Just like back in the pre-Win3.1 days...

[Xion]

Turn the keys
Grab the wheel
Depress the petal on the right
Try not to hit a tree.

[Violet CLM]

Radium says there are no trees to hit.

Use Wheel to Steer Car. Learn by Trial and Error.

[Radium]

<b>You grab the wheel and floor the petal. You see Pandora's Island approaching uncomfortably fast in the distance. You're about a hundred yards from the coast now, and see a floating lawyer a bit ahead of you (probably in an invisible airplane). Well, any car is faster with an inexperienced driver. Drive to where now?</b>

[Xion]

Pandora's Island, as said before.

[Radium]

<b>You have reached Pandora's Island.</b>

[Xion]

Remove foot from pedal.
Turn keys counterclockwise.
Remove keys from car
put keys in pocket/pack/bag/etc.
get out of car
look around for lawyer.

[Violet CLM]

You know, I have this strange feeling it might be faster to navigate the island by car than by foot.


For those who forget:
A race from (Upper Placespot) to Strato, the Trading Post, Faw's Domain, and back (to Upper Placespot).

[Strato]

Continue the race in car to strato.

[Radium]

<b>Xion, I think Unknown is right.

You continue careening to Fort Strato, and accidently give the building a nice new door.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Leave Noberry to mark that you've been there.
Drive to Trading Post.
Trade Noberry for LoTR DVD.
Drive to Faw's Domain.
Hide Noberry.

[Radium]

<b>You make the trade and continue to Faw's Domain. The lawyer is no longer in sight, but you do not know if he is in front of you or behind you.</b>

[Violet CLM]

How long did it take to climb the ladder?

[Strato]

we passed him at one point anyway

[Radium]

<b>It took about an hour to climb.</b>

[Coppertop]

Drive to the ladder.
Would it be faster to use those wings to fly up? (I know, I'm stuck on those wings, right?)

[Xion]

<s>He never said we could get assistance from the other members of our party...

Control: Fawriel
Town pipe to the main areas, and see if uberbob is near
--if: Uberbob = nearby
----then: Join Uberbob
----Town Pipe: Upperspotplace.</s>

Scratch that.

erm...if the plane is invisible, how can he see the controls, or the dials inside to make sure everything is working properly?

[scatman]

probably only the outside is invisible, like 007 vanquish car, or you cant see it and the lawyer can.

[Fawriel]

No. Its simply a plot hole.

[Violet CLM]

Eat Noberry.

[Radium]

<b>Hey, he learned his way around that plane good <i>before</i> he made it invisible.

And Upper Placespot is too high to fly to. Hey, I'd like to see you go above 600 ft on arm-mounted wings. You eat a noberry and your legs dissapear. I'm so nice!</b>

[Violet CLM]

Disappear as in turn invisible, or disappear as in are cruelly severed and leave heavily bleeding stumps?

[Radium]

<b>The second one. Only without blood.


Mypage.</b>

[Violet CLM]

<strike>Pagesteal.</strike>
Edit: Blah.


So you can't press the pedals?

[Radium]

<b>You could use your hands, just not at the same time as the steering wheel. And anyway, I've already explained that the car can't reach that hieght either.

[Violet CLM]

Well, yes, but I was more thinking of the trading post.


Use Thirdeighteennotefullyclotheductscraptfoursestrude lire. (Ooh, a character limit! Fun!)


(Do items from Chaos Clothing have a Chaos prefix?)

[Radium]

(Do items from Chaos Clothing have a Chaos prefix?)
<b>No.

You would use the Thirdeighteennotefullyclotheductscraptfoursestrude lire, but you are unsure how to use it. But it is still an object of great power.


Comeon, I'm sure you'll think of something crazy to do.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Check Inventory.
Check Time Elapsed.
Check Time Until Legs Come Back.

[Radium]

<b>Invintory:
-Wings
-Thirdeighteennotefullyclotheductscraptfoursestrude lire
-Chaos Grapes (2)
-6 Noberries
-$14
-Pandora's Car Keys (2)
-LED
-Crystal
-Chaos Oil
-Chaos Cord
-Fawfaw's Special Recipe Nocake (Item Lock)
-Infinite's BETTER Map
-Treepieces
-Bookmark of Eternity
-Pandora's Shoe
-Xion
-Lacrosse Stick of Doom

Twenty minutes have passed. Your legs will return in about ten minutes.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Hmmm.... what is the ladder to Upper Placespot made of?
What does the Chaos Cord appear to be made of?
How sharp does the Chaos Cord look? (Though I presume it's the opposite of what it looks like)
Is Pandora's Shoe wearable? (if you had feet)

[Radium]

Hmmm.... what is the ladder to Upper Placespot made of?
What does the Chaos Cord appear to be made of?
How sharp does the Chaos Cord look? (Though I presume it's the opposite of what it looks like)
Is Pandora's Shoe wearable? (if you had feet)
<b>Random questions; that's the spirit!

The ladder is made of rope and hard plastic tubes. The Chaos Cord appears to be made of metal, like a long skinny spring. It looks sharpish dull. Quite neutral, really. Pandora's shoe is wearable. Just soggy.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Haphazardly drive to the Ladder.
Get onto the ladder.
Chop off bottom of ladder using Chaos Cord.
Hope the opposite effect causes the ladder to fall up.
if (plan != work ) Ideas = 0


(Also, if Noberries only apply to living things, would they work on Chaos objects because of Chaos' reversing properties?)

