Post by bustedcasuality on Sept 16, 2012 23:49:24 GMT -5
Pretty much all of us have some stories to tell. Most of the stories suck, but everyone has a few that are funny, interesting, or just downright bizzare.
One of my coplayers, a Knight of Light, absolutely loved Secret Consorts. Every single time him and another player got a quest from a secret consort, he insisted the little guy come along. Nobody else liked the little guys (until the battlefield anyway), because of their combat tactics involved doing absolutely nothing, interspersed with random moments of doing something stupid. He got huge Character ARC bonuses for escorting these guys around on quests, while the rest of us just learned to hate the word "BEHOLD!"
One time, me and him were off early terraforming quest, and he had insisted on dragging my Secret Consort along. He was bugging me for details on what we were doing, as my consort (a badger) has been unusually cryptic (it had babbled something about a crystal lotus, if I recall correctly), and I was trying to tell ol'lightbulb without telling him on that I had no clue what I was doing, and was essentially flying by the seat of my pants. But he never took the hint, and kept asking anyway and irritating me.
Eventually we come to this huge chasm. I, having recently given up entirely on rational thought in despair (Stupid Fate), feel the urge to throw myself into the chasm and promptly do so. My knight friend goes "WTF?!" and jumps in after me, grabs me, and does that light thing where you make stuff lighter.
Good News: We land entirely unharmed.
Bad News: We land on top a massive damn nest of Burrowers- for those who don't know, they're a worm-like underling about 20ft long and teeth like shortswords. We both freak out, and I'm shooting green arrows left and right and he's going at everything with his frying pan, but we're outnumbered ten to one, and the burrowers can pop out from just about anywhere.
It looks like I've managed to get both of us killed, when all of a sudden my secret consort does the most badass thing I've ever seen out of an NPC. The little honey badger jumps blindly into the chasm, shouting "BEHOLD!" We look up, all the Burrowers look up just time to see him casting. So there's about 17 of us total, beholding the little guy, and the crazy little badger manages to roll [Vahalla]. Y'know, one of the Fate Berserk triggers? Green arrows appear on EVERYTHING, the little guys grabs one on the way down and crushes a Burrower underfoot, then proceeds to bounce around like super-ball kicking Burrower ass left and right like it had trained all it's life for that one day. Me and the Knight are just left staring as the little guy slaughters 17 Burrowers single-handedly.
Then we spent another hour wandering aimlessly before spontaneously being informed that we had completed the quest. I still don't know what we were supposed to be doing.
One of my coplayers, a Knight of Light, absolutely loved Secret Consorts. Every single time him and another player got a quest from a secret consort, he insisted the little guy come along. Nobody else liked the little guys (until the battlefield anyway), because of their combat tactics involved doing absolutely nothing, interspersed with random moments of doing something stupid. He got huge Character ARC bonuses for escorting these guys around on quests, while the rest of us just learned to hate the word "BEHOLD!"
One time, me and him were off early terraforming quest, and he had insisted on dragging my Secret Consort along. He was bugging me for details on what we were doing, as my consort (a badger) has been unusually cryptic (it had babbled something about a crystal lotus, if I recall correctly), and I was trying to tell ol'lightbulb without telling him on that I had no clue what I was doing, and was essentially flying by the seat of my pants. But he never took the hint, and kept asking anyway and irritating me.
Eventually we come to this huge chasm. I, having recently given up entirely on rational thought in despair (Stupid Fate), feel the urge to throw myself into the chasm and promptly do so. My knight friend goes "WTF?!" and jumps in after me, grabs me, and does that light thing where you make stuff lighter.
Good News: We land entirely unharmed.
Bad News: We land on top a massive damn nest of Burrowers- for those who don't know, they're a worm-like underling about 20ft long and teeth like shortswords. We both freak out, and I'm shooting green arrows left and right and he's going at everything with his frying pan, but we're outnumbered ten to one, and the burrowers can pop out from just about anywhere.
It looks like I've managed to get both of us killed, when all of a sudden my secret consort does the most badass thing I've ever seen out of an NPC. The little honey badger jumps blindly into the chasm, shouting "BEHOLD!" We look up, all the Burrowers look up just time to see him casting. So there's about 17 of us total, beholding the little guy, and the crazy little badger manages to roll [Vahalla]. Y'know, one of the Fate Berserk triggers? Green arrows appear on EVERYTHING, the little guys grabs one on the way down and crushes a Burrower underfoot, then proceeds to bounce around like super-ball kicking Burrower ass left and right like it had trained all it's life for that one day. Me and the Knight are just left staring as the little guy slaughters 17 Burrowers single-handedly.
Then we spent another hour wandering aimlessly before spontaneously being informed that we had completed the quest. I still don't know what we were supposed to be doing.
