Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 238. You mean gods is probably This referred to one of Alorael's PDNs, but I forget which, because it looks more like a response to something than a PDN in and of itself. 206. Saros Shadow Flowerer might be Steinien cornucopia? A cornucopia is just a collection of flowers and fruits, unless you're using it to indicate having lots of something... 233. Chacun Cherche could be When Assistants lose their way? If your assistant's are lost, you might have to search for something yourself? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 3, 2011 Author Share Posted August 3, 2011 DANTIUS 238 - NO 206 - NO 233 - NO Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 201. Entailitory - Suffixes of death. A tail goes on the end of something, like a suffix, and entail pertains to inheritances, which happen when someone dies. 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 201 - NO - but you're on the right track with "entail" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 Does entailment have to do with the reallocation of money away from certain heirs and towards others, thus creating a motive for murder and thus a "suffix" of death? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 201. Entailitory - Not part of the Meldrew curse? Nikki says above that the clue comes from something called "One Foot In The Grave." Edit: because I fail at reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 Originally Posted By: Triumph 201. Entailitory - Not part of the Meldrew curse? Nikki says above that the clue comes from something called "One Foot In The Grave." Slarty also said "NO", in that harsh, unforgiving tone of his. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 3, 2011 Author Share Posted August 3, 2011 No and no, but Dantius is even further on the right track with "entailment" - and I will hint that there are some word shifts going on à la Masticore Punk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 226. Wisteria Wall-Walker - Knee-jerk Protestant boots? These boots are made for wall-king? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 201. Entailitory - Polyplea. Entail is legal matter, and a plea is a legal statement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 202. AUTOEXEG.BAT - Where assistants lose their way AUTOEXEC.BAT is a DOS command file to run a batch of commands when the computer disk is accessed for the first time on start up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Andraste Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 Link to the translated Japaneese Avernum wiki for the lazy and interested. 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 226 - NO 201 - NO RANDOMIZER 202 - NO Okay, time for some general hint (each hint here pertains to more than one clue): 1) If a PDN looks slightly different from a familiar thing, that slight change is not an accident and is probably key to figuring out what it means. 2) Although I occasionally don't reference every part of a PDN in a clue, the clues are pretty much not going to have extraneous information. If you understand part of a clue, I would suggest trying to decipher the rest of it rather than making a guess based on that one part of the clue. As we have seen, there are a lot of themes repeated over many PDNs, so without a semi-clear understanding of the clue, you are guessing in the dark. 3) In the PDNs, affixes are your friends! (Well, except maybe for the one with the suffixes of death) Breaking down long words will help. A lot. 4) Kant is in here somewhere, yes, and so is Plotkin again. 5) There's more than one way to parse a clue. 6) A number of video game references remain at large. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 212. Concometant - Suffixes of death. There's a comet in there (though not a comet mystic), and comets have tails, a suffix of sorts, but that tail can eventually lost as the comet loses its dust and ice and gases and so forth, and maybe that's a death (to the extent that one could call a comet alive)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 3, 2011 Author Share Posted August 3, 2011 212 - NO - you are looking for literal suffixes for that one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 210. Guided:Voices :: Expected:Nobody - Presuppositions coming out the reverse, you might say: It's a guess, but no one else has tried either one, so I might as well. 219. Saropotence - Generic mound of flesh in the pits: The closest I can get to saro- is sarco-, which means flesh. 235. Pansupticon Ply - Polyplea: Pan-supplication ply = polymerized plea Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 240. Base Quylthulg - Generic mound of flesh in the pits Angband reference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 206. Saros Shadow Flowerer - Likely bainbloom wielder: Saros Shadow Follower is a character and the bainbloom is an item in Dungeon Master 2. Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 212. Concometant - Polyplea Poly means many, and concometant means at the same time I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 229. Disambiguation Cage - Critique of Vague Reason Disambiguation is the process of making things less ambiguous or vague. Critiquing vague reason could go on forever making it seem like a cage. Quote: By Dantius: in reference to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 3, 2011 Author Share Posted August 3, 2011 DIKIYOBA 210 - no 219 - no 235 - no, but interesting 206 - YES (+3) - Saros Shadow Follower is a magic-oriented character, and the Bainbloom is a flowerstalk that can be used as a staff. JEWELS 240 - YES (+2) 212 - no - but you are fairly close to the meaning of concomitant, which will help solve the PDN 229 - no - I didn't think of that connection, it makes sense, but the wikipedia reference is too blatant for me to forget, isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 226. Wisteria Wall-Walker - Titular crossroads Wisteria Lane is a street on Desperate Housewives. Many plays on words are possible here. Could be 'tit'ular with all the too skinny yet perky ladies or a figure head type of title. