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Who Is Ellen - 54 - HD
🕑 Added 2022-11-01 03:00:02 +0000 UTCA fowl crime!
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I can already tell that this part of the storyline is going to involve a LOT of streamlining of what I initially write for Ellen.
I didn't want Ellen to have full-on stage fright (or the RPG equivalent), as that's not really what her story here is about, and it would step on Nanase's toes (she called dibs, darn it!).
It didn't feel right for Ellen to be immediately comfortable acting this out in front of everyone, however, and her doing this is what made sense to me.
Comments
Wild Card
And Rich asks a reasonable question instead of trying to derail things right from the start.
Some Ed
Personally, I feel like there should be questions. - Question the rich people regarding any detail necessary to successfully complete the quest that they didn't cover. - Question others regarding the ultimate motives and stuff of the rich people, because having money does not make one trustworthy. If anything, the opposite is true. On that note, it's important to ask if said rich person is in the habit of paying their bills, because if they don't, then it doesn't matter how rich they are or how much they offered to pay you for their task: if they're not going to pay, you can probably find something better to do.
Some Ed
I feel like most people don't really have a proper appreciation for that 1d3 damage. I've seen a lot of shows where they have a handful of chickens or so and that's a farm. That's not what it's really like. That's Hollywood minimizing the amount of risk they take portraying these ferocious birds. When I was growing up, I lived on a farm with 300 chickens. That wasn't actually a particularly large farm, and we had a lot higher tonnage of cows. We had at least one neighbor with a farm around the same size that just did chickens and they had thousands of them. Literally thousands, not just figuratively. Also, they're not quite the timid creatures you might think. They *swarm*. There's a reason you never see a proper farm in an RPG: few adventurers could handle it.
Ardent Slacker
I relate to Ellen SO hard for this! OGosh
Erin Halfelven at BigCloset
"Wabbits. Why did it have to be wabbits?" -- Indiana Fudd
Kevin Wright
Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing!
Inahc
And don't get me started on rabbits...
Hurley
Nuuu!
Copper Hamster
Chickens are srs bzns, they can peck for 1d3 damage and take out an average commoner in two average hits. *nods*
Foradain
So, the plumage <i>does</i> enter into it?
Stephen Gilberg
I wonder if pro voice actors ever have that problem.
Thisguy
First rule of adventuring. When rich people offer money for stupid quests, don't question it.
Some Ed
I've seen a good GM who only GMed for close friends suddenly switch to GMing groups where they only had one long-term friend, and they suddenly were a lot more anxious about stuff like this also. So this tracks, even if Ellen didn't have the added background of knowing it was the first time actual her was GMing. Just so you know.
Dan Merget
Ni.
allanfranta
"Bring me ... a shrubbery!"
