Nick, you know the Old War will only end when one side is gone. This is your chance to get the jump on your enemies by exploiting the lost secrets that they, too, are hunting for, and will eventually find one way or another, whether you try to destroy the information here or not. This is your only chance to gain enough power to protect yourself. The only way to stave off defeat at the hands of the Great Evil is to become the Great Evil. Everybody knows that. You figure as long as you look like Galadriel you should puss out like her, too? She lost. The elves all had to sail west to spend eternity sitting in front of the TV watching Lawrence Welk while everybody else was busy forgetting they ever existed. Grab those drums.
So THAT’S why that Laundry RPG supplement made that ‘socks for the socks dog’ joke. It’s been driving me… well, not nuts; but I knew that there was a reference there.
Considering that the humans will just see his mechanical body, and the transgenics will just see his human brain, I’d say Nick’s only chance for survival is stopping the New War before it begins.
I suspect that the Whimsybots might find watching the movies to be kind of creepy, actually. All about adventures they never had, voiced by other people (unless they WERE the voice actors), while they’ve been trapped in the Small World ride for sixty years…
Yes, but based on Nick’s reaction when Cunningham asked him if he’s going to grab it, I’m assuming he’s treating everything in there as being similar to the “forbidden treasure” (think Aladdin).
Well, yes, Nick probably is familiar with the WhimsyCorp version of Aladdin. In the original, or at least the Burton translation thereof, stuffing his pockets with random treasure worked out quite well for Aladdin. Had no real effect except A: annoying the Evil Wizard to the point where he stormed off in frustration and gave the kid a free shot at the princess and B: once he figured out what the stuff was worth, serving as said princess’s brideprice.
Always take the forbidden treasure. And eat the forbidden fruit – BOTH trees. If that’s not the moral of the story, you’re reading a bowdlerized version of the story, one meant for training obedient children. Fox that.
The moral of at least one story about the Firebird is “you can have the cool stuff, but you have to ask first instead of randomly grabbing other people’s things,” which seems fair enough and might be a helpful line of thought for Nick at this moment.
While I suspect you might be right in general, I feel I should point out that this room was presumably built by someone who made his living selling bowdlerized versions of stories meant for children. It’s entirely possible that he trapped everything save for the one bit of info. or has a security system for that. Or something.
Everything they need to know, all collected in one place.
If my knowledge of adventure tropes is anything to go by, somebody is going to get a little to free with matches before this is done, leaving only one cryptic manuscript to guide them. Or in this case, one memory drum.
Pig’s got fingers, pig’s got thumbs
Dum ditty dum ditty dum dum dum
Nick know better than to beat ‘tashchio’s drum
Dum ditty dum ditty dum dum dum
Nick’s recall stories that pig can’t hum
Dum ditty dum ditty dum dum dum
At the plot thicken, Jeffery will need more rum
Dum ditty dum ditty dum dum dum
From the children’s book, Rings on Fingers, Rings on Thumbs. Sorry if I’ve just ruined your childhood. Again.
Back when I still liked the movies Disney produced, I really really wanted them to do an adaptation of the old Firebird story. I guess they sorta got there with the excerpt from Stravinsky’s “Firebird” in Fantasia 2000…
What, with legs longer than the rest of the body and head together, and a waist too small for even a drone body to function with? Better to have Nick as done by Shaenon, maybe with color added.
I blame memory repression.
Nick, you know the Old War will only end when one side is gone. This is your chance to get the jump on your enemies by exploiting the lost secrets that they, too, are hunting for, and will eventually find one way or another, whether you try to destroy the information here or not. This is your only chance to gain enough power to protect yourself. The only way to stave off defeat at the hands of the Great Evil is to become the Great Evil. Everybody knows that. You figure as long as you look like Galadriel you should puss out like her, too? She lost. The elves all had to sail west to spend eternity sitting in front of the TV watching Lawrence Welk while everybody else was busy forgetting they ever existed. Grab those drums.
Sorry, Lovecraft’s next door.
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD
So THAT’S why that Laundry RPG supplement made that ‘socks for the socks dog’ joke. It’s been driving me… well, not nuts; but I knew that there was a reference there.
“WERNSTROM!!!”
