Mount tales

[sniffles]

Man, Vraille, you guys are nasty! That could go into the annals along with the gazebo and zephyr stories.

I don't have any good stories about my character's mount, but some of my fellow players had interesting mount stories. My fiancee was playing an Amazon sorceress in AD&D, and she'd left her village to seek both a mate and a good horse. The party ended up in an inn that was attacked by a red dragon and a bunch of the other patrons were killed, so when we couldn't find anyone to turn their horses over to we took some of the animals ourselves. The Amazon took a horse that had an "attitude". The GM always described this horse very colorfully, as being very smart and often showing disgust with the behavior of the party members. Eventually the party entered a wild magic area that had created some water that was enchanted so it gave animals the ability to speak. We kept some of it, but forgot about it most of the time. Just as the party was going to face off the BBE, my fiancee remembered that water and decided his Amazon gave some to her horse to ask whether the horse wanted to be left behind or not. The whole party got an earful while on their way up to the final confrontation. That horse had been holding in a lot of opinions!

In another campaign, we have a gnome druid who's gone into the bird lord prestige class. He was obsessed with finding an axebeak and would ask at every opportunity if anyone had seen one or had one for sale. When he finally got his hands on an axebeak he was in heaven. Now he rides that thing out ahead of the party all the time, riding in circles around the rest of the group because they don't have mounts and an axebeak has a phenomenal movement rate. He even insists on taking the axebeak with us wherever we go; the rest of the party have to talk him out of taking it into palaces and such.

 

[Rel]

Man, Vraille, you guys are nasty! That could go into the annals...

I think it shows a considerable amount of will power on my part not to make a joke about this in the Mount thread.

*Rel pats himself on the back and resolves not to return until he has a good mount story to tell rather than trading off color jokes with Diaglo.*

 

[Patman21967]

For those who remember Runequest II, I was playing a Khan of the Rhino Rider clan, Kin-Ox. My Rhino mount, Thunderhoof, was my boon companion and trusted steed. Many a Chaos beastie I had lanced and he had trampled to death. His most glorious achievement was the impaling of a dreaded Allosaur, saving his rider of a most sure wounding. Alas, poor Thunderhoof met his match at the hands of a cruel Plague Mistress of Malia, who targeted him with a Cause Plague and he rotted under Kin-Ox, driving him berserk.

 

[Evilhalfling]

The amazingly stupied Dwarven Paladin named Duddlt Dwright had a Dire boar mount named Rocky that had exactly the same intelligence as his rider. Rockies idea of fun was to casually try and overbear anyone he thought looked pompus. He knocked over party members regularly and was banned from a city after knocking over a city guard. Rocky was eventually killed by a Barbed devil, who knew it was beaten - and just power attacked alot to take something with it.

The other mount story was Pierre the sorcerer - he would summon the same 3 horses with the mount spell. These horses were used for everything, except riding - baiting sharks, finding traps, providing cover, all three were neurotic, the first horse (Claudius)summoned ocasionally was used as transport, it was ploding and resigned to whatever happened. The second horse (Socks) would go berserk when summoned, trying to flee from the certain death that always awaited it. The third(miss Buttercup) just hated Pierre and would try and bite or kick him if possible, but would be allright for anyone else. They also never responded to the names he called them.

 

[sniffles]

For those who remember Runequest II, I was playing a Khan of the Rhino Rider clan, Kin-Ox. My Rhino mount, Thunderhoof, was my boon companion and trusted steed. Many a Chaos beastie I had lanced and he had trampled to death. His most glorious achievement was the impaling of a dreaded Allosaur, saving his rider of a most sure wounding. Alas, poor Thunderhoof met his match at the hands of a cruel Plague Mistress of Malia, who targeted him with a Cause Plague and he rotted under Kin-Ox, driving him berserk.

LOL! I can totally imagine that. Our RQ party had a Zebra Rider spirit shaman who had taken a geas against riding anything. His mount was an enchanted floating saddle. He'd also taken some geases involving self-mutilation, so it was pretty amusing to imagine the party being followed around by a one-eyed, lame old guy on a floating saddle.

Sigh. I miss RuneQuest.

 

[MrFilthyIke]

Not in my game, but at a neighboring table at a game day, I remember a paladin who "parked his horse" outside a building in the slums of a town while investigating, only to find he had been "horse-jacked" by the scum and villains living in that bad part of town.

Felt like telling him to not put spinners on his next horses hooves.