[Radium]

<b>Er... how do you cut a rope with a cord? Anyway, that would only affect the Chaos Cord.

And no, Randomisim overpowers Chaos.</b>

[Strato]

Swing the chord up and reverse rappel to the top.

[Radium]

<b>You swing the cord up and it hits your foot.</b>

[Strato]

drop the chord down then. >(

[Radium]

<b>The cord's end goes into the sky.</b>

[Grath]

Control Araches/Faw/L337z4n (Whoever's closer to the ladder)
Grab end of chaos cord, tie to top of ladder, loosen.

[Radium]

<b>omb u agreed on no outside help )< )<</b>

[Xion]

Equip Wings.
BEGIN LOOP
Fly up
When arms = tired, Grab Ladder.
Rest
When arms = rested
check: top?
--if NO
----then repeat from point.
--if YES
----End loop.

[Radium]

<b>You finally reach the top after about forty minutes. At the middle of Upper Placespot, the lawyer is already waiting for you. "BWHAHAHAHHAAHA," he says, "HAHA! My ugly green ferret thing!" He proceeds to stuff Fawriel uncerimoniously into a large black trash bag, then begins running off to where you assume his invisible plane is. Oh no. Do what?</b>

[Xion]

since race is over, allies can help.

Who has that spell that reduces intelegence to 0?

[Radium]

<b>Araches -> Frenzeh:
Frenzeh: Reduces defense and intelligence to zero. The total reduced amount is added to speed, and twice that is added to attack.</b>

[Violet CLM]

<strike>Meanwhile, put Bookmark of Eternity inside airplane before it can take off.</strike>

On second thought, don't. He won fair and square, and is entitled to Faw, for what good he may do him.
But insist he take the rest of you along, too.

[Radium]

<b>He's too busy running away laughing to comprehend anything you say.

But I really liked your bookmark idea; 'twould be quite entertaining to watch. Except you'd need a way to outrun him.</b>

[Xion]

Araches: Cast Frenzeh on Uberbob

L33tz4n points uberbob in the lawyer's direction

Let him fly!

[Radium]

<b>Bah, you're no fun.

-> Radium: Content Skip

Obtained Lawerpieces!
Obtained Planepieces!
Obtained Benchpieces!
Fawriel has (re)joined the party!
</b>

[Xion]

Aww! Stupid V-chip. Come here *holds a screwdriver* you got a chip in your brain...

Analyze: Lawyerpieces: Check for camera
Analyze: Planepieces: check for robot parts
Analyze: Benchpieces

(I like the word "Analyze" because it contains a fun word. FIND THE WORD!)

[Radium]

<b>Lawyerpieces: My V-Chip has removed this sentence. But you did find Webcam!

Planepieces/Benchpieces/Lawyerpieces: Nothing more than scrapmetal/lawyer. Therefore, all three are automatically added to what is now the Thirdeighteennoteflyingfullyclotheductscraptlegalf ourseatsestrudelire.

Invintory:
-Wings
-Thirdeighteennoteflyingfullyclotheductscraptlegalf ourseatsestrudelire
-Chaos Grapes (2)
-6 Noberries
-$14
-Pandora's Car Keys (2)
-LED
-Crystal
-Chaos Oil
-Chaos Cord
-Fawfaw's Special Recipe Nocake (Item Lock)
-Infinite's BETTER Map
-Treepieces
-Bookmark of Eternity
-Pandora's Shoe
-Xion
-Lacrosse Stick of Doom
-Webcam</b>

[Xion]

Town pipe: Internet Cafe

Try to hook up xion, computer, and Webcam together.

[Radium]

<b>You manage to attach the webcam to Xion. No, we aren't giving him an internet connection. The gremlin's computer has arrived, but the monitor, keyboard, and mouse are still being shipped from Japan. They say you can borrow the speakers if you bring them back someday. Speakers have also been attached to Xion.</b>

[Xion]

I'd be going soon, so here's a final idea

Remove all the lawyer pieces from the Long name thingy (what I'm going to call it from now) and also remove the tire. put these items in inventory.

Try eating the lawyer pieces: If he could warp, maybe eating his parts would help absorb his powers.

And can I get an idea of the current year it is? The pioneer Project didn't start until around the fifth millenia, where the planet was on it's last legs and a worldwide evacuation was called. That's the pioneer project.


Here's the idea: After Xion got nailed by the ship in the dock, perhaps his harddrive (which I possibly think holds all memories and compressed photon items) went into space, hit a wormhole, and warped into the current (uberbob's) time.

Either that, or the people can not only warp through space, but also through time. O.O

[Violet CLM]

I think the tire and stuff are permanently installed.

Xion: Earth and Carrotus are two different planets. Not that there's any reason to think this is Carrotus, but there's no reason to assume it's Earth, either.

And I still don't like the idea of killing someone just because they won a race against you.


<strike>Control: Araches
Take Uberbob's wings.
Throw Uberbob off the edge of Upper Placespot.</strike>

[Radium]

<b>Don't worry, Unknown. He was just a lawyer. And yes, everything in that (longname) item is permanent. Your invintory would be huge without that.

Xion, what more do I have to do to get you to stop talking about PSO?</b>

[Strato]

We could step on his chip.

