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Another fan of XKCD :) Discovered it through the "new" What if section - and has then proceeded to the beginning of the XKCD comic. And found that I needed this page to fully understand and appreciate many of the comics.

Favorites

I have so far (May 2014) only progressed through the first 400 comics (+ references) but have read all the new since October 2013. So there may be many favorites waiting for me. (Reached no. 400 on May 28th 2014, then 480 September 15th 2014 - slow progress at the moment. 500 in November. 530 reached in January 2015. 540 march 2015. 550 June 2015. 560 mid June 2015. 570 end of July 2015. 582 September 1st 2015. 585 October 20th. 591 February 14th 2016).

This is just a list of some comics I really appreciate:

Sandbox

Sandbox

Tiles (X, Y) References
Description Transcript Overview links Defining Other S
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Everything Left of play area.
(N/A)
 Overview
Hidden passages in red 		Overview Section of the image revealed when going left of the starting point.
Entire Volcano plateau.
(N/A)
 Overview
Hidden passages in red 		Overview About halfway from the Play Area to the volcanos slope, there is a steep plateau. This is the part left of this plateau.
Girl at the left end of world looking right.
Girl: In the sky,
Girl: beyond the mountain,
Girl: I saw a starship.
 Overview (928, 1082) 1 The girl at the left end of the world tells about the Star Destroyer in the right part of the world. There are four coins in front of her to anyone coming this far.
Coin and boulders.
(None)
 Overview (933, 1083) (935, 1083) A single coin hangs in the air above the rocky ground with giant boulders.
Entire Volcano.
(N/A)
 Overview
Hidden passages in red 		Overview 1 Comic: 1611: Baking Soda and Vinegar The comic released a week after this one is about a super volcano made in a science fair experiment. As can be seen there is a lair beneath the lava lake. The entrance is revealed by the other link that turns the hidden passages to red. It is for sure possible to get stuck in the lava lake, as everything becomes black in the game when going beneath the surface.
Left Volcano Top.
(N/A)
 Overview Overview A zoom out of the left rim of the volcanic crater.
Basketball on the volcano.
Ponytail: OK, as soon as it erupts, go for the dunk. Our sweet moves will be preserved for all eternity!
 Overview (936, 1084) 1 This is a reference to Pompeii a Roman town-city near modern Naples, which has become famous when it was discovered that it had been preserved in the ash when it was mostly destroyed and buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft.) of volcanic ash in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. When it was found again it turned out that people had been surprised by the ash, and thus buried alive. During the excavation, plaster was used to fill in the voids in the ash layers that once held human bodies. This allowed one to see the exact position the person was in when he or she died. This is what Ponytail wishes for her and Megan, when the volcano they are standing on erupts, a rather morbid wish. She wants their sweet basketball moves to be preserved for eternity. In Playing Fields in T.E. basketball is mentioned. It is also played on top of the Destroyer close to the bridge. In this case the coin is on top of the basket, but too large to go into the hoop.
Old man walking up the volcano.
(None)
 Overview (937, 1085) Is it an old man who just walks up a mountain, or a young man using a walking stick? It makes quite a difference to how this scene is viewed.
Duck at the left crater top.
(None)
 Overview (940, 1087) A duck is sitting at the top of the crater. There are several birds in this comic. Another duck looking the other way is found on top of the flag pole near the base of the Washington Monument.
Megan’s treasure hoard.
Megan: Gooooold!
Megan: Goold!
Bags: $ $
 Overview (941, 1084) (941, 1083) In the side of the crater there is a small cave where Megan has found a treasury hoard and she is celebrating all the gold she has found, including two coins.
Entire Lava lake.
(N/A)
 Overview
Hidden passages in red
Zoom in left part
Hidden passages in red
Entire left part
Hidden passages in red
Shaft in lake in red
Zoom in central part
Hidden passages in red
Entire Right part
Hidden passages in red
Shaft into lair below
Hidden passages in red 		Overview These images only cover the part beneath the surface where there is actually still lava, as can be seen in the images where Hidden passages in red. Only the top of the lair below is shown here. From the hidden passage it is here possible to see how to enter this lair. In the images that shows the hidden part the two loose boulders that float (or are outcrops) in the right part of the lake can be seen as well as the two other holes in the lava lakes floor, which all explain why it is easy to get stuck in the lake once you go below the surface and move around. Since everything is black, you do not even know if the game still works and many people may have given up, maybe reloading after not being able to get on with the game. There is no place in the lake where you can get really stuck, as long as you just push upwards while changing direction from left to right, you are bound to get out sooner or later.
Rock with Gandalf in Lava lake.
Megan: If you breathe out through you nose a little as you jump in, it can keep you from getting lava in you nasal passages.
Cueball: Artex!
