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• A genie appears in a cloud of green smoke. He drops something, waves, and then vanishes, taking the smoke with him.
• A pale little ghost appears, but he's run out of treasures. He soon fades away.
• A cloud of purple smoke forms before your very eyes, and dissipates revealing a tall sorcerer in wireframe glasses and blue jeans.
  he fixes you with a vicious glare and proclaims "Arson is not allowed in this game....
• Out from the shadows behind you pounces a bearded pirate!
  Har, har," he he chortles, "I'll just take all this booty and hide it away with me chest chest deep in the maze!...
• A ghost appears in the room and is appalled by your desecration of the remains of a fellow adventurer.
  He casts a curse on all of your valuables and orders them banished to the land of the living dead....
• A cloud of purple smoke appears, then clears away to reveal a tall sorcerer wearing tacky shoes.
  He makes a note of what you've just said, and says "Be nice....
• There are faint rustling noises from the darkness behind you.
  As you turn turn toward them, the beam of your lamp falls across a bearded pirate....
• Dave Sim appears in dark glasses and talks like he's been up for three days doing God knows what, which is kind of how you like to think of Dave Sim.
  -- Rob Rodi...
• One day this guy is finally fed up with his middle-class existence and decides to do something about it.
  He calls up his best friend, who is a mathematical genius....