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Auditors of Reality

2017-11-01T01:21:25Z

MyOwnBadSelf:

{{Character Data
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|name= Legion
|age= as old as Time
|race= sui generis
|occupation= maintenance
|appearance= like empty gray cloaks
|residence=everywhere
|death=
|parents=
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|children=
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|books= {{RM}}, {{H}}, {{TOT}}, {{SOD3}}
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The '''Auditors of Reality''' are the eternal watchers of time and space. Appearing as empty gray cloaks, they have no sense of humanity and all that it entails, whether it be humor or even a sense of singularity, which they particularly despise. Auditors think that to live is to die, and to be a specific person is to live, so an Auditor finds itself imploding if it so much as talks about itself in the first person. Auditors always speak of the "we". Auditors always work in groups of at least three, so that each one can be watched by at least two others. Supposedly all Auditors are of the same opinions about everything, but they still need to watch each other because, frankly, the temptation to live is too great.

They have also had their fair share of run-ins with the [[Death]] of the [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]]. Auditors tend to be very unpopular with all [[anthropomorphic personification]]s and other supernatural entities for breaking the world to make things ''the way they ought to be''. Auditors think that everything should obey basic physics (i.e. it should not be affected by imagination, perceptions, or thoughts, which sentient beings possess in amounts that seem to the Auditors to be unacceptable). Auditors also think that things should be regular (i.e. all cobblestones should be exactly same size and shape), and all spoken words ought to be literal and there ought not be metaphors. Auditors have tried at various times to get Death replaced by someone with less heart, get people to stop believing in a [[Hogfather|winter]] [[the gods|god]], and make time stop so that the Auditors can finally catch up with all the paperwork. They also, once they became aware of its existence, objected to certain aspects of [[Roundworld]] history, and sought to destroy it.

=== Ancient non-life form ===

The Auditors are both repelled by life (and humans in particular) and drawn to it. This leads them to interfere in Discworld, and to do this they are willing to break the Rules.

In {{RM}} it says they cannot be described in ordinary language. “Some people would call them cherubs.” Death calls them servants, watchers. Like him, they are able to appear before [[Azrael]]. In {{H}}, Death says of them, “They run the universe. They see to it that gravity works and that atoms spin (or whatever it is atoms do).”

In {{TOT}} it says things need to be observed in order to exist. In that case, as the most fundamental of observers, nothing would exist without them. Clearly they are part of the cosmic order, and if it were imaginable that any power could diminish them in their own realm, it would be up to the combined forces of Discworld to rally round. This does not stop them from making a nuisance of themselves.

The Auditors hate life, because it is untidy. By their nature, the Auditors take the view that for a thing to exist it has to have a position in time and space. But all the things that distinguish human beings, such as imagination, pity, hope, history and belief, don’t do time and space. Humanity, by belief, allows things to become that don’t exist. Death said that matter has a fear and hatred of life, and the Auditors are the bearers of that hatred. Periodically they try to tidy things up.

Gravity and atoms are basically important, but the Auditors are rubbish in the human dimension. An intelligence a billion years old, which has seen galaxies die, and sees atoms dance, which has hundreds of senses and thinks in 18 dimensions, which makes decisions by the concensus of millions, quickly falls to bits if clamped into the five senses of a human being, with demanding organs wired into its thinking system, looking out at the world from the darkness behind the eyes through the letterbox of “me”. Life is intoxicating, and if the auditors stray into organic territory, they come to grief.

Auditors' thinking processes are noted repeatedly to be very robotic. One way to stop them and cause them to implode is to write signs which say, in large letters 'IGNORE THIS ORDER', or a sign saying 'TURN RIGHT' with an arrow pointing left.

