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Use message of Mad Bomber magazine:

which basically sums up both the narrative and your sideick's new skill
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When using a Mad Bomber magazine after you already have the skill:

as can be learned from a magazine's finctionalized story
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In the adventure "Got a Little Vandalism in You?" during the pre-vandalism quest.

"every one of those cases someon drew in permanent marker"
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Nommy wrote:In the adventure "Got a Little Vandalism in You?" during the pre-vandalism quest.

"every one of those cases someon drew in permanent marker"
This was already reported in March 2010, somewhere in the second page. I recommend checking with the wiki if the typo is already reported (though of course one can simply go over the entire thread and make sure).
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From one of the Wight's miss messages:
He tries a one-two punch combo, but you know your wight from your left and doge them both
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From the character sheet:
To-hit ability: 110
Dodge ability: 90
Offensive power 1
Defensive power: 5
Offensive power is missing a colon.
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When you have an old friend for a sidekick, and you use another phone number:
Your friend admits that she lost your phone number at some point, too, so your write yours on the back of the only slip of paper handy and give it to her.
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From "Moments Too Late" while playing it really safe:
The knowledge that even heroes can't be everwhere at once galls you, and you vow to try to work on that.
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Quite minor, all the effect for decrypting codes don't use the standard capitalization for effects, which is to capitalize every word.
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frowny sticker

This sticker demonstrates the fastest day to redial that smile into denial.
I'm guessing that should be way.



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prince prints' plural shows as prince printss


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Maybe I don't get it, on the barred bard:

who can do a feat with her feat
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I'm pretty sure this one suddenly popped up - the General at the inner sanctum of the Unborn Base now has an indefinite article, and it is always "an", .e.g. You are fighting an General Hospital.
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When using the jester kit:

Your undestudy opens the kit
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The jester's attack message ends with an extra period:

Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler bops your opponent over the head with a rubber mallet. It seems innocent, but this rubber mallet is coated in lead. Your opponent takes 32 damage..
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The Jester's fire attack has two typos:

Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler assautls your opponet
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When one uses a TNT in combat while the jester is the sidekick:

When you produce the tnt, Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler grabs it

"tnt" should be capitalized.
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When using a Ticketmaster's ticket punch while the jester is your sidekick:

When you produce the ticket,...

What ticket?
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SunWukong wrote:Flock of harpies:

"they HITS you for..."
Same for the imitation movers.
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Fixed:

* plural foe "they hits you"
* ticket punch and TNT jester messages
* jester attack "assaults your opponent"
* extra period in jester mallet attack
* undestudy => understudy
* possibly fixed the general's indefinite article?
* barred bard: feat => feet
* everwhere => everywhere
* colon on character sheet for offensive power
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Today, when I fought Mister Uh-uh, I noticed that all of his hit messages had the wrong pronoun, as in: "They hit you for X damage."

EDIT: I noticed the same thing with another wandering villain:
Cappy Capi fries you with his patented Habanero headbutt, causing your entire head to burst into flames. They hit you for 6 (fire) damage.
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Should be fixed. Was a side-effect of the previous "fix" for multiples not displaying right. Turned everything into a plural!
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After you defeat The Mick, and you go see Susan Novak, you get a big block of text. The paragraph that starts with "Of course it's a tremendous risk" is missing a quotation mark at the beginning.
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Plural of white noise knuckles is white noise knuckless
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Muhandes wrote:Plural of white noise knuckles is white noise knuckless
It's a mystical property of white noise. There's a little bit less knuck in the plural than in the singular.

Kidding, of course. Fixed.
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From one of the mailroom clerk's miss messages:
He hoists up a mail bin and throws the contents at you. The gods of homonyms is on your side and the bin was full of letters.
Noun-verb mismatch


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When using a business card:
each on slightly less likely than the next
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From one of the mailroom clerk's hit messages:
He runs around kind of aimlessly, but poorly made chain mail jingles and rattles in a really irritating manner.
It looks like there's a missing "his" between "but" and "poorly".


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From one of the random Slouch messages:
and pull out a ... jackalope? At least that's what you'd call an animal that's half jackal and have antelope
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usage message for motivational DVD

muttering inspirational things to himself contstantly
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Plural of juggling clubs is juggling clubss


Fixed. Sorta. I guess.
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At the end of the Level 10 quest, after getting the Nostronomium and bringing it to the Elco Hoist Labs:
I hadn't expected so small amount to be so volatile.

It looks like "small" and "amount" should have an "an" between them.

EDIT: Corrected my mistake.
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From the description of the broadsword of amorphous hatred:
This wickedly sharp blade was designed by a blacksmith with terrible a memory


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When using a stale cracker (without a sidekick):
Shortly a large crow lands an gobbles up the cracker.
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Your 2 SQUID discs: I Love Three Decades Ago been moved to your storage area
Your 2 pairs of paint-splattered jellies been moved to your storage area
Your 2 pairs of acid-washed jeans been moved to your storage area
Your 2 cans of Shift soda been moved to your storage area
The "have" is missing right? If so, the singular forms need to be fixed as well.
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That's way more candy than you should eat in one night. You're old enough to know better than than to even consider that much sugar. Yuck.
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From "Computer Graveyard":
One of the back rooms is stacked from floor to ceiling with old computers. Probably the computer is too cheap and/or lazy to recycle the old boxes and just dumps them in here.

That looks like it should be the "computer guru" or "computer department" that is cheap and/or lazy.
I mean, I've seen a few cheap computers, but never a lazy one.
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In PVP, you're missing a parenthesis (close bracket) at the end of the statement:

"(Players with rank over 500 can't attack anyone with a rank less than 300."

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Fixed
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