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Thursday, 17 August, 2006 by Nameless
P - a green potionPOTABLE, n.  Suitable for drinking.  Water is said to be
potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage,
although even they find it palatable only when suffering
from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it
is a medicine. Upon nothing has so great and diligent
ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all
countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the
invention of substitutes for water. To hold that this
general aversion to that liquid has no basis in the
preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific --
and without science we are as the snakes and toads.
        [ The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce ]

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Your movements are slowed slightly because of your load ...| ...| .@..#####+ ----
@ "Hmm. I've got a lot of junk. I'd probably better set up a stash or something somewhere."
A lit field         
surrounds you!      
  -------           
  |.{.#.|           
  |.....|           
  |..(..|           
##-@....|           
  ---+---           
                    
@ "This looks like a good place! Now, to set up my base..."
                    
                    
  -------           
  |`{(#`|           
  |.....|           
  |..@..|           
##+`...`|           
  ---+---           
     (              
@ "There! Perfect. I'll be safe to rest, recover, and organise my supplies here."
          ------    
          |cccc|    
  ------- |cccc|    
  |`{(#`| |cccc|    
  |.....| -.----    
  |..@..|###        
##+`...`|           
  ---+---           
     (              
SFX: Dun, dun, dun...


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GreyKnight August 17, 2006 00:41
First comment: 24 March, 2006 48 comments written
OH NOES
Feory August 17, 2006 01:11
First comment: 15 August, 2006 63 comments written
Why did statues appear in panel 3? (I mean, yeah, presumably things been stoned by the cs, but they still don't just appear).

Also, as someone is bound to point it out, 'trices can't open doors, so they can't get to him while he's resting etc.
Feory August 17, 2006 01:13
First comment: 15 August, 2006 63 comments written
Oh wait, is it that stuff has been stoned while he's been and got his stuff to stash? And that's he hasn't noticed the danger?
GreyKnight August 17, 2006 10:31
First comment: 24 March, 2006 48 comments written
Maybe he got some to decorate the place and make it look nice? As to the doorThrough me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
        [ The Inferno, from The Divine Comedy of Dante
                Alighieri, translated by H.F. Cary ]

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thing, as soon as he finds that doorThrough me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
        [ The Inferno, from The Divine Comedy of Dante
                Alighieri, translated by H.F. Cary ]

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and goes to investigate... x_x
Nesman August 17, 2006 14:21
First comment: 4 January, 2005 112 comments written
I think he's thowing his gear into piles. As car as the trices go, I expect we'll see some sort of explosion, or a wall eating monster in the near future.
Irashtar August 17, 2006 16:11
First comment: 17 February, 2005 19 comments written
maybe the dundundun refers to the SnakeNow the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field
which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea,
hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of
the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is
in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of
it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent
said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: for God doth
know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be
opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And
when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it
was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one
wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also
unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou
hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I
did eat. And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou
hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above
every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and
dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put
enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her
seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
        [ Genesis 3:1-6,13-15 ]

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, Fungi, and XornA distant cousin of the earth elemental, the xorn has the
ability to shift the cells of its body around in such a way
that it becomes porous to inert material. This gives it the
ability to pass through any obstacle that might be between it
and its next meal.

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?
Fathead August 17, 2006 20:07
First comment: 1 April, 2006 1136 comments written
Hmm, Irashtar has a point. Instead of SFX, it should be "..." as in:

@ Hark, I hear a voice. "Oh great one, what is thy will?"
... "Bypass this level altogether, as there is a trap."
*
*
*
Or something like that.
rose August 21, 2006 18:49
First comment: 30 June, 2006 10 comments written
SFX = sound effects? Dum dum dum = scary impending disaster music?
Grognor April 19, 2007 07:30
First comment: 4 April, 2007 1161 comments written
No. Wrong. Bad.

Also, Hurt. Death[Pestilence:] And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals,
and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four
beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white
horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given
unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

[War:] And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the
second beast say, Come and see. And there went out another
horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon
to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one
another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

[Famine:] And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the
third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black
horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his
hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say,
A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley
for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

[Death:] And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the
voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and
behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death,
and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over
the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with
hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
[ Revelations of John, 6:1-8 ]

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