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An impeccant is akin to a gremlin, but is also a shape-shifter. Their favorite thing to do is to imitate a sock in a laundry basket, then slither out of the washing machine after you turn away, leaving you in perpetual wonderment as to where the missing sock went. Their second-favorite activity is to eel themselves into your car wherever you've parked it, turn the volume knob way up, then depart. Being shape-shifters gives them the ability to do these things impeccably: they are never caught, thus their name.
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Accidie are microscopic parasites which occasionally infest the bellows of accordions and eat holes in them, causing a total inability to produce sound. A subspecies infest banjoes and fill up the soundbox.
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and you call those parasites?  I actually like accordions and banjos...
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me too, Roger!
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Chorks are small and transparent but can be quite dangerous to one's career. Their prefered habitat is the dry hot air of conference rooms and lecture halls where they lurk waiting for their victims to become lethargic. When the muscles of the throat become sufficiently relaxed the chork will slip into the nasal passages cutting of air to the lungs and causing the victim to wake suddenly and noisily. Hence their name.
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A pluviose is a relatively harmless film noir spirit guide that conjures up stormy weather just for the emotional effect on its victims. It's the reason it always seems to rain at funerals and when you are lost driving on an unfamiliar country road at night. It will follow you around after having just hired Sam Spade (hired to find out why you lost your significant other) and is the same reason *prominent people seem to die "in threes".
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An empyrean is a nasty little worm which crawls inside its victim's ear, eats through the eardrum and into the brain, and settles down there, subjecting the victim to delusions. Many victims come to believe that they are Napolean Bonaparte, although some think they are Alexander the Great.
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Saulie is a single spirit, who has been wandering the earth since the time of hell's forging. He was hired by Lucifer himself to hang around graves sites after funerals and capture the spirits of the dead as they rise from the grave. This was a common practice back when people were often buried alive, but as he was promised payment of everlasting life Saulie remains and is most often found hanging around mob bosses trying to find out where the next "hit" will be.
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A saulie who hangs out with Carp hoping to convince himself that the grave site they occupy is populated by intelligent life forms.
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If you don't want to play the game as we have been you have your own playground for your own repetive contexts, carpathian. I'll even grant you the humor of your post here (dog dibrof anyone ever uses the letters c-a-r-p in a sentence again without garnishing your fodder), but the least you could do is use some of your verbal skills and come up with an imaginary monster... and, of course, leave us with a word from tsuwm's list so the next has an opportunity to continue.
Give peace a chance... for the rest of our lives, thank you.
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Give peace a chance
That's a very intelligent proposal, musick.
You won't have any trouble with me if I don't have any trouble with you.
I hope your high-mindedness will provide an example to others, but, more likely, they will shun you for it, as they have shunned other peace-makers in the past.
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You won't have any trouble with me if I don't have any trouble with you.
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...but, more likely, they will shun you for it,...
Thanks for your concern, but methinks your focus should not be drawn to me, nor anyone else besides yourself. It is only there where one can live as one wishes and also only there where the seeds of peace may grow. Please take this discussion into PM.
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I offer a new word for anyone who wishes:
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the scarper is an insidious (albeit silly) monster that likes to deposit its scat in pristine, open areas and then scamper away.
Zoilos (cf. zoilism)
edit: never mind; as you were.
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A zoilos is a sharp clawed creature that runs through the forest, blindly tearing at anything in its path. This practice developed as it is blind to all but light-dark contrasts and had once torn right through the side of a deer (oh, dear) on its way to the bathroom... only to end up peeing on the carcass. It doesn't really know what it is eating, but judges its success from the remants under its finger nails.
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Quaggys (sometimes called zeerocs) – huge, winged, zebra-like monsters with a rank smell, living in the swamps of the Limpopo. Kin to the centaur, the quaggy is the only horse-like creature that is a predator. The quaggy is narcissistic and likes to turn its prey into a copy of itself, so it will often be seen rolling across pale skinned animals in order to transfer its black striped pattern onto their skin. Squashed to death by this copying process, the prey is more readily digested.
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A distant relative of the phoenix, which is reborn from the ashes, the evil cousin emberlucock is a nasty fowl that propagates by creating fire in the most unlikely places. Last seen spawning young firestarters from a blazing birthing space near the South Pole.
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An antumbra is a wolf like creature that takes human form at the rise of each new moon. Its appearance(whether male or female) is irresistibly attractive once it has completed its change, and it then blends into the party nightlife and 'picks-up' its prey (always suggesting to go to their place for a drink). After the night of 'passion', morning sees the antumbra changing back into a wolf and devouring its 'mate'.
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not to be confused with the umbra..
who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
the umbra do; and after knowing all of that evil, and taking on newly discovered bits of evil to its own purposes, it is just about the vilest and most evil thing imaginable.
but I digress..
