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No, Dave, no! No no no song no.

And I said
No no no no spiders I do abhor
I'm tired of crushing them on the floor
Charlotte was a fluke and I need to nuke
it from orbit
you know, to be sure

DilyV wrote:I wonder what part of "Glyphs = good, Spider = bad" is hard for them to understand?

Everyone knows... NOTHING good comes of spiders...

Go with what you know Lily and get the funk outta dodge!!!

Spiders are kinda akin to vampires--they both drink their prey.

Of course, if Vampires are the Mosquitoes of the Wapsiverse, I wonder what the corresponding spider is called?

Wdot:

And then there was also Homer Simpson's Spiderpig . . .

DilyV wrote: Spiderman? Really? Worst. Superhero. Evah. LOL

Spider-Man was great back in the day when Lee and Ditko did him, when he was a nerd kid who never won who could become a super-confidant, ultra wiseacre, unbelievably GOOD superhero who could beat all odds. Talk about adolescent fantasies!

Marvel has spent the past 50 years living on that fantasy while screwing the character up beyond belief...

bmonk wrote:Of course, if Vampires are the Mosquitoes of the Wapsiverse, I wonder what the corresponding spider is called?

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I suspect that Lilly may have been "locked out" because the spider crystal replaces one of the glyphs.
Either that or the crystal provides a shortcut directly to Kathrine.

It's an asterisk that leads to a footnote"
*you must have this many legs to properly operate this device.

"cause if you don't, it's you own "*"!

Here's a guess: The missing glyph stone is like an internet browser's history - except instead of just showing recent places visited, it shows WHO visited them. If pressed, it very well could take our vamps straight to Kath - or, at least, the last place SHE visited.

kingklash wrote:It's an asterisk that leads to a footnote"
*you must have this many legs to properly operate this device.

"cause if you don't, it's you own "*"!

Ow. Oww. Icch. Nicely done!

As a reward for that pun, here's some impromptu wallpaper, thanks to Arthur's Clip Art and a bit of shell scripting.

Wdot wrote:No, Dave, no! No no no song no.

And I said
No no no no spiders I do abhor
I'm tired of crushing them on the floor
Charlotte was a fluke and I need to nuke
it from orbit
you know, to be sure

Heh. Hoyt Axton wrote "The No No Song", and offered it first to Commander Cody.

Cody's wife told him he was already regarded as some sort of drunk or doper after "Seeds and Stems Again" and "Lost in the Ozone" (which songs, if you're not familiar with them, you ought find on YouTube) and that would just make it worse. So he turned it down and Axton took it to Ringo.

And they made three million dollars with it.

If the spider is in the shape of a black widow, then the symbol could have been the skull&crossbones of it's day. A warning to touch not lest your favorite body parts suddenly fall off. At least keep away and, if you're not the right sort of being, don't use this gate. I have a feeling Lily is going to ignore that possibility and try the gate anyway. Thus the (perhaps explosive) Friday cliffhanger.

kingklash wrote:It's an asterisk that leads to a footnote"
*you must have this many legs to properly operate this device.

"cause if you don't, it's you own "*"!

Can I use this?

bmonk wrote:

kingklash wrote:It's an asterisk that leads to a footnote"
*you must have this many legs to properly operate this device.

"cause if you don't, it's you own "*"!

Can I use this?

OMG! I just felt the urge to vomit...and then spasticly rub my hands and check my computer desk. That was just WRONG!

Julie wrote:

bmonk wrote:

kingklash wrote:It's an asterisk that leads to a footnote"
*you must have this many legs to properly operate this device.

"cause if you don't, it's you own "*"!

Can I use this?

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OMG! I just felt the urge to vomit...and then spasticly rub my hands and check my computer desk. That was just WRONG!

Sorry, maybe I should have marked it NSFA? ("Not Safe For Arachnophobes")