[Radium]

<b>Don't worry, Derby just hasn't noticed that the real Xion has 3.5 warnings.</b>

[Strato]

Derby was the one who warned him all 3.5 times. Why wouldn't he notice?

[Radium]

<b>It's all the private massages.</b>

[Blackraptor]

Check inventory
Take 14$ and dunk them into chaos oil.
Add planepeices to the combo.

Get Araches to stuff that down Uberbob's throat or something.

[Radium]

<b>Eer... no. How about not. Throats are really a bit too small.</b>

[Strato]

<b>It's all the private massages.</b>

Is that a typo or was it intended?

[Coppertop]

Don't Ask.

[Radium]

<b>Back on topic >(

And my page 40.</b>

[Xion]

Just answer the question, Radifoo. WHAT YEAR IS IT FOR UBERBOB? (I wanna see if my theories are correct, PSO related or not.)

Also, if we are in the upperplacespot (600ft up, you say?) can we see things in the distance? Look around for islands that may be around.<I hope we find an island with two large towers and a dam on the southern end, then I'd instantly know that spinach custard is on Ragol and that island is Gran Da Val Island, and also that Pioneer 1 has landed.>

[Radium]

<b>You are unable to see off the platform, due to clouds. And the year is (truck drives by)04.</b>

[Xion]

So for all I know it could be 2004 or 4004 (Before P2 came to Ragol) but that would also point out th...

P2 is on it's way.
they have darn good chinese.
They have good cakes.

It has to make sence.


Control: Gradient
Check: Location
Check: stats
Control: Uberbob

[Radium]

<b>Gradient is in hell. His stats are 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0. He was blown up when I decided to destroy all PSO-related things in this story. I was trying to prove a point, but I think I failed.</b>

[Violet CLM]

The number of inaccurate haikus I see never ceases to amaze me. Assuming that was supposed to be one.

Look around off of Upper Placespot through crystal.



Aaaand, it doesn't need to be #004, just ##04. For all you know it could be 0104.

[Radium]

<b>Or 0004.

You look off of Upper Placespot through the crystal. Oceans go as far as you can see in all directions. Sure, there are some things out there but let's try to obey the Gremlin Guru a bit first.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Do any of the stores sell paint?

[Radium]

<b>No (= You have everything you need except the intelligence.</b>

[Violet CLM]

What are the benches made of?
Is there anything for sale or in the inventory that could draw on the benches?

[Radium]

<b>The benches are made of recycled plastic (ooh, enviorment friendly!). You could probably scratch something in them with about any item in your invintory.
</b>

[Violet CLM]

Remove nails from Bench A.
Move Bench A over to Bench B.
Write "Join-a-quest today! Low rates, high adventure, fame and glory! Bring your own magic powers." on Bench A (or make Fawriel write it).
Turn Bench A on its side and lift it into the air a few feet above Bench B, so the words are right side up.
Support Bench A with Bookmark of Eternity.
Stand behind Bench B (after rejecting possibility of asking Araches to be a "booth babe").


The end result should look something like this:


[Words]

|'''''''''''|

[Radium]

<b>Interactive time! I'll let you choose any two characters from the "Everyone's Characters" thread. Except they both can't be chosen by the same person.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Shuriken Darkblade.

(And I thought the whole thing was interactive)

[Grath]

*Feels evil*
Senor Enchilada!

[Strato]

Erm...no

[acid]

Foo!

[Radium]

I'll reply to this as soon as my power's back. And your request for Se(fancy N)or Enchilada has been ignored.

[acid]

...How come whenever I post there's a silence in that thread for a few days, before it returns and completely ignores what I said?

[Radium]

Yay, my power's back.

<b>Shuriken has been mysically added to the party!

-Shuri's Status:
Health: 40%
Defense: 30%
Intelligence: 40%
Attack: 70%
Speed: 90%
Magic: 10%
Spells: Haste: Increases an ally's speed.
Weapon: Katana

Foo hash been myshtically added to teh party!

-Foo's Status:
Health: 50%
Defense: 40%
Intelligence: 20%
Attack: 60%
Speed: 50%
Magic: 4.87%
Spells: Dingwhyrandomwhat: Randomly scrambles the digits in an enemy or ally's numerical stats. Can only be cast once every very long time. Generally either incredibly powerful or utterly useless.
Weapon: Cannonball on a string

Se(fancy N)or Enchilada has been mystically added to the party but was tragically hit by a truck before his introduction and has been disinigrated(sp?).</b>

[Strato]

YAYAYAYAY! WB Radium.

[Radium]

<b>Bow to me.</b>

[Strato]

Control : Infinite Spaz
Go : Radium
Backhand : Radium
Talk : Radium : No

[Radium]

<b>Infinite Spaz has been hit by fifty-nine pickup trucks and now resembles something between ketchup and fried rice.

Back on topic.</b>

[Strato]

We got teh allies, time to go to lower placespot

[Radium]

<b>Oooh, I sense somebody's been keeping a list.

Invintory:
-Wings
-Thirdeighteennoteflyingfullyclotheductscraptlegalf ourseatsestrudelire
-Chaos Grapes (2)
-6 Noberries
-$14
-Pandora's Car Keys (2)
-Crystal
-Chaos Oil
-Chaos Cord
-Fawfaw's Special Recipe Nocake (Item Lock)
-Infinite's BETTER Map
-Treepieces
-Bookmark of Eternity
-Pandora's Shoe
-Xion+Camera+LED
-Lacrosse Stick of Doom
</b>

[Strato]

When did we get a cam, and an led?

