TOPIC: Just a Bard looking to tell an Adventurer's Story

I could go on and on about this and my wife would like it if I did but I'll keep it short and sweet:


I proposed in the coaching room for the Golden Ticket run, the ring was hidden in her golden ticket bag

FiannaTiger wrote: I could go on and on about this and my wife would like it if I did but I'll keep it short and sweet:


I proposed in the coaching room for the Golden Ticket run, the ring was hidden in her golden ticket bag

That is beyond amazing!!! And so special! I hope they let you take exception pictures! I would probably cry especially if going in the run was part of the surprise! I want to go on a GT run so badly! We shall see (: maybe one day! It would be so cool if Sir Michael and I got to share something as awesome as that! I am so happy for both of you and would like to (very lately) congratulate you both on your marriage ♡ I hope you stay nerdy and amazing!

-Lady Brittany

Ramsildor wrote: Last year was one of the best years I ever had at TD, a lot of it has to do with a VERY memorable Team Synergy Run and the rescue of Lotus Blossom

Lotus Blossum wrote: And thank you for rescuing me from the Spider's web. You are honorable adventurers to save a corpse form a dungeon Are these small yellow faces the glyphs need to send messages on this message box?

For those of you who remember the Mummy hanging in the middle of the room in the Puzzle room with the Spider over looking the room. We completed the puzzle quickly and with time to kill one of our players asked if we could revive the mummy. The quick thinking DM said sure. So we fed the mummy a Potion of Death's Door and found that the corpse was Lotus Blossom, a poor adventuring Monk who had wandered in the dungeon on a quest nearly 400 years ago. Lotus was waylaid by spiders and cocooned in the state we had found him in. I healed him with scrolls and the DM ran off and came back with a 4th level player card and Lotus Blossom continued with us through the rest of the dungeon and eventually to safety. Take a look at the the "Thank You" post above that Lotus Blossom set us. Lotus even went on to open an account and still reads the TD Forums to this day

I was on that run. It was awesome.

I hear that Lotus Blossom will be dungeon delving again at WYC this year. Since it will be a retro dungeon, he might encounter a temporal anomaly...

Harlax wrote:

Ramsildor wrote: Last year was one of the best years I ever had at TD, a lot of it has to do with a VERY memorable Team Synergy Run and the rescue of Lotus Blossom

Lotus Blossum wrote: And thank you for rescuing me from the Spider's web. You are honorable adventurers to save a corpse form a dungeon Are these small yellow faces the glyphs need to send messages on this message box?

For those of you who remember the Mummy hanging in the middle of the room in the Puzzle room with the Spider over looking the room. We completed the puzzle quickly and with time to kill one of our players asked if we could revive the mummy. The quick thinking DM said sure. So we fed the mummy a Potion of Death's Door and found that the corpse was Lotus Blossom, a poor adventuring Monk who had wandered in the dungeon on a quest nearly 400 years ago. Lotus was waylaid by spiders and cocooned in the state we had found him in. I healed him with scrolls and the DM ran off and came back with a 4th level player card and Lotus Blossom continued with us through the rest of the dungeon and eventually to safety. Take a look at the the "Thank You" post above that Lotus Blossom set us. Lotus even went on to open an account and still reads the TD Forums to this day

I was on that run. It was awesome.

I hear that Lotus Blossom will be dungeon delving again at WYC this year. Since it will be a retro dungeon, he might encounter a temporal anomaly...

Wish I could be there

From an old retired Bard to the Lady Brittany:

I've told this story before, but It has been a while. I have officially retired because of health and retirement, etc., but this run will forever live in the tales I tell around the campfires.

We fondly remember it as The Trio Gambit. Gary (Gearon), Raven (Nightshade), and I (Widseth) decided we wanted to try a nightmare run against Smoak with only the three of us in the party. We actually planned for quite some time to maximize our experience. This was the first year Gary had his arcane cloak, so he could cast Bless in each battle and fly. It was the first year I had my shiny new +2 Dancing Sword.

Gary had a conflict because he was scheduled in the training room for the beginning of our run. We arranged for him to join us in about the third room. Room 1 Raven and I had to just take the push damage because you needed at least 3 and preferably 4 to manipulate the challenge. Room 2 we got to by going through the pressurized tunnel and I walked right into a gelatinous cube. Fortunately my Dancing sword was not in my hand and could fight for me. If any of you have run with Raven, you know she is an excellent slider. For the first time in battle, my wondrous sword was slid by Master Nightshade. She hit ME. (I know she did it on purpose). My wonderful sword drew my own blood first. Well she took down the cube and we healed up and moved on. Gary met us in the next room.

