~*Imladris Christmas Party*~

[Lalaith]

Lalaith walked into the hotel, late, not knowing where to go or what to do. She passed by a few random people who seemed busy, but not with anything that would help her find out what was going on. She heard noise in every direction so kept walking forward. Finally, she bumped into someone and asked for help.

[Ophelia]

Ophe had stuffed her mouth with some cookies and other allready undefyable stuff she found on the table . She saw the door open and someone really expected arriving . Ophe pulled up the table cloth and saved some goodies under the table for GOTO not to eat them all . Then off she went .

"Laaaaaaa-laaaaaith!!!!" she cried and landed with her arms around LL`s neck . "Welcome , welcome , welcome , welcome !!! Do pleace come and join us . You can start with the bar like I did . Come and meet all the others too !" Ophe talked fastly overexcited . LL just followed confuzzed .

[Alatáriel]

Ala and Dom walked behind the bar. They took their normal seats on the barstools and waited. It would be too risky out there. Ala set something under the bar, and then casually went to make her and Dom a drink. She handed Dom a cup of a strange coloured liquid.

'This isn't a Taste of Death, is it?' Dom asked, raising an eyebrow.

'Why would I poison you? Do you honestly think I would want to drag around a dead corpse all day?' She answered with some pointing hand motions. Dom gave her an odd look. Ala took a sip of hers (which was exactly the same colour as Dom's drink); Dom saw that and then slowly took a sip of his own. Ala fiddled with something under the bar. Suddenly, the lights flickered on then off, making a few people gasp, but it was soon forgotten.

[Lalaith]

"OPHE!!!!!!!!!!" Lalaith shouted as she hugsied Ophe. "Thank you, thank you, thank you. I would love to join you! I'm starving... heh. A bar? woohoo!"
Lalaith let Ophe lead her to the life and excitement of the party. Still a little bit confused, Lalaith smiled and grinned at the thought of seeing more people.

[Niluial]

Niluial sat talking to Lossie on the comfortable movie like seats, waiting patiently for Dragoneyes to walk onto the stage. Niluial listened to the chatting of all the people. She stood up and looked around and heard funny, peculiar, monstrous noises. She picked up her dress and walked over to where GotO and Ophelia and some other strange girl at the food table. Niluial was shocked, there they stood with their food covered faces and the food table in a huge mess. “You naughty little faeries!” Niluial hissed shoving GotO and Ophelia away. Niluial took Ophelia by the ear and put her in a corner and took GotO by her hair and put her in the other corner. “You guys ought to be ashamed of yourselves acting like piglets!” Niluial shouted, drawing some attention from crowd. Niluial snapped her fingers and ten small, green faeries flew and cleaned up the table and laid some more food on the tables. Once the table was laden and the new decorations were put on the table Nilly walked and took a seat next to Lossie again. Lossie laughed uncontrollably and smiled evilly “I’ll be back right now!” Lossie scurried off to a corner and made two little signs saying naughty corner. She took the two signs and hung them on the wall in the two corners where GotO and Ophelia sat.

[Ophelia]

Ophelia had just stuffed her mouth with more goodies when she felt a sudden pain in her ear . It was Niluial . Who else ?

After a lection about how piglish they looked Ophe found herself in a corner . Lossy had just put up the sighns when Ophe suddenly saw Lalaith still standing by the table looking more confuzzed . Ophe clened her mouth and then walked to Nill saying : "Well yeah ? But you are bad party organisator for not even noticing , not to mention saying hi to a new member here . Now what will Lalaith think of you ? Shame on you !"

Lossy grinned evilly again and hanged a plate with "A bad party organisator"on it upon Nils chair . Ophe started to laugh now . "Don`t take me too seriously Nillu but you should say hi at the least ."

[Dragoneyes]

Dragoneyes heard her name dimly through the mist of sleep. It didn't seem too urgent, why would anyone want to call her anyway? She wasn't doing anything of... any... importance. It slowly dawned on Dragon that as a matter of fact, she was. Her eyes flew open. Getting her bearings, she found she was slumped in a somewhat awkward position near the bar. She seemed to have slipped off her chair onto the floor to be forgotten by everyone else. She popped her head over the top of the bar and smiled at Dom and Ala, frowning slightly in confusion when she found them tied together (were they always like that?).

