~*Imladris Christmas Party*~

[The Elf Chick]

Suddenly, the doors burst open and in rushed a petite maiden with long, black disheveled hair. After screeching to a maddening halt, she smoothed down her ankle length blood red skirts and strode purposefully towards the stage, hoping that she didn't look like a complete boffin in front of the assembled crowd.

Once on the stage, she took the microphone from Niluial and flashed her a grateful smile. The crowd waited expectantly for some sort of acceptance speech.
"Um." Was the first thing that came out of The Elf Chick's mouth.
She tried again. "I am very grateful to accept this award, and I am quite shocked that I even won one, especially for my avatar. Thank you for letting me be a part of it, especially in view of my er, sporadic posts, and congratulations to the others I share this award... thing with."

With that, she accepted the pretty shiny trophy from Niluial and took a step back, careful not to tred on anyone's feet, and waited patiently for the others to accept their awards.

[Lossentilien]

Lossie looked around...unsure wither to step down, or to make her own little speech.
Nilly elbowed her in the side, moving her into action. She stepped up to the mike, yet again, pondering what to say. She'd already bored quite a few people with speeches and songs, so t'was better to make this one short and sweet, considering there was yet another winner to come.

"Erm...thanks. I've said quite enough already, so I'll show my thanks by not wasting your time. Not that I'm not very very happy to be recieving this award, but...erm...well, there are two others...and I suppose..." There was a sublte cough from Nilly, a kind indication that much rambling was about to ensue. Lossie halted, and finished up. "Thank you all for voting, I'm touched."

'Whoops...' she thought, backing away from the bright stage lights. 'That short and sweet speech was not so short. Or sweet for that matter...' She aimed a smile and shrug at Nilly. 'Ah what can you do?'

[Mippin]

Mip tilted her head and wondered what avatar won the award, she had lots within that span of time. 'Hmm, I suppose we should go get the award now, eh Bill?' she said, as they marched up to the stage. As they reached the mic, Mip began to look around. At last she spoke.

'It was a bit of a surprise to hear that I had won this along with the others. I'm honoured. Thanks a bunch! Even a thank to Agent Lofty, just in case, and all those other people. I guess it goes to show, that when bored enough, you can create masterpieces. Or maybe you're all just demented.' Mip said the last statement with a broad grin. 'Thanks again!' she said as she walked away from the mic and off the stage.

[Niluial]

Niluial looked at the odd people who got the award, very odd and what odd speeches she thought. But they were good enough and rather funny! Niluial walked back to the mic “Ahem…not only do avatars tell a lot about the person but the signatures too! Signatures or sigs as we like to call them are used in many ways! Some to add links others sweet sayings and quotes. Then again the Imladris members are so creative and cleaver that the award just cant be handed out to one person, it had to be a tie! So the member or members with the best signature Imie for 2004 goes to Firondoiel, Eruanne and Elentari!” Niluial smiled and waved the three trophies in the air. They were beautiful trophies carved from crystal with a golden base… ‘Twas the best trophies Niluial had ever seen.

Niluial handed the trophies out but unfortunately Eruanne wasn’t there. Niluial walked off the stage and sat next to Lossie. They both took another sip of the green mixture and popped a sugar cube in their mouths.

[Elentari the Second]

I assume you mean Tari, Elentari the First, Elentari the Insane - not me?

~ Elentari II

[Elentari]

OOC: That is correct.

Could all members please remember to refer to me as Tari. For awards, you may call me Elentari, the Fairly Knowledgable Eru. (That's if you want to keep a sense of formality)


Tari accepted her award, smiling to herself. Surely she couldn't win so many awards? That was the third so far, and barely any awards had been given out so far.

The party seemed to be going okay, escept for the odd interuption by some random and utterly insane act from some of the members. However, it seemed that the party would continue for a lot longer than it had originally been planned to. Oh well, thought Tari, as long as everyone was enjoying themselves.

[Firondoiel]

Firi sat quietly in her chair gazing off into space. Orli sat next to her fiddling with the rope that bound them together. He lightly tugged at it but Firi gave no sign. Feeling bolder he tried the knot but found it quite impossible to untie. After working at it for several minutes he gave it a hard yank. The action sent him falling on his back in the floor. The harsh pull on Firi's arm made her look down.

"What are you doing on the floor?" she asked with one eyebrow raised.

"I'm tired." he replied.

"Ah, I see."

Firi pulled Orli up. "It was no use. The knot won't come undone unless I untie it or one of the Rivendell mod's. It's common knowledge."

Orli mumbled something under his breath and rolled his eyes. Firi reached over and slid the rope off. "If you wanted it off that bad all you had to do was ask." she said as she tied the rope to the chair. "Just so you don't go anywhere." she explained to him.