I have to confess--I'm not that good at puzzles. I sing and I fight. Raven and Gary had both run the dungeon before so when we came to a puzzle, they left me alone to solve it until they had to step in so we wouldn't get killed. I survived but in one room I had it about half solved, but I had a mind block--you know how that is. I knew what had to be done, but couldn't solve the path for the key to travel to unlock the room door. I kept looking at the diagram and all I could see were little campfires in odd configurations. Finally Gary said, Bow--bow. I though I guess they do kind of look like bows of some sort (bow in the hair or wrapping a package). I think he got a little exasperated and finally said BOW and ........ I must have looked really addle brained because he finally said Bow and --- you shoot it with a bow. When I saw the "campfires" were actually arrows, I solved the puzzle.

Then came Smoak. I love when a plan comes together to quote someone more famous than me. As we entered the room we met an old familiar friend--Rodney the imp. He was Smoak's side kick and just enough of a distraction that we knew he would cause a lot of trouble. Smoak was asleep, and we knew Rodney would wake him, but we knew something about Rodney. He is greedy so we each offered him a purple token if he would steal the ioun stone that protected Smoak from magic and magical weapon damage. We didn't have to destroy the ioun stone first because Rodney got rid of it for us. We threw everything we had at Smoak but even with Raven's sliding and my singing and Gary keeping us healed, we had to use a Savior stone or two to survive. The Trio Gambit worked and we took Smoak down on Nightmare thanks to fantastic DMing in the final room with Smoak (and throughout the entire dungeon).

I was able to sing:

Smoak the tragic dragon
Lived in a cave.
He gnawed the bones of honest folk
And put them in their grave.
Little Jeffy Martin
Loved that dragon Smoak
He gave him fangs, and ugly claws,
And other nasty stuff.

Together they would travel
On a boat with billowed sail.
Jeffy kept a lookout perched
On Smoak’s gigantic tail.
Noble kings and princes
Fled the other way.
Only creatures from the deep
Would stick around and play.

Smoak the tragic dragon
Lived in a cave.
He gnawed the bones of honest folk
And put them in their grave.

One day a valiant party
With weapons sharp and bright,
Entered into Smoak’s dark cave
To set the story right.
Jeff may live forever,
But not his dragon dear.
The Trio entered in the cave,
And ended all the fear.

Smoak the tragic dragon
Lived in a cave.
He gnawed the bones of honest folk
And put them in their grave.

Jeff’s head now bent in sorrow,
Big tears fell like rain,
And Smoak no longer gnawed on bones
Or gave the people pain.
Without his vicious dragon
Jeffy lost his hoard.
The Trio split up all the loot,
And the town its approval roared.

Ohhhh
Smoak the tragic dragon
Lived in a cave.
Until the Trio entered in
And sent him to his grave.



Best wishes to you Lady Brittany. May your future be filled with adventure and fun.


Widseth

Bravo Widseth!

I remember that run fondly (and how hard the adrenaline was flowing, and blood thumping in my ears) as we marched to (what we thought was) our doom.

Ever since, hearing your song immortalize our crazy gambit, has always made me smile!

Widseth wrote: From an old retired Bard to the Lady Brittany:

I've told this story before, but It has been a while. I have officially retired because of health and retirement, etc., but this run will forever live in the tales I tell around the campfires.

We fondly remember it as The Trio Gambit. Gary (Gearon), Raven (Nightshade), and I (Widseth) decided we wanted to try a nightmare run against Smoak with only the three of us in the party. We actually planned for quite some time to maximize our experience. This was the first year Gary had his arcane cloak, so he could cast Bless in each battle and fly. It was the first year I had my shiny new +2 Dancing Sword.

Gary had a conflict because he was scheduled in the training room for the beginning of our run. We arranged for him to join us in about the third room. Room 1 Raven and I had to just take the push damage because you needed at least 3 and preferably 4 to manipulate the challenge. Room 2 we got to by going through the pressurized tunnel and I walked right into a gelatinous cube. Fortunately my Dancing sword was not in my hand and could fight for me. If any of you have run with Raven, you know she is an excellent slider. For the first time in battle, my wondrous sword was slid by Master Nightshade. She hit ME. (I know she did it on purpose). My wonderful sword drew my own blood first. Well she took down the cube and we healed up and moved on. Gary met us in the next room.

