Isn't it interesting how fast the unusual becomes commonplace?
AD&D and the Forgotten Realms have more than a few strange characters, classes and overall ideas. And the Hall often gets more than its fair share of the weird and wacky.
Last Monday was the first regular Hall meet after the invading orcs had been evicted. My character Aeryn walked into the Hall, his usual punctual self, only to have to pick his jaw up off the floor on seeing what looked like every dish in the place playing games and dancing on every flat surface.
(Apparently the enchanted dishes hadn't been allowed out during the occupation of the city and were celebrating, so he'd never seen them before...)
This week, not only did he take a visit to Zoya's Tower, where uncommon/unusual is the watchword and nothing stays constant (she's a wild mage and priestess of the God of wild magic, as I understand it), but he also stepped into the Hall on Monday to find the local Goddess (although he didn't know that) back in town along with her very-devil-looking toddler of a son.
Zoya's Tower is almost bad enough on its own. I mean, when Aeryn was a little hesitant about touching a stone wall, Summer said jokingly, "It's OK, it won't bite you." Then she hesitated a moment and added, "Well, it might. But not usually." Needless to say, Aeryn didn't touch anything else until he got diverted by the library ;)
But if someone would have told me that my character would walk into a bar in the Forgotten Realms and end up bouncing (and tickling) a toddling little devil on his knee a week ago, I would have told them they were nuts. Totally nuts.
As it was, I still don't know how close he came to getting bitten...
Posted by adam at July 15, 2003 10:17 AMEh.... Cheylon is half-demon/half-god. He has some strange tastes, and because of his mouthful of teeth, he had to be weaned early (one might say promptly and with due haste!). Mostly he drinks blood and eats raw meat. He's never actually *bitten* anyone before, but Nacheyla thought it might be a good idea not to tempt him, since Aeryn was bleeding.