The Fellowship of the Final
This thread was started in the late evening by Hawk. All those who could sympathise with the life of the colege student.
   Hawk
*In a dark and dank room, 20,000 leagues under the sea, somewhere left of a Journey to the Center of the Earth, An Evil Professor is busy at typewriter, crafting the One Paper, that will corrupt students for centuries into his service.  As he sat there stroking at that sinister tool of sinful discourse, he hunched over the machine face pained with long toil and grief!  And into this paper he poured all his cruelty, Malice, 32 erasey strips, about 72 ribbons of ink, his will to dominate his students, and 4 typewriter tuneups.  Thus the Paper of Power was formed.  For years this paper has been used to torture students; hating it, but always desiring it�s completion.  We now in our hands finally have the Paper of Power!  Who will help me destroy it in the Fiery chasm�s of Paipurschretter,  But be warned... their are TA�s there who do not sleep...  The Great Dr. is ever watchful

One paper to due in an hour
One paper not yet written
One online overnight paper shipping service
To save your GPA from failure
In the land Of University
Where Doctors are

Who will help me bear this burden!?  Who will join the Fellowship of the Final Paper?

   
Pellakal
*Proudly steps forward* If it is the will of the Council, then Pellakal will see it through! *slaps himself for speaking in the third person*



   
Trey And�randir
*steps forward, her magical mechanical pencil that never runs out of lead and eraser stuck in its holder on her belt, and kneels in front of Hawk.* If my my life or death I can help you study, I will. You have my pencil.



    Lana
*hears Trey, steps forward, bringing piles of A-B papers, delicately written including footnotes*  And my Hacks!  To where shall we go?


  
Don Adargell
*hefts up giant printer/scanner*  you have my printer of doom!



  
Eohdwyn
*runs forward* how absolutely splendid!! A worthy quest! I�m coming too! You need a person with intelligence on this sort of mission -- quest -- assignment -- thing!


  
Starfire
*steps forward* You have my pen....and MY eraser  Looks like a good quest...



  
Hawk
Well then we go to bio 101 in Room Four-o-four! But no bond or oath do i lay on you, for this burden is mine alone to bear though i did not write it! 

    Lana
The road may be dangerous, how will we find our way?

  
Pellakal
Faithless is he that says farewell when the hallway darkens! Where�s my flashlight?


 
   
Trey And�randir
*drags out a big searchlight-flashlight and hands it to Pellakal.* Looking for this, Pel[can I call you that?]? *gives eo a worried look* You cannot read it! None of us can. The final was made by Profron alone, it has no other reader! And I agree with you, Pel, but let him not vow to walk in the halls, who has not seen the semester start.


  
Starfire
*digs into her pack* here, borrow mine, Pellakal. No bond or oath you need to lay on me, for I shall stay without either. *peers about* where to next?


 
Eohdwyn
*speculative gleam in eye* I don�t suppose we could . . . read . . the final? *Bilboesque innocent interest*



  
Hawk
No mortal men have dared to read the paper in Dormrewm, do not speak it lest it become the speech of Liebrery, and Studdeelownge! 

    Lana
Is there anything we should know about the way to FloorFour, Hawk? 

   
Don Adargell
*grins sternly and leans back in my purple velvet throne*
Bring forth the paper!

    Lana
*brings forth the best hack she can find.*  I hope this would be pleasing m�lady...

   
Amhran 
*pops in grinning*
Hiya, folks! I don�t have finals (being homeschooled) but I also don�t get out for another week...so mind if I join?
*brings in bubble sheets..............bubble wrap too..........bubble gum for good measure..........bubble soap..........bubble bath mix.........oh, what the heck. Lana just wanted the bubble sheets......*

  Rohwyn
In the land of University, where Doctors are? *shivers* However, I will follow you into the very papers of University!


