Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-regina!lasko From: lasko@regina.DEC Newsgroups: net.games.frp Subject: Re: Re: Some new AD&D spells for MUs ("Immolation") Message-ID: <260@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Sun, 20-Jan-85 20:33:03 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.260 Posted: Sun Jan 20 20:33:03 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 22-Jan-85 06:24:13 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 33 >Please, will somebody look up the word "immolate" in a >dictionary? "Dictionary, hmm, never had a use for 'em. We Druids have an *oral* tradition" >...It means "to sacrifice" or "to offer in sacrifice"...It does >*not* mean "surround with flames"... "Hmm, really?""By Oak and Woad! He speaks the truth! Jonas! Magnolia! Wait!!!" <*spfuuf*> "Aaaah!" <*spkorf*> "Eeeeeeee!" "Ahrrgh! Now *where* am I going to dig up a pair of Archdruids?" [end of joke 1] Aha, you have discovered the secret behind the "Immolation" spell! The Great Druid teaches it gratis to Druids and Archdruids whom he thinks may be gunning for his position. Keeps the competition down, you know...survival of the fittest and all that... [end of joke 2] I am rather unpleasantly surprised: "Immolation" has been around for about three years in my world, and I'm sure I've been using the term for at least six. red-faced, tim lasko {decvax,ihnp4,allegra,seismo, et. al}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-regina!lasko