Friendship is Dragons
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SCREW THAT, TEACH *EVERYONE* TO BE AS NOISY AS POSSIBLE SO THAT SHE BARELY STANDS OUT! IT'D BE AWESOME
YOU GET A ROYAL CAPS LOCK, YOU GET A ROYAL CAPS LOCK, EVERYBODY GETS A ROYAL CAPS LOCK!!!
ATTENTION CITIZENS! DUE TO THE UNFAVORABLE RECEPTION OF PRINCESS LUNA, ALL CITIZENS ARE MANDATED TO ACQUIRE BARD TRAINING IMMEDIATELY! PLEASE REPORT TO THE NEAREST MUSIC STORE, DANCE HALL, OR POETRY CAFE FOR YOUR STATE MANDATED INSTRUCTION! ANYONE WHO DOES NOT POSSESS BARDIC ABILITIES WITHIN ONE MONTH SHALL BE DEPORTED TO DETROT! THAT IS ALL.
NO MORE NEED WE KOWTOW TO SENSIBLE LIMITS! THINGS SHALL GET LOUD NOW!
YOU FOLKS ARE AWARE YOU'RE GOING TO LARGE QUANTITIES OF THROAT MEDICATIONS BECAUSE OF ALL THIS YELLING RIGHT?
RANDOM WORDS
RANDOM WORDS
Me and my brother Flam are happy to present our fandabulous throat soothing cocktail for sale for a mere 50 bits per bottle, the line starts over here.
Malroth, yours might be 50 bits a bottle, but mine are free. Plus I label side effects.
(Side effects include: Hallucinations, nausea, memory distortion, waking up married to a goat, Markiplier narrating your life, and a sense of belief that you are somehow related to MangaMinx. You have been warned.)
I'LL TAKE A CASE
THIS STUFF WOULD'VE BEEN REALLY USEFUL WHEN I HAD STREP-THROAT
THIS STUFF WOULD'VE BEEN REALLY USEFUL WHEN I HAD STREP-THROAT
NO NO, YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG. ONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO PROJECT, FORCEFULLY, WITHOUT STRAIN TO THE VOCAL CORDS. IT REQUIRES SOME PRACTICE, BUT IT IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM YELLING OR SHOUTING.
VERY TRUE. SOME PEOPLE DO THIS NATURALLY WITHOUT REALISING WHAT THEY'RE DOING UNTIL THEY'RE TOLD TO TONE IT DOWN.
I CAN CERTAINLY RELATE TO THAT. SPEAKING SOFTLY SEEMS TO BE MUCH HARDER THAN CARRYING BIG STICKS.
PROJECTION!!
Quiet is such a rare commodity in a realm where magic and mayhem are common, but enough about my life, let's talk about the comic!
I kid I kid, story time! Tell a story wherein things depended upon one of your fellow players keeping quiet!
I kid I kid, story time! Tell a story wherein things depended upon one of your fellow players keeping quiet!
...Yea, me neither.
Our party of ponies was in front of the changeling queen. The queen hired an alchemist to disassemble an old golem, but we discovered that the golem was old enough to evolve sentience. We attempted to sway the queen's decision on the matter and my bard earth pony had the best leadership skills to do this.
And then the angry crystal pony engineer started comparing the alchemist to a comic book villain. And then the baby dragon got angry at the engineer. And then our changeling put in her two cents...
If it weren't for my bard's critical success on persuasion...
And then the angry crystal pony engineer started comparing the alchemist to a comic book villain. And then the baby dragon got angry at the engineer. And then our changeling put in her two cents...
If it weren't for my bard's critical success on persuasion...
Well, in Star Wars our band of rebel mercenaries had accidentally stumbled upon an ancient Sith planet that had dozens of star destroyer-sized ships. We planned to use these ships to launch a strike on military targets of the Empire and maybe give the illusion of the return of the Sith.
The only problem was that all of the machines only recognized ancient Sith commands. So we found an Indiana Jones character who knew tons of stuff about ancient Sith. To convince him to help us, we wanted to make sure he was onboard with the scheme without really knowing what it was. That's where two of us came in, my Zabrak muscle character and a changeling spy.
