DM: Sooo... yeah. In the time it takes for Twilight to visit her brother and return to base, the rest of the party's plan is a success. Twilight comes back to find them trying on their new bridesmaid dresses.
Twilight Sparkle: That's... slightly worrying without context. But nevermind that! Girls, Cadance is a brainwashing traitor and my brother is in big trouble!
Applejack: Yep, sounds about right.
Rarity: Mmhmm.
Rainbow Dash: Good to know.
(beat)
Twilight Sparkle: The whole city is in danger and you're all trying on *dresses*. Could you at least take this a BIT more seriously?
Applejack: Like this wasn't the other boot-drop we were waitin' for the whole time.
Rainbow Dash: Sorry, can't hear you over how FABULOUS we are, _darling_.
Rarity: Oh, don't you start with that.
Sometimes you can't muster fake in-character shock for something incredible you already learned out-of-character. And that's fine. But it does sometimes lead to amusing non-reactions.
We played and recorded some more D&D this past weekend! There was a dragon in a dungeon, even!
Spudventures - The Forgotten Ones, Session 23 - Rotten Water: Podcast | Video
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"Rainbow Dash always dress in style" is a old joke, because while the Rainbow Dash we know is a Tomboy, this is the fourth version (4.0) of My Little Pony, in a previous version, there was another Rainbow Dash and that was one of her phrases
I always wondered why a Rainbow Dash would have "Dresses in Style" as a thing. MainLy because of the name. I might be biased because Gen4 was my first exposure to ponies, but assuming there were meaninful names back then, It still doesn't sound right.
To expand on what Old Joke said, the 'Rainbow Dash always dresses in style' phrase was from the opening theme song to the "Gen 3" MLP show- as the shows are generally divided into 'Gens'. And there happens to be a 'Gen 3.5' MLP show, which was terrible and horrifying and oughtn't be mentioned in decent company.
So the fact that there's both a 3.0 and 3.5 for DnD, AND for MLP, lets us draw amusing parallels between the two, contrasting quality.
Of course there are also the Infinite Loops, where Gen 3 is a common punishment loop for Equestrian loopers, (Dash does not like being reminded of how she loops into that).
OK, given Rainbow Dash's characterization up to this point, her line and delivery are HILARIOUS. I can just hear her imitating Rarity. Nice touch, Newbiespud!
I approach the window of a house being besieged by local mercenaries, claiming they're rooting out some brigands responsible for a bunch of murders. My character's sister (also a PC, to be clear) teleports inside using Misty Step through the window. To clarify, we were trying to talk with them since the mercenaries were just trying to break down the walls of the place and we were hoping to figure out what was going on.
The people *inside* immediately Hold Person my sister and begin trying to murder her. Also, we notice a lot of blood on the floor around this time. I turn back to rest of the party, yell "alright, they're bastards!" and the fight is on.
I've had to fake surprise a couple times already, giving how I usually realized where the DM was going way before the big reveal. Not that I'm particularly intuitive or deductive, it happened with that one DM because I caught on to his thought pattern. The first time I burst it out in my best deadpan thinking I was just grasping at straws and ruined the surprise. TThat's when I learned I could intuit how that DM thought, AND to keep those moments of clarity to myself.
One time I played with OOC knowledge very different to in-character. I had a deal with GM that my character is going to be knocked out during her introduction. When she woke up, she didn't know who did that, but she came up with idea that the party was responsible. She was forced to work with them, but she was very distrustful of them. I was very interested in trying such dynamic.
We played and recorded some more D&D this past weekend! There was a dragon in a dungeon, even!
Spudventures - The Forgotten Ones, Session 23 - Rotten Water: Podcast | Video