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This little monster is not so much dangerous as very, very, annoying. The cathect lives in churches, mosques, synagogues, and in fact anyplace people gather for spititual reasons. The cathect's sole purpose is to confuse the congregation. They causes hymnal pages to stick together so people find themselves singing a hymn different from what is being sung by others; the Cathect changes the ribbon place markers in prayer books, they curl up the edges of prayer rugs, they cause yalmulkas (sp?) to slip off the head or tilt rakishly over one eye. In general they are mischief makers whose sole purpose is to cause annoyance and distraction to people who seek quiet contemplation or connection with their higher power.
No description of the Cathect exists. They are known by their actions alone.
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No description of the Cathect exists.
Your research was exceptional until you ended with that, wow.
You just gave us the best description of a Cathect I've ever read. In fact, your description is so good, I feel like I actually know one.
BTW Cathects have been known to disturb all manner of sanctuaries, not just traditional religious sanctuaries. :)
A magiree is a festival, usually held once a year, where cultists, mostly self-described "mages", congregate, by invitation only, to burnish one another's haloes.
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the least you could do is use some of your verbal skills and come up with an imaginary monster... and, of course, leave us with a word from tsuwm's list so the next has an opportunity to continue.
-musick
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> description
a description of physical characteristics...
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A flatudelphian is (even though, from what I can tell, IS NOT IN TSUWMS WWFTD LIST gheez) an oracle in training, who sees from the future the image of a world and attempts to create it. Only one slight problem... it is all alot of hot flatulence clouding their judgement and was truly never going to happen in the first place.
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Actually ®, a magiree is related to the flatudelphian... by imagination only. It sits around all day cooking up enemies and schemes to rid itself of those imaginary monsters. In the end it finds out that it was truly its own worst enemy. I don't know if *anyone noticed, but I've tried to weave at least a hint of TSUWM'S WORD'S definition into my monster's creations.
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A little known sea monster that affects the mind of sailors causing them to shout "land ho!" and jump into the water, swimming vigorously to their death...
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It sits around all day cooking up enemies and schemes to rid itself of those imaginary monsters.
That's very good, musick.
If all its enemies were as good-humored as you are, its enemies really would be imaginary. :)
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A hip hopper who spends all his money on Phat Farm apparel.
So how do you find tsuwm's "collection", anyway? Is there a link somewhere?
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Foul! These are supposed to be MONSTERS!
Oh, wait, you DID say 'hip hopper' - sorry, missed that...
Check out second page, I think, for link to tsuwm's stuff.
To continue: shalloon
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http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/
The link.
Next (getting ahead of myself), one of my favorites:
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an invisible floating entity of possibility, the shalloon psychically influences those near it to explore what might be possible, leading to all sorts of new adventures, and sometimes catastrophe...
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Aglet: A small, worm-like creature which eats shoe strings and button threads. And, when a particularly bad infestation occurs, victims find that, not only won't their shoes stay on or their shirts stay buttoned, but their zippers jam shut. But we won't talk about why. Ewwwwwww.
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The link: http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/Thanks, Rainmaker. To make a link active, use square brackets around "url" at beginning and "/url" at end. Thus: http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftdIf we newcomers continue to share this sort of esoterica with one another, before long we'll be able to compete in these games on the same footing as the old-timers.
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If we newcomers continue to share this sort of esoterica with one another, before long we'll be able to compete in these games on the same footing as the old-timers.
It's not nice to fool mother/father nature (aka. rainmaker).
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A voussoir is shape shifter whose attacks are experienced most often in large cities. It searches the surface of tall buildings for loose stucco, terra-cotta or other tile pieces and times their fall onto unsuspecting passer-by's. When it can't find any loose building materials it will often take the form of a pigeon and hone its skills at poop-bombing.
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passer-bys? 
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Of likely interest to the real newcomers
Dear ASp:
I consider myself a 'newcomer' because when I am not being shunned by Carp, I am being insulted by Carp.
I am not complaining, mind you. On the contrary, I bear this distinction with pride, as a badge of honor.
But there are practical consequences. For instance, I must look to newcomers for polite assistance or find the information for myself.
However, I do appreciate learning that Maverick thought enough about newcomers to post a link which would enable newcomers to join the game.
Too often the Carp have a Carpal-centric view of the universe.
In my opinion, which is obviously heretical in this company, it would be far healthier, and far more representative of the real world, to have a 5:1 ratio of newcomers to Carp, than the present flat-earth ratio of 5:1 in favor of Carp.
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I new I'd git it from sum1 but me didn't tink it wood be yew, eta. It wuz eether dat or "passers-by" witch just dozen't sound wright two me. EDIT : ...or find the information for myself. Which, in this case, would require actually reading/participating with the thread at hand. I'll be sure to post the intended directions to/of this thread more often in the future.
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I'll be sure to post the intended directions to/of this thread more often in the future.
That would certainly be considerate, musick. Thank you.
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Now can we get back to the game?!?
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The game is newly afoot...
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