Burdbelkus Portabello Oh I knew him well

[Karl]

Burdbelkus Portabello Died fighting in a 30 year old T&T game. Granted for a lot of that time we only played once a year but still. I loved ol Burd and will miss him. He died with his friends and fellow delvers in a full party kill. It was glorious! We were shocked and saddened and as we all sat there silently stunned my very good friend reached her arm out and grabbed a pencil and her dice and started rolling up a new character saying "Hop to it boys, it took us 30 years the first time, we  will have to do better this time! Vengeance will be ours!" and so it starts again.    

I am so glade I found role playing games and T&T and owe a debt to it's founders.

It's friends like these that make life worth living.


Burdbelkus Portabello had a good run! He died well.

Grooz The Mighty my new character has some big shoes to fill!

[stefanj]

Vale, Burdbelkus!

[mgtremaine]

Tragically Exciting! Upon whom shall vengeance fall? I think we'd all love to hear the details.

-Mike

[oldskolgmr]

Goodbye to you Burdbelkus Portabello, lichbeard!
You were the best, um, at that thing you did so well. Your (wife, children, sproutlings, pet, magic dohickie) will miss you horribly.
May Karl make your memory proud.  
A TPK how gruesome! Please spin us the yarn.

[mahrundl]

Vale, Burdbelkus Portabello!

We must know - what were you fighting? How did such an experienced fellow fall at last?

[d4caltrops]

A 30 year old game is seriously impressive.

Don't hold out on us, now - tell us the full story! Cheers to oldskolgmr

[zanshin]

Welcome Grooz the Mighty, may the spirits of your fallen kin bless your dice with many doubles.

[Karl]

Well, its a horrible long and complicated story, It will take several parts to tell the entire thing right Waaaaaaaaay back at the dawn of time when we were just starting out and around 8-10 years old one of our members Henrieta(Wizard) liked to experiment and created her own familiar out of playdough. Fast forward a few years and this Playdough creature had gotten mixed in with a few magical vats from time to time and had gained some rather strange abilities. It became acidic and toxic to hold as well as mildly psionic. Such that poor Henrieta had to create it's own giant habitat. Neither one of them liked this arrangement and although her experiments never managed to fix the issue, her magic did at least for a time.

Years later she discovered at long last how to polymorph creatures into other forms and we thought was going to polymorph the creature into a puppy but instead I suppose because it was intelligent she chose instead to change it into a Hobb.

This was a horrible mistake but it would be many years until we realized just how horrible. At the time Doughy the Hobb seemed kind and loving and looking back on it I suppose he actually was but as the GM noted Doughy did not got treated very well if you thought of him as a living breathing thinking creature and not someone's pet.

He was imprisoned for his own good for long periods of time and polymorphed into monsters and then turned into a girl at some point. You writing this all down it comes to be that maybe Doughy was the hero of this tale all along! lol But I mean we were kids and then teens and by the time our brains were fully formed it was too late.

Over the years Doughy had gained some measure of control as he was useful to have around and a servant. You could leave Doughy in charge and he would mind the place and take care of other monsters and servants. He was always quick to step in and lend a hand. Years later we would discover he was doing his own experiments and learning magic and even killed and absorbed and took on properties of creatures he killed. We would eventually even discover he could separate parts of himself and turn them into other creatures. In this way he could multiply into a vast amount of beings IF he had absorbed enough.

Eventually this all came to a head when Henrieta started acting strange one game. She seemed different and frankly power mad lol She was also very bossy, well she was always bossy but she became rather mean about it. So much so that we figured out something was up and tried to capture her to see what was wrong but she kicked out butts and vanished.

We tracked her down to her Castle(by that point it was her Castle and no longer our castle) and discovered the entire place was under the control of people who were not people and then turned into ooz creatures. We eventualy cleared the place, found Henrieta's dead body and defeated what we though was Monster Doughy.

We were wrong at almost every point but that's for part 2.

[mgtremaine]

Kids and playdough it never ends well.

-Mike

[ProfGremlin]

Jul 12, 2021 9:25:22 GMT -5 Karl said:

We were wrong at almost every point but that's for part 2.

Why do I get the strong feeling this is the Nodwick Mirror Universe?

[Karl]

I don't know what that is but im going to go look it up! Oh wait I do remember in Dragon there was a comic about a abused henchman but I don't know if there was a overarching story. oh wow, I can read them all again with your link..oh boy THANKS! This is wonderful!

[Karl]

Just as a horrible update. We started playing online. I'm not sure why we never did before with this particular group I guess it was that we ALWAYS had meet face to face. I think it was not only the tragic end to our old characters but the realization that some of us are in well not poor health but just lesser abled than we used to be and our days of face to face games even on a yearly bases might be nearing it's end.

So we have been playing at least once a week and a few times multiple times and I am having a blast! I get to play with my old friends AND now we at least talk daily.

That said, I am having a hell of a time staying alive! LOL I was losing characters every session for a while there. So we are way past Grooz The Not so Mighty.

Some of the very best things about T&T are also the worst! I love that it's so deadly but ...IT'S SO DEADLY!

I have done better of late with changing back to Wizard again. I tend to just charge in and start swinging with Warriors and let the dice fall where they may, normally on my grave! Where my Wizards stand back and plot and plan.

[Aramis of Erak]

The deadliness of T&T is highly dependent upon the GM...

[oldskolgmr]

Good to hear that you are meeting and gaming with your old friends Grooz! 
Please send a round of Ughs! to them.
Sorry to hear of the death of The Grooz. Have a big UGH! for your loss    .
I hope you enjoy your new character(s). Please keep us posted.