"Mazes and Monsters" was a book and then a TV movie. The story was a fictionalized version of a student at Michigan State (IIRC) who went missing. The Fake News account of the disappearance was that he crazy from playing Dungeons & Dragons and disappeared into the tunnels under the school, lost in a fantasy world. This idea was proposed by a private detective paid to find the kid. He couldn't find him, but he seized on the D&D theory.

In fact, he went to some other school to hook up with someone without telling anyone. It didn't have anything to do with D&D.

But the story was out there for exploitation and got exploited.

Below, the very silly conclusion of the TV movie, taking place atop the Two Towers.

After that, choice quotes from that movie, and that scene, made part of a dungeonpunk synth track.

It's all very, very silly.

I've wanted to post that for a year but kept putting it off because basically three people in the world would even get it.

So here's something else for everyone else.