Fridge Brilliance
- The song that plays in his new intro? It's The Bard's Song by Blind Guardian (the cover being by Van Canto), which is an awesome song yes, but... think about how appropriate it is. What was Spoony's first D&D character? A Bard! So, to honor Tandem the Spoony, he might have picked that song. Either that, or it's because he's our "humble storyteller", and what do they do? Tell tales like a Bard does!
- This is most certainly unintentional, but while on the subject of Tandem the Spoony... In "Tandem's Last Ride," said bard uses Countersong. Noah, stressed out due to a massive Oh Crap Moment, stands up, slams his fists into the table and sings Fear of the Dark... which has been covered by... *drum roll* Van Canto!
Fridge Logic
- In "They Duel. That's What They Do.
", Spoony says he's probably going to get a bunch of comments about how badly he played Legend of the Five Rings regarding his character being forced into a duel with another player and completely slaughtered for not knowing anything about how Japanese honor works. In the comments for the video (before they were turned off), many multi-paragraph comments were written about how Spoony's party was in the wrong. Not only were the reasons for the Crane duelist to have felt dishonored completely unjustified, but Spoony's shugenja character actually had multiple outs he could have taken to prevent himself from getting slaughtered that would have worked, had he known about them. These include:- 1. Spoony is a shugenja, a sort of monk or holy man. It would have been incredibly dishonorable to strike down a member of the clergy, especially for such a petty offense.
- 2. Spoony could have called in someone from his character's clan to duel in his stead, and since his clan is the same as the Emperor's, Spoony would have had access to some of the best samurai available.
- 3. The challenge didn't have to be a sword duel. As the one being challenged, Spoony could have chosen a different test of mettle, as long as the others agreed, and there was a referee of sorts to supervise.
- 4. As mentioned above, Spoony's character is kin with the Emperor. All he had to do is point out the holy retribution the Emperor would dish out on the Cranes if he found out one who shared his blood had been murdered in such a fashion, as it would now be dishonor upon the Emperor's name. The Cranes would, at best, become outcasts and, at worst, start a civil war with the rest of the world and be destroyed.
- In short, Spoony was completely in the right, and was basically dropped into a demented version of L5R with a bunch of PC-killing bullies out to haze a new player unfamiliar with the setting and their lazy and/or complicit GM.
