"Can our heroes solve the greatest mystery of all: Love? Also, murder? Let's find out in... The Adventure Zone!"
— The Announcer
See here for the main recap page.
The game is afoot! The game of murder-solving, I mean. The game of Dungeons & Dragons has been afoot for a while. Magnus finds unorthodox uses for furniture. Taako practices his interrogation techniques. Merle becomes a robot mom.
Tropes
- Big Damn Heroes: Jess kills the crab monster.
- Chairman of the Brawl: Magnus uses a wooden chair to fight the crab monster.
- Critical Hit: Jess rolls one against the crab monster, bisecting and finishing it.
- Fun with Homophones:Merle: See if you've got a melted butter spell.Griffin: Yeah, it would have to be clarified
though.Merle: Ok, a melted butter spell where it melts butter. How's that for clarification?- And later:
Merle: It is almost impossible to get rid of crabs. Have you noticed that? - Good Cop/Bad Cop: How the heroes interrogated Gram.
- Hurricane of Puns: Lots of crab puns after the crab monster fight.
- A couple of them pop up when speaking to the engineer.
- Kill Steal: Griffin claims that because Jesse kills the crab, the players get no xp, but later admits he was “goofing”.
- Shave And A Haircut: Magnus knocks this on the engineer’s door.
- Shout-Out:
- Punk'd
- Alice
- EverQuest
- Taako refers to Angus as Encyclopedia Brown.
- CSI
- Redwall
- The Secret of Nimh
- NCIS
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Skewed Priorities: Juicy Wizard is unconscious, Jenkins is (ostensibly) dead, and… the crab destroyed the drink cart. It dies!