 Overview
Hidden passages in red 		(944, 1083) 1 Movie: The Neverending Story The wizard on the rock represents Gandalf from LOTR. What Megan tells Cueball works fine with water, not so much with lava. The horse Artax (pronounced Artex in the movie) drowns in the swamp of sadness while Atreyu tries to save it and yells its name. Drowning in a swamp sucks, but doing so in lava will make death swifter. Both situations, however, indicate that you can actually go into the lava. If playing for the first time and becoming uncertain what would happen if the hoverboard touched the lava, the player might actually not even try to go into the lava, thus for certain would miss finding the lair beneath the lava.
Quadcopters over lava lake right.
Right quadcopter: Remember: There's no such thing as good volcano footage taken by a quadcopter that survived.
 Overview
Hidden passages in red 		(950, 1084) Comics: 1630: Quadcopter and in general those about Robots and AI The comic was released shortly after this one, and is about AI quadcopters that abduct Cueball. One of these quadcopters tells the other that no one will think much of their volcano footage if they actually survive. I.e. they have to get too close to the bubbling surface to survive before they actually obtain the footage wished for. It sounds like it tries to instill courage in them to perform this deadly task. There is a coin below the left copter.
Entire Lava lair.
(N/A)
 Overview
Hidden passages in red 		Overview The three rooms of the volcanic lair (and the entrance haft in the image with hidden passages in red).
Trending on twitter cave in lair and Lava lake bottom shaft.
Cueball: What news of the world above? Please, tell me- what's hot and viral? What's trending on Twitter?!!
 Overview
Hidden passages in red 		(944, 1079) (945, 1079) Comics with Social networking Cueball has been stuck below the lava for some times without access to the internet, and he now craves news from the world above. But it is not really news stories he craves but only the hot and viral videos and what is trending on Twitter. To be addicted to social networks and viral videos is probably a real infliction and it is a pain for Cueball to not be able to get on-line. Two coins are behind him.
Elon Musk’s cave in lair.
Left Cueball: I always assumed Elon Musk's volcano lair would be like... Tropical. And ...Well, pleasant.
Elon Musk in the high chair: Back to your desks, swine!
 Overview (945, 1074) (946, 1074) Comics with Elon Musk It turns out that this is Elon Musk's lair. Having a secret lair with a hidden entrance is an often uses trope in movies. Often it would be the villain (like in a James Bond movie) that has such a place, but also heroes, like Batman, uses such hiding places. The joke here is that Cueball has assumed that Elon Musk, a very rich and enterprising man, that could be one of these megalomaniacs that might end up being a super villain, would have a bit more class over his secret lair. It also turns out that Elon sits in the cave and shouts at his workers to get back to work, even calling them names. There is also a coin here.
Antenna cave in lair.
Ponytail: So this is where it is.
 Overview (947, 1073) Explanation of the antenna missing Ponytail seems to have been looking for this antenna. She and Megan stand with something in their hands. But why? There is a coin above the antenna.
Right Volcano Top
(N/A)
 Overview
Extra zoom out
Hidden passages in red 		Overview A zoom out of the right rim of the volcanic crater. In the extra zoom out the eagles can be seen as well, they are high enough to be missed entirely when moving along the crater surface.
Ring of power and lave floor at the right crater top.
Megan: One of these is probably a ring of power or whatever.
Girl with hair bun: Let's play a game where the lava is the floor of a house.
 Overview (952, 1087) (953, 1087) 1 [Megan tells Cueball that one of the many rings she throws into the crater is probably a ring of power, a reference to the scene from the last LOTR film where Frodo fails and Gollum attacks inside the volcano Mount Doom, thus making it clear that the volcano in the game represents this volcano. From her last comment, or whatever, it seems she doesn't care too much, which make it clear, from the LOTR universe, that neither of these rings in the one ring. It would not have be this easy throwing them into the lava if it had been. There seems to be 16 rings, which is less than the other rings that are ruled by the one ring, the 9 for the humans, the 7 for the dwarfs and the 3 for the elves (19 plus the one ring 20 rings in total).

The two girls are playing a dangerous game, the exact opposite of the normal version of the children’s game Hot lava, where they pretend the floor in the house is made out of lava, and that you die if you touch it. However in this version of the game they pretend to play that the lava is the floor in a house, and they may then just walk out into the lava pool, where they would die.
Megan sliding down slope on snow sleigh.
(None)
 Overview (956, 1085) (956, 1086) Megan is sliding fast down the crater side. She will hit a jump near the coin, and would probably fly a considerable distance given the speed she seems to have.
Eagles over right crater top.
Left eagle: Tolkien said Frodo left the cloak somewhere over here.
Right eagle: Can't he just fix it?
Left eagle: He doesn't want to rewrite that chapter.