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[[Category:Supernatural entities]]
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Talk:The Tump

2017-11-01T01:16:51Z

MyOwnBadSelf:

Is it not also a skit on the Trump Tower of Donald Trump? [[User:Librarian16|Librarian16]] 23:10, 10 July 2011 (CEST)
:The Tump Tower is, of course. The Tump is just a tump. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 23:26, 10 July 2011 (CEST)

Terry is definitely psychic. Notice that it's near ''a wall''. [[User:MyOwnBadSelf|MyOwnBadSelf]] ([[User talk:MyOwnBadSelf|talk]]) 01:16, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

Talk:The Kitten Torture

2017-10-20T03:38:42Z

MyOwnBadSelf:

Now, anyone who has been climbed by the exceedingly ''sharp'' claws of a kitten might reflect that being in a situation where one is unable to pluck it off or do anything else to dissuade it might provide a rather more excruciating punishment than the account here suggests. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 03:20, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
:Once again, art imitates life. [[User:MyOwnBadSelf|MyOwnBadSelf]] ([[User talk:MyOwnBadSelf|talk]]) 03:38, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

M25 London Orbital

2017-10-20T03:33:47Z

MyOwnBadSelf:

A motorway, subtly redesigned by [[Anthony Crowley|Crowley]] so that seen from above, it took on the appearance of the dread sigil Odegra. The effect of millions of vehicles using it each day and fuming, swearing, and wishing ill on their fellow road-users not only drew millions of souls that bit closer to Satan and [[Hell|hell]], it had the same continuous flow effect that you would normally get on a Buddhist prayer wheel.

So when the big day dawned, the cumulative effect of all this negativity effectively sealed off London from the outside world, and incidentally did for [[Pigbog]] and the [[Four Other Riders Of The Apocalypse]].

The sight of millions of trapped people in their cars with their electronics chanting

'''''Hail the Great Beast, destroyer of worlds!'''''

for all eternity was something that made Crowley wish he'd never bothered with moving those surveyors' poles a few occultishly significant metres by dead of night. However, a bigger consideration was that he was trapped on the wrong side of the M25 and had to get to [[Tadfield]] somehow. Sometimes, a [[Demons|demon]] can be too clever for his own good...

==Annotation==
This is likely based on the authors' own experience of the M25.

[[Category:Locations]]
[[Category:Good Omens]]

Talk:Book:Raising Taxes

2017-06-05T02:25:06Z

MyOwnBadSelf:

Regarding the MOVE: this is not the same book and reports suggest that much of the description is wrong. A new article should be created for [[Book:Raising Steam|Raising Steam]]. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 02:36, 13 April 2013 (GMT)

Can we get Eoin Colfer to write it? After all, he did an amazing job with ''And Another Thing...'' [[User:MyOwnBadSelf|MyOwnBadSelf]] ([[User talk:MyOwnBadSelf|talk]]) 02:25, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Margyreen Glazier

2017-05-15T00:30:37Z

MyOwnBadSelf: added annotation

A grande dame of the [[Opera House]] in [[Bugarup]].

She inspired a Fourecksian chef, the renowned Imposo, to create the Apple Glazier in her honour.

==Annotation==
The reference here seems to be to Dame Nellie Melba, who inspired the creation of the Peach Melba.

[[Category: Food and drink]]

[[Category:Discworld culture]]

Guild of Confectioners

2017-05-15T00:27:04Z

MyOwnBadSelf: /* Annotation */

An organisation representing the interests of [[Ankh-Morpork]]'s manufacturers of sweetmeats, toffees, and what it chooses to define as [[chocolate]].

It is no friend of [[Wienrich and Boettcher]], as the guild believes as an article of faith that foreigners cannot make chocolate the way Ankh people like it. W&B simply do not understand the peculiarities of the city's tastebuds. In its press release, the Guild explains that Ankh-Morpork people are hearty no-nonsense folk who simply do not want "chocolate" which is stuffed with a potentially poisonous 70% cocoa liquor. They are certainly not like effete la-di-dah foreigners who want real cream stuffed into everything.

In fact, they actually prefer chocolate made from (''a glass and a half of?) ''milk, sugar, suet, hooves, lips, miscellaneous squeezings, rat droppings, plaster, flies, tallow, bits of tree, hair, lint, spiders, and powdered cocoa husks (ingredients listed in order of quantity - or at least, what may well go in to making it, depending on what's in the vats at the time).

According to the food standards of the great chocolate producing centres in [[Quirm]] and [[Borogravia]], Ankh-Morpork chocolate is formally classed as "cheese" and only just escapes being labelled as "tile grout" on grounds of colour.

