some orctown follow-up bits, fix Bad fruit #0 and some minor tuning

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@@ -4089,6 +4089,13 @@ acolyte
there may well be wonderful universes above us where reason is
utterly unreasonable?"
[ The Innocence of Father Brown, by G.K. Chesterton ]
paddle cactus
Opuntia, commonly called prickly pear, is a genus in the cactus
family, Cactaceae. Prickly pears are also known as tuna (fruit),
sabra, nopal (paddle, plural nopales) from the Nahuatl word
nopalli for the pads, or nostle, from the Nahuatl word nochtli
for the fruit; or paddle cactus.
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prisoner
Where am I?
In the Village.
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conceal it; and therein am I constant to my profession.
[ Autolycus the Rogue, from The Winter's Tale by
William Shakespeare ]
root
dwarven root
But when they were cooked these roots proved good to eat,
somewhat like bread; and the outlaws were glad of them, for
they had long lacked bread save when they could steal it.
"Wild Elves know them not; Grey-elves have not found them;
the proud ones from over the Sea are too proud to delve,"
said Mim.
"What is their name?" said Turin. Mim looked at him sidelong.
"They have no name, save in the Dwarf-tongue, which we do not
teach," he said. "And we not teach Men to find them, for Men
are greedy and thriftless, and would not spare till all the
plants had perished; whereas now they pass them by as they go
blundering in the wild. No more will you learn of me; but you
may have enough of my bounty, as long as you speak fair and
do not spy or steal." Then again he laughed in his throat.
"They are of great worth." he said. "More than gold in the
hungry winter, for they may be hoarded like the nuts of a
squirrel, and already we were building our store from the
first that are ripe."
[ Unfinished Tales, Part 1, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]
roshi
Roshi is a Japanese word, common in Zen Buddhism, meaning "old"
(ro) and "teacher" (shi). Roshi can be used as a term of