D&D 5E So long and thanks for all the fish!

[rgoodbb]

"Wait! are you on about...

automattic
systemattic
hyyyyyyyydromattic

We are in Greece so we just need um er um...a storm?"

Throg felt very proud of himself. In fact he felt he could definitely give these philosophers a run for their own gold coins

 

[BoldItalic]

"Wait! are you on about...

automattic
systemattic
hyyyyyyyydromattic

We are in Greece so we just need um er um...a storm?"

Throg felt very proud of himself. In fact he felt he could definitely give these philosophers a run for their own gold coins

High Dramatic, of course.

Solon (the real one) was a contemporary of Thespis, who is credited with inventing tragedy when he allowed an actor in a mask to speak to the chorus and if that's not breaking fourth wall, I don't know what is. Thespis put on plays based on Homeric legends and it's a bit ironic that Solon called him out for putting on mere fiction and not taking drama seriously. My reading is that he was worried that people might believe all the tales of sea monsters and whatnot and it might affect his shipping business. But that's sheer conjecture. It's more fun to imagine that Solon was secretly Homer and he was just covering his tracks.

See, that's what you get for rolling a natural 20 on a History check ...

 

[rgoodbb]

See, that's what you get for rolling a natural 20 on a History check ...

Or fibbing, and actually having time-travelling PC's at your beck and call.

 

[BoldItalic]

Or fibbing, and actually having time-travelling PC's at your beck and call.

Okay, okay, I admit it. I made it up about the History check ...

BTW, where is Spiton in all this? What's happened to him? I miss him. He's whacky. There's a certain Bardishness about Solong, it seems to me. Maybe he's being played by Spiton all along? That would account for a lot ...

 

[rgoodbb]

Nope. Spiton was contracted away in a butter advert with morph, I believe he was last seen on the big stage in the west end singing...

Oh, well I never!
Was there ever
A bard so clever

as Magical Spiton Mistoffelees?!....

 

[BoldItalic]

So ... who is running Solong? It's not me - I'm doing Hermione. Is he ... horror of horrors ... a DMPC? Hey, DM, that's not fair! He's getting all the best dialogue lines. Right! If that's the way things are going to be ...

"Hold, I prithee, Solong," interjected Hermione, "ere thou speak'st thine notion Attic. We not in Athens here do dwell, but in a fair land otherwise. Our laws within their own import do much entwine, and cannot simply be amended at thy will."

"Yeah," agreed Throg, "What she said."

Solong looked thoughtful, then puzzled, then relieved in quick succession. "Who makes your laws?" he asked shrewdly.

"We do," answered everyone simultaneously.

And a great voice spoke from the heavens:

I want you all to make a Wisdom(Insight) check

 

[MoonSong]

Ah, a refreshing commentary. Thank you for paying my little effort such flattering attention. You indeed deserve a considered reply.

• I'm imagining that Solong secretly wrote the Iliad, not the Aeneid which was just an amateurish rip-off of his work, if ever there was one. It wasn't even in the right language!
• In 600BC Rome was still being run by two small boys and a she-wolf and the formation of the Legio Larpendum was hundreds of years in the future. Solong and his Zeusday friends, who were noblemen, dressed down as ekdromoi to add authenticity to their sessions but they were Greeks, not Romans, and they didn't wear polystyrene helmets.
• And as for historians, do they not pride themselves on their scholarship? Are they not scholarshippers?

Yrs, etc.,
έντονα πλάγια

Of course, which means the Iliad is the Record of Lodoss War of ancient times, in turn making the Aeneid the equivalent of a Draco in Leather Pants fix fic of Record of Lodoss War. And the Romans Larpers of that one, or maybe more like treekies?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Nah. Bronies.





Coincidence? I THINK NOT!!!

 

[BoldItalic]

Of course, which means the Iliad is the Record of Lodoss War of ancient times, in turn making the Aeneid the equivalent of a Draco in Leather Pants fix fic of Record of Lodoss War. And the Romans Larpers of that one, or maybe more like treekies?

Yes, and ...?

 

[rgoodbb]

I want you all to make a Wisdom(Insight) check

"Nope" Replied Throg.

"No you didn't roll well or no you don't want to roll?"

"I only got outsight. I'm not magical like the rest of you. I don't got insight"

"Klack" [Really darling]

"See I don't even got invoice like Klick-Klack only outvoice"

"Don't you go to the inhouse Throg" Asked a mischievous and flamboyant Spiton"

"No I only go to the outho........Doh"

"Yeah said the voice from above. Don't bother rolling Throg"