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According to Sir Pterry Pratchett, the use of multiple exclamation points is a sign of a diseased mind.

True, but the issue of “is this just an alibi” does need investigating.

Even if he was not awake until his body was relatively mature, he still would have needed to be educated, and that would take from several months to a few years—he wasn’t totally ignorant of humans and their society and technology when we saw him, after all.

What Larry the Bard needs to do now is to determine whether the Guard actually is sick, or just faking it as an alibi. Given that Ellen has just established that the Mayor has a Cleric whom he is willing to have heal the hired Adventurers, the possibility has been raised that said Cleric might be available to heal employee diseases in order to maintain work attendance—i.e. the Guard may have had the option of having his illness healed rather than missing work.

That scene may not have been prior to the creation of Damien—it is probable that Damien was not immediately formed as an adult and had to grow up, even if faster than humans do, so the scene could have been during Damien’s infancy before he turned on his creators. I can envision him having done so at puberty, at the age when boys take up the “nobody bosses me around” attitude.

Explorer is a “her”, therefore the “him” must be the Human.

A relevant question would be whether the bullets are lead-tipped or full-metal-jacket. Lead is soft and would expand more easily, while jacketed bullets would be harder and resist expansion.

Herbert or J. Edgar?

Eww that must have been a mold trap.

The sad part is that often the only candidates with a plausible chance of being elected are either the greater evil or the lesser evil. Therefore, a failure or refusal to select the lesser evil leads to the greater evil winning by default. As the famous quote goes, “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing”.

I’m mildly surprised that are no accommodations for dancing as well.

Besides, Putin’s real grave would have the text be in Russian.

For a muzzleloader with that many barrels, I would expect about five minutes to load them all one by one. What interests me is what sort of mechanism would let a single flint striker fire so many barrels simultaneously.

So, within spitting distance of million-to-one, and as we know, million-to-one shots happen nine times out of ten when dramatically appropriate.

Double-Oh-Meow.