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Ottis413
Joined: 01 Oct 2005
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Location: West Virginia, USA
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 Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 2:53 pm Post subject: Hi everybody |
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Hello fellow LOTR fans, just discovered the world of fan fic, my only problem with Tolkiens works have beet that it was too short. This seems like a good way to keep it going. 
I wrote a peice of fan fiction a while back that I will post as soon as I make sure I know all the rules.
Just thought I'de say Hi, this is a great site! |
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NeumeIndil
Joined: 06 Jun 2005
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Location: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Well met.  Glad to have a new newbie wandering around. I'd like to take this opportunity to warn you about spit. Sometimes, we get a little funny and sometimes, if you happen to have a beverage in your mouth, the humor will cause you to spit... all over your monitor, your keyboard, your desk and your lap. You may want to refrain from beverage at the computer while visiting OSA, or just keep a paper towel handy. In the mean time, the best way to make sure your stuff is ready for posting is to wander over to the Beta Readers thread and have someone give it a reading. You can either post a Beta wanted ad or answer an ad posted by a willing beta. My betas have really saved my keister on a couple of occasions. Betas,  .
Enjoy the madhouse. Here come the patients.
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Neniel
Joined: 29 Dec 2004
Posts: 147
Location: Hiding from the men in white. Contrary to common belief, psychiatrists are *very* sneaky people
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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*peeking from underneath her covers*
Speaking of patients... *cough* I'm sick, stuck in my bed with a fever and a terrible headache and the guys from below are throwing a wedding party or something!!! They're playing something that sounds a little too much with belly-dancing right now, and I believe that my headache picked the rythme and my head actually throbs in temp with the beat... *moans of pain* 
But, my loyal PC is still in range so I get the chance to welcome you, my dear Ottis413, and forget my troubles for a while! The forums are the best place to hang out, since the site comes with a laugh-till-your-abs-cramp guarantee 90% of the time!  Well, OK, not 90% of the time, we can be serious too... Watch out for some very cool Tolkien issues debates every once and a while...
The best thing of course are the stories themselves, which thankfully come in abundance here! Read till you've had your fill, but don't foget to review as well, it keeps the writers happy! Any questions you have, you just ask and trust me, you'll get more replies and explanations than you could hope for! Hmmm, did I leave something out?
Alright, that's it for me, I will return to my world of pain now...
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Eru help me, they switched to the 80's disco repertoire... I believe my head just left its usual position on my shoulders and is practicing its spinning dancing moves...
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HamsterofDOOM
Joined: 12 May 2005
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Location: I\'m stuck in a bucket!
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Neniel you and me both.. but I just have a head cold .. and a really annoying sore throat! But anyway enough about me .. Hello Ottis413, and welcome to OSA for all your fan fiction needs, now including a free cake with every review 
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Tylany
Joined: 07 Aug 2005
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Location: Stuck in a daydream.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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Hello Ottis413.
Welcome not a one of the howdy commitee has welcomed yet wow!
Sorry but I find that kind of amazing 
By the way has anyone seen my insanity?
I already looked in the lost and found.
It was not there perhaps I should search for it in the safe in hiding area. Ideas of where it might be would be helpfull.
Again welcome
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Ottis413
Joined: 01 Oct 2005
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Location: West Virginia, USA
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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Yea! Thanks for the good words, I just posted my story a couple of hours ago and already learned some good lessons, (should have used a Beta reader first) I wrote it using wordPerfect and things didn't "Copy and paste" just the way I thought it would, had to go back and do some quick editing, still some to do I'm sure.
Well, I think I found a new "home on the web"
Seems to be a pattern here, I wrote this story while I was home with a bad head cold, playing hookie from work!!
I tried to reply earlier but my phone went out, again, don't you just love dial-up  |
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Yavanie
Joined: 02 Jun 2004
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Location: Texas
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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Howdy committee checking in!!!
HOWDY and well met (from me and my oft traveling spouse, Rocheron)!!
This is a great community and Neume words of wisdom are given - forum posts should come with a spit warning disclaimer daily!!!
As for fic, this is the best place to find the best stories and the best place to meet the best writers and the best fans of Tolkien's world. All in all just the best group of geeks around!
Anyway, the rest of the crowd will weigh in shortly........
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Alassante
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Joined: 10 Dec 2004
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Location: Hitchhiking to Rivendell
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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Neniel and Hamster - do we need to shoot you and put you out of your misery? 
Welcome Ottis. Its nice to have another guy around. We are starting quite a collection here! Brave of you to jump into fan fiction with your first story so soon. Fan fiction is great. And OSA is like my internet home and my online family is not half as weird as my real one (although, thats not saying much LOL).
 Just cause I like this icon!
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Alassante
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Yavanie wrote: | | As for fic, this is the best place to find the best stories and the best place to meet the best writers and the best fans of Tolkien's world. All in all just the best group of geeks around! |
So what you are saying is....we are the best?
