Metric_Furlong: also, hell yeah lord of the rings trick taking game
Metric_Furlong: (a game my local games group having been getting a little obsessed with over the past month)
IbunWest:
Metric_Furlong: hopefully chat behaves itself
ihlendrax: !next
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ihlendrax: Oh right…that’s what it was called.
Metric_Furlong: the game where the title is also the summary
e_bloc: my understanding is that taking a trick is stealing
Metric_Furlong: not in card games, generally
ihlendrax: !box
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Juliamon:
QuixoticScrivener: We get signal!
Dog_of_Myth:
e_bloc: one stream to rule them all
Metric_Furlong: one stream to find them
Dog_of_Myth: One string to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them
e_bloc: One Ring to stream them all and in the brainrot bind them
Manae:
e_bloc: hey between the three of us we did it
letfireraindown: wooo
RatherLargeToad: They’re taking the Tricks to Isengard?!?
paronomasiac042: what's "tricks" precious?
e_bloc: better than turning tricks in Isengard
Orxolon: good night everyone
Strebenherz:
filthy hobbitses 
NarwhalsInATrenchcoat: the bongos get me every time
exeJayce: graham and the vhs tape never fails to make me laugh
TehAmelie: a trick is the name for the pile of cards on the table when everyone has played a card from their hand. there has to be an easier way to explain that
exeJayce: hi everyone!!
Strebenherz: hello y'all
exeJayce: ooh shiny
e_bloc: hey its Jordynne
TehAmelie: and hi!
millenomi_Aura: hurray!!!!!
Metric_Furlong: also, as a note, this game is an adaption of the book, not the films so if you haven't read it, you may see characters you're unaware of
public_key_reveal_party: flawless
SnackPak_: everything in its right place
GhostValv: Got there
Dog_of_Myth:
Diabore:
definitely... there it is 
exeJayce: James is a cat confirmed
SnackPak_: woooo
MWGNZ:
KWardJenx: We'll fix it in post!
QuixoticScrivener: James is cat
neisan2112:
Shadowsoflife: o/
ButButTheJesus: I love Jordynne Gothllum
Nigouki: that or secret Desert Bus
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Twilight_Spark: He's so deeply in character as Gandalf the scamp with that.
SnackPak_: it's what it says on the tin
RatherLargeToad: A Deckmaster Game
exeJayce: that is an entire mouthful
circusofkirkus: is it Bridge but LOTR?
e_bloc: its a haiku
adept_nekomancer: I mean, to be fair, "Bridge" was already taken
CaptainSpam: "A Deckmaster Game"
Darleysam: ft. Pitbull
CaptainSpam: Dangit! Someone beat me to it.
Metric_Furlong: it is entirely book centric
kusinohki: they could have called it LotR part 1 instead...
Metric_Furlong: source: have played it
Kramburger: No winged balrogs here
GhostValv: Mechanical engineers?
Dread_Pirate_Westley: So a third of the way through you have a massive diversion that does nothing to advance the game state?
northish: Tolk on my ein til I JRR
KWardJenx: Goldberry in the House!
flouncy_magooo: DId you know that Viggo Mortensen broke his foot when kicking the game box?
gualdhar:
wait, so no cursing on stream tonight? 
QuixoticScrivener: @Dread_Pirate_Westley Every game deserves Sharazad.
Kramburger: She tom on Boma till I dil
TehAmelie: we can replace the card art with shots from the movies if we want!
Diabore: @Kramburger she tom on my bert till i william
SnackPak_: grandma is gonna curse me out?
GrathXVI: So... we can talk about Aragorn breaking two toes kicking the helmet this stream?
RatherLargeToad: original?
Shadowsoflife: @SnackPak_ maybe
AugmentingPath: huh. this somehow makes a "grandma" sound more like a "gumball machine"
public_key_reveal_party: @GrathXVI I'm pretty sure that happened in the book too
TehAmelie: Werther's Original has come out with a whole line of new flavors. not sure how that works with their brand. . .
exeJayce: didn't expect to be reminded of my nana today but okay
kusinohki: the fellowship canonically known for not being able to communicate with each other
Metric_Furlong: notably you can end a round early if everyone has met their goals, unless a character's goal references a specific trick (e.g. 'win the last trick') in which case you have to play the whole hand
Pteraspidomorphi: Bilbo? Bilbo Baggins? The bravest little hobbit of them all?
exeJayce: all the characters are on point LMAO
Strebenherz: elijah woods *WAS* admittedly on point frodo
Metric_Furlong: oh if you think he looks DTF now, wait until you meet 'Mr Underhill'
AugmentingPath: i've heard he's a real "ringbearer", if you know what I mean
exeJayce: hah
ButButTheJesus: Pippin!
