Rainbow Dash: UUGH. As much as I loooove the suspense... There's two ways this is going down. One, Rarity's getting hitched to a campaign villain without telling us, which means we're done, mission accomplished. Two, we gank this guy. So which is it?
Twilight Sparkle: Well, "two" is also "she betrays and maybe destroys the Equestrian Thieves Guild," so...
Rainbow Dash: Yeah, but "one" is "she betrays US." Shouldn't, y'know, the rainbow power of friendship be kicking in any second now? Hmmm... Actually, can we blast Elusive with the Elements of Harmony?
DM: Thirty-one different flavors of no.
Never
Don't hold your breath
When pigs fly (though this one actually happened in a game...my first gming because that's when my brothers said they would let me gm...and with fly spells this is not advised)
Forget it
Never going to happen
Not even in a blue moon
Absolutely not
No ****ing way
"There aren't enough dice in the world."
"Are you sure?"
"Sure you could. You're also capable of shoving the tip of your sword under your fingernail as hard as you can, but that doesn't mean you should."
"Everyone around (player who made suggestion), make Wisdom saves. Those of you who succeed take 1d4 psychic damage."
Little known fact:
Baskin Robbins actually has 32 flavors of ice cream AT ALL TIMES... because they need a spare to reach 31 flavors just in case one flavor runs out suddenly!
So:
32: "When hell freezes over... and I just checked, it's still fire and brimstone down there!"
Speaking as someone who used to work for BR, not entirely true.
For one, they got rid of the '31 Flavors' branding a while back. They seem to have brought it back, but they got tired of people 'calling them out' for not having them all.
For two, this is because they have some smaller stores, including 'combo' stores that are partnered with Togo's or Dunkin Donuts. Those may have as few as sixteen flavors. The one I worked at had only 23.
"I brought you some ice cream, and it's mango chutney with peppermint and professor pepperton cola flavor! Because I still wanted you to have ice cream, but I don't know if you should enjoy it!"
I'm with Dash on this. As presented, the prince is totally an arc boss, and the elements should work perfectly on him. Also, the option that puts the players in opposition to each other is always the wrong option, so Rarity needs to just signal them to off the guy, or something equivalent.
"If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off? Of course not. You'd paddle it. There can be circumstances when it's just as foolish to hit an enemy city with an H-bomb as it would be to spank a baby with an axe."
I don't think Celestia would like her student using the magical nuke option until Elusive has *earned* it.
To be fair, I think Elusive earned it about the time be had his people sabotage Rarity's wings in an action that was clearly designed to kill her... something that everyone seems to be forgetting here.
Oh, and the time they tried to slander Princess Luna for no as-of-yet discernible reason.
Let's see, title in reference to weaponry, check. Screen off-center by a significant amount, check. One of the players wants blood, check. The comments are going to be fun to read today.
Reminds me of an incident with a GM who created a "loveable rascal" enemy for us in a Mutants and Masterminds game, sort of a villainous version of Saitama from "One Punch Man." Super strong, impossible to hit, commits crimes because he's bored.
...The GM was genuinely astonished when the first thing we did after we were trapped with One Hit Man in a building with a superpower dampening field was to beat the crap out of the guy, then tie him up. He didn't come across as nearly as lovable as the GM had hoped.
(Then we really frustrated the GM by refusing to untie and work with him, instead treating him as a captured criminal who needed to be protected because he was in our custody)
I'm not going to give my guess on what is going to happen next on the off chance I'm right and the author of this decides to go with something else instead because of it.