I Am The Roper!

Ahhhh, The Roper.  I honestly had a nightmare about this thing two nights ago.  Why?  My lunchtime D&D group (it's a totally separate thing from Althea and Company) ran into a Roper and a nest of Piercers.  It was terrifying, and I had completely forgotten about these beasts.

I don't know how I could have forgotten this monstrosity.  It was right there on the bottom right corner of the cover of the old Monster Manual, and I remember reading its entry several times and just being terrified by it.

*shiver*

Anyway, we ran into one and I thought someone was going to get eaten.  Luckily we ran away and only one NPC was bitten.  The boat we were on got severely munched though.  It's being held together by webbing at this point.

I came home today and told the tale of how I used Tasha's Hideous Laughter on it with my Arcane Trickster and rolled a natural 20 to sever one of the tentacles with my hand crossbow . . . it was all very amazing . . . but you can bet I ran away as fast as I could to get out of the range of those terrifying tentacles. GET ME THE FREAK OUT OF THERE!

Anyway, I started chanting "I am the roper, I've come to bite you" in my head after talking with my kids (and imagining what a Roper might look like after a crazy fit of laughter), and this . . . is the result . . . I apologize in advance.

. . . at least I made my youngest laugh with the roper song. :)

Love that Elf!

Avantador's Theme Song -- Mother's Necklace

So . . . since my character is a bard and I actually do like to write music, I thought I'd take the dorky step of actually trying to write a song from my character.  It's a brave new world friends, but THE ROLEPLAY!

Here's the instrumental version:

and the lyrics:

Mother’s Necklace (Avantador’s Theme)

My mother held me tight

Every single night

And she would sing to me

Rocking me to sleep

Guiding my right hand

Peace upon our land

And all that she had

Was all that we had

All we needed then

Was the family den

And the Dragonborn

Why did no one warn us

When the giants strike

They slew us left and right

It was a blood-stained night

I hid away in fright

Too young to fight

But I watched father die

Nothing left to caress

But my mother’s necklace

And so I’m on a quest

Until they’re laid to rest

I will live my life

Until the time is right

And this Dragonborn

Who no longer mourns

Has been strengthened by time

And is now driven by rhyme

When the dragon strikes

No giant left in sight

To be a blood-stained night

From the point of my knife

Nothing left behind

And the nightmares remind

There’s nothing left to caress

But my mother’s necklace

Maybe someday I"ll actually be brave enough to post a sung version. Until then . . . feel free to use your imaginations. :) (Hope to be unveiling it to the group at the next session)

Love that Elf!

Melancholy's Art: Graver, Melancholy, and Avantador

So, Melancholy is an aspiring artist. She did the comics in the previous post as a birthday gift for me, and she's also drawn our family's characters before.  Check 'em out!

She's got a great talent that gets better and better each day. I can't wait to see what her art looks like ten years from now.

Until next time . . . Love that elf!