Welcome to the NEW AND IMPROVED Teen's guild at TORC!!
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For those who don't know, the old TORC Teen's guild needed a complete reformation and I took the liberty of explaining how this happened in a (hopefully) humourous way.
Music played in the background. It was a gentle sound, the music from the council of Elrond. It gave one the feeling of relaxation, but at the same time anticipation that something grand was about to take place. Destinies to be revealed. Fellowships to be formed. Everyone was gathered together, round a table in an orderly manner, to disuss the fate of our most beloved Guild.
Andu stood up and lowered the volume on the stereo. The council had gathered on her Message Board, so she felt it was her duty to start with a small introduction.
"Strangers from distant lands, friends of old..."
Someone coughed meaningfully, so Andu restarted.
"Strangers from distant land.. friends who are not so old. We've been summoned here to answer the threat of Mordor.."
Eyes rolled. Someone was about to say something but stopped themselves in the nick of time.
"Middle Earth stands on the brink of destruction. None can escape it. We must unite, or we will fall..."
There was an outburst here. Tigerlily stood up. "Mordor? Middle Earth? What are you babbling about??"
"Brink of destruction?" said Elfy, "Destruction????? Andu, if you dont get to the point, right now, please do us all a favour and shut up!"
"And before you do anything, I think it is important for you to realise one important thing... YOU ARE NOT ELROND!" added EE. Everyone nodded and whispered in agreement.
Andu twiched an eyebrow, but quickly corrected it.
"Fine, I'm sorry!!" said Andu. "Have a little ME spirit! Our situation is not so different! Anyhow, we are gathered here together, to answer to the threat of Spam. TORC Teenagers stands on the brink of locking. None can deny it. We must unite, or we will fall," continued Andu with a smirk.
"And do you have any proposals?" Borry asked.
"The MODS are upon us, whether we would risk it or not" replied Andu.
"That doesn't really answer the question..." remarked Rin..
"I know," said Andu "I just always wanted to say that!"
Eyes rolled again. "Get a life!" whispered someone rather loudly from the back.
"Sorry! Anyway, in plain English, we are gathered here to discuss the new guild. We need a total reformation for it, we must have ranks, entry requirements, and, most importantly, a purpose... there are a lot of things that must change. All that we discuss must be done in the interest of having a new and improved guild where spam is under control."
"So, what you're saying is start afresh, right?" asked Loth, "And DON'T answer me with a quote from LotR!" she added, seeing that Andu was smiling and about to open her mouth.
"Err... yeah, we've all been saying that for a while....It's time to act," said Andu, lost for words. "The discussions must start now. When we reach some agreements we will light the beacons..."
"You mean e-mail the MODs for help..." said Cali meaningfully.
"Er.. yeah, if you want to put it that way. Everybody is included, so everyone is entitled to an opinion. Do not hold back.. Do not... PULL BACK TO THE KEEP!!"
"ANDU!!!!"
"Sorry....So it begins."
The discussion started. Ideas were exchanged, considered and shaped. After a while, votings took place and conclusions started to be drawn. When they had come to an end, Andu stood up again, and everyone looked at each other.
"We are ready. Tonight the land will be stained with the blood of... um.. spam! You will taste Spam-flesh! March against spam! Leave none alive!!"
Everyone banged their heads against the table in exasperation.
"You're 'opeless" said Pip.
by Andu
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Anyway, that was the story of what happened to create the new guild. However, times went on, kingdoms rose and fell, and darkness grew once more across the land. Eventually the Teens realized they needed a new guild, a fresh one. Not that there was anything particularly WRONG with the old one, but anyway....
Seeing that he had been quite supportive and helpful towards the new guild, Ugluk called a meeting of the Council Members to discuss the new thread....
"If our members were spamming we would know it," Ugluk said, tapping his chin with a pair of fingers.
"It's only a matter of time,"Andu said. "Spam has suffered a defeat, yes, but behind the walls of IP addresses our enemy is regrouping."
"So?" Echo said. "Let it sit there? Let it rot! Why should we care?"
"Because 2,000 posts stand between us and a spam-free guild," Ugluk reminded them, "or the MODS will chew us to death."
There was a long pause before Tigerlily leaned forward. "That doesn't make any sense, Ugluk."
"I know, I've just always wanted to say that," Ugluk admitted.
"But see here," said Galad, "There is still hope for no spam. We need safe passage across the plains of posting. We can do that!"
"How?" asked TG.
