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years by private owners and dealers too stupid to see what
it was under the skin.
[ The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett ]
floating eye
Floating eyes, not surprisingly, are large, floating eyeballs
which drift about the dungeon. Though not dangerous in and
of themselves, their power to paralyse those who gaze at
their large eye in combat is widely feared. Many are the
tales of those who struck a floating eye, were paralysed by
its mystic powers, and then nibbled to death by some other
creature that lurked around nearby.
fire trap
'Let him be for a while,' said Cohen. 'I reckon the fish
disagreed with him.'
'Don't see why,' said Truckle. 'I pulled him out before it'd
hardly chewed him. And he must've dried out nicely in that
corridor. You know, the one where the flames shot up out of
the floor unexpectedly.'
'I reckon our bard wasn't expecting flames to shoot out of
the floor unexpectedly,' said Cohen.
Truckle shrugged theatrically. '_Well_, if you're not going
to expect unexpected flames, what's the point of going
_anywhere_?'
[ The Last Hero, by Terry Pratchett ]
f* brand
One of a pair of legendary swords that possess the powers
of elemental flame and ice, and will grant these to whoever
is fortunate enough to wield them.
flesh golem
With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected
the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark
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which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight
black lips.
[ Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ]
flint*
An emerald is as green as grass;
A ruby red as blood;
A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;
A flint lies in the mud.
A diamond is a brilliant stone,
To catch the world's desire;
An opal holds a fiery spark;
But a flint holds fire.
[ Precious Stones, by Christina Giorgina Rossetti ]
floating eye
Floating eyes, not surprisingly, are large, floating eyeballs
which drift about the dungeon. Though not dangerous in and
of themselves, their power to paralyse those who gaze at
their large eye in combat is widely feared. Many are the
tales of those who struck a floating eye, were paralysed by
its mystic powers, and then nibbled to death by some other
creature that lurked around nearby.
*flute
With this thou canst do mighty deeds
And change men's passions for thy needs:
A man's despair with joy allay,
Turn bachelors old to lovers gay.
[ The Magic Flute, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ]
fog cloud
# also takes fog/vapor cloud
fog* cloud
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
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on silent haunches
and then moves on.
[ Fog, by Carl Sandburg ]
# includes "food detection" and "detect food", which might not be the best
*food*
The little girl stood on tip-toe and picked one of the nicest
and biggest lunch-boxes, and then she sat down upon the ground
and eagerly opened it. Inside she found, nicely wrapped in
white papers, a ham sandwich, a piece of sponge-cake, a pickle,
a slice of new cheese and an apple. Each thing had a separate
stem, and so had to be picked off the side of the box; but
Dorothy found them all to be delicious, and she ate every bit
of luncheon in the box before she had finished.
[ Ozma of Oz, by L. Frank Baum ]
fountain
Rest! This little Fountain runs
Thus for aye: -- It never stays
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escaped their suspicions.
[ Dracula, by Bram Stoker ]
# gas spore -- see *spore
gehenn*
*h?nnom
hell
"Place of Torment." The Valley of Hinnom, south-west of
Jerusalem, where Solomon, king of Israel, built "a high place",
or place of worship, for the gods Chemosh and Moloch. The
valley came to be regarded as a place of abomination because
some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch
there. In a later period it was made a refuse dump and
perpetual fires were maintained there to prevent pestilence.
Thus, in the New Testament, Gehenna became synonymous with hell.
[ Encyclopedia Mythica, ed. M.F. Lindemans ]
gelatinous cube
Despite its popularity (or perhaps because of it), the
gelatinous cube is also widely known as one of the sillier
role-playing monsters. It is something of a commentary on the
ubiquity of treasure-laden dungeons in the Dungeons & Dragons
universe, as the cube is a creature specifically adapted to a
dungeon ecosystem. 10 feet to the side, it travels through
standard 10-foot by 10-foot dungeon corridors, cleaning up
debris and redistributing treasure by excreting indigestible
metal items.
[ Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ]
*gem
gem or rock
The difference between false memories and true ones is the
same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the
most real, the most brilliant.
[ Salvador Dali ]
geryon
Geryon is an arch-devil sometimes called the Wild Beast,
attacking with his claws and poison sting. His ranking in