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One of the squawking radio companion's messages when failing to block:
The radio at your side broadcasts some goes off on some sort of tangent, but you and your opponent are too busy fighting to notice.

Got that tangent back on track, thanks! Also, welcome to lucky page 13!
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Purchasing Twilight Devil's glasses:
The shopkeeper accepts your 5 silver stars for a pair of glasses. Frankly, with your jobs "benefits", it's a steal.

job's ?

Now with more apostrophe and the same amount of too real. Thanks!
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The pop-up description for the dragon pearl:
[the pearl from a dragon's head in Eastern Mythology? Or something weird.]

Also, the dictionary entry for "dark and gritty":
A relic of the Dark Age of Twilight, when heroes recovered from critical hits more slowly and had one extremely persistant reoccuring villain rather than the usual rogues gallery.
"persistent"

Fixed and, you know, added. Thanks!
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Whoops, missed one. I was editing the wiki for "dark and gritty" when my browser highlighted another typo.
A relic of the Dark Age of Twilight, when heroes recovered from critical hits more slowly and had one extremely persistent reoccuring villain rather than the usual rogues gallery.

According to my dictionary, that should be "recurring"

Both words, but with subtly different meanings and I'm... fairly sure I was using the wrong one. I have recurring problems with English that are reoccuring. Thanks!
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From the pop-up description for dragon hatchet:
This axes carries all the force of a mighty dragon or a territorial musk ox or particularly perturbed pangolin.
"This axis" or "These axes"?

This was wrong on every axis. Thanks!
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Consuming Ace of Coins:
You pull the chocolate coin off the card and eat it. It's pretty delicious, but that doesn't explain why there's still a coin on the card. maybe it's your lucky day!

capitalization

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Purchasing the prism collection:
You buy the shopkeeper's old prism collection for just 10 silver stars! What a bargin!

bargain ?

I normally take credit for these, but I'm going to go ahead and blame english. Bargain? Really? C'mon, english, you gotta up your game.

Mumblegrumblefixed.
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From the description for the Chocolate Bunny:
Okay, granted, most of the terrors is actually caused by people chasing after the bunny because it's delicious, but it's a disaster every spring.

"terror is"?

Fixed! Happy Easter :)
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"Tis but a typo!

One of the pitch-black knight's hit messages:
The knight slashes your arm with his sword, leaving you glad its still attached.

Have at you, apostrophe!
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Purchasing tabard pajamas of the imp
The shopkeeper looks up your geneology for 10 silver stars and gives you your ancestral pajamas. It's probably best if you assume some ancestor launched an entire career in crime fighting based on their fear of imps.

I looked it up. It should be genealogy.

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From the pop-up description for the water carrier sidekick:
It turns out they don't just grow there, people come by constantly delivering them so you can get the latest news about the local sports teams and your coworkers kids.

That should be the possessive form: coworkers'

This typo wasn't my coworkers', it was mine. Thanks for the help!
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Here's an old one from the description for silver comPutty:
Kind of like it you combine mercury with putty.

if ?

Thanks for pulling out the Wayback machine to bring us this one!
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Putting holes in the roof (Additional Ventilation):
Since smoke is hotter than air, you're pretty sure it float and, if you needed to ventilate some smoke out of a house, it stands to reason you'd need to put some holes in the roof. Right?

floats

It all floats down here, thanks!
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Nasty Nebula In The Hero Dash

The first paragraph ends with, "clouds of corrosive gas limned in lightning."

limned


Dang! Ah'm 'a gonna strip off, rub me down in conductive jelly and do me sum cloud surfin'.

Wee!

Limned it is! Enjoy your cloud surfin'!
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This is what I started getting today when trying to use openings

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'cure_buffs' (T_STRING), expecting ',' or ';' in /home/public/includes/combatopenings.php on line 488

Literally a grammatical error on my part, sadly. Should be good now!
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flight of the Lepidoptera

"And these wings are string enough to carry them. No joke!"
Unless I don't get the joke, it should be strong

Nope, joke's on me.
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From the pop-up for ye old toffee

It's still an open question whether this is toffee that has someone absorbed decades of temporal energy or whether toffee is itself congealed experiences.

Should that be removed?

Somehow. The toffee probably doesn't eat people.
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Purchasing the Mirror of Oreh:
You slide the shopkeeper 10 silver stars and he reflexive hands you a mirror. It's definitely not sinister or cursed, according to the inspection tag.

reflexively

From the pop-up for the Mirror Protege:
...but the Mirror of Oreh promises an sustainable, ethically-sourced, local solution to the problem.

a

Untypoed! Thanks!
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One of the Mirror Protege's after-combat messages:
Polly Esther sets a camera on a timer to take a picture with you, which they procede to make a bunch of copies of and hand out to their friends. It seems strangely inefficient somehow.

proceed

Hmmm, thought I got that one already. Proceeding to fix it now, thanks!
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The pop-up for Colonel's secret filter:
Even if you don't live on a desert planet or a space station, sometime it pays to filter your drinking water. Really, even most of your planet is covered with undrinkable water, so it'll help keep hydrated most everywhere.

Our planet.

"sometimes"? and "On our planet"?

Sometimes fixed, on this planet or wherever else you can reach our internet from.
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From the description for the cymbal monkeys (all three of them)
You know, there's a reason on of these was used on the cover of a horror novel.

one

Fixed this one, thanks! And thanks so much for the donation.
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According to the Mementonian Memuseum:
Oh and did you know we have 7 Agimat's Charms and 12 baseball rose quartzs?
pints? litres?