Dragoneyes placed the shot glass that still resided in her hand carefully on the bar and attempted to flatten her ruffled hair down at the back. To heck with that, she thought I'm hardly wearing anything neat anymore, like as not messy hair will go with the rest of my outfit. Annoyedly aware that not only will her hair be sticking up at the back but it would also have reverted back to its natural state of frizziness, she stood up and spotted the stage.

She ran from the back of the crowd that was seated around the stage to the steps of the stage and she ran up them three at a time. She picked up the award and at last she walked to the centre of the stage and the microphone.

"Good day everyone and so sorry to keep you all waiting, I've been a little preoccupied you could say." She shifted and flattened her dress. "Right, well, the longest thread award. An award which says quite a lot about the people who come here to Imladris. We are not ones to dwell on serious topics for too long it would seem. Indeed, quite the opposite, we like to let our hair down," she pushed a stray strand of hair out of her face, "And have a laugh.

"This thread was started on the evening of the 5th of June and from then on the replies have kept on rolling in. The thread I am referring to is the ever nonsensical 'I say.......' thread. If the UDCF wants to go after anyone for the overuse of those dots then they should turn to the creator of the original thread (for it has long since outgrown that thread and needed others to be created) and the mind from which this idea came. The one and only... Alatáriel!" Dragoneyes stepped back from the microphne to present the award and sighed deeply; one award down, seven more to go.

[Orofaniel]

Oro had listened to the whole "speech" from Dragon eyes, and since Oro was quite new to Imladris she was very excited about who was going to win this award. The atmosphere got tense as Dragoneyes continued talking about when the thread started and so on.

"The one and only... Alatáriel!" Dragoneyes said after a while and stepped back from the mic. The rest of the Imladris’ers applauded merrily and some of them whistled. Oro joined the clapping and smiled while Alatariel entered the stage.

[Alatáriel]

Ala walked up the stage. The lights were blinding and the audience could barely be seen through them. Ala smiled for a second and recollected he thoughts. Dom, tied to her, took out a pair of sunglasses and stuck them on.

"Well, hello everyone,'' Ala said, waving. ''Wow, never would have thought... but I owe all the honour to the one who created the barrow downs thread, since that is where I got the idea... unfortunately it was closed because it wasn’t challenging enough...'' There was an odd tone in her voice in the last part, it soon picked up. ''Well, I'd like to thank everyone here, and all those who participated in it and made it the longest thread... erm, that is all... Dom, do you have anything to say?''

Ala looked over at Dom. He leaned into the mic and said, ''Trees for Peace." A cheering could be heard in the direction of Mip's table.

''Why, erm.. thank you, Dom. Next up I shall be presenting The Weirdest Thread award!" Ala left and went backstage.

[Novnarwen]

Nova found herself sitting beside Oro screaming:"ALA! ALA! ALA!" And Nova soon found herself in that situation when she was sceraming, alone. She heard Oro hushing at her, and they listened carefully to Ala's little speak. She finished, and made her way through the the crowd. Nova fell silent, and waited for the next presenter to make his or her way to the stage.

Nova breathed heavily, as she saw someone approach. She couldn't quite tell who it was, not yet.

[Alatáriel]

Ala appeared back on stage. She was now wearing a shirt with a penguin on it, a hat that resembled mount doom, a pair of Dom's sunglasses (for the bright lights), one of Dom's spiffy shiny-ful ties, and she was wrapped in giant, blinking, christmas lights. It was hard to miss her. Dom was his normal self, except he was wearing a Trees for Peace shirt and button. Someone towards Mip table cheered when they saw what Dom was wearing. Ala smiled, holding a giant envelope.

'Well, long time, no see... I think...' she said, a confuzzled expression. 'Hope you are all having a good evening. Now time for busness: I am here to present the weirdest thread award. From the beginging of this thread, it has been a little odd... I mean, what is with those little dots we all love? they... are... only... dots... GET... AHOLD... OF... YOURSELF... MAN!