 Overview (956, 1088) 1 Explanation needed for why this conversation is taking place. Is this part of the real books that Frodo left the cloak, or is there even an error in the book? Two of the great eagles from LOTR flies above the right crater top. In end of the book Gandalf returns with eagles to Mount Doom to pick up Frodo and Sam who have no hope of getting out of Mordor after throwing the ring into the lava. They are thus saved. In this situation though the eagles have been send out by the author Tolkien to locate Frodo’s cloak (the one he got from the elves). These are made to hide the user, so they would be hard to find. The other eagle asks why the author just did not fix this by rewriting the story, by the other says he doesn’t wish to do so.
Ponytail racing down the steep slope on a bike.
Ponytail: 114 mph!
Ponytail: Suck it, previous downhill volcano record-holder!
 Overview (958, 1083) Ponytail is trying to break the world record for downhill race on a bike on a volcano. The record at the time of this comic was from 2002 and was 107 mph (172 km/h) easily beaten by the 114 mph (183 km/h) that Ponytail reaches as she mocks the previous record holder. There were two different records, one for prototype bike by Éric Barone (the 107 mph) and one for serial production bicycle (102.5 mph set in 2011 by Markus Stöckl). She beat them both and it looks like a very ordinary bike she rides. The all-time record for downhill racing is not using the ashy slopes on volcanos but from racing on snow, and here the record is not in danger from Ponytail as it is a staggering 138 mph (222 km/h) again with a lesser record for serial produced bikes of 130 mph (210 km/h). She will soon hit a rock outcrop so hopefully she has very good brakes...
Tell my wife why you left me there, and Megan and Cueball with a device
Right Cueball: If I don't make it back...
Right Cueball: ...Tell my wife...
Right Cueball: ...Where I am...
Right Cueball: ...And why you left me there…
 Overview (960, 1081) (961, 1081) Explanation could be better, better links maybe If I don't make it back is a common trope in movies and books. The speaker will then usually tell the other to go tell his wife that he died bravely or that his friends should remember him. There is even a song with the same title by Tracy Lawrence. A typical sentence could be in a war where one soldier is wounded and tells his buddy If I don't make it back, tell my wife may last thoughts were of her (or as the case with the quote taken from here a man going back to fetch a wounded man). But in Cueballs case it takes on a very different meaning. Because if he do not make it back, then why did the other. He actually tells him that he should explain exactly this to his wife, especially why he just left him there opting to only save himself.

Also here are Megan with some kind of device and Cueball on top of a large boulder. Maybe they are investigating the environment on the volcanic slope. Cueball has just discovered the coin hanging above them.
It becomes a V7 if the volcano erupts and Ponytail and Cueball on the slope
Megan: This is currently a V2, but it becomes a V7 if the volcano erupts.
 Overview (962, 1080) (963, 1079) Explanation needs to be checked by someone who actually knows about the v-scale and bouldering. Does the sentence even make sense in anyway regarding an eruption? Megan and Cueball climbs a very steep part of the mountain slope. Megan refers to the way the difficulty of bouldering, is graded using the V scale. She exclaims that at the moment the climb is only a V2, but if the volcano erupts this would increase to V7. Since the grade has something to do with how steep and difficult the climb is, the eruption would only make a difference if it immediately shifts the slope they are on to a higher angle. But of course if lava comes down the side, it would also become more difficult, but that is not a usual factor in the V-scale.
Megan reading for children about Sauron’s ring.
Megan: ”The time has come” the Walrus said, and put on a Sauron's ring…
 Overview (964, 1078) (964, 1079) 1 Explanation missing
Vaping Earth.
Cueball: The Earth is vaping.
 Overview (969, 1077) (968, 1077) Explanation missing
Left of play area to Kite.
(N/A)
 Overview
Hidden passages in red 		Overview This is the area from below the volcanos slope and towards the play area
Kite and weird bug.
Mom: Check out this one weird bug, discovered by a local mom.
Girl: Oh my God, mom, stop saying everything like that.
 Overview
Hidden passages in red 		(970, 1077) (972, 1077) 1 Comic 1614: Kites and in general the kite catagory There is a kite in Sky Toucher in T.E.
Space capsule with parachutes.
Bird thinking: I don't remember laying these but wow they're already flying. Gonna be awesome when they hatch.
Cueball: Yes! My phone has a signal.
Voice from inside: How many new likes did we get during reentry?
Cueball: I'm checking!
 Overview (976, 1079) (976, 1080) 1 Comic : 1133: Up Goer Five The book T.E. was based on Up Goer Five which was about the rocket that took this space capsule to the moon.
Girl running to other girl and small forest.
(None)
 Overview (978, 1077) (976, 1077) Explanation missing
Entire well - zoom out.
(N/A)
 Overview
Hidden passages in red 		Overview Comics in the Well series. Explanation missing
Well top.
(None)
 Overview (980, 1077) Explanation missing
Well bottom.
Girl: I'm not a ghost. I just like wells.