I have to confess--I'm not that good at puzzles. I sing and I fight. Raven and Gary had both run the dungeon before so when we came to a puzzle, they left me alone to solve it until they had to step in so we wouldn't get killed. I survived but in one room I had it about half solved, but I had a mind block--you know how that is. I knew what had to be done, but couldn't solve the path for the key to travel to unlock the room door. I kept looking at the diagram and all I could see were little campfires in odd configurations. Finally Gary said, Bow--bow. I though I guess they do kind of look like bows of some sort (bow in the hair or wrapping a package). I think he got a little exasperated and finally said BOW and ........ I must have looked really addle brained because he finally said Bow and --- you shoot it with a bow. When I saw the "campfires" were actually arrows, I solved the puzzle.

Then came Smoak. I love when a plan comes together to quote someone more famous than me. As we entered the room we met an old familiar friend--Rodney the imp. He was Smoak's side kick and just enough of a distraction that we knew he would cause a lot of trouble. Smoak was asleep, and we knew Rodney would wake him, but we knew something about Rodney. He is greedy so we each offered him a purple token if he would steal the ioun stone that protected Smoak from magic and magical weapon damage. We didn't have to destroy the ioun stone first because Rodney got rid of it for us. We threw everything we had at Smoak but even with Raven's sliding and my singing and Gary keeping us healed, we had to use a Savior stone or two to survive. The Trio Gambit worked and we took Smoak down on Nightmare thanks to fantastic DMing in the final room with Smoak (and throughout the entire dungeon).

I was able to sing:

Smoak the tragic dragon
Lived in a cave.
He gnawed the bones of honest folk
And put them in their grave.
Little Jeffy Martin
Loved that dragon Smoak
He gave him fangs, and ugly claws,
And other nasty stuff.

Together they would travel
On a boat with billowed sail.
Jeffy kept a lookout perched
On Smoak’s gigantic tail.
Noble kings and princes
Fled the other way.
Only creatures from the deep
Would stick around and play.

Smoak the tragic dragon
Lived in a cave.
He gnawed the bones of honest folk
And put them in their grave.

One day a valiant party
With weapons sharp and bright,
Entered into Smoak’s dark cave
To set the story right.
Jeff may live forever,
But not his dragon dear.
The Trio entered in the cave,
And ended all the fear.

Smoak the tragic dragon
Lived in a cave.
He gnawed the bones of honest folk
And put them in their grave.

Jeff’s head now bent in sorrow,
Big tears fell like rain,
And Smoak no longer gnawed on bones
Or gave the people pain.
Without his vicious dragon
Jeffy lost his hoard.
The Trio split up all the loot,
And the town its approval roared.

Ohhhh
Smoak the tragic dragon
Lived in a cave.
Until the Trio entered in
And sent him to his grave.



Best wishes to you Lady Brittany. May your future be filled with adventure and fun.


Widseth

It is an honor to read your story. I have read it multiple times and it has brought me a lot of joy. I havery been wondering who Widseth is and how he got a mystical lute! Now I suspect I know that story. Thank you for such a wonderful tale and I hope one day I get the chance to meet you and hear all your wisdom! I hope I have many wonderful adventures I can share as you have (:

P.S. I sang the song as I read it and it is beautiful

-Lady Brittany

Lady Brittany wrote:

FiannaTiger wrote: I could go on and on about this and my wife would like it if I did but I'll keep it short and sweet:


I proposed in the coaching room for the Golden Ticket run, the ring was hidden in her golden ticket bag

That is beyond amazing!!! And so special! I hope they let you take exception pictures! I would probably cry especially if going in the run was part of the surprise! I want to go on a GT run so badly! We shall see (: maybe one day! It would be so cool if Sir Michael and I got to share something as awesome as that! I am so happy for both of you and would like to (very lately) congratulate you both on your marriage ♡ I hope you stay nerdy and amazing!

-Lady Brittany

Thanks!

So to get into more detail:

The first year I did True Dungeon and GenCon was 2012. My friends told me I should go and that they played this great game called True Dungeon. They sent me to the website so I could see what this True Dungeon was all about. I ended up asking them which PYP I should get and ended up buying 2.... Then 2 more... then 2 more... by the end of it I had spent 2500 on tokens without playing the game. Needless to say my friends were a bit worried that I'd not like the game that I just spent so much money on.

My last 10 pack on my last order I got a Platinum backed Golden Ticket. This was the year that Jeff ran out of tokens and printed a second batch with 20 more Golden Tickets. So I asked my friends if I should keep or sell it. Most told me to sell it and recoup my money, but one said it would be once in a lifetime event and to go do it. So that's what I did.

I was in the VIP room of True Dungeon at GenCon with my UT shorts on and shirt, and a lady (now my wife) walked up to see who was this new person in the VIP room playing a game that she had been playing since it started. The attire I was wearing got her attention (We both went to UT in Austin). We got to talking and I gave her my card. It turned out she had also gotten her first Golden Ticket and was in my group.

