History Literature / ElfslayerChronicles

* ThenLetMeBeEvil: OP. In a game where HumansAreTheRealMonsters, he decided to [[AlwaysChaoticEvil act in character]].

* {{Railroading}}: Notably averted. The DM, to her credit, never resorts to forcing the players down a certain path or using a fiat to punish OP. She places obvious traps and challenges targeted at him like the Eye of Blight, but never physically forces his character to fall into them.

* BlackAndGreyMorality: Without mincing words, this is the story about a {{Jerkass}} [[OffTheRails derailing]] a tabletop game entirely out of petty spite for the GameMaster. In any other story, the GM would be the victim for having their hard work disrupted by "Elfslayer" like this; however, because the GM is horrendously flawed and using the game to indulge her fetish for gay elves (and because OP harbors absolutely no illusions about his being an asshole), it ends up being a "Jerk vs. Jerk" story [[RuleOfFun that can still be enjoyed]].

* BalefulPolymorph: According to the DM, the worst criminals in the Elven society are [[{{Transflormation}} turned into trees.]] There's a heavy implication that this would be OP's fate if the DM ever catches him.

* BatmanGambit: Elements of this. OP, out of character, told the DM he was attempting to lure out any assassins in order for the DM to allow his sneaking around to go on undisturbed.

* AuthorAppeal: The DM built the campaign around elves and yaoi, both of which she loves. The only reason dwarves and tieflings are allowed as player characters is that she doesn't like them, so she is fine with them being allied with the [[DesignatedVillain evil humans]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: When the DM tries to capitalize on OP's villainous behavior by offering him a powerful ArtifactOfDoom, expecting him to take it and become the new BigBad, he buries it in the garden (using a shovel to move it without actually touching it) to keep anyone from using it. He is, after all, just trying to serve his kingdom, [[PragmaticVillainy not go insane and try to destroy the world.]]

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Humans, as expected in a [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters story like this]]. They're described as being hidebound, homophobic, greedy, elf-hating warmongers. The fun starts when OP decides to start playing his (human) character as a hidebound, homophobic, greedy, elf-hating warmonger. After killing off the Elf Captain of the Guard, OP avoids sending news of his victory back to the human kingdom for fear that the DM will use this trope against him by having his superiors [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kill him]] and claim credit for his actions.

* BadassBeard: OP mentions that the Rumbling Brothers described the importance of beards in Dwarven society, with decorations holding specific meaning (such as beads to denote their children, braids as military rank badges) and the worst criminals being forced to shave their beards and scar their faces so they can never regrow them. Though it's not entirely clear how much of it is true (they change the story with each telling), several commenters praised the idea and declared that they wanted to adopt it the next time they played Dwarves.

* VillainousValour: For all the DM's faults, OP gives her credit for trying to roll with the punches and punish him in-game instead of {{Railroading}} or pulling a RocksFallEveryoneDies. This is in stark contrast to the Weeaboo, who seems [[MetaGuy incapable of keeping meta and in-game information separate]].

* OffTheRails: The entire thing.

* ArtifactOfDoom: The Eye of Blight (really, what could you expect with [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast a name like that]]?). It was once a magical weapon of execution, and could rot anyone who held it away within seconds.
* AuthorAppeal: The DM built the campaign around elves and Yaoi, both of which she loves. The only reason dwarves and tieflings are allowed as player characters is that she doesn't like them, so she is fine with them being allied with the [[DesignatedVillain evil humans]].

* BigBad: OP. He organises a series of murders in order to fuel a war and briefly muses about kidnapping a princess, although it never does go through. OP suspects that the DM was trying to turn him into this by introducing him to the [[ArtifactOfDoom Eye of Blight]] in order to get the party to kill him.

* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: When the elves question the party about the Prince's murder, the dwarf brothers spend the whole time frustrating the interrogation and annoying the elves by using one brother's high Charisma to give their Truth spells false-positives. Not because they're in on OP's plan, but because [[ElvesVsDwarves they hate elves as much as he does]].

* BlackAndGreyMorality: In any other context, OP and his allies would come off as complete tools for [[OffTheRails derailing]] the game and tormenting the [=NPCs=]. But the DM's ego, bad writing, and shortsightedness makes their actions come off as justified, if for no other reason than [[RuleOfFun being more fun]].
* CallingYourAttacks: A trait of the tiefling swordsman.

* DisproportionateRetribution: The thread theorised that the DM's reaction to the illusionist refusing a yaoi threesome was to [[spoiler:allow the half-orc to rape him in his sleep]]. It may have been an attempt to sabotage any bid for power the illusionist might make, though.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: When interrogated regarding the party, the half-orc ranger states she carried OP's illusionist to his bed-chambers. When asked what she did then, she states honestly that she [[spoiler:slept with the illusionist. Said illusionist was blind-drunk (and too weak to fight back even if sober) and not aware of having been laid until the interrogation.]] While jokes were made about the event, OP considers it somewhat creepy, especially after the DM just up and accepted it.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: When the DM tries to capitalize on OP's villainous behavior by offering him a powerful ArtifactOfDoom, expecting him to take it and become the new BigBad, he quickly removes it from its pedestal and buries it in the garden to keep anyone from using it. He is, after all, just trying to serve his kingdom, [[PragmaticVillainy not go insane and try to destroy the world.]]

