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[flame99]

Nothing for it now. Cast more of yourself into it. Disperse the energy. Try not to explode. Regret failing to eat your magically delicious Lucky Charms(TM) before attempting this.

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[Ozarck]

For no reason at all, and completely unrelated to our current status as "female best friend," Enjoy this Dilbert cartoon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uC1cHPBkI8

[itisnotlogical]

For no reason at all, and completely unrelated to our current status as "female best friend," Enjoy this Dilbert cartoon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uC1cHPBkI8

I actually really like Dilbert. I didn't know there were cartoons of it; thanks!

Nothing for it now. Cast more of yourself into it. Disperse the energy. Try not to explode. Regret failing to eat your magically delicious Lucky Charms(TM) before attempting this.

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There's nothing for it now; reaching back, you pull more of your energy into the spell, trying to burst the entire thing before your consciousness is destroyed. You imagine that this is what it must feel like to be inside a laundry machine or a crockpot; you're boiling hot, compressed from every direction. You think about magically delicious Lucky Charms(TM). You'll get that little green bastard some day, and his dehydrated marshmallow stew.

And then suddenly, it all stops. But you're not rushing back to your body. You're alive, you're just... not where you should be. You can move and look around in this Greenfield place, but you really should be getting back to your body... somehow. Without the current to take you back to your body, you need to find your own ride home, baby.

Meanwhile, our hero wakes up. He sees Edna and realizes that she is in a trance, but can't rouse her and becomes very worried. He figures that she probably has some books about this sort of trance at her place, but doesn't want to do anything wrong for fear of VAGUELY THREATENING CONSEQUENCES.

You now have control of our hero and Edna's disembodied mind.

[Ozarck]

There was a short-lived Dilbert cartoon series on tv something like fifteen years ago. It mostly regurgitated jokes from the comics (such as the one linked), but there were some additional stories as well, if memory serves.

That link led me to another, which led me to another, which ultimately led me to one of the great videos of history.
I present to you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJQEl5vcAo

I'll try to keep the derailments to a minimum, really.

[flame99]

Hero: Try to find anything that may be helpful against the grue/Zork menace in Edna's books, but don't do anything with them yet.
EDM: Look for a bus going back to somewhere-istan, where she and our hero live. Also, pray to the great Kellog for some magically delicious Lucky Charms(TM)

[Armok]

Ok, the magic was deflected by the microwave - likely either because of the Faraday cage in the walls, or the waveguide itself. Now if it's the Faraday cage we might be out of luck, since thats simply a powerful, well-used protection-against-invisible-things which might have acted as an unintentional sympathetic ward. (although this is useful to remember if we ever need to quarantine a small object!) However, if it was the wavegiud itself... with a bit of hope... you should be able to just "throw" yourself at any parabolic antenna pointed in the right direction and... what if you fall rate, could you simply get a ballistic trajectory home?

[itisnotlogical]

Ok, the magic was deflected by the microwave - likely either because of the Faraday cage in the walls, or the waveguide itself. Now if it's the Faraday cage we might be out of luck, since thats simply a powerful, well-used protection-against-invisible-things which might have acted as an unintentional sympathetic ward. (although this is useful to remember if we ever need to quarantine a small object!) However, if it was the wavegiud itself... with a bit of hope... you should be able to just "throw" yourself at any parabolic antenna pointed in the right direction and... what if you fall rate, could you simply get a ballistic trajectory home?

(Props- I was just thinking I'd throw that in since my wifi never works when the microwave is on, but you really turned it into something cool! +60 zorkmids and an all-expenses paid trip to Kyrgyzstan for you, great comrade!)

Edna:

You think about the microwave deflecting you earlier. Some kinds of antennas use microwaves, right? You find a radar dish at an angle to the direction you need to be going, then throw yourself at the center of the dish, hoping it'll carry you east- back to your body.

All at once, you're back in the general area of your house with a ringing headache. It's enough for you to find your way back to your wayward body though.

Nothing has changed since you left, except that Our Hero is gone.

Hero: Try to find anything that may be helpful against the grue/Zork menace in Edna's books, but don't do anything with them yet.
EDM: Look for a bus going back to somewhere-istan, where she and our hero live. Also, pray to the great Kellog for some magically delicious Lucky Charms(TM)

Hero:

Feeling uneasy about how you discovered Edna laying on top of you instead of her usual trance position, you decide to prop her up on the couch before you leave. You make it to Edna's house, and that is where you are now.

