I am, I guided her to it. What I didn't expect was a hug, which led to a kiss, which led to our tongues switching mouths for a good 5-10 seconds. Mildly confused, I walked away but I could hear her having trouble with they key, so I walked back and opened the door, only to come face to face with her husband who was lying in bed, eyes staring straight at me... As soon as the door closed I was out of there within a shot! Damn scary! I wasn't the only one to get 'lucky'. Razoor shared a sleeping bag with a russian girl. I think he was more interested in her hair than anything else, because whenever I opened my eyes (I was sitting behind them), I kept seeing her long hair being tossed about. Obviously it was love at first sight, at least for our young swede!. Khazdul waking up at 4 am, spent 20 mins looking for us around the boat when we were sitting 2 metres away from him... No memory after last night he promptly asked me, 'Did I throw up yesterday? and did anything bad happen?'. Not to worry him I said it was all good, trying not to stare at his clothes, which looked kinda... well... you get the picture."
Thursday - 29.07.04

Blenda: "Sadly the weather wasn't with us and getting up on deck at 5 am I saw us leaving the blue sky and heading into big black clothes. And the sight at Tallinn, when we arrived was not fun. Jokes about 'Acid rain' and mutters about 'The weather was 29 degrees in Sweden' quickly filled out lips. Trying to get to Kunduk's car was an adventure in itself, we were all completely soaked.”
Hector: "Tallinn is flooded. Damn rain. I finally get to go home and shave and change clothes. When I get back we meet at Hiiu Pub. People play pool. Me and & Blenda vs Feagil & Razoor. We lose."
Diamonium: “Ah the weather is wonderful, dark and rainy – good day to hunt. As the warlords raise their eyebrows late in afternoon, quickly finishing some rations a rumour is heard, that there is a great battle going on at Hiiu Pub. Before the the task Luke, Ozon, Durcano, Diamonium and Shadow use whatever alcohol is found in the fridge and pour it down. Feeling the power, we leave to meet our old friends and new enemies. The pub shivers, when Kunduk lets out his warcry. Ling has challenged Kunduk, stating that she can drink vodka like water. Kunduk buys a litre of vodka, but before glass is filled Luke intercepts the cries of Ling and drinks for her. First blood has been spilled - little does Lukas remember of the aftermath. Diamonium's Shadow does a good work speaking for the warlord, he shall live the night.”
Tendor: "Those fuckers were closing. But, whatever. Player Björn tried to hit on Freyja miserably, but passed out. Later at Club Hollywood everyone (every .ee*) tried to get into Ling's pant(ies), but failed."
Diamonium: “I tried to get into Ling’s pant(ies), but failed – but the loss is small, Tendor is my new boyfriend.”
Hector: "Me and Reno's gf are first ones on the dancefloor and get the party started, others follow us quite fast. Lot of drinking going on as well as dancing and hitting on women (no luck).”
Diamonium: “An estonian bully tried to pick a fight with the aggressive dancers – he failed miserably. OH! Ling bought me a drink, but I spilled that on someone.”
Fero: "Top dancers: Shake, Freyja. Top drinkers: Marduk, Kunduk. I won't forget you sneaking out to striphouse w/o me!"
Hector: "Night ends for me in Freyja's bubblebath at 4am with my trusty drinking buddy Marduk."
Diamonium: “As all the weak-hearted have left for their sacks and beds, the uruks me and Nacs keep harassing the swedes in their flat, until Yellow Eye drives us back east.”
Friday - 30.08.04
Hector: "Me, Fero and Vidomina take a trip to Estonian highest place. On our way to Pärnu I lead our trusty Lexus from tarmac to gravel but everything is fine untill we meet this, but fortunately we got past that washed away road."
Blenda: "The plan was to sleep in a tent (me, Razoor and Feagil) but as Winzy wanted a cabin, and didn't have anyone else to share with, we decided it might be better to use a cabin so we could lock up ourselves at night to avoid the drunk Estonians!"