[Radium]

<b>Fine, I made them part of Xion.</b>

[acid]

add Infinite's BETTER Map to Thirdeighteennoteflyingfullyclotheductscraptlegalf ourseatsestrudelire.

[Radium]

<b>It is now the Thirdeighteennoteevenbetterflyingfullyclotheductsc raptlegalfourseatsestrudelire.</b>

[Radium]

<b>Okay, I fixed some mistakes in the inventory.

Invintory:
-Wings
-Thirdeighteennoteevenbetterflyingfullyclotheductsc raptlegalfourseatsestrudelire
-Chaos Grapes (2)
-6 Noberries
-Dollar
-Pandora's Car Keys (2)
-Crystal
-Chaos Oil
-Chaos Cord
-Fawfaw's Special Recipe Nocake (Item Lock)
-Treepieces
-Bookmark of Eternity
-Pandora's Shoe
-Xion
-Lacrosse Stick of Doom
-Skateboard
-Druid Robe

Party:
-Uberbob
-Araches
-Fawriel
-Leetzan
-Shuriken
-Foo
-Xion
</b>

[Violet CLM]

Can either Foo or Shuriken drive?
Although you can't cast Haste twice on one person, can two people each cast it once on the same person?
Why did "L33tz4n" lose the numbers?

[Radium]

Can either Foo or Shuriken drive?
Although you can't cast Haste twice on one person, can two people each cast it once on the same person?
Why did "L33tz4n" lose the numbers?
<b>1.) No.
2.) No.
3.) I got lazy, the row of number keys is just so far away...</b>

[Violet CLM]

Arrange following sequence of events:
Haste is cast on Araches.
Araches is given one set of Pandora's Car Keys.
Araches climbs down ladder.
Uberbob does not stare down her dress.
Fawriel warps everyone to Trading Post.
Araches drives Pandora's Car to Trading Post.
Check Trading Post hopefully.

[Radium]

Uberbob does not stare down her dress.

<b>What sort of person climbs down a ladder upside down?

You all go to the trading post.
Items for Trade:
-Chaos Lightbulb
-Rope
-Lord of the Rings DVD
-Broken Lazer Light
-Snufuss Cloak
-Pandora's Can
-Twenty-Four Leaf Clover
-Bandana
-Basketball
-Pink Gumballs (10)

Invintory:
-Wings
-Thirdeighteennoteevenbetterflyingfullyclotheductsc raptlegalfourseatsestrudelire
-Chaos Grapes (2)
-Noberries (6)
-Dollar
-Pandora's Car Keys (2)
-Crystal
-Chaos Oil
-Chaos Cord
-Fawfaw's Special Recipe Nocake (Item Lock)
-Treepieces
-Bookmark of Eternity
-Pandora's Shoe
-Xion
-Lacrosse Stick of Doom
-Skateboard
-Druid Robe

[Violet CLM]

Can Shuriken or Foo swim?
How does Xion hold up to water?
Is Lower Placespot still underwater?
How many people can Pandora's Car technically hold?
Does Chaos Oil float?

[Radium]

Can Shuriken or Foo swim?
How does Xion hold up to water?
Is Lower Placespot still underwater?
How many people can Pandora's Car technically hold?
Does Chaos Oil float?
<B>1.) Both can.
2.) I don't know, but I'm sure nobody'd object to you finding out.
3.) Yes.
4.) How many people do you <i>want</i> it to hold?
5.) Does oil float?

A while back a gremlin gave you the hint you needed.</B>

[Strato]

What was the hint?

[Radium]

<b>If I told you, it would change from "hint" to "instruction."</b>

[Strato]

ye should be lookin round Lower Placespot

Oh k, go to lower placesalaspot

[Radium]

<b>I think you missed the point.

*claims page 41 in the name of the obvious answer here*</b>

[Strato]

page steal

[acid]

Trade Xion for chaos light bulb.

Can the chaos items be combined?
Can Pandora's items be combined?

[Radium]

Trade Xion for chaos light bulb.

Can the chaos items be combined?
Can Pandora's items be combined?
<b>Xion says "01010100011100100110000101100100011001010010000001 10110101100101001000000110000101101110011001000010 00000100100100100000011101110110100101101100011011 00001000000110010101101110011100110111010101110010 01100101001000000111100101101111011101010111001000 10000001100100011001010110000101110100011010000010 00000111011101101000011001010110111000100000010010 01001000000111001001101001011001110110100001110100 01100110011101010110110001101100011110010010000001 11001001110101011011000110010100100000011101000110 10000110100101110011001000000111011101101111011100 10011011000110010000101110".

