A Dreadful Curse
Suddenly you're accosted by a fearsome (and oddly out-of-place) foe -- a zmobie! You scream in terror and turn to run, but find yourself facing a whole group of zmobies!
"Now calm down, lad," one of them says. He seems uncharacteristically well-spoken for a zmobie. "We're not really zmobies. We got this way by looting cursed booty -- don't snigger, land lubber -- and though we are men, under the moonlight we look like zmobies."
"Man, that must suck," you reply.
"Ye have no idea," the zmobie replies. "For one thing, being a zmobie isn't all it's cracked up to be. Sure, we tried eating brains, lurching around, and performing extremely well-choreographed dance numbers, but that got old real quick. And besides, you know how hard it is to score with the ladies when you look like a rotting corpse in the moonlight? I don't suppose ye can find a way to lift the curse?"
You try a couple practice spells but can't seem to break the enchantment. You quickly conjure up several large bottles of Bain de Lune, an industrial strength moonblock. The zmobies quickly apply it and turn back into pirates.
You walk away feeling good about the magic practice and the good deed done dirt cheap.
| You gain 15 Enchantedness. |
Occurs at The Obligatory Pirate's Cove.
Notes
References
- The adventure is basically a parody of the 2003 movie Pirates of the Caribbean, which features a crew of pirates who turn into skeletons under the light of the moon thanks to a cursed treasure.
- The adventure also throws in a reference to the 1976 AC/DC album Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.
- The "Bain de Lune" moonblock is a reference to the popular sunblock Bain de Soleil.
- The line about the zmobies "performing extremely well-choreographed dance numbers" is a reference to the video clip for the song "Thriller," from Michael Jackson's 1982 album of the same name, in which Jackson becomes a zombie and is accompanied by an undead dance troupe.
- "For one thing, being a zmobie isn't all it's cracked up to be. Sure, we tried eating brains, lurching around, and performing extremely well-choreographed dance numbers, but that got old real quick," could be a reference to commercials for the Capital One credit card company in which Viking pillagers that have lost their jobs say similar things.
