Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 "slartifer! slartifer! slartifer!" We shall continue in our attempt to banish the 331, now 332, soon to be 333 names of slartifer. Below, you will find a list of 43 PDNs (chronological) and 43 crossword-style clues (alphabetical). These are the next 43 PDN changes. This covers several months in the fall of 2009. Your task is to correctly identify which PDN is described by each clue. You will receive TWO OR MORE POINTS per reference correctly identified. Points will accumulate until all 333 names have been banished; and yes, there will be a prize at the end for the highest point totals. Letters are symbols. They are building blocks of words which form our languages. Languages help us communicate. Even with complicated languages used by intelligent people, misunderstanding is a common occurrence. We write things down sometimes-- letters, words-- hoping they will serve us and those with whom we wish to communicate. Letters and words, calling out for understanding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 198. The Infinite and I — Shift made in recognition of a forum logic puzzle 199. Impossibull — Asterion, or Apis, perhaps 200. Priest of Reversable Mythos — 2nd-edition druid, maybe 201. Entailitory — Presuppositions coming out the reverse, you might say 202. AUTOEXEG.BAT — Knee-jerk Protestant boots? 203. 7 words blow 3 words. — This referred to one of Alorael's PDNs, but I forget which 204. BeJewels — Flash games have no save and restore 205. Invisible Fink — Kart ghost goes Wikileaks? 206. Saros Shadow Flowerer — Likely bainbloom wielder 207. The Numbers Cannot Try the Cause — Norway and Poland 208. Hearts, Records, Game Systems — Things you broke 209. Incongrue — Sticks out like a sore thumb in the dark 210. Guided:Voices :: Expected:Nobody — Lo-fi Python narration? 211. Angry Starman in 8-2 — Appropriately dark for a solar eclipse 212. Concometant — Doom 213. Turnabout is Fore — NSFW, if you complete the phrase 214. The Manipulatives are Restless — Title after replacing the Far Side chickens 215. Escalator Pop — Easier listening music 216. Putrepope — Canine leader 217. Eazy — Not a difficult clue 218. Rockpaper — Tablets, I suppose 219. Saropotence — Suffixes of death 220. Cloudy Heavens — Critique of Vague Reason 221. ~w — Regular expression marker, or maybe a light source 222. Last Unction Hero — Pathass, or maybe Iglit 223. Masticore Punk — Other half of a hard razormane 224. Porcinopine — Defensive Bacon Drop editorial 225. Lists Across America! — Twiggypedia? 226. Wisteria Wall-Walker — Not part of the Meldrew curse 227. The Criticals — Thinking hits mass acclaim 228. Folded — Laundry hands and businesses 229. Disambiguation Cage — Titular crossroads 230. Black Visc — For each letter you misread over 5 231. Daemon Errare — Where assistants lose their way 232. If You Seek Amygdalae — Emo Spears 233. Chacun Cherche — Spoiler alert: she finds the cat 234. To Activate is Hazy and Unread — Equally unclear to me 235. Pansupticon Ply — Steinian cornucopia 236. Do what thou wilt — The whole of the law 237. Forundermore — Writing Desk counterpart 238. You mean gods — Polyplea 239. The Unspoken Stopspell — Taloon boon 240. Base Quylthulg — Generic mound of flesh in the pits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Nioca Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 199. Impossibull - Writing Desk Counterpart (I'm guessing this is related to Slarty vs. Writing Desk, and the Nine-headed Cave Cow.) 204. BeJewels - Flash games have no save and restore (I know there's a game called Bejeweled out there, though I'm not 100% certain if it's flash. "No save and restore" refers to the Deathmatch, which Jewels was storing the results of on her site). More to come, maybe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 NIOCA 199 - NO - the desk never had much to do with that faith 204 - YES (+3) - correct. Although the clue doesn't reference this, the PDN also refers to the BeDragon spell in old Dragon Warrior games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 232. If You Seek Amygdalae -- Emo Spears ("If You Seek Amy" is a Britney Spears song, and the amygdala is a part of the brain that deals with emotions.) 204. BeJewels -- Flash games have no save and restore (Bejeweled is a Flash game, and "Deathmatch has no save and restore" is a Jewels quote.) 223. Masticore Punk -- Other half of a hard razormane (Razormane Masticore is one of the Masticores from Magic: the Gathering.) 209. Incongrue -- Sticks out like a sore thumb in the dark (Incongruous means "sticks out", and a grue is something likely to eat you in the dark.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Nioca Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 211. Angry Starman in 8-2 - Appropriately dark for a solar eclipse (Super Mario 3 reference? The sun itself would attack on a couple different levels. One of these levels had a black background, and I'm guessing it's stage 8-2). That's all I've got. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 236. Do what thou wilt (is) The whole of the law (This is a quote, but I don't remember by who.) Lunchtime! EDIT: Also, I keep reading one of the clues as Angry Stallman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 200. Priest of Reversable Mythos - 2nd-edition druid, maybe -- AD&D second edition made druids a member of the cleric class with a specific deity instead of a subclass. 