[valor] recalling a brilliantly stupid plot beat in an old, old playtest campaign from before the game launched

The party was caught in a war between two fantasy kingdoms

Kingdom A attacked the party, beat them, and forcibly conscripted them into the A Army

And then loaded all of them into cannons to fire at the Kingdom B airship fleet

we weren't really feeling it so as soon as we hit the Kingdom B ships we were like "listen we don't really work for these guys, we were just--"

B: "Oh shit! We're being attacked by A forces!"

"Hurry! Capture them and load them into the cannons to fire back at A!"

at which point we decided the whole situation was too stupid to engage with and stole the airship

just the idea of an entire war fought by soldiers trying to capture each other and fire the captured soldiers out of cannons at each other

I cannot possibly be the only one reading this plurk and thinking of homer simpson in a submarine

not ringing a bell

I missed this one and am deeply sad I did so

this was pre-plurk

there was also an extended reference to Golden Sun where a sentient space rock told us we had to visit the four elemental lighthouses and as soon as we were out of earshot we just all decided we weren't gonna bother

ha

If I remember Golden Sun correctly that would have solved a lot of problems, actually

well, the world would have crumbled

but it wouldn't be your problem

this sounds like excellent comedy