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Occam's 9mm (lemmy.world)
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[–] VagueAnodyneComments@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 3 days ago

story is The Alchemist

full text at hplovecraft.com

[–] Walican132@lemmy.today 45 points 4 days ago

Stab is an effective spell

[–] DeusUmbra@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Best part, one of the family members was killed with a big rock. Just literally dropped a rock on the guy.

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Chuck Wizard casts Rock Throw.

It’s super effective!

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

"I threw a rock at him! It was a big rock."

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

Almost got 'im.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Cast Iron! That's not a spell, it's the kind of pan I'm going to bash your head in with.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

ahh the famous tumblr (probably) post of a barbarian with a pan who yells "i cast iron!" every time they attack

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 3 days ago

Knowing Tumblr, they would also be pan-sexual, as in only attracted to their special clobberin' pan

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 20 points 3 days ago

So according to weekeepeedeea lovecraft was 17 or 18 when he wrote this which completely checks out.

[–] PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I cast...

TESTICULAR TORSION!

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

Give em the ol dick twist!

[–] phase@lemmy.8th.world 7 points 3 days ago

The sorcerer is named Charles le Sorcier (Charles the Sorcerer) and it is his father who has been killed, named Michel Mauvais, Michel Bad.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago

“I cast circle of truth through my spell focus, a canister of gasoline”

[–] Lxrduy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 days ago

Also a great song by blue öyster cult about the same story, "the alchemist"

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 days ago

Fighter/rogue who didn’t make charisma a dump stat.