Grave-Hop-Past

[MJZ]

On their first day...  
   
  Caelte: Look, someone's grave..    Ameli: Ooh..    Caelte: *Inspects it* ...?    Ameli: Hmm! *Inspects it herself* ...Whatta? What the heck's "grave hop past?"    C: I have NO idea. So I left it alone. C'mon, let's go.    A: But.... but... what is it? It has to be something!    C: *Laughs* See what it is then!     A & C: *both hold their breath*    GOINK!    A & C: Ohhhhh! It's hop past grave!!      From that day on, neither of our brave adventurers feared inspecting any strange graves they came across (though they did keep a wary eye out for the grammar of gravediggers).

[Kindo]

Haha! Classic! I swear, I thought it was some kind of skipping game, meaning it would defile the gravesite or something.  

[Stephen_Zuckerman]

I think it means that you'll "grave-hop" past it. Which is what you do.

[lonnarin]

You can also cast a satisfyingly dark red curse spell on the gravestones of people you don't like.  It doesn't hurt their stats or anything, but it is still pretty fun.  I leave flowers and beer at the graves of allies.

[Talan Va'lash]

the reason for it is so if several people  happen to die around  you in a cooridor or something you don't end up trapped by their graves, you can just grave-hop past!

tehe

[Kindo]

Stephen_Zuckerman - 2/23/2007  9:31 PM  I think it means that you'll "grave-hop" past it. Which is what you do.

Talan Va'lash - 2/23/2007 11:32 PM the reason for it is so if several people happen to die around you in a cooridor or something you don't end up trapped by their graves, you can just grave-hop past!  tehe

 I see. Well, I figured out the function, but this makes it even more humiliating for us! Grave-hopping... I blame it on my Swedish mother tongue.  
  It's just hilarious to see how careful we were, when we first started playing, thinking choosing that option would bring us certain doom!
 
 

lonnarin - 2/23/2007 9:41 PM You can also cast a satisfyingly dark red curse spell on the gravestones of people you don't like. It doesn't hurt their stats or anything, but it is still pretty fun. I leave flowers and beer at the graves of allies.

  Oh, that's an interesting idea! I will have to keep that in mind...

[Witch Hunter]

Back when we were kids we used to play hop-over-the-dead-adventurers-grave-and-run-away-when-he-comes-back-angry... it was quite fun, if rather pointless.

[MJZ]

Kindo - 2/23/2007  1:07 PM    

Stephen_Zuckerman - 2/23/2007  9:31 PM  I think it means that you'll "grave-hop" past it. Which is what you do.

Talan Va'lash - 2/23/2007 11:32 PM the reason for it is so if several people happen to die around you in a cooridor or something you don't end up trapped by their graves, you can just grave-hop past!  tehe

 I see. Well, I figured out the function, but this makes it even more humiliating for us! Grave-hopping... I blame it on my Swedish mother tongue.  
  It's just hilarious to see how careful we were, when we first started playing, thinking choosing that option would bring us certain doom!
 
 

lonnarin - 2/23/2007 9:41 PM You can also cast a satisfyingly dark red curse spell on the gravestones of people you don't like. It doesn't hurt their stats or anything, but it is still pretty fun. I leave flowers and beer at the graves of allies.

   Oh, that's an interesting idea! I will have to keep that in mind...  
 

 
  LOL yes, pulling the ESL curtain over our heads.... (if the dash had been in there, could possibly have made the connection)  Flowers and beer! Now that's a farewell worth mentioning. If only it weren't so hard to brew.. >.< haha

[Stephen_Zuckerman]

Heh. I was unfortunate enough not to have learned a better language before the American langue shaped the way I thought about language...

I suddenly wish I knew enough french to say "I wish I'd learned french first" in french.

[MJZ]

Je souhaite que j'ai apprise la langue français d'abord?
I'm not sure if you can use "souhaiter" in that sense though... it's probably too much of a direct translation

[Witch Hunter]

I bet they teach you all kind of languages in Sweden...

[Stephen_Zuckerman]

They do, actually.

[MJZ]

I wouldn't know actually, I didn't live here in the schooling times! The bits of French I picked in ye olde county of Kanada.

And do you really shave with Occam's Razor?

[darkstorme]

Props to the Canadian Ex-pat! *grins*  As for the Grave Hop, you're all wrong.  Although the engine isn't sophisticated enough to show it, your characters do a complicated dance around the grave until they reach the other side (simplified to appearing on the other side of the grave.)  This is the Grave Hop.  It's a fairly morbid dance, invented one day when Erag was cleaning up the Hlint cemetary and a passing halfling bard, a follower of Shadon, decided to play a little prank, and cast Otto's Irresistable Dance on the hapless half-orc.

As the gravekeeper was bouncing around, the bard noticed that he had a strange sort of natural rhythm, and put together an impromptu melody to go with it, heavy on the first and third beats.  Some passing teenagers saw the cavorting form, and thought that Erag really had something.  They watched him until they learned the steps, and started their own dances around adjacent graves.  When the spell finally wore off and the halfling fled, Erag chased the teens away, but it was too late.  The Grave Hop had been born.  It spread like wildfire throughout Mistone, and even further, with cabin boys and girl on the trading ships.

As with any fad, it died away over the course of a year or so, but has experienced a recent revival in its original generation, now grown up and adventuring across the lands themselves.  When they see a grave, the temptation seizes them to relive their youth, albeit briefly, and up they go in a dance about it, just as before.  If Erag notices, he appears to pay no attention.. though the tightening of his hands about the handle of his shovel suggest he'd still like to find a certain Halfling bard...

[Stephen_Zuckerman]

MJZ - 2/25/2007  3:35 PM

And do you really shave with Occam's Razor?

I do. It doesn't get the hair, so much, but it helps with those pesky conundrums like "But is that red ball REALLY a red ball, or just an illusion put forth by aliens from planet Hasselhoff to deceive you into destroying the world using clown-feet?"

[MJZ]

Planet... Hasselhoff? *Shudders* That'll replace the whale in your nightmares.