Quarryman

And today it's of course the lucky Irish we're welcoming.

Yes, I think we're supposed to welcome ze Germans today.

Of course today we're welcoming the Dutch posse, and that's a striking resemblance to Captain Green Hair (after a few drinks) I must say.

That is exactly what I believe Ras and Mechamike are wearing when they're home in Sweden, it's just that when they go abroad to meet us boring normal people they have to dress like us.

Guess you count as 0.5 to either country then.

Personally I'm in a state of continuous panic ordering parts with creative shipping solutions and trying to get some building done before my LUG's annual event next weekend, so plenty to do.

Nationalities of the event attendees ordered by how many is attending from the various countries?

Any interest in this? Looks like the cheapest in quantity on Bricklink is 6.30 EUR, so perhaps 5 EUR?

Quarryman: 110

Indeed he hasn't, I just wasn't sure if I should credit him under full name or handle. Though now I see that he has his full name on his Flickr account, so I guess it would have been okay.

The someone else would be CowboyGibson from Brikkelauget (NO).

Namyrra signs up for quest #148.

That sounds great, what do you want for them? Guess I'll have to sort that bag then then.. What I do know that I have though is a gazillion Beorn torsos, and lots of The Lego Movie Blacktron fan torsos, if anyone for some reason wants those.

Yes, really. And yes, they were cheap in Skærbæk, like 25 DKK or something, but I didn't get any either.

Rolli: I can provide you with Twitch and your mother with a tribal warrior. And I have some LotR/Hobbit torsos too, should be able to provide you with at least a couple of Haldir torsos and I have several Beorn torsos also, not sure about the exact numbers I have spare of those since I haven't sorted and counted that bag yet. And I'd like one of those Hoth Han Solo polybags please.

Complete figures are preferred, heads might be interesting if they're from the right figs, I'll try to compile a list of which ones I'm looking for. Prince of Persia I'm well covered with, think I have 18 Dastan figs for instance.

I'm sort-of looking for lots of things and sort-of not looking for much. But! One thing I do need is this: I need a total of three for a planned MOC, I have one myself, so I need two more, and they're somewhat pricey on Bricklink these days so I figured it's worth a shot. I'm also looking for fleshie figs, in particular Harry Potter, Indiana Jones and Pirates of the Caribbean. As for what I have to offer I have lots of CMFs, not going to list them all here, but I might be able to help with figs from series 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, Movie, Team GB and Simpsons 2.

Excellent work as usual! Looks like Duplo bearskins, can't look up the part number now, but it is LEGO. Edit: Got it: http://alpha.bricklink.com/pages/clone/catalogitem.page?id=78662#T=C&C=120

Returning to the hall after wandering around the city for a while Namyrra dropped by the quest board to see if anything interesting had popped up, but quickly decided the single quest currently advertised wasn't anything for her, however she did run into a well-known ogre preparing to leave by the looks of it. "Oh, hi Skrall, long time, been up to anything fun lately? I think I heard you returned from the Fields of Glory not that long ago, is that still as fun as when we were there?"

Having drifted around aimlessly for a while Namyrra chanced upon the Sungold Hall and decided more or less on a whim to go in and join the Sungold Alliance. "Hmm, that's a.. fine list of candidates for king I suppose.. I'll have to think about this some more before committing my votes to one of them."

Yes, I'll also arrive on Sunday, and it does make sense to put us in one chalet, so I think it will be ok.

I'm in too, like the other crazies I'll be going to the Norwegian event first, so not quite sure when I'll arrive yet.

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This ended up being rather harsh, but please bear with me, it's all meant to be for the greater good. Overall I liked the traitor concept, and even more so after having seen the PM chain for Pretzel's side-quest. But yes, the execution regarding the rest of the party was poor. Either he should have had to make his move publicly, or at the beginning of a battle, or perhaps in a way that accounted for the massive mismatch between how much damage heroes can deal vs how much they can take, but certainly not in the "Boom! You die! Quest failed!" way that it ended up being now. I'm all for trying out new things, but in the future please try to run the numbers first to see if there's a way the party can actually make it out. And also, discuss the mechanic with someone not on the quest to see if they spot any problems, having a second pair of eyes on things generally helps a lot. Secondly there really wasn't any way the party could know about there being a traitor. As I said earlier, I read through the entire quest the day after things blew up to see if we had missed something, but no, not even knowing there was a traitor I was able to see any kind of hint about it. Yes, Pretzel acted weird, but he always does, all his antics could easily be written off as good RP on Pala's part, which it was, by the way, great job Pala! Maybe/probably things could have worked out better if the players knew about the traitor, but not the characters. I'm pretty sure all of us could have separated that knowledge. Third, I think I've never said this before, and I probably never will again, but the quest was too battle-heavy, hardly any plot development at all. A lot of background about Baba being told, which was great to see, but no plot development in the quest itself, which gave me the feeling of just being used to tell Baba's backstory. I'm going to refer to ancient EB history here, but in a way this quest reminded me of Imperial Soldiers Mafia in a very bad way, that also gave me the feeling of being used for storytelling purposes without being allowed to influence things. Now, I know this wasn't your intention, but that's how it made me feel at the time, and that's a very negative feeling to be left with. So in conclusion, I'm pretty disappointed with the quest as a whole. Yes, this was probably influenced a lot by the way things ended, and I likely would have been left with a better feeling if things had gone differently. However, there were of course many good things about the quest too, the sets were beautiful as always, the NPCs great, both visually and character wise, and the battles were good. Yes, they had some nasty enemies with nasty specials, but we were a very hard-hitting party, so tough enemies were to be expected. And I liked our party, I don't think Namyrra has quested with Thormanil before, which as a very positive experience, and both Nerwen and Pretzel are always enjoyable to quest with, even though Namyrra tends to want to give Pretzel a good whacking. But Bricksandparts, seriously, what the flying megabluck were you even doing on this quest? If you're not going to participate and pay attention just don't sign up in the first place. One final thing, what would have happened if I hadn't been so stupid as to let Pretzel go before Namyrra and had gotten in that amplified spell that would have taken out Farfarello?

"Miss Calmcacil, I agree, let's go. And Miss Zaniah, I realize this means less than nothing to you coming from a Fenarian, but I truly am sorry about your loss, Syrma was of great help to us and I wish things could have gone differently."