Chapter 32 – Page 13
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Guilded Age
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I want that bartender!
A tankard of tankards so the tank can get tanked.
Obligatory mention of Xzibit and/or Inception.
Pimp yo tankard! *foghorn*
Frigg looks like a kid who just found proof that Santa is absolutely real
Possibly… that might also being her dorkgasmically in love face.
There’s a difference?
..Calling it now: Gravedust IS Santa.
I haven’t seen him yet, tonight. But, I’ll try to stay awake till morning, to see if it really is him.
I like this place.
They found their Holodeck. O_O
…I’ll be in Comfort Room Four.
I’ve been looking for this room my whole life. I just didn’t know it until right now.
OK, so this is like the “holodeck” on the enterprise, right? And now we know where the cover for this chapter takes place. So pairing up “STNG” with “GA”, I propose –
Frigg = Worf, Gravedust = Troi, Byron = Riker, Syr’Nj = 1/2 Picard + 1/2 Dr. Crusher, Bandit = 1/2 Picard and 1/2 Tasha Yar
I don’t buy Bandit as Tasha Yar, she’s more of a Ferengi of some sort… maybe Ensign Ro or whatever her name was? Also, Worf fits Scipio better.
Rachel = Data, E-Merl = Geordi La Forge
but wasn’t Worf always getting beat up by every alien they met?
Yeah, well, it was Star Trek. Just like they kept getting caught in “energy fields” of the type they’d “never encountered before”, Worf always ran into the bad guy du jour that would wipe the floor with him just to show how scary he was. Then Picard would defeat him by reciting Shakespeare or something.
BTW Scipio got pretty roughed up in that last fight, too. Then tiny Bandit steps into the ring and takes on HAMMERHEAD without a scratch.
So the place Byron feels most comfortable is an empty tavern with no people, not even a bartender, but where he can still get beer.
Actually, that makes sense for him. He’s pretty insecure and hates all the attention he gets, but in a place like this he can have an adventurer’s off-day without anyone watching.
Or maybe he’s comfortable in the guild hall, and the Comfort Room just can’t create people. Whichever.
The latter.
I really don’t see any good from overanalyzing Byron in this setting. I tend to think of myself as a guy with simple needs & I’d find that room to be very comfortable indeed.
I’m pretty sure that’s a copy of the mess hall in their guild hall.
This is the place that breaks immersion the most and the party hasn’t noticed. It is literally a game world creating resources for them without any prompting or work and they’re too immersed to realize it. Something is going to happen. Something bad.
Not really though, the sky elves used summoning food for quite some time. It just has to come from somewhere else.
Which means there is a very confused bartender somewhere in their world right now.
Oh, I forgot about the room for a second.
Ah well, that can be an illusion, can’t it? Not really breaking immersion there when they know folks who can actually cast illusion spells.
not really. we already know full well the sky elves entire society runs off of magic, that summoning food/beer can be done easily through magic (even if E-merel dosen’t like to do it.) and that illusion spells exist (e-merel is literaly an illusionist, and the sky elves recently turned two giant blimps invisible…)
why would it be immervie breaking for them to combine two magics into a room designed to be as convinient and comfortable as possible? compared to the self-rebuilding statues, this seems pretty tame
…. free beer???
…. screw the laws of physics, we must build this!!!
The room, err, pub of requisition.
Oops, room of requirement is what I meant.
I want a memory card slot for my brain :-)
doesn’t elf magic teleport their stuff in from the rest of the world, not create it
they’re going to get home and find that a mysterious force wrecked their base and teleported their meeting chamber away
Conjuration is what you are thinking of. Takes from to give to.
I doubt that is the case here, or the request simply moves items off a shelf and drink from the back room.
They’ll get back and discover that every tavern in town had to shut down, because someone stole all their alcohol. And, Frigg will have a hangover.
Interesting how Gravedust seems to be as bamused as Frigg at Byron’s choice. Makes me wonder what sort of place he would have conjured himself if he entered first…
Strip joint full of dwarven women, maybe ? :D
A dirt cave, with naked dwarf women
Hot desert Oasis with dwarf women?
A quiet gathering with the dead mystics, I’m sure.
Aww, you’re no fun anymore…
Somewhere with other Savasi who actually like and won’t try to kill him?
There probably has to be some home cuisine he’s missing by now as well…
Its nice to see all the original characters together on the page. ‘Best’ group ever! Part of me misses the good old days before sepia world.
Gravedust just exploded into ale, leaving behind a beard/hair halo in his wake.
Where do you think that head of foam came from?
Now I’m just waiting for Byron to go, ‘Tea, Earl Grey, hot’.
…and then the world was doomed, because they never left.