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Hard name to remember, right? She was an Italian neurologist and the longest-living Nobel prize winner (died yesterday at 102). She discovered nerve growth factor and epidermal growth factor. When she was hiding from Nazis, she cooked and ate leftovers from her experiments on chicken embryos in...

Happy new year. Well, not yet. Not for me, anyway. It's 2013 somewhere, though.

Part fungus and part flesh, cave squigs are almost all teeth, easily able to take a man's leg off with a single bite. The goblins that live in the caves and tunnels under the Worlds Edge Mountains hunt wild squigs. When trained (and even when they're not), the squigs are used as guard dogs or...

Merry Christmas.

Carrow cannot identify the symbols. Kelgar examines them over Dorgath's shoulder... "Well, they're not elven and they don't look like the chaos sigils we saw earlier or anything like what the necromancer was using. I'm not a wizard, but I think this is not human magic at all. Perhaps monsters...

Once the party cross over to the other side of the corridor, Dorgath opens the door, revealing another room. Guttering candles bathe this room with an eerie glow, their light glancing off the magic sigils and arcane symbols painted on the floor. The room stinks with an overwhelming stench of...

Other than dead bats and the stone dwarf and goblins, the room seems to be bare.

-Kelgar blesses Carrow with Vanquish. Carrow gets an extra attack this turn. -Carrow almost shoots his own eye out. That's why his mother didn't want him to have a bow as a child? -Carrow tries again, successfully plinking a bat. Or is it plinking an arrow into a bat? Whatever. A bat dies...

Dorgath looks to see if anything in the room might have made the sound Carrow heard. It was probably the giant bats that are now attacking... -A giant bat ambushes Dorgath. The dwarf's armor shields him from the beast's claws. -A giant bat ambushes Throg, but passes over his head. -A giant bat...

Now that I think about it, the Final Fantasy games probably do show the sun exploding or something like that, but come on, that's silly. The sun isn't big enough to go supernova. Everyone knows that. Also, how could anyone use it more than once? Do you reassemble the sun after using the spell so...

Dorgath swings the door open to reveal a bizarre tableau, frozen in stone, showing a dwarven warrior holding aloft a huge axe as if to strike at some ferocious beast. Two goblins running for the door are frozen where they stand.

Sophia casts Super Nova on the steel toad. Ward attempts to distract and confuse the steel toad by reminding it that cottonmouths are natural predators of toads.

Kelgar complies. "Well, I don't hear anything behind this one."

Carrow detects a faint sound of some sort of movement behind the door. He cannot identify the sound, as it's rather quiet... Throg gains +2 Loitering points.

Sophia casts Pale Horse on the steel toad, blasting it with a spell that will surely have an effect, unlike everything else so far... Ward tosses a cotton ball into the steel toad's mouth in an effort to cause the beast to choke to death by lodging a foreign body in its airway. Also, if...

That would be the northern one (the one "straight ahead" from where Throg opened up the secret door). Well, technically, you arrived on this level of the dungeon through a magical gateway and you can't be sure which direction corresponds to which compass direction, but there's not going to be a...

Dorgath finds that the locked door seems to be trapped. He is unable to get a good look at the mechanism and does not know how to disarm the trap.

Probably the same guy that worked on Halo. There are actually two Stephen Bahls that would always come up on search engines ahead of me ever since I started searching for my own name in like 1999, and he was always the first one. The other was a college basketball player, but I think I've mostly...

The door swings open easily, causing warm, fetid air to swirl out into the tunnel, bringing with it a fine layer of dust. There are three doors in this corridor: one straight ahead, one to the right, and one to the left. The door straight ahead of you is bound in bronze and studded with iron...

Dorgath seems to be taking even longer this time. Throg and Kelgar search fruitlessly while Dorgath disappears to the east. Throg eventually finds that part of the wall seems to be denser than the rest of the wall. He tries to push against it from different directions and suddenly, the section...