How Nessians Came to Love All Things “Llama-ish”
Anyone who looks at the realm page on CoE cannot help but notice a certain tagline on the Nessa’s realm description, “She likes deer. We like llamas.” But, how did this love of llamas come to be? Why are Nessians so proud of their love for llamas? Well, this Nessian did some investigating… and here’s what I dug up.
An e-mail address invokes a story
In the wonderful Realm of Nessa there exists a Birthday Wagon… which has its own spiffy little thread. This thread is where members post their birthdays and their e-mail addresses. After a certain Nessian (me) posted her birthday and e-mail address, a fellow Nessian became rather excited about the e-mail address, and had to explain to everyone why. You see, this e-mail address contained the word “llama” in it… and apparently two other Nessians had an inside joke about llamas. One claimed she owned one, and the other is known as the Majestic Llama. These three soon bonded over there love of llamas… and the Realm was never quite the same…
Along came Bakshi
The Realm of Nessa decided one fateful day to start a realm parody about the married life of Eowyn and Faramir. Somehow, the parody turned into a lovely story about the humans of Middle-Earth becoming infatuated with the ever-so fashionable outfit Boromir wears in Bakshi’s cartoon version of “Lord of the Rings”. Somehow, llamas sneaked their way into the parody as being the preferred mode of transportation of one King Elessar. This interesting plot developed, and in turn, introduced llamas into the previously llama-barren lands of Middle-Earth.
TPAM loves llamas
The Person Above Me, a thread game favorite of many, is not left untouched by the Realm’s love of llamas. For a brief stint, llamas were a hot topic in the Nessian’s own TPAM thread. The discussion of llamas is always apt to re-appear in such threads… and quite frequently does.
Nice to meet you! Have a llama…
Much to the enjoyment of Nessians everywhere, Morlothwen decides to start handing out llama souvenirs to new members who post in the “Getting to know you…” thread. Most new-comers are thrilled with the plush imaginary toys, and many wonder why it’s a llama. Few can explain it to them.
Follow those Mushrooms!
In the next Realm parody, the characters of Lord of the Rings chase down some stolen mushrooms to make the ultimate shampoo. What did the heroes chase those thieves down on? Why, llama’s of course! The parody, “As Middle-Earth Turns” starts the funniest parody trend ever: Llamas as a Middle-Earth mode of transportation.
TOTMON
The Tales of the Maidens of Nessa, the next realm parody, finds the realm entering the world of Middle-Earth, and searching for Nessa’s dry-cleaning. Such a quest requires reliable transportation, so we chose to ride llamas, naturally.
TOTMON: Part Two
In a continuation of the first parody, TOTMON Two finds the maidens of Nessa on a completely unselfish quest for Lady Nessa. The realm must track down Llama Terminators and stop them from killing innocent llamas. This parody marks the realms continuation of traveling on llamas, and introduces llama riding accessories such as llama saddles, llama saddle seatbelts, and rockets, which caused the need for the seatbelts.
Let those llamas FROLIC!!!
After relating a story to fellow Nessians in the “General Discussion” thread in which I saw a sad llama at the county fair, I spark a passion in the hearts of the Realm to let suppressed llamas frolic. This tale led to the founding of LFF, or Llamas Frolic Freely. Memberships are always available.
When will this madness end?
So, there you have it. As for why we’re so proud of our love for llamas, why wouldn’t we be? They’re furry, cute, and their fur makes great warm sweaters. I fear nothing is safe from the Nessian’s love of all things llama-ish. Now it’s even spreading into the Council Courier. Is nothing sacred? Well, llamas might be, but the rest of the world beware! It all started with an e-mail address, and an inside joke. Now, it’s a parody writer’s source of amusement. Where will it spread to next? The world will just have to wait and see…
by vanyar
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I love llamas! My imaginary friend, Bob, is a llama! Anyway, if Nessa doesn’t have it already, you could add an “Action Thread” (where you can only speak in *actions*). The llamas would spread a lot in that; it gets very random. In Manwe, our action thread has ponds, endless bags of marshmellows, a herd of elephants (all named Bob), and a very nice Balrog who we toast the marshemllows on (who is also named Bob). lol It’s a lot of fun! 😀
~Fea