Talk:Fisherman's sack

The text for when you click on the fishing village and first obtain this, so I don't lose it:

As you approach the village, the people scurry into their huts. A few of the grannies scowl at you through half-open shutters. "Hello?" you call out. "I'm not here to hurt anyone. I just need information."

A door creaks open, and a gnarled old man hunched over a similarly-gnarled old walking stick approaches you hesitantly. "You do not appear to be one of Somerset Lopez's bandidos," he says. "Who are you?"

"My name is Johnny Treehugger," you reply. "I've traveled here from Seaside Village, in the Kingdom of Loathing."

The old man looks you up and down, and his eyes widen. "You are un ladrón del acordión! The ancient enemy of the mariachi!"

"I take exception to being called "ancient", but yes."

"Oh, señor! You must help us! Our village, she is constantly beset by Somerset Lopez and his henchmen! They steal from us what fish we can catch, leaving us barely enough to survive on, and nearly all of the young men of the village have been killed trying to stop them. We are desperate for your aid!"

"Well, as it happens I'm here to deal with Lopez and his goons once and for all anyway, so sure."

"¡Maravilloso! How will you do it? Please, tell me your plan, and we will help you in whatever way we can."

"Plan? Well, I hadn't actually gotten that far yet. Let me see..." You pick up a stick and begin to doodle on the dusty ground. "I suppose I could train the villagers to fight, and build a wall around the village. Then we could kill the bandits one by one as they enter the single purposely-unfortified gap. Or, alternately, I could get thrown out of the village by bandits who were let inside by traitors, and return to defeat the bandits in the morning. Either way, unfortunately, I'd need six other guys, and four of us would get killed. So that's not much use."

You tap your chin thoughtfully as you scratch out your drawing and start again. "How about if the village seamstresses make a bunch of outfits like mine, and we dress all the villagers up like me to confuse the bandits into thinking I'm some sort of amazingly skilled gunfighter? Then we'd only need two more guys and a singing bush."

The old man shakes his head. "We have no seamstresses here, amigo. Just fishermen, and fish do not make a very convincing disguise."

"So much for that then," you say, scratching out your diagram again. "Looks like I'll just have to go with the usual: sneak inside Lopez's hideout under cover of darkness and assassinate him."

"Sí, that could work. However, Lopez's hacienda is only enterable from the front, and he keeps the door tightly locked. You will need to recover the keys from inside the barracks." He takes your stick and sketches a rough diagram of the fort in the dust, then points to a spot on the rear wall. "The front is well-guarded, but here in the back there is a place where the wall is damaged. You could climb in easily there."

"All right, I guess that's what I'll do then."

"Un momento," he says, and shuffles back into his hut. He returns a moment later and hands you a small bag. "Here, señor -- we do not have much to offer you in further assistance, but these things will maybe help you."

"Thanks. I'll let you know how it goes, old-timer." You give a wave to the people peeking out of their windows, and head out of the village.

fisherman's sack You acquire an item: fisherman's sack --Johnny Treehugger 16:37, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Multi-Use?

When you use more than one:

You open the bags, pull out the contents, and discard them.

Are we recording the multi-use text of items like this, where there's only a few trivial differences between using one and using multiple? I noticed that we don't do it for the Warm Subject gift certificate (multi-use is the same, but with "certificates" instead of "certificate") or the Penultimate Fantasy chest ("chests" instead of "chest") or the black pension check ("checks"/"them"/"checks" instead of "check"/"it"/"check"), and a few others. --Deus Ex Machina 17:54, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

• I don't think we have an official policy on that. I think I might have done it on a sea item or two; or maybe those were items from a few crimbos back. I'm okay with "trivial/minor differences with multi-using go unspecified". A meaningful difference, like with red balloons, is worth including. --Flargen 18:00, 22 June 2010 (UTC)