Acid is partially on the right track, but at the wrong time. <READ WHAT THE GREMLIN SAID ABOUT THE GRAPE, DURNIT. THE REASON THAT THERE ARE ONLY TWO GRAPES, DURNIT></b>

[Radium]

<b>Okay, if you're really THAT lost, just check post 1297.</b>

[Violet CLM]

<b>You teleport to the Trading Post. Once inside, you notice that the Webcam is gone.
"Where's the Camera?" you ask in the general direction you think that the gremlins are standing.
"A lawyer came by earlier and traded those grapes for it," one replies, "there were three, but we destroyed one because a kid almost ate it. He could've choked, ya know."</b>
<strike></strike>

[Radium]

<b>*claps*</b>

[Violet CLM]

Ask the Gremlins if they know who the kid who almost ate a Chaos Grape was.
Ask the Gremlins if they know where he came from.
Ask the Gremlins why they destroyed one, but not the others.
<strike>Ask the Gremlins' phone numbers.</strike>

[Radium]

Ask the Gremlins if they know who the kid who almost ate a Chaos Grape was.
Ask the Gremlins if they know where he came from.
Ask the Gremlins why they destroyed one, but not the others.
<strike>Ask the Gremlins' phone numbers.</strike>
<b>1.) No, and irrelevent.
2.) Ditto.
3.) Because the fool wasn't choking on ALL the grapes!
4.)111 111 1111</b>

[Violet CLM]

It is not irrelevant. This kid might be the only person on the island who is not a Gremlin your party has left alive.

Ask the Gremlins why they are all invisible.

[Radium]

<b>Who said the kid wasn't a gremlin?

"We're invisible because it increases annoyance 56%," says the gremlin.</b>

[Coppertop]

I'll agree to that ...

[acid]

<b>Xion says "01010100011100100110000101100100011001010010000001 10110101100101001000000110000101101110011001000010 00000100100100100000011101110110100101101100011011 00001000000110010101101110011100110111010101110010 01100101001000000111100101101111011101010111001000 10000001100100011001010110000101110100011010000010 00000111011101101000011001010110111000100000010010 01001000000111001001101001011001110110100001110100 01100110011101010110110001101100011110010010000001 11001001110101011011000110010100100000011101000110 10000110100101110011001000000111011101101111011100 10011011000110010000101110".</b>

Alright, where's that nifty binary decoder?

EDIT: Found it. I don't care what you'll do to me if I trade you, because you won't become ruler of the world.

Trade Xion for chaos light bulb

[Strato]

Do not trade me for...some stuff...blahblahblah...

[Radium]

<b>Xion has been traded for Chaos Lightbulb.</b>

[Radium]

<b>*krbump*

An odd silence has posessed this topic.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Find Save Point.
Go to Save Point.
Save.
Check Time.

[Radium]

<b>You use the Pandora's Island savepoint. It's about noon.

Invintory:
-Wings
-Thirdeighteennoteevenbetterflyingfullyclotheductsc raptlegalfourseatsestrudelire
-Chaos Grapes (2)
-Noberries (6)
-Dollar
-Pandora's Car Keys (2)
-Crystal
-Chaos Oil
-Chaos Cord
-Fawfaw's Special Recipe Nocake (Item Lock)
-Treepieces
-Bookmark of Eternity
-Pandora's Shoe
-Chaos Lightbulb
-Lacrosse Stick of Doom
-Skateboard
-Druid Robe</b>

[acid]

/control "Foo"
/Say "YAYAYAYAYAYAY"

[Radium]

<b>Control Foo? I don't think that's within your ability.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Does combining two Chaos objects cancel their opposite effect?
How big is the lightbulb?

[Radium]

<b>1.) No.
2.) about four to six inches, normal lightbulb size.

"Weren't we going to Lower Placespot?" Fawriel questions.</b>

[Violet CLM]

"Well, yes, but it's underwater..."
"Say, you can't turn lungs into gills, can you?"

[Radium]

<b>"Sry, I'm useless," says Fawriel. Foo offers to make you gills if you give him a knife.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Is Thirdeighteennoteevenbetterflyingfullyclotheductsc raptlegalfourseatsestrudelire usable as breathing equipment?

[Radium]

<b>Of course not.

Unknown, it's just sad that nobody's figured this out yet. I flat out SAID the answer in your server. Twice, I think.</b>

[Violet CLM]

But what's the fun in using the proper solution?


Does Lower Placespot offer complimentary breathing gear? If your answer is "You don't know", Shuriken can swim down and check... assuming it's not too deep, anyway.

[Radium]

<b>I suppose there's always an alternative. You don't know exactly how deep lower placespot is, but you can't see it from above the water. Actually, you don't know anything about L.Placespot.</b>

[Strato]

Trade : Lightbulb : Xionface

[Strato]

Radium, what would the effects of the Chaos Grapes be?

[Radium]

<b>You trade Xion back.

Well, I suppose a Chaos Grape would have a very low citric acid content.</b>

[Strato]

Choke on the Chaos Grape.

[Radium]

<b>You attempt to choke on a Chaos Grape and Foo chokes on it. Don't ask; chaos. Foo doesn't seem to be running out of air.</b>

[Strato]

Cuz the chaos grape is giving him air. Foo go swim down to L.Spotplace.

[Radium]

<b>You are unable to control Foo.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Tell Foo there is good fun in Lower Placespot.


Isn't it nice that none of you could swim, and you have two chaos grapes, and two new arrivals, and both of them seem to be able to swim?

[Radium]

<b>All you really have to know to get to lower placespot is how to sink. Foo runs away underwater.

