The Last True Secret of Brian Moriarty's THE DIG
“Rule One: The Doctor lies.”
Doctor (dok*tor) n.
Definitions:
1. English:
Physician; healer; medicus.
2. Latin
Doctor.
“Traduttore, traditore.”
--Italian proverb
traduce (tra*doose) v.
Definition: slander; defame; insult publicly.
traduire v.
Traduction en anglais: Translation.
"The ship is almost ready.”
--Cocytan Leader
"Go home and tell your people what has been accomplished here."
--Cocytan Creator
"Thank you, Boston."
--Cocytan Inventor
invenio v.
Definition:
1. Latin:
Present active inveni?, present infinitive inven?re, perfect active inv?n?, supine inventum
I find; I discover; I come upon.
‘Yé! utúvienyes! I have found it! Lo! here is a scion of the Eldest of Trees!.’
--Aragorn Elessar, The Return of the King
Hey... there are four astronauts in this game... but five spires.
Or is that six?
NEW CHARACTERS UNLOCKED!
New Astronaut: Cora Miles
This character can replace Toshi Olema in THE DIG.
New Astronaut: Ken Borden
This character can replace Ludger Brink in THE DIG.
Achievement Unlocked!
"The Eye Will See"
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"Finally, a good use for my extensive training."
--Professor Ludger Brink, geologist and archaeologist, The DIG
"Believe me, being alive is a LOT more fun than being dead."
--Dr. Toshi Olema, cyberneticist and CEO of OlemaCorp, The DIG
Achievement Unlocked:
Spacetime Four re-entered!
The LucasArts adventure game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis famously had three gameplay paths: Fists, Wits, and Team.
So, for that matter, did Sierra's Quest for Glory series: Fighter, Magic User, and Thief.
Lori Cole once said in an interview that the original Hero's Quest was meant to have four gameplay paths, each one defined by a different species: a Gnome thief, an Elf wizard, a Centaur archer, and a Human jack-of-all-trades.
But there is a fourth gameplay path already in the series, well known by now.
You unlock it by completing Quest for Glory II.
It's the Paladin.
But there are really six gameplay paths... because any character class can be "jack-of-all trades," simply by acquiring new skills on the introductory character creation screen.
And, of course, the Magic User becomes a Wizard in Quest for Glory II as well.
Potentiality has become actualized!
The Four Map Pieces:
I once asked Bill Tiller about the strangest rumor circulating about Brian Moriarty's THE DIG.
He said it was this: "Only left-handed people can get into heaven."
What use is a left-handed hammer?
"Sometimes, you have to push a few old ladies down the stairs."
--Bernard Bernoulli, Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle
"Of what use is a newborn baby?"
--Benjamin Franklin
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"Why then should I give my readers bad lines of my own, when good ones of other people’s are so plenty?"
--Benjamin Franklin
"I close."
--Abraham Lincoln, first inaugural address
"I am loth to close."
--Abraham Lincoln, first inaugural address (as revised in collaboration with William Seward)
"I open at the close."
--Albus Dumbledore's Golden Snitch, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows