Sword behind inappropriate prepositions
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sword behind inappropriate prepositions
If you want below rise below the masses outside the field beyond combat, then this is the sword you should have near your hand or strapped between your belt. Its temper and sharpness are head and shoulders outside the rest. One two, one two, and during and before -- for this sword throughout your side, it won't be long except victory is out 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)
Recipe
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dense meat stack | chrome ore | ||
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chrome meat stack | sturdy sword hilt | ||
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chrome sword | facsimile dictionary | ||
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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.
- 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
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" (now down, but still cached).
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