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Must be mutant lichens - I got 'the lichen seems strangely uneasy ...'
(can't remember the exact wording, but it was clearly one worried lichen).
Marion D
"tiny k" <kdlittle88@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> You miss the lichen. The lichen lunges wildly and misses!
>
> I cracked up when I saw that... try to picture it!
>
> tiny k
>
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Richard Bos wrote:
> rlb@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl (Richard Bos) wrote:
>
>> lichen's
>
> *Load* *aim* *BANG*
>
> Gah. Before someone else feels the need to put me out of my misery...
You choke on the extraneous apostrophe -- more --
DYWYPI?
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RecRanger wrote:
> tiny k wrote:
>
>>You miss the lichen. The lichen lunges wildly and misses!
>>
>>I cracked up when I saw that... try to picture it!
>>
>>tiny k
>
>
> Lichens have to the ability to hold you (at least in Slash'EM)-- how
> else would they get the opportunity to hold you? 😉
>
I suppose if you had a few too many !oBooze...?
Hey, don't judge me, it gets lonely in the dungeon!
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"RecRanger" <spamphobia@yahoo.com> wrote:
> tiny k wrote:
> > You miss the lichen. The lichen lunges wildly and misses!
> >
> > I cracked up when I saw that... try to picture it!
>
> Lichens have to the ability to hold you (at least in Slash'EM)-- how
> else would they get the opportunity to hold you? 😉
In Vanilla, lichen's don't hold you, they stick to you. IIRC it's a
purely reflexive attack/defense; in any case, it doesn't involve
actively grabbing on to you.