 Overview
Hidden passages in red 		(980, 1073) Explanation missing
Entire gas station with birds above
(N/A)
 Overview
Without coin 		Overview Explanation missing
Gas station with x-wing.
(None)
 Overview (982, 1077) (983, 1077) 1 Explanation missing
Birds with coin.
(None)
 Overview
Without coin 		(982, 1079) Movie: Monty Python and the Holy Grail In the movie it is discussed if two swallows could carry a coconut between them on a string as with the coin here
Our kingdom from a cliff.
Cueball: Everything the light touches is our kingdom.
Girl: What's with the shadowy place over there?
Cueball: That is beyond our borders.
Girl: No, I mean what object casts a shadow over a whole region?
Cueball: Oh, that's god. He lives over there.
 Overview (986, 1076) (986, 1075) Movie: The Lion King Cueballs lines is from The Lion King and has been used before in xkcd.
Hamster ball bowling.
(None)
 Overview (987, 1075) (989, 1074) 1 Comics: Hamster Ball category In The USS Laws of the Land in T.E. there is a bowling alley
If loving you is wrong I don’t want to and Beret Guy following insects
Cueball: If loving you is wrong, I don't want to.
 Overview (990, 1074) (991, 1074) Explanation missing
Entire Washington monument
(N/A)
 Overview

Hidden passages in red
Central hidden passage
Hidden passages in red

Overview Comic: 1600: MarketWatch Explanation missing
Base of Washington monument with Cueball and Megan
Cueball: Honestly, it doesn't even look that muck like Washington.
 Overview
Hidden passages in red 		(994, 1074) (995, 1074) Explanation missing
Tip of Washington monument with Cueball and White Hat
Cueball: Look at that- Solid aluminum!
Cueball: We´re gonna be rich!
White Hat: Uh, what the heck is that?!
 Overview (995, 1083) (995, 1084) White Hat points toward the Star Destroyer giving its location away. The tip of the monument is actually made of Aluminum, but today it is not, as when it was placed there, very valuable.
Entire floating rock island - zoom out.
(N/A)
 Overview Overview This floating rock is very hard to find by chance. Only thing pointing towards it is the Washington Monument.
Top left of floating rock island with coin.
(None)
 Overview (990, 1112) (990, 1111) Explanation missing
Top right of floating rock island with base jumpers.
(None)
 Overview (994, 1111) 1 In Sky Toucher in E.T. two people jump of a cloud, like these base jumpers.
Bottom of floating rock island with coin.
(None)
 Overview (992, 1109) (993, 1109) Explanation missing
Entire Play Area - zoom out.
(N/A)
 Overview
With starting view 		Overview The entire play area with walls. See also the insert with the starting view shown in red in the second image link.
The Play Area.
My new book,
Thing Explainer,
comes out today!
To celebrate, here's
a small game.
Deposit coins here
 Overview
Hidden passages in red 		(1000, 1074) (1000, 1075) 1 This is the starting area. Many people would never get outside of this, if they did not spend time exploring or investigating. This explains that the game is released on this day to celebrate the release of Randall's new book Thing Explainer.
Everything Right of Washington monument.
(N/A)
 Overview Overview Explanation missing
Cueball outside play area.
(None)
 Overview (1004, 1074) (1003, 1074) Explanation missing
Megan points at Runner after forest.
Megan: Wow.
 Overview (1008, 1074) (1006, 1074) Explanation missing
Cliff with rock and cactus.
(None)
 Overview (1010, 1073) (1008, 1073) Explanation missing
Entire wires from ground to Runner.
(N/A)
 Overview Overview Explanation missing
Three wires and people holding on on the ground
(None)
 Overview (1013, 1073) (1011, 1073) Explanation missing
Three wires Megan hanging on that reaches up to three anchors in the bottom hull of the Runner.
(None)
 Overview (1015, 1076) (1014, 1078) 1 in Red world space car in T.E. Megan is also seen hanging on to a rope.
Ponytail in the dunes - zoom out.
(N/A)
 Overview Overview 1 The Rebel Runner flying above this dune landscape is a reference to the desert planet Tatooine where the opening scene is taking place.
Ponytail in the dunes.
(None)
 Overview (1015, 1073) (1016, 1073) Explanation missing
The largest dune.
(None)
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Entire ocean.
(N/A)
 Overview
Hidden passages in red 		Overview Explanation missing
Megan rates the Sea.
Megan: This is an OK sea.
Megan:★★☆☆☆
 Overview
Hidden passages in red 		(1019, 1073) (She rates 2½ stars which cannot be transcribed).
Rouge wave.
Wave: I know rogue waves seem implausible, but we're a straightforward consequence of the equations of fluid dynamics.
Cueball: ...But you can talk?
Wave: The equations are really complicated.
