DM: While you freak out about your missing appendages, a swirl of green magic appears in front of the maze entrance, growing larger and larger until… Just a second… HEY! GET IN HERE! IT'S TIME!
Twilight Sparkle: Pardon me?
Applejack: …Oh no…
SFX: (FLASH!)
(beat)
Discord: MUHUHAHAHAHAA!!
SFX: (CRACKLE) (BOOM)
Pinkie Pie: The call…
Rarity: What in the world is that outfit?
Twilight Sparkle: You were HERE the whole time?!
Rainbow Dash: This is overkill.
Discord: And it was all worth it, just to see the looks on your faces! Priceless!
Scrapped line (because the bubble covered up too much):
Pinkie Pie (delayed until the very end): ...came from inside the house...
In this gag's most initial form, I thought maybe Discord was waiting outside and his entrance was him coming through the front door (due to concerns about being overheard on the phone while only a few walls away). But honestly, the image of him waiting patiently in the master bedroom this whole time is just more hilarious to me, on a level I don't quite understand.
I never noticed in the original (probably because Deadpool hadn't come out yet), but is he entering with a "superhero landing"? Doesn't he know how rough that is on the knees?
Unlike Deadpool, though, Discord also has some invulnerability, not just regeneration. Guess there's a reason that pose is mostly done by flying brick-class heroes...
You know, instead of shouting for the assistant GM to show up, it might of been interesting to just text a quick word as the cue to barge in and surprise the group.
I think the shouting serves an important function: to clearly tell us, the readers, that Q is physically bursting into the room. After all, we normally don't get to hear the DM's description of what we're seeing in the panels, so it would be ambiguous.
True, but I'm thinking in-universe. I suppose they could hear a knock on the door and everyone wonder who that is, followed by instant realization and "Oh no" on their faces.
Yeah, I thought the same. I can see both points, and I don't know which idea would be the best.
Maybe the GM could just stop the narration and go open the door and leave the group with the co-GM while he presents itself and tells the rules of his game.
If he was waiting outside the house on a phone wouldn't that attract the neighbors attention? If they're familiar with their neighbors regular friends they might not recognize this one and might have called the cops.
Getting the players to be that much more worried about "the game" and the people in the house than "the story" and the characters in the fiction should count as a red flag.
I think GM and Discord's player could have come up with a better signal than "Get in here!" Maybe ring a bell or something. Sheesh. If you're going to be that theatrical, at least commit to it.
It may have been a way to keep the players from freaking out/reacting when someone suddenly comes through the door. I know _my_ Fight-Or-Flight reflex has always been centered more on the Fight side (several times I've almost punched people when surprised) and I can easily see RD's player being the same.
Pinkie Pie (delayed until the very end): ...came from inside the house...
In this gag's most initial form, I thought maybe Discord was waiting outside and his entrance was him coming through the front door (due to concerns about being overheard on the phone while only a few walls away). But honestly, the image of him waiting patiently in the master bedroom this whole time is just more hilarious to me, on a level I don't quite understand.