Considering that the humans will just see his mechanical body, and the transgenics will just see his human brain, I’d say Nick’s only chance for survival is stopping the New War before it begins.
…You *may* have misunderstood what traveling West meant for the Elves.
If you cannot hold up your morals in the dark, they aren’t really there at all.
I suspect that the Whimsybots might find watching the movies to be kind of creepy, actually. All about adventures they never had, voiced by other people (unless they WERE the voice actors), while they’ve been trapped in the Small World ride for sixty years…
If I don’t get a Princess Nick Sunday wallpaper sometime, I will literally die. I need more of Violet Bee drone in a dress.
Shaenon! Pretty please? Pretty Princess Nick please?
Huh. NOW I understand why Nick was not affected by Cunningham when he entered the Star Chamber. I still have no idea why Tip wasn’t, though.
Tip is a far too manly bisexual transvestite to be defeated by mere cuteness.
What do you mean? He just got desensitized watching all whimsy movies over and over again?
Or he was braced for it already.
The bigger question is, why did WhimsyCorp allow the presence of a creation too cute for humans to handle in one of its movies?
Easy. The grain of the movie tones down the cuteness to manageable levels. As for the humans that were actors, well… They were specially trained.
Isn’t Moustachio missing a memory drum? Like, the one for the Old War?
Yes, but based on Nick’s reaction when Cunningham asked him if he’s going to grab it, I’m assuming he’s treating everything in there as being similar to the “forbidden treasure” (think Aladdin).
Well, yes, Nick probably is familiar with the WhimsyCorp version of Aladdin. In the original, or at least the Burton translation thereof, stuffing his pockets with random treasure worked out quite well for Aladdin. Had no real effect except A: annoying the Evil Wizard to the point where he stormed off in frustration and gave the kid a free shot at the princess and B: once he figured out what the stuff was worth, serving as said princess’s brideprice.
Always take the forbidden treasure. And eat the forbidden fruit – BOTH trees. If that’s not the moral of the story, you’re reading a bowdlerized version of the story, one meant for training obedient children. Fox that.
The moral of at least one story about the Firebird is “you can have the cool stuff, but you have to ask first instead of randomly grabbing other people’s things,” which seems fair enough and might be a helpful line of thought for Nick at this moment.
While I suspect you might be right in general, I feel I should point out that this room was presumably built by someone who made his living selling bowdlerized versions of stories meant for children. It’s entirely possible that he trapped everything save for the one bit of info. or has a security system for that. Or something.
Everything they need to know, all collected in one place.
If my knowledge of adventure tropes is anything to go by, somebody is going to get a little to free with matches before this is done, leaving only one cryptic manuscript to guide them. Or in this case, one memory drum.
Pig’s got fingers, pig’s got thumbs
Dum ditty dum ditty dum dum dum
Nick know better than to beat ‘tashchio’s drum
Dum ditty dum ditty dum dum dum
Nick’s recall stories that pig can’t hum
Dum ditty dum ditty dum dum dum
At the plot thicken, Jeffery will need more rum
Dum ditty dum ditty dum dum dum
From the children’s book, Rings on Fingers, Rings on Thumbs. Sorry if I’ve just ruined your childhood. Again.
Back when I still liked the movies Disney produced, I really really wanted them to do an adaptation of the old Firebird story. I guess they sorta got there with the excerpt from Stravinsky’s “Firebird” in Fantasia 2000…
It’s weird, but, for some reason, it was this comic that really hit home for me just how much Nick loved the various Whimsy movies.
Also, I think a picture of Nick, done Disney princess style, might make a good wallpaper.
What, with legs longer than the rest of the body and head together, and a waist too small for even a drone body to function with? Better to have Nick as done by Shaenon, maybe with color added.
Yeah, I’m getting “Cave of Wonders” Aladdin flashbacks here. He better leave all that stuff and find the lamp :p
“FOX no!”
That’s the only time the filter has replaced one of Nick’s swear words with an even worse one.
Did you know that the German word for “fox” is “fuchs”.
I would say that explains a lot except that the German version of the f-word is the same as the English one except with an “i” instead of a “u”.
One of my favourite German words/phrases (Schmetterling!) is “Ficken Sie”. The incongruity is practically tasty.