[projectaon] Re: 17tdoi Erratum Report
- From: Sam Seaver <samseaver@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:13:41 -0500
Perhaps "splintering" instead of "shattering" ?
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:18 PM, David Davis <feline1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> yeah, it means “still disintegrating”, not “able to shatter something else”
>
> From: James Durrant
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 3:23 PM
> To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [projectaon] Re: 17tdoi Erratum Report
>
> I think it's important to have the full context:
>
> http://www.projectaon.org/en/xhtml/lw/17tdoi/sect290.htm
>
> Your final blow draws a hellish shriek from the skull of Deathlord
> Ixiataaga, so loud that it batters the walls and shakes the plinth on which
> you stand. The Deathstaff disintegrates in his skeletal hand and he topples
> backwards towards the fiery moat. Yet as he does so, his body crumbles into
> a plume of grey-green dust which is sucked away into the whirling maw of the
> Shadow Gate, together with the shattering remnants of the Deathstaff.
>
>
> From the summary below, I would have agreed with the change - but reading
> the context above, it looks like it could easily still be breaking apart.
>
> I'm not sure the change would improve the overall flavour of the text?
>
> James.
>
>> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:00:49 +0100
>> From: outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [projectaon] 17tdoi Erratum Report
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Sellic reported the following on the forum:
>>
>> <http://projectaon.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=gotopost&board=helpwanted&thread=706&post=38807>
>>
>> Book 17, section 290
>>
>> Quote:
>> The Deathstaff disintegrates in his skeletal hand ... together with the
>> shattering remnants of the Deathstaff.
>>
>> [shattered would better fit in the description. The remnants of
>> disintegration are not going to shatter anything anymore.]
>>
>> --
>> Simon Osborne
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