Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 94. Spiffy - Not quite an astronaut, slightly off in two ways 100. Because You Listen - Wonderfalls maxim Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Sarachim Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 98 analogue bubblebath- pseudoeponymous Aphex Twin release EDIT: changed my guess at edit time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Sarachim Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 60 Stop in the Name- ironic, yet self-descriptive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Edit: Nevermind. Forgot I already had a guess outstanding on that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Sarachim Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 73 Massive Clock of the Archmage- Domino's scary antique of unsurpassed cultural significance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 98. Analogue Bubblebath - Pseudopseudonymous Aphex Twin release 102. Ancient Mechanical Hecatonchire - Buriki Daioh with some additions Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 78 - Line from a super show! I suspected, but googled confirmed it's a Bowser line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 82. Cunning Lx = Cx -- Don't write this explanation out as it might blow up the CoC (I've got no leads, other than the 'cunning'). EDIT: Scouts' Honour that I didn't steal this guess from Sarachim. Course, I've never been a Scout, but still... 89. Critique Critique -- Theory of never-ending sentence construction (though on its own it's just a subject/object). 75. Unexpected Inaccessibility -- Blosk in Escape from the Pit (E1, A1, and presumably A1EFTP) (I remember having difficulties getting into one of the Avernum Proper cities. Might not have been Blosk, might not have been A1, ...) 72. Th Lttr Lgsltr: No idea what this is, but I finally figured out what the associated vowels are (I think). 92. Mais qu'avait-il dans les mains?: This made me think of The Hobbit, until I remembered that the winning riddle asked about 'pockets' instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 70 - Preparing to spill out its contents? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Sarachim Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 108 Reduplicated- theory of never-ending sentence construction EDIT: 89. Critique Critique- not scathing enough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Sarachim Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 92 Mais qu'avait-il dans les mains? -Three Longers Later Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Sarachim Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 64. Summerholidays Vs. Punkroutine- refused calendar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 SARACHIM Correct -- 82, 95 (not 93), 98, 60, 89, 92, 64 The explanation expands on a common joke that revolves around the name of my former field. Stop in the Name is self-descriptive, since it stops in the middle of the full phrase the PDN ought to be (Stop in the Name of Love, pointed out by Excalibur) and ironic since it was the PDN change that reSTARTED my name changing after a long hiatus. There is a reason they are in chronological order after all! Incorrect -- 73, 108 +7 TRIUMPH Correct -- 100, 101, 78, 70 +4 (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! It's doubly super, in fact.) DIKIYOBA Correct -- 94, 100, 98, 102 +4 (Spaceman Spiff) DINTIRADAN Sorry, 20 minutes is longer of an overlap than I've been giving others, so I don't think it would be fair to give it to you. Incorrect -- 89, 75 EDIT: Remember, as the number of remaining terms dwindle, I will begin to expect actual explanations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dintiradan 72. Th Lttr Lgsltr: No idea what this is, but I finally figured out what the associated vowels are (I think). It's "The [Letter/Latter] [Legislator/Legislature]", but even knowing that I can't make sense of it. You really have to hand it to Slarty for being such a devious linguist. In fact, you might even say he's a cunning li- *urk* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 SARACHIM: I don't know where you keep getting these incorrect numbers from but please double check your numbers. It's really messing me up when I update the list and just nearly created a giant headache. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Sarachim Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S SARACHIM: I don't know where you keep getting these incorrect numbers from but please double check your numbers. It's really messing me up when I update the list and just nearly created a giant headache. I don't know either, but I'll be careful from now on. If it's any consolation, getting them wrong makes me afraid that I'm going prematurely senile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Sarachim Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 66. Regenerativity- theory of never-ending sentence construction According to wikipedia regenerativity is a concept similar to sustainability, which would be necessary for the neverending construction of anything, sentences included. