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Click for larger imageEmster Comments: Sea of Death? I “see” that Gord is getting a mild scolding from the mystic lifeguard for not changing into his swim trunks before entering the pool deck.
Published 1987
(Average: 6.44 out of 10)
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Emster Comments: Sea of Death? I “see” that Gord is getting a mild scolding from the mystic lifeguard for not changing into his swim trunks before entering the pool deck.
Published 1987
(Average: 6.44 out of 10)Loading...
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July 5th, 2022 at 9:41 am
“Shallow Pool of Mild Injury” just doesn’t have the same ring to it…
July 5th, 2022 at 10:29 am
Gord is shiny from head to foot, not a good thing for a supposed rogue.
July 5th, 2022 at 11:08 am
In the background plays a rendition of the “Mission Impossible” theme on medieval instruments…
July 5th, 2022 at 11:23 am
@ Leak: “Gord the Rogue” seems a little harsh, too. I’d say “Dave the Somewhat Douchy”.
With the benches ringing the snot green area maybe it’s really “Sauna of Discomfort?”
@ ARY: I now have a harpsichord version of that theme in my head. And the harpsichord is a medieval instrument, I know. It doesn’t seem to matter.
July 5th, 2022 at 12:30 pm
In fact Gord isn’t a rogue at all: as any fool can plainly see, the title should really be “Gord the Pogue” because he’s Jem Finer in a cunning disguise. Forget AR’s harpsichord, you should be hearing a banjo and accordion rendition…
July 5th, 2022 at 3:55 pm
If climbing up (or down) a chain above a perilous pool, why flourish an eight-inch dagger with one hand? Wouldn’t that second hand be better employed in the climbing portion of the activities?
July 5th, 2022 at 4:21 pm
@AR Yngwe: before ‘Mission Impossible’ Ted Astley gave us this – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1wocQImhfU (although a Harpsichord is more Enlightenment but this is D&D so chronology’s all skew-whff).
July 5th, 2022 at 5:00 pm
You have to fear the wizard who can wield the deadly power of passive smoking.
July 5th, 2022 at 6:50 pm
That is one serious unibrow. Wonder if he puts pomade on that as well.
July 5th, 2022 at 6:58 pm
Gord’s mission to steal back the WWF’s Championship Belt runs into a snag.
@Ryan: it was in his concealed ass-scabbard until two seconds ago.
July 5th, 2022 at 8:17 pm
Bah. One heavily armored tank with a plus-one crossbow and these two lamers are toast.
Unless they make their saving throws.
July 6th, 2022 at 12:17 am
Wizaaard has really bad aim with that lightning. No wonder Gord (is he from Canada?) is unworried.
@ARY: I like your background music idea. I’m hearing shawm, hautbois, lutes, zither, some sort of pipe organ. Maybe some monks chanting “DUM da dum-dum,” etc. And damn the history, we do need a harpsichord.
(Once when I was in choir, we always rehearsed with a piano, and when we got to the venue, there was also a harpsichord. Since one of our songs was either Renaissance or Baroque, we were delighted!)
@JJYoyo: Looks more like The Jacuzzi of Insufficient Chemicals.
@Ryan: Yeah, there’s nothing to stab where he is, so shouldn’t he keep that in the scabbard (wherever that might be) and hold on to the chain better?
July 6th, 2022 at 12:30 am
It’s actually the dungeon cafeteria, and the pool is full of delicious pea soup!
@GSS ex-noob: I’d assume he’s going to throw the knife at the wizard. Isn’t that Rogue SOP?
July 6th, 2022 at 12:53 am
@Bruce: If magickal lightning works like regular lightning, the fact he’s on an iron chain and holding a pointy thing out is gonna also be bad.
I guess the bad aim will give him long enough to throw the dagger. Otherwise, it’s a short book.
July 6th, 2022 at 1:34 am
@Tat W: Yes indeed the harpsichord is not medieval. Neither is spell-check, which switched my “isn’t” to “is” in my prior comment. Maybe the wizard has a stronger counter-spell check.
July 6th, 2022 at 4:05 am
@GSSxN: Maybe a Hot Tub of Hell? I see a harpsichord version of AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” as theme music here:
July 6th, 2022 at 4:11 pm
How can this guy not have elf ears?
July 6th, 2022 at 4:27 pm
@JJYoyo: spellchecks are indeed malicious daemonic forces. Ask any Englishman.
(I have no excuse for mistyping ‘AR Yngve’ though).
July 6th, 2022 at 8:19 pm
@JJYoyo: excellent choice of soundtrack. Maybe a shawm too, and a wicked lute section. And hey, bagpipes are medieval if we’re going with AC/DC.
July 7th, 2022 at 3:13 am
Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/HXm8JdC4k4c
https://youtu.be/qfGggAGITwg
July 7th, 2022 at 3:46 am
@jjyoyo: If those pipers had been my instructors, and if my dad had promised me a set of pipes with a dragon head, I might have stuck with it… probably best for everyone that I did not…
Also rather fond of these dudes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMHYKaZKm2A
July 8th, 2022 at 1:47 am
In SPAAAACE!
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-34757254
I bought this CD:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellowosity
from the piper’s mum, who ran an excellent B&B.
Once an African-American friend looked at me and incredulously said “Bagpipes?!” I put my hand on their shoulder, and in my most serious voice said “It’s a Scottish thing. You wouldn’t understand.” Enlightenment dawned.
I generally quite like pipes. However, from personal experience, I must strongly suggest you NEVER stand in a corrugated sheet metal tunnel which enters into a race track-cum-parade grounds with a pipe band. NEVER.