 Overview
Hidden passages in red 		(1022, 1073) (1023, 1073) Explanation missing
Ruins with Cueball singing of Spiders and Panama.
Cueball singing:
Spider-man
Spider-plan
Spider-canal
Spider-Panama
Gates let in
Spider boats
Flood the locks
Spiders float
Look out!
Spiders in both oceans.
 Overview (1026, 1073) (1027, 1073) Comic: 1632: Palindrome and the Spiders category The comic released shortly after this used a palindrome about panama.
Ponytail flying.
Ponytails arms: Flap Flap Flap Flap Flap Flap Flap
 Overview (1029, 1073) (1030, 1073) Explanation missing
Entire forest - zoom out.
(N/A)
 Overview Overview Explanation missing
Left part of forest.
(None)
 Overview (1032, 1074) (1033, 1074) Explanation missing
Right part of forest.
(None)
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Wedding and picnic.
Priest: And if nay here can give cause why these two should not be wed,
Priest: The Great Jabba the Hutt will now listen to your pleas.
 Overview (1038, 1073) (1040, 1074) 1 Explanation missing
Cemetery.
Megan: They're inscribed with our family motto, ”Cur ego committitur dictar latinae,” which means ”Why did I just start speaking Latin?”
 Overview (1042, 1074) (1043, 1074) There is also a cemetery in Click and Drag
Huge foot.
Cueball: It says ”Yo, future dirtbags! Check out my huge foot!”
 Overview (1046, 1074) (1047, 1074) 1 In How to count things in T.E. there is also a drawing of a huge foot.
Pyramid Entire - zoom out.
(N/A)
 Overview Overview There is also a pyramid in Click and Drag
Pyramid protip.
Ponytail: Protip:
Ponytail: Don't stop climbing just because you reach the top.
Ponytail: ☑ Show tips on startup
 Overview (1048, 1074) Comics: Protip category Explanation missing
Pyramid tip.
(None)
 Overview (1051, 1076) Explanation missing
Pyramid Right bottom.
(None)
 Overview (1053, 1074) Explanation missing
Flat and bare ground.
(None)
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Flat grassy ground.
(None)
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Small cliff or hill.
(None)
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The three T's.
(None)
 Overview (1066, 1075) (1067, 1075) Cumputer games Explanation missing
Coin over grass hole.
(None)
 Overview
Hidden passages in red 		(1071, 1074) (1072, 1074) Explanation missing
Ponytail and bird black hat on a stick and Cueball whistling.
(None)
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Small stone pile.
(None)
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Two birds and coin above them.
(None)
 Overview (1081, 1074) Explanation missing
Pedestal.
(None)
 Overview (1086, 1074) Explanation missing
Medusa and floating earth.
(None)
 Overview (1088, 1074) (1090, 1075) The floating earth may be of similar origin as the floating rock island above the Washington Monument.
White Hat hiding in the grass.
(None)
 Overview (1093, 1074) Explanation missing
Lollipop plant and coin.
(None)
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Drifting Cueball.
(None)
 Overview (1098, 1074) Explanation missing
Just grass.
(None)
 Overview (1103, 1074) (1104, 1074) Explanation missing
Storks nest at right end of the world with 10 coins.
(None)
 Overview (1107, 1075) (1107, 1074) Maybe it is the Eagles nest, those that are flying over the right tip of the volcano crater. With ten coins in top of the nest this is the place with the highest coin density in the game, but not in a single tile, that price goes to the starting tile with 11 coins.
Entire Rebel Blockade Runner
(N/A)
 Overview
Also with wires
Also with torpedoes 		Overview 1 In the second image link the way to find the runner from the ground via the wires can be seen. And in the third the way to find the Destroyer above via the torpedoes can be seen. The Destroyer is thus not hidden, like for instance the Floating Rock Island or the Hidden Lair beneath the lava lake.
Bridge on the Rebel Blockade Runner.
Long haired girl: Captain's log, stardate November 24th, 2015...
Hair Bun Girl: Augh! No!
Megan: Good against remotes is one thing, but a true Jedi trains with a T-shirt cannon.
Box: Shirts
Box: Bullets
 Overview (1012, 1078) (1013, 1078) 1 1 Movie: The Star Trek universe The girl at the bridge is mocking Star Wars fan by using the opening line from the Star Trek series. Hair Bun Girl behind (could be Princess Leia) is clearly distressed by this ”mistake”. Given that the long haired girl has the appearance of Danish, this may be intentionally. Cueball with a fishing rod out in the air, is also used in T.E. in Sky Toucher. There is a similar canon with a coin in front on top of the Destroyer.
Death Star Plans in the Rebel Blockade Runner.
First Cueball: The Death Star plans are not in the main computer.
Second Cueball: Darn.
Second Cueball: See, if we had found them in the main computer, that would be good news, since it would mean no one else had them.
Second Cueball: But since we didn’t find them, we need to keep searching for anyone with a copy.
