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Deusovi

9:00 PM

...?

Rubio

Rubio defending: M

Deusovi

hm, I'm sure it'll be obvious when we see some letters I guess

anonymous2

Speed round means play fast, or are the rules different?

Deusovi

play fast

anonymous2

1. Broom for washing

Sconibulus

9:00 PM

2: <-

Contact 1

1: It's not a MOP

Yep

2: It's not ME ?

2: yep

3: Mindy's Partner

anonymous2

9:01 PM

Got to run out for a bit, cuO

Contact 3

3: it's not MORK

3: yep

huh. we may not have enough people left for a particularly viable game

Deusovi

4: Amalgamate socially

Sconibulus

9:02 PM

5: One of the Hells

Rubio

4: It's not MINGLE

Deusovi

hm? don't see why you'd think MINGLE is one of the hells :P

(yeah that's right)

hehe

MINGLE is THE hell

fair point

9:03 PM

6: Only Swamp

Deusovi

7: State of being glue?

6: It's not MIRE ?

nope

not 7, 6 ;)

oh :P

I can't read apparently

Sconibulus

9:04 PM

6: I don't think so

Deusovi

(well, 7 is not MIRE anyway)

Rubio

Oh good, that narrows down my options appreciably

Sconibulus

8: Red Baron

Rubio

oh man

8: it's not pizza, it's not von richtofen, what the hell is his name

oh oooh

8: It's not MANFRED

Sconibulus

8: right

Rubio

9:07 PM

now I want pizza :)

Deusovi

9: For me, it's under "The S"

Rubio

"The Z" and "The X". ;)

Sconibulus

I went to do Der Rote Kamptfligger but I don't think I can spell it

contact 9

Rubio

pass 9, no idea

Sconibulus

9: midpoint?

Deusovi

9:09 PM

...no?

Rubio

oh. that was good though

ffao

Mithrandir

Deusovi

ffao

Rubio always passes too fast when I know it

Rubio

You don't think there's strategy involved? hehe

but why is Mithrandir under "The S"?

ffao

9:10 PM

The Sphinx's Lair

He didn't type it out fully for reasons

yep

ahh

Oh. hehe

I was going with the S being the middle letter of your name

Deusovi

why "under" though?

Rubio

9:11 PM

Very clever, that one is. Devious, you might even say.

Deusovi

and then why the quotes?

All parts of my "weird" clues have reasoning behind them.

(Usually that reasoning is me attempting to be clever.)

Rubio

s/attempting/succeeding/

anonymous2

contact 6

Rubio

I think the "usually" covers you nicely.

Pass on 6

ffao

one can attempt and succeed, of course

anonymous2

9:12 PM

Marsh?

Sconibulus

6: Nope, I was trying for a MERE double definition

Rubio

oh geez.

Deusovi

never heard "mere" --> "swamp"

Rubio

Mere is more lake than swamp, no?

anonymous2

@Sconibulus Oh dear. So sorry. :(

Sconibulus

9:13 PM

Is it? I thought it was a bog-ish lagoon?

anonymous2

@Deusovi I've heard it in old books, but tbh, didn't know it was a swamp.

Sconibulus

I might have been misreading whatever books I read it in

Deusovi

10: Swam incorrectly

Rubio

drowned?

anonymous2

@Sconibulus Okay, according to wikipedia, it's a lake that is broad in relation to its depth.

Rubio

9:14 PM

hehe

oh man

Deusovi

hm?

Rubio

10: It's not MAWS

Deusovi

nope

(though that also sounds like something I'd do)

Rubio

that's exactly something you'd do

anonymous2

1. Rohirrim, the Riders of the ___

Rubio

9:17 PM

1: It's not MARCH

ffao

2: Elements of the Farey sequence

anonymous2

@Rubio Nope.

Sconibulus

6: Nimue's Teacher

Rubio

oh MARK

1: MARK?

anonymous2

@Rubio Yep.

Rubio

9:18 PM

wow.