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 SARACHIM Correct -- 66 +1 The more straightforward route there comes via comparison to generativity, one concept of how sentences are constructed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Sarachim Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 108. Reduplicated- Blosk in Escape from the Pit As E1 is going to be remade twice, Blosk will be duplicated twice, or reduplicated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 Nope. Interesting thought though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 Here are a few general hints. 1) Who lives in Blosk in X1 and what happens there? 2) Kelandon, Alorael, Drakey, and TM aren't the only ones on the "Top Poster List" who are relevant to an answer this round. 3) What matchmaker results would I care about? 4) Pizza. 5) Anime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 99 - Reference to a story written by Nikki and used to matchmake? Sounds like a device used to make decisions...like matchmake? 75 - Scrabble in a swamp (but not in A4) (due to the A4 engine)? Haven't played A4 except for the demo, but could there be an unreachable Avernite swamp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 Nope, nope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Sarachim Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 109. Absolutely Fragulous- Blosk in EftP Just remembered Blosk had Edie and Patsy. Not sure where "frag" comes into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 Remember the espionage there and the plot? Bruce was trying to frag Mayor Vicky, in the older sense of fragging. SARACHIM +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dantius Originally Posted By: Dintiradan 72. Th Lttr Lgsltr: No idea what this is, but I finally figured out what the associated vowels are (I think). It's "The [Letter/Latter] [Legislator/Legislature]", but even knowing that I can't make sense of it. You really have to hand it to Slarty for being such a devious linguist. In fact, you might even say he's a cunning li- *urk* It's "The Letter Legislature", and it's a 3 in Three reference, which means it goes with clue 85. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Sarachim Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S Remember the espionage there and the plot? Bruce was trying to frag Mayor Vicky, in the older sense of fragging. SARACHIM +1 Not quite what I thought "frag" meant. I thought it was exclusively military. Even so, I'm glad I got this. It was killing me there was a clue about E1 that I couldn't figure out. EDIT: Also, you forgot to remove 89 from the list. Probably my fault. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 Lilith, the clues are not numbered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Sarachim Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 72. Th Lttr Lgsltr- Place of convocation, before the 3 helps out while trying to return to the spreadsheet Thanks, Lilith! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 Lilith, were you attempting to reference that clue? In other words, who gets the point, you or Sarachim? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Sarachim Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 99. Deliberatizer- forum doppleganger (of Randomizer?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Sarachim Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 69. Yo Paranoid!- Domino's scary antique of unsurpassed cultural significance A reference to Domino's pizza and its mascot the Noid. EDIT: 87. Which of the Wasteland- moving antagonist "Witch of the Wasteland" is music from Howl's Moving Castle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S Lilith, were you attempting to reference that clue? In other words, who gets the point, you or Sarachim? i was but i'm not really playing so sarachim can have it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Erebus the Black Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Wow, 80 posts on the same thread in 7 hours, might be a record (for this forum at least). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 71 - 80's take on a set of 90's levels involving numerous squares; a mesh could be made of numerous squares. 73 - Reference to a story written by Nikki and used to matchmake; something used death-match-making? 83- Elementary clue for Kelandon; Kelandon did work on the slith language; this name involves foreign language(s)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 SARACHIM Correct -- 72, 99, 69, 87 +4 (The Witch of the Wasteland was in fact an antagonist from Howl's Moving Castle.) TRIUMPH Correct -- 71, 73 Incorrect -- 83 +2 Your reasoning on 73 is way off, but that's okay. EDIT: Okay, 6 left, so make sure you attach reasonable explanations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 I'm totally lost on the rest of these, and do not feel competent to supply reasoned guesses. I await the next round. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 FURTHER HINTS 1) Kelandon's clue pretty much requires Kelandon to solve. It did, anyway, until I told you that. Now that you know that, if you examine the clue carefully, and review your knowledge of forum members, you might be able to figure out why. Once you have done that, you can quite probably figure out the correct PDN that goes with it, and that will be plenty of explanation. 2) Sometimes you just need a translator. But how do you know which language to translate from?!? 3) Two of the connections are very simple and involve no extraneous knowledge, no wordplay and no intuitive leaps. 