Shattered Honor – Part Thirty-Eight
The other shoe drops. Brett… well, Brett has a plan.
It might be a little inside baseball with the yawning portal reference, and if the imagery doesn’t land for you, I’m sorry about that.
Google “Tomb of Horrors” and maybe that will help build the suspense for you a bit.
For now, the group sees the writing on the wall.
Also:
As Brett might say: Ho. Ho. Ho.
They ded
Brett has GM face in a big way here, and it makes me so very happy…
So, Sam used Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, Brett pulls out Tomb of Horrors . . . when do we get Whiteplume Mountain?
I have a year left. Keep reading.
Challenge accepted – also really looking forward to The Innsmouth Garden Society – the story arcs in d20 monkey have been great
Brian, are you planning on ending the comic in the next year? I ask as someone who’s been a fan for years now, I’d be sad to see it go, but if it means a bigger project to come from you I’d be certainly looking forward to what you have next!
Hey Brian, been reading your comic for several years now. Just wanted to say I enjoy your stories and love how your art has evolved over the years. Keep up the good work. ^^
Looking forward to seeing where things go from here, been an absolute delight reading this comic.
Just stick your hand right on in! It’s good for you, why else would it be green?
Green means GO, after all!
Jade is often green and in certain mythology serves to imprison demons, spirits, and souls.
Head first, man. Head. First.
The first time I ran this module, had an ARCHER start by putting his hand on it, coming back red and raw…then his hand inside of it, coming back without it…AND THEN he put his whole fricking arm in. I couldn’t believe it.
“It’s got to be an illusion. The DM wouldn’t punish me for doing something stupid.”
I wonder if you could give them a hint by having them roll a CON save, if they fall they pass out from the pain and blood loss?
He was so preoccupied with whether or not he could, he didn’t stop to think if he should!
The amount of clenching intensifies!
*pucker intensifies*
Oh, Carlos. Sweet, sweet, innocent Carlos.
… not for long, he’s not. Innocence is always the first one to die …
It’s funny, as soon as I told my boyfriend (who has been playing a lot longer than I have) the initial setup of the party getting locked in this place, he said “It’s the Tomb of Horrors.” And I’ll have to let him know he called it.
Give him a high-five for me!
Oh yeah, THAT dungeon. The bladderbursting swampass-causing killathon. To quote my dear old GM the 2 meter tall construction worker: “NO, you can’t give your weapons a monofilament edge by sharpening them on the OoA!”
So many wonderful memories. This arc is the best yet!
time for another butthole pucker sound?
MAXIMUM pucker. Your cheeks are as one.
I’m guessing this will be a very interesting take on ToH given it is only a 4 hour session and they are half-way through. Should be very interesting (and a lot less traps if they want to finish in one session…). I got thoroughly beaten by the 1st ed module way back when.
Is this really a 4 hour time limit on the whole game? Can’t they stop and come back another day?
I don’t know if they will come back another day. Previous installments showed Brett eliminating content, which suggests it is designed as a one-shot.
As far as the time limit goes:
https://d20monkey.com/comic/shattered-honor-part-twenty-three/
https://d20monkey.com/comic/shattered-honor-part-thirty-four/
This is what 10-foot poles were made for.
But then you run into the paranoia that maybe the traps only activate when a living thing passes through lol. Really, you need one of those magic bags that lets you pull a number of animals out per day that you can throw to test for traps. *And* a 10 foot pole. Also, in one of the equipment books I’ve seen, there’s an 11 and 1/2 foot telescoping pole, just to foil those dms that put the ceiling just out of reach of the 10 foot pole lol.
I don’t need to Google “Tomb of Horrors”. It’s on my shelf right next to me… 🙂
Oh, no… Brett wouldn’t, would he? :-O
That, Carlos, means that the time to go into spec-ops mode has long passed and needs you and your party to catch up.
Night’s dark color is for those of great valor.
NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE
Brett could be subverting it. Wouldn’t be the first time a GM has subverted a trope or well known icon. For example; in something I might run, the 8ft quiet guy in black armour is actually the leader of the group of beings that keep the universe safe. He’s also the brother of the NPC that will essentially be guiding the PCs through this universe that is essentially unknown to them and they’ve been thrown into.
I actually read a similar story before. A group run into two people fighting, a man wearing plate armor made of black dragon scales and a woman wearing plate armor made of gold dragon scales. Naturally, they helped the woman in gold and killed the guy.
It’s only later that they realized that in order to have an armor made of dragon scale one has to kill a dragon of that color. Black dragons are evil. Gold dragons are good.
Oops.
That is awesome, AceOfSpades.
It actually reminded me of something not really related (save that dragons were involved…) This came up a while back in a campaign I’m playing in. An NPC made a snarky comment about using us as bait for the dragon, and my intellectually challenged barbarian believed him and unloaded on him.
I didn’t feel too bad doing it since it was obvious at some point one side or the other was going to attack the other…. However, the GM’s face was priceless when the talks broke down due to that line.
Tricky, AoS! I like it.
Thanks for the flashbacks, fucker.
Ahhh, hello again, old friend. We meet once more… Still hungry after all these years? >:)
I thought that entryway looked familiar.
Ah, ToH, I many many fond memories of feeding parties to it’s ever hungry soul.
HELLO DARKNESS MY OLD FRIEND
I love Brett’s expression here – he KNOWS exactly what he was doing, even though he might have mistimed some of the action.
Ah, what fun. I ran the Tomb of Horrors for Halloween, years ago for my online group. Had a section of the map worked out as a graveyard, and whenever a PC died, I’d change the mouseover text for one of the headstones from blank to their character name and cause of death. Best death was a Minotaur Barbarian who crit failed against the Lich’s paralyzing touch and passed out, so the party just… assumed he was dead. Didn’t even make a heal check to look for life signs(Which I reminded them was an option.) Next session, everything was proceeding as normal when the Minotaur’s player spotted his gravestone and shouted “WHAT DO YOU MEAN I WAS BURIED ALIVE?!??!”
I had to Google because I honestly didn’t know what the face meant. Looks like a wild ride’s ahead!
Still one of the greatest adventures ever….. of all time. It just got real for Sam and crew, and Bret is pulling out all the stops. Nicely Done Sir!
only just caught up for the week to Quote Tenacious D F************************K!