Second Cueball: That all makes sense and I definitely understand how computers work.
First Cueball: So you just came down and made a hole in our ship without permission?
Second Cueball: Yup
First Cueball: Wow, Rude.
 Overview (1017, 1078) (1016, 1079) 1 Explanation missing
Top rear end of the Rebel Blockade Runner.
First Cueball: That thing is huge. Imperial-class?
Second Cueball: Year. Maybe a MK-1. Depends on whether this is the expanded universe or not.
Cueballs bow: Twang
Torpedo: Boom
First Cueball: Why are they still firing?
Second Cueball: Oh, the turret operators pretty much do their own thing.
Second Cueball: It's definitely a pain sometimes.
 Overview (1018, 1079) (1019, 1080) 1 1 In Red world space car in T.E. the rower toasts a marshmallow over a fire as does Megan and Cueball over the exhaust pipe of the Runner.
Bottom rear end of the Rebel Blockade Runner.
(None)
 Overview (1020, 1078) Explanation missing
Entire torpedoes rain from Runner to Destroyer.
(N/A)
 Overview Overview Explanation missing
Torpedoes just above Runner with coin.
(None)
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Torpedoes two steps above Runner with Beret Guy.
Beret Guy: Horsey!
 Overview (1020, 1083) (1021, 1083) Movie: Dr. Strangelove In the movie a man is also flying down riding a bomb like it is a horse (Nuclear Bomb in that case) . Beret Guy will likely survive due to his strange powers.
Torpedoes three steps above Runner.
(None)
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Torpedoes two steps below Destroyer with exploding torpedoes.
Torpedoes: Boom
 Overview (1025, 1087) (1026, 1087) Explanation missing
Torpedoes one step below Destroyer with coin.
(None)
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Torpedo canon below Destroyer.
Megan: We have no photon torpedoes, so I'm firing regular ones
 Overview (1034, 1091) (1033, 1091) 1 Explanation missing
Entire Star Destroyer.
(N/A)
 Overview Overview 1 This is the only reference to Star Wars just because of the Destroyer. Anything inside the spaceship will only be listed as SW reference if there is something in relation to SW, or at least to part of the ship itself (like using special outcrops on the ship for a special room, like the Globe of Death at the top of the bridge).
Entire front end.
(N/A)
 Overview
Hidden passages in red 		Overview Explanation missing
The very tip of the front end.
(N/A)
 Overview Overview The front has both a mouth a nose and an eye with a pupil. It has just eaten a coin and can smell the one above its nose. See more on this interpretation under the Colon like structure below.
Very front with Cueball looking out at bottom of hull.
(None)
 Overview (1002, 1094) (1003, 1094) Comics: Playpen balls category The entrance to the Destroyer
Very front with playpen balls pit at top of hull.
(None)
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Piñata and Cueball with lightsaber at top of hull.
Cueball: No, I got this.
 Overview (1006, 1095) (1007, 1095) Comic: 1620: Christmas Settings Light saber noises are mentioned in the title text in this comic coming out shortly after
Shaft and corridor at bottom of hull.
(None)
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Swimming pool with Ponytail jumping at bottom of hull.
(None)
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Shaft and corridor with three coins at top of hull.
(None)
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Dead end shaft with rubbles at bottom of hull.
(None)
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Zoom out of shaft and corridors with Hairy looking down a shaft at top of hull.
(N/A)
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Hairy looking down a shaft at top of hull.
(None)
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Three coins room and shafts.
(None)
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Triple coins and a single coin on top of a shaft at top of hull.
(None)
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Zoom out of shaft and corridors with ledge at bottom of hull.
(N/A)
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Shall not not pass room and parachutes at one of two ledges at bottom of hull.
Cueball: You shall not not pass!
 Overview (1026, 1093) (1028, 1092) 1 Famous quote by Gandalf but here with an extra not to negate the first.
Two coins room and shafts.
(None)
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Steven Universe family and ice cream prediction.
Megan: Prediction: Seconds before you die, you will remember these words.
Box: Ice cream
 Overview (1031, 1095) (1029, 1095) TV series: Steven Universe Steven Universe is shown here with his three Crystal gem woman family. The coin may be a crystal? They are mentioned on the bridge of the Destroyer by Darth Vader!
Entire Rotary section.
(N/A)
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Hidden passages in red 		Overview Explanation missing
Empty room and Cueball on corridor going to rotary at top of hull.
Cueball: Ugh, rotaries.
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The rotary.
(None)
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Photon canon Tetris piece and mini robot at bottom of hull.
(None - the canon part has been transcribed in the torpedo section)
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Shaft corridor with coin and room with coin over ledge at bottom of hull.
(None)
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Giant octopus in Destroyer.