LoadingReadyRun:
how's the music volume?
e_bloc: hell yeah bring me food
Pteraspidomorphi: It can be difficult
TehAmelie: when James plays Gandalf aren't you required to call him Jandalf?
kusinohki: iirc, rings are trump and they only go 1-5. other suits go 1-9(?)
public_key_reveal_party: music is good
Metric_Furlong: @kusinohki correct
e_bloc: music might be a smidge low
Diabore: i may have missed it, did they say what "exchange" means?
Metric_Furlong: @Diabore not yet
Metric_Furlong: they will when the set-up phase happens
ArtDecoSunburn: Is James's hat a nod to Radagast?
Diabore: do a voice!
RatherLargeToad: Greatest little hobbit of them all?
ButButTheJesus: eleventy-one!
exeJayce: kinda wondering how long it took Ben to learn this game
TehAmelie: @ArtDecoSunburn i think it's just the pointiest wizard hat they have
ArtDecoSunburn: @TehAmelie Well, it is pointy.
Metric_Furlong: yes
kusinohki: I think you cannot exchange rings??
TehAmelie: if you do you have to get married
Metric_Furlong: @kusinohki you can, just not the one ring, iirc
SnackPak_: boo
NarwhalsInATrenchcoat: frodo calls out not being able to exchange the 1 ring on the card right? would be weird for that to be a rule too
Mashamino: Bilb-no
public_key_reveal_party: I mean, I am pretty sure frodo did offer it to gandalf, gandalf was just like "hell no"
kusinohki: I'm very uncertain. it's been months since I've played and was taught hadn't read the rulebook for myself..
Heckhoundbolt: ah so heart
AugmentingPath: lord of the hearts
TehAmelie: he fought the temptation real hard
ArtDecoSunburn: @AugmentingPath The telenova version.
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GhostValv: Deep lore
AugmentingPath: @ArtDecoSunburn si
GirlPainting: In anchient times Sir Zippotricks Mc Edgelord invented it....
kusinohki: as if anyone can explain where the name euchre came from...
ArtDecoSunburn: Playing a hill summons a Dale?
Dog_of_Myth: The word comes from old European terms meaning a cunning act, ruse, or sharp turn of play.
RatherLargeToad: Mr. WinTheHill
Diabore: an 8 of forest
AugmentingPath: the won ring
Metric_Furlong: flip that token
TehAmelie: he's keeping the one ring! he's got the curse!
tehfewl: Do rings act as a trump card?
Metric_Furlong: if you can follow suit, you must follow suit
GirlPainting: So it is fantasy UNO?
millenomi_Aura: fantasy Hearts
AMillionCatsOnTypewriters: @GirlPainting No.
MaxxamusTime: @tehfewl no rings are its own suit of 5 cards. The 1 of ring card just auto wins.
Mashamino: oops all 8s
adept_nekomancer: Ben's hand too powerful
public_key_reveal_party:
AugmentingPath:
trick-takesy hobbitses 
circusofkirkus: the ring does corrupt
Diabore: ben
Metric_Furlong: it's a learning experience
Metric_Furlong: don't worry, later chapters definitely don't get harder
Dog_of_Myth: Ben has been tempted by the One Ring
kusinohki: much like bomb busters, losing just means replaying the round
nevermore913: Ben you had one job
Diabore: we already saw the 8 mountain too, neat
Shadowsoflife: full of shadows you say?
tehfewl: didn't want to trade those away, eh?
couchboyj: Frodo upstaging Bilbo at his own 111th birthday party
adept_nekomancer: Ben wins all the things!
Dog_of_Myth:
Metric_Furlong: if the team can't win, you can end the hand on the spot
TehAmelie: hey, it's Frodo's 44th birthday too
public_key_reveal_party: matt and james letting the team down
TehAmelie: the movies did him dirty
Heckhoundbolt: Frodo takes the one ring and fucking vanishes
Pal_Friendpatine: Excellent. I didn’t understand a lick of that. Now to learn.
