The Rod of Seven Parts: Kauai Team OOC

[CanadienneBacon]

After the recent crush (Piercer on Gamad's head) Gamad will be in the back … always, until I note differently.

Got it, thanks.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

No stick in sight, Voadam and Mal. Also, the slug didn't utter a word in response to Voadam's question. It actually has no mouth!

 

[Ambrus]

No stick in sight, Voadam and Mal.

Darn. Nothing is ever easy.

 

[Strahd_Von_Zarovich]

Darn. Nothing is ever easy.

Even when you try to bring back two dead conies ... It's always difficult

 

[Ambrus]

One! One dead rabbit is all I wanted and instead I got three skeletal dire rats and and army of POed evil treants beating me within an inch of my life!

This is how Mael can tell he's a PC; NPCs don't have to deal with this kind of stuff. An NPC can live a long peaceful life farming the land without ever suffering a random encounter. A PC bends down to tie his shoe and ninjas leap out of his shadow.

 

[SlagMortar]

That's because the NPC farmer is actually a ninja in disguise, which you will learn if you try to attack him and steal his hoe.

 

[Ambrus]

That's because the NPC farmer is actually a ninja in disguise, which you will learn if you try to attack him and steal his hoe.

Dagnabit!

 

[Voadam]

That's because the NPC farmer is actually a ninja in disguise, which you will learn if you try to attack him and steal his hoe.

I don't want the hoe, I want the rod. And maybe their spears too.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

This is how Mael can tell he's a PC; NPCs don't have to deal with this kind of stuff. An NPC can live a long peaceful life farming the land without ever suffering a random encounter.

There were, admittedly, a couple of elements to the Take-Out Episode that were random-esque but, overall, the entire encounter actually had just about no randomness to it. I tried decently hard with implied text and overt meta/OOC suggestions to dissuade you from going out there that night!

I hate ninjas.

I don't want the hoe, I want the rod. And maybe their spears too.

That's about as Freudian as a person can get.

 

[Ambrus]

I tried decently hard with implied text and overt meta/OOC suggestions to dissuade you from going out there that night!

I know you did; it was plainly clear you didn't want Mael to go into the forest alone, if at all. I wasn't really complaining about what happened; it just sounds funny when put into words afterwards.

Problem was that there wasn't an in-game reason why Mael shouldn't have wanted to go. The forest is his turf, he's a monster and a creature of the night himself and he had never had any significant problems out there by himself before. Going to get meat and fire wood in the forest was the most normal thing Mael had done in the whole previous week. To Mael staying with a party of half-crazy giant-kin is what seems creepy and weird.