"So the member or members with the best signature Imie for 2004 goes to Firondoiel, Eruanne and Elentari!”

Nilly's voice proclaimed loud and strong. Firi sat stunned.

"Me? Did she say me?"

Someone grabbed her and pulled her out of her seat. "Go on Firi! That's you!" said Elbereth.

Firi walked to the stage and climbed the steps to receive her award.

"Thank you everyone." she said to the audience. "This was a great surprise to me for there are so many spiffy signatures at Imladris. The biggest congratulations to Tari and Eruanne! My signature is different now from the one I had when the voting took place. I did have part of Aragorn's awesome line in 'Return of the King.' Since the whole line will not fit into my signature I should like very much to quote it in it's entirety right now. "I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me! A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends, and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day! An hour of wars and shattered shields when the age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand Men of the West!" Thank you to all again! Remember, ROTK rocks, Tolkien rules, and Agent Lofty is lofty!"

Firi descended the stairs and headed back to the seat where Orli was tied.

[Alatáriel]

Ala clapped at the last few awards. She suddenly burst out with, 'I lost my schtick!!!!'

A few people looked her way, but soon ignored her. She looked under the table cloth, then ran to look under the bar, then at the DJ station. Dom, being dragged about, began, 'I lost my schtick before...'

'Well thats nice, but right now...' she paused, looking under another table, 'I have to find mine.'

'Erm... okay then...'

'You know what I am doing, dont you?' Ala said, looking under a glass of wine on someone else's table.

'Yes, it is right here: step number 181,' Dom said, taking out a sheet of paper and placing his finger somewhere on the bottom.

'Put that away! Someone might take it...' Ala said, crumbling up the paper before someone saw. Dom quickly put it away. 'Ah! Found it!'

Ala picked up a small piece of paper under Firi's shoe. 'I have been looking for my schtick for the paste five minutes, and now I have finally found it!'

Ala walked back to her table and sat down to watch the rest of what Nil was presenting, Most informative Post.

[Mippin]

Mip tapped her finger along the table 'Faramir-style' to the music. Everything was seemingly normal for a while. She saw Ala scurry around searching for something. Lost her schtick again, eh? she thought as she watched her drag Uncle Dom around, amused. Thinking of schtick, Mip took out a piece of paper and looked at it.

'Hmm, most informative post, best debater... I guess we should take a look at our own schtick, Billy!' she thought aloud. She had an interesting schtick planned up for best debater.

She set in a new album at random. It sounded like the Doves to Mip, but she wasn't too worried about that at the moment. She quickly took out a blank piece of paper and began writing out a dialogue. She finished quickly and looked it over, then handed the schtick to Billy. He took the paper, and looked it over.

'Well, what do you think?' Mip asked.

Billy blinked at her a few times, and looked down at the paper. Mip tilted her head, and groaned, then handed him a pen. He quickly began jotting down changes to the dialogue.

They poured over the dialogue until they were happy with it, then set it away to be looked at again for very last minute changes.

'Well, now that that's done, back to my job.' Mip said as she stuffed the paper into her pocket.

She began to take out an album, but was met with random shouts and requests, mainly 'Smashing Pumpkins!' and 'Stone Roses!' Mip glared in the direction of the shouts, then decided to play Travis just to spite everyone. Naturally, Billy didn't seem to mind though.

Mip sat and looked at her award. 'Spiff little thing, innit?' she said to herself as she stored it in a safe place. Things were sometimes flung at Mip when the favoured music was not played, and she didn't want to break the award. She lowered the music and watched as Nil approached the stage yet again.

[Alatáriel]

Ala copied her schtick down onto another piece of paper. 'Ah, now I can read it. Seemed to have been stepped on by more people than Firi, eh?'

Ala walked behind the bar and shredded her old schtick. She shed a tear as the paper was tore into pieces. Dom eyed her oddly 'Show a little respect for the little guy, man!'

Dom raised an eyebrow then took off his hat momentarily to show 'respect'. Ala sat down and poured herself a drink. She sighed and watched the party. 'Well, c'mon, man! You must have something to say!' Ala said to Dom.

'Meep!'

Ala sighed and sipped her drink. She rushed over to the cabinet and took out her faerie. She dropped in another cherry and set it on the bar in front of her. The faerie ate if gleefully then suddenly burped. Dom snatched the jar and started to shake it around.

'HEY! Not the faerie! Nil would kill me!!! Give it back!!!' Ala said, grabbing for the faerie. She took out her squeaky penguin. Dom took the hint and handed her back the jar. Ala set it back on the bar and sat down behind it. She growled at Dom who was starting to eye the faerie again. 'Go play with Gizmo. Its my faerie, catch your own,' Ala grumbled to him.

Dom took the hint and began to drag Ala away from the bar. 'Hey! Do you have to bring me along?'

'Do I have any other choice?'