Deusovi

no idea what that is

Rubio

I can't believe I got that wrong :)

Deusovi

looks like "Mirror" backwards and made fantasy-ish by adding extra letters

Rubio

6: As a blind guess, MUSE

anonymous2

@Deusovi Something from the Lord of the Rings

9:18 PM

6: nope

...Contact 6, maybe?

pass 6

MENTOR

nope, 6: MERLIN

9:19 PM

ah :/

(also, nice strategy, Rubio :P )

Rubio

thank goodness. I thought I had forgotten that again for a second

(the irony here is, I am actually wanting to lose, I have to go in about 8 minutes)

Deusovi

come on, you all should be able to get 10 or 7

anonymous2

1. Fresh Linux distro

Deusovi

(not Rubio, though. you shouldn't, so don't try :P )

Rubio

1: it's not MINT

Sconibulus

9:20 PM

3: High Queen of Fillory

anonymous2

@Rubio Yep

Sconibulus

4: Redwall's The Warrior

Deusovi

so many fantasy references (?)

Sconibulus

usually they get gobbled pretty quickly, sorry

Deusovi

...yeah, by Gareth

Rubio

9:23 PM

anonymous2

Extremely tentative contact on 2.

Rubio

I read a lot. He makes me look illiterate

happy to pass on 2, I have no idea whatsoever

anonymous2

Mathematical values?

Deusovi

...

ffao

nah, mediant fractions

anonymous2

9:24 PM

Argh.

Deusovi

ah, I never would've gotten it

(but I don't see why "mathematical values" would be a natural answer - the clues are made to be gettable)

anonymous2

@ffao I do remember it had something to do with fractions now you mention it.

Rubio

ditto³

ffao

I can pump out math references but not many will get them -- I guess Scon feels the same about his fantasy clues :)

Rubio

this isn't turning out to be much of a speed round, lol

Sconibulus

9:25 PM

6: Glacial Ridge

Deusovi

I'll typically get them

but not that one, apparently

anonymous2

@Deusovi Ah, I just did a college mathematics course this year, and I seemed to remember seeing it.

Rubio

6: I think MORRAINE is a thing?

Sconibulus

only two of those are fantasy (sort of)

6: yep

anonymous2

So it was kind of a random guess that it was a series of numbers or something.

Deusovi

9:26 PM

I don't know any times where "series" is used for non-number things

hm, I guess Taylor series

Sconibulus

8: Common Projection

Contact 8

2. Spider forest

contact 2

8: It's not MERCATOR

2: It's not MIRKWOOD?

Sconibulus

9:28 PM

8: yes

anonymous2

@Rubio 2: yep

Rubio

welp. unfortunately I'm out of time.

Deusovi

Rubio

Rubio defending: M A

you have like, 2 minutes to beat me, go

Deusovi

14: Force

anonymous2

9:29 PM

2. Male person

14: not MA

yep

2: not MAN

contact 2 and 14

2 yep

9:29 PM

10 lives

Sconibulus

3-5 all live

anonymous2

1. Little ball game

ffao

2: Mercator object

Sconibulus

contact 1

contact 2

Rubio

2: its not MAP

ffao

9:30 PM

2: yep

Rubio

ummm. dunno on 1, PASS

1: MARBLES

oh derp

YES

Rubio defending: M A W

Deusovi

9:31 PM

15: That

Sconibulus

3 was MARGO, 4 was MARTIN, 5 was MALBOLGE

Rubio

15: Yes, my word is MAW. :)

yay, @Deusovi is up next

have fun all, gotta fly!

Sconibulus

...you guessed MAWS earlier?

Deusovi

too tired to defend right now, sorry

anonymous2

@Deusovi Braindead?

Rubio

9:32 PM

(speed round, the words are so short I insist they be exact. and anyway MAWS wasn't the answer)

anonymous2

(I learned a word today...) :)

Deusovi

my "swam incorrectly" clue was supposed to be MARS (swamp incorrectly --> MARSH)

Rubio

oh man. that's indirect. hehe

Deusovi

it was right after the guess of MARSH

ffao

god, deusovi clues are too next level for me

Gareth McCaughan

9:47 PM

so if Deusovi isn't up to defending, do we have enough people for another game?

Sconibulus

I need to head out pretty soon

ffao

here in and out, but I'm not very active anyway

Gareth McCaughan

this isn't looking very practical, then. Rubio is gone, Deusovi is quite reasonably knackered, Sconibulus is going soon, ffao is intermittent...

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