Looking for very old thread 'they do not appear to be acrobats'

[Lord Zardoz]

A few years ago there was a thread that listed several terribly written encounters from published adventures. There was one that stuck out in my mind, an encounter where the dm text said something along these lines:

'A group of travelers approaches. They do not appear to be injured. They are not especially young or old. They are not running very quickly, nor are they walking especially slowly. They do not appear to be acrobats.'

There was more to it than that, but it mostly went trying to describe the group in terms of what they were not.

Does anyone else recognize or remember what it is I am talking about here?

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[Dannyalcatraz]

I can't remember the name of the thread, but all of the exerpts were from the old module, "The Forest Oracle."

http://www.enworld.org/forum/genera...st-tsr-adventure-module-s-ever-published.html

 

[Umbran]

This one?

http://www.enworld.org/forum/genera...st-tsr-adventure-module-s-ever-published.html

(Google "site:enworld.org they do not appear to be acrobats")

 

[Nagol]

The original module is The Forest Oracle *rummages around for link*

Here you are:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/genera...st-tsr-adventure-module-s-ever-published.html

 

[Joshua Randall]

Ninja'd so hard I just deleted my original comments.

 

[Lord Zardoz]

Yeah, thats the thread.

I think I will quote this bit as an encounter in my weekend game:

A group of men head by. They are not tarrying or running. Nor are they singing. They don't seem to be making apple pies. As far as you can tell, they're not talking about sports. They neither have sombreros nor stilts. These men are not acrobats. They have no expression as they don't dally to the west.

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[Joshua Randall]

Oh yeah. That's the quote. It's my third favorite quote on ENWorld.

[sblock]The first two are:

(1) From (contact)'s Return to the Temple of elemental Evil story hour:

A quick and murderous foray into the refugee camps to repair the party's reputation as people not to be trifled with.

(2) From another *great* thread, this one about the Lord of the Rings Movie as a bad (3e) D&D game:

DM: OK, so you're falling through Moria with the Balrog.
Player2: I cast a Stilled, Silent mage hand and pull Glamdring to me.
Player1: Wait, a what, whated, what what?
Player3: No wonder he didn't have any fireballs prepared.

(Both quotes are from memory and may not be exact.)[/sblock]

 

[UnknownAtThisTime]

OP, thank you for resurrecting the original thread. I have just spent several minutes reading it and laughing.

The funny part for me is, until someone posted the module cover in the thread, I did not realize that I ran that module as DM 20 some years ago. I was 11 or 12, and I wonder what in the world my feeble brain did to try and make sense of it to my buddies. I am not a quick DM now, and I sure as heck wasn't as an 11 year old.