CANCELED: Monday Night Post-Turtle Armor Run

[Maedhros(V)]

EDIT: I'm not going to be able to be online tonight, so I'm going to have to postpone this until some other time. Sorry, all!

Galadhalion needs him some high-end armor! So I'm going to try to set up Monday night post-turtle runs for interested parties. Unfortunately, while I'm a fairly good gatherer-of-people, I'm not much of a battle captain, so my first priority is going to be finding a good raid leader.

Inspired by Varda's thread here: valarguild.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=lotrogeneral&action=display&thread=898 I made a list of the pieces I need, figuring I'd try to pick them up systematically.

The raids come in two basic tiers, with the "copper coin" set being intended to give you the stats you need to succeed at the "silver/gold coin" set. Right now, as Galadhalion has only one piece of the copper set and none of the silver/gold set, I'm going to concentrate on the lower tier -- that is, Grand Stairs, Forges, and Fil Gashan.

I imagine most of us are pretty sick of the Grand Stairs by now -- I know I am, and I've never won the coin from there. However, that makes an excellent argument for finishing it off and getting it out of the way! Therefore I propose to start with GS this coming Monday (August 3rd) around 9:00 p.m. (depending on when the turtle run finishes). Any assistance would be welcome, and everyone who needs it is welcome to try for the coin. If I don't get it this time, I'll just keep trying 'til I do. Once Galadhalion has it, if anyone else still needs it, I'll switch over to Maedhroc for GS runs.

Who wants in?

-Maedhros

[Indis]

I'm in. Alasse still needs her radiance chest and leggings. and she needs the copper chest as well. (That would be Forges.) But she's always happy to help out with others' quests too.

I'd also hope we can put together a Forges run or two!

[Maedhros(V)]

A bit of a follow-up on this: apparently Varda was hoping for a second, "all-Valar" turtle run on Monday nights, so if there is interest in that, I'll defer to her and just schedule my runs for some other time. My plan is to join the Lhee group turtle run with Galadhalion if there's space, mainly because he's the only character I have who's working on gaining a 1st Age. If there's an all-Valar turtle run afterwards, I'll send Maedhroc along to fill slots if needed, otherwise I'll just offer my post-turtle runs as an alternative to people who don't want to do another turtle run.

(Honestly, I don't get the fascination with the turtle myself ... 1st ages are nice but not All That and a Bag of Chips, and the raid itself is dull as dry toast and has absolutely nothing to do with Tolkien. Not to mention the fact that all of the turtle drops are ugly as sin, but that's another story.)

-The Gneech

[Varda]

We really need to get more radiance armor for our mains before we worry too much about an all-Valar turtle run. But Maedhros has some good thinking here, since we tend to have a fair-sized group around on Mondays.

We can do general gear runs, book runs, and those pesky fellowship runs that pile up all over. We also can do deed runs, much more fun and faster with buddies. Some of these can be worked on before the turtle run and some after. Let's try to work out regular times for such things during the week as well. Most folk seem to be ready to run groups after supper, and we still need to craft. Comments welcome.