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Occasionally they'd have to lift up the helmet slightly to listen to the Oracle of Confusion.
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The Oracle appeared in the Level 2 Clue room on the moments that James mentioned above. It was basically a dispenser of information, although it was all ramblings (if you know anything about oracles you'll know that they never rate one factor as being more important than any other, and therefore tend to go off on tangents and stuff). And yes, you needed to close your eyes and lift the Helmet of Justice above your head to hear it.
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I liked the Oracle a lot.
A potentially good source of information, and a way to "give" teams information without handing it to them on a proverbial plate (sorry Brother Strange, couldn't resist that). The idea of having to sort the true from the false, or the useful information from the useless, is one I'd like to have seen more of.
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It certainly made teams think in a way
Exactly. I'd have liked to have seen something like that in later series and fewer scrolls and such.
It'd be a good dilemma for teams. If you stay and listen a bit longer, you might get some vital information. But your life force (not a pie, please) is on screen and it's degrading while you listen. How long can you afford to stay? How long do you dare to listen?
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Well, that would be a temptation for them.
I think I'd have it stop giving useful information after a while. They'd probably get the clue to move on when it tells them what Hordriss uses to create those fabulous red streaks in his hair.
And Treguard would give a few hints about the threat to life force. But there'd still be a danger of being greedy and listening too long.
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sounds stupid but what u expect at that age..lol
i remember everyone breaking the news to me that there was no such things as dragons a couple of years ago and seeing the skin and skeleton that was smirky.
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In Leo's quest in series 3, Mogdred was saying to take off the helmet. What do you think it would have actually looked like if he had done that? Incidentally, in the Knightmare gamebook, "The Labyrinths of Fear", at one point, you can get asked a riddle by Mordred (pretty much identical to Mogdred), and if you choose one of the wrong answers, Mordred lifts the Helmet of Justice, and the text says "and it is best not to relate what happens next". That is the sort of text that might be used to avoid giving gruesome detail, the reader being supposed to know what actually happens. i can't get it though. (Incidentally, I hate books that leave everything unexplained, assuming that the reader will figure it out. I remember reading a book once - a horror story - where it mentioned that the main character worked out all the mysteries, but the reader was not told. This is sometimes used if it is obvious, but I didn't get it. I found this unsatisfying, particularly because I wasn't sure whether the main character even survived in the end - or whether she died. I guess that she died from the way the book ended).
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I mean, there were some hideously ugly people and hairstyles under that helmet, and it's expensive to replace camera's, ya know. Â ;D
Seriously, though - I just guess you'd see 'em lift up the helmet, a quick flash of lightening, and then the usual 'Bong, Bong - you dead' sequence.
That's what I think, anyway.
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Treguard has always stated that the Helmet is "to protect you from being destroyed by illusion". Seeing is believing, after all.
Regarding books and such being vague, I think that if done correctly it can be very thought-provoking; it leaves a lot to the readers' imagination. Sometimes, what you don't know/see is far more effective than what you do - take Festus, for example. I'll bet there's not a single one of us who didn't try to imagine what he looked like.
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I agree with Mally Â
Since I've written quite a few stories I know 'something' about writing..... Like Mally said its thought-provoking
and besides the whole lot of my stories would have been rewritten and censored if I wrote what happened in those trust-me-you-dont-want-to-know-whats-going-to-happen-next.... Some things are best left unkown. Sice Knightmare was a 'kids show' the parts would have been censored anyways. That lightning bit is interesting though Â
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Youre welcome Â
I think my stories would have been censored anyways... theyre too weird for anyone else....The main villain is about to destroy the heroess and her friend when the friend starts babblinga bout movies and the main villain happily chats about those movies and forgets destroying them.... (one of the weird parts on mi storie)
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