CaptainSpam: "You all kneel to ME!" "*sigh* Frodo, that's not what we're-" "KNEEL!"
kusinohki: "that's how you play the game..... badly"
Diabore: and then all the 8's
AugmentingPath: I wonder if there was some possible sequence of plays that could have won that or if it was just mathematically impossible from the deal
AugmentingPath: Ah, right, exchanging probably could have helped
Diabore: @AugmentingPath given what ben played, i think they were screwed
NarwhalsInATrenchcoat: I don't know if matt could've won enough hands
betweenmyself:
It’s ringing men… Hallelujah? 
kusinohki: with all those 8s, ben probably should have waited on playing the 1 ring and deciding to win. *shrug* live and learn I guess...
Metric_Furlong: @AugmentingPath if Ben had thrown a higher card instead of the 1 ring it might have changed things? but hard to say since no one has perfect information
AMillionCatsOnTypewriters: @Metric_Furlong He wouldn't have won that particular hand and Matt and James might have been able to win more tricks
AMillionCatsOnTypewriters: But it was probably neigh impossible for him to win.
Metric_Furlong: good job Gandalf
TehAmelie: Mr Unohill? sounds made up
AugmentingPath:
@Metric_Furlong I think we do have perfect info in retrospect, right? Maybe someone in the youtube comments can tell us if there was some ideal sequence 
Metric_Furlong: @AugmentingPath in retrospect yeah, I meant more in the moment
Metric_Furlong: flip the token
TehAmelie:
who dealt this hand?
MaxxamusTime: flip the token
kusinohki: just invoke ian and cori. "I'll get married when they do!"
ContingentCat: My brother was with his now wife for 7 years before they got married, if you don't have kids there's no rush
morteica: Don't listen to anyone, Ben. My husband and I were together for 14 years before we got married. Do what's good for you.
MaxxamusTime: they can lose if Jordynne wins more tricks
Metric_Furlong: everyone has finished their goals, so they can end the round now
Metric_Furlong: oh yeah, it's really cool presentation
kusinohki: nothing wrong with playing all the tricks
Diabore: rip resale value
GrathXVI: So this is actually a Legacy game, but you're playing it outside of The Long Game?
Kramburger: Just like Galdalf!
Kramburger: Toe to tip!
Diabore: @GrathXVI the long game is a little explosive atm
Metric_Furlong: @GrathXVI not really legacy, but it does take a while to get through it all
margieargie: Needs to channel Adam and to Gandalf in a vaguely eastern European voice
kusinohki: i forget how many chapters there are, but there's a good chance they'll get through half of them tonight
TehAmelie: Frodo is the narrator of the books, right? except for the end by Sam
Sapphic_Shenanigans: Shire! Bagginsssss!
Metric_Furlong: @kusinohki there's 12 in the first section, and I'm not expecting them to clear all of them in one sitting
ButButTheJesus: Nazgul already? gtfo the Shire frodo!
Metric_Furlong: like, not impossible, but there's a couple of significant difficulty spikes ahead
Metric_Furlong: 1 or 2. not 3 though, 3 is bad
kusinohki: 5 is right out
Twilight_Spark: @TehAmelie *pushes up glasses* in the frame story, the books were written by Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam, then translated in Gondor. They have thus perhaps been embellished from the originals, in addition to having been passed down eventually to Tolkien who himself is translating them.
TehAmelie: right, right
Metric_Furlong: get out of here, Pippen
TehAmelie: three is right out (!)
Metric_Furlong: yeah, the art is great
e_bloc: SMJ: Sam, Merry, Kill
Metric_Furlong: need to win a trick containing the 2 of hills
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spethycakes: "most date-able" doesn't mean "one I'd most like to date," sadly
TehAmelie: now i remember, the art is pretty similar to the illustrated Hobbit
Getter404: And then he gets hit by a car
ButButTheJesus: Sam pls
Metric_Furlong: it's good information
TehAmelie: not the same artist, but i guess they have a style guide
Metric_Furlong: let's go!
GrathXVI: @Twilight_Spark Um actually, their Westron names were Bilba, Maura, and Banazîr, rather than the Anglicized names that Tolkien gave them.
ButButTheJesus: ok but just one
e_bloc: it's a three-elf night
evil_h2o_elf: Is Ben the trade of the season?