   
Hawk
*Hawk strides forward and sets it on the purple velvet desk in front of the purple velvet throne (next to the Dorito�s left of the pizza)*


   
Pellakal 
(to Trey)Yet sworn pencil that has been yet newly sharpened may strengthen quaking heart!

  
Trey And�randir
Or break the lead, Pel. Look not to the next vacation!


  
Don Adargell
*cleans glasses and reads studiously*
Oh, good gracious.  Woud you look at this grammar?  It�s...it�s... terrifying!


   
Starfire
*looks curiously at the purple velvet table in front of the purple velvet throne, covered, oddly enough, in purple velvet papers accompanied by a purple velvet mug of purple velvet pens*


    Lana Mearhyrde
*wonders what color font to use on purple velvet paper*

   
Pellakal 
A font that only the heat of fire can reveal!
*bites into a Dorito* To heck with grammer! These Dorito�s are stale!


  
Eohdwyn
*eyes paper speculatively, but subdues at the words from Hawk and Trey* *murmers* strange . . .  that we should suffer so at the mercies of such a flat thing . . . such a very thin thing . . . *steals Dorito from Pellakal and munches thoughtfully*


    Lana Mearhyrde
But who shall carry this paper.  Who will bear it�s burden?

  
Don Adargell 
*looks disturbed*
It cannot stay in my room... one of you must take it...


  
Starfire
Maybe we should try blue velvet font on purple velvet paper...*takes a Dorito* eek...these are stale...


    Lana Mearhyrde 
*stares at the paper intensely*  Perhaps we shouldn�t take it to Floorfour, nay �twould be folly to cast it into paipershcretter.  It is a gift!  A gift to the foes of the Dr.  Not with 10,000 students could you do otherwise!  �Tis folly!

  
Don Adargell 
*notes no one is volunteering*  ok...everyone besides me raise your hand
*nods...* you will be the fellowship of the paper...
  

Rohwyn  
*nods to Rufie* My, how kind of you to volunteer!
    Hawk  
I will take this paper to floorfour, though, i do not know the way


   
Eohdwyn  
*gulp* Eep . . .  why do we not destroy it now, here? If it must be destroyed, let us be rid of it at once! *jumps up, steals Trey�s lighter, then striding over to the paper, attempts to set it aflame.* c�mon, light, you!! *sleeve catches flame, paper starts whispering about research and 3 point outlines* Eeep! *waves sleeve around and squeaks*

  
Trey And�randir 
*repeats her pledge* If by my calculations or scribblings I can help you pass, I will. You have my pencil and pocket calculator.

  
Rohwyn 
*douses Eo�s sleeve with water and then runs over to Hawk and fold arms* Mr. Hawk isn�t going nowhere without me.


  
Don Adargell 
*gives Roh a startled look*
Well it seems I can hardly separate you two, when Hawk is invited to a secret meeting and... oh, wait, so were you...
*sheepish grin*

  
Starfire 
Nor me! *rushes from hiding place to join them*


    Lana Mearhyrde 
*Gimlana sets aside trying to find a use for the final, and grabs her strongest pair of scissors.  She attempts to cut the paper, only succeeding in breaking her scissors*

   
Don Adargell   
*more startled looks... falls over*

   
Eohdwyn 
*glomps Roh and growls at sleeve* darn, now I�m going to have to wear some horrid elvish contraption with trailing hem and stiff with embroidery . . . *grins sympathetically at GimLana* It seems it cannot be destroyed by our means . . . *pokes paper* what the heck is this made of, anyway? Sequioa?


   
Pellakal 
*stands next to Hawk* I will help you bear this burden Hawk, as long as it is yours to bear. Though I know less of it than thou.

  
Hawk  
To think what MLA format does to a paper, *shivers*


     
Pellakal  
Ah! The dreaded MLA, do not speak those fell words! No man can will harm to that format!


   
Starfire  
*cannot help smiling at Eo�s irritation* never fear, we shall find a way...
Meanwhile, how abouts we actually do something? *dances* like, say, go somewhere?