220. Cloudy Heavens - Appropriately dark for a solar eclipse These are getting harder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 DINTIRADAN 232 - YES (+3) 204 - YES (+3) 223 - YES (+2) - the other half is, of course, hardcore punk 209 - YES (+3) NIOCA 211 - YES!! (+3) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 DINTIRADAN 236 - YES (+2) - "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" - Aleister Crowley RANDOMIZER 200 - YES! (+2) - the subclass was called "Priest of Specific Mythos", and 2nd-edition also introduced reversable spells; meanwhile, druids were required to be True Neutral and to maintain the balance of alignments, i.e., responding to extreme actions with their reverse 220 - NO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Originally Posted By: Slarty 223 - YES (+2) - the other half is, of course, hardcore punk Gah. The worst part was thinking to myself as I wrote the clue, "Hmm, what's the punk in there for? Hard punk? That doesn't make sense..." I can be such a doofus sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 234. To Activate is Hazy and Unread - Equally unclear to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 RANDOMIZER 234 - YES (+3) - I have absolutely no idea where I got that PDN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 230. Black Visc -- For each letter you misread over 5 (References Black Vise, another Magic card that does... something... if you have five or more cards in hand. I don't know what the significance of the misspelled word is.) EDIT: Fitting that in a post about a misspelled word, I misspell a word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 DINTIRADAN 230 - YES (+2) - It deals 1 damage. The font and background on some of the older printings wasn't terribly clear and when I played magic as a wee middle schooler, I thought the card title was Black Visc. I spent a long time trying to figure out what the heck a visc was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 199. Impossibull - Asterion, or Apis, perhaps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 217. Eazy - Not a difficult clue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 218. Rockpaper - Tablets, I suppose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 237. Forundermore - Writing Desk counterpart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 213. Turnabout is Fore - NSFW, if you complete the phrase: Pun on fair play 215. Escalator Pop - Easier listening music: A reference to the easy listening music often found in elevators. 227. The Criticals - Critique of Vague Reason: Parody of Skepticism? Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 224. Porcinopine - Defensive Bacon Drop editorial. One of the most amazing clues yet given. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 220. Cloudy Heavens - Equally unclear to me. Edit: Nevermind, I see that although the number/PDN has not been used, the clue has already been confirmed to belong elsewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 To steal at least part of the explanation: 237. Forundermore - Writing Desk counterpart: Slarty's old Lewis Caroll-themed custom title makes the desk's counterpart a raven and the -more is a reference to Poe's The Raven where the raven always says "nevermore." Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 231. Daemon Errare - Doom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 205. Invisible Fink - Kart ghost goes Wikileaks? 221. ~w - Regular expression marker, or maybe a light source 222. Last Unction Hero - Pathass, or maybe Iglit: Important Avernum priests? Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 TRIUMPH 199 - YES (+2) - Asterion being the personal name of the Minotaur, Apis a bull-god from Egypt 217 - YES (+2) 218 - YES (+2) 237 - YES (+2) DIKIYOBA 213 - YES (+3) - one of the cleverest of my PDNs, IMHO, I quite liked this one with all its implications 215 - YES (+3) 227 - NO TRIUMPH 224 - YES (+2) - Porcine Opine: the editorial whines of a pig in porcupine-like form DIKIYOBA 237 - OK (+1) - note also the Icshi/Imban deathmatch parallel TRIUMPH 231 - NO DIKIYOBA 205 - YES (+2) - the ghost item in Super Mario Kart steals an opponent's item and makes you invisible, making you a reprehensible person; the other meaning of fink might be one who anonymously leaks 221 - YES (+2) - marks regexp in perl and some other formats, and ~ is the icon for light sources in Angband 222 - YES (+2) - the last characters associated with annointing rituals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 226. Wisteria Wall-Walker - Likely bainbloom wielder. A flowery connection? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 216. Putrepope - Generic mound of flesh in the pits. Something about something putrefying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 226 - NO 216 - NO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Callie Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 207. The Numbers Cannot Try the Cause - Knee-jerk Protestant boots? --Numbers is a book in the Bible, and if "boots" is a verb in this context it could refer to booting someone out of a conversation or whatnot. 220. Cloudy Heavens - Lo-fi Python narration? --If Python refers to Monty Python and the Holy Grail this makes sense, as God speaks to the knights from cloudy heavens. 