OMG: I Killed Bilbo Baggins
My most recent retro game obsession is Moria, an ASCII-art-driven RPG based on the The Lord of the Rings. I haven’t played Moria in years, until I ran across a link to a PalmOS port of it here.
Anyways, I’ve been playing kMoria for a couple of days now. During one late-night session, I was exploring one of the levels when I had to fight a “Scruffy-Looking Hobbit.” When I had defeated the Hobbit, the following message appeared on my Palm III:
Granted, it’s common in Moria to inscribe objects with titles or descriptions, but to attach “Bilbo” to a sword gives the comic impression that, well, look at my post heading. The following pics further punctuate the punchline:
To make this event even weirder is that my character is a priest, who I named Strom Thurmond. Tré bizzaro, mon.
