"Well, I could always build a bridge, but you'd need to do something for me first. You know those pesky merpeople?"

mmmmyes.

Control : Strato
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"I would be quite delighted if you would kindly slaughter the whole lot of them."

"Well, that's just peachy. I'll just go see how the laser is coming along, then, unless you have some weapon handy to use on them..."

"I think attacking them directly would be unwise, especially with their lasers. Have you considered unarming them?"

"No, I must confess I have not. None of us know much mind magic."

"I believe magic is quite secondary, in this case. As long as you have something to get rid of the lazers, maybe send them into the black hole, you should be able to handle the rest of them."

Read Book of Gerbil.

You try to read the book, but it's written in some undiscovered language. Probably dutch.

Check inventory.

Invintory:
-Wings
-Thirdeighteennoteevenbettercitrusfruityflyingfully clotheductscraptlegalfourseatsestrudelire
-Chaos Grape (in throat)
-Dollar
-Pandora's Car Key
-Seer Orb
-Chaos Coil
-Fawfaw's Special Recipe Nocake (Item Lock)
-Wafflepieces
-KeyInACloak
-Druid Robe
-Sea Lemon
-Lacrosse Stick of Doom
-Pearldiver's Knife
-Bookmark of Eternity
-Dirt
-Book of Gerbil

How well packed is the dirt?

Nearly stone.

Goto Merpeople place.
Remove up Chaos Coil.
Point Chaos Coil so any object shot into it would by no means come anywhere near to knocking a Merperson's laser into somewhere other than the black hole.
Place Dirt somewhere other than on top of the Chaos Coil.
Pull Chaos Coil forwards.
Hold on tighter.

Let's save a load game and say that picking them off one by one won't work.

Goto Merperson Place.
Use Thirdeighteennoteevenbettercitrusfruityflyingfully clotheductscraptlegalfourseatsestrudelire.

You do not know how to use the Scraptstrudel.

Return to Trafton's Cave.
Search around for cool things Traft will let you take.

"There is nothing you can have but knowledge," he tells you.

Attack Trafton.

"Then can you tell me everything you know?"

"No."

Use tome of eternal darkness on Trafton

Cut down a Merperson pillar with the Pearldiver's Knife.

The pillars are to large to be cut down with an old knife.

"I got a crystal ball of Ebay," Trafton explains, "maybe it can help you."

ok...

Trafton looks into the cyrystal ball. "Hmm, it appears to be showing events in backwards order for dramatic effect," he explains, "I see... an old man in a dress... a large robot being lifted by something tiny... a man with a mechanical arm... making toast... and... merpeople, having lasers knocked out of their hands by an invisible force... all very interesting. Please take this masking tape, to help you on your quest.

Originally Posted by Radium

I see... an old man in a dress...

IT ROBE



L33tz4n: Summon Water Elemental and instruct it to attack the Merpeople's lasers.

L33tz4n summons a water elemental and sends it out. You hear some shots, some water elemental squeals, quiet, and nothing comes back.

IT DRESS

Invinitory and spell check

Invintory:
-Wings
-Thirdeighteennoteevenbettercitrusfruityflyingfully clotheductscraptlegalfourseatsestrudelire
-Chaos Grape (in throat)
-Dollar
-Pandora's Car Key
-Seer Orb
-Chaos Coil
-Fawfaw's Special Recipe Nocake (Item Lock)
-Wafflepieces
-KeyInACloak
-Druid Robe
-Sea Lemon
-Lacrosse Stick of Doom
-Pearldiver's Knife
-Bookmark of Eternity
-Dirt
-Book of Gerbil
-Masking Tape

Spells:
--Uberbob:
-Glitch
-Load Game
--L33tz4n:
-Glitch
-Summon Water Elemental
-Summon Butterfly
-Summon Battlebutterly
-Summon MSN Butterfly
-Summon Rusty Iron Bat

Try giving the book of the gerbil to Trafton.

"a large robot being lifted by something tiny" Foreshadowing of my return, hmm??

Originally Posted by Xion

"a large robot being lifted by something tiny" Foreshadowing of my return, hmm??

I don't want to spoil anything, but... no =D.

Trafton already has a book of gerbil and doesn't want yours.

Read Book of Gerbil at Merpeople.

You are unable to read the book. Now honestly, this is a game; think illogically.

In other news: I decided to back up my C drive because it's dying. However, I didn't know it would take three days, so I'm stuck on this other cruddy computer with nothing to do but play this game.

Onto what...a cd? another hard drive?

Another HD. It seems to be taking a while copying my recycling bin... why am I even copying my recycling bin?

My hard drive occasionally has started not showing up when I start my computer. I'm not getting rid of a hard drive just because it stops working perfect; this one's gunna fight to the end, durnit!

Go to surface using Masking Tape.

Originally Posted by Unknown Rabbit

Go to surface using Masking Tape.

Er.. maybe a bit less illogical.

Think about it: take into consideration your invintory, items for trade, and how many invisible forces that aren't magic exist. Then wait for Xion to come running in here with the perfectly worded solution.

Trading invinitory check

hmm.

Inventory check
--Type = FULL

Trading post stock check
Spell check
status check

Go to temple of the gerbil
ask head monk "How many books of the Gerbil are there supposed to be?"

--if number = 1
----then Giltch: Trafton's book of the Gerbil.
-----Reason: If there is only one, how can Trafton have one if we have the one from the head monk himself?
--if number > 1
----then do nothing

SAVE
hold the book of the gerbil over your head
Walk to the Merpeople