Metric_Furlong: flip! that! token!
Metric_Furlong: remember chat: no backseating
e_bloc: day-o
MaxxamusTime: if someone has a win or fail condition you must continue
spethycakes: !advice
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evil_h2o_elf: !chat
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kusinohki: I wouldn't worry about it. just play all the tricks. it doesn't add that much time
WitchyTQ: i've played this before; No, you cannot end the chapter early just because you think everyone has already met their goals.
GasCityGaming: When i've played similar games with normal cards you bid on how many tricks you want and you can absolutely go over and not make your bid, i don't know the rules for this specifically though.
evil_h2o_elf: @GasCityGaming In "The Crew", which is the most similar game I've played, you have to play out when there's a "take no tricks" goal
Metric_Furlong: 'ending early' is on page 8, and you are correct: you can only end early if it's not possible for a character to mess-up later
goombalax: who knew the hobbits had to do so much math
corpocracy: Are rings a trump suit? Or just a normal suit?
5fivecents5: normal
Mai_Andra: After all, why not?
e_bloc: whats the name of this one ring that does it all
GasCityGaming: For totally regular reasons my family has taken to calling them "power" cards or "power" suits
kusinohki: one ring that does it all? think they call it halo
HadesLeprechaun: Metric_Furlong is correct, you can only end a round early if it's impossible to lose or if you've guaranteed lost already
Diabore: so does jordynne have to win with the 4 of hills?
AugmentingPath: @HadesLeprechaun what if the round has bad vibes or is generally unpleasant to be around?
Metric_Furlong: (I may have said otherwise earlier, but I didn't have the rulebook to hand and it's late so if I did I was wrong then)
HadesLeprechaun: @AugmentingPath you can concede at any point at sorcery speed
Metric_Furlong: @Diabore has to win the trick the 4 of hills is played in, yes
TehAmelie: "one ring that does it all? my wife's wedding ring, of course" -guy whose wife is his life support system but also he admires her
kusinohki: jordynne has to win a trick with the 4 of hills in it. so another player could play the 4 and jordynne wins it with the 8
Metric_Furlong: hell yeah
Metric_Furlong: yeah, there's layers to this game
Diabore: i also saw solo rules in the rule book
AMillionCatsOnTypewriters: More games need rules for when you want pears.
TehAmelie: you can have the pears Matt
Metric_Furlong: yeah there's specific different modes for solo and 2-player (3 player and 4 player are the same, but some character's goals change)
kusinohki: pretty sure pairs has a pear deck...
TehAmelie: i prefer apples over pears in all things, except cider. is that weird?
HadesLeprechaun: I think that besides a tutorial, you should fail a co-op board game the first time you play it. If it's easy enough to win while barely knowing how to play, it's probably not going to have a lot of enjoyable staying power because there's little challenge
HadesLeprechaun: but that might just be me/my group!
AMillionCatsOnTypewriters: @TehAmelie Not weird, but pears are better for board games
Diabore: are the cards used in previous tricks known info?
Diabore: or is it something to remember?
Metric_Furlong: @Diabore something to remember
kusinohki: I would say it depends how many levels of difficulty the co-op game has. winning pandemic the first time on lowest difficulty just means making it harder next time. *shrug*
LoadingReadyRun: The Lord of the Rings aka "Gandalf Needs a Win"
Dog_of_Myth:
TehAmelie: i think that's the way of most trick taking games. remembering played cards is a big advantage
Metric_Furlong: @TehAmelie yeah, and it gets very important in this later
margieargie: The Five Ring to rule... uh... 1/5 of things? I'm not sure how that works
HadesLeprechaun: @kusinohki If there's levels, yeah, I was thinking more games without levels or on medium difficulty
e_bloc: can hobbits not run
RatherLargeToad: needs more Gaffer
ButButTheJesus: farmer maggot? he's clearly overreacting
Metric_Furlong: iirc the first 'long victory' is chapter 9
Twilight_Spark: Fuck yeah Gildor
TheMandrew: Where my Gildor stans at, all my homies love Gildor
Metric_Furlong: Farmer Maggot + Sam is what we call A Fun Start
AMillionCatsOnTypewriters: Ben always the traitor
MoxKrystal:
Love this game!
