BBP - 11-3-2009 at 22:29
So I'm trying to preserve some of the glorious Sierra Forum data. Among this is the King's Quest 7 Tombstone Lymericks which I adore.
I'll post them all here:
A werewolf named Thaddeus Scabies
tried to steal a poor farmer's three babies.
As he crept through the house
he was nibbed by a mouse
who was mad, and the wolf died of rabies.
Marjorie, fragile and pale,
always wore a voluminous veil.
When her yards of black crape
caught the wind like a cape
Poor Marjie blew off in the gale.
A monk known as Brother Bob Tweet
Gave up eating all grains and all meat
He next gave up fruit
and veggies to boot
And he died a mere beanstalk with feet.
A paranoid fellow named Ed
thought monsters lived under his bed.
As he quailed in the dark
his dog gave a loud bark
and Ed leaped from the window in dread.
The jumpy dame Celia Natz
had a terrible fear of black cats
She saw one in the night
jumped 10 feet in fright
and was carried away by large bats.
The debonaire Archduke of Drake
was always a bit of a rake.
He chased a maid through the grass
but when he caught the lass
she dropkicked him into the lake.
Count Cranky, a nasty old goat,
slipped and got himself drowned in the moat.
His family cheered,
his squire disappeared
and even his dog seemed to gloat.
A mystic called Musefar White
Had a bed made of nails sharp and bright.
He was taking a nap
when into his lap
Jumped an elephant. Yech! What a sight!
The mad lady Madeline Fair
grew convinced that she was a spring hare
On hands and on knees
She bounced through the trees
'Till the day she ran into a bear
Here's the body of Benjamin Crabby
who in life was incredibly grabby
Don't stand on his grave
For his corpse can't behave
Old Benjie might come up and nab ye.
The daredevil Morrigan Weg
Smoked his pipe on a gunpowder keg
They found his head on a bridge,
his arm near the ridge,
but no-one could find his left leg.
Here lies Marigold Gossum
who grew a carnivorous blossom.
She fell into the weed
And it ate her with greed
one day when she tripped on a possum .
Here lies the corpse of Fats Woad
He ate till he bulged like a toad One day he bought twenty
pies for a penny
the 20th made him explode.
The sorrowful Marjorie Pratt liked to wail on the cliffs with her cat
One night - such a pity-
She tripped on her kitty
And fell off the cliff with a splat.
The strange author Phinneas Smite
Liked to lurk in the shadows at night
He'd write hideous tales
Of green monsters with scales
And one day he just died of fright.
BBP - 11-3-2009 at 22:30
scallopino - 12-3-2009 at 10:35
Nice! Such unlucky folks though. My favourites are:
The mad lady Madeline Fair
grew convinced that she was a spring hare
On hands and on knees
She bounced through the trees
'Till the day she ran into a bear
AND
Here's the body of Benjamin Crabby
who in life was incredibly grabby
Don't stand on his grave
For his corpse can't behave
Old Benjie might come up and nab ye.
BBP - 12-3-2009 at 13:25
The bottom one is actually a clue. If you step on the grave of Benjamin Crabby, he'll actually reach out and grab you, killing you.
It's illustrated here, at 3:40:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLgY9vtgh1M
scallopino - 13-3-2009 at 08:56
"That guy is bad news!"
BBP - 13-3-2009 at 11:50
Oh he is! He scares the crap out of me! You see, he can come out the ground any time, and that's really nervewrecking. Not to mention the fact
that your protagonist (either one of them, KQ7 has two) walks veeeery slowly, so getting off-screen when he pops up is pretty hard.
scallopino - 15-3-2009 at 14:17
I can imagine. And he can jump so high! And your protagonist seems so very naive.
BBP - 15-3-2009 at 15:18
Yeah, she's a little eightteen-year old girl... she's been kidnapped and changed into a troll, but at the point where you're in Ooga
Booga land you're already turned back into a lady. The other protagonist is her mother, who is also very annoying at times.