Day 1 Highlights

A retrospective look at day one. We started off by opening our respective boxes, sniffing the packaging.. mmmmm packaging. Upon trying all the different races, [the hobbits run funny, the dwarfs start zone is boring, and the elves are just plain poofy] we settled on humans. After completing a instanced scripted mission we were in. Scripted missions play a big part, theres this main quest that runs through the whole game, and all the missions in this main quest have some form of in game cutscene tomfoolery, it keeps you involved, Ive noticed these quests get impossible to solo at later levels.

Come on you.

We blew all our cash on these instruments, we've not played them since.

Things that impressed us most, the graphics, compared to all the other mmos weve played are right up there, and it runs very smooth as well, and I don't own a pimp rig neither. The music was a nice touch, you can play your own music using 1-8 keys. Ok we THOUGHT it was cool at the time, its actually really annoying by the 10th time youve strolled into town and you hear some maestro having an epileptic seizure on the 1 key and you feel like backhanding them in the ...lute. Violent outbursts aside we had a blast on day 1, I loved the scope of the thing, I zoomed out on the Map and I pooped a little, I was that excited. Onto Day 2!

- Innes

Mmmm draw distance.

GirlMan Version 2.0

I was pleasantly surprised on todays adventuring with the upgrade of GirlMan! I equipped an armament, which became availiable at level 20, which gave him more armour and was surprised to see a new makeover for the ol gal.. or boy. Check out his new ginger do, it rawks.

-Innes

The ol GirlMan resembling something of a hobo.

Et Voila, queer eye for the straight guy eat your heart out, attack of the gingers!

Day 6... To the North!

Welcome all, Firestarter here, well its Day 6 and we've ventured into the North Downs or some good old fashioned goblin and boar slaughter. Managed to piss Innes off again by ironically not dying but then spawning miles away.

With Bit of map travel we joined up again in Bree, and after Innes leveled up and swapped out his tired Herold for a new ginger one we were back off to the North. Once there we did some hard core questing and both leveled up again. And now a brief rest before our saga continues...


Half way to level 23 before i could find a trainer.. let the questing continue.

-Firestarter


This pair of mongs sent us in the wrong direction to look for a barrel of nails for a quest we were doing FOR HALF AN HOUR! They said south east when it was clearly south west. Never trust a dwarf.

- Innes

You evil little sh*ts.

P.S. Level 23 DINGALINGLINGLINGDONG!

Day 5

This is a small shout out to Bodch, Centauri, Effex and some others I forgot who quested with us last night in the lone-lands, well I say quested, we did the quest 'Our Greatest Find' about 5 times until we finally completed it, and of course Firestarter pissed me off and died and then ressed to the graveyard stone circle thing when I could have ressed him.. yeh I kicked him from the fellowship and turned my xbox off, I was THAT pissed off.

Reached level 21 DINGALINGDINGDONG

My favorite was Centauri cos he healed me lots that little minstrel minx, Effex was a little batty with the obsession with doing 'Purge the Undead' quest, if youre out there Effex stay off the wights.

Mmm Lone-lands, or should i say Loner lands, seriously lack of players here atm lucky to find a fairly good party last night, thanks guys.

If you would like to party with the amazing Innes and the r-tard Firestarter, we're on the Eldar server, Lvl 21 and lvl 20 as of this post :)

-Innes

What the F*ck name is Firestarter?

And this is me partner in crime, Firestarter. I thought I was a pretty big nerd until I met Firestarter and we started playing games together and it was all downhill from there. I mean who the hell names their character Firestarter WTF!!!ONE11!!! (Seriously he thinks that name is uber kewl) Ill give props to him though naming his Bear pet Bearly Legal. He follows me around doing quests at an abnormally slow pace, getting himself killed 4 times more than me, pulling mobs left right and centre, not reading quests, bugging out the game, and generally being a f***ing r-tard, ending up at me shouting down the mic to him on Xbox Live and raising my blood pressure. Yes thats right folks, we use Xbox live chat to commuinicate whilst playing this game (the mics are comfier), and no we dont have girlfriends. LOTRO has its own in game mic chat, which Id just like to highlight right now cos its the second MMO to have this feature, DDO being the first, and every MMO should have it, no-one uses it in LOTRO though, at least no-one Ive partied with, and well we use Xbox Live, yeah go figure.

-Innes

Firestarter on the right, and no, hes not an extremely attractive woman in real life, hes a super nerd of extreme proportions. He likes the flirtive tells in game though.

Is it secret? Is it safe?

Welcome to our blog! Who are we? What's this blog about? Well this is a blog of two sad friends who play Lord of the Rings: Online. We wanted to chronicle our adventures in LOTR land, share our experiences, our pain, our love and all that shit. Not sure if you wanna take the plunge from W** then maybe thisll give you a better idea of what youre in for. We've played lots of mmorpgs together and we always last about 3 days on each. I think I have ADD. LOTRO has lasted us now 5 days, this is a revelation in our eyes. What, who are we?

Here's my character, check out that tash. Its awesome, I picked the captain class and its pretty fun, I'm not bored yet and get my own slave man who I've appropriately named, Girlman. Basically I go around buffing the whole party, and shouting at enemies, no really its a skill accompanied with a shouty sound effect, Girlman follows me around hitting stuff but not really damaging anything but his main purpose is to grant more buffs to the party. Haven't really played a class like this in a mmorpg before, guess it resembles the shaman class in Wo... Erp shhh. :) Did I mention the tash..? Mmmmm tash.

-Innes

Me trying to cunningly steal a Lute off of another player. It failed...

Lord of the Blogs starts

Here lies an online account of our adventures in Middle Earth, Enjoy.
-Firestarter