Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar: Whats your favorite story?

[LizardWizard]

The later ones were kind of crappy...I recall one where Mouser was Buried alive, but could still breathe and kind of move around (strangley). It didn't make a lot of sense, and kind of dwelt on the notion of someone taking being able to move for granted :\

It may appear crappy, but we own the imprisonment spell in D&D to that story .

 

[Rhialto]

Umm, no we don't.

That's from The Eyes of the Overworld...

 

[jester47]

So looking at what is mentioned here as everyones favorites:

Ill Met (1)
Thieves House* (2)
Claws From the Night* (2)
The Cloud of Hate (1)
Lean Times **** (5)
The Two best thieves (1)

Jewels in the Forest * (2)
The Bleak Shore * (2)
The Sunken City (1)
The Howling Tower* (2)

the Swords of Lankhmar* (2)

It looks like these would actually make a really neat continuity:

Ill Met
Thieves House
Cloud of Hate
Claws From the Night
Two Best Thieves
Lean Times
Sunken City
Bleak Shore
Howling tower
Jewels

Probably could get swords in there somewhere... But I think I like the ideas in this more than I like the story all together.

It would be interesting...

Aaron.

 

[jester47]

I think it would be cool if someone actually did for Leiber what people are doing for Howard. It would be great to see all the Lankhmar stories in some nice volumes in the order that they were written with a guide on the authors eventual reading order.

Aaron.

 

[S'mon]

Another vote for 'Ill Met'. It has the best Lankhmar flavour of them all.

 

[LizardWizard]

Umm, no we don't.

That's from The Eyes of the Overworld...

Perhaps, but the Mouser's state is quite close to being "entombed in a state of suspended animation far beneath the surface of the earth", as written in the spell description. Although he could move, think, speak, etc., he was unable to escape alone.
I think this episode had at least some influence on the spell design.