Annotated 7-13
So, uh, this is a bit of a spoiler if you’re just following along, but this guy’s got other occupations on his resume than “fortune-teller.” Although we knew Brother Tom would be an important figure in Cultism, we were still some time away from deciding that he was the Cultist.
One thing Phil would always admit I was good at, even when our relationship was at its lowest point, was verse. Phil can be good with rhymes, but he’s not good with meter, so Brother Tom’s prophecy here was a team effort.
You’d think Tom would lie to lead these two to their doom, but as we establish later, the act of predicting the future makes him sort of a conduit: his perspective may inform his predictions, but he can no more lie than he can fail to see what’s coming.
“Visit for a time, and harken!”
Ahh, brings back such memories of my old Diablo 2 characters.
Back before they nerfed the skills, my old necromancer had such fun making other people lag to hell.
+2 Raise Skeleton, +2 Raise Skeleton Mage, +1 Revive Monster…
And SEVEN different “+1 to All Skills” items. (And an Act 2 mercenary to give the entire horde a Thorns Aura.)
“Beware!” warned the Once-ler, “lest you beserk,
for beserking, we all know, is such frightful work.”
I know there’s a Seuss cult, but I don’t think it’s quite the same.
If you know there’s a cult, but that it’s not the same, then you’re freeing this Seuss cult from this cult’s work’s blame.
It’s a wise thing to do if it’s true they’re not one, and the innocent cult can continue their fun –
But harken! Are you sure there’s two cults of fame? If they’re one and you’ve spared them – oh, guilt and shame!
Shame!
Shame!
*ring bell*
Damn. That’s some good Seuss-ing right there.
I think you clicked the wrong comment.
Damn.
(I lay the blame at the door of Too Much New Year’s Eve Celebrating. Yeah. We’ll go with that.)