'Yes... erm... I would like to present the weirdest thread award to the Universal Dot Conservation Foundation!!! aka, the UDCF!!! C'mon Lostdaliel, and get your award! We owe you all the credit for the Weirdest Thread award!' The crowd cheered and awaited Lostdaliel.

[Mippin]

Mip gazed up at the stage, her eyes blinded by the bright lights, and christmas lights from Alatariel. She took out her TFP badges, and began handing them around. She wondered how much Dom was paying her for this, but nonetheless, it was for a good cause. As Lostdaliel went up to the stage to accept the award, Billy looked at the schedule. 'We're up next. Best thread.' he whispered to her. Mip got wide-eyed, and took out her list. Immediately, she stood, and prepared to go on stage.

She looked around, back stage, where all was fairly dark. 'Damn those lights.' she said, making sure she and Billy had shades of their own. She took out her speech, and read it intently. Billy took the piece of paper out of her hands, and motioned for Mip to continue. She nearly snarled, but she decided to smile, and continue. It seemed she had memorized it. She took back the paper, and looked at it once more, then she mentally added a few more words.

Peering out, at the stage, Mip and Billy watched as Lostdaliel prepared to give her speech. She smiled, and was pleased to know that the dots were now protected due to Lostdaliel's courage to stand up for them. And if that wasn't weird, a lot of things aren't. But weird is a good thing, after all.

[Elentari the Second]

Merry Christmas, everyone!!!!

[Mippin]

When they were all set and ready, and Lostdaliel had accepted her award, Mip and Billy casually walked out onto the stage. They looked around, and grinned as they came up to the microphone. Mip fiddled around and fished out a remote control from her pocket. She slammed down her finger upon a button, and the lights dimmed down to a moderate shade. Grinning again, Mip put the remote in her pocket again. She wasn't wearing anything too special, or very different from what she was wearing before. Black baggy pants, with a black shirt that read 'S.A.M.' in very large letters, and the same blue and black pinstriped tie as usual. She wore a bunch of badges for the S.A.M. foundation on her sleeves and down the side of her pant leg as well. As an added touch, she wore a black spiffy hat. As for Billy, well, he looked normal.

As the clapping died down, Mip began to speak. 'It is that time, when we must make this descision, and decide on an absolute best thread. A thread that surpasses all others. A thread that would never die, were it not closed. A thread, that would live forever. It is that time when we take a moment to think about what thread could win such an award, and who the genius was who started it. But alas, with so many threads in the great void called Imladris, 'twould be a horror to think of just one thread, being the best. And so, after ages of browsing through threads, it has been decided that there shall be not one best thread, but two.'

The crowd seemed to go wide-eyed at the last words. Mip paused for drama, and then continued.

'Having said that, STOP ABUSING MERRY, YOU MORONS!!!' Mip winked, as the crowd gasped, and a few wild cheers came from various places around the crowd.

'Bill, the envelope?' Mip motioned for him to open the envelope. He handed her a little piece of paper.

Mip was about to read the winners of the award, when she turned to Billy again. 'Anything you'd like to throw in?' He leaned towards the mic, and spoke. 'Travis. Good. Buy now!' Loud cheering could be heard from Amarië's table, and Mip grinned. At last she read the paper.

'The Best Thread award, goes to the Fairly Knowledgable Eru for the Imladris Christmas Party Discussion Thread and On a lighter note...Avatars!!'

The crowd roared with applause and shouts of cheering.

'Elentari.' Mip said, motioning for her to come collect the awards for the best threads. At this the crowd broke out into a perfect unison chant.

[Niluial]

Elentari

Elentari walked up to the stage once again and stood in front of the microphone.

"Thank you all once again for voting for these topics. Though I created them, I made them for all of you. Thank you. And now for something completely different."

All of the cameras around the room turned to reveal.... A birch.

"Thank you!" said Elentari once more, and then she took her seat.



Niluial

Niluial clapped and shouted “Waho Elentari!”
Lossie and Nilly both walked onto the stage in their identical green, flowing faerie dresses and smiled.
Niluial took a breath and said “Next up we have Lossie with The 14 Days of Hobbit Day”
Lossie looked at Nilly while Nilly took a step back. "Its alll yours" Niluial whispered to Lossie.