   
Trey And�randir   ~ Treyagorn
[Side note: Here is who everyone is: Eo-Eomir. Trey-Treyagorn. Starfire-Stariadoc Brandybuck. Roh-Samroh Gamgee. Hawk-Feolcdo. Rufe-Rufrond. Lana-Gimlana. Pell-Gandakal. We still need a Pippin and a Legolas.]
Blaedtunge  
*Bl�d leans in from where he was sitting.* "But what of Sauromin the White? Is he not versed in the lore of the One Paper? Why is he not among our number?"


   
Don Adargell   ~ Rufrond
I knew I shouldn�t have used that Ajax on the shower  


 
Bereth  ~ Berolas
I have long blonde hair, will I do for your loverly elfie Legolas?  *hides beard* 


   
Trey And�randir  ~ Treyagorn   
*grins at Berolas* Glad you could make it. What kept you, busy browsing the granola aisle at the healthfood store?


   Starfire   ~ Stariadoc
oh, silly lass, rufie...I mean, Rufrond..


   
Don Adargell  ~ Rufrond
Or haircare  searching for a shampoo to put others to shame, eh Berolas?


   
Pellakal   ~ Gandakal
*Stands up* I fear that Sauromin has sided with the University, and has become but a Teacher�s Aid. It is grievous news for we trusted him and he is deep in all our counsels.


    Lana Mearhyrde   ~ Gimlana
I will be dead before I see the paper in the hands of an elf!  I will join this quest to Floorfour!

   
Bereth  ~Berolas
no, honey. I mean I was searching for honey, honey!  eeps!


   
Rohwyn   ~ Samroh
*Samroh looks oddly at Berolas* Is your hair color affecting you? Wait, no, that used to be my hair...*confused sigh* This personality switching can�t be good for me!


    Lana Mearhyrde  ~ Gimlana
Well what are we waiting for?  Let us go and destroy this paper!

  
Don Adargell   ~ Rufrond
Yes, yes!  Out of my room!  I mean really, look what you did to my lovely, purple carpet!  *looks disapprovingly at the crowd*


 
Starfire   ~ Stariadoc
Aye, sit down before you hurt yourself, Samroh...*stares at her own brown hair* I would change, but....nah. Now, where is our Pippen?


 
Rohwyn   ~ Samroh
Aye, good advice Stariadoc. *sits down right on Ruferond�s purple velvet carpet*


  
Pellakal  ~ Gandakal
At least for a while, Gimlana, for the halls must be trod, but it will be very hard. Yet such is oft the course of papers that move the wheels of education. Great hands do them because they must.


   
Don Adargell   ~ Rufrond
Hobbits are fascinating creatures... no matter how many times you give �em one, they just can�t seem to catch a hint

   
Trey And�randir  ~ Treyagorn
small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are grading 3rd grade essays


 
Hawk   ~ Feolcdo
Then go we must, to brave the steep mountain passes of firexitras!  *leaves Rivendell and loses way almost immediately until Treyagorn sets him straight*


    Lana Mearhyrde   ~ Gimlana
Quickly, we must go through the Mountains of More Essays, where my kin, Doorman�s folk dwell.

  
Rohwyn  ~ Samroh
*coughs and chokes and gets cought in a blinding storm of shredded paper*


  
Pellakal   ~ Gandakal
*Gandakal glances up* what? oh bother, he left before I could pronounce utter doom upon all students. Come on then, we must follow him, though the journey be great, and few restrooms on the way!


   
Trey And�randir  ~ Treyagorn
No, let us take the pass of Fireexitras...*Treyagorn looks to Gandakal for guidance, as she is not the leader.* I have been through Firstfloria...and I do not wish to go through that again...

   
Pellakal   ~ Gandakal
*Gandakal look bewildered* What-ho? Me? Oh. Um. However it may prove, one must tread the path that need chooses. Let the Paper-bearer decide! His voice surely should be heard! 


