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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 8726921" data-attributes="member: 7635">It can be read as having an element of hypocrisy to it (Gertrude is criticizing someone who is supposed to be a mirror of her), but the line in the play simply means "this person is being too open about their thoughts and it's saying more about the speaker than the subject." Of course, don't EVEN get me started on the people who think "protest" is used in the modern sense and think the line means "quit complaining". Shakespeare aside, I still think it's being read as a slap because you want it to be a slap. We don't know what this part of the module looked like before it became Doomspace. I don't think it was a frozen tundra being sucked into a black hole. I think it was going to be regular Athas (as 4e knew it) but it just raised too many problems. Then again, we don't know. Maybe it was supposed to be Athas's final hours. But I don't think they would be the case. I am willing to bet though that this section got a lot more rewrite than a simple name swap. If I was a DM working on a similar scenario (making something feel Athasian without being Athas) I'd probably make similar adjustments (hot to ice, etc) to keep the tone but not the details.</blockquote>