~*Imladris Christmas Party*~

[Firondoiel]

Firi noted Ala getting her squeaky penguin ready. "Oh boy!" said Firi to herself. A squeaky sword replaced the real one as Firi prepared to challenge Ala. "Here." Firi handed Orli a squeaky bow and arrows. "You should know how to use these I hope."

Orli nodded and smiled as he felt over the familiar yet not so familiar weapons.

Firi stepped forward and proclaimed in a loud voice. "I hereby challenege you, Alatariel. A duel to the dea..er...end, with your squeaky penguin and my squeaky sword!"

[Ophelia]

What Ophe saw was Leo coming out of the crowd with a big and squeeky weasel . "A-a-a-allllrighty then ...!" said Ophe . "Nilu , pleace give us the signal to start ..."

Nilly made a little evil smile and then said "Steady .... , Ready .... , Really redy ... aaaaaaaaaaand...... ................................... Go!"

Ophe and Leo started to fight with their squeeky objects . Leo`s weasel landed on Ophe`s head while the vodka bottle made its way to Leo`s cheek . Then on went the hitting and bashing and all the fun things .

[Niluial]

Niluial watched the crazy squeaky object duel. Niluial saw blood and heard lots of squeaking and screaming. It was funny seeing everyone kill one another. Niluial just stood aside, she didn’t want to get involved and ruin her beautiful dress. She searched the crowd for Lossie but couldn’t find her in the chaos and all the mayhem. The squeaky object duel died down while too many were injured. The duel finished and all was back to normal. Everyone moved aside while the dwarves cleaned up the blood stained carpets the bits of skin and broken squeaky bits all over the floor.

Niluial walked around and watched all the crazy happenings. ‘Twas a lovely site to see some getting along others plotting evil plans and others just arguing, one happy family! Niluial walked up gracefully onto the stage. Every one looked in awe (yes she just fixed herself up) and in a second everyone forgot the happens of the evening for they all knew what was next. “Hello all you lovely looking people” Niluial shouted into the microphone. The Imladris folk went very wild and screamed and clapped. “Please could everyone make their way to the dinner table and find there seat. Each seat is marked with a name please look for your name, you may swap though. The dinner is full course so please enjoy yourselves and be nice to the faeries who shall be serving the food!” Niluial paused and smiled. Everyone wanted her to finish her speech quickly for the faces looking at her were hungry faces. “So bring on the food and enjoy!” And with that the Imladris folk ran around looking for their seats. Some swapping others smiling happily.

Niluial walked over to the table passing a few green faeries with trays in their hands. It looked rather cute, such small faeries flying about with huge trays in their hand. They were paid well though and of course Niluial knew so. There was a small card placed on the plate and on it was written Niluial in a lovely gold pen. Indeed Niluial had found her name. Niluial smiled when she saw the two peoples cards next to her.
‘Twas Lossie and Elvish Hobbit, two very important people in Niluial’s life. Besides Lossie sat Elentari then Ophelia and so on. Niluial sat on her soft comfortable seat and sighed with relief. Niluial tummy grumbled, the food was going to be good.

Niluial looked at her wine glass on the table and eyed it, then looked at Lossie. Ala looked at the wine glasses too with an evil smile. Niluial stood up and screamed across the table “Stop! Don’t drink your wine. I believe it has been poisoned by a certain someone” Niluial paused and looked at Ala and so did the rest of the guests. Ala sunk into her chair and blushed. “The person who did this will be dealt with now” Niluial said looking at Ala. Niluial clicker her fingers “guards take her outside for a few minutes and deal with her!” Ala was dragged out while she was screaming on the floor about how she was innocent and so on.

The faeries brought out new wine glasses and filled each one except for Niluial’s and Lossie’s. They wanted their green mixture which of course they got. Everyone seated down and waited to have the food brought out.

[Mippin]

Mip seemed to come out of a long trance. As she looked out at the squeaky object war she cursed under her breath, wondering how in Middle-Earth she could have missed that. She quickly reached into her pocket and took out an inflatable needle. 'Damn, can't believe I've missed this!' she yelled, wondering how she could suddenly join in. She quickly turned to Dom, and began poking him repeatedly. In a likewise manner, Dom said 'ow' in a dry tone. At last, she took out her lawn flamingo and whacked him. 'Oh come on, get into the spirit. I'm sure you'd love creating chaos, and that's just what we're going to do!' she said as she handed him a random inflatable object.

