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A Fantasy Comedy by Retro Raider 6400 Gb (real name Jack) that features a H2G2-style Ragtag Bunchof Misfits in a Pan-Dimensional/Fictional-Universal adventure... by way of ten Magical Dungeons&Dragons Dice. It aims to be the Fantasy equivelent of Blazing Saddles; taking every single Trope and Convention of the Genre, then grinding them all into a fine dust that can be inhaled at leisure.

It starts off with English Teenage Geeks Dave, Jeff and Zoe, who are forced (well, Dave is forced; Jeff and Zoe just tag along to keep him company) by Dave's parent's to go on a weekend camping trip to the country with his senile Grandfather. Unbeknownst to them, he's actually a 1200-year-old Highlander-style Immortal Anglo-Saxon Wizard called Gaeratric, who has organised the trip as a pretence for meeting up with his old friend, the Immortal Samurai Toho. Whilst working on their D&D Characters in the tent, the Teens find Gaeratric's Wand under his duvet and, not knowing it's real, start playing around with it, until a spark shoots out the end and hits both Dave's D&D Dice and Jeff's Character Sheet they were resting on.

This does two things: turns the Dice into Inter-Dimensional Transporters that can send them anywhere, anytime, when thrown, and brings Jeff's Character, Volva to life. Oh, and it also sends the Dice flying, whilst Gaeratric and Toho are standing outside the tent talking. They are summarily Transported to a Space/Fantasy Western-type world, where they meet Outlaw-Cowgirl Cosmos Jayne. In the local Frontier Town they discover from a Warlock that in order to get home they must roll the right combination of Die rolls to get back to their own Time and location. This is the hard part.

  • Anachronism Stew
    • The car dealership they find in a LotR, D&D-style Fantasy Land.
    • Also the main group themselves: three Teenaged Geeks, (who are armed with, amoungst other things, a Lightsabre, a Wand and a trusty English Cricket Bat) a Fire Warrior, an Anglo-Saxon Wizard, a Samurai, and a Space-Fantasy Cowgirl.
  • Insistent Terminology: Gaeratric would like it to be known that his Sword is called Aerdoth, not Eardolf, Alerod, or Arnald.
  • Slapstick: Volva is literally a Flame-haired, purple-skinned babe with Fire Powers a-la The Human Torch, but due to her having to learn how to use said powers herself when she comes to life, on her first few tries the Fire comes out her behind rather than her hands or eyes.

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