TOPIC: Grunnel's Gift

Matthew Hayward wrote:

Fiddy wrote: I probably should be letting Reap regale you all with this, since he was the first recipient. Hopefully he won't mind me stealing his thunder....

The "Gift" was a black skull, roughly goblin-sized. I think fake, not an actual skull. Well... the front part of a skull at least.

It came with a set of rules. Write your name in the book, post on the forums that you've acquired the Gift, eventually pass the Gift on to some other unsuspecting player.

What did it do? Oh... it was cursed.
While you were the owner of the Gift, you had to pick your class last every time you ran TD.

When I received it at the end of GHC, I figured "No problem! I often choose last anyways." But I wound up needing to pass it off quicker than I expected. I frequently run double-downs with a certain group, and I realized that in our usual Canadian standoff of "oh no, you go ahead and choose a class" I was having to be a bit more pushy than usual and becoming suspicious

That led to me passing it on to Potter as a Christmas present. It might still be in his hands to today, except Grunnel sent a poem/puzzle/riddle to Reap in late January that led us to realize that we needed to pass it off to another 9 unsuspecting people before SkullCon (as well as do some other things). If successful in our quest, we'd destroy the curse as well as get a true gift from Grunnel.

All I'm saying is neither Gib Gub nor Francis ever sent me a cursed skull and then made me forward it to my friends.

Truth.

Tho GibGub did send Francis's 4 teenage cousins to Grunnel via delivery man at SkullCon when he didn't heed the treasure nut warning sent a few months back. Seems like this rivalry is going to go on for a while

Fiddy wrote: I probably should be letting Reap regale you all with this, since he was the first recipient. Hopefully he won't mind me stealing his thunder....

The "Gift" was a black skull, roughly goblin-sized. I think fake, not an actual skull. Well... the front part of a skull at least.

It came with a set of rules. Write your name in the book, post on the forums that you've acquired the Gift, eventually pass the Gift on to some other unsuspecting player.

What did it do? Oh... it was cursed.
While you were the owner of the Gift, you had to pick your class last every time you ran TD.

When I received it at the end of GHC, I figured "No problem! I often choose last anyways." But I wound up needing to pass it off quicker than I expected. I frequently run double-downs with a certain group, and I realized that in our usual Canadian standoff of "oh no, you go ahead and choose a class" I was having to be a bit more pushy than usual and becoming suspicious

That led to me passing it on to Potter as a Christmas present. It might still be in his hands to today, except Grunnel sent a poem/puzzle/riddle to Reap in late January that led us to realize that we needed to pass it off to another 9 unsuspecting people before SkullCon (as well as do some other things). If successful in our quest, we'd destroy the curse as well as get a true gift from Grunnel.

This is awesome! Thanks for sharing, I have been intensely curious

With “friends” like Grunnel . . .

I did try and warn you all about the goblins curse. Though it seems he still managed to collect the heads he required to complete his dark designs.

With regards to the 4 young turtles captured in the goblins layer. They were true heroes, and while I lament their loss, I take solace knowing they did manage to delay the silver tongued goblin's plans if only for a moment.

Take heart friends our battle is far from over as are his plans. Beware his games and gird yourselves for what is yet to come!

gibgub wrote: I did try and warn you all about the goblins curse. Though it seems he still managed to collect the heads he required to complete his dark designs.

With regards to the 4 young turtles captured in the goblins layer. They were true heroes, and while I lament their loss, I take solace knowing they did manage to delay the silver tongued goblin's plans if only for a moment.

Take heart friends our battle is far from over as are his plans. Beware his games and gird yourselves for what is yet to come!

Alas in delivering your followers to the Goblin I have been waylaid, however the other loyalists are still out and performing work. The battle against the evil Goblin will not be thwarted that easily.

Gibgub forever.

Matthew Hayward wrote:
All I'm saying is neither Gib Gub nor Francis ever sent me a cursed skull and then made me forward it to my friends.

Your loss then....lol. The 12 that received Grunnel's Gift proved their loyalty to Grunnel (except maybe 1 Beertram) and we were rewarded for having to carry the burden of the curse.

I was stopped by the TSA flying back from Denver when they took particular interest in the skull.

Carrying the curse definitely got interesting on volunteer runs for vtd where i kept going the no you choose your class or hey someone choose a class for me randomly (like i did on 1 of my skull con runs) and trying to carefully point out that hey I was unable to choose. Glad that in some groups I run with they already select and expect to be the drinking dwarf that i usually am.

Definitely glad i made and printed out builds for all 12 classes as ultimately being the last holder of the curse i wasn't able to lift it till after the skull runs finished and had to be prepared.

jedibcg wrote:

Matthew Hayward wrote:
All I'm saying is neither Gib Gub nor Francis ever sent me a cursed skull and then made me forward it to my friends.

Your loss then....lol. The 12 that received Grunnel's Gift proved their loyalty to Grunnel (except maybe 1 Beertram) and we were rewarded for having to carry the burden of the curse.

I was stopped by the TSA flying back from Denver when they took particular interest in the skull.

You guys keep talking about curses like they're bad...?
I mean, yes, awful curses. Of course they're bad, and Grunnel should send curses to his enemies.
Also, #TeamFrancis !

Francis is a rock.

Only you crazy people see a turtle.

ponyboy wrote: Francis is a rock.

Only you crazy people see a turtle.

#FrancisROCKS

I definitely planned on taking the skull to my TD grave had it not been for the quest Grunnel put upon us. I never care what class I play and always pick last. I thought the skull curse was AMAZING.

Once I had the skull a member of my group took interest and tried guessing what it did. He at one point said something along the lines of "You have been picking your class last, but you did that normally anyway"

I will let Reap post the poem and the quest - they were pretty awesome.

At one point a bunch of us were at Genghis Con together and the skull got passed around a ton by people who actually care what class they play

Gib Gub gave me a smoked sour beer. He said to make sure Grunnel drank it...