The two made their way over to Elijah and Amarië, who were in deep combat with Firi and Orlanda. Mippin tilted her head and watched for a moment. 'STOP!!!!' she yelled as Aunt Orlanda was about to fire an inflatable arrow towards Elijah. The two teams stopped suddenly, and gaped at Mippin. 'What?' came a unison query. Mip grinned broadly, and took out her inflatable needle. 'Nothing.' she said as she and Dom whacked Orlanda, Firi, Elijah, and Amarië repeatedly.

The war was soon over, and Mip and Dom were banished to their music-like duties. Or rather, Mip was. Dom was just doomed to watch Mippin play everything except his favourites. There was no fooling Mip either, she had been tied to him before, after all.

She finally played a Beatles record. Whilst it played, Mip bowed her head, and muttered a few words, then looked towards Dom. She smiled a small smile at him, and he tilted his head as if in half-understanding. Nodding, Mippin gestured towards the feast. As she sat, making sure not to take up any wine, she spoke.

'You know what would be perfect right now?' she paused, seeing if anyone was interested in her opinion. A few people looked at her, in acknowledgement. 'A baugette. Even better, a Noddy Baugette.' she said slyly. She turned towards Firi, who was dying of laughter, and then snickered to herself. The others seemed terribly puzzled, and the two recieved classic weird looks. Unconciously, Mip took out a digital camera, and took a few shots of the expressions. Unfortunately, Dom took the camera from her. She scowled, and heard e-vile snickering coming from Amarië.

[Firondoiel]

Firi was practically rolling on the floor in fits of laughter. Indeed, she had laughed so much this evening that she was beginning to ache. Orli finally dragged the hysterical girl to her feet. "Get a hold of yourself!" said Orli as he shook her. This only served to make Firi laugh harder.

“Hello all you lovely looking people” said Niluial's voice. “Please could everyone make their way to the dinner table and find there seat. Each seat is marked with a name please look for your name, you may swap though. The dinner is full course so please enjoy yourselves and be nice to the faeries who shall be serving the food!”

Firi immediately became serious. "Dinner!" she squealed. Firi quickly smoothed her dress over and checked her hair. Then she gracefully strolled over to the table. Mippin had somehow gotten to the table first and was sitting next to Niluial. Firi looked at the empty chair next to Mip and saw the name 'Firondoiel' written there. "I believe that is me." said Firi with a grin.

Firi begin to sat down but discovered a problem. Mippin was sitting on her left side, which happened to be the same side Orli was tied to. "Well....." Firi began to think hard. Long did she stand in thought while Orli and Mip stared at her. Finally Mip reached over and cut the rope that held them together. Then she yanked Orli around to Firi's right side and retied them.

"Thank you Mistress Mippin!" said Firi.

"No problem. Good luck eating though." replied Mippin.

Firi sat down between Mippin and Orli. She noticed that ElberethVarda and Menelien were sitting across from her. "Hullo there! How fare you my friends?" Firi said brightly.

Elbereth raised an eyebrow. "Erm, fine. I think so anyway. After seeing the stunt you just pulled I'm not sure how I should be around you."

Firi merely laughed. "Oh my dear Elbereth! How you flatter me! But do not take credit away from our dear Menelien! Without her, I could not have performed such a feat! Well, I probably could have, but it wouldn't have been as fun."

"Thank you my dear Firi." replied Menelien. The two grinned e-villy at each other before Mippin broke the menacing silence. "Indeed, it was marvelous. But don't you agree that Noddy is extremely lofty?"

"Oh very! Baugette is quite lofty too." replied Firi.

Confuzzled looks were many at the table as Mippin and Firi began to discuss said peeps loftiness.

[Mippin]

'Did you see Herbert?' Mip asked, as Firi looked at her, eyes widening. 'Yes, indeed I did!'

The two talked merrily about premieres and aforementioned Lofty people, whilst the two tied to them were looking strangely puzzled. Mip turned a bit, then spoke again. 'I thought Sblomie made a marvelous appearence, don't you?'

Firi snickered, 'Oh, yes!' and Dom and Orland finally caught on..or so they thought.

The conversation continued for a very long time, and the guests seemed to be even more terrifyingly miffed with each passing moment. Mip thought it was absolutely priceless, and longed to be able to take a picture of it all. She knew she couldn't though. 'Bah.' she said softly to herself in between her talking with Firi.

