u/GlibRichard

UNDERSEER, OVERSEER, hells if I know. I can only care so much for ANTIGONIAN politics. But the Epic of THE BOWL clearly tells of the OVERSEERS as the 5 great supercomputers that watched over and controlled every aspect of BOWL-ish life. Stubbornly defending it from colonizers even long after the fall. To [[THE WALL IS FULLY FUNCTIONAL]] it, to convert it into a 5AKE factory, and ultimately to SELF-DESTRUCT it, was all their decision. I think there was a pig and a chess piece too? Oh forgive my ramblings.

Heed Dad's tale. He's not the bitter twink he seems. Well not the bitter part anyway. THE GRID has been his first chance in eons to seize life and he fears the thought of losing it.

It's like a walnut every empire in the Kernel system with a little bit of salt in their nether regions has tried to crack open, all with no success. Eventully, they got around to deciding it was untameable. Then one day it changed, it enticed more, wiggling its arse around with the promise of infinite riches inside. So everyone tried again. Still untameable, if they can even find the way in!

They say a couple of those lads living in there, you know the ones with the magic creation rings everyone wants to get their dirty little hands on? Well a couple of them are the old OVERSEERS given themselves organic humanoid forms. I think that Dad guy was the MOUTHPIECE? The OVERSEERS, too, were first programmed off the brains of regular peoples once. Ordinary CADREMEN of the DEEP PAST whomst disobeyed one order or another for the greaterst good, which was the very reason they were seen as the most fit to lead.

Humanoids to OVERSEERS to humanoids again, it all comes full circle dunnit?

You've been down there, then, I take it?

The FLESHLINGS are not ready

Yesh my GOMMChild, it's in my pocket right now in fact.

Glib reaches into his pocket and pulls out a photograph. Several wintergreen candycanes fashioned to look like paperclips fall out with it

See? Is upside down because I was hanging upside down when I took it. You can keep those candycanes by the way. For eating and holding papers together.

My daily struggles? Don't even get me started. I'm constantly having to make sure big meanies aren't hurting the paladial order who venerate me in the 8901st world, and that Grapefruitdrink doesn't leave the toy let seat up again, and that Pieg isn't trying to sit on my most prized CEMENT MIXER, and that I don't get caught not having ample supply of VAPOUR PIPE fuels in my pockets. Sometimes my left steel appendage will get a little squeaky so it makes more of a fleem than a flom. And I constantly have to put up with LENDAL's bull sheet

,But other than all that, life is quite splendid.

,,I remember in '05 when the ANGRY ALBATROSS ARMY invaded Malmö. Do you rember? My mahogany VAPOUR PIPE I used to fight off the invasion with NEUROTOXIN VAPOURS.

,,,Have you ever visited the caverns of OB? They're my favourite cave in the entire VIRIDIAN FOREST! I like to hang upside down and screech like a bat there. But sometimes MOTH comes in and flutters his wings violently while playing the opening theme from Hitwoman in the Hand of KIB 2: Return to Blunderland on his FLUMPET and it taints the mood.

And between you and me, OB also has a secret passage to the nutshash.

Limitless seaf! Phil and Jack are watching you from the hereafter, and they're smiling wider than a cherub tomato!

Several citizens are pushed out of the way as Glib Richard floms his way excitedly down the streat to 32 Gomm Boulevard

MMEEEEE! I want to be the interview on TELEVISION!

This guy fucks.

Happy cakeday btw

The... mountain has a gravy?

,,Skeletal is the good. DO not deny skeleton. In your closet, for health. FlomFLomFlomFloMflom

"LOOK AT HIS VAPOUR PIPE"

Ouu a visitor. GOMM why didn't you tell me there was a visitor? I would've worn my visitor pants. I do apologize visitor for presenting myself to you in my everyday clothing instead of my visitor pants. Care for CAKE FLAVOURED VAPOUR FUEL?

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Two song-related memes at once? How did I never think to combine these. I think we've achieved an untold level of Meta.

Do you believe in a thing called love?

Do you believe in a thing called love?

,,,,,,Oooooohh that's right, you better run. IF YOU DON'T WANT YOUR FLANK GIVEN A TAXIDERMY TREATMENT AND MOUNTED ON ONE OF THOSE LITTLE WOODEN THINGS OVER A FIREPLACE, Its shadow looming over a gathering of friends drinking hot cococa and horsebean tea and telling stories about their travels in the Viridian Forest or strange encounters with the eldritch beings that lurk near the stocking room of ELLINGTONSUPERMARCHE.

,,Fools, fools, pools. You are in the presence of a god, a very stunty god. Try not to slam yourselves on my steel appendages. They don't supposed to be weapons.

ATTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAk

The Glib one climbs aboard Vandy's roof as the spritely ol' automobile charges into the fray. He swings a whip made from a mutated overgrown OSTERICH FERN in one hand and a purple cactus sword in the other.

FEEL THE HORSEBEANS EXPUNGE FROM YOUR NUTRIENT SACS!!

PREACH THE TRUTH TO THEM BROTHER ARMENIA'S GLORY EXTENDS BEYOND ITS BORDERS AND EVEN BEYOND THE BORDERS OF THE CYLINDER IT'S TAKING CONTROL OF TPANGS COMPUTER THAT'S HOW GLORIOUS IT IS

BURN THE HERETICSBURN THE HERETICSBURN THE HERETICSBURN THE HERETICSBURN THE HERETICSBURN THE HERETICS

Would you look at that. LOOK AT IT. One of the names is Ploppy. Who knew? Name #52911 to be exact. Ploppy. May he bless the corner delicatessen with prices so low it convinces people they're in a NEEDLE DREAM. The smell of rental lentil soup extends from the interface ports in the back room. I haven't even mentioned the Pie yet.

Hngg? Yes very good insights GOMMChild very good. Metal is for appendages and interface ports and consumption along with a hearty dipping sauce, not for killing things. I used to have this Mahogany VAPOUR PIPE that I used to breathe NEUROTOXIN VAPOURS on the angry albatross army back when they invaded Malmo in '05. Those were the days.

That sounds like a lovely time, yes. I love my home in the Caverns of OB, but sometimes we just need a break from hanging upside down, don't we.

Here you go.

The Glib one reaches into his CEMENT MIXER and produces twelve MEATE-FRE NUGGETS and three VAPOUR PIPES. He snaps the third one in half, which causes the RUEL inside it to spill on the ground, and keeps one half

And as a bonus...

He pulls a slice of HORSEBEAN FLAVOURED CAKE from his pocket and hands it to you. It's partially crumbled from being in his pocket but it still looks good

If you get to the center of that CAKE, you'll find the surprise inside... Coupons to ELLINGTONSKARAOKKIBARANDGRIL in Sidon!

So the jarl thinks you could be of use to me? Oh yes, he must be referring to my research into the dragons.

Yes, I could use someone to fetch something for me. Well, when I say "fetch", I really mean "delve into a dangerous ruin in search of an ancient stone tablet that may or may not actually be there."

[just tell me where, kid]

Straight to the point eh? No need for tedious hows and whys. I like that. Leave those details to your betters amirite? I uh... learned of a certain stone tablet said to be housed in Bleak Falls Barrow - a "Dragonstone" said to contain a map of dragon burial sites. Go to Bleak Falls Barrow, find this tablet - no doubt interred in the main chamber - and bring it to me. Simplicity itself.

Can they be CREYLMS?