If you are posting in the Undertowers Thing and an admin passes by and does not like the look of you, you may be arrested and taken off to Discord for questioning. This thread is for people to share information on the situation so we can learn to keep safe. Below are some basic guidelines.
Probably the simplest solution is to learn the following by heart and repeat it if stopped: 'I was not doing Lore, actually. We are a genuine Role Playing Community. We just happen to be playing Lorist characters.'
If you are put in a Discord cell you have the right to make one palantír call. Make contact with the Stone of Emyn Beraid and the Elves will get a message to the legal office of Hill, Hill, & Hill.
Whatever you go through at the hands of the admins in a Discord cell is nothing compared to the value of looking on the sea. Remember that, and good luck!
Undertowers Thing - How to Avoid Arrest
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Eat earth. Dig deep. Drink water.
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Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him. Yet so little faith and trust do we find now in the world beyond Undertowers, unless maybe in the Halls of Injustice in Mordor, that we dare not by our own trust endanger our land. We live now upon an island amid many perils, and our hands are more often upon the bowstring than upon the harp.
Eat earth. Dig deep. Drink water.
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@Saranna has pointed out that I am in the wrong age of the world and that there may well be neither Elves nor Stone up top of those hills but only three towers that have not been cleaned in a very long time.
We may need to request help from the Dwarves on this one.
Eat earth. Dig deep. Drink water.
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Admin-Watch, Late February Update
We have a Stone, but it does not work. Failure to pay the Dwarf has left Undertowers Dwarf-less, so we can expect no aid on the art. Despite lavish spending on the house for the Fairy, Undertowers remains Fairy-less. Meanwhile, the Rangers supposedly guarding our borders down at Sarn Ford spend all their time at masqued balls or banqueting in the Prancing Pony. They are way out of condition and likely have mislaid all their knives while gazing at the Moon. Between us and the Eye of the Duck is but a mere veil of fat Hobbit Shirrifs and bored Hobbit Bounders.
We at Undertowers are working hard to remedy this situation. We hope soon to restore magical protection of our borders by means of SPECIAL ELVISH LIBRARIAN POWERS. In the meanwhile, do please stock up on pointy ironware and keep an eye open for any goblin invasions from the South.
But above all, take whatever steps are necessary to AVOID ARREST. For the moment, if you are arrested you are on your own. Remember that, and good luck!
We have a Stone, but it does not work. Failure to pay the Dwarf has left Undertowers Dwarf-less, so we can expect no aid on the art. Despite lavish spending on the house for the Fairy, Undertowers remains Fairy-less. Meanwhile, the Rangers supposedly guarding our borders down at Sarn Ford spend all their time at masqued balls or banqueting in the Prancing Pony. They are way out of condition and likely have mislaid all their knives while gazing at the Moon. Between us and the Eye of the Duck is but a mere veil of fat Hobbit Shirrifs and bored Hobbit Bounders.
We at Undertowers are working hard to remedy this situation. We hope soon to restore magical protection of our borders by means of SPECIAL ELVISH LIBRARIAN POWERS. In the meanwhile, do please stock up on pointy ironware and keep an eye open for any goblin invasions from the South.
But above all, take whatever steps are necessary to AVOID ARREST. For the moment, if you are arrested you are on your own. Remember that, and good luck!
Eat earth. Dig deep. Drink water.
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Fairy-watch, Update
Undertowers now has its own points fairy. To request points, or anything else one might reasonably ask of a Fairy, please go here.
Please note that our Undertowers fairy is a Wāt-Fairy. For hope of reasonable service, you must know how to wāt and the fairy must deem your wāt correct. So Dwarves, goblins, and Rangers, watch those cream cakes or you might find yourself stuck in a keyhole!
Hobbits are always the right wāt in the eyes of a Wāt-Fairy, so the rest of us have no need to worry.
Undertowers now has its own points fairy. To request points, or anything else one might reasonably ask of a Fairy, please go here.
Please note that our Undertowers fairy is a Wāt-Fairy. For hope of reasonable service, you must know how to wāt and the fairy must deem your wāt correct. So Dwarves, goblins, and Rangers, watch those cream cakes or you might find yourself stuck in a keyhole!
Hobbits are always the right wāt in the eyes of a Wāt-Fairy, so the rest of us have no need to worry.
Eat earth. Dig deep. Drink water.
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Undertowers Watch - mid-April update
1. The Undertowers Wāt-fairy has left her current employment - so no more points request for the moment.
2. We have a vacancy for a Wāt-fairy. Good location, little work. Applicable candidates must be fairies with a firm moral character (please note that the Undertowers Wāt-fairy is no longer allowed to accept gifts).
3. Security. We are a tad worried that all the admin security have gone off to fight Sauron like in LotR, leaving the Shire without its Ranger protection and so liable to invasion by scallywags and ruffians. Please be alert, and if you can do anything to help the admins return, well, who would have thunk it, but that might be a good thing. The silence at present is eerie.
1. The Undertowers Wāt-fairy has left her current employment - so no more points request for the moment.
2. We have a vacancy for a Wāt-fairy. Good location, little work. Applicable candidates must be fairies with a firm moral character (please note that the Undertowers Wāt-fairy is no longer allowed to accept gifts).
3. Security. We are a tad worried that all the admin security have gone off to fight Sauron like in LotR, leaving the Shire without its Ranger protection and so liable to invasion by scallywags and ruffians. Please be alert, and if you can do anything to help the admins return, well, who would have thunk it, but that might be a good thing. The silence at present is eerie.
Eat earth. Dig deep. Drink water.
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Undertowers Watch - 2nd mid-April update
We are now connected to the Four Farthings postal service! While Undertowers is in the Westmarch, and the Westmarch is not part of the Four Farthings, nevertheless @Rivvy Elf has generously agreed to extend the range of the Four Farthings postal service to include the outlying western marches that we inhabit.
To send a letter via this Shire service, go here.
We are now connected to the Four Farthings postal service! While Undertowers is in the Westmarch, and the Westmarch is not part of the Four Farthings, nevertheless @Rivvy Elf has generously agreed to extend the range of the Four Farthings postal service to include the outlying western marches that we inhabit.
To send a letter via this Shire service, go here.
Eat earth. Dig deep. Drink water.
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Undertowers Watch - Mā update
Where on previous posts Māy, please read Mā.
The OP is no longer credible because the Original Poster has been arrested and Undertowers busted. Where once was a Library with two spiral staircases leading from two doors to one high chamber is once more a ruin that never was.
Meanwhile, Lore is quite good atm.
Where on previous posts Māy, please read Mā.
The OP is no longer credible because the Original Poster has been arrested and Undertowers busted. Where once was a Library with two spiral staircases leading from two doors to one high chamber is once more a ruin that never was.
Meanwhile, Lore is quite good atm.
Eat earth. Dig deep. Drink water.