* GenericDoomsdayVillain: The DM and Weeaboo ''think'' that OP is this; that he's only derailing the campaign because he's just a big jerk and {{Munchkin}}. Their attempts to reign him in or punish him fail because [[EvilCannotComprehendGood they can't wrap their heads around his real motives]], both in-character (to ensure the safety and security of his kingdom) and out (to make the game actually fun).

* {{Railroading}}: Notably averted. The DM, to her credit, never resorts to forcing the players done a certain path or using a fiat to punish OP. She places obvious traps and challenges targeted at him like the Eye of Blight, but never physically forces his character to fall into them.

* GenericDoomsdayVillain: The DM and Weeaboo ''think'' that OP is this; that he's only derailing the campaign because he's just a big jerk and {{Munchkin}}. They're attempts to reign him in or punish him fail because [[EvilCannotComprehendGood they can't their heads around his real motives]], both in-character (to ensure the safety and security of his kingdom) and out (to make the game actually fun).

* BalefulPolymorph: According to the DM, the worst criminals in the Elven society are turned into trees. There's a heavy implication that this would be OP's fate if the DM ever catches him.

* LoopholeAbuse: The DM tries this in order to catch OP and punish him for [[OffTheRails ruining her game]] without resorting to a [[RocksFallEveryoneDies fiat]]. For example, introducing the [[ArtifactOfDoom Eye of Blight]]: instead of trying to bust open OP's ironclad alibi and find evidence of his crimes in-universe, why not have him [[FaceHeelTurn turn evil]] and give the rest of the party an excuse to kill him?

* ArtifactOfDoom: The Eye of Blight (really, what could you expect with [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast a name like that]]). It was once a magical weapon of execution, and could rot anyone who held it away within seconds.
* AuthorAppeal: The DM built the campaign around elves and Yaoi, both of which she loved. The only reason dwarves and tieflings were allowed as player characters was that she didn't like them, so she was fine with them being allied with the [[DesignatedVillain evil humans]].
* BalefulPolymorph: According to the DM, the worst criminals in the Elven society are turned into trees. There's a heavy implication that this was OP's fate if the DM ever caught him.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: When interrogated regarding the party, the half-orc ranger stated she carried OP's illusionist to his bed-chambers. When asked what she did then, she stated honestly that she [[spoiler:slept with the illusionist. Said illusionist was blind-drunk (and too weak to fight back even if sober) and not aware of having been laid until the interrogation.]] While jokes were made about the event, OP considered it somewhat creepy, especially after the DM just up and accepted it.

* TheFullNameAdventures: "Elfslayer" is the nickname OP eventually gave himself in order to make it easier for readers to find his posts.
* GoneHorriblyRight: The DM claimed the humans were homophobic warmongers. Then OP decided that he wouldn't be an exception, and furthermore, he'd be a ''very smart'' non-exception.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: OP's justification for attacking the prince is that the war had been good for his kingdom's economy, which the DM had established in order to show [[HumansAreBastards humans being greedy]], and in addition, his nation was homophobic, according to the DM, so OP wouldn't accept the prince being gay. Elven religion not being materialistic and making a point of letting the dead rest in peace (as the DM [[AuthorFilibuster filibustered about]]) meant that the prince could not be raised from the dead, and finally, the DM commenting that elves had so little crime and therefore didn't have holding cells allowed [[spoiler:OP to set up the scene for the Captain of the Guard's murder.]]

* KarmaHoudini: OP. As he clearly states to everyone, there is no in game reason for anyone to suspect him of killing his prince, with most of his tricks used to shift suspicion onto the Captain of the Guards. The closest he comes to retribution is the tiefling, but everyone points out his accusations are, in the game, unfounded.
* LieDetector: There are spells in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' that can function as such, and you can imagine the DM used it quite liberally. Unfortunately for the elves, the spells aren't perfect. The dwarves of the party decided to have a bit of fun with it: one twin was a QuirkyBard who had such a high Charisma stat that he could effortlessly fool the spell, but the other twin didn't and couldn't. So they would constantly spout outrageous lies (one twin made up the lie, the other confirmed it to be true) to give conflicting readings on the same statements, and not even to help OP, they just did it for laughs.

* ShoutOut: The weeaboo's character was described as having "ripped off every anime half-demon he can find".

[[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Elfslayer_Chronicles The Elfslayer Chronicles]] is the given name for a series of 4Chan posts in December of 2009 by an Anonymous player (a human illusionist) detailing a series of TabletopRPG/DungeonsAndDragons games played over IRC. Over five separate threads, OP details how he successfully [[OffTheRails turned a campaign about]] restoring peace to the elven lands into a [[XanatosGambit dangerous game of escaping punishment]] for murdering their own prince.