GhostValv: D:
Twilight_Spark: @themandrew we'd all vanish into the west and become ghosts with Gildor let's be real.
TheMandrew: @Twilight_Spark absolutely. Send me to the Undying Lands right this instant plz
Metric_Furlong: page of the rules: The first player to pick a character doesn't *have* to take a required character, just as long as all the required takens are taken in the end (so james could take one of the unnecessary characters, but then Jordynne and Matt would need to pick the required ones)
kusinohki: jordynne didn't have to be farmer maggot. if she chose another character, matt would be forced to take the required character though...
Metric_Furlong: *page 5 of the rules
TheMandrew: Maggot's a real one. told off a Nazgul like it was nothing
TehAmelie: imagine if Maggot had been a maggot farmer. which, with that name it's a wonder he managed not to
LoadingReadyRun: I like that this game goes through all the "pre-adventure" stuff in town. A lot of LotR games concentrate on the battles and action scenes
Twilight_Spark: Tolkien mostly skips those kinds of things in the books, funny enough.
Toxxick: Just tuning in, I see the term "trick taking" a lot in games these days like im supposed to know what it means, can anyone elucidate me?
kusinohki: are you familiar with hearts, spades, euchre or other similar card games?
Metric_Furlong: @Toxxick it's a genre of a card game (e.g. Hearts, Bridge, Gin, Rummy, etc.)
TehAmelie: i did just think we need a simple way to explain the term
shushu2539: are all character guys?
kusinohki: basically in all trick taking games, one player leads a card. other players have to follow suit. high card of all cards played takes the "trick"
Toxxick: Im only familiar with them in name
Metric_Furlong: @shushu2539 no, there are some female characters in other chapters
Twilight_Spark: Trick taking is a particular type of game mechanic. The rules are not that hard but are actually a little long to compress into a Twitch message.
Toxxick: Fair enough. Its enough for me to know its a thing related to cards and matching
Toxxick: Its just an inscrutable term lacking context
Twilight_Spark: It's definitely a little jargon-y if you've never run into it.
AMillionCatsOnTypewriters: So this one is co-op where everyone has an objective they need to win.
kusinohki: I want to say there's been a recent renaisance of trick taking games with the crew introducing "co-op trick taking game"
Mashamino: "Hi, I'm Crab Girl!"
TehAmelie: hmm, tricks have been called that in card games since the 1500s. talk about ancient lore
Molladia: Is the table smaller than normal?
Metric_Furlong: if it's relevant, the 1 ring doesn't *have* to win the trick it's played in, in case farmer Maggot really needs the 1s
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Toxxick:
I do love that the wiki article lists a full 2 dozen games that meet the criteria and Im here like "Cool, I dont know the rules to ANY of these" 
Juliamon: Molladia They're using one of the smaller tops
AMillionCatsOnTypewriters: @Molladia This looks like the normal "small size" table they use.
kusinohki: "play more games" - wil wheaton
Twilight_Spark:
@toxxick what about Splits, Sanguine, Ticket to Snide, Fathoms, or maybe Coins? 
Heckhoundbolt: so this is going in the highlights I guess
chaostreader: I assume Jordynne just has no high cards at all.
e_bloc: farmor maggot has an incredibly bad spoonerism
e_bloc: *farmer
LoadingReadyRun: I'm assuming Jordynne had the 1 in multiple suits
Metric_Furlong: it's over
Heckhoundbolt: farmer Maggot falls over and breaks his back
AMillionCatsOnTypewriters: It is probably making it harder that you guys aren't switching characters on re-attempts
kusinohki: I was dealt so many bad hands in a row, I just kept taking the character that wants to win no/fewest tricks (pippin??)
Metric_Furlong: every experience is a learning experience
RatherLargeToad: No, the fours is a different franchise
kusinohki: may the fours be with you
AMillionCatsOnTypewriters: And LaFours is the security guard from Mall Rats
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Metric_Furlong: note that during exchanges, the exchang-ee is allowed to choose the card they were just given to pass back (per page 5)
Metric_Furlong: okay, cool
Metric_Furlong: (sorry, it's late so I may miss things)
Mashamino: Clap
Dog_of_Myth:
BlindRift98: its 11 o clock somewhere
tehfewl: ive been grazing this whole time
e_bloc: officially TLOTR-TTG
Molladia: Jordynne just knowing it's 11am here in Melbourne
Trymantha: @BlindRift98 parts of aussie
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baltimore_667083: !badadvice
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baltimore_667083: I don’t know what the helm is but will do
Metric_Furlong: it was a thing from Betrayal Legacy
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AMillionCatsOnTypewriters: The helm was evil
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SnackPak_: the helm was too evil to be burned, iirc
Metric_Furlong: not yet
otakon17: yay Bag End!
e_bloc: well here I go, wish me luck
goombalax: Fatty Bolder was the unofficial fifth hobbit
otakon17: But what if you have to beat off the Riders with a big piece of Fatty?
