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<blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 7160095" data-attributes="member: 6777052">&quot;Welcome home, gentlemen. We have splashdown,&quot; announced the Archmage.&quot;Er ... where?&quot; asked Moore The Lesser.&quot;What?&quot;&quot;According to my calculations, we are thousands of miles too far west in an undiscovered continent beyond Greenland. Did anyone allow for the earth's rotation while we were away?There was a moment's silence, before the Archmage rounded squarely on everybody at once and started handing out blame.&quot;Sir! Sir!&quot; called an urgent voice. It was Under Ling, the oriental dwarf, who was peering at some Argand Diagrams. &quot;We've twisted through 90° in the Complex Plane! We've been multiplied by the square root of minus one! We have become imaginary!&quot;&quot;Do I look imaginary to you?&quot; growled the Archmage. &quot;Well, do I?&quot;&quot;No, sir.&quot;&quot;Then stop trying to be clever. Haven't you got some logarithm tables to be varnishing?&quot;&quot;Yes, sir, sorry sir.&quot;&quot;Right!&quot;So saying, the Archmage stepped out of the tower and walked over to the outlook to check that the sea was correctly seaworthy. Except it wasn't. Where there should have been the sea was a lake and on the lake there were some small wooden boats bobbing up and down, crewed by what looked like large goldfish. A fish called Knoah has sensed that something cataclysmic had been about to happen and had built lifeboats. They were carp arks.<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing&nbsp; &nbsp; :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />[hr][/hr]&quot;Did you feel that?&quot; asked Foghorn. &quot;A sort of distant thud?&quot;&quot;I think the magic is coming back,&quot; said Sister Jericho. &quot;Only, it's not the same.&quot; As she said this, the two goblins started to recover their colour but at the same time they became less real. &quot;Everybody,&quot; she cried in alarm, &quot;We have to believe very hard in goblins!&quot; and she got out some pieces of paper and wrote Goblins exist on them very firmly in green ink.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BoldItalic, post: 7160095, member: 6777052"] [color="blue"]"Welcome home, gentlemen. We have splashdown," announced the Archmage. "Er ... where?" asked Moore The Lesser. "What?" "According to my calculations, we are thousands of miles too far west in an undiscovered continent beyond Greenland. Did anyone allow for the earth's rotation while we were away? There was a moment's silence, before the Archmage rounded squarely on everybody at once and started handing out blame. "Sir! Sir!" called an urgent voice. It was Under Ling, the oriental dwarf, who was peering at some Argand Diagrams. "We've twisted through 90° in the Complex Plane! We've been multiplied by the square root of minus one! We have become imaginary!" "Do I [i]look[/i] imaginary to you?" growled the Archmage. "Well, do I?" "No, sir." "Then stop trying to be clever. Haven't you got some logarithm tables to be varnishing?" "Yes, sir, sorry sir." "Right!" So saying, the Archmage stepped out of the tower and walked over to the outlook to check that the sea was correctly seaworthy. Except it wasn't. Where there should have been the sea was a lake and on the lake there were some small wooden boats bobbing up and down, crewed by what looked like large goldfish. A fish called Knoah has sensed that something cataclysmic had been about to happen and had built lifeboats. They were carp arks. :lol: [hr][/hr] "Did you feel that?" asked Foghorn. "A sort of distant thud?" "I think the magic is coming back," said Sister Jericho. "Only, it's not the same." As she said this, the two goblins started to recover their colour but at the same time they became less [i]real[/i]. "Everybody," she cried in alarm, "We have to believe very hard in goblins!" and she got out some pieces of paper and wrote [u][COLOR="#008000"]Goblins exist[/COLOR][/u] on them very firmly in green ink. [/color] [/QUOTE]

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