The Continuing Adventures of the Knights of the Silver Quill

[Grim]

Oh ho! Not fair Dr. M! Thats just not fair! You're going to make Dartan Cry! Thats not cool!!!
SOOOOOOO EVIL! I guess they don't call it the Temple of Elemental EVIL for nothing, huh...

 

[Breakstone]

Oh, man that's evil!

 

[Ziona]

Well, THAT is interesting!
Looks like we're in for it on Thursday!

 

[DWARF]

Hello?!!! SUBDUAL damage!!!

 

[Dr Midnight]

Hello?!!! SUBDUAL damage!!!

Well, as I see it, Dartan's player isn't the type to sacrifice 4 AB just to spare an NPC... even though it's his character's father. Still, killing his dad wouldn't really be out of character for Dartan, would it?

Every Thursday (sometimes Tuesdays during Buffy nights as well) I hear "Whaaat? So I punched one stupid bard and killed one stupid baker."

This isn't to say that Dartan's player is a powergamer- he just has odd motivations. "Dartan is not given to sentiment" is a line I wrote once, and it holds up as his best description.

 

[MasterOfHeaven]

Question... why is it Dartans father doesn't realize he's in black armor with evil designs on it? All he has to do is look at his gauntlets.... is he under some sort of mind influencing spell or something?

 

[DWARF]

Yah think? I found Doc Mid's clever crafting of that paragraph showed that these "Elemental Eye" sects are made by mind-infuencing spells. Otherwise some would see the evil being done...

 

[Dartan]

Will see what happens but if Dartan has to take his dad's life for the good of the party and the destruction of the temple he'll cry about it after all is said and done...

 

[Wee Jas]

bah

No he wouldn't cry... Dartan would say, "Guys! I had to kill him.. HE WAS EVILLLLLL!!!!!"

 

[Richards]

Okay, now this is kind of going beyond "tradition" and bordering on "obsession." I read the latest exploits of the Knights over the weekend, and last night while I was trying to get to sleep I was suddenly struck with the thought that Lynyrd Skynyrd's song "Gimme Three Steps" would be the perfect vehicle for a song parody about Dartan's recent encounter with the Deck of Many Things. So, without further ado, here's Dartan singing "Gimme Four Cards."

I was out with my band
Smiting evil from the land
When we came across this place
With a skeleton guard
Sittin' shuffling cards
And he kind of had this grin on his face.
He said, "Hey there, Dartan
Aren't you tired of cartin'
All of your troubles around?
'Cause I got a deck here
And you need have no fear
There is power here to be found."

Well I gotta admit, I was tempted a bit
I was turnin' it around in my mind.
But my friends they all said
"Man, you're out of your head
And that's puttin' it kind."
They said, "Take a good look, Dartan
We're not foolin' or fartin',
It's a Deck of Many Things.
It'll bring you no good
And we wish that you would
Say you don't want what it brings."

Won't you give me four cards
Gimme four cards, mister,
Gimme four cards from the deck?
Gimme four cards
Gimme four cards, mister,
I'm feeling lucky so what the heck.

Well he flipped the first card
And I looked at it hard
It was a picture of the Moon.
And the skeleton said
That two wishes I had
But I'd have to use them both up soon.
Card Two was Death, well there went wish one,
Card Three a Knight to serve all my needs.
Card Four again was Death my old friend
I wished him away 'fore he could make me bleed.

Won't you give me four cards
Gimme four cards, mister,
Gimme four cards from the deck?
Gimme four cards
Gimme four cards, mister
Even though my friends want to wring my neck.