I know it's a fucking trope and I'm still tearing up at it anyway.
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There's this D&D movie from a while ago, Of Dice and Men (not to be confused with the nonfiction book of the same title about the history of D&D) About this meta shit where people in a D&D group use the game to vent their issues with each other
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MelanieMoore
And one of the things that's going on is there's this unlikely friendship between this typical lowlife nerd guy (who plays the party Rogue) and this cool jock dude who plays with them (who plays the party Paladin)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MelanieMoore
The latter of whom, it transpires, has enlisted to go fight in Iraq (this story taking place in the early 2000s) out of a sense of duty Which leads to the former blowing up at him and calling him an idiot and a moron and a mindless drone
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MelanieMoore
And leads to this big dramatic tropey scene in the game that's the first guy's attempt at actually explaining what he's feeling in that moment, all the self-loathing and repressed admiration (bordering on homoerotic) he has for his friend
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MelanieMoore
It's funny because it's meta Like if you don't know the subtext then his villain monologue about "stealing his death scene" is completely literal But if you get it then the subtext of what's really happening irl is the same as what's happening in the game
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MelanieMoore
Anyway the setup is the requisite near TPK against the final boss, finding out the final boss has already opened the horrific portal to the void between the worlds, which can only be closed again by taking the MacGuffin and taking it back through it, destroying the bearer's soul
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The only two survivors are the Paladin and the Rogue, and the Paladin calmly says, "A Paladin's life is duty. Take the others back to the temple for resurrection, and tell them --" "I stab him in the back with my poisoned dagger. Sneak Attack"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MelanieMoore
DM, who saw this coming: He catches you flatfooted, he hits, roll a Fortitude save Paladin: What in the -- dammit -- does a 14 save? DM: *lying* No. You fall to the ground, your sword clattering uselessly to your side, able to breathe and speak but not move any other muscles
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Paladin: What the hell are you doing, man? Killing me in the middle of my big scene? Rogue: I'm not a murderer, old friend. I'm a thief. I'm stealing your big scene
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MelanieMoore
Paladin: What?! Why? Rogue: It's as you said Everything in my life has been stolen, none of it earned Why not my death as well
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MelanieMoore
What better caper, what better heist than to steal the death of a hero? After spending my years in dissolution, whoring and gambling away every cent of my ill-gotten gains While you've been building up a life of sacrifice and service, to end in one last heroic blaze of glory
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