Ankh-Morpork chocolate is to real chocolate what a [[C.M.O.T. Dibbler]] sausage is to meat.

==Annotation==
This may be a thinly-disguised commentary on what the British confectionery industry is pleased to call chocolate, and the way this optimistic claim is received in European countries with a longer and deeper relationship with the cocoa bean and a corresponding reluctance to cut corners by using cheap and possibly inferior ingredients. Eg, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, all of whom appear to believe that at the very least, true chocolate should have a 60-70% cocoa butter content. Compare this to the 40% which is legally acceptable in Britain, or (I believe) the 25% which is permissible in the United States. As a matter of fact, even British people brought up on Cadbury's oversweetened and under-cocoa-buttered product will wince at the taste of an American "chocolate" product such as Hershey's, which with the best will in the world tastes like cheap and nasty cooking chocolate. The question arises: is this the same reaction a European, from a more chocolate-literate society, might have to the taste of British chocolate? Yes.

In fact, chocolate is one of the foods most famously prone to potentially lethal adultery in Britain's Victorian and earlier eras. Any half-hearted search can turn up a truly ghastly array of "additives" used in chocolate in Britain, ranging from brick dust to red lead, and even arsenic, which hidden in the sugar content, killed a number of people in Liverpool in 1900.

A blind taste-test conducted for a BBC documentary on chocolate (April 2015) invited a random sampling of people to try three sorts of chocolate. The selection was top-of-the-line Belgian, British-recipe Cadburys, and Hershey's milk chocolate (American). It was interesting that the majority of people tested (being British) rated Cadbury's Milk as being the best of the three. Those who preferred the Belgian were asked further questions - these tended to be people with greater exposure to European chocolate, or who were chocolate connoisseurs. The survey went out of its way to try to find Americans in london so they could get a balanced sample. Interestingly, all but one of the Americans invited to taste the chocolate selection agreed that Hershey's was crap. But pointed out that they all lived in England where far better candy was freely available. A strange fact pointed out is that American chocolate, owing to its different manufacturing method, contains detectable amounts of an organic compound called butyric acid. Which is found in human vomit and explains the strange (to non-Americans) after-taste of Hershey's.

[[Category: Food and drink]]
[[Category: Guilds|Confectioners, Guild of]]
[[Category: Ankh-Morpork Businesses|Confectioners, Guild of]]

Ghlen Livid

2017-05-15T00:25:26Z

MyOwnBadSelf: :P

Ghlen Livid is a spirit made from the freeze distilled [[Vul Nut]], a [[reannual plant]]. Reannuals travel back in time, so Ghlen Livid can give its drinkers a vision of the future, which is, from the nut's point of view, the past. (This temporal anomaly is why [[Pteppic]] did his Final Run under the added handicap of a [[hangunder]].) It has a distinctive green colour and is brewed in the Rehugreed province of the [[Agatean Empire]]. It is first described in {{COM}}.

==Annotation==
A reference to [[Roundworld]]'s {{wp|The_Glenlivet|The Glenlivet}}. According to empirical tests the Roundworld version doesn't show any useful visionary effects, perhaps even tending towards the opposite. But it is rumoured that extensive tests are going on nevertheless.

[[Category:Food and drink]]
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Dish of Glistening Crunchy Orange Stuff

2017-05-15T00:23:25Z

MyOwnBadSelf:

As with the [[Dish of Soft White Lumps]] or the [[Dish of Glistening Brown Stuff]], this is another example of [[Counterweight Continent|Agatean]] cuisine, as interpreted in [[Ankh-Morpork]], which is virtually unknown (at least to the peasants) back home on the [[Counterweight Continent]].

== Annotation (for readers outside Britain) ==

The referent is possibly to the more-or-less standard way sweet and sour chicken is served in Chinese takeaways in Britain: pieces of chicken meat are wrapped in a variant of dimsum pastry then deep-fried, and served in a sweet-and-sour sauce which, in order to cover up the fact it is made from a base of cheap brown-coloured malt vinegar, has a ''lot'' of red or orange food colouring added to it, as well as cheap fried onion and other veg. The result tastes surprisingly moore-ish (possibly down to the MSG content...), but is a dietician's nightmare, as the "sweet" in the sweet and sour sauce is generally cheap processed white sugar combined, of course, with a lot of fried stuff. The Scottish are pilloried for the deep-fried Mars Bar in batter: sweet and sour chicken is as near as the English get to a native version, in terms of empty calories.