"Draw out Spam's armies, empty their can. Then we gather our full strength and march on the Black Gate."
TG choked on her slushy.
"We cannot achieve victory through strength of arms," Wyny said, "or even strength of forks."
"Not for ourselves," Galad said, "but we can give the guild a chance if we keep spam's eye fixed on us. By holding intelligent discussions of our daily life."
"A diversion," Loth said. Everyone applauded at this one-word sum-up.
"Spam will suspect a trap, he will not take the bait," Borry said.
"Certainty of boring conversations," Pippy said, "small chance of success. What are we waiting for?"
"Pizza," EE said. "I ordered some, we have to keep talking until it's delivered. So I'd like to share a revelation Sil and I had. It came to us when we tried to classify spam, we realized it's not actually a food, or, for that matter, a simple junky post."
"Every organism on this planet develops a natural equilibrium with its surrounding environment," Sil said, taking up the discussion. "But spam does not. It moves to one place and it multiplies until it consumes up all its natural resources and then it can only survive by moving onto another message board."
"Spam is a disease, a cancer of this planet," EE finished, "and we...we are the cure."
Around the room, heads nodded in agreement.
"And now, because of our heroism, we're new people, unplugged, so to speak, apparently free from spam."
"Well, that's good," Inwe said, scooting her chair backwards a little from EE.
"But, as we well know, appearances can be decieving, which brings me back to the reason why we're here," Sil said. "We not here because we're spam-free, we're here because we're not spam-free. There is no escaping spam, no denying purpose, because as we all know, without purpose -- we would not exist."
"It is purpose that created us," Rin said, joining in
"Purpose that connects us," added EOI
"Purpose that pulls us," put in Elfy
"That guides us," said Borry
"That drives us," said Inwe
"It is purpose that defines us," Loth said
"Purpose that binds us," Wyny said.
"We are here because of spam," Ugluk said, "we're here to take from it what it tried to take from us! Purpose!"
There was a short pause. Finally Echo spoke up. "What did spam try to take from us?"
There was a knock on the door, a huge dark cloud entered. Fear flowed before it like a dark vapor, and its very presence was evil. All they could see was that it was very large, very strong, and had hundreds of teeth. It threw a half-dozen boxes of pizza on the table. Then it turned and looked at them searchingly with its eyes - if it had them. The very warmth of their blood seemed stole away. "Spam tried to take away everything," it snarled, "don't let it. Or I shall return." The dark cloud turned and exited, with the door banging closed behind it.
"Yessir," Ugluk said finally. For that seemed all that needed to be said.
by Ugluk
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IMPORTANT GUILD INFORMATION
Guild purpose: To discuss the life of a teen and a teen's interests in a decent manner,
ie: sticking to relevant topics and saying things with a point and to encourage each other to post without spamming. And most importantly to have fun.
Council of Teens:
This new guild is a group effort of a number of members of the old thread. After much discussion, we have decided to set up the Council of Teens with is set up in the following way:
There are 14 Members on Council (the 14 people who helped construct this new guild) 4 of these are Council Overseers 10 of these are Council Members
The Duties of the Council Members:
Since there are 10 people Council Members there will be 2 representatives for each house. (men, hobbits, elves, dwarves,and forces of evil --> described below)Their duties would be to approve new member's auditions as explained below, and to monitor their houses' posts and rankings
The Duties of the Council Overseers: to make sure the Council Members themselves aren't spamming and to fill in for Council Members who are/will be absent for quite a while.
Note, Council Members and Council Overseers are equal. They just have different responsibilities.
Ranks:
New members will have an audition (described below) and they will advance through the ranks with QUALITY posts. The council Members in charge of their house (the houses being, Men, Hobbits, Dwarves, Forced of Evil and Elves) will be the ones to decide whether posts count or not and promote them. The first post will be their audition. If approved they hold the lowest title in their house. The number in the brackets is the amount of QUALITY posts nessecary to advance to that particular rank. And by quality, we mean decent contribution to the current topic under discussion.
The rank 'Council of Maia' is the highest a member can hold and it is common to all houses. It is the ulitmate goal of a poster to reach this position through QUALITY posts.