Gemmed! Thanks.
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The pop-up for Titan's terrarium:
Titan was a hero from Somerset-17, one of the seemingly endless alternate reality versions of Somerset that exist in the super-multi-verse. It's rumored that every time a major event happens, an alternate reality is spawned. You wouldn't happen to know anything about that would you?

Titan, like all waylaid people from different dimensions was sent to Professor Kirby's House for Extra-Reality Folks where his strange ways wouldn't affect the already confused denizens of Twilight. Despite her name, she wasn't related to Mr. Titanic, except for the fact that they're both gigantic and nigh-indestructible.

Titan kept her favorite plant and animal life from across Somerset-22 in this terrarium, using her size-changing powers to bend them to a more reasonable size. And some of those powers linger in it still.

Titanium is atomic number 22, while chlorine is atomic number 17.
Also, "her".

Chlorine Lad strikes again! *shakes fist at the heavens*
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The plural of toffee torus:
You have 2 toffee toruss in your inventory.

According to my dictionary, that should be "toruses" or "tori".

Should've been tori, thanks!
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The plural of the new IOTM:
You have 2 Leaping Leopard pantss in your inventory.

Now with more pairing. Thanks!
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Bonus text for Hero's Last Theorem -> Ask your computer

And you've learned the most important thing about computers today: the ability to put text over pictures and thereby illicit lulz. The future is a beautiful place.

Not sure if intentional / or for teh lulz.
(now imagine that over the appropriate picture)

In a dystopian future, where memes have been outlawed and lulz are banned, one man is still screwing up homophones...
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Purchasing Paintr's gun:
You hand the shopkeepr 10 silver stars. He paints a gun, then hands it to you.

Yeah, he's not web 2.0 enough for shopkeepr.
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One of the Little Magnifier's messages when failing to block:
Helena Handbasket can't catch enough light to focus on your opponent. It's shame the villains don't all come out during the day... but then you'd have to get a night shift job.

"It's a shame"?

It's shame when I miss an article.
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Purchasing the Futurelink terminal:
The shopkeeper accepts your 10 silver stars in exchange for a contract with Futurelink. Thankfully, they haven't updated their rates for decades, so ten stars should cover you through the heat death of universe.

"of the universe"?

EDIT: From the description of the Futurelink future baddy:
Then, apparently having made up it's mind, it moves towards you with menace.
its

From one of the new foe's misses:
The FutureBuddy seems to be convinced that your dirty, but its newfound free will also suggests not eating dirt is an option.
you're

Another miss:
It doesn't seem dissuaded, but you manage to delay it enough to avoid it's attack.
its

Fixed all of those! Thanks very much Sanjuro and sorry for letting so many through.
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When the root beer drops from the new shirt:
Youre feel a little thirsty, so the Barker's people drop off a bottle of root beer for you. Delicious, refreshing root beer from Barker's.
"You"?

EDIT: Oh, by the way, the Nocturne's contest hasn't reset yet.

Corrected and up, thanks!
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When the Mall Santa blocks:
The incoming attacks bounces off Helena Handbasket like a bowl full of jelly.

From the pop-up for the decoy present:
You feel confident that no human, alien, robot, or even animal could open this without stopping to gingerly peel of the tape.

Fixed those up, thanks!
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Using reindeer reins as a Psion:
You jingle the reins, summoning an unspeakable reindeer from beyond the boundaries of space and time, probably Qpid or Vx'n. Your opponent stares into the depths of holiday madness for .

Should be a little less mysterious now.
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Purchasing the new IOTM:
The 10 silver stars tumble from your hand into the shopkeeper as he takes entirely too long to consider it. But, on the bright side, once he gets your hourglass it's already half full!

Should that be the possessive form: shopkeeper's ?
as in the shopkeeper's hand?

Oh dear, that 's really makes all the difference, doesn't it?
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From the pop-up for the Bishop's Blessing effect:
In addition to the trick to moving diagonally, you've also picked up a few good healing lessons.

"of"?

From the pop-up for the Hail to the King effect:
Hal to you, baby.

"Hail"?

The king shouldn't open the pod bay doors, apparently. Thanks!
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Gaining the novelty ice cube tray badge:
The trainer says "let's be fair. It doesn't matter how many shapes ice comes in, the cube is always going to be the classic. Please accept this token of our appreciation for taking it to the third power."

You get a merit badge: The Most Interesting Badge in the World

capitalization and badge name

Fixed! Thanks^3
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From my test account, using the new IOTM:
Your sidekick is a little confused by the best ways to use the telescope at first, but quickly masters setting it up during fights so you never miss a cool celestial occurance.

occurrence

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According to the Mementonian Memuseum:
Oh and did you know we have 165 ancient quarter chips and 7 baseball rubys?

rubies

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One of the Sneak King's attack:
The Sneak King moves to fast for your eyes to follow, salting you with throwing knives. Which is a lot like peppering you, but with salt to add insult to injury. He hits you for 9 damage.
too

From the second paragraph of the pop-up description for the slip of borrowing:
But, unless the token's seemly random collection of swirly flowers, stick figures, and overlapping geometric shapes are secretly a map, it'll take some serious legwork to find the culprit.
seemingly

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Sorry I didn't take a look at this until recently.
Introduction to sidekick's 6th grade teacher:
Oh no! Helena Handbasket turned up to 6th grade without realizing the class has a test!

And now Helena Handbasket is in for it. Where "it" is unspeakable embarassment and emotional scarring.You are fighting a Helena Handbasket's 6th grade teacher.

Line break and superfluous article

EDIT: I saw the same issues in all of the other sidekick's dreams foes.

Should be good now, thanks!
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