“Well you got to hand it to the Dwellow Bros, they’ve really managed to find themselves a handy item that is worth a handsome reward if only it wasn’t a frying pan into the oven scenario.”
Yeah, stealing that probably make you jump straight from the “Cool thieves dared to steal from the temple of Deknar the smith, you gotta admit that must have required some massive balls” category into the “THEY STOLE OUR MOST PRECIOUS THING! FIND THEM AND CRUSH THEM WITH ANVILS! SLOWLY!” category.
This would be the point that ANYONE who plays dnd looks at the dm and does their level best to impersonate General Akbar by shouting,” It’s a trap!!!!”. Because they have most definitely been setup by their client.
Ackbar was a navy man, therefore an Admiral, not a General.
And to clarify the first part of your comment:
“This would be the point that ANYONE who plays dnd (and doesn’t care about getting dice/minis/cheese puffs/rulebooks thrown at them for invoking tired out memes) looks at the dm and…”
Because at many tables, that is what is likely to happen.
Well we wouldn’t want to force their hands, but assuming they palmer the hand who would they hand it off too and would they be rewarded handsomely or backhanded by the hand of fate?
They later turned this adventure into a major motion picture with that title.
“Not what I was expecting, but quite good” — The New York Times
“You may get funny looks at the ticket booth, but bring the kids to this fantasy romp.” — Miami Herald
“I put on sweatpants for THIS?” — Red Light Revue
What does it say that upon reading that my second thought was “hehe, nice”. My first was “would that even compile? You’re trying to return an undeclared variable.”
So either they just got bad intel, or whoever commissioned the Dwellows for the heist deliberately lied to them for some reason. Anybody else starting to smell a set-up?
Ya since the door is already open, I would say that there is someone already in there scoping out the traps on the hand. Probably didn’t expect our “Hero’s” to get as far as they have as quickly they have so they might be able to turn the tables on this double cross.
I really want that the hovertext to be canon. They were hired by some rich collector who finds things that belong to the gods, but really innocuous things. And he wanted an awesome rug that would pull the trophy room together.
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HOVER-TEXT: “We were sent to steal a rug that really tied the room together”
Well, that’s just like, your opinion man
“Well you got to hand it to the Dwellow Bros, they’ve really managed to find themselves a handy item that is worth a handsome reward if only it wasn’t a frying pan into the oven scenario.”
Well, that’s a /hand/y piece of information.
Still this is likely nice shit to take.
Judging by Sam’s reaction, I would say it is more likely to be nice shit to leave there and never touch so help you Deknar.
Yeah, stealing that probably make you jump straight from the “Cool thieves dared to steal from the temple of Deknar the smith, you gotta admit that must have required some massive balls” category into the “THEY STOLE OUR MOST PRECIOUS THING! FIND THEM AND CRUSH THEM WITH ANVILS! SLOWLY!” category.
I get the impression it is even worse than that. Like, magicsl nuke bad. “Oh crap, the Hand of Fire is missing, we are all doomed!”
This would be the point that ANYONE who plays dnd looks at the dm and does their level best to impersonate General Akbar by shouting,” It’s a trap!!!!”. Because they have most definitely been setup by their client.
Ackbar was a navy man, therefore an Admiral, not a General.
And to clarify the first part of your comment:
“This would be the point that ANYONE who plays dnd (and doesn’t care about getting dice/minis/cheese puffs/rulebooks thrown at them for invoking tired out memes) looks at the dm and…”
Because at many tables, that is what is likely to happen.
You know that shit will hit the fan if that happens to you.
So…
Would it be out of place to say this burglary just became a hand job?
Well we wouldn’t want to force their hands, but assuming they palmer the hand who would they hand it off too and would they be rewarded handsomely or backhanded by the hand of fate?
They later turned this adventure into a major motion picture with that title.
“Not what I was expecting, but quite good” — The New York Times
“You may get funny looks at the ticket booth, but bring the kids to this fantasy romp.” — Miami Herald
“I put on sweatpants for THIS?” — Red Light Revue
Well, it will easy to finger the culprit who palmed off with the treasure. When he is caught, I will shake my fist in anger and thumb my nose at him
# include
int main (void)
{
int count;
for (count = 1; count<100;count++)
printf("I will not steal named artifacts which are left unguarded.");
return D;
}
you sir, have earned my respect lol
Now THAT’s comedy! 😀
What does it say that upon reading that my second thought was “hehe, nice”. My first was “would that even compile? You’re trying to return an undeclared variable.”
So either they just got bad intel, or whoever commissioned the Dwellows for the heist deliberately lied to them for some reason. Anybody else starting to smell a set-up?
Could be. Set up a burglary meant to fail, alert the authorities, use the resulting scandal as a springboard for whatever you are really planning.
Reminds me of a Shadowrun story a tad.
Ya since the door is already open, I would say that there is someone already in there scoping out the traps on the hand. Probably didn’t expect our “Hero’s” to get as far as they have as quickly they have so they might be able to turn the tables on this double cross.
I really want that the hovertext to be canon. They were hired by some rich collector who finds things that belong to the gods, but really innocuous things. And he wanted an awesome rug that would pull the trophy room together.
Or at least that to be his cover because this smells like setup from 10 miles away
Even better if “rug” in this case is being used as slang for “hair piece”.
“Your toupee really compliments the décor!”
and the twists begin…
“I love it when a trope comes together!”
“Oh. Sorry. Did I say that out loud?”
That is the single most fucking clever thing for a DM to do in the history of delicious D&D flavored irony.