(None)
 Overview (1038, 1094) (1038, 1093) 1 In T.E. there are several octopuses, and this animal is also often used in xkcd in general. But particularly in The USS Laws of the Land there is both a large octopus beneath the ship and one giant tentacle reaching up from the deep.
Hamster ball and stilts room.
Megan: AaaaAaaa
Guy with hair: I can't leave.
 Overview (1038, 1095) (1039, 1096) 1 Comics: Hamster Ball category In Sky Toucher in T.E. Megan also uses a skateboard, inside a rounded structure.
Box with horns and coin room.
(None)
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Zoom out of three empty rooms near bottom of hull.
(N/A)
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Corridor with coin.
(None)
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Two hoverboards room.
(None)
 Overview (1048, 1095) (1048, 1094) Comic: 1623: 2016 Conversation Guide Self-reference to title of comic, and the comic released shortly after this is also referencing this entire comic as it complain that Hoverboards are not real yet.
Zoom out with dead end corridor car room and shaft at top of hull.
(N/A)
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Cueball on hood of car room and a giant step with coins at top of hull.
(None)
 Overview (1048, 1099) (1049, 1099) 1 In Sky Toucher in T.E. there are also a car stuck in the middle of the sky scraper a long way from the parking cellar. There is even one more car in the Destroyer, but that is close to an exit ledge.
Atmosphere worry and car room at bottom of hull.
Megan: Is this ship designed to fly in the atmosphere like this?
Blonde girl with hair bun: Whatever. Who cares it’s probably fine.
 Overview (1049, 1090) (1050, 1090) 1 Referring to the fact that space ships in Star Wars often fly fast also in the atmosphere. Not something you would normally design for. Though in the case with the Destroyer it did not go into the atmosphere in the scene depicted in the comic from the first film.
Ponytail flying up a shaft towards a coin.
(None)
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Trap covered with leaves and flying Ponytail at bottom of hull.
Cueball: ...And we cover it with leaves so no one sees it.
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Corridor and shaft with coin.
(None)
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Entire Corridor peristalsis and colon.
(N/A)
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Zoom out to entire area 		Overview With the comment from Hair Bun Girl about peristalsis - the bowel movement getting food etc. through the digestive system, and with the three chambers with coins above a colon like structure, leading into the corridor with these motions, with a coin both going down the colon and through the peristalsis, there can be no doubt that this is the digestive system for this ”living” space ship, and coins is what it lives off. This interpretation can further be extended to the very front end, where there is the appearance of a head that eats coins (see the front end overview) and at the rear end a coin is bouncing out at the very last shaft before the very end of the ship. Suggesting where this animal gets rid of the waste products afterwards. (The rest of the ship is not part of this interpretation).
Corridor peristalsis and two coin rooms at top of hull.
Hair Bun Girl: Ah, yes. Corridor peristalsis.
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Corridor peristalsis and colon.
Cueball: Wheee!
 Overview (1055, 1099) (1056, 1099) 1 In Box that cleans food holders in T.E. Ponytail yells Wheee! as she slides through a pipe inside the machine on her stomach, a mix of the two persons in this colon.
Colon like structure with Ponytail and Cueball sliding down.
(None)
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Huge step and three room with coin and Cueball looking into shaft at top of hull.
(None)
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Coin in corridor under Buffer stop room.
(None)
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Canon with coin on top of hull.
(None)
 Overview (1060, 1103) (1062, 1103) There is a similar canon with a coin in front of the barrel on the top of the Runner below the Destroyer.
Coin in corridor below mining company in dead end corridor.
(None)
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Mining company in dead end corridor also coin on top of hull.
(None)
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Entire cotton trap and spark gap room.
(N/A)
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Hidden passages in red
Entire area around
Hidden passages in red 		Overview Explanation missing
Entire Cotton trap room.
(None)
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Hidden passages in red 		Overview Explanation missing
Coins in two corridors towards cotton trap.
(None)
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Cotton trap room with Ponytail.
Ponytail: Watch out for the cotton. It's a trap for someone, I think.
 Overview
Hidden passages in red 		(1057, 1095) (1059, 1094) Explanation missing
Cotton trap room bottom.
(None)
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Hidden passages in red 		(1058, 1092) Explanation missing
Entire spark gap room to bottom of hull.
(N/A)
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Spark gap room
Cueball on wall: Shh.
Electrode bottom: JS
Electrode top: JS
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Buttom part to below hull 		(1057, 1092) (1058, 1090) Explanation missing
Corridor with fire and hammer traps.
Hammers left: Chomp Chomp
Hammer right: Chomp
 Overview
Hidden passages in red 		(1060, 1094) (1061, 1093) Explanation missing
Corridor to cave opening.
(None)
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Zoom out with spiral corridor at bottom of the hull.
(N/A)
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Entire Cave Bridge and rear end.
(N/A)
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Hidden passages in red 		Overview Explanation missing
Entire cave section.