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 3, 2011 Author Share Posted August 3, 2011 lol I *definitely* didn't think of that. and I can gladly say it's not at all Desperate Housewives related. but actually JEWELS +1 due to hilarity that fits the clues and pdns well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 227. The Criticals - Thinking hits mass acclaim. Critical hits, critical thinking, critical acclaim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 3, 2011 Author Share Posted August 3, 2011 and critical mass. TRIUMPH 227 - YES (+3) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 Glad to make you smile Slarty. Are we allowed to google yet? I'm running low in the knowledge reserves... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 231. Daemon Errare - Where assistants lose their way. Losing one's way can cause one to wander, and...demons can be used as assistants? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 210. Guided:Voices :: Expected:Nobody - Lo-fi Python narration? Aren't all Monty Python narrations lo-fi? This is the only thing that looks like it could be a narration and it's really short. No hi-tech words at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 3, 2011 Author Share Posted August 3, 2011 Google, just use your discretion. I don't mind google, I just don't want someone to google everything and ruin the fun for others. TRIUMPH 231 - YES (+2) - Daemons can be used as assistants, particularly on unix servers, and the whole phrase is a take-off on "Angelus Errare" from Chrono Cross -- "where angels lose their way" JEWELS 210 - YES (+2) - This was a standardized-test format analogy, in case anyone missed that. Guided is to Voices as Expected is to Nobody. Guided _by_ Voices is a lo-fi band. What's expected _by_ nobody? The Spanish Inquisition, of course! And if you need to be guided by voices, it'll be in narration form. Admittedly, this one pretty much hinged on recognizing the band name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 233. Chacun Cherche - Spoiler alert: she finds the cat. Part of the original title of a movie about seeking a lost cat. 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 233 - YES (+2) - Chachun Cherche Son Chat - "Everyone Searches for His Own Cat" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 203. 7 words blow 3 words. - Critique of Vague Reason Is this a Microsoft Word 2003 vs.2007 reference? I would say if so that this is a vague critique of it... Or perhaps it is a critique of the vague reason why 2007 .docx are unreadable by 2003 versions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 These are really tough Slarty... Google is not helping much either. 201. Entailitory - Taloon boon Taloon is a Dragon Quest character with the ability to protect the party's gold or inheritance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 228. Folded - Shift made in recognition of a forum logic puzzle Did you give up on the puzzle and therefore 'Fold' from the game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 3, 2011 Author Share Posted August 3, 2011 No, no, and no, sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 Last desperate try for the night. 238. You mean gods - Knee-jerk Protestant boots? A good way to get an automatic Protestant boot up your rear; to tell them their God is supposed to be gods. 228. Folded - Laundry hands and businesses Laundry gets folded, hands get folded, and businesses fold too. 198. The Infinite and I - Titular crossroads When you decided to add a non-authoritative title to your PDN? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 3, 2011 Author Share Posted August 3, 2011 JEWELS 238 - NO 228 - YES (+3) 198 - NO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 235. Pansupticon Ply - Taloon boon. Okay, it looks like Taloon is a traveling merchant with a magic box. The PDN appears to (possibly?) combine panopticon with supply? And maybe a panopticon is a sort of box and a traveling merchant helps supply stuff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 238. You mean gods - Polyplea "Mean" could "mean" so many things...but if the gods are not nice to you, you might want to make multiple pleas to them (poly like polytheistic, meaning multiple gods). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 201. Entailitory - Steinian cornucopia. Not sure about Stein, but an inheritance could be seen as a cornucopia. 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 235 - NO - I've never heard of Taloon having a magic box, but you are 2/3 of the way there on what the PDN breaks down into 238 - YES (+2) - Could be a Shakespearean sounding plea or a simple polytheistic correction: "Tell me about your god." "You mean gods." 201 - NO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 201. Entailitory - Shift made in recognition of a forum logic puzzle. Entail can shift wealth, and perhaps points shift due to the forum logic puzzles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 3, 2011 Author Share Posted August 3, 2011 201 - NO - think outside the box maybe? Also, bump: finally updated the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 239. The Unspoken Stopspell - Taloon boon. Not sure how they relate, but they are both Dragon Warrior / Quest references. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 201. Entailitory - Canine leader. Okay, very outside the box. Entail affects where inheritance goes. Dogs have tails. Oh yeah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted August 3, 2011 Author Share Posted August 3, 2011 239 - YES (+2) - Taloon, who was a very goofy character, had the ability (totally unique in the entire series, I believe) to, a certain percent of the time, automatically cancel any spells cast by the enemy: "Necrosaro casts Explodet... but Taloon quickly covers its mouth!" Normally you'd need a spell, StopSpell, to prevent enemy magic use. 201 - NO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Rowen Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 203. 7 words blow 3 words - Suffixes of death. Words and suffixes go together and sometimes even shorten things up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 219. Saropotence - Suffixes of death. It just sounds like something that causes death. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 220. Cloudy Heavens - Doom Cloudy Heavens will set a Doom timer in Final Fantasy VI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 225. Lists Across America! - This referred to one of Alorael's PDNs, but I forget which. I'm not sure why, but this just *sounds* the most like one of Alorael's PDNs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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