So I’m on my little loremaster last night, just poking at a few quests, and find myself in the Chetwood, seeking out brigands and punishing them for their misdeeds (as one does).<\/p>\n
And I notice this elf is following me.<\/p>\n
That’s… interesting.<\/p>\n
Level… 51? Okay.<\/p>\n
A level 51 elvish minstrel, following me around the Chetwood. <\/p>\n
Not doing anything, just following me. Closely. ‘Right up in your personal space’ close, but not “I have you on autofollow” close.<\/p>\n
Right. Whatever. I have brigands to punish. (As one does.)<\/p>\n
So I keep moving, find a brigand, and begin the Parade of Debuffs and Fiery Burning.<\/p>\n
And the elf?<\/p>\n
The elf whips out his lute and…<\/p>\n
… get this …<\/p>\n
Plays a fight song.<\/p>\n
I don’t mean “plays some kind of minstrel ballad that does anything mechanically significant.”<\/p>\n
I mean (s)he [1]<\/strong> played some kind of ‘background fight music’ using the \/music command. Like something from a Capcom game.<\/p>\n “So,” I thought. “That’s… weird.”<\/p>\n I continued forward and engaged another brigand.<\/p>\n My high-level shadow whipped out its lute again and, again, played the fight music.<\/p>\n Throughout the Chetwood, various NPCs and 1-morale critters looked up, glanced at once another, and murmured. “Was that… Street Fighter?”<\/p>\n I tried to ignore it. It was late, and I pretty much just wanted to hit level 12, see what new skills I got, and call it a night. <\/p>\n I took down another brigand, another, and another. With each fight, the skirling notes of a digitally rendered lute mixed with the raucous calls of my raven (Quothe) and the “why does it burn<\/em>?” queries from my brigand foes.<\/p>\n On my fifth fallen foe, I dinged.<\/p>\n The elf tucked away her lute, shouted “Pikachu leveled up!”, and mapped back home.<\/p>\n The end.<\/p>\n Quite possibly the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen happen in LotRO. <\/p>\n [1]<\/strong> — I can never tell the difference. It’s like dwarves, but in reverse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So I’m on my little loremaster last night, just poking at a few quests, and find myself in the Chetwood,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[68,69],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actual-play","category-mmos","tag-gamers-are-loons","tag-im-with-the-band-i-guess"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1912,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions\/1912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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