(Trying to keep events happening in a time-frame that makes sense, trying my hardest not to railroad you guys)

Edna:

You don't have to pray for Lucky Charms. You raid our hero's pantry and start eating delicious handfuls of the glorious mix right from the box.

Victory is sweet.

[flame99]

Hero: Commence the learning of Strange Magiks.
Edna: Flip out, begin searching for Hero.

[Ozarck]

Before we flip out, let's find out if our hero and Edna have cell phones on their persons. Edna could call Hero. Also, take some aspirin or something for that headache. Rinse it (and the magically delicious Lucky Charms(TM)) down with some milk, provided our hero keeps some on hand that isn't rancid.

If necessary, wash self with a rag on a stick, to scattered applause.

[Mr Space Cat]

If necessary, wash self with a rag on a stick, to scattered applause.

Make a metajoke about Half-Life 3 being late and its relation to the weight of one Gabe Newell.

Hero probably doesn't know what to look for at Edna's house, but we should probably look for something about moving consciousnesses around. Y'know, trances, lucid dreaming, astral projecting, that kinda hippy witchcraft. It could not only help us figure out what Edna's doing, but also provide info on the curse thing that old guy is using to control us as a Grue. Multitasking, baby!

[itisnotlogical]

Hero: Commence the learning of Strange Magiks.
Edna: Flip out, begin searching for Hero.

Hero:

You begin looking at the books of Strange Magiks, which you are almost certain was a terrible porn spoof from the 70's. In the first few minutes of searching, you learn some very interesting facts about the history of neo-paganism and discover several tabletop RPG rulebooks, but no dice on the magic.

Edna:

You try to flip out, but you're not really good at it. You kinda nudge a chair leg with the side of your foot and decide that's enough flipping out for one day.

Before we flip out, let's find out if our hero and Edna have cell phones on their persons. Edna could call Hero. Also, take some aspirin or something for that headache. Rinse it (and the magically delicious Lucky Charms(TM)) down with some milk, provided our hero keeps some on hand that isn't rancid.

If necessary, wash self with a rag on a stick, to scattered applause.

Being a strange mystical neo-hermit, you avoid technology like the plague, using only your weird and subtle witchcraft to naaaah I'm just kidding, you have a cell phone. It's not like you can magic yourself a pizza delivery and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, now is it?

You call Hero, who happily chirps that he is in ur hosue, reedin ur bookz. You feel highly ashamed of yourself for your enraged chair-kicking antics earlier.

Your headache has worn off since you re-entered your body, so you decide not to look in his medicine cabinet. Who knows what embarrassing male enhancement products he has in there?

Probably none, since he's single. But you still feel uncomfortable at the idea.

You do feel okay with borrowing his rag-on-a-stick though. You use it to scrub your hair a bit, before realizing that our hero has not washed his rag-on-a-stick in some time. EEEEEWWWWWW.

Make a metajoke about Half-Life 3 being late and its relation to the weight of one Gabe Newell.

Hero probably doesn't know what to look for at Edna's house, but we should probably look for something about moving consciousnesses around. Y'know, trances, lucid dreaming, astral projecting, that kinda hippy witchcraft. It could not only help us figure out what Edna's doing, but also provide info on the curse thing that old guy is using to control us as a Grue. Multitasking, baby!

Hero:

You try your best to look around for consciousness-related things, but since Edna is back there's not as much urgency. You do try to look for things about possession, but all you find is the remote eating spell. It details how to embed the spell into an object, but you don't have the proper understanding of Strange Majiks to derive any conclusions from this.

[Ozarck]

meet and discuss our findings - the salt, the grue-shape, Greenfield, Oregon. See if anything clicks as to the identity of the enemy.

[Armok]

(Yay, I contributed! ^_^)

Hmm, what'd happen if we opened the files on the disks in a HEX editor, and then used a dowsing rod across the screen while scrolling?

[Ozarck]

(Yay, I contributed! ^_^)

Hmm, what'd happen if we opened the files on the disks in a HEX editor, and then used a dowsing rod across the screen while scrolling?

That's what I just said!

What? It is!

You must have missed it because ... gremlins or something.

[flame99]

+1. Also, search for gremlins, both in the game and on the forums.