| From: | Tarek Okail <Tarek_Okail@**********.COM> |
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| Subject: | Harlequin's Sword (was: Dumb Things) |
| Date: | Thu, 10 Sep 1998 00:24:23 -0400 |
>Heh.. Same problem here. One of the PC's had made the sword
>into a weapon focus, and was standing right there with it. It
>was painful for me to abstain from the adventure's single best
>one-liner. >8->
Why did you abstain? I didn't... and the mage dutifully
gave up his stacked Weapon focus 6/Power focus 6... after getting
this absolutely *precious* "stunned bunny" look. <g>
Harlequin gave it back though, after a few comments like
"What have you done to it?! Don't you *realize* what you've done?
Ruined! It's absolutely ruined! No collector will ever buy it now!
And the enchanter did such sloppy work, too! Here, take your
trinket back! Catch!" and he does his Highlander routine, pulling
an identical sword out of nowhere.
Now the player doesn't have a stunned bunny look... now
he looks like he's ready to *kill* Harlequin. After all, his mage
designed the enchantment, collected all the raw materials by hand,
did all the circulations by himself (including several units of
Orichalcum generated from raw gold, silver, and mercury), and did
the actual enchantment as well. He's ridiculously proud of that
sword.
I like Harlequin, and characters like him. They exist
solely to deflate the egos and swelled heads of the world, and
they do so well at it, too. No, I'm not talking about IE's, I'm
talking about Harlequin's attitude. I've always wondered though...
who is Harlequin's Columbine?
Shadowmage