[Lëowen]

'I'm invincible! The Black Knight always triumphs!' screeched Leo, landing a blow with her weasel on Ophe's head.

'You're a looney!' shouted Ophe, in true Monty Python spirit, whether she had seen Holy Grail or not. She jabbed her squeaky bottle at Leo, with very squeaky results.

'Meep!' Leo swung wildly with her weasel, eventually managing to whack something, which promptly went 'smash' and toppled to the floor. 'Oops...' Leo didn't even bother to find out what it had been, but instead sidled inconspicously away. Ophelia snickered, and both combatants made their way over to the dinner table of doom.

[Mippin]

'You know what? I'll be back in a moment.' Mip said, as she stood, dragging Dom to his feet. She marched outside, and raced towards Ala. 'That's it. You're gonna get the keck back in there, even if I must drag you in kicking in screaming.' she said with an e-vile gleam in her eye. She took Ala by the arm, and dragged her inside with the help of Dom. They shoved Ala and Eli into a couple of empty seats next to where Mip, Firi, and the tied others where.

'There.' Mip said, as she and Dom took their seats. 'Party wouldn't be any good without the bartender, and the uh..other guy.' she said with a grin.

[Alatáriel]

Ala sat at the table, giving everyone the e-vile eye. Her eye twitched. She was a bit mad at being dragged off for something she didnt do. Now was the time for the next step in the secret war. She dragged Mip, Dom, Lëowen, Billy, Elijah, and herself to an open spot in the room.

She untied everyone and in a quick flash, began tying hands together. Wincing, she opened her eyes to see who ended up with who.

[Firondoiel]

Firi leaned back in her seat and looked at everyone. Most seemed to have dozed off after eating so much. Indeed, the whole party seemed to be asleep.

"Now would be a good time to start the Imies, eh Orli?" aske Firi.

Snoring was the only answer she got from the guy tied to her. Firi sighed and hoped someone would wake up.

[Lossentilien]

Lossie eyed everyone around the room. She'd smiled to herself. Perfect time to get her revenge on Opheila for the faerie down her dress.
She slowly pulled out a thin sparkley pale green wand Nilly had given her, and lined it alongside her inner arm, out of view.
She took aim subtly at Ophelia, and muttered a few carefully chosen words. Ophelia slowly began to rise up in the air off her seat, and at first seemed pleasently unaware of it, being very sleepy after the huge meal.
Lossie smiled to herself again, and let her eyes wander the room, with the wand still on Ophelia, as people started to notice that she was in fact, halfway to the ceiling.
With a slight movement of her arm, Lossie sent Ophelia to the top of the Christmas tree, another mutter, and ropes of tinsel wound themselves around Ophelia, tying her to the tree like an angel decoration. An angry, baffled, but slightly amused angel decoration.

Nilly was looking susiciously around the room. Naturally, her eyes settled on Lossie, who was watching the scene out the corner of her eye, a slight note of satisfaction across her face, but at first glance appeared to be perfectly innocent.

"Lossie..." Nil said sternly, approaching Lossie's seat.

Lossie glanced at Nilly, flashed a grin, and slipped out her seat. Before Nil could follow, Lossie had stepped carefully up to the stage. She tapped the mike, before leaning forward to speak.

"Hey everyone. I'm glad to see that the meal was greatly enjoyed, but it is indeed time to move on." There were a few worried looks towards Ophelia, still suspended at the top of the tree. A passing faerie had been kind enough to place a tinsel halo on her head. "Oh no, don't worry about that, I'll let her down soon. But for now, we will move on. So, I invite to the stage, our very first Imie Awards presenter, for Member Honours, Oldest (as in first) member, the wonderfully talented, beautiful, Niluial!" Hesitantly at first, people bagen to clap.
Lossie shot a grin in Nil's direction, who seemed reasonably impressed with this escape. After all, she had just made Ophelia a human decoration...Nilly stepped up graccefully beside Lossie, who moved out of the spotlight into the wings, as Nilly began. A ripple of excitment went through the members, as they waited in anticipation. Lossie smiled for Nilly in the darkness of the wings.

[Mippin]

Mippin looked at who she was now newly tied to. It looked like Billy. He athe shudded to see Mip, scaed fo his psuedo-life at the paty. Mip chuckled nevously. 'Dude, I'm soy. I won't hut you, so long as you don't ty and take ove my job.' She smiled, and he nodded. Mip chuckled again fo some eason that seemingly no one undestood, save Fii. Mip looked out to see that Ala was now tied to Dom, and Lëo to Elijah. Eveyone seemed a bit supised. It was a vey andom happening, they thought.

