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The fourth panel mentions that the weapon gives a +2 to a player's attribute. This is a reference to role-playing games in which it is common to find items that are able to improve one's character by increasing desirable attributes. In this case, however, +2 to cancer risk, a consequence of the dagger's radioactivity, would definitely not be considered a desirable attribute to increase. This would hit harder on Randall due to his now-wife being diagnosed with breast cancer. | The fourth panel mentions that the weapon gives a +2 to a player's attribute. This is a reference to role-playing games in which it is common to find items that are able to improve one's character by increasing desirable attributes. In this case, however, +2 to cancer risk, a consequence of the dagger's radioactivity, would definitely not be considered a desirable attribute to increase. This would hit harder on Randall due to his now-wife being diagnosed with breast cancer. | ||
| − | + | The title text refers to the last season ("Book 3: Fire") of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Sokka lost his boomerang and decides to apprentice for a short time with a swordsmith. When he chooses his metal, he chooses the giant meteor which felll earlier in the episode. Throughout the rest of the season, his Space Sword is heavily spoken of, as he forms an emotional attachment to it. On a side note, Toph the Earthbender gets a small piece of the meteor and wears it as an armband and bends it into useful things. The characters have a long argument about the oximoronic term space-earth, and Toph becomes the first metalbender. | |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
:[Cueball and Megan are in a weapon store talking to a bearded salesman wearing a hat.] | :[Cueball and Megan are in a weapon store talking to a bearded salesman wearing a hat.] | ||
| − | :[Salesman holds up a sword | + | :[Salesman holds up a sword] |
:Salesman: This sword was forged from a fallen star. Antimony impurities make the blade surpassingly ''brittle'' and ''weak''. | :Salesman: This sword was forged from a fallen star. Antimony impurities make the blade surpassingly ''brittle'' and ''weak''. | ||
| − | :[Salesman holds up a dagger | + | :[Salesman holds up a dagger] |
:Salesman: And this dagger is made of metal from a far-off kingdom. It glows blue. | :Salesman: And this dagger is made of metal from a far-off kingdom. It glows blue. | ||
:Off-panel: When orcs are near? | :Off-panel: When orcs are near? | ||
:Salesman: No, always. Radiation from the Actinium content. | :Salesman: No, always. Radiation from the Actinium content. | ||
| − | :Megan: ...Does it have | + | :Megan: ...Does it have eldritch powers? |
:Salesman: It gives the wearer +2 to cancer risk. | :Salesman: It gives the wearer +2 to cancer risk. | ||