'Erm, no... but couldn’t you get someone else to get it?' Ala said, walking back towards the bar, but Dom kept going the other direction. Ala took out her squeaky penguin and whacked Dom repeatedly with it. Ending up with a black eye, Dom gave up. 'If you want Gizmo so badly, get someone else to get him. I have to stay here. I’m the bartender, remember?'

Dom gave an e-vile eye, but sat back down onto his stool. Ala fed another cherry to her green faerie.

[Mippin]

Mip and Billy sat, doing basically nothing, just listening to music. They said nothing, they did nothing, they just sat. At last Mip sighed.

'You ever notice how there's this awkward moment when it seems like nothing happens until someone else acknowledges something through some sort of post in a, another dimension, let's say?' Mip asked Billy, not really expecting a reply.

'Actually, yeah. I'm thirsty.' he replied.

Mip put in a new album, a long album, so she wouldn't have to change it for a good long while, then nodded. 'To the bar?'

'To the bar.'

They got up, and walked over to the bar. They sat in stools right on the side of the bar and ordered up drinks. Mip asked for Code Red Mountain Sproke Beer. She hadn't had any in a while. When at last they were served, Mip, Billy, now along with Ala and Dom, were caught in a like situation. No one said anything, nor did anything really. Ala fiddled around with her faerie, Dom sat down eyeing the faerie and whispering to Billy, and Mip was just bored.

'Mind if I go get Gizmo?' she asked Dom. He nodded. Mip got up, and after a good long while, finally got Billy up to go get Gizmo with her. When they came back they all had something to do. Stare at the leaf mantis. Actually, they all took a moment to hold Gizmo, and just stare at the giant 'eye' on its wing. At least they all had something to do. Mip held up Gizmo, and looked at the pretty mantis. It was green. Green was a good colour. Yep. When Mip was ready to hand Gizmo back to Dom, she whispered Free Henry to her, which resulted in a few odd looks before nearly everyone was on the floor laughing. Mip snickered and watched everyone laugh their insides out.

[Alatáriel]

Ala snickered at Mip's comment. Suddenly, the CD Mip had in screwed up and she rushed over to fix it. Ala straightened her tie attentively at the song. And out of somewhere, Mip would grab the microphone and scream 'PEACE THE *schtick* OUT!' into it so loud it overrode the other lyrics. Ala snickered and suddenly ran up to Mippin, grabbed the mic and shouted "PEACE THE *schtick* OUT" into it herself.

Soon Ala and Mip were on the ground dying with laughter, and Dom and Billy snickering along. Walking back to the bar, Ala took another sip of her drink. Mip began complaining on how she wanted to be paid for the messed up CD. Twitchy suddenly popped out from the back room. 'TWITCHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' Ala screamed, knocking Dom over and going especially high on the 'ee' part of the word. Ala began to stroke Twitchy as Dom re-sat himself onto his stool. He reached over to pet the cat, but suddenly jerked his hand away as Ala growled at him. Dom suddenly began to mess with Gizmo again, Ala still stroking Twitchy, who began to growl and squirm about.

[Niluial]

Niluial stepped up onto the stage and smiled. “I am here to inform you that the time table has changed a bit! Dragoneyes will be presenting the next award ‘Most Informative Poster’ due to some reasons!” Niluial smiled and walked off the stage and gracefully took her place next to Lossie in the front row.

[Dragoneyes]

Dragoneyes flattened her dress down and stood from where she had been sipping her drink at a table. She managed to walk sedately to the stage this time, she was ready to give this award away.

"Thank you Nilly." She said to a Niluial bouncing up and down slightly in her seat. Then she turned to the rest of the audience. "So, the most informative poster, as voted by the lovely members of Imladris." Dragon smiled a sickeningly sweet smile. "She has been here from the beginning and always a help and very good at organising things the more lazy of us members shy away from." Dragon cleared her throat. "So it is my pleasure to award the most informative poster Imie to..." She paused, her eyes sparkling with amusement at the movement she could see out of the corner of her eye. "NILUIAL!" She finally shouted out. Nilly was there in a flash.

[Niluial]

Niluial jumped off her seat and ran onto the stage. She kissed Dragoneyes on the cheek and smiled once again. Niluial took the trophy and raised it in the air “Well, I am very honoured to receive such an award. I would like to thank all who have voted for me, thank you! I would like to thank Elentari for being such a great person to work with (and be friends with) and for making me admin, you are the best! I would like to thank my fellow Best Green Faerie Lossie for being there and also being a great person to work with, you inspire me! I would also like to thank all the mods for helping out when I needed it! And I want to thank all of you for making Imladris better!” Niluial smiled and curtsied. She gracefully walked off the stage holding her trophy in her hands. She sat down and smiled at Lossie, they both laughed evilly.