# Too Proud to Die - the Fighting Ignorants **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 19, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-proud-to-die-the-fighting-ignorants/536657 "2010-04-19T19:58:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-proud-to-die-the-fighting-ignorants/536657/221 "2010-05-10T07:54:58Z")
Let’s keep going. I’ll watch the rear. ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-proud-to-die-the-fighting-ignorants/536657/222 "2010-05-10T08:02:25Z")
I’ll take my position as second in line behind Oredigger. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-proud-to-die-the-fighting-ignorants/536657/223 "2010-05-10T09:01:51Z")
**Melon** keeps near the front of the group. He might as well at least try to take hits for the more useful party members. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-proud-to-die-the-fighting-ignorants/536657/224 "2010-05-10T09:09:24Z")
Awww, don’t get all emo on us 😛 ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-proud-to-die-the-fighting-ignorants/536657/225 "2010-05-10T09:12:49Z")
Sack up, **Auto** , we’ve got a job to do. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-proud-to-die-the-fighting-ignorants/536657/226 "2010-05-10T12:59:13Z")
I agree that we should press on. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-proud-to-die-the-fighting-ignorants/536657/227 "2010-05-10T16:18:01Z")
Cheer up, **Melon** , I for one cherish your existence. Your very breath is keeping my coins in my pocket! ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-proud-to-die-the-fighting-ignorants/536657/228 "2010-05-10T16:19:04Z")
Oh, and Ishtar is all for pressing on as well. Though he is upset that his wizardry clothes are filthy! Filthy I say! ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-proud-to-die-the-fighting-ignorants/536657/229 "2010-05-10T22:28:16Z")
There are some low-lying ruins ahead - some almost ground-level, some maybe six to eight feet high. It looks about the right size to have been a monastery or something similar once upon a time. According to your briefing from the Parson, there should be a crypt somewhere. You’re now on higher ground some way above the level of the marshes so the ground would be dry for quite some way down. There is room to spread out much wider than single file if you wish. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-proud-to-die-the-fighting-ignorants/536657/230 "2010-05-10T22:50:22Z")
“Oh! Oh! Who wants to go crypt-exploring? I do!” ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2010, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-proud-to-die-the-fighting-ignorants/536657/231 "2010-05-11T13:29:53Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > “Oh! Oh! Who wants to go crypt-exploring? I do!” “Beats farming” ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2010, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-proud-to-die-the-fighting-ignorants/536657/232 "2010-05-11T13:56:35Z")
“Great, leave it to our thief to want to go grave robbing. Why don’t we finish off our current job and then hit in on the way back? Maybe by then our noodle arm priest will learn to hit what he swings at and we might have a chance against what lurks in there. I like being a meat shield only when I have to and purposefully walking into a crypt doesn’t count as have to.” ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2010, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-proud-to-die-the-fighting-ignorants/536657/233 "2010-05-11T14:21:01Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > “Great, leave it to our thief to want to go grave robbing. Why don’t we finish off our current job and then hit in on the way back? Maybe by then our noodle arm priest will learn to hit what he swings at and we might have a chance against what lurks in there. I like being a meat shield only when I have to and purposefully walking into a crypt doesn’t count as have to.” “that’s what I like about you **Ore** , your unrelenting optimism” ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2010, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-proud-to-die-the-fighting-ignorants/536657/234 "2010-05-11T15:00:21Z")
“I am optimistic. I’m optimistic that if we go into the crypt we’re going to die.” ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-proud-to-die-the-fighting-ignorants/536657/235 "2010-05-11T15:17:22Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > “Great, leave it to our thief to want to go grave robbing. Why don’t we finish off our current job and then hit in on the way back? Maybe by then our noodle arm priest will learn to hit what he swings at and we might have a chance against what lurks in there. I like being a meat shield only when I have to and purposefully walking into a crypt doesn’t count as have to.” This _is_ your current job - one of you is carrying a funeral urn to be returned to its rightful spot… ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-proud-to-die-the-fighting-ignorants/536657/236 "2010-05-11T16:50:39Z")
"Apparently Oredigger didn’t pay attention much in adventurer’s school to the part about knowing what your mission is before undertaking it. “That being said, depending on how dangerous you think this crypt will be, it might be worth it to rest for the day since I’m out of spells, unless the rest of you think we have enough spells to get by. I mean now that we’re on dry land, this wouldn’t be a bad spot.” ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-proud-to-die-the-fighting-ignorants/536657/237 "2010-05-11T17:03:56Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > The only trouble is that the proper burial place is now unattended, in disrepair, and may possibly have attracted looters. I was thinking graveyard not crypt. “Since I was distracted by the donkey show back in town I’ll withdraw my objection but we still should be prepared for trouble.” ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-proud-to-die-the-fighting-ignorants/536657/238 "2010-05-11T17:07:10Z")
“I agree with **Hoppy Frood** , we should rest, heal, and memorize spells before we enter that crypt” Does the guide know any local lore about the crypt?, something we should know? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2010, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-proud-to-die-the-fighting-ignorants/536657/239 "2010-05-11T18:04:56Z")
Trotman: No, all I know about this place is the way here - if you needed to know more you should have asked the Parson. I can try and find you a camp site if you want. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-proud-to-die-the-fighting-ignorants/536657/240 "2010-05-11T18:09:40Z")
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