Men:
Eowyn (Council Member)
Faramir (Council Member)
Council of Maia (35)
Tower guard (25...etc)
Captain (15 including the previous 6 posts)
Knight (5 including the 1 post)
Scribe (1)
Hobbits:
Frodo (Council Member)
Sam (Council Member)
Diamond Took (Council Member)
Council of Maia (35)
Mayor of Hobbiton (25)
Shirrif (15)
Inn-owner (5)
Gardener (1)
Forces of Evil:
Sauron (Council Member)
WiKi (Council Member)
Council of Maia (35)
Ringwraith (25)
Mumak-rider (15)
Warg rider (5)
Uruk (1)
Elves:
Elwing (Council Member)
Luthien (Council Member)
Aredhel Ar-Feiniel (Council Member)
Galadriel (Council Member)
Council of Maia (35)
Elven Prince/ess (25)
Elvish Captain (15)
Elvish Archer (5)
Elvish Bard (1)
Dwarves:
Fili (Council Member)
Gimli (Council Member)
Council of Maia (35)
King Under the Mountain (25)
Mithril worker (15)
Armourer (5)
Cave explorer (1)
Council Overseers:
Ilmarë (Council Overseer)
Melian (Council Overseer)
2 more coming up!
Entry requirements
(to join this guild): New posters will present an audition which consists of the following:
1. They will present themselves, their interests, hobbies, birthday (day and month ONLY. NOT THE YEAR!)
2. They will show us something interesting. (song lyrics, poem, fanfic, artwork, etc, it doesnt have to be your own, but please say who it belongs to if possible).
3. They will also submit a request to join a particular house, either Elves, Men, Dwarves, Hobbits or Forces of Evil.
Do not be intimidated by all this, it's all done in the name of fun!
Rules and Guidelines
O.1. Never, EVER give out your age, year of birth or your address.
And when we say NEVER we mean it!! (this does not only apply for this guild but the whole of the site.) ALSO, DO NOT post the school grade you are in! This is a dead giveaway for your age and violates the Terms of Service.
1. Put some thought into your posts, and try your best to avoid the dreaded one liner posts. One liners consitute to chat and lead to spam.
2. This is a guild, not a real time chat-room, please treat it as one.
3. This guild is for DISCUSSING life as teenager, not chatting about it. (It's different!)
4. Remember to motivate your posts. Do try stick to the topic and try not to fall into nonsensical posts, be creative not disruptive.
***The Council strongly suggests you wait for three or more people to post before you post again. This helps keep the post count at a reasonable speed and also gives you more to say.
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Members of the old TORC Teens who aren't on the council, please audition again. This is a new guild and we are starting from scratch.
No offense or anything to anyone, this is all in good fun.Also, we would like to point out that the username Council_of_Teens is totally ficticious, and all the Council Members and Overseers have access to this username to update this post.
When it is annouced that there is a vote to be taken at Andu's messageboard, THIS ONLY APPLIES TO COUNCIL MEMBERS AND OVERSEERS. We're not trying to be exclusive, and we're sorry, but it would not be fair, since only Councilers have been allowed to vote previously.---------------------------------
Current Members
{Title - Username (Nickname, Birthday, Gender) Quality Posts}
Council Overseers
Ilmarë - Inwe-Taralom (Inwe, July 27, Female)
Melian - Evenstar_of_Imladris (EoI, Dec. 19, Female)
Ëonwë - galadralorean (Galad, Feb.14 or 15 or 16 Male)
Maia title - Echo_Starlite (Echo, Aug 20, Female)
Council Members
Men
Éowyn - tar_ancalime (Cali or Annytar, Feb. 19, Female)
Faramir - Ugluk (Ugluk, Feb. 26, Male)
Elves
Luthien - elf-maiden (Elfy, Aug. 4, Female)
Elwing - Lothloriel (Loth, Feb. 6, Female)
Aredhel Ar-Feiniel - MaidenOfTheShieldarm (Mossy, Apr. 24, Female)
Galadriel - Aramel (Arie, Jul. 21, Female)
