I’m not surprised that Sizemore has a new attitude after talking to the Grand Abbie. That is probably one of the things that hippymancers do.
As for the Arkenpliers, we already know that they croak uncroaked units. And speculation seems to be that Wanda’ll probably get access to some kind of special unit – as with dwagons to the Arkenhammer, and Charlie’s Archons to the Arkendish.
Ah. I was thinking along the lines for ‘story arc’, not of ‘chapter’. The story arc is still going. Whether the chapter needs to change depends on whether the Coalition is going to come back, and whether there’s an ongoing competition between Lord Hamster, Wanda, and Stanley for control of what happens at the knob. Either could constitute a continuing of the ‘battle’.
Writing gobwin knob over and over makes me feel like that name is a pun that I’m just not getting. I know that gobwin is erf for goblin and all. It just keeps feeling like there’s more to it. And I haven’t figured out what erf is, beyond a style of magic.
Erf = Earth
in much the same way as Gobwin = Goblin, Dwagon = Dragon, etc.
Me, I can’t figure out the joke in Jillian Zamussel’s name.
At least that settles that question.
Gobwin Knob.
Goblin Knob.
Gobblin’ Knob.
y’know… euphemism for fellatio.
And when you’re really, really strong, you got jillions o’ muscles, don’tcha?
:smack:
I totally believe that. Especially with all the tools running around.
Although what kind of tool is an arkendish?
Looks like Ansom is about to be uncroaked.
(Was one of those thinkamancers back in the Magic Kingdom supposed to be Carl Sagan?)
Yeah, I was wondering that too… looked a hell of a lot like Sagan from his “Cosmos” days!
I can’t remember if it was mentioned but what’s the fourth Arkentool: hammer, pliers, dish, …?
And will Stanley want the Arkenpliers when he gets back?
Stanley wants everything. He’s a real tool that way.
(and I’ll never admit how long it took me to notice that Stanley-tool thing)
Don’t worry about it. It took me an embarassingly long time to figure out Prince Ansom. That was a wallbanger for the Guiness Book, I can tell you…
I wonder if the attuned Arkenpliers will have an effect on that – enabling the creation of uncroaked units that last longer and/or have abilities closer to what they had in life… or even Ansom retaining his mind and personality while being enslaved to Wanda. :eek:
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I think so. That scene was thick with pop-culture references even by Erfworld standards, and that’s saying something.
Unknown. “Saw” is a popular guess… 
I don’t get it.
Prince Ansom. Handsome Prince.
Forgot to adress this :
my own theory is that Parson isn’t a hippymancer at all - he’s an omnimancer, able to master every kind of magic. He’s a mathamancer because he’s good at math, the Grand Abbie thinks he’s a hippymancer because she thinks he’ll usher everlasting peace in the end. He might as well be a dirtamancer, because he know about volcanoes, and a thinkamancer because given enough knowledge about something, he can do anything with it.
This last bit is likely why his stats don’t show : unlike the denizens of Erfworld, he has no innate definite role or purpose and can fit any of them should he set his mind on it. Which gives him something in common with the Tool, come to think about it - he didn’t accept his given role either.
There’s a fellow over on the GitP forums who’s holding out for “Arkenputtyknife”.
Note, though, that there are four known Arkentools. That looks to me to be a nice high-calibre loaded Chekhov’s gun.
I don’t think Janis mentioned Parson as a hippymancer because of peace. I mean, come on, it’s obvious what type of “peace” Parson brought at Gobwin Knob, and that’s not a hippy type of thing at all.
However, straightjacketing hippymancy to “peace” alone kind of misses the majority of what the hippie movement was about. Parson’s breaking the rules, not giving in to The Man. That’s also what the hippies were about.
And, of course, there are three types of hippymancy. They’re likely to be as different as the lookamancy - thinkamancy - foolamancy axes of eyemancy are.
sigh Yeah, I knew it would be a d’oh! type of thing.
Ah, I thought that there might be something more to it.