Devastator: "Me, Hector, Fero and Vidomina went to Pärnu to visit the really good restaurant of last year - if we could find it. Hector couldn't wait to log in a dwarf, which was on the edge of being deleted, so he went into an internet cafe while the rest went to see a show of two clowns. When Fero was pulling out his camera one of the clowns took his chance and pulled us three on the stage and took one Estonian from the visitors. We had to perform like we were under hypnosis and after that we did some trick with 4 chairs - anyway that was a really nice introduction to being in Estonia again, I had a good laugh. We found a restaurant that I'm sure of I've eaten there last year, at least the food was very very good. Then we went to the camp and I was surprised to find so many faces I never met before, against also a ton of people I consider my foreign friends now. It was some kind of special feeling to see all the estonian boys and girls I've learnt to know in the past years again."
Cyber: "Kudos to Liliah for the place. Valgeranna was a really good choice at least infrastructure wise. It had a STAGE! That's right boys and girls, a full size stage with live power on it. This allowed us to set up a party with such an amazing array of star peformers: Tsort with his really big mouth and endless supply of jokes as our friday night host (a bit drunk, but who cares). Sauron, the scarer of the masses, with his most gruesome black speech. DJ Hector with his amazing drum'n'base and heavy metal grooves. DJ Freyja with her startlingly sarcastic old school Punk. Bjorn unplugged with his awesome vocal performance and much more. The party was so hot that even a number of local boys and girls rushed in to get a share of the fun. The only downside was some dude who came in at 3am and told us that his kids 300 meters away can't sleep. Too bad I only had 2x200W with me. Well we did turn it down a little bit, we are kind and understanding persons after all."
Diamonium: “A little boy ran into the mass of warriors and casters and spoke in his tiny voice, ‘I am mighty Diamonium and this is my warsword’, as he posed with his wooden branch (6ft/10lbs warsword). As the sword was passed around a Troll was already lying on the ground, blood gushing from his head.. the warsword had drawn first blood. An hour later the little boy had to run away with his little branch, because more and more people started eating smites. The task however was not easy, because latvian, russian, chezh and an estonian were all fighting with each other pulling the sword, everyone screaming in his own language trying to give me the sword, but never realising they all had the same goal. All this was followed by wonderful evening and night, best in the whole meeting!”
Blenda: "As you probably all know, Winzy drank to much so to try and sober up he procceed to drink 2 litres of water... Which resulted in a very peculiar situation later that night. It's been told to pretty much everyone at the camp, and it's been written on ElvenRunes thread so I won't repeat the story but I'll just say that 'Winzy the wall pisser' will follow you for a long time.”
Saturday - 31.07.04
Hector: "We come up with different things how to waste our time. Fero goes to public sauna, like 15 of us went to Pärnu's waterpark, Bogger takes a dive and almost looses his hearing. Later in camp people play volleyball and football. Football match is really special. You dont see 12 guys running around trying to kick the ball in swamp every day you know."
Diamonium: “Waterpark was awesome, the mob-train was lead by Ozon who jumped head first to any opening, followed by a dozen of grown up men (MUMErs) holding eachother by feet. Bogger had a little accident with pressure and ears, taking a jump from 10 meters, head first to 2m deep pool and coming out alive, what followed a little Estonian adventure to hospital. There we met a funny she-doctor who told Bogger, ‘now I’ll but little medicine and my blessing to your ears. You can drink alcohol, but try to keep away from aggressive activities (MUME)’. She was cute! Bogger suggested we could go visit her next day (to thank her of course), but I had a head fracture, punctured lungs and Bogger had lost both his legs and left arm, we skipped. End was all happy, Bogger took a lot of painkillers and was bashing trees whole night.”
Devastator: "After 3 matches of volleyball I went to play 'shithead' - a really easy but cute card game."
Hector: "Later on we go partying in local night club again."