229. Disambiguation Cage - Twiggypedia? --Wikipedia is full of disambiguations, and I'm guessing "Twiggy" is some sort of reference I'm not familiar with. 240. Base Quylthulg - Shift made in recognition of a forum logic puzzle --The PDN reminds of the description for the Subterra forum which was ultimately removed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 EXCALIBUR None of them, I'm afraid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 216. Putrepope - Knee-jerk Protestant boots? Protestants usually had little love for the Pope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 216 - NO In other news, I have just discovered that there is a Japanese wiki quite like Encyclopedia Ermariana, but with less rumination and more comprehensive updates. Very, very scary. Also in Japanese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S 216 - NO In other news, I have just discovered that there is a Japanese wiki quite like Encyclopedia Ermariana, but with less rumination and more comprehensive updates. Very, very scary. Also in Japanese. A Japanese wiki about Avernum / Exile? Fascinating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 206. Saros Shadow Flowerer - Spoiler alert: she finds the cat I remember a story with a female character named Saro...is there a connection? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Originally Posted By: Slarty In other news, I have just discovered that there is a Japanese wiki quite like Encyclopedia Ermariana, but with less rumination and more comprehensive updates. Very, very scary. Also in Japanese. Huh, really. I would never have thought that an indie English-only CRPG would generate enough interest for an up-to-date foreign language wiki. Despite most of us not being able to read the language, could we see a link? You do find the weirdest stuff out there. Like this 'walkthrough' for the Blades of Avernum party editor, which is mostly just a list of every special item in every scenario. Because people need to cheat to get the Xiang Espionage Papers in Nine Variations on Point B. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 TRIUMPH 206 - NO I already closed it. It wasn't very interesting. I found it while googling name cameos, but you could probably get it by reverse google translating and then googling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 "The Numbers Cannot Try the Cause" is Shakespearean. I think it's Hamlet, because it's not from any of the plays I know really well, but I must have read it recently enough for it to be remembered. Either that or the Tempest. "Twiggy", by the way (or at least I think so, knowing Slarty): Click to reveal.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Furthermore, "Not part of the Meldrew curse" probably refers to the BBC sitcom "One Foot in the Grave", a character in which was Victor Meldrew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 NIKKI Hamlet - YES Twiggy - YES BUT SHE'S ONLY A GUEST Meldrew - NO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S NIKKI Twiggy - YES BUT SHE'S ONLY A GUEST She's also cute and I wanted an excuse to post a picture. Anyway I can't link any of that together to score points, but hopefully somebody else will be able to take my right answers and get somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 The Hamlet connection will take some thinking. You (or anyone interested) should start by looking up the context of the quote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 214. The Manipulatives are Restless - Title after replacing the Far Side chickens Far Side cartoon anthology The Chickens are Restless which had a cover showing the chickens plotting death Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 225. Lists Across America! - Titular crossroads? Cross-related title and clue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 RANDOMIZER 214 - YES (+3) - the PDN had been some kind of a reference to cuisinaire rods, which I now see I neglected to include in the clue TRIUMPH 225 - NO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 207. The Numbers Cannot Try the Cause- Norway and Poland. Prince Hamlet and the anonymous Captain discuss Poland and Norway shortly before Hamlet makes the comment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 198. The Infinite and I is Critique of Vague Reason, in reference to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, which IIRC spends some time talking about the limits of human perception of infinity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 208. Hearts, Records, Game Systems is Things You broke- all of those things can be metaphorically "broken" despite the fact they still perform their intended function- a broken record plays the same few second over and over, a broken heart still pumps blood, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 229. Disambiguation Cage is Twiggypedia? Disambiguation pages are found on Wikipedia, duh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 3, 2011 Author Share Posted August 3, 2011 TRIUMPH 207 - YES (+2) - Hamlet ridicules Fortinbras (of Norway's) decision to invade Poland. He was previously going to invade Denmark. Despite the questionable geopolitics, this is one of the richest passages in the whole play, and that's saying something. DANTIUS 198 - NO - but good guess 208 - YES (+3) 229 - NO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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