The changeling had an excellent deception score, but the player was not the brightest. He couldn't think of a lie to tell the scholar, so my thug-like mechanic had to make up a lie with a terrible deception bonus. I told him that we wanted to produce a new strategy-based video game in which the Sith are a major playable faction, and as such we needed some interpretation for ancient Sith military commands. It was an excellent lie, but my roll was pitiful. The scholar was undecided, and all I needed was for the changeling to nod his head and agree. It was a lucky thing that his deception was amazing because he started making up a bullshit marketing scheme that was in no way anything that could possibly turn a profit.
Better lucky than good, I guess.
The only problem was that all of the machines only recognized ancient Sith commands. So we found an Indiana Jones character who knew tons of stuff about ancient Sith. To convince him to help us, we wanted to make sure he was onboard with the scheme without really knowing what it was. That's where two of us came in, my Zabrak muscle character and a changeling spy.
The changeling had an excellent deception score, but the player was not the brightest. He couldn't think of a lie to tell the scholar, so my thug-like mechanic had to make up a lie with a terrible deception bonus. I told him that we wanted to produce a new strategy-based video game in which the Sith are a major playable faction, and as such we needed some interpretation for ancient Sith military commands. It was an excellent lie, but my roll was pitiful. The scholar was undecided, and all I needed was for the changeling to nod his head and agree. It was a lucky thing that his deception was amazing because he started making up a bullshit marketing scheme that was in no way anything that could possibly turn a profit.
Better lucky than good, I guess.
1) The fighter seeing hallucinations and spectral visions (and only the fighter), and they don't say a word.
2) The rogue sees an assassin moving in to assassinate a fellow party member, and makes no move or action to stop it.
3) The bard who witnessed the mass murder of dozens of peasants, and made no move to stop them.
These mini-stories are part of different campaign, but the characters themselves are played by the same player, me. This is because this is how I am in real life, and would most likely act in these situations. But I only act this way for one reason, no one gives me the chance to put in my two cents.
I act too much like Fluttershy in this regard.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I have a hard time trying to interject when people are talking and by the time I get a chance to talk, we've already moved on. Its why I go out of my way to make sure everyone gets a chance to say something without being skipped. Its not the easiest thing for me to do (and it conflicts with a few other personality traits I have) but I'd rather step out of my comfort zone than have anyone feel left out.
Though now days, its less making sure everyone has a chance to say what they want to say and more trying to get the train back on tracks but whatever.
I once GM'ed a WW2 French Resistance campaign in which players keeping quiet was quite important!
The party robbed a bank in the city of Vichy, to deny the Germans the gold they had been planning to transfer to Switzerland. The party managed to escape in a stolen van, and all they needed to do was find a quiet place in the countryside to hide while the situation blew over.
They encountered a German checkpoint. The party convinced the sentries that they were gardeners going to somesuch place, and they even talked off the broken driver's-side window (which they busted to steal the van), claiming that it was damaged when they were loading the gardening tools.
All seemed fine, until the driver mentioned what had happened in Vichy: "Did you hear? Some bandits robbed a bank!"
Germans: "What?"
Passenger-seat PC: (low voice) "Stop talking."
Driver: "It was crazy. There was this big explosion!"
Passenger-seat PC: (low voice) "Stop. Talking."
Driver: "You should go check it out..."
By now the Germans were definitely suspicious; the party never said they had come from Vichy, and the only way they could have known about the bank raid...
A gunfight ensued. The party escaped (just), but now they have the Germans and the Milice (Vichyites) hunting them.
One PC is now dead (the medic), and another two are seriously wounded and invalid.
The party robbed a bank in the city of Vichy, to deny the Germans the gold they had been planning to transfer to Switzerland. The party managed to escape in a stolen van, and all they needed to do was find a quiet place in the countryside to hide while the situation blew over.
They encountered a German checkpoint. The party convinced the sentries that they were gardeners going to somesuch place, and they even talked off the broken driver's-side window (which they busted to steal the van), claiming that it was damaged when they were loading the gardening tools.
All seemed fine, until the driver mentioned what had happened in Vichy: "Did you hear? Some bandits robbed a bank!"
Germans: "What?"
Passenger-seat PC: (low voice) "Stop talking."
Driver: "It was crazy. There was this big explosion!"
Passenger-seat PC: (low voice) "Stop. Talking."
Driver: "You should go check it out..."
By now the Germans were definitely suspicious; the party never said they had come from Vichy, and the only way they could have known about the bank raid...
