Series 2 - Episode 12
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As best I can remember, energy sprigs were invented in season 2, with team 3 the first to encounter them. The only team in season 1 who even got far enough that they might have found one was team 6. They found a bunch of grapes in level 3, the only top-up they found down there.
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Okay so, as usual I'm here mainly for Audrey and Mary (mostly because I've seen this series on Challenge really recently) and I have to admit for all that people occasionally have a pop at Audrey for her acting or lack therof (it takes skill to act like a brat when you aren't one dammit!) I loved the way she obviously watched back Mary-as-Mildread to get it rigt on the money... there's also a lot of good punplay happens here.
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Actually, I've come across a couple who really do have a go at Audrey herself, which is why my comment is the way it is. I don't much mind if people dislike Gretel which is fine but having a go at Audrey (to my face) will generally get me growling at you some.
You lot on here are genuinely nice to Audrey and Gretel in general (wanting to feed her to spiders aside ) but in person I have dealt with some total toe-rags.
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Team 10 made good progress. Julian was far more enthusiastic than most dungeoneers.
The only real criticism is that they were slow to react when the automaton first appeared, altho it did suddenly appear immediately behind them so it was reasonable that they should have a few moments reaction time. It was level 1 after all.
Really enjoyed the scene with Mildread & Gretel in the kitchen. Amusing how Julian didn't seem to go in the direction Gretel was leading him. There was no dithering in the well room tho, Julian was into that well at speed.
Level 2 clue room: notice how Julian opened the bottle even tho the others only told him to examine it. Having no clue objects made for a strange level 2.
2/3 on the riddles. One of them (i think it was Mary) actually said ankle. Would Merlin have accepted ankle instead of heel?
Good interaction with the drunken Gumboil and even more amusing with Olaf. " I think they be making Danish bacon of Olaf." Classic line.
The gargoyle was very helpful in level 3. At least they didn't have to spend ages flattering it like previous teams did.
Reached the level 3 clue room just as the bell sounded.
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Level 2 clue room: notice how Julian opened the bottle even tho the others only told him to examine it.
I think opening the bottle is a perfectly natural step in examining it
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You could argue that in an environment of unknown dangers, not opening a suspiciously unmarked bottle is the natural thing to do.
In this case it's a moot point, because the team is urged by Treguard to "investigate" the bottle and, short of assessing the design and glass density, there wasn't much they could do but open it.
Treguard's position on opening unmarked bottles is likely to have changed a little way into Series 7.
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You could argue that in an environment of unknown dangers, not opening a suspiciously unmarked bottle is the natural thing to do.
You could argue either/or and both are *perfectly *valid. Same with most things we disect about Knightmare.
So yes, the function of bottles is to contain something. Being told to examine a bottle, it's perfectly logical to take this to mean "open it and find out if anything's in it".
"In an environment of unknown dangers" can be used as a blanket argument to win any point, really, for the entire 8 series. It doesn't really cancel out the validity of what TemporalDiscussion says.
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Without pressure from Treguard, the team would have been free to decide their own course of action. They may have opened the bottle at the earliest opportunity. Or they may have decided to carry it with them until they met a character who could shed light on it.
That was my point. And in clearly acknowledging it as a moot point, I wasn't trying to win anything, nor to cancel out the post from Martin (who I know has discussed this quest with dungeoneer Julian/Jason himself).
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