A mean way to lure your PCs to adventure

[BiggusGeekus]

"Help us! Our town is being overrun by nymphs!"



Of course, as I'm sure everyone knows, a nymph is a young of an insect that undergoes incomplete metamorphosis. The PCs are tasked with defending the town against giant ants, perhaps with some abberant or ooze-like template applied.

I'm sure they'll appreciate your masterful grasp of vocabulary.

 

[Nifft]

I knew that from fly fishing!

- - -

"Join us for a free lunch? We have lots of sand witches."

Cheers, -- N

 

[WanderingMonster]

I knew that from fly fishing!

I hope you kept your fly zipped.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

The PCs are tasked with defending the town against giant ants...

Is this a module titled "It came from Red Alert"?

*Waits for no one, ever, to know what I'm talking about*

 

[RangerWickett]

Is this a module titled "It came from Red Alert"?

*Waits for no one, ever, to know what I'm talking about*

Remind me, how do you say "formic acid" in Morse code.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

Remind me, how do you say "formic acid" in Morse code.

Now I'm the one not getting the references, it seems.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Hook: "I need you to hunt down and retrieve the pelt of the wight wolf that is stalking the community"

PCs (several negative levels later): "We thought you said white wolf!"

 

[Nifft]

Hook: "I need you to hunt down and retrieve the pelt of the wight wolf that is stalking the community"

PCs (several negative levels later): "We thought you said white wolf!"

Wight Dragon is even more mean... if it retains the [Fire] subtype.

Cheers, -- N

 

[robertliguori]

Hook: "I need you to hunt down and retrieve the pelt of the wight wolf that is stalking the community"

PCs (several negative levels later): "We thought you said white wolf!"

Eh. Wight refers specifically to a man; a wight wolf makes about as much sense as a zombie ghost.

Now a ghost ghost from the Even More Beyond, that makes sense.

 

[RangerWickett]

Now I'm the one not getting the references, it seems.

In the Command & Conquer: Red Alert instruction booklet, along the bottom of the pages were strings of dots and dashes. It was a Morse Code signal calling for help after a military base found several of its soldiers killed, and their blood filled with formic acid, which is what ants hurt you with when they bite you. This then led to the bonus levels, in which you have to defend your base from a giant ant invasion.