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Re: So what's a Wizard keep in his living room?
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Mon, 1 May 2000 07:00:15 GMT
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Perhaps a wall of ancient dusty tomes inscribed with strange runes. Or
perhaps a statue of a bizarre creature. Or maybe a big fish tank!
Dave
J.D. Forinash <foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu> wrote in message
news:8eimsj$rnn$1@cc731244-b.chmbl1.cc.ga.home.com...
> And so I'm building this castle (c.f. some other thread here). And I have
> some neat ideas come to me, and it pretty much gets determined that the
> castle isn't owned by some lord or duke or knight-commander or whatnot,
> but instead by a wizard.
>
> No problem. I read plenty of fantasy, play swords-and-sorcery games. I
> know what wizards keep in their laboratories, what they do in their
> sanctum... heck, I know what's supposed to be found in the top of the
> tower that scares you out onto the precipitous catwalk... everything.
>
> Or so I thought. So I get the first level of the center keep/wizard's
> tower built, and I figure I can either go on to the second level, which
> I suspect I lack sufficient bricks to do (geez. ~50,000 bricks, and I
> run out already?! [0] ), or I can furnish the interior. It's the ground
> floor, so it should probably be a foyer and a place for recieving guests.
>
> Well, if this castle were owned by a lord or a duke or a knight-commander,
> that room would probably be lined with suits of armor bearing halberds and
> have a big table in the center for feasting or planning at.
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> But that just doesn't sound right for a wizard. But it also seems • dangerous
> to line the room with the tools of a wizard's trade, too. I should save
> that for the laboratory...
>
> So what _does_ a wizard have in his living room?
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> [0] This can only mean one thing: I need more bricks. [1]
>
> [1] And why won't Lego put grey bricks in their buckets/tubs?
>
> -JDF
> --
> J.D. Forinash ,-.
> foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu ( <
> The more you learn, the better your luck gets. `-'
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