Mashamino: the changeup!
Metric_Furlong: now Jordynne gets to date Sam
Mai_Andra: in a fight, right?
otakon17: yes
kusinohki: fatty, the 5th hobbit in the lotr co-op game. bet they wish they had a better name for that now...
Mai_Andra: Fredegar Bolger
Metric_Furlong: his name is Fatty, but his hand is quite slim
goombalax: Matty Bolger
jwholla: this game is magnificent
otakon17: you are now a clam
otakon17: so what is this like, UNO but with a Tolkien twist?
kusinohki: more like hearts, but yeah
Metric_Furlong: oh that was clutch
Metric_Furlong: yes, they do
Metric_Furlong: smashed it
otakon17: Oi oi!
Mashamino: Oi! Oi!
gsyhiap: Oi, oi!
Sapphic_Shenanigans: Tombadil Bombadil
Metric_Furlong: oh right, *this* chapter
Mai_Andra: I'm led to understand he's a merry fellow.
kusinohki: tom who? (j/k)
otakon17: you gotta wonder why the Old Forest didn't molest the Riders
letsbelgo: I got the number for Old Man Willow
Twilight_Spark: and his boots are yel-whoa
Metric_Furlong:
@otakon17 forest just hates hobbits in particular
otakon17: oh great a forest full of Gollums
Mashamino: oh dear
Metric_Furlong: yeah, Old Man WIllow is not a nice man
e_bloc: wake up babe, new mans dropped
RatherLargeToad: M’Hobbit
Metric_Furlong: yeah, we're past the 'practice time' rounds now
otakon17: Frodo doesn't get a break for *quite* a time
Mai_Andra: The Black Riders were watching the road. They didn't go into the OId Forest.
e_bloc: Frodo gets voyager o'brien-ed
kusinohki: I think frodo only gets a break when stung by a big spider...
RatherLargeToad: @otakon17 he did get a nice spider related nap eventually
TehAmelie: i don't think it was a very restful nap
RatherLargeToad: @tehamelie was very restful. slept like a dead man
TehAmelie: like when you wake up and feel more crappy and tired than before
LoadingReadyRun: This game has that interesting vibe of starting with a very simple mechanic, like trick taking and coming up as many different variations as possible. That aspect reminds me a bit of Bomb Busters
Metric_Furlong: @LoadingReadyRun oh yeah, there's a bunch of stuff still to come in this one too
TehAmelie: imo the closest thing he gets to a break is just before that, when Galadriel gives him a magic lift from when he falls over in pure exhaustion
calculated_uncertainties: legacy hearts
James_the_Dabbler: one heart this time
Twilight_Spark: He is the lord of all 5 rings.
gsyhiap:
Mashamino: fiiiiive golden riiiings!
LoadingReadyRun: With the way this game is structured into "scenes" from the book, I could see them switching between the groups for some chapters when the fellowship splits up
roastbeefsandwitch: @LoadingReadyRun it does, shakes up the group. see also the expansion for the Two Towers
roastbeefsandwitch: Basic gameplay doesn't change much
Mashamino: that's a tricky one
e_bloc: big pippin
gsyhiap: Old man Willow will leave you weepin'
roastbeefsandwitch: pippin longstocking? is coming to your town? a freck-faced rd-haired dude you want to know?
otakon17: It ain't me! I ain't no fortunate Baggins!
shushu2539: new rule: play the eagle card to force a player to discard the ring card
otakon17: "Just FLY you damn bird!"
e_bloc: !clip
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James_the_Dabbler: … happy pride month
kusinohki: "just imagine if we walked the whole way. one of us could have died!"
otakon17: you lot have fun, I'm getting sleepy so I'm gonna head to bed
otakon17: stay safe, thanks for the stream o/
Dog_of_Myth:
Twilight_Spark: Bright blue is his hat and his boots are yellow!
shushu2539:
tehfewl: Goldberry? do you mean Tom's hot wife?
