Sword behind inappropriate prepositions

sword behind inappropriate prepositions

If you want through rise behind the masses for the field past combat, then this is the sword you should have against your hand or strapped beyond your belt. Its temper and sharpness are head and shoulders at the rest. One two, one two, and on and between -- like this sword upon your side, it won't be long into victory is past your reach.

Type: weapon (2-handed sword)
Power: 130
Muscle Required: 45
Selling Price: 135 Meat.

Muscle +7
+5 Adventure(s) per day when equipped.

(In-game plural: swords above inappropriate prepositions)

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Item number: 1734
Description ID: 656480531
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Recipe

	dense meat stack	chrome ore
	chrome meat stack		sturdy sword hilt
	chrome sword			facsimile dictionary
	sword behind inappropriate prepositions

Notes

• This item must be equipped at rollover in order to earn the extra adventures.
• The item description deliberately avoids selecting the correct preposition in each location. The prepositions are, as the item name suggests, inappropriate, and randomly change whenever the description is read. If the appropriate prepositions were used, it would say:
  • If you want to rise above the masses on the field of combat, then this is the sword you should have in your hand or strapped to your belt. Its temper and sharpness are head and shoulders above the rest. One two, one two, and through and through -- with this sword on your side, it won't be long before victory is within your reach.
• The preposition in the item's name is also inappropriate: it should be "Sword of inappropriate prepositions".
• Prepositions in other combat messages (such as your hit messages, item and skill usages, familiar actions and even monster name) also become randomly inappropriate, as do prepositions in chat!
• Familiar names, however, are unaffected. If your familiar is named "from", it will still appear as such in combat.
• You can trick the word substitution in chat by adding a punctuation mark somewhere in the word. "before" could become "except", but "This is what the book is about." will always be "This is what the book is about.", the period, in this case, being the answer.
  • This may be due to the fact that ending a sentence with a preposition is considered gramatically incorrect and thus the sword sees no reason to change it.
• The effect does simple word substitution, and cannot distinguish usages of words that can be multiple different parts of speech. This is even visible in the item description:
  • In the phrase "If you want to rise", the word "to" is part of the infinitive "to rise".
  • In the phrase "before victory is in your reach," the word "before" is actually a conjunction.
• The prepositions are chosen from:
  • about
  • above
  • across
  • after
  • against
  • along
  • among
  • around
  • at
  • before
  • behind
  • below
  • beneath
  • beside
  • between
  • beyond
  • by
  • down
  • during
  • except
  • for
  • from
  • in
  • inside
  • into
  • like
  • near
  • of
  • off
  • on
  • onto
  • out
  • outside
  • over
  • past
  • through
  • throughout
  • to
  • under
  • up
  • upon
  • with
  • within
  • without

• The Toy space helmet seems to be immune to the power of the sword.
• Being Wanged suppresses the preposition changing effect.
• The sword does not appear to fire in private messages or K-mails.
• Post-fight familiar actions, such as fairy dancing, is also unaffected by the sword.

References

• "One, two! One, two! And through and through" is a line from the poem "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll.
• This could be based off the "Sword of Improper Grammar" mentioned in the Something Awful article "Dragon Fantasy Mystic Shadow Dungeon Horizon Event Online 7".
• Jick is well-known for his dislike of ending sentences with prepositions, as reflected by the 'fourth wall' rewording of many in-game descriptions to avoid this grammar error.

See Also

• Muscle Modifiers
• Extra Rollover Adventures

Collection

• 🥇: Baron Mind (#70341) - 250
• 🥈: Pastahead (#486552) - 179
• 🥉: Foryst (#678120) - 101
• #4: Jellyman (#337291), Snomans (#682325), Wee Mad Willie (#473919) - 100
• #7: singswithmoxie (#240981) - 97
• #8: Mistress of the Obvious (#845708) - 80
• #9: Ozark (#814426) - 69
• #10: SRO (#303371) - 66

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