(Yeah, I’m old enough to remember that comic character, even if it was already very old when I was a kid, I probably read it at my grandparents’ home).
Anyway, the original comment was going to be “holy mandrake!, and it was born male”…
A mandrake. Its screams when it’s pulled from the ground can kill according to European tradition.
Makes a panacea, cures sterility, and can be used for protection in battle and to foretell the future
That’s what healers are for. What the mandrake DID to the orcs was to turn their minds into mush and make them insensible to pain, which is what mandrake actually does – both in magic and in medicine.
(BTW, I mean traditional magic, not videogames magic. We all know Wormius loves to use it -still laughing at the tingleweed- but this one is from actual, IRL magic tradition).
In Middle Ages legend, Mandrake (Alraune in German) was purported to grow beneath hanged men.
The men would ejaculate at the point of death and seed the Mandrake with their power.
Typically arseholes: accusing someone of stealing stuff from them… that they had never seen before and probably wouldn’t know what half those ‘toys’ even were
To be fair, a good number of their people were killed by elves with ears cut off to prove it… no matter how small… So from the point of view of many of these orcs, they’re dealing with child murderers. Find a bag on one of them with a heap of non-elf stuff and you might well accuse them of being a thief as well. Doesn’t mean they thought he was stealing Orc stuff, just that he was a thief with a bag full of random non-elf gear.
Good one. They (these specific orcs) were not accusing Flinch of stealing from them (these specific orcs), but of stealing from them (all orcs in general).
(And before someone starts blaming the ambiguous usage of pronoums in the English language, heed my advice and be glad it at least HAS pronoums, for there are languages WITHOUT them, and these are a rollercoast of laughs, trust me on that…)
So, we go from a specific group of ‘the orcs’ accusing him of stealing from them (the ones making the accusations) to him stealing from all ‘the orcs’ in general?
You can believe what you want, but evidence points to them talking about themselves being the victims (other wise, it would have been “stealing it from them all”)
Considering it’s a magic backpack maybe what you pull out is influenced by who you are or what you need? “Magic backpack food” probably gives you the nutrients you need to survive and nothing else taste very much excluded. Also a mob needs some pain relief and pulls something that numbs pain (with very bad side effects) and they all overdose again.
Plus, it was wat FINCH (the closest thing to “the backpack’s legit owner” at that time, having been given it by its actual owner, while the orcs were stealing it from him) needed. Something to take the orcs off him.
Mandrake the magician? ;p
(Yeah, I’m old enough to remember that comic character, even if it was already very old when I was a kid, I probably read it at my grandparents’ home).
Anyway, the original comment was going to be “holy mandrake!, and it was born male”…
Not to forget: The Defenders of Earth
Good to know the original masked hero (The Phantom) is still being published 🙂
A mandrake. Its screams when it’s pulled from the ground can kill according to European tradition.
Makes a panacea, cures sterility, and can be used for protection in battle and to foretell the future
Can it replace missing body-parts, like an eye, foot or dangling manhood bits? Does that come under the “sterility” option?
That’s what healers are for. What the mandrake DID to the orcs was to turn their minds into mush and make them insensible to pain, which is what mandrake actually does – both in magic and in medicine.
(BTW, I mean traditional magic, not videogames magic. We all know Wormius loves to use it -still laughing at the tingleweed- but this one is from actual, IRL magic tradition).
And I though the poison did it.
In Middle Ages legend, Mandrake (Alraune in German) was purported to grow beneath hanged men.
The men would ejaculate at the point of death and seed the Mandrake with their power.
Typically arseholes: accusing someone of stealing stuff from them… that they had never seen before and probably wouldn’t know what half those ‘toys’ even were
To be fair, a good number of their people were killed by elves with ears cut off to prove it… no matter how small… So from the point of view of many of these orcs, they’re dealing with child murderers. Find a bag on one of them with a heap of non-elf stuff and you might well accuse them of being a thief as well. Doesn’t mean they thought he was stealing Orc stuff, just that he was a thief with a bag full of random non-elf gear.
Good one. They (these specific orcs) were not accusing Flinch of stealing from them (these specific orcs), but of stealing from them (all orcs in general).
(And before someone starts blaming the ambiguous usage of pronoums in the English language, heed my advice and be glad it at least HAS pronoums, for there are languages WITHOUT them, and these are a rollercoast of laughs, trust me on that…)
And how many elfs children were killed (and probably eaten) by orcs and goblins?
They didn’t just accuse him of being a thief, they accused him of stealing it all from them
Don’t make me repeat my above post verbatim, dude. Yes, “from them”. As in, “from the Orcs”.
So, we go from a specific group of ‘the orcs’ accusing him of stealing from them (the ones making the accusations) to him stealing from all ‘the orcs’ in general?
You can believe what you want, but evidence points to them talking about themselves being the victims (other wise, it would have been “stealing it from them all”)
You’re not streching language at all here, aren’t you?
you live in texas? visit some time 😀
Considering it’s a magic backpack maybe what you pull out is influenced by who you are or what you need? “Magic backpack food” probably gives you the nutrients you need to survive and nothing else taste very much excluded. Also a mob needs some pain relief and pulls something that numbs pain (with very bad side effects) and they all overdose again.
Plus, it was wat FINCH (the closest thing to “the backpack’s legit owner” at that time, having been given it by its actual owner, while the orcs were stealing it from him) needed. Something to take the orcs off him.
Yes, makes sense.