A gunfight ensued. The party escaped (just), but now they have the Germans and the Milice (Vichyites) hunting them.
One PC is now dead (the medic), and another two are seriously wounded and invalid.
Martain just cannot shut up. We use this to our advantage by basically using his sheer powers of annoyance, combined with tanking spells, to enrage enemies into trying to crush the Mage with five different magical protections while the others wail on the enemy.
It seems being an incessant smart mouth has a negative impact on diplomacy though, so *thwump*.
I have a player who's every single character is crazy. Often crazy with a good bluff bonus. For my party a fourth of role-playing is polity asking the NPC to ignore the madman who is busy claiming that he is a king/their boss.
Who is Javolt?? I don't think I've ever heard that before, unless you're meaning "yes, indeed" in German.
I have never heard of this "Javolt." Please enlighten me.
Dr. Javolt is the mad-scientist Donkey PC from "Fallout is Dragons", which is the Aspirations of Harmony based, FIM and Fallout crossover and D&D style game podcast that Spud is the DM of. He posts links to it in the description of the comic when a new session is posted.
Whenever i do have to keep someone quiet, i usually send them on fetch quests. ("We need you to get more drinks." "I saw some evil in the bushes over there." "Nah, that's not a vampire i'm making a deal with. Unrelated, could you get me some virgin's blood?")
He wasn't allowed aboard after that, and all the other ships marked up the fare for him.
As in this Volg.
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Such_is_life_on_Volg
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Such_is_life_on_Volg
in one star wars campaign, we were on Coruscant trying to stop a droid employed by a lunatic from detonating a nerve gas bomb in one of the central air ducts for a heavily populated region. In addition to warning us about the bomb (because he found us entertaining) said lunatic also warned the authorities... about us. Thinking we were allies of his, the authorities wanted to apprehend us, and part of the ensuing escape found 3 of our party members hijacking a police vehicle that we proceeded to drive right past several other officers (whom we fooled by pretending to be police and rambling off "obscure parts of the law codes" they were "violating" by pulling alongside us). Then we hit the police station, where as long as we kept our cool, we could skirt past without detection. The droid (party hacker and back-up sharpshooter) flubbed the roll, and proceeded to alert the entire station to the fact that, not only were they so incompetent that we managed to evade them and steal some of their property, but that when they later caught up to us we managed to fool them into thinking we were fellow cops. A few slurs against biological organisms were thrown in there for good measure. Partially horrified at what just happened, the rest of the party in the car grabbed the droid, pulled him back in, and took off with half the station in pursuit. Ironically, that ended up working in the favor of the other party members, who slipped away in the vehicles they had "liberated" themselves, and after losing the tail we did manage to get to the vent station in time to stop the bomb. The best part is that is how things generally go with our party, because at least half of us are playing some form of functional sociopaths, so regardless of success or failure we managed to make some form of fireworks.
Wait... So is Luna supposed to be shouting through all this scene in this version?
I THINK RARITY/LUNA FORGOT TO SHOUT ALSO CAPS LOCK FTW!
SHE SAID THAT THE OTHER PLAYERS SHOULD ASSUME SHE'S DOING THE VOICE AT ALL TIMES. SHE'S TRYING NOT TO DEAFEN HER FRIENDS IRL WHICH I THINK IS WRONG. SPEAK LOUD, SPEAK PROUD.
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Fluttershy, could you please get out from under the couch? I doubt you can do much good from under there...
*Lifts couch*
...but, this isn't one of those times.
I concur. Being under a couch can be very helpful. Like preventing you from being taken in the movie...oh wait, no that was a bed, beds don't help at all.
You know, what's with people and hiding under beds, in the movies? If only they hid under a couch, they would've been just fine.
You know, what's with people and hiding under beds, in the movies? If only they hid under a couch, they would've been just fine.
it has always worked for British children to avoid being taken by Daleks
COUCHES (coughs) sorry still shouting from earlier. Couches generally hurt when on top of you but make excellent hiding from thief spots.
And when things REALLY get intense... That, my friends, is when you bring out the beanbag. Tremble in fear before the power of seating!
Ok ok, you all have made a valid point about the usefulness of couches...and beanbags, but that has nothing to do with Flutters-
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Dang it! Where did she go?!
*pulls out Flutershy...maniquine with note.*
What the? "I'm sorry, but I picked a different spot this time. It was a really good try though, I hope you aren't mad at me for tricking you."