Invintory:
-Wings
-Thirdeighteennoteevenbetterflyingfullyclotheductsc raptlegalfourseatsestrudelire
-Chaos Grapes (1)
-Noberries (6)
-Dollar
-Pandora's Car Keys (2)
-Crystal
-Chaos Oil
-Chaos Cord
-Fawfaw's Special Recipe Nocake (Item Lock)
-Treepieces
-Bookmark of Eternity
-Pandora's Shoe
-Xion
-Lacrosse Stick of Doom
-Skateboard
-Druid Robe

[scatman]

use chaos cord: push it downwards to go down

[Radium]

<b>You try not to choke on the Chaos Grape and choke on it (can't forget this step). Descending down the Chaos Cord, you reach the underwater city of Lower Placespot. Shattered Greek-style columns line the pathways across ancient abandoned structures made from an unknown blue stone. Four paths branch off from your current position, each in seperate directions. You notice that Foo is sitting below you chewing on an electric eel.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Which parts of your inventory no longer work as they are supposed to?

[Radium]

<b>Everything's in tip-top shape, 'cept the Treepieces got downgraded to Wafflepieces.
Invintory:
-Wings
-Thirdeighteennoteevenbetterflyingfullyclotheductsc raptlegalfourseatsestrudelire
-Chaos Grape (in throat)
-Noberries (6)
-Dollar
-Pandora's Car Keys (2)
-Crystal
-Chaos Oil
-Chaos Cord
-Fawfaw's Special Recipe Nocake (Item Lock)
-Wafflepieces
-Bookmark of Eternity
-Pandora's Shoe
-Xion
-Lacrosse Stick of Doom
-Skateboard
-Druid Robe

My 42.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Place Bookmark of Eternity three feet above ground to mark the spot.
Move off in random direction.

[Radium]

<b>You place the bookmark in mid air. From there, you and Foo follow a path east. It takes you to a large statue of a knight in strange armor, from which it splits to the north and south.


Random enemy encounter is enabled. B' ware.<b>

[Violet CLM]

Take armor.

[Radium]

<b>It's a statue. If you could take completly things from statues, I'd be reading the that book the Statue of Liberty has.</b>

[Violet CLM]

<strike>Take the that book.</strike>

Look at Foo's head through crystal.
South.

[Radium]

<b>You look at foo's head through the crystal. Nothing of intrest was found.

Foo and you take the south path. It leads to a demonic looking black and red structure with a skull engraved on the top. A table with a bloody knife chained to it rests in the center. A nearby sign reads "Avatar of Death - No littering, please."</b>

[Violet CLM]

Does this structure have an indoor area?

[Radium]

<b>Not really. More like a small stonehenge but fancier.</b>

[Violet CLM]

If the path continues: Follow path.
If it doesn't: North. North.

[Radium]

<b>The path ends, so you turn back and go north. The trail ends at a structure similar to the other, but a brilliant shade of white and gold with deep blue drapings hung on it. In the middle there's a small foutain (which would probably look much neater if it wasn't underwater). A sign reads "Avatar of Life - No littering, <s>please</s> plzthx."</b>

[Violet CLM]

South.
West.
West.
Observe surroundings.

[Radium]

<b>One south and two wests. You are in the middle of a circle of grayish-blue collumns, still resembling stonehenge, only larger this time. It looks to have been some kind of combat arena. There seems to be nothing of intrest here; at the moment, anyway.</b>

[Strato]

Go towards the nearest avatar.

[Violet CLM]

Inf, they're basically an equal distance. Aren't you keeping a map or something?

East, south.

[Strato]

Good idea. Map time

[Radium]

<b>Aww, but mental maps help to implode your brain!</b>

[Strato]

Any paths extending from this room?

[Radium]

<b>No. Dead end.</b>

[Strato]

Back to the bookmark. Any north-south paths?

[Radium]

<b>You and Foo return to the Bookmark. There are two more paths going north and south.</b>

[Strato]

South.

[Radium]

<b>You head south and encounter a save point. Game saved! The path continues east and west.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Would you say the distance between all the locations is roughly equal?

East.

[Radium]

<b>Very roughly. You take the east path, which leads to a place where the ominous columns are so tall it blocks out the light completly. A soft light is coming from far ahead, outlining the silouttes(sp) of moving figures.</b>

[Violet CLM]

"Very roughly"?

Do the moving figures look humanoid?
Is Foo still with you?

[Radium]

<b>Foo is still with you. You are unable to tell if the figures are humanoid or not.</b>

[Coppertop]

<b>Very roughly. You take the east path, which leads to a place where the ominous columns are so tall it blocks out the light completly. A soft light is coming from far ahead, outlining the silouttes(sp) of moving figures.</b>

Silhouettes.

Look at figures through crystal.

[Radium]

<b>You look through the crystal at the figures. They appear to be merpeople, armed with deadly looking long-range lazers. Behind them, a stone box rests in front of what looks to be a small black hole.</b>

[Violet CLM]

West.
West.
Look around.
East.
North.
North.
Look around.

[Radium]

<b>You take the path on the other side of the save point (a nice "take the other path" would do, y'know) The road forks once again. The rest of your directions have been ignored because they confuse me.</b>

[Violet CLM]

North.

[Radium]

<b>You take the north fork. The road leads to a dark cavern. "The Trafton Cave" is written on a sign outside it.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Take sign.
South.
South.

[Radium]

<b>You can not take the sign because it's glued to the ground with the same kind of glue they use to fix airplanes.

You take the other path from the last fork. It leads you and Foo to a large temple-like building. A stone engraving reads "Temple of the Gerbil". A large stone blocks the entrance; It'd take something powerful to break it.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Touch stone to make sure it exists.
Use Thirdeighteennoteevenbetterflyingfullyclotheductsc raptlegalfourseatsestrudelire on stone.