4) Scrabble in a swamp, I now realize, was a very bad clue. But I'll roll with it. What does the A4 engine lack that every other Avernum game engine has? Cue Alorael. Okay, now that you've figured that out, how could that impact Scrabble and poorly named Scrabble spin-offs? (Apologies, again, this one is my fault.) 5) Finally, there is a linguistics item remaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 79. Backwords - Scrabble in the Swamp. Cus, Upwords is a scrabble spin-off where you can stack tiles on top of other tiles. A4 had no heights, so it's not UPwords, but BACKwords (cus the previous games did)? (Edit: Also, which name was a reference to something I wrote? I figured I should've known that when I first saw them, but yeah, I didn't, and now all I see is a number and the clue, not the actual name. ) Edit 2: It strikes me that "Scrabble in the Swamp" might be a good clue for Boggle, another word-game, but it's not really relevant to this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Argh, this game bothers me the same way crosswords do: it seems impossible until someone gives you the solution, and then it's clear. And you don't get that clarity when you compare all entries by brute force. 83. Quid Pourquoi -- To hoard until we reach the trainer Not totally sure on this one. Obviously the PDN is a play on quid pro quo, and quid is slang for pound. And you hoard your GP until you find a trainer. That's really all I got. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Is 75 "Elementary clue for Kelandon"? Because the thing Kelandon's most famous for is his unfinished BoA epic trilogy, so a player new to BoA might play Bahsikassiva (sp?) and Exodus, and then suddenly find it impossible to continue with the series on account of Homeland not being made, so they'd be confronted with "unexpected inaccessibility" to the final part of the trilogy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dantius Because the thing Kelandon's most famous for is his unfinished BoA epic trilogy, False. He's more famous for his womanising ways. (Hasn't he had like, 4 SW girlfriends?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 He's also a classicist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 85 - Quiet satire of Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star? It's a bizarre name to parody a bizarrely named album? 108 - Season of crashes? Could the connection involve forum crashes and efforts to duplicate information from the forums so it was not lost? 113 - Emblematic of itself (haha)? Is a symbol ( emblematic of itself? And since it's cordial, it leads to laughing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 NIKKI Correct -- 79 Exactly! +1 DINTIRADAN Correct -- 83 Exactly, plus "pourquoi" in yet another language (French) gives you why. Why bother with money? To hoard until we reach the trainer, of course. Oof. +1 DANTIUS Nope, good try. TRIUMPH Incorrect -- 85, 108, 113 Sorry. On the up side, there are now only four and you can figure possibly all of them out given the wrong guesses extant. Then all you need to do is puzzle out what the connection could be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 Also, while it's true that Kelandon has reputations related to scenarios, women, and classics, none of those are relevant. It's more an issue of what Kelandon has in common with someone else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Originally Posted By: Slarty Exactly, plus "pourquoi" in yet another language (French) gives you why. Why bother with money? To hoard until we reach the trainer, of course. Oof. It's evidence of my Canadian-ness that I explicitly stated what 'quid' means while leaving the definition of 'pourquoi' implicit. I guess others would have done it the other way 'round. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dintiradan Originally Posted By: Slarty Exactly, plus "pourquoi" in yet another language (French) gives you why. Why bother with money? To hoard until we reach the trainer, of course. Oof. It's evidence of my Canadian-ness that I explicitly stated what 'quid' means, eh, while leaving the definition of 'pourquoi' implicit, eh? I guess others would have done it the other way 'round, eh? FYT. Back on topic, is 108 (Reduplicated) paired with Quiet satire of Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star? Because if you turn up the volume on the EJS,T,aNS album by Sonic Youth, you can hear another song by Sonic Youth being played very quietly in the background, so that song is in effect "reduplicated" on that album. Or am I reading too deeply into this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S Also, while it's true that Kelandon has reputations related to scenarios, women, and classics, none of those are relevant. It's more an issue of what Kelandon has in common with someone else. Keladon and Starty were school mates outside of the Board. Keladon's brother is a member. Keladon is a double major in Astronomy and Classics. I still don't see any relationship to a PDN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 75. Unexpected Inaccessibility - Season of crashes: Back when SW was having issues, you never knew if it was going to be accessible or not. 108. Reduplicated - Emblematic of itself (haha): Reduplicated is a word created through reduplication. Dikiyioba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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