Freyja: "The not-so-much-clubbing-persons continued a nice barbecue evening and another partying on, before and under the stage!"
Sunday - 01.08.04
Diamonium: “Sadness took me, as I woke and saw that people are leaving – I had hoped to spend full sunday playing volley- and other balls. The weather was excellent again and a lot of us (swedes, chezh and estonians) spent the day and evening on Pärnu beach, recovering from the alcohol. In the late evening there was this huge labbing in old town.”
Devastator: "We went to Tallinn airport to drop off some czech's who wanted to go home and went labbing some. After that I went with Vidomina to stay at his place and met his family again. The dog Buffy still didn't like me that much and it's still hard to avoid getting stuffed to the top because of a very caring mother running around, asking me if I want to eat or drink all the time. That day I really felt like last year again, at home with my foreign friends just doing all kinds of things we feel like doing."
Monday - 02.08.04
Diamonium: “Most of the swedes were shipped back to home, but hope remains they come again. We woke late and Shake, Luke, Durcano, Ozon, Ling, Me, Enforcer, Liliah spend a wonderful day at the Lohusalu beach.”
Devastator: "Me and Ares went for a biking trip and we ate kebab but at least it tasted really good and I had enough to get through the day. We met at Hector's lab at 16h and had a serious international playing experience this time, with Luke killing us all in a fall near Unqalome. Played my troll some but because of crappy month and being linkrented in OOC I missed most hugefights.”
Hector: "That was really international lab. 2 czech's, 1 swedish gal and boy from netherlands plus of course some random estonian fellas."
Devastator: "At night we went to drink and I tested if I still could get meat ready using the good ol' way of BBQ; it tasted really good.”
Tuesday - 03.08.04
Freyja: "At the evening me, Ares and Marduk took our bikes and went to Vidomina's place on the Wire street. There was a barbecue and sauna party with a lot of mosquitoes and sweet hobbit meat. The Czechpack, Ling, Devastator were still there."
Diamonium: “The saunaparty rocked! Had lot's of fun and flat tire and at 3am I got my first online experience changing the tire with Shake (shaky), he knew what he was doing.”
Wednesday - 04.08.04
Diamonium: “Durcano did excellent sightseeing trip to surviving guests.”
Thursday - 05.08.04
Diamonium: “Ling went shopping with Ares! After lunch we met with Kunduk and a huge pack of fishermen: Devastator, Shake, Durcano, Luke and me drove to the lake Peipsi, where Kunduk’s parents live. We left the shore with 3 boats, the snaga fishermen in larger safer boats and me and Dev0 with rubberboat. I taught Dev0 to fish! Devastator was actually so lucky he got 3kg pike, what almost pulled him underwater, only my strong arms rescued him from that fate. The other boats were even luckier, pulling out fish that were like not living in that lake (well hard to catch even) and after that a wonderful bath in warm lake. Also Durcano and Dev0 splattered mud over each other, I really didn’t inquire about that. Driving home was also fun as hell, we finished the bottoms of Lukes homemade draught(55+) and were very merry. All this had to suffer our dear Dev0 trying to drive the car.”

There is a rumour that International MUME meeting 2005 will be in Czech Republic!
Life is wonderful also in the other side of the earth. While mumers where having party in Estonia, player Aschit and his wife were having another baby. Aschit is famous by posting the real life logs - check it out, the last log of the birth. If you havn't never experienced it, it gives you a quite realistic thrill!
As the real life is calling some of us back to the duties, Freyja is quiting her work with Palantiri Page. The stone of visions has been blurry and she is getting in a dearth of time - with her job and mastering her degree in Informatics (How to design and create interactive learning systems). But she is willing to remain as the .ee reporter of the happenings in Estonia.
Whine Update: No official news about the game changes on mume.pvv.org. Ainus now keep editing the 'little features' but without a warning.
Level Update: Lowyn Aradan the last Rider of Calenardhon has reached two levels to 86.
Maia Promotions:
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