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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 9191955" data-attributes="member: 59816">Whose Turn Is It, Anyway?Iron DM 2023 Round 2Ruined MonasterySilent ChimeFace BlindnessFighting WordsExtradimensional ArachnidThe Hanged ElfReality ShowThe Game’s Strange ConceitThis game is a comedic send-up of reality TV, geek culture, celebrity antics, and TTRPGs. The players are encouraged to play analogues of their favorite (or least favorite) comedian, celebrity, or internet personality, dialed to 11.The game starts with the PCs competing in a top-rated Reality Show wherein famous people play Dungeons & Dragons to comedic effect entitled “Whose Turn Is It, Anyway?”The Host (and Dungeon Master) of the show is Chris Rock. Ever since “the Slap”, Chris has had trouble remembering faces and telling folks apart. His Face Blindness causes problems in the show, but his attempts to cover it up are comedy gold, and work in tandem with the title of the show. In addition, his initiative-dropping catchphrase, “Them’s Fighting Words!” has become a popular meme, even among people who don’t watch the show.The Adventure BackgroundThere is the Weave – the intricate pattern of Threads that connect all things to the original source of Magic in the Multiverse. The Threads are said to reach all planes of existence – all of Reality. However, there is also the Tangle – a group of Threads that should be part of the Weave but have been discarded. Worlds where magic has almost died out (such as ours) are part of the Tangle.Gythyanki raiders have captured a Spinner – a type of magical Spider that lives in the strands of the Weave. In desperation, the Spinner cast its web into the Weave, hoping to capture creatures that she could convince to help her in exchange for their freedom. The gythyanki threw off her aim, and the web found its way into the Tangle, capturing our PCs by mistake.Now, our celebrity gamers have been pulled through the Weave, mixing themselves with their characters. They have modern, “real”-world personalities, with the physical forms and abilities of D&D characters. Their DM, Chris Rock, has become a disembodied voice-over that describes what they’re seeing with his characteristic sarcastic wit. In addition, his face-blindness mixes them up, sometimes calling for turns out of proper initiative order. The threats they face would likely be too much for the characters to handle, were it not for them sometimes getting an extra turn or taking their turns in a convenient order. Ambushes against the characters are also avoided, due to them being able to hear his voice-over catchphrase at the start of any battle, “Them’s Fighting Words!”How to BeginAfter running some antics with the celebrities on the set of the TV show, there is a sudden blackout. The producers tell the celebrities to remain calm, before bright lines of impossible colors shoot through the darkness. The world lurches and spins. There is a moment where time stands still and yet many things appear to be happening at once. Confusion ensues.Then, the characters come to themselves on a rocky bluff overlooking a Ruined Monastery. Chris Rock’s disembodied voice tells them, “Y’all find yourselves overlooking the once-proud Abbey of Ysukka. Hundreds of years have past since its glory days – when the place was crackalakin’ – and now it floats in the Astral Sea, infested with vermin, undead, and worse. Recently it’s been occupied by Githyanki – the worst kind of Yankee! You can’t shake the feeling that you’re here to rescue someone.”Sure enough, after a moment of initial panic and confusion, the PCs can make their way through the Monastery, its outbuildings, and its cemetery, encountering swarms of vermin, skeletons, and the occasional gythyanki patrol. Whenever an encounter turns into combat, Chris Rock’s voice announces, “Them’s Fighting Words!” Oddly enough, the monsters can hear it too. To make matters stranger, everyone (NPCs and Monsters included) is aware of time passing while they are waiting for their turn, and when Chris Rock messes up the initiative order, they are aware of that too. Intelligent creatures will comment on it, often complaining that it should be their turn to go, or that the situation is unfair.Boss BattleEventually, the PCs will make it to the Cloister, where the Githyanki commander was made aware of their presence by the Silent Chime of a magical alarm ward. She has prepared for them by summoning three Giant Fungal Wretches. Chris Rock makes many jokes and messes up the initiative order, much to the commander’s frustration.The RescueBehind the cloister, the Spinner has been imprisoned, where Githyanki have been extracting her webs (for their various magical properties, including their ability to move through dimensions.) If the PCs can solve the puzzle of the magical wards, the Spinner can return herself and them to her home in a cavern near the Tangle.The Journey HomeTo get home, the PCs need to find the Hanged Elf – a Planeswalker who, while searching for magical secrets of the Multiverse, fell into The Tangle and was trapped in Threads. Arms, legs, and neck are now wrapped in reality-threads, and he dangles there, stuck for all eternity. He would have died – choked on threads – but for his many years of studying ancient elven protection magics before he began his expedition. But now, the very magic that keeps him alive makes it impossible for him to free himself from the Tangle. At any rate, he can locate and pull the right thread to send the PCs home. For a price of knowledge, which he still craves.AfterwardSomehow, magically, the entire scenario was still recorded by the cameras at home, and this episode of “Whose Turn Is It, Anyway?” becomes a top-rated phenomenon, further expanding the reach of D&D and other TTRPGs into the mainstream zeitgeist.</blockquote>

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