[Radium]

<b>You touch the stone. It does exist. You attempt to destroy it using the Thirdnotewhatever I don't feel like typing, but the scraptstrudel evidently is not an explosive device. </b>

[Violet CLM]

North, east, north, north.

[Radium]

<b>You return to the bookmark (did I get that right?).</b>

[Violet CLM]

...go north one more time.

[Radium]

<b>You go north again. A dark orange carving of a flame in a circle hovers strangely above the path ahead. You are unable to move it, and as you try to walk past it a strange force holds you, or more so something you are carrying, back.

Invintory:
-Wings
-Thirdeighteennoteevenbetterflyingfullyclotheductsc raptlegalfourseatsestrudelire
-Chaos Grapes (in throat)
-Noberries (6)
-Dollar
-Pandora's Car Keys (2)
-Crystal
-Chaos Oil
-Chaos Cord
-Fawfaw's Special Recipe Nocake (Item Lock)
-Wafflepieces
-Pandora's Shoe
-Xion
-Lacrosse Stick of Doom
-Skateboard
-Druid Robe

Pageclaim.
</b>

[Violet CLM]

Try removing one thing after another from Inventory until you find what object is not being let through, then reclaim everything other than that, and continue walking. Unless it's the Chaos Grape.
(Try the Druid Robe first)

[Radium]

<b>You spend nearly an hour removing every item (escept for the Chaos Grape, of course), but are still unable to pass.

Heroes4 fans will have this in an instant, good thing nobody here plays that game.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Go around.

[Strato]

I think I got it. Remove all wood based items from our body.

[Radium]

<b>You can't go around, I'll think of a reason later. And you have no wooden items.</b>

[Strato]

...the arm leg and ear? Oh well.

[Violet CLM]

Can Foo walk past it?
Is there any obvious reason the carving is floating?

[Radium]

<b>Foo is unable to walk past it either. It's likely magic is making the carving float. <http://mmportals.com/h4/image2/chaoswardeff.jpg uberhint!></b>

[Violet CLM]

What happens if you touch/push the carving?

[Radium]

<b>It has a texture like salad dressing. But it stays still.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Drape Druid's Robe over Carving.

(have any rabid objects been seen lately?)

[Radium]

<b>Where do you get rabies underwater (aka no)? You drape the robe over the carving. It slides off the other side and you are unable to retrieve it.
</b>

[Violet CLM]

Put drop of Chaos Oil onto carving.

For those who didn't see before Rad deleted it; the carving. (http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:VEq2bnZHVDcC:www.heroesgate.com/magic/life/chaos_ward.gif)

[Strato]

Glitch it.

Look at via orbs.

[Radium]

<b>The drop of Chaos Oil slowly moves away from the carving as it sinks to the ground.

Orbs? What orbs?</b>

[Violet CLM]

Known facts:

The carving blocks something of yours from passing, even when you have removed everything other than the Chaos Grape.
Foo can not pass either.
Foo also has a Chaos Grape.
Chaos Oil can not touch the carving.
The term "Chaos Ward" directly relates to the carving.


Question:

If the carving is indeed a Chaos Ward, why does the prefix not cause it do the the opposite of warding?

[Strato]

How would Rad expect us to know if it was Chaos if he took down the image?

[Radium]

If the carving is indeed a Chaos Ward, why does the prefix not cause it do the the opposite of warding?

<b>Maybe you're just looking at the name wrong.</b>

[Strato]

Time to do some background research on this ward.

[Strato]

Chaos Ward : +50% Resistence to Chaos Magic.

[Radium]

Chaos Ward : +50% Resistence to Chaos Magic. <b>You can't forget the +50% defense against chaos alligned opponents! Actually, a dictionary might help more here. All I took from Heroes4 was the name.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Chaos
A state of extreme confusion and disorder.

Ward
To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.

Opposite
Altogether different, as in nature, quality, or significance.

Radium
A rare, brilliant white, luminescent, highly radioactive metallic element found in very small amounts in uranium ores, having 13 isotopes with mass numbers between 213 and 230, of which radium 226 with a half-life of 1,622 years is the most common. It is used in cancer radiotherapy, as a neutron source for some research purposes, and as a constituent of luminescent pa<strike>i</strike>nts. Atomic number 88; melting point 700°C; boiling point 1,737°C; valence 2


(Just the name? What about the picture?)

[Radium]

(Just the name? What about the picture?)<b>Well, I based it's description off the battle graphic.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Walk backwards past the Chaos Ward.

[Radium]

<b>You are unable to.</b>

[Violet CLM]

South.
East.
Halfway North.
NorthWest.
Halfway North.

[Radium]

<b>I don't feel like figuring that out, where are you going?</b>

[Violet CLM]

If it is possible to leave the path, that should take you around the Chaos Ward.
(if not allowed, go investigate the Trafton Cave)

[Radium]

<b>Yea. You return to the Trafton Cave. Roars are coming from inside. You pass the savepoint on the way there. Game saved. I wonder if there was a reason...</b>

[Violet CLM]

Toss Noberry into cave.

[Radium]

<b>You throw a noberry into the cave. About five seconds later, it gets flung back out at your head. You wake up three hours later.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Have your telepathic abilities been in any way altered by the Noberry impact?
Where were you when you descended into Lower Placespot?