Mashamino: ooh
Mai_Andra: the river daughter
couchboyj: Oof, right in the Goldberries
e_bloc: just a bastard in a barrel
Metric_Furlong: he does not stay in the deck
SnackPak_: we got there!
Metric_Furlong: crisis over!
JoshManVGH: Pocket Forest!?
TehAmelie: at least we didn't have to sort the deck and see what's missing
SquareDotCube: You always hear about getting lost in the forest, not the other way around
e_bloc:
TehAmelie: frowdogging, best new word of today
SquareDotCube: maybe James' lands curse will actually help here
Twilight_Spark: Gotta dance
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e_bloc: good luck with the eight baiting
Lysander_salamander: I should look up the rules on this. So far it feels like they started with euchre and added more onto it.
Lysander_salamander: I'll have to watch this from the beginning later
stevefromdetroit: it’s similar to richer yes
stevefromdetroit: *eucher
Mashamino:
e_bloc: doesnt eucher use a short deck
adept_nekomancer: That pun was a bridge too far
Diabore: so jordynnes being banished back to ontario
e_bloc: I only played once with my trig teacher
Lysander_salamander: I wonder if this is one of those games that started at folks at a convention goofing around at a late-night diner
couchboyj: Eucher is a team game generally played with 9-Ace and 5 card hands
calculated_uncertainties: hearts, spades, and euchre do have the same base mechanics, hands, tricks, trump suits. But that's about it.
rustywir3s: typecasting
ContingentCat: There's worse things to be
ContingentCat: Eyyyy
Mashamino: BEN
ghizmou: she has been satisfied
rustywir3s: so bombadil has to finish after goldberry?
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Lysander_salamander: no I'm not going to participate in lewd fanfic writing in chat, no matter how tempting
underhill33: it me
RatherLargeToad: Wraith’s are gonna stab me at the Prancing Pony Club
Lysander_salamander: hahahaha
Twilight_Spark: Damn
rustywir3s: lmao gottem
Lysander_salamander: He just turned 50 years old in that photo
Lysander_salamander: Frodo doesn't have grey hair yet, so I guess he isn't a silver fox?
Twilight_Spark: I turned 33 this year my tweens are all ogre now.
Diabore: extant
Lysander_salamander: so tired
Mai_Andra: blarg
Mashamino: ooh, extant, yeah that
Lysander_salamander: very exhausted
NotCainNorAbel:
500
Sapphic_Shenanigans: Can't complain (I mean I can but I won't)
A_Dub888: hungy
spethycakes: I am but a raft on the waves of life
Sethalidos: Jordynne, no
shushu2539: feeling like the Mr: under the hill
ContingentCat: Feeling good lol
GhostValv:
feeling big tired 
rustywir3s: hell yeah!
Mashamino: that was all of James' excitement for the day
RatherLargeToad: chooses Sauron
loufghyslaufey: End stream? Shocker.
rustywir3s: gotta stay winning
Twilight_Spark: That's how that goes in the book!
loufghyslaufey: Sorry. (I guess) How to say you're running in fumes without saying you're "running in fumes"?
loufghyslaufey: Half-way what? This isn't a the LONG GAME!?
Twilight_Spark: When Vader kills Dumbledore?
loufghyslaufey: Gross! STOP!
loufghyslaufey: James!!
Mai_Andra: Exactly as was foreseen.
loufghyslaufey: Who what he ducking started...!!
spethycakes: Jimothy? In this moonbase!?
loufghyslaufey: Jordynne mood be: "low-tier ring" (pinching fingers)
lamina5432: gnight, would have loved to teach my grandparents this game
gsyhiap: One Pippin, no Merry
Juliamon: Schedule now live on Discord!
ghizmou: hopefully
Juliamon: !discord
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Mai_Andra: None Pippen, left Merry ?
Juliamon: !schedule
Heckhoundbolt: why not the segments from last year?
Sethalidos: But on a crab note
Orxolon: g night!
A_Dub888: if Ben’s staying at the moonbase, who’s taking care of Remy and Gus?
loufghyslaufey: James "Going there. And Then He'll BE THERE...!"
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