'Well, back to the food.' Billy said, leading Mip back to the table. They all had a bit of touble tying to get back to thei seats, but at last Mip, Lëo and Ala, ended up in the seats they had oiginally. Eveything was silent, save the soft noise of Lëo unconciously gnawing at he wist again. They all looked at one anothe and blinked. 'What now?' pondeed Mip aloud. Ala handed Mip a note, witten in code. She ead it, with a wee bit of difficulty. It wasn't the same code they both knew, but Mip managed to deciphe it succesfully. She at last nodded, and signaled a few things to Billy. He nodded also, and Mip gave back the piece of pape. Using telepathic powes of Doom, Mip pyed Lëo off he wist, and told he and Elijah the plan. They also nodded, but Lëo went back to he wist.

Again, thee was an awkwad silence. Eveyone twitched a couple of times, but wee stopped, when Nil appoached the stage. 'Damn, no food even.' could be head the unison eply to the events fom all thee actos. Mip shook he head, and smiled. She didn't mind missing dinne, she was geneally neve hungy. She wasn't a hobbit, at the vey least. Nil at last began to speak. It was aleady silent fom whee Mip and the est wee, but, the othes needed to be silenced.

[Alatáriel]

Ala wrote another note in a different code. She had to get used to that one again, tied to Dom once more. She had to have different codes for everyone, and one master code for them all: what if she were to play a trick on one of them? She had to have a specific code. She handed Dom the note. He read it and nodded. The note suddenly poofed into dust. Dom acted a bit shocked and jumped slightly.

They all started blankly at one another, waiting for something to happen. Lëo still gnawed at her wrist. Ala knew it would never help. The rope was ungnawable. Not even Chippy could gnaw through that rope. Nil seemed to drown on for a bit. Ala turned to see Dom nearly asleep. She stomped on his toe. He yelped 'ow!', sending some odd glances from the surrounding tables, then began to rub his shoe. He grumbled then tried to turn his attention back to the one talking. Ala fiddled with the napkins that lay on the table. She began folding them really fancy, soon Mip did, too. Lëo still gnawed at her wrist, but the others picked up at it, too.

[Mippin]

Mip easted he head on the table. She had a hoible headache. Pobably fom folding napkins, and the high pitch of Dom's yelp. It seemed eveyone had a faily high voice when in immediate pain o panic. Mip began humming the tune Pip sung to Denetho. Billy blinked and looked he way. She shugged, and kept humming. When will this be ove? Mippin wondeed to heself. She was getting teibly boed.

When would the plan commence? she thought. Wondeing if Ala had just instucted Dom to shoot he again. She chuckled, emembeing the time he did befoe, and quickly got id of the idea.

Mip fiddled aound with a piece of loose electical tape. She finally stuck it on Billy. 'What was that fo?' he asked he. She snickeed. 'It's not masking tape, won't hut.' she said, waiting a moment. Soon Dom eached acoss the table and ipped the tape off. Billy blinked, a bit puzzled. and Dom sat with the tape, also a bit puzzled, at what had just happened. Mip wheezed, and laid he head back down.

She began fiddling around with a wie...it wasn't one of he own wies...she followed it down to the floo, and with he eyes, she watched the wie, and saw that it went unde Dom's foot, and past Ala, up the table, but then dissapead. Of couse, it's pat of the plan.

[Alatáriel]

Dom fiddled around with the electrical tape. Mip began to follow the wires, back on the table, she started to follow that one. Ala coughed. Mip got the message and stopped. Ala excused herself (and Dom, of course: he had no other choice) from the table and went behind the bar. She found a small package, stuck it in her backpack, and went down to the basement, with the backpack.

She took out a few tools and what looked like a computer chip and began working at a small box on the wall. Dom sat down on a table and waited. 'We must work quickly, before someone realizes we're gone. Actually, they probably woudn't notice if you were gone... they don’t really pay much attention to you... I wonder why...'

Dom shrugged. Ala had noticed that Mip, Lëo, and possibly Firi were the only ones who every paid attention to Dom, or Billy, or Elijah, or Orla. She wondered as she worked. 'Done. Now lets get back up their before they realize we are gone,' Ala said. Dom nodded and they both climbed the stairs.

Behind the bar, Ala took the box out of the backpack and took it with her to the table. She sat down and hoped no one noticed he absence.