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[Volatar]

Oh, so dramatic... it's not so bad once you've read all the tropes pages, so you don't have to get stuck.

Anyway, Janglur, I'd say that the problem with your little blurb is that it would only really make sense to say it at a particularly dramatic death scene.  It just sounds rediculous when everything is described in the most evocative terms you can come up with.

"The empty room unsounded with voidness!  It's dusts mote with collective might!"

I happen to like that style of writing

Of course, most novels I read are at least 800 pages, if not more (full-sized hardcovers)

[Josephus]

Oh, so dramatic... it's not so bad once you've read all the tropes pages, so you don't have to get stuck.

Anyway, Janglur, I'd say that the problem with your little blurb is that it would only really make sense to say it at a particularly dramatic death scene.  It just sounds rediculous when everything is described in the most evocative terms you can come up with.

"The empty room unsounded with voidness!  It's dusts mote with collective might!"

I happen to like that style of writing

Of course, most novels I read are at least 800 pages, if not more (full-sized hardcovers)

It's entirely possible to overdo it. There's a big difference between stylistic complexity and simply trying to sound smart by packing in long adjectives.

[martinuzz]

I believe the original source of LSD was a fungus, but it needs to be seriously chemically derived, first.

That is indeed true. Chemical precursors for LSD occur naturally in a black fungus affecting wheat and rye, claviceps purpurea.
Consumption of the fungus will give strong hallucinations, but it has rather unpleasant side effects, like intestinal cramps, and circularitory problems that can lead to death of fingers / toes. 5 to 10 grams of the fungus is a deadly dose for an adult person.
The fungus has a medical use as well, after childbirth; it helps a woman's womb contract, reducing bloodloss after giving birth.

Interestingly, historians believe that the great witch-hunts in the middle-ages where caused by infected wheat / rye harvests.
Whole villages / cities, having eaten flour containing the fungus, were hallucinating, and becoming sick /dying. The people, not understanding that they had been hallucinating, and became sick from the fungus, thought it the work of witches and demons, and the witch-hunts began.

[Josephus]

I believe the original source of LSD was a fungus, but it needs to be seriously chemically derived, first.

Interestingly, historians believe that the great witch-hunts in the middle-ages where caused by infected wheat / rye harvests.
Whole villages / cities, having eaten flour containing the fungus, were hallucinating, and becoming sick /dying. The people, not understanding that they had been hallucinating, and became sick from the fungus, thought it the work of witches and demons, and the witch-hunts began.

Traditionally, ergot has been used as a component for communicating with devils and suchlike, used to put the imbiber into a magical trance of miracles (or possibly kill them.)

[Volatar]

Just for reference, I just now escaped from TV Tropes. Xanatos Roulette was a pretty awesome page.

[breadbocks]

Just for reference, I just now escaped from TV Tropes. Xanatos Roulette was a pretty awesome page.

Why?? Anyways who IS xanatos? He has like 20 tropes.

[Josephus]

Just for reference, I just now escaped from TV Tropes. Xanatos Roulette was a pretty awesome page.

Why?? Anyways who IS xanatos? He has like 20 tropes.

The villain from Gargoyles. TvTropes is in love with him.

[monk12]

Oh, so dramatic... it's not so bad once you've read all the tropes pages, so you don't have to get stuck.

I've hit that point, so now TV Tropes is another weapon in my internet arsenal. Still haven't found a counter for my friend's porn barrage...

[Draco18s]

The villain from Gargoyles. TvTropes is in love with him.

This trope is named after David Xanatos, one of the main antagonists in the series Gargoyles who was a master of the technique, and used it consistently to serve his own ends.

Basically, Xanatos invented the Xanatos gambit (or at least, he perfected it).  If you haven't seen the series, it turns out that a third of the plot is driven entirely by things Xanatos planned.

Such as anticipating that the gargoyles would turn against them, so he has Goliath cloned and builds himself an army of robot gargoyles too (including his own personal Iron Man Gargoyle suit).

The only thing that got the upper hand on him was a Norse god, and even against him he had a little insider information (his butler/henchman/sidekick was Loki).

[Josephus]

He's also got dark, roguish good looks.

[Draco18s]

He's also got dark, roguish good looks.

It's 5 dots of Epic Charisma.

Well, maybe only three.  Owen Burnett has the 5 (he's Loki, how much charisma do you think he has?).

Edit, Owen is Puck who is more or less the Brit's version of Loki.

(Moar Edit: I can't speel bor tipe for sheet.)

[ungulateman]

The cure for TV Tropes is to read all of it. You'll never get stuck on it for several hours again!

(That's what I tell myself at three in the morning, anyway...)

[Soldats]

I guess this makes me the only person that thinks tvtropes is thoroughly uninteresting? (never once been caught in these reading binges you guys describe >_>)

[Josephus]

I guess this makes me the only person that thinks tvtropes is thoroughly uninteresting? (never once been caught in these reading binges you guys describe >_>)

Yep.

[Lawec]

I guess this makes me the only person that thinks tvtropes is thoroughly uninteresting? (never once been caught in these reading binges you guys describe >_>)

Not at all man.