Finally, an update. · 1:14pm Apr 3rd, 2014
It took two weeks longer than average, but there’s a new update for Timekeeper up for your reading pleasure. I feel like I should offer some explanation for the delay, mainly a return to the tender mercies of University level education, and I’ve discovered the joys of Dungeons and Dragons.
You can probably guess who’s playing the Dungeon Master, and I’m positively enjoying it.
One funny story you might enjoy was how my players managed to stop a pirate ship (full of pirates) from boarding their own small merchant vessel. If they’d been boarded, they wouldn’t have had much of a chance. They strapped one of the player characters, a pixie, to a ten foot pole and stuck him under water. Now pixies can speak to animals, so the pixie figured that would include fish.
Interestingly, the pixie spotted a whale.
So the player did an impression of Dory from Finding Nemo and attempted to speak whale. A lucky dice roll later, they recruited the whale, informing it that the pirate ship was a whaling vessel.
The whale joined the battle, ramming the pirate ship from underneath while the players pelted the pirates with ballista bolts.
Then the whale rolled a 20 on a twenty sided die. That’s a critical hit. A second dice for the amount of damage was rolled, 10/10. Very long odds, something amazing had to happen.
The whale leapt out of the water over the stern of the ship. Then with the players speechless, I informed them that the whale let out a low moan as it fell down on the deck, crushed the pirate captain, brought down the rear mast, and basically tore the back of the ship off.
As the pirate ship sank and the players stood gaping at the wreckage, I passed a note to the wizard and she said, “Oh, it’s a sperm whale.”
I didn’t mention it was completely white.
Moments like that make D&D special. But returning to ponies, I’m happy to say that I'm about to start a story arc that I’ve been planning for the better part of a year. I’ll tease you with this: “The Black Knight always triumphs.”
Re: Teaser
"Your foreleg's off!"
"No it isn't!"
All my yes
Just....
All of it
~OvO
I would be more concerned if the pirate vessel wasn't full of pirates. Of course, it being D&D, you could also have made them wererat pirates. werepirates? piwererates?
The odds were most definitely in your favor that day.
D&D has a lot of odd moments like that if you have the right group.