by Snorb » Thu Feb 19, '15, 5:49 pm
The Sierra Adventure Game Mini-Special!
Narrator: The powerful quad-quark drives rev to life! Time and space bend under the fibrulations of the time-rip transflexor! Your adrenaline (and stomach!) reel with the hyperbolic hyperbole! And finally... finally! ...nothing happens. You're already there, Roger! ~ Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers
Prince Alexander: (casting the Magic Paint spell) Magic paint, black as ink,/Bring to life what I think./Make it real, what I draw,/According to this spoken law!
Prince Alexander: (casting the Magic Rain spell) Clouds of thunder, shafts of light,/Come and sup with me tonight!/Waters three have I for tea,/Come brew a tempest now for me!
Prince Alexander: (casting the Charm a Creature of the Night spell) Creature of the night, to me succumb!/Fire and brimstone leave thee numb;/Purity bind thee like a chain/To do what ere I now ordain!
~King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow, and this is STILL some of the best writing ever in a computer game, even 23 years later.
Narrator: [after the Prince of Shapeir's first fight in the game] In a bitter battle, you were better than the Badders! (You kicked some butt, too.)
Narrator: [after killing a Vorpal Bunny and looking at the remains] The cute, innocent (well, maybe not EXACTLY...) little bunny has been viciously slaughtered and now it looks like a roadkill.
Narrator: This book on climbing techniques is written entirely in one-syllable words; evidently it was tailor-made for Fighters.
Narrator: [reading a tombstone in Mordavia's graveyard] Mikhail Mehd/Bumped his head/In another man's bed,/Now he's dead.
Narrator: [another tombstone] Arken Tenna walked at night,/Arken saw his final sight./Now the question seems to be,/What in the world did Tenna see?
Narrator: [after a sidequest to turn Mordavia's Chief Thief into a human, you can kill him. If you talk to his corpse...] The Chief Thief must be mad that you murdered him. He's not speaking to you!
~Quest For Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness
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Nakama: A Card Game of Magical Girls - A completely un-playtested card game about being a magical girl.
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