Morningstars
15 years ago
While playing D&D over Rosh Hashana with some friends, we were doing some premade shorts just to see how well we (the players and the DM) worked together, get used to one another's styles, etc.
We were doing one in which the players invade a tomb containing the corpse of a bugbear crusader which is animated by the desire to protect the tomb against desecration (and probably powered by human sacrifice). In other words, it's a very grumpy zombie with a taste for your blood.
The book states that the zombie crusader is armed with a javelin, a masterwork longsword, and a morningstar.
Enter the humor: one of us players (the DM's wife, playing an Elven rogue) asked, "What's a morningstar?" We told her: it's a particular kind of spiked mace or flail. This is when she started laughing her arse off, because she'd only heard of the words "morning star" in reference to Venus (which the zombie was obviously not carrying) and a certain brand of soy- and milk-based TVP, aka fake meat. She'd imagined the zombie wielding a breakfast sausage.
Hence, like I'm doing on /tg/, I'll ask here: if anyone feels like drawing a zombie bugbear crusader wielding javelin and sausage links, with the sword slung over his shoulder, I'd love to see it.
We were doing one in which the players invade a tomb containing the corpse of a bugbear crusader which is animated by the desire to protect the tomb against desecration (and probably powered by human sacrifice). In other words, it's a very grumpy zombie with a taste for your blood.
The book states that the zombie crusader is armed with a javelin, a masterwork longsword, and a morningstar.
Enter the humor: one of us players (the DM's wife, playing an Elven rogue) asked, "What's a morningstar?" We told her: it's a particular kind of spiked mace or flail. This is when she started laughing her arse off, because she'd only heard of the words "morning star" in reference to Venus (which the zombie was obviously not carrying) and a certain brand of soy- and milk-based TVP, aka fake meat. She'd imagined the zombie wielding a breakfast sausage.
Hence, like I'm doing on /tg/, I'll ask here: if anyone feels like drawing a zombie bugbear crusader wielding javelin and sausage links, with the sword slung over his shoulder, I'd love to see it.
DireWolf505
~direwolf505
Man, that would be terrifying. Those fake-meat foods are nauseating.
Thou_Dog
~thoudog
OP
Hey, I think Morningstar is okay. It's not the same as the real thing, but it is definitely tasty all by itself.
DireWolf505
~direwolf505
I've never had a good one. Boca-Burgers taste and feel like wet corkboard coasters. Chik'n had a weird chemical-y aftertaste, and a nasty taste at first, too.
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