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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7170462" data-attributes="member: 29398">Approaching the Oasis of Pain, the party ...... found themselves up to their knees in sand, bogged down and overencumbered by the monstrous diamond Xabatha had enslaved them into collectively carrying and picking up a new level of exhaustion with every few passing steps."I'm exhausted!" moaned Tasha, who as the biggest and burliest of course had been stuck with carrying the heavy end."I'm exhausted!" moaned Ha!, who as the shortest was propping the diamond up from below and praying to every goddess she'd ever heard of that the rest of the party didn't drop it on her."I'm exhausted!" moaned Johnny, more to keep up appearances than anything else as he was, in fact, not carrying any of the diamond's weight even though he grunted and groaned just like everyone else."Myef mbrash kerd!" moaned visored Tippy, who as the de-facto leader had claimed the light end of the diamond but was having great difficulty seeing where he was going."Exhausted...exhausted...exhaust..." the mumbling Ikidunot seemed on the verge of passing out, but in fact he was deep in thought "...exhaust...exhaust...ex...  That's it!!!" he suddenly shouted.  "Exhaust!  It comes from...it comes from...fiddle, there's a book here somewhere..." and he dropped his corner of the diamond (Tippy, at the same end, was barely able to save Ha! from being squashed flat) and rummaged in his pack.  "Book...where's that book...a-HA!  Here it is!"And he quickly read through the relevant parts of Crombeen's Guide to the Internal Combustion Engine then muttered "I wish we had one of these"......</blockquote>

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