!!Elfslayer Chronicles contains examples of:

* CantArgueWithElves: Elves look down on the human practice of resurrection because they, lacking human materialism, prefer to let their dead rest in peace. They don't execute criminals (they imprison them, banish them, or turn them into trees), nor do they have holding cells due to the low amount of elf crime. They are also extremely accommodating of homosexual behaviour. It's pretty clear which race had the DM's favor.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: When interrogated regarding the party, the half-orc ranger stated she carried OP's illusionist to his bed-chambers. When asked what she did then, she stated honestly that she [[spoiler:slept with the illusionist. Said illusionist was blind-drunk (and too weak to fight back even if sober) and not aware of having been laid until the interrogation.]] While jokes were made about the event, OP considered it somewhat creepy, especially after the DM just up and accepted it.

* ForTheEvulz: Averted. While the DM assumes this to be the case (even offering an artifact that would offer destructive power), all actions taken by the illusionist are for the benefit of his nation.
* KarmaHoudini: OP. As he clearly states to everyone, there is no in game reason for anyone to suspect him of killing his prince, with most of his tricks used to shift suspicion onto the Captain of the Guards. The closest he comes to retribution is the tiefling, but everyone points out his accusations are, in the game, unfounded.

* LieDetector: There are spells in TabletopRPG/DungeonsAndDragons that can function as such, and you can imagine the DM used it quite liberally. Unfortunately for the elves, the spells aren't perfect. The dwarves of the party decided to have a bit of fun with it: one twin was a SpoonyBard who had such a high Charisma stat that he could effortlessly fool the spell, but the other twin didn't and couldn't. So they would constantly spout outrageous lies (one twin made up the lie, the other confirmed it to be true) to give conflicting readings on the same statements, and not even to help OP, they just did it for laughs.

* OurElvesAreDifferent: The elves in the campaign are standard D&D elves and eladrin, presented by the DM as peaceful and more culturally advanced than other races, are far more accepting of homosexual relationships, they have very little crime and they don't believe in disturbing the dead. They also appear to be xenophobic, since the human kingdom also houses half-orcs, tieflings and dwarves while the elf kingdom does not. According to OP, the elven culture was a mix of Eladrin and normal elves. The Human Prince's lover in particular was an Eladrin Swordmage.
* PragmaticVillainy: OP's illusionist character is motivated by what they consider best for the human empire, as well as what might provide a boost in personal power. Being led to believe that the war with the elves leads to a surge in patriotism, an economic boost and potential access to a great source of lumber, he endeavours to keep such a war going.

* CantArgueWithElves: Elf society is considered by the DM to be so much better than human society. They look down on the human practice of resurrection because they, lacking human materialism, prefer to let their dead rest in peace. They don't execute criminals, nor do they have holding cells due to the low amount of elf crime. They are extremely accommodating of homosexual behaviour. It is clear the DM favours the elf race over others.

* GenreSavvy: OP knows better than to have anything to do with the Eye of Blight.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Humans, as expected in a [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters story like this]]. Described as being hidebound, homophobic, greedy, elf-hating warmongers. The fun starts when OP decides to start playing his character as a hidebound, homophobic, greedy, elf-hating warmonger. After killing off the Elf Captain of the Guard, OP avoids sending news of his victory back to the human kingdom for fear that the DM will use this trope against him by having his superiors [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kill him]] and claim credit for his actions.

* ArtifactOfDoom: The DM leads the illusionist to an orb that offers great destructive powers. [[spoiler:It is never used]].

%% TheChessmaster: OP.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The thread theorised that the DM's reaction to the illusionist refusing the threesome was to [[spoiler:allow the half-orc to rape him in his sleep]]. It may have been an attempt to sabotage any bid for power the illusionist might make, though.

* ForTheEvulz: Averted. While the DM assumes this to be the case (even offering an artifact that would offer destructive power), all actions taken by the illusionist work to benefit his nation.

* GoneHorriblyRight: The DM claimed the humans were homophobic warmongers. The OP decided that he wouldn't be an exception.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The OP's justification for attacking the prince is that the war had been good for his kingdom's economy, which the DM had established in order to show [[HumansAreBastards humans being greedy]], and in addition, his nation was homophobic, according to the DM, so OP wouldn't accept the prince being gay. Elven religion not being materialistic (as the DM [[AuthorFilibuster filibustered about]]) meant that the prince could not be raised from the dead, and finally, the DM commenting that elves had so little crime and therefore didn't have holding cells allowed [[spoiler:OP to set up the scene for the Captain of the Guard's murder.]]

* LieDetector: There are spells in TabletopRPG/DungeonsAndDragons that can function as such, and you can imagine the DM used it quite liberally. Unfortunately for the elves, the spells aren't perfect. The dwarves of the party decided to have a bit of fun with it: one twin was a SpoonyBard whose charisma was so high he could effortlessly fool the spell, but the other twin didn't and couldn't. So they would constantly spout lies to give conflicting readings on the same statements, and not even to help OP, they just did it for laughs.

* MetaGuy: The Tiefling, or Weeaboo as OP calls him, who constantly rails against OP both in character and out, and has a hard time keeping OOC knowledge (that OP was the killer) out of the game.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: See PragmaticVillainy above. OP's in-universe reason for why he's doing all this is for the good of his kingdom.