[[Category:Food and drink]]

Dish of Glistening Crunchy Orange Stuff

2017-05-15T00:22:45Z

MyOwnBadSelf:

As with the [[Dish of Soft White Lumps]] or the [[Dish of Glistening Brown Stuff]], this is another example of [[Counterweight Continent|Agatean]] cuisine, as interpreted in [[Ankh-Morpork]], which is virtually unknown (at least to the peasants) back home on the [[Counterweight Continent]].

== Annotation (for readers outside Britain) ==

The referent is possibly to the more-or-less standard way sweet and sour chicken is served in Chinese takeaways in Britain: pieces of chicken meat are wrapped in a variant of dimsum pastry then deep-fried, and served in a sweet-and-sour sauce which, in order to cover up the fact it is made from a base of cheap brown-coloured malt vinegar, has a ''lot'' of red or orange food colouring added to it, as well as cheap fried onion and other veg. The result tastes surprisingly moore-ish<ref>Possibly down to the MSG content...</ref>, but is a dietician's nightmare, as the "sweet" in the sweet and sour sauce is generally cheap processed white sugar combined, of course, with a lot of fried stuff. The Scottish are pilloried for the deep-fried Mars Bar in batter: sweet and sour chicken is as near as the English get to a native version, in terms of empty calories.

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Chicken Vol-Au-Vent

2017-05-03T02:04:42Z

MyOwnBadSelf:

Every cocktail party, reception, or other catered affair from [[Ankh-Morpork]] to [[Lancre]]
will serve some version of creamed chicken in puff pastry, which nobody likes. This appears to be a universal law of mass catering right across the [[Multiverse]].

It is possible that this appearance of the dish in Discworld was based on Terry's own experience at book launch parties and such.

[[Category:Food and drink]]

User:MyOwnBadSelf

2017-05-03T02:03:10Z

MyOwnBadSelf:

Hner have hnered a hner ner ner ner ner exist yet. Ner ner ner ner, ner typing in ner ner below (see ner ner hner ner ner info). Hner ner ner ner ner mistake, hner hner hner '''back''' button.

I'm sure Terry Pratchett's hourglass takes pride of place on the mantelpiece in Death's bedroom.

Talk:Multiple exclamation marks

2016-02-26T01:43:30Z

MyOwnBadSelf:

The reason it's attracted so many views is because of an internet meme, viz. the idea that anyone who use a lot of exclamation marks in their talking on the web is regarded as a troll. [[User:MyOwnBadSelf|MyOwnBadSelf]] ([[User talk:MyOwnBadSelf|talk]]) 00:32, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
:To elaborate further: [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-law-of-exclamation]. Adding a mistyped '1' on the end intensifies it further. [[User:MyOwnBadSelf|MyOwnBadSelf]] ([[User talk:MyOwnBadSelf|talk]]) 03:24, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
::And that link links back here!!! --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 04:29, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
:::Indeed it does. [[User:MyOwnBadSelf|MyOwnBadSelf]] ([[User talk:MyOwnBadSelf|talk]]) 01:43, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Talk:Multiple exclamation marks

2016-02-12T03:24:59Z

MyOwnBadSelf:

Talk:Chicken Vol-Au-Vent

2015-12-01T23:26:17Z

MyOwnBadSelf:

Which nobody likes? ''I'' would like it... or perhaps Discworld chickens and pastry just taste inherently really bad. [[User:MyOwnBadSelf|MyOwnBadSelf]] ([[User talk:MyOwnBadSelf|talk]]) 02:59, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
:The Author seems to have a low opinion of it, perhaps as a result of too many literary parties, receptions, book-launches...your results may vary. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 04:17, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
::Indeed. [[User:MyOwnBadSelf|MyOwnBadSelf]] ([[User talk:MyOwnBadSelf|talk]]) 23:26, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Talk:High Gate Land

