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Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 6:52 pm
by aTOMiC
dAN wrote: Careful, Clear. You're beginning to wax eloquent when you should be polishing your armor.... :screwy:
Perhaps I should just wax my armor or is it polish my eloquent?

Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 9:00 am
by hierachy
So... I am Hierachy, talk to me and I will talk back, Quote me and I will eat back, Kill me and I will die, destroy me and I will be whole in myself and whole in you...

Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 9:05 am
by hierachy
Sorry, the point of that last messsage may have been somewhat lost by the reader...

What I meant to say was:
dAN wrote:

Careful, Clear. You're beginning to wax eloquent when you should be polishing your armor....


Perhaps I should just wax my armor or is it polish my eloquent?
...And people say I'm weird :?

Good call, Mistweave!

Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 5:31 pm
by RDGO_50
Mistweave wrote:How about The Land for Dummies?
All Hunters know you're gonna need some type of TP, eh?

But the book comment says it all!

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 6:21 pm
by aTOMiC
After re reading this thread I've come to the conclusion that there are few singular things that Covenant might have brought along with him to the Land that would have made much difference. The fact is, since he spent most of the First Chrons believing he was freaking out/dreaming he would never alter his behavior to include making certain that he kept a 9mm semi automatic pistol, 3 packs of gum, bandaids, trial size aftershave, a flack vest and a pair of palm sized walkie talkies on his person at all times. (I'm sure I would but that's me) Imagine the fun he'd have had playing gin rummy with Foamfollower if he'd just made a point of putting a deck of cards in his pocket.

I still say TC could have used his folded up phone bill as a weapon of some kind. Would have caused a nasty paper cut if used properly. Why he chose to keep it in his pocket the whole time I'll never know. Come to think of it, if TC was walking to pay his phone bill he had to have had his wallet on him. If he's a big shot, best selling author he had to have had some plastic on him. A few photos. $68 in cash and a pocket full of quarters. Surely these objects would have been beneficial in some way if TC had only thought to employ them.
Missed opportunity. :-(

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 8:28 pm
by Relayer
I can just see him pulling out his ID and credit cards:

TC: "Look, my name's right here on this card! I'm not your bloody Berek!!"

Bannor: "Ur-lord, we do not read your language."

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 4:57 am
by Groovy
Didn't go through all six pages of replies, so sorry if this repeats, but how about an illustrated book on engineering or something like "The Way Things Work."

It would be interesting to see if any of our world's technology/physical laws would translate to workable devices in the Land. You'd have to assume at least some would, given the use of arrows, gravity, and whatnot. Perhaps if nothing else it might inspire the lore keepers to make some kind of hybrid "Land-punk" tech.

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:10 am
by Groovy
Ok, I admit it, I just wanted to coin the term "Land-punk."

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 1:43 am
by ninjaboy
You should never go anywhere without a towel. If the book was set in the present day I've no doubt he's have taken an MP3 player with him (not an ipod, coz they're rubbish). If he'd used it right it'd helped the land a lot more... I can just imagine him pumping up the Eoward with 'Eye of the Tiger'.. Then they would've kicked ass!

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 1:45 am
by ninjaboy
Or, as a slight twist of events.. What if he'd gone into town to purchase a lot of survival gear from an Army Disposals store instead of paying a phone bill?

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 2:58 am
by Relayer
Now presenting... "Lord Mhoram's Victory - the Soundtrack" by Survivor.

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:28 am
by Ur Dead
Everybody should have known he should have subscribed to Kevin's Watch and bought from it's stores.

Dead Kevin's Compendium of Earthpower and Lore.

He would have had it made all along.

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:06 pm
by Rocksister
A condom?

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:30 pm
by AjK
Rocksister wrote:A condom?
Of course given his "pre-hurtloam" condition that would have been the ultimate in wishful thinking. :wink:

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:37 pm
by Rocksister
Well, AjK, the question itself is all conjecture, since he didn't KNOW he was going there in the first place and therefore would not have chosen the "one thing" anyway, so all answers are valid here, right? But thinking about it more, I realize even if he had it with him, it's doubtful he'd take time to use it. Oh, well, it was a knee-jerk answer. But if he'd taken it and used it, we'd have lost several books, eh?

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:43 pm
by aTOMiC
Well the original point of this thread was directed at all subsequent translations after the events of LFB. Under those conditions, provided TC could be made to give a rip enough to act in case he returned to his dream, he might have decided, after returning from the Land the first time, that in addition to his penknife he'd begin keeping a trans dimensional cell phone in his pocket at all times. :-)

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:47 pm
by AjK
Rocksister wrote:Well, AjK, the question itself is all conjecture ... so all answers are valid here, right?
Of course, Rocksister. I was completely joking as opposed to criticizing your post. My sincere apologies if you took it any other way!
Rocksister wrote:But if he'd taken it and used it, we'd have lost several books, eh?
That would be unacceptable. :D
(Although that passage bothers me to this day.)

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:51 pm
by Cameraman Jenn
Pants. I bag of clean pants. 8O As in underpants. :biggrin:

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:11 pm
by Blackhawk
Seafoam Understone wrote:A suitcase nuke, this way he could've carried one to Mt. Thunder and REALLY give the Fire-lions a run for their money (and messed up the urviles chances of even THINKING of attempting to resurrect Drool),
Then another one to loan out to Troy to booby trap Guards Gap when Foul's army was pouring in there (TIW)
Then yet a third to Foul's Creche and blast that towering monstrosity right into the ocean.

As for resultant radiation sickness... well they had Aliantha didn't they?

heheh. you meant cavewights and Dooms retreat? :D

lol yep...aliantha and hurtloam.

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:25 pm
by Blackhawk
a pouch to bring back some Aliantha to see if it would grow in our world.