Storrmrider : (it was a red arrow, right?)
FredegarHornblower : (What was? Who were those guys?)
Desi-Baggins : yes red arrow
FredegarHornblower : (Guess I need to reread the book.)
Storrmrider : It is a token of war. Gondor is sending another message to Rohan asking for help
Storrmrider : I guess war is really getting heated now!
Mineralady1 : I'll just eat some LembasNo toadstools for me (shudder)
Majahsheart : it sure seems like there is a lot of excitement in the air
Desi-Baggins : lol
Storrmrider slops some mushrooms and taters onto everyone's plates
Desi-Baggins : Has everyone had enough to eat........
?........
Storrmrider : There is a rustling of branches nearby the camp
Desi-Baggins : I can't even think of eating knowing what is going or will be going on in Gondor
Majahsheart : slurps up the last of her rations and takes one last bite of her lembas
FredegarHornblower : I'm a hobbit, I never have enough to eat. But we should probably get going.
Majahsheart : i can cause it may be awhile until we are fortified again
Majahsheart : so let me help you all clean up the camp and load your stuff
Storrmrider : "Someone, check out the tree branch rustling noises over there." says Stormrider as she stuffs her face with garlic buttered mushrooms
Mineralady1 : Quite enough Thank you
Majahsheart : ummmmmmm....okaaaay?
Storrmrider : the branches continue to rustle
Majahsheart : yoo hooo who is it?
FredegarHornblower : Er....that can't be good.
Majahsheart curiously backs away form the rustle instead of towards it
Mineralady1 : isn't anyone curioou s abpout what ins in the bushes
Desi-Baggins : What's in the bushes should stay in the bushes....LOL
Mineralady1 : curious
Desi-Baggins : probably justa rabbit
Majahsheart : well i am curious enough to be wondering if i should be fleeing
Storrmrider : "Check it out, Vanye. Go ahead>"
Majahsheart : yeah you go first
Majahsheart backs away a little further
Storrmrider continues to chow down on her grub
Mineralady1 : Yeah. who's comoin w/me?
FredegarHornblower : Oh, honestly. *draws his dagger and inches toward the rustling noise*
Majahsheart : i am right behind you...well sorta
Storrmrider sticks her foot out behind Majah as she backs up
FredegarHornblower : Oi! Who's in there?!
Majahsheart : hey
Mineralady1 : I'm right behind you
Majahsheart stumbles over a big foot
Desi-Baggins : I way behind you
Mineralady1 : Yeah Way
Majahsheart : Freddy your my hero
Majahsheart : you hobbits are surprising
Desi-Baggins : ok so what is there?
FredegarHornblower : I have my moments, m'lady.
Mineralady1 : Can yiu see what it is?
Mineralady1 : you
Majahsheart : i cant...anyone?
Storrmrider : A strange squat shape of a man very gnarled and with a straggled beard steps out from behind the bushes
Mineralady1 : Ghan Buri Ghan
Mineralady1 : ?
Storrmrider : from behind others bushes more squat men of similar build step from behind bushes
Desi-Baggins : I bet it is
Majahsheart : geez
FredegarHornblower : Hey, who are you? Some kind of Peeping Tom? What ya doing here?
Mineralady1 : gulp
Storrmrider : "Bring news" the man says
Desi-Baggins : news?
Mineralady1 : good news i hope
Storrmrider : "We climb big mountain and look down on Stone city"
Majahsheart : and?
Storrmrider : "Fire burns all around it"
Mineralady1 : Minas Tirith?
Majahsheart : oh nooooooooo
Desi-Baggins : not good
Mineralady1 : does he mean the beacons or the campfires?
Storrmrider : "Many horsemen are coming over plains this way"
Mineralady1 : The Rohirrim?
Storrmrider : "The Stone City is burning"
FredegarHornblower : Oh great. And this is where the tour was supposed to be going next, wasn't it?
Mineralady1 : he saaid all around it
Mineralady1 : said
Storrmrider : "Many Orcs are marching to Stone City"
Mineralady1 : he hasn'yt answered yet
Mineralady1 : hasn't
Desi-Baggins : We need to get to Gondor to help fast!
Storrmrider : "I have quick way to let you get there"
Desi-Baggins : really?
Majahsheart : you do? tell us?
Mineralady1 : I don't think the battle has yet begun but soon
Storrmrider : "Follow me to my village just down the path"
FredegarHornblower : I'm all for helping but what can the five of us possibly do?
Majahsheart : this isnt a trick is it?
Desi-Baggins follows
Storrmrider : "Ghan-buri-Ghan does not trick people. People trick Ghan's people and hunt them."
Majahsheart : yeah 5 seems small i know Freddie but it is better than sitting here wondering what is happening?
Mineralady1 : yeah!
Storrmrider : "But Ghan hates Orcs and wants people to destroy them"
Desi-Baggins : plus this is tour and we want to see the good action
Majahsheart : then we will follow
Majahsheart : bows her head slightly in respect
Storrmrider : Well, Freddie, the smallest ones can do surprising things. (Stormrider says this)
Mineralady1 : Dunharrow will have the best view
FredegarHornblower : Well, here we go again..... *follows*
Storrmrider : Stormrider follows after Freddie