It seems to me we have a chase on our hooves, and by the end of it, we probably still won't find her.
Now, I propose we don't panic while looking for her- I SAID DON"T PANIC!... cause that could lead to fighting, and we will never find her if we do so. Now, we know she is sneaky, well armed, and probably has enough support to get her to the Crystal Empire, if not further. So, we'll split into as many teams of three as we can. I'll take Angel and... who ever volunteers to go with us, and we'll check out the Everfree Forest. Everyone else, fan out and search high and low, every shrub and every tree, and every person running from you in fear or to you for whatever reason. Now hurry, we need to find her before Luna get here.
Ok, you heard the big cheese, drop whatever your doing and go back into the comment section before this thing gets blown out of proportion....Now where the heck am I going to find a couch at this time of the night?
Quills and Sofas of course! They are open 24/7 in the event that twilight runs out.
I think he just doesn't want a repeat of that RP date with fluttershy. That whole business was kind of creepy
But, if you want us to stop, I'll stop.
roleplaying in the comments section of a combic about rolepl,aying CANT HAVE THAT NOW
I've had a whole PBP campaign take up real estate in the comments section before. (Zilean's Revenge, I think it was.) Nothing overly creepy there, but ultimately just adding to scrolling time when I'm looking through the day's stories and discussions.
What I'm seeing here, over the past few weeks now, is extending comments into skits. Fair enough, it's amusing. But only up to a point, after which it's just adding more scrolling time. And when Raxon enters the mix (or people clearly inspired by Raxon's unique brand of commenting), there's the looming possibility of skits getting very weird/dark/unhinged very fast. That's what I see.
And that's why I say "just a notch lower." Can't ask you to stop trying to be entertaining the way you want to, but I just want you guys to be aware of how far you could take it that I'd prefer you didn't. I hope this clarifies things.
CHEEEX MIIIIX!
On a mostly unrelated note, have you ever noticed that even though everyone here is wary of my links, and I am the first one to be pointed to when talking about problematic posting, I have never been the one to bring down the wrath of Spud?
I was not involved in the Fluttershy date roleplay, and the most controversial things I've posted were calling a hat I own gay, because, hey, it's a wide brimmed purple felt hat with flamboyant, colorful trim, and that dragon post, where I described Raxon giving a living WMD to China, and then screwing them over beyond all belief,intervening secretly to steal people away, and forcing the chinese government to trade children for solutions that made things increasingly worse.
Okay, yeah, that was pretty horrifying, but it was pretty meh compared to what happens to most countries that try to cheat beings of incredible power.
Basically, great though my powers are to disturb and confound, I am but a symbol. A symbol that the good people of FiD comments need not fear the dark. That the criminals of these comments have something to fear. I. Am. BATMAN!
And i am the Dragonborn!
Fus-Ro-Dah!
(Cue epic skyrim music)
Fus-Ro-Dah!
(Cue epic skyrim music)
MILITARES SAN FRONTIERES, CHARGE!!
Release the Metal Gear!!
Release the Metal Gear!!
Hahaha! That's fantastic! I wish I would have seen more of Batman Beyond as a kid. It's not as good as the original animated series, but it's still good stuff, IMHO. Oh and by the way, that video reminds of this one: http://youtu.be/uoRundeX6O0
He. Is. AchildtraumatizedbythedeathofhisparentsandthengoesoffandbecomespracticallyaninjathenreturnstothecityofGothamandrunsarounddressedlikeabatandsendscriminalstoaninsaneasylum.
Oops, sorry about that. I guess I made my description of Batman a bit too long. You have my sincere apologies.
I'll just ask that the "Spartacus!" thing end here since it really has nothing to do with what I posted and I'll see you all on Tuesday.
Awww....
I was replying to Raxon when I did that.
*sigh* See you Tuesday.
I was replying to Raxon when I did that.
*sigh* See you Tuesday.
What this situation calls for is some expert voice training by... Brian Blessed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1zjeYhJs7o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1zjeYhJs7o
Here's some more of BRIAN BLESSED, just for the ham of it! X3
http://youtu.be/YP11L9jRW94?list=RDL1zjeYhJs7o
http://youtu.be/YP11L9jRW94?list=RDL1zjeYhJs7o
Session 30: Libsyn YouTube