2015-12-01T23:25:38Z

MyOwnBadSelf: /* Roundworld aside */

==Czech translation==
In the Czech translation by Jan Kantůrek, the High Gate Land is an old Czechoslovak 20-halier coin (instead of a British penny), and the description was changed accordingly:
* The letters read: "SKÁS OCIALI STICK" and "ÁREP UBLI", which is also an infamous Vortgorn battle cry. (A part of an actual writing on the coin: "Československá socialistická republika" - "Czechoslovak Socialist Republic".)
* The mountain ranges of the High Gate Land are said to form the shape of an animal similar to a [[snarg]]. (A Bohemian lion.)
* The [[Vortgorn]]s have also found a writing on the other side of the coin: giant numbers two and zero.
* Interestingly, the land is still called the High Gate Land. (It could have been renamed to High Beast Land.)
* The nation of Vortgorns is called "Namincové" in Czech. ("Na minci" - "on a coin".)
[[User:Mike Rosoft|Mike Rosoft]] ([[User talk:Mike Rosoft|talk]]) 15:01, 30 December 2013 (GMT)

==Roundworld aside==
The dating of the penny raises the (irrelevant) question: what did Britain ''do'' with the old coinage in the transition to new pence? What happened to the shillings and half-crowns? (Americans are lucky they switched when they did: with their aversion to the metric system they might still be dealing with 1/240th dollar and 2-1/2 shilling coins.) --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 01:37, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_Day#Validity_of_old_coins| Decimal Day], try this. [[User:Jagra|Jagra]] ([[User talk:Jagra|Talk]]) 12:38, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

It sounds even worse than I imagined, but the British muddle through... --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 14:16, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

::Well... [[User:MyOwnBadSelf|MyOwnBadSelf]] ([[User talk:MyOwnBadSelf|talk]]) 23:25, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

High Gate Land

2015-11-30T01:17:51Z

MyOwnBadSelf: /* Annotation */

The source of all bronze on the [[carpet]] and home to the [[Vortgorn]] people, High Gate Land is a tall, sheer-sided, circular mountain made of bronze. It is known to the [[Mouls]] as Gragatass.

Access to the plateau atop the Land is by elevator of the rope-and-wooden platform variety, powered by [[Pones]]. This makes the Land impregnable by conventional warfare, but not to subterfuge.

On the plateau surface are raised letters spelling out ON EPEN NY. Apparently there are letters on the underside of the Land, from reports of explorers in the [[Underlay]].

== Annotation ==
High Gate Land is a Britsh One Penny coin, landed tails-up on the carpet. The "tails" side of a penny shows a portcullis - a gate on the highest face of the coin. On the heads side are the letters spelling ELIZABETH II - the Queen who appears on all post-decimalization British coins.

Interestingly, given the history of the book, the writing on the coin, "ONE PENNY" was introduced in 1982, before which it read "NEW PENNY".

Given the Vortgorns have not found steel, either they have not burrowed far enough, or the coin is pre-1992 when they were solid bronze instead of plated steel. (Most likely the latter as the book was published in 1971)

[[Category:The Carpet People]]

Talk:Curry

2015-11-24T03:05:12Z

MyOwnBadSelf:

The tolerance of capsaicin is one of the most wildly subjective, disparate elements of human experience. I very rarely find any commercial preparation too hot, but it has happened. Some people react to the mildest hint of chili as if molten lead had been poured down their throats; some chew whole Habaneros and relish the burn. The only answer is:''chacun à son goût''. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 01:32, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
::Would I, while browsing the 'Food' category, take pleasure in the consumption of that which is godly and known only to the mortals of the Disc as ''the chicken, the tikka and the masala''? For certain, possibly not. Even so, the spice of any dish known in fiction far surpasses anything possible in real life. [[User:MyOwnBadSelf|MyOwnBadSelf]] ([[User talk:MyOwnBadSelf|talk]]) 03:05, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Chicken Vol-Au-Vent

2015-11-24T02:59:33Z

MyOwnBadSelf: Created page with "Which nobody likes? ''I'' would like it... or perhaps Discworld chickens and pastry just taste inherently really bad. ~~~~"

