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What's your favourite you-can't-go-that-way-message? |
Havoc
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Joined: Feb 16, 2003
Posts: 360
From: portland, oregon, usa
|  Posted: 10-03-2018 00:18
I think mine is:
Yes, that's how it became a ruin: so many people walked into the walls that they eventually fell down...
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Havoc
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Joined: Feb 16, 2003
Posts: 360
From: portland, oregon, usa
| Posted: 10-03-2018 00:18
Mind you, this is a close contender:
Let me guess: you were attacked by a winerack as a small child, and the trauma was such that your brain blots them out of your sensory field, to spare you further pain. Better tell your brain to think again, the pain you get by walking into them is pretty bad, too!
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Zalagar
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Joined: Mar 05, 2002
Posts: 288 | Posted: 24-05-2018 20:54
Here's another good one...
*s
After a certain amount of determined trying, you ascertain that the room
description was right, and you can't go that way because of the lowering of
the roof. Still, if you don't believe room descriptions, you probably won't
believe this either...
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sorckie
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Joined: Nov 21, 2017
Posts: 4 | Posted: 27-05-2018 00:09
Here's one I saw the other day:
Rubbing your nose ruefully, you reluctantly conclude that the panel is
made of iron, not tissue paper.
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Havoc
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Joined: Feb 16, 2003
Posts: 360
From: portland, oregon, usa
| Posted: 27-05-2018 00:39
This one's more of a yup-you-died message:
You slide down the chute, an air of expectancy about you. This ends rather sadly as you pile into an incinerator, which, although no longer alight, is nevertheless forty feet below where you come out. You die, of a broken everything.
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Heiach
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Joined: Oct 31, 2001
Posts: 549
From: I can't remember!
| Posted: 28-05-2018 20:51
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On 27-05-2018 00:39, Havoc wrote:
This one's more of a yup-you-died message:
You slide down the chute, an air of expectancy about you. This ends rather sadly as you pile into an incinerator, which, although no longer alight, is nevertheless forty feet below where you come out. You die, of a broken everything.
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Oh man I love that one. A broken everything!
 
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Seifer
Wizard
Joined: Mar 20, 2011
Posts: 113 | Posted: 09-06-2018 11:58
BOUNCE BUMP SPLAT BUMP THUD. Well, you didn't last too long doing that!
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Seifer
Wizard
Joined: Mar 20, 2011
Posts: 113 | Posted: 09-06-2018 11:58
weird dunno why this posted twice, does anyone else know where to find this silly death message?
[ This Message was edited by: Seifer on 09-06-2018 12:00 ]
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Havoc
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Joined: Feb 16, 2003
Posts: 360
From: portland, oregon, usa
| Posted: 09-06-2018 17:13
Sounds like one near the ###L### to me.
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brandish
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Joined: Jun 10, 2018
Posts: 1 | Posted: 10-06-2018 23:07
Hello.
It's Blib. I'm back (sort of) !!!!
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Zalagar
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Joined: Mar 05, 2002
Posts: 288 | Posted: 25-09-2018 18:38
Another good one is this one...
Unluckily for you, the inventors of portcullises figured that someone might
try to walk straight through, and made the gaps too small...
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Zalagar
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Joined: Mar 05, 2002
Posts: 288 | Posted: 01-10-2018 18:57
This one sort of qualifies.
From 'sliding down chute'.
(*)d
You're already going downwards, and since you have little say in the matter I
suggest you relax and enjoy the ride...
(*)relax
You enjoy the ride...
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Zalagar
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Joined: Mar 05, 2002
Posts: 288 | Posted: 04-10-2018 16:18
*n
Back yard of inn.
This is a wide yard to the south of an old tavern, and continues to the side
of it to the northwest. South is an orchard, and southwest is a forest.
Situated in the floor is the opening to a chute, bereft of the trapdoor which
it plainly used to boast many years ago, and which leads down, probably to a
cellar of some nature. To the east there seems to be a well, near the inn.
*n
Taxing your mental powers to the full, you manage to work out that you can't
walk through solid brick walls. Walk round and look for an entrance...
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Zalagar
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Joined: Mar 05, 2002
Posts: 288 | Posted: 09-10-2018 05:42
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On 28-05-2018 20:51, Heiach wrote:
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On 27-05-2018 00:39, Havoc wrote:
This one's more of a yup-you-died message:
You slide down the chute, an air of expectancy about you. This ends rather sadly as you pile into an incinerator, which, although no longer alight, is nevertheless forty feet below where you come out. You die, of a broken everything.
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Oh man I love that one. A broken everything!
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That's one of my favorites.
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Zalagar
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Joined: Mar 05, 2002
Posts: 288 | Posted: 15-08-2024 18:07
Here's a good 'You can't go that way' response that recalls a line in the room description.
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*w
Low forest.
The cool air currents circulating here inform you that you are some way up the
lower slopes of a mountain, but the tall, soft pine trees prevent any visual
confirmation. South, the forest you are in continues, and east is a rocky
path, picking its way to a yet higher altitude. Curving from the west round to
the north is a natural ridge, the top of which disappears into thin cloud, and
up which you cannot hope to climb from this point.
*n
OK, so you can HOPE to climb the ridge, you just can't physically climb it.
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Miek
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Joined: Aug 29, 2006
Posts: 315 | Posted: 28-08-2024 21:35
This made me think of the worm from labyrinth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGmK15IM_XE
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Heiach
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Joined: Oct 31, 2001
Posts: 549
From: I can't remember!
| Posted: 29-08-2024 09:52
"A broken everything" has still got to be my favourite one!
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