We found out that we both went to the Renaissance festivals growing up (and still do) both were at UT at the same time at least one year of it, and that she was in Dallas while I was in Austin. Her friend that she stayed with when going to UT football games lived less than a mile from where I was living. So I guess it was fate...

So for the 2013 TD we both ended up getting Golden Tickets (one bought, the other found) and I worked it out with Lori Martin to have the ring put in her Golden Ticket bag she got in the training room. I had to leave it with someone else for 7hrs which had me nervous, and about 2hrs into the waiting I heard from the people that were on the radios, "Oh you are the one going to propose!?!"... So needless to say all the crew that had radios knew what was going on.

So we were all dressed up in garb for the Golden Ticket run, and as we got our bags, Lori asked everyone to check everything in the bags. Hers had a crumpled up piece of paper around a little green box (the paper was the note to say it was for Lori and the Golden Ticket run). In the box was the ring, and when she started to open the box, I got in the corner down on my knee (in my kilt) and once she saw it was a ring she turned and I asked her to marry me.

It was a great Golden Ticket run, but I think she might have been a bit distracted the entire 2hrs...

FiannaTiger wrote:

Lady Brittany wrote:

FiannaTiger wrote: I could go on and on about this and my wife would like it if I did but I'll keep it short and sweet:


I proposed in the coaching room for the Golden Ticket run, the ring was hidden in her golden ticket bag

That is beyond amazing!!! And so special! I hope they let you take exception pictures! I would probably cry especially if going in the run was part of the surprise! I want to go on a GT run so badly! We shall see (: maybe one day! It would be so cool if Sir Michael and I got to share something as awesome as that! I am so happy for both of you and would like to (very lately) congratulate you both on your marriage ♡ I hope you stay nerdy and amazing!

-Lady Brittany

Thanks!

So to get into more detail:

The first year I did True Dungeon and GenCon was 2012. My friends told me I should go and that they played this great game called True Dungeon. They sent me to the website so I could see what this True Dungeon was all about. I ended up asking them which PYP I should get and ended up buying 2.... Then 2 more... then 2 more... by the end of it I had spent 2500 on tokens without playing the game. Needless to say my friends were a bit worried that I'd not like the game that I just spent so much money on.

My last 10 pack on my last order I got a Platinum backed Golden Ticket. This was the year that Jeff ran out of tokens and printed a second batch with 20 more Golden Tickets. So I asked my friends if I should keep or sell it. Most told me to sell it and recoup my money, but one said it would be once in a lifetime event and to go do it. So that's what I did.

I was in the VIP room of True Dungeon at GenCon with my UT shorts on and shirt, and a lady (now my wife) walked up to see who was this new person in the VIP room playing a game that she had been playing since it started. The attire I was wearing got her attention (We both went to UT in Austin). We got to talking and I gave her my card. It turned out she had also gotten her first Golden Ticket and was in my group.

We found out that we both went to the Renaissance festivals growing up (and still do) both were at UT at the same time at least one year of it, and that she was in Dallas while I was in Austin. Her friend that she stayed with when going to UT football games lived less than a mile from where I was living. So I guess it was fate...

So for the 2013 TD we both ended up getting Golden Tickets (one bought, the other found) and I worked it out with Lori Martin to have the ring put in her Golden Ticket bag she got in the training room. I had to leave it with someone else for 7hrs which had me nervous, and about 2hrs into the waiting I heard from the people that were on the radios, "Oh you are the one going to propose!?!"... So needless to say all the crew that had radios knew what was going on.

So we were all dressed up in garb for the Golden Ticket run, and as we got our bags, Lori asked everyone to check everything in the bags. Hers had a crumpled up piece of paper around a little green box (the paper was the note to say it was for Lori and the Golden Ticket run). In the box was the ring, and when she started to open the box, I got in the corner down on my knee (in my kilt) and once she saw it was a ring she turned and I asked her to marry me.

It was a great Golden Ticket run, but I think she might have been a bit distracted the entire 2hrs...

That is absolutely wonderful! And definitely sounds like fate! I hope one year I get to go on a run with Michael that would be such a cool night! I'm so happy to have heard the whole story and I hope one year we can go on a run with both of you (: I've thought about spending tokens and haven't yet but on year I probably will (: I hope that I get the chance to meet both of you either at WYC or GenCon this year (:

-Lady Brittany

Lady Brittany wrote:

FiannaTiger wrote:

Lady Brittany wrote:

FiannaTiger wrote: I could go on and on about this and my wife would like it if I did but I'll keep it short and sweet:


I proposed in the coaching room for the Golden Ticket run, the ring was hidden in her golden ticket bag

That is beyond amazing!!! And so special! I hope they let you take exception pictures! I would probably cry especially if going in the run was part of the surprise! I want to go on a GT run so badly! We shall see (: maybe one day! It would be so cool if Sir Michael and I got to share something as awesome as that! I am so happy for both of you and would like to (very lately) congratulate you both on your marriage ♡ I hope you stay nerdy and amazing!

