CerealNommer

The books are great too. Very different from the America reboot. The older British versions of the show are a lot closer to original Douglas Adams books.

A homebrew GLaDOS-esk villain could be cool.

I’ve been considering doing something with a rogue decaton. Maybe drop some rumors or hints that make it sound like a beholder amassing a construct army, only to reveal it’s a decaton with a bunch of pentadrone minons that never question why their boss has started drifting into LE territory with the orders lately.

It should fit pretty well. 😁 The audio matches the subtitles for all but one word.

This is from a show called Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. This is an edited clip from the 2016 version.

Edit: I put together a brief clip of a scene more representative of the tone of the show, to give people an idea of what they’re actually in for if they go looking for it.

We got the map from the “Headmaster”. Anything in the font for most of the room labels (Dining Hall, Library, Private Chambers, etc…) were already there.

Any rooms or halls on the far side of a secret door and any labels in a smaller font were my annotations.

Lorewise maruts are damn near incorruptable, but even just a rogue modron could be cool if done right. A marut is also unlikely to misinterpret the contract, but the signatories might have.

“[…] A marut enforces what is written, not what was meant by or supposed to be understood from the writing. The Kolyarut rejects contracts that contain vague, contradictory, or unenforceable terms. Beyond that, it doesn’t care whether both parties understand what they’re agreeing to.” There’s also a reason they’re called “nigh-unstoppable inevitables”.

I guess now that I think about it, a simulacrum is a construct as well, but I’d have a hard time counting one of them. Most powerful constructs tend to be golems or a colossus like the Walking Statues of Waterdeep, not independent thinkers, just powerful brute force minions.

The characters in the top panel are from a New Yorker cartoon. I think it’s supposed to be blushing?

I may have posted the original meme in a discord server somewhere, but I put it on imgur now so it’s available publicly. ~You~ ~may~ ~be~ ~able~ ~to~ ~see~ ~why~ ~the~ ~idea~ ~of~ ~a~ ~BBEG~ ~bard~ ~brought~ ~this~ ~to~ ~mind.~

Edit: Found where I originally put it on imgur. Huzzah, the history is preserved.

Yeah. This is the 4e version of the 1st floor map. The 5e version is only a small corner of this, but I exaggerated a bit for the meme.