Questions about in-jokes I don't get

[Torack]

Looooong time lurker, first time poster...

The idol story is actually about a game I think E. Gygx ran at a Con. (God I hope I got that right.)

Basically he had created a room with a big ol' statue and everybody that entered the room meticulously(sp?) examined it, thinking it was magical or possessed of other special qualities. Nothing was ever found.
Then one smart player who had explored a bit further ahead of the party discovered the statue and after thoroughly examining it, decided it would be a fun prank to cast a magic mouth on it, where it would utter something along the lines of: Reward your wizard well and all will be good. (the player casting it was the wizard.)

So when the whole party discovered the statue the next day, the magic mouth went off said his thing and the party bought it. They then decided to pretty much strip down and handed over all their stuff to the wizard.

I don't recall what happened afterwards, but its safe to say, they weren't happy when they discovered the truth.

 

[werk]

Glabrezu, Gazebo...Gazebo, Glabrezu...

 

[Barak]

Note that the canadian humor group the Kids in The Hall had a whole skit about a gazebo, at the end of which the gazebo killed an old woman.

Well sorta.

 

[Mystery Man]

I know how you feel.

Last summer I suddenly got every "sheep" joke I ever heard at the Ren Faire when a girl in a shepherddess getup was herding around sheep throughout the faire. Never really got those jokes before, I get them now!

 

[diaglo]

 

[The Shaman]

Looooong time lurker, first time poster...

The idol story is actually about a game I think E. Gygx ran at a Con. (God I hope I got that right.)

Basically he had created a room with a big ol' statue and everybody that entered the room meticulously(sp?) examined it, thinking it was magical or possessed of other special qualities. Nothing was ever found.
Then one smart player who had explored a bit further ahead of the party discovered the statue and after thoroughly examining it, decided it would be a fun prank to cast a magic mouth on it, where it would utter something along the lines of: Reward your wizard well and all will be good. (the player casting it was the wizard.)

So when the whole party discovered the statue the next day, the magic mouth went off said his thing and the party bought it. They then decided to pretty much strip down and handed over all their stuff to the wizard.

I don't recall what happened afterwards, but its safe to say, they weren't happy when they discovered the truth.

The idol with the gemstone eyes is the cover of the 1e AD&D players handbook. They are lizardmen, not kobolds.

And the Gygax story is from Castle Greyhawk - it was a great big stone head, not the statue on the cover of the PHB.

Now I'm going to find someplace quiet and contemplate how old I am...

 

[Corbert]

None of my players know about the idol with gemstone eyes, so I ran two players through a side trek where these kobolds lured them to a wooden palisade in the forest "protecting" a large statue of a "kobold god" that has gems for eyes. Falling right into my trap, a rogue player sneaks in and steals the eyes. The two are found by a kobold there who then pretends to try killing himself because the "kobold god" will now curse the kobold village and kill all of them unless new gems are placed in the eye sockets of the statue. Of course it can't be the old (glass) gems, because they are now defiled, and the glue to hold the new gems cost several hundren gold. Naturally, the kobolds have no gold, can the adventurers help?
It was great, the rogue player massively failed his appraise check, and the paladin player had no gold or treasure to give the koblods. The characters decided to go into town so the paladin could sell some things and "save" the kobolds from the vengence of their god .

 

[sniffles]

I've always known the "gazebo" incident from Knights of the Dinner Table!

Occasionally, if you're a KODT reader, the gazebo can be changed to a zephyr.