Talk:Multiple exclamation marks

2015-11-18T00:32:30Z

MyOwnBadSelf:

Talk:Nothingfjord Blue

2015-11-06T02:55:21Z

MyOwnBadSelf: Created page with "Terry just had to make the joke didn't he? :P ~~~~"

Terry just had to make the joke didn't he? :P [[User:MyOwnBadSelf|MyOwnBadSelf]] ([[User talk:MyOwnBadSelf|talk]]) 02:55, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

User:MyOwnBadSelf

2015-11-06T02:53:59Z

MyOwnBadSelf: Created page with "Hner have hnered a hner ner ner ner ner exist yet. Ner ner ner ner, ner typing in ner ner below (see ner ner hner ner ner info). Hner ner ner ner ner mistake, hner hner hner '..."

Hner have hnered a hner ner ner ner ner exist yet. Ner ner ner ner, ner typing in ner ner below (see ner ner hner ner ner info). Hner ner ner ner ner mistake, hner hner hner '''back''' button.

Talk:Fidgett's

2015-11-06T02:53:02Z

MyOwnBadSelf:

''Is this another subtle little dig at writers of slashfic?'' I sincerely doubt it, seeing as the book was written in ''2001'' before the genre became popular in the mainstream. I know it's existed since 1970s, but it wasn't highly popular with people outside of, well, ''specific'' circles until the mid-2000s. And the term 'Rule 34' in that sense did NOT exist in 2001. So anyway, it's a coincidence. [[User:MyOwnBadSelf|MyOwnBadSelf]] ([[User talk:MyOwnBadSelf|talk]]) 02:30, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
:Hmmm, or is it a reverse annotation? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 03:22, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
::More likely. [[User:MyOwnBadSelf|MyOwnBadSelf]] ([[User talk:MyOwnBadSelf|talk]]) 02:53, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Fidgett's

2015-11-05T02:30:56Z

MyOwnBadSelf: Created page with "''Is this another subtle little dig at writers of slashfic?'' I sincerely doubt it, seeing as the book was written in ''2001'' before the genre became popular in the mainstrea..."

Talk:Turnover

2015-10-04T23:38:41Z

MyOwnBadSelf:

Which map, we wonder. The Atlas isn't due for release for a month and I don't see it in {{DM}} or {{TGL}} (although a re-read was amusing). A link would be helpful. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 02:52, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
:It was in {{DM}}, but not on the map itself, it was in the notes somewhere (I'll try to find the exact page number) [[User:MyOwnBadSelf|MyOwnBadSelf]] ([[User talk:MyOwnBadSelf|talk]]) 10:30, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
Possibly the reference only appears when the village does? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 15:55, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

I finally managed to Google something. It's found in [[Book:GURPS Discworld|GURPS Discworld]], but with no canonical reference attached; it says it's in the Ramtops, not necessarily Lancre. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 16:01, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

::Oh, OK, I forgot it wasn't in the DM. [[User:MyOwnBadSelf|MyOwnBadSelf]] ([[User talk:MyOwnBadSelf|talk]]) 23:38, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Turnover

2015-09-20T10:30:01Z

MyOwnBadSelf:

Turnover

2015-09-18T01:29:56Z

MyOwnBadSelf: Created page with "Turnover is a village in Lancre, that is mentioned in the notes to the map. It is supposedly a 'brigadoon', i.e. a village that only appears at certain times."

Turnover is a village in [[Lancre]], that is mentioned in the notes to the map. It is supposedly a 'brigadoon', i.e. a village that only appears at certain times.

Zambingo

2015-09-18T01:24:54Z

MyOwnBadSelf:

Mentioned in {{T5E}} this is a port city located on the [[Rim Ocean]] coast of [[Howandaland]]. Sir [[Samuel Vimes]] sent the [[Assassins' Guild|Assassin]] the Hon [[Eustace Bassingly-Gore]] to [[Ghat]] in chains, and paid the captain of the ship AM$1000 not to untie him until at least Zambingo. Known to surrounded by jungles, where Bassingly-Gore's knowledge of poisons would undoubtedly be useful, but not as useful as a knowledge of antidotes... Also it is misspelled as 'Zabingo' on the map.

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