-Lady Brittany

Thanks!

So to get into more detail:

The first year I did True Dungeon and GenCon was 2012. My friends told me I should go and that they played this great game called True Dungeon. They sent me to the website so I could see what this True Dungeon was all about. I ended up asking them which PYP I should get and ended up buying 2.... Then 2 more... then 2 more... by the end of it I had spent 2500 on tokens without playing the game. Needless to say my friends were a bit worried that I'd not like the game that I just spent so much money on.

My last 10 pack on my last order I got a Platinum backed Golden Ticket. This was the year that Jeff ran out of tokens and printed a second batch with 20 more Golden Tickets. So I asked my friends if I should keep or sell it. Most told me to sell it and recoup my money, but one said it would be once in a lifetime event and to go do it. So that's what I did.

I was in the VIP room of True Dungeon at GenCon with my UT shorts on and shirt, and a lady (now my wife) walked up to see who was this new person in the VIP room playing a game that she had been playing since it started. The attire I was wearing got her attention (We both went to UT in Austin). We got to talking and I gave her my card. It turned out she had also gotten her first Golden Ticket and was in my group.

We found out that we both went to the Renaissance festivals growing up (and still do) both were at UT at the same time at least one year of it, and that she was in Dallas while I was in Austin. Her friend that she stayed with when going to UT football games lived less than a mile from where I was living. So I guess it was fate...

So for the 2013 TD we both ended up getting Golden Tickets (one bought, the other found) and I worked it out with Lori Martin to have the ring put in her Golden Ticket bag she got in the training room. I had to leave it with someone else for 7hrs which had me nervous, and about 2hrs into the waiting I heard from the people that were on the radios, "Oh you are the one going to propose!?!"... So needless to say all the crew that had radios knew what was going on.

So we were all dressed up in garb for the Golden Ticket run, and as we got our bags, Lori asked everyone to check everything in the bags. Hers had a crumpled up piece of paper around a little green box (the paper was the note to say it was for Lori and the Golden Ticket run). In the box was the ring, and when she started to open the box, I got in the corner down on my knee (in my kilt) and once she saw it was a ring she turned and I asked her to marry me.

It was a great Golden Ticket run, but I think she might have been a bit distracted the entire 2hrs...

That is absolutely wonderful! And definitely sounds like fate! I hope one year I get to go on a run with Michael that would be such a cool night! I'm so happy to have heard the whole story and I hope one year we can go on a run with both of you (: I've thought about spending tokens and haven't yet but on year I probably will (: I hope that I get the chance to meet both of you either at WYC or GenCon this year (:

-Lady Brittany

We won't be at WYC, but we will be around at GenCon. I know you've played True Dungeon, but if you haven't gone to TD101 go. We will be teaching it with other members of the DDA.

The DDA buys multiple runs, and if we can't fill all the slots ourselves we will post on the forums. So keep a eye out a week or so after ticket sales

FiannaTiger wrote:
We won't be at WYC, but we will be around at GenCon. I know you've played True Dungeon, but if you haven't gone to TD101 go. We will be teaching it with other members of the DDA.

The DDA buys multiple runs, and if we can't fill all the slots ourselves we will post on the forums. So keep a eye out a week or so after ticket sales

I will definitely keep an eye out (: hopefully we can outfit ourselves this year and be able to run hardcore at gencon but I'm not entirely sure how set you need to be for that. it would be awesome to run with you guys and I will definitely try to!

-Lady Brittany

Lady Brittany wrote:

FiannaTiger wrote:
We won't be at WYC, but we will be around at GenCon. I know you've played True Dungeon, but if you haven't gone to TD101 go. We will be teaching it with other members of the DDA.

The DDA buys multiple runs, and if we can't fill all the slots ourselves we will post on the forums. So keep a eye out a week or so after ticket sales

I will definitely keep an eye out (: hopefully we can outfit ourselves this year and be able to run hardcore at gencon but I'm not entirely sure how set you need to be for that. it would be awesome to run with you guys and I will definitely try to!

-Lady Brittany

No worries, if we have a run that you get on don't worry to much about gear. We have outfitted a few of our friends with enough stuff to do well in Nightmare.