  
Hawk   ~ Feolcdo
then we will attempt firexitras, though it�s peaks are fierce and icy, i fear it is the least cruel of all our paths, let us not tread firstfloria unless we must!


  
Bereth   ~ Berolas
*trips along lightly across the tops of the papershreds, hardly disturbing them* 


   
Rohwyn   ~ Samroh
*Looks dubiously at the mountain of Fireexitrasm, so shrouded in shredded paper, but grits teeth and attempts the pass*

  
Trey And�randir   ~Treyagorn
*mutters "showoff...stupid Berolas..." as she trudges through chest-deep papershreds carrying Feolcdo and Samroh.*

   
Pellakal  ~ Gandakal
Fall semester deepens behind us, the heights away north are whiter than they were. But we must go on, it is no good delaying our passage to the Firexitras. The arm of the Great Dr. has grown long indeed.


   
Eohdwyn   ~ Eomir
*marches along stolidly, Pippen being oddly light but Stariodoc chattering inanely about mushrooms and pipeweed and admiring the embroidery on her borrowed elven tunic* OW!!!!!!*screeches in pain, sending a small avalanche of paper on the fellowship* hehe . . .sorry guys, got a papercut *sheepish look*

   
Rohwyn   ~ Samroh
*is carried through the neck-deep paper shreds, coughing as they get in throat and eyes and ears*


  
Pellakal   ~ Gandakal
*Gandakal has put on goggles to protect himself from flying shreds* The Shredder spews forth great clouds of useless enrollment papers upon us! And I won�t make a fire unless someone asks me nicely!

 
Trey And�randir   ~ Treyagorn
*jerks and falls on her knees* Please, oh wise Gandakal, make us a fire! Samroh hasn�t shut up about eating for HOURS!

   
Rohwyn ~ Samroh
*glares at Treyagorn* That was definitely Feolcdo!!


   
Hawk  ~ Feolcdo
We hobbits are small pathetic and weak and can�t stand much more of this, oh woe betide us sorry hobbits! 


  
Eohdwyn   ~ Eomir
*nurses papercut and mutters about anything as long as it�s not mushrooms*


    Lana Mearhyrde  ~ Gimlana
A fire!? And amongst paper shreds, you must be joking.  The only thing that will get us out of here is to turn back and go through firstfloria.  Is anyone else with me?

  
Starfire ~ Stariadoc
*giggles with glee and continues her prattling about mushrooms and pipeweed* Funny thing is, mushrooms can�t actually write! I can, nice spidery handwriting that I have, but those silly mushrooms....*pounds on Eomir�s back* Hey, not so rough now! I didn�t pay in paper for a camel ride....come to think of it, I didn�t pay at all... *stares into the oncoming paper storm*

Braganil
this is great!


Pellakal ~ Gandakal
No! Fire is what we need! *Gandakal raises his staff and adresses a bit of wood he brought with him* Nor and endraith, carpe carpe! Amen! *nothing happens to the wood. Gandakal looke bewildered* Er.. I meant that to happen. What do you think Treyagorn? What path should we now take?
(OOC, I am going to be gone for the weekend, so Gandakal has sped up events and taken an untimely plunge into Fourthflooria. Such fun)


( A slightly anoying newbie entered at this point, who was slightly annoying. She has been edited)

    Trey And�randir ~ Treyagorn
[Kzarina, Sure! Your name�d be something like Kzaregrin or Piprina. something along those lines.]
Treyagorn shrugs. "Well, we can either stay here getting papercuts for all eternity, or we can..." Treyagorn sighs. "take Gimlana�s suggestion and go through the endless dark of firstfloria...Personally I�d rather eat a Nazgul, but it may be the only way..." [everyone just continue like Gandakal was present, we�ll get moving faster]


   Starfire ~ Stariadoc
(Gandakal, silly wizard, trying to use fire when we are surrounded by paper?)
No, not Firstflooria! There be a Paper-rog down there! and Gobpens! *stares blankly up at the wall of Firstflooria, gets bored, pulls out a crayon and starts drawing a picture of Stariadoc and Piprina on the blank space*