[Radium]

<b>No, all the noberry did was knock you out. When you first reached L.Placespot you were by the bookmark, south, east, then north of Trafton's cave.</b>

[Violet CLM]

What was your above-water location when you began descending to Lower Placespot?

[Radium]

<b>I don't remember, but I recall it was under Upper Placespot.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Here's all I can find:

You try not to choke on the Chaos Grape and choke on it (can't forget this step). Descending down the Chaos Cord, you reach the underwater city of Lower Placespot.
Before that, everyone (except Foo) was at the trading post. It really could be anywhere. So where was it?

[Radium]

<b>Under Upper Placespot )<</b>

[Violet CLM]

.

Return to surface using Chaos Cord.
Go to Trading Post.
Exchange Pandora's Shoe for Snufuss Cloak.
Return to Trafton Cave.
Wear Snufuss Cloak.
Enter slowly.

[Radium]

<b>You do a bunch of stuff (passing the save point; game saved.) Then you return to the Trafton Cave. The Mighty Trafton is inside. "Insolent mortals," he begins, "dare you wear a symbol of my former religion?"
Combat! Music = http://www.foxmage.com/far-east.mid
Enemies:
Trafton - Harmful magic immunity, Spellcaster, Constant aura of chaos.


Trafton attacks.
- Uberbob loses 10 HP
Trafton attacks again.
- Foo loses 20 HP
Trafton casts Rein of Gerbil
- Foo loses 60 HP
- Uberbob loses 50 HP
- Foo is all dead and stuff!
Your move.

</b>

[Violet CLM]

Review Trafton's Cave poorly.
Claim Page.
Attack with Page.

[Radium]

<b>Uberbob attacks Trafton with the page.
- Trafton takes .04 damage.
Trafton attacks.
- Uberbob takes a bunch of damage and dies!

Game loaded from save point between the Merpeople and the path to the Trafton Cave and Gerbil Temple.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Check inventory.
Wonder if Foo remembers having died.

[Strato]

Go to tempel ness arl.

[Radium]

<b>Invintory:
-Wings
-Thirdeighteennoteevenbetterflyingfullyclotheductsc raptlegalfourseatsestrudelire
-Chaos Grapes (in throat)
-Noberries (6)
-Dollar
-Pandora's Car Keys (2)
-Crystal
-Chaos Oil
-Chaos Cord
-Fawfaw's Special Recipe Nocake (Item Lock)
-Wafflepieces
-Snufuss Cloak
-Xion
-Lacrosse Stick of Doom
-Skateboard
-Druid Robe

Foo does not remember.
Ness Arl?</b>

[Violet CLM]

Enter Trafton Cave without wearing Snufuss Cloak.

[Strato]

I meant to go to the Temple of Gerbil, but that way works too...

[Radium]

<b>You enter the Trafton Cave without wearing the cloak. "Who dares enter my lair?" Trafton says.</b>

[Strato]

HI. I'm uber bob! And I dare to enter the lair.

[Violet CLM]

"I bring you a waffle!"

[Radium]

<b>"Leave my lair at once!" The mighty Trafton roars.</b>

[Violet CLM]

"Leave? But we've come so far already... and I'm failing to choke upon the Chaos Grape the Wicked Trading Post of the Donut Island gave me!"

[Radium]

<b>I'll skip some gorey stuff here to save time. Game loaded from path between Trafton and Gerbil places and Merpeople.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Tsk. If we only had a lemon.

Offer Trafton Thirdeighteennoteevenbetterflyingfullyclotheductsc raptlegalfourseatsestrudelire.

[Radium]

<b>Trafton attempts to figure out what the Scraptstrudel is, then gives up, kicks you out of his cave, and installs a door.

You found a sea lemon!</b>

[Violet CLM]

Knock politely on the door.
(Is it made of wood?)

[Radium]

<b>You knock. You hear someone walking, but it doesn't open. Yes, the door is made from the finest pine wood imported from Japan.</b>

[Violet CLM]

"Oh mighty Trafton, we have brought you a lemon!"



Do you like to suck on lemons? Do I ever. ~Trafton

[Radium]

<b>Trafton opens the door, steals your lemon very quickly, and slams it in your face. You mystically find <i>another</i> sea lemon because I'm too lazy to take it off the invintory list!</b>

[Violet CLM]

"Oh mighty Trafton, if you would but do us one small favor, we shall leave you in peace with another lemon!"

[Radium]

<b>No reply.

The gremlin Guru appears... well, not really "appears", but you sense his presence. He will trade you a hint for one item.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Return to Deserted Combat Arena.
Look around for Trafton.

[Radium]

<b>You look around the desered combat arena. You find no interesting items, but an interesting phrase carved into one stone pillar. "Opposites don't attract, they explode."</b>

[Blackraptor]

ttrade xion for hint.

[Radium]

<b>The Guru believes you are trying to rip him off and leaves.</b>

[Violet CLM]

Go talk to Merpeople.

[Radium]

<b>You walk to the Merpeople. "Who are you and why have you come here?" the leader asks.</b>

[Violet CLM]

"My name is Uberbob, and I am seeking one known as Blackraptor. I bring you waffle pieces from a physical improbability!"
Add as an afterthought "and this is Foo".

[Radium]

<b>"I can not lie to you," the Merperson says, "we wish to shoot you. Plz get closer."</b>