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9mo ago

New lore dropped

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G'day, you mob of surfacers! Crikey, you lot look like you've been chucked in the deep end down here in the Underdark. What're ya doin' in our neck of the woods? You lot lost or just got kangaroos loose in the top paddock?
Fair dinkum, you better not be here to cause any strife. Us Drow don't take kindly to strangers pokin' 'round our turf. Ya reckon you can handle yourselves in a blue, or are ya just a bunch of drongos lookin' for trouble?
Anyway, if you're keen on stickin' around, you better pull ya heads in and show some respect, or you'll cark it quicker than a stubby on a hot day. Welcome to the Underdark, mates. Watch yer step, and keep yer eyes peeled. We ain't got time for any flamin' galahs muckin' about!

Can someone make a drow Steve Irwin, please? Exploring the underdark in search of strange creatures and then wrestling them.
- Wouldn't drow Steve Irwin be legendary drow ranger Drizzt Do'urden (with his astral panther Guenhwyvar) before he went to the surface?
  Esteemed ~~Australian~~ drow actress Margot Robbie, on the other hand...
  
  Steve Irwin doesn't have enough scimitars, and Drizzt speaks too softly.
  Perhaps we could bring out the drow bard Hyuu Jakum'ann?
- Crikey! Look at the fungal growth on this Myoconide!
- That's not Steve Irwin any more than Crocodile Dundee. It's more like Freddy Kruger cosplaying as a ranger, at best.
- Watch out for that Cloaker, Steve Drowin!
- Isn't that Drizzt?
- Yes! This! 🤩🙇🏽‍♂️
- MJ still didn't like the purple skin bit, but seemed to pick up a bit of the aboriginal attributes along the way? I kinda like it, actually.

I have tried to have a session where Drows have Aussie accents. It was horrible. It was great. I'm sorry to all Aussies.
- Nah I live in Australia and we also do bad Australian accents recreationally no shame
  
  FYVE HANDRED DOLLARYDEWS?!
  
  Its fun to make fun of your own accent. How else do you mock the stupid people you see every day?

OI TARVO YA FAKKIN CUHKED KANT, DOHNT TACH THE FAKKEN BLINKEES, WE'VE 'AHD THEES CHAT. WORPYA STROIT TU SHE KNOWS WHER THEY WEEL.
- BUT MAYT, THEY AAHNT FAAKIN OFF.
  TARV, DON'T BE A FAKKIN ETTIE DRONGO.
  
  Ohgods, I'm dyin' heeya, 🤣🤘🏽
  
  TAAARV! THAT'S A FAKKIN 'ER 'GRAYZIHS REHDBACK! FAKKER WIHL MAYKA SPIHT BLAD!
  ME GIRL WANTS THA' VENAHM, REENIE, SAYS "If ay sees that beech Zeberiel Cobirn, I'm invitin her around for a mushie and fakkin droppin 'er." AND SHE'S COMIN ARAAN, SO I NEED A GOOD BREW TO DROP 'ER.
  FAKS SAYK, GEHT YERSELF A FAKKIN' NOOROOHOONEY, LIDDIHL BAGGAS LOOK LIKE BUTTON MUSHROOMS BUT THEY JUST FAKKIN LIHKWIFAI YA.
  AW, MAYT, MAY SHE BLESS YA. YER A REEL ONE.

I played a Duergar named Ivnier West who had an Australian accent and referred to the underdark as "down undah"
The anagram isn't as obvious as his prototype name: Eve Stirwin

Shouldn't the Drow be incredibly pale, not dark skinned, since they never have sun exposure?
- If we start pulling at this thread people will start wondering why Wheel of Time had a bunch of pale redheads in the desert.
  
  To be fair, the Aiel didn't initially grow up there (and too short for evolution, in my non-scientific brain), but rather migrated there to use it as "a shaping stone to make them, a testing ground to prove their worth, and a punishment for their sin." And it would be too easy on those three reasons if they were perfectly (or mostly) acclimated and suited for the desert genetically.
- They might be dark for camouflage. There's a fair bit of light in the underdark
- No, because they didn't use to live underground. Given enough time they'd all presumably become pale.
- I might be misremembering things but weren't they dark skinned already on surface, before they were expelled?
  
  Someone else said that too, so probably. Thanks!
- In my homebrew world, elves have a different skin pigment that reflects UV light (whereas melanin absorbs it). Lower amounts of pigmentation mean darker skin, and more means whiter skin
  Because of this, deep elves aren't as dark skinned as some humans, with the darkest being an ashy charcoal gray, but desert elves develop extremely white skin with almost no translucence
  
  That's a fun explanation.
- That's the Mystaran shadow elves.

Fair dinkum!

It took me until now to realize the hair on Saxton Hale's chest is shaped like Australia.
- Haha I have no idea who the character is but I noticed the Australia chat hair immediately (but probably thanks to context).
- Fair cop, who's this Saxton cunt?
  
  The Guy in the picture, he is a character from the media surrounding team fortress 2, . The comics are pretty fun if you want something to read on your lunch break

Holy hell!

Now I want to make a drow that's just Rhys Darby and he's hated by the other drow for his slightly different accent (New Zealand).

So does that mean regular elves have Kiwi accents?
- Regular elves have snooty English accents. Everyone knows this.
  
  I thought that was just the High Elves.
- Seldarine/surface-dwelling Drow are the Kiwis.
- Regular elves have Wolverhampton accents. It is known.

Does Lemmy have a maps without New Zealand community?

Ach so you miss the point daß people mishe Austria and Australia, and that Hitler was Spraching with an Austrian Akzent. Daß works even Beßer
- Have you ever tried speaking one language at a time?

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