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The {{w|Voynich manuscript}} is a very detailed book written in an unknown script, describing plants and recipes, most of which lack a real-world analogue. Over the past few decades, linguists and cryptographers have unsuccessfully attempted to decode the book. A cut out from the book is depicted in the first frame (real or similar). | The {{w|Voynich manuscript}} is a very detailed book written in an unknown script, describing plants and recipes, most of which lack a real-world analogue. Over the past few decades, linguists and cryptographers have unsuccessfully attempted to decode the book. A cut out from the book is depicted in the first frame (real or similar). | ||
− | {{w|Tabletop role-playing game|Tabletop role-playing games}} (such as {{w|Dungeons and Dragons}}) are fantasy games with extremely detailed descriptions of fantastical worlds. The invented language is probably a reference to {{w|The Lord of the Rings}} in which author {{w|J. R. R. Tolkien}} invented several | + | {{w|Tabletop role-playing game|Tabletop role-playing games}} (such as {{w|Dungeons and Dragons}}) are fantasy games with extremely detailed descriptions of fantastical worlds. The invented language is probably a reference to {{w|The Lord of the Rings}} in which author {{w|J. R. R. Tolkien}} invented several language of which the Grey-elvish or {{w|Sindarin}} language is the most famous. |
− | After being shown the manuscript for the first time by [[Megan]], [[Cueball]] argues that it should be obvious that it's just an ancient role-playing-game rulebook, since the human tendency to invent fantastical worlds must have also existed in the past | + | After being shown the manuscript for the first time by [[Megan]], [[Cueball]] argues that it should be obvious that it's just an ancient role-playing-game rulebook, since the human tendency to invent fantastical worlds must have also existed in the past. |
− | After concluding this, a shocked Cueball then asks in the title text how Megan got her hands on the original manuscript | + | In the last panel the book is used, 500 years ago, to play a game similar to Dungeons and Dragons. They speak in a somewhat outdated English. The reference to {{w|Aconitum|Wolfsbane}} could be a reference to another invented world as it is mentioned in the first book of the {{w|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone|Harry Potter}} series. |
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+ | After concluding this, a shocked Cueball then asks in the title text how Megan got her hands on the original manuscript (which is in the Yale University's ''{{w|Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library}}''). He then unexpectedly goes on to suggests the prosaic activity of playing {{w|Druid|Druids}} and {{w|Dicotyledon|Dicotyledons}}, assuming such a game could be defined by the manuscript. | ||
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+ | *In the third panel, [[Randall]] may have meant ''{{w|glossolalia}}'' rather than ''glossolatia''. | ||
+ | *The use of the pronoun "your" in the last frame is anachronistic, as in early modern English it was used as a plural pronoun, or as a singular pronoun only to a superior; the proper pronoun would be "thy": "Thy Druid doth lose two points." | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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− | :[Three people are standing around pawns and a die. One | + | :[Three people are standing around pawns and a die. One is holding a sheet of paper, another is holding a book, the third is holding a scythe. At the top of the panel there is a frame with the following text:] |
:500 Years Earlier: | :500 Years Earlier: | ||
− | :Person #1: Forsooth! I concoct an | + | :Person #1: Forsooth! I concoct an elixir of courage. |
:Person #2: Nae! The source booke sayeth that requires some wolfsbane! | :Person #2: Nae! The source booke sayeth that requires some wolfsbane! | ||
:Person #3: Your druid doth lose two points. | :Person #3: Your druid doth lose two points. | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Multiple Cueballs]] | [[Category:Multiple Cueballs]] | ||
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