  
Minstrell ~ Sarumin
*While the fellowship travels, Sarumin watches them closely through the Xerox Palantir*


    Pip Reonyea ~ Piprog
*the Piprog lurks in the depths of firstflooria, prepared to break pencil leads at every turn, and chew pens into oblivion*


   
Hawk ~ Feolcdo
*Pretends Gandakal is here*  Gandakal it seems we have a follower (It�s Golloutofpaper, the seventh year student who never quite finished the paper)  It is a pity, Quilldo never let him cheat off of him when he had the chance!)

 
   
Rohwyn ~ Samroh
Ah, but it was pity that stayed Quilldo�s paper! I believe Golloutofpaper may have some part to play yet, perhaps even redeeming his unfinished paper.


   
Trey And�randir ~ Treyagorn
Treyagorn nods. "Yes, I too believe he has some paper to turn in, on time or late..." She turns and pokes the door to firstfloria. "Open sesame! er....We come in peace? Oh, wait, I know!! Recess!!" The door swings open. "Let�s go!"



    Lana Mearhyrde ~ Gimlana
*gasps at the sight before her*  It... It can�t be!  What would have done such a thing?!  *she stares at the gastly images, speechless*


   
Pellakal ~ Gandakal
(OOC I am on my aunt�s computer ) *adresses Feolcdo* yes, the Golloutofpaper has been following us for some time. *walks through the dreaded door of Firstflooria* Once these halls were full of happy, blissfull students. But they stayed too long and were forced to go on Student Orientation with the dreaded Piprog, a foul beast from the underworld. Now it is overrun with evil Faculty. We must be cautious...


Bereth ~ Berolas
Berolas follows Treyagorn several fellowshippers back, idly twisting his long blonde hair around his finger and scanning the darkness ahead with curiosity.  (hi ho a dairy oh )



   Kzarina ~ Bothersome newbie
you missed me out
I�m piprina (pippin)


    Lana Mearhyrde ~ Gimlana
Ahh, I�m sorry, I just didn�t know what name to put, and you never came back.  But it is official now, forgive me?:)
Piprina - played by Kzarina

Gimlana wonders at the blonde hair twirling of the tall one, then remember that her kinfolk dwells on firstfloria.  She looks around at the quietness of it all.
We must find the Head of Janidurin�s folk, for he will certainly lead us through Firstflooria!

   
Rohwyn ~ Samroh
Samroh looks warily about the cavern, following close behind Gimlana.



   Hawk ~ Feolcdo
Gandakal, i fear we do not know the way!  We are lost in the mines of Firstfloria and are stuck here with Golloutofpaper!  If only Pippin would knock something over to wake the Piprog!  That would be great!  *Did I just say that?*



   
Minstrell ~ Sarumin
*mean while, in Ortanc, Sarumin is trying to get across to his aunty ........when suddenly he�s captured by magic, as a voice speaks to him through the Palant�r : "Build me a midterm paper, worthy of mordor.........who?.........oh I�m sorry wrong number*



   
Eohdwyn ~ Eomir
*trips across the corpse of a dwarven warrior and goes sprawling* oof!! this is no mine! This is a tomb!*pulls a red ballpoint pen out of the dwarven armor and trembles in fear*



  
Trey And�randir ~ Treyagorn
Treyagorn narrows her eyes, kicking away a black felt pen. "Come on, we must get through firstfloria if we are to reach the safety of Stairwell Dale and Secondflorien beyond." She sets off after Gandakal, looking around on the alert of Gobpens...[sounds better than Gobpapers...]



 
Pellakal ~ Gandakal
*Gandakal, armed with a rather large flashlight, fearlessly trods the dark halls of Firstflooria* When in doubt, always follow your nose. There are fouler things than Gobpens and Fauclty in the depths of the University.
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