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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CruelSummerLord" data-source="post: 3543512" data-attributes="member: 48692">Hmmm.  Mind if I run by you something that crossed my mind when I was reading through DL7 a while back?  This takes place in my "Alternate War of the Lance" storyline...Sturm, Laurana and company are in Foghaven, having just been attacked by Thunderbane and his giant and ogre cronies.  Theodenes, the gnome they were chasing, pulls out his oversized guisarme for battle, attaching it to one of his own inventions, an extended lattice-work arm with a hand attached on the end of it, that Theodenes manipulates with the with the control panel to swing the weapon, fighting while keeping his enemies too far away to hit him.  Attaching his guisarme to the weapon, Theodenes comes out swinging, skilfuly working his strange mechanical arm.  He slays one ogre, and then another, but then something happens and the strange contraption jams.  Theodenes struggles to get it to work, but it's stuck.  All of a sudden, an ogre grabs onto the device, ready to swing it and send the little gnome flying.  However, as the ogre begins to lift Theodenes off his feet, the emergency release finally works and the arm recoils, flinging the ogre into the air like a shot put, sending him flying some fifty feet into the air before crashing a fair distance away.  Needless to say, the ogre doesn't get up.  Is that how a gnome invention might work?  It starts out alright, but then misfires in an unintentionally helpful way?  Needless to say, once he returned to Mount Nevermind, Theodenes set back to work trying to modify his mechanical arm, ready to turn it into a monster-flinger!  Works just the gnomeflingers gnomes use to get from one level of Mount Nevermind to another, only this one works on monsters!  Would that work?</blockquote>

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