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ghettoelleth
Joined: 06 Nov 2004
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*Cue "Disco Inferno" Enter the G in platforms and powder blue polyester leisure suit.*
 'burn baby burn, disco inferno'
Neni  Don't look so scared Neni, I'm not with Make-A-Wish. So you don't get  I brought you a  If you feel like  I stole Al's  I figure drool and hurl are in the same general genus familias if you can get mono from either.
Damn, welcome to the plague zone, Otho, aren't you glad you came? Cooties seem to be the order of the day.
Ham! Hammi, Hameister, Hamexico. Why Hammi? Well here, have a NyQuil binky   *wipes Hammysnot off shoulder*
Well, I don't have a cold but I have this mysterious rash on my inner th....oh, sorry
Hey Otis, you can call me Milo, *narf*. Welcome to OSA. I'm the resident purveyor of pr0n. Try to avoid me whenever possible, I'm a bad influence.
Psst. I'm already typing up his AmberAlert, trying and snap his pic real quick while he's busy staring at all the shiny stuff there is to see here. We'll need the foto for the milk cartons and America's Most Wanted. John Walsh said we finally qualify for the frequent Have you seen this person? flyers club. The airforce has also agreed to come fly the missing man formation over the forum should anything "questionable" happen.
And one last thing on the missing issue here Othello, if you manage not to fall off the planet for another 12 hours and 28 minutes, you will have obtained the dubious title of, "First F*&)^r we haven't lost since the brave and honorable Angmar". Aren't you feeling all moist and tingley Overton?
Well, gotta run Ohblahdee, got a hot beer and a cold man waiting for me. And if you should happen to go the way of the 'others', Just know that there's only one thing to do, you stay alive and we will find you, no matter what occurrrrrrs.
See ya around Osvaldo.
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ghettoelleth
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| Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 6:10 am Post subject: |
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Hmmm, my chill and my sweater got all minged up...
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Ottis413
Joined: 01 Oct 2005
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Location: West Virginia, USA
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| Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 8:03 am Post subject: |
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OOoooooooooookkkkkkkaaay,,,,,,mmmmmmm,,,yea.....I think....yea, maybe, for sure.........  ........    |
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Neniel
Joined: 29 Dec 2004
Posts: 147
Location: Hiding from the men in white. Contrary to common belief, psychiatrists are *very* sneaky people
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*doubles over laughing* Hehe, there's nothing like Ghetto scaring the new guys away! *snickers*
OK, Ottis413, here's the deal... We have this very impressing record of disappearing newbies. The poor people make the mistak... eh, wise decision to introduce themselves to the forum, and they receive a... warm welcome, pretty much like your own. And then, they just disappear from the face of the Earth... Arda... the Web... whatever!
Of course, that is neeeeever our fault, since we are such nice and adorable people! *gags Ghetto and has the other OSAers keep her out of sight* I mean, personally, I am convinced it is all a conspiracy to undermine one of the best LotR fanfiction sites around!
And since you have managed to escape that dire fate so far, you get lots of cookies and even more craziness from the rest of the inmates that have yet to show up! Have fun and ignore the occasional bouts of insanity! (the Duchess aka NancyBrooke had been trying to cure us of that, but I believe she recently gave up and joined the gang! )
PS: The headache's gone and I'm back to my usual silliness with just a slight fever! Hang in there Hami, I know the world can be a better place without throbbing heads...
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NancyBrooke
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Location: In a motel 6 by the airport
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| Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 9:02 am Post subject: |
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In the sagacious and salient words of Veruca Salt's father:
"Nuts."
Welcome, Ottis, to Open Scrolls. Despite everyone's attempts to appear weird to set themselves apart (and thereby merely becoming just like each other), we really are a pretty nice bunch: helpful, though sarcastic; encouraging, though self-serving; warm, though thoroughly and untactfully honest.
But we do like new members and new writers, and not only for breakfast anymore. Congratulations on posting your first story, and on knowing you should check the guidelines and learn the lay-of-the-land (i.e. Boromir, in my case ) before doing so.
Now, for the obligatory quote parade:
| Ottis wrote: | | my only problem with Tolkiens works have beet that it was too short |
You know, you may be the only person ever to think so!
| Neu wrote: | | the humor will cause you to spit... |
Really, Neu, just get a bib ...
| Tylany wrote: | | By the way has anyone seen my insanity? |
Now, Ty, you've been missing that little tidbit for some time. Does that mean you are now ... sane? How novel.
Nods to Alassante and her wit sharp as ever and Ghetto, you are obviously exempt from the above.
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Alassante
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Joined: 10 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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*psst* Neniel - be nice to G. She knows people She can make you disappear just like the last few newbies. Just smile and give her cookies. Its safer.
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Nods to Alassante and her wit sharp as ever and Ghetto, you are obviously exempt from the above. |
And notice I used Yellow highlights - not red. The Red Pen belongs to exclusively to Nancy. Kinda like Boromir. Its an unspoken rule. Do not molest Boromir on OSA without permission from NB first. (this is usually when Robbie jumps in with a joke about the size of Sean Bean's nose ) Although I doubt Ottis will have an issue with sticking to the molesting Boromir rule.
By the way, now I am sick  and I blame you people. I'm going to *sniffle* go get me some *sniffle* meds and go to bed. 
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