Forces of Evil
Sauron - Anduril (Andu, June 27, Female)
WiKi - Evenstar_Elfstone (EE, Aug. 22, Female)
Dwarves
Gimli - Tigerlily_Goldworthy (TL or TG, Jan. 16, Female)
Fili - the_elf_friend (Sil, Oct. 23, Female)
Hobbits
Frodo - Eowyn37 (Wyny, Nov. 26, Female)
Samwise - Boromir209 (Borry, March 23, Male)
Diamond Took - Ellehcim (Elle, Nov. 8, Female)
Minion Members
Men
Council of Maia - The_Lady_Laralyn(Lara, April 20th, Female)Quality Posts: 46
Tower Guard- TheRingPrincess***(Ring, August 10th, Female)Quality Posts:32
Captain - Valaróma** (Roma, July 12, Male) Quality Posts: 19
Captain - ladyofrohirrim (LoR, September 30, female) Quality Posts:18
Knight - AragornsEvenstar (AE, January 6, female) Quality posts : 7
Scribe - Dragonking* (Echtain, August 4th, Male)Quality Posts: 4
Scribe - Eicys (september 26th)Quality Posts: 3
- updated until post by Tigerlily_Took on page 3 by Cali July 18th
Elves
Council of Maia - solith_elf**(solith) QP-80
Council of Maia - lady_of_legolas** (Lady, Female) QP-49
Elvish Princess - Tigerlily_Took (T_T) QP-32
Elvish Captain - Me-elf** (Gwathy) QP-21
Elvish Captain - Aralana_Greenleaf** (Ara, Female) QP-22
Elvish Archer - Linteannaiel (Linty, Sep. 27, Female) QP-13
Elvish Archer - Rhiannon_of_Rivendell** (Rhia, Female) QP-12
Elvish Archer - luinedring** (luine, Feb 22, Female) QP-7
Elvish Archer - Arwen13sel (Female) QP-11
Elvish Archer - Elrohiril (Female) QP-9
Elvish Archer - niphredilmaiden (niph) QP- 5
Elvish Bard - Tanwen_Luthien* (Tanwen, Female) QP-4
Elvish Bard - barrel_rider* (b_r) QP-4
Elvish Bard - Wander* QP-4
Elvish Bard - Dragonslayeress (Dragon, Female) QP-4
Elvish Bard - 1eowynfanshieldmaiden (Anshi, Female) QP-4
Elvish Bard - Fallen-Angels (Fallen) QP-2
Elvish Bard - None_Elf_Ear (Female) QP-3
Elvish Bard - MeganBaggins* (Megan, Nov 18, Female) QP-1
Elvish Bard - loverofblueeyesboy QP-1
Elvish Bard - Aiduial QP-1
Elvish Bard - Meygan (November 7th) QP-1
Elvish Bard - Nicasam (NS, Feb. 25), QP - 1
Elvish Bard - Bethrael (Male) (December 1st) QP - 4
Updated December 26, 2004, 00:53 TORC time by Aramel
Dwarves
Cave Explorer - Mumakil14 (March 14, Male) Quality Posts- 4
Forces of Evil
Council of Maia - Mithnen** (Mith, June 29, Female) 56 QP as of 2/5/05
Council of Maia - balrogthane (BT, April 12, Male) 43 QP as of 2/5/05
Uruk- $mAug_dRagYn* (Smaug, ???, Female) 4 QP as of 2/5/05
Uruk- BlackFey (Fey, October 29, Female) 2 QP as of 2/5/05
Uruk- *~*myst*~* (myst, January 18, Female[?]) 1 QP as of 2/5/05
Uruk- Nimrodel_89 (Nim, July 16, Female) 1 QP as of 2/19/05
Hobbits
Gardener - FairGoldberry* (Goldy or FGb, Female) QP-2
Inn Owner - Ladyofboxclocks** (Boxy, April 6, Female) QP-12
Council of Maia - the_last_ringbearer* (l_b, Dec. 16, Female)QP-51
Council of Maia - Pippin4242 (Pips, Ishmael or Ishy, 7th May) QP- 79
Council of Maia - Shieldmaiden_pippin (Pip, July 6, Female) QP-185
Gardener - Tala QP- 2
Shirriff - Neana (Female) QP-17
Gardener - Alcanielle (Alcani, March 24, Female) QP-1
Gardener - Boromir209 QP-3 (pages 31-up on the old thread and new thread)
Council of Maia - Eowyn37 QP-67 (pages 31-up on the old thread and new thread)
Inn-Owner - Arwen13sel (Female) QP-10
Inn-Owner - Ellehcim (Elle, Nov. 8, Female) QP-12
Updated on December 13th to page 20 at Elle's post, by Ellehcim
*Member of old guild
**Regular member of old guild
Birthdays of the Month
February 6- Lothloriel
February 14- galadralorean
February 19- tar_ancalime
February 25- Nicasam
February 26- Ugluk
(Kick me if I missed anyone.)
Links
At someone's suggestion, here is a link to our current project: TORC Teen's Adventure in Middle-earth ~and our two websites on >Geocities< run by Cali and Sil, and on >Freewebs< maintained by Loth and Sil.
If you don't understand anything, please do not hesitate to ASK!