Weatherstock 2011

[Harperelle]

Weatherstock 2011 is here!
When: 4:00pm EDT, June 18th, 2011
Where: Amon Sul
What: A concert of epic proportions!
Find out more on the lorebook page.

[Sindirell]

Bump!

[Gaelicwolf]

Rolled a toon on Landroval just to cheer on my kinsfolk, The Breakfast Club! Watch out, Big Folk.

[morrowbreeze]

UPDATE! We are shooting for 200 gold in payout!

There will be FREE PEOPLES CHOICE for 1/3 of the prize pot.
There will be LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS for 1/3 of the prize pot.
There will be LONELY MOUNTAIN CUP for 1/3 of the prize pot.

Two of those three will be up to you to determine!

[Harperelle]

[Banaticus]

Hmm, you know, this is Father's Day weekend. Several of our more staunch band members will be off with their families.

[Harperelle]

Hmm, you know, this is Father's Day weekend. Several of our more staunch band members will be off with their families.

Let us know if you need any subs. Old Winyards is available for filling in a part. We just need heads up for music and outfits.

--Harperella

[Stanimir]

hehe, Love the name, very creative. Will anyone be burning their lute or smashing their kits after their sets? Bump, I may go just for the spectacle.

[morrowbreeze]

hehe, Love the name, very creative. Will anyone be burning their lute or smashing their kits after their sets? Bump, I may go just for the spectacle.

Maybe, but you can jump off Weathertop for your finale if you want

[Banaticus]

What time zone are all the times in? EST?

[Laurefinde]

Wow Tinki! Great shot! I think I will do that once we lose the contest - goodbye cruel world!

[Harperelle]

All times are in EST, here's the lineup:

Time Band
4:00 Opening Ceremonies
4:20 The Hobbiton Philharmonic
4:40 Symphonious (from Crickhollow)
5:00 The Green Hill Music Society
5:20 The Eriador Music Society
5:40 The Shades (Laurelin)
6:00 The Songburrow Strollers (Laurelin)
6:20 The Breakfast Club (Crickhollow)
6:40 The Blackheart Pirates
7:00 The Ingolemo Experience
7:20 Battle of the Bands
7:40 Awards and Closing Ceremonies

Its also available on the lorebook.

[morrowbreeze]

News Flash! We have reached our 200 gold prize pot! Now we are looking to increase it to an incredible 300 GOLD!! Weatherstock! June 18th!

[Banaticus]

If we'd like to chat/setup/play/leave in 15 minutes instead of 20, may we or should we seek to hit exactly 20 minutes?

[Kalluin]

I'm from Laurelin, and I rolled (more exactly, cloned) a char in Landroval to assist the event. I know at least another kinmate will assist too. This looks interesting!

[Aelaer]

*waves to Kalluin excitedly*

Myself and 4 Laurelin kinmates rolled alts on Landroval yesterday, we hope to be able to attend Weatherstock (time zones permitting, as between us we live on 4 different continents!) and attending some other events once we level up enough.

Actually I made not so much an alt as a complete duplicate of Aelaer, my main character, as she absolutely loves seeing new places and meeting new people. She just couldn't bring much luggage with her on her travels across the water and had to leave her beloved horse at home.

[morrowbreeze]

We are honored to have so many alts attend from across the oceans! Be at the South Bree gates on that day, and watch regional and OOC chat for escorts and summons. You can access Bree by stable. You should be at level 7-8 minimum. Once at Weathertop, stay close to middle due to flying Crebain.

Very important! get some traveling rations!
http://mymiddle-earth.com/groups.html goto Weatherstock group heading.
http://www.casualstrolltomordor.com/...herstock-2011/
http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Weatherstock

Read the lorebook especially for info on the "Concert Series".

[Kalluin]

*waves to Kalluin excitedly*

Aelaer! Good to see MAtM at this corner of the world! Vanimar has landed in Landroval with a copy kinship and right now we are working to stabilize it with 8 chars, but it appears we will be coming around four people to Weatherstock.

In any case, the event seems interesting enough to make the effort.

[NEGALUS]

I'm excited myself. I've even started an attempt to role-play so that's a start. So I'll be there and my character's name is MEGALUS he is an elven rune-keeper. Gotta love The Lonely Mountain Band. Can't wait to see everyone gather on such a small hill top. It's gonna be my first time. I'm from Crickhollow and my friends are excited, too.

[GV-Tanith]

This visitor from Windfola is planning to attend. I'm doing an article for our website on roleplaying and this is a golden opportunity to observe it! Also attempting to coax a kinmate or two from my home server to tag along. Look for a human burglar named Taynith to be lurking somewhere in the vicinity!

[BelamanthDE]

I also rolled a char on Landroval for this event: Introducing Holmbur, the dwarf hunter.

Do you expect problems with the layering mechanics? We had a CM farewell event on Belegaer, and the "event layer" was filled in almost no time, almost an hour before it started no one could be invited there any more. And we didn't even have players from other servers coming.

[Harperelle]

I do not think we will run into a problem with a layer "cap" for Weatherstock, but if we do, there are several backup plans in place:

1) Livestreaming from the event
2) A secondary event at the Freakout Zone
3) An army of "layer wranglers" to pop you in and out of layers

I've been told in the past that there is no layering on landscape like Weathertop. In fact, Weatherstock was the first question that players had when layering was first introduced. In the past, we've had Dev Guardian Angels watching over this event. So let's hope it is not a problem we need to worry about. Last year, the server performance was flawless.

--Harperella

[Harperelle]

See the CSTM article here:

http://www.casualstrolltomordor.com/...herstock-2011/

And the Massively article here:

http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/06...herstock-2011/

Its coming soon!

[Harperelle]

Read the interview with the The Green Hill Music Society on CSTM today!

--Harperella

[Harperelle]

CSTM interviews the Shades!