Talk:Stabonic scroll
Gives you 20 turns of Bone Homie - best part, the scroll isn't lost when used. Least I didn't lose it when I used it the first time. - AvangionQ / October 31st, 2010.
It's a once-per-day thing
Upon first use per day
You try to read the scroll. The language is beyond you, but the illustrations are detailed enough that you're able to perform at least part of the ritual. A grinning skull erupts from the ground near your feet and starts floating next to you.
You aquire an effect: Bone Homie (duration: 20 Adventures)
Upon further use:
You try to perform the ritual again, but nothing happens. Maybe by tomorrow your skull juice will have replenished itself enough for you to try agaain.
Seems to be a spelling error there. --Guywithpasta 05:10, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
So, what is stabonic an anagram of? I'm too thick to figure it out.--Tombot 13:30, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
- Lots of things --Fig bucket 13:39, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Maybe botanics? Argus 04:21, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
While not an anagram, the theme of this item may be a reference to Lovecraft's Pnakotic Manuscripts, also fragmentary writings from human prehistory that contain forbidden secrets. --Foxy Boxy 15:41, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
- Eh, a minor point about a wording change I just made. The book itself was written about (in the short story "Polaris") during a different stage in Lovecraft's works (his dream cycle). What builds up his basis for the Cthulhu mythos didn't really take center-stage for another 6 or 7 years after "Polaris"...so saying he created it for it is misleading.--Toffile 02:51, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Everyone seems to have gotten away from the Josh Andrew Koenig as Richard Milhous "Boner" Stabone (from Growing Pains) idea. He did just die earlier this year. Dead, "Boner", Stabone. (shrug) I know that I saw this mentioned someplace. Even if it does turn out to be an anagram, that's almost surely the "obvious" reference. Dram 17:23, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
I'm with Dram! None of the anagrams really make that much sense, but Stabonic being from Stabone and the effect created is basically a "friend" ....makes sense to me. --Rubian77 16:19, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
If someone can point out either a relevant anagram, or a quote from TPTB that indicates stabonic is an anagram, it can stay. Otherwise I am nuking that "reference." --Starwed 22:15, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
- I don't think this was intended to be an anagram, but it's a "NOT BASIC SCROLL". --Club (#66669) (Talk) 23:37, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
- It was dropped by Rene C Corman. And just about everything around him involves shuffling letters. It's not an unreasonable thing to consider. Pinning down the actual anagram is a bit tougher.--Toffile 02:46, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
- Isn't his name the only anagram associated with him? There was initially some speculation that he is really nagamar (who was apparently a necromancer), but that wasn't really borne out during the skeleton invasion event. And in combat he seemed to just use plain old necromantic attacks -- no word shifting magic at all. --Starwed 03:14, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
Removed the ref, in the absence of a single reasonable anagram. --Starwed 17:04, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