(N/A)
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Entire Cave and Glitch floor room.
(N/A)
 Overview Overview 1 From this image it is clear that the two largest rooms in the Destroyer are almost of the same size, and positioned almost on top of each other. They only need a little parallel shift to make them into one big circular room. The Glitch floor room, is a feature that can be seen in the Star Wars movie, as a protrusion beneath the hull of the Destroyer.
Entire Cave.
(N/A)
 Overview
With shaft and room above 		Overview In Sky Toucher there is also a floor in the sky scraper with trees inside, just like the tree inside the cave inside the Destroyer.
Lake with tree birds and puma on rock at exit in the bottom left side of the cave.
(None)
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Hidden passages in red 		(1065, 1093) (1067, 1094) Explanation missing
Three birds in the top left side of the cave.
(None)
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Gazebo puma deer Cueball with bow and talk of Palpatine in the middle of the cave.
Cueball: I know it seems weird, but every Star Destroyer has one of these rooms.
Cueball: Say what you will about Palpatine's politics, but he's a staunch supporter of the imperial parks and the Coruscant Audubon society.
 Overview (1068, 1093) (1068, 1094) 1 The National Audubon Society is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation. Palpatine is the evil emperor and the capital ”planet” Coruscant is a planet with city all over the solid parts of the surface. So that he is interested in keeping parks both on this planet and on all his Star Destroyers comes as a surprise...
The broad shaft going into the top of the cave.
(None)
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Deer and exit below lamp coin and Black Hat in the bottom right side of the cave.
(None)
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Without coin 		(1069, 1093) (1071, 1093) Explanation missing
Lamp coin and Black Hat in the top right side of the cave.
Insects: Bzzzzz
Black Hat: Zzz
 Overview
Without coin 		(1070, 1095) In this image the coin is part of the scenery as it is the lamp the buzzing insects fly around. When it is gone it reveals a broken lamp, and an insect that had been hidden behind the coin.
Corridor from shaft to the two coins in corridors.
(None)
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Two coins in corridors and four coin room above shaft to cave.
(None)
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Chandelier room with two coins above cave.
(None)
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Zoom out with dance room and basketball and slinky stair at top of hull.
(N/A)
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Basketball on top of Destroyer - zoom out.
(N/A)
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Coin close to basketball on top of Destroyer.
(None)
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Basketball on top of Destroyer.
(None)
 Overview (1067, 1104) (1066, 1104) 1 In Playing Fields in T.E. basketball mentioned, and it is also played on the left side of the volcano crater
Dancing room with piano.
(None)
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Slinky stair case at top of hull.
Slinky: Slink slink slink
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Upside down room and Giddyayup cowboy riding the ship at top of hull.
Cowboy: Giddyayup!
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Entire Glitch floor room.
(N/A)
 Overview
Hidden passages in red
Including two rooms
Hidden passages in red
Entire area around the room
Hidden passages in red Also including two close rooms
Hidden passages in red


Entire area around the room
Hidden passages in red

Overview In the zoom outs the coin below the hidden glitch in the floor can be seen at the very bottom of the pictures. It is quite a drop to catch it, but if you did not expect it, it is likely you would reach it before going up again.
Bottom center of Glitch floor room with coin sign and Cueball.
Large sign:
!
Caution:
Glitchfloor.
Floor signs:
!
!
 Overview
Hidden passages in red 		(1069, 1088) (1070, 1088) You are warned not to step onto this glitch floor! But if you do you can drop down to yet another coin far below the Destroyer, but even farther up above the ground.
Two rooms with coins right of Glitch floor room.
(None)
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Canon protruding below the hull.
(None)
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Entire area around the bridge.
(N/A)
 Overview
Entire bridge area
Brdige and emperor
Bridge and globe of
Actual bridge
Vader twice and emperor 		Overview Explanation missing
Ponytail with paper plane and coin below her on top hull.
(None)
 Overview (1078, 1006) (1077, 1105) 1 Cueball also throws out a plane in Click and Drag from the sky scraper. This also happens in the Sky Toucher in T.E. where it is Ponytail again.
Tarkin on the bridge and Ponytail with paper plane.
Cueball: The fault, dear Tarkin, is not in our star destroyers, but in ourselves.
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Darth Vader talks about Steven Universe on the bridge Megan adjust antenna.
Megan: Such a pain adjusting his thing every time we move
Darth Vader: Breathe
Darth Vader: But Steven's mother is a crystal gem,
Darth Vader: Breathe)
Darth Vader: so he's half- Are you getting all this?
Hairy: Yes, my Lord!
 Overview (1077, 1109) (1077, 1110) 1 TV series: Steven Universe Darth Vader refers to Steven Universe from the TV series. His mother is a Crystal Gem, so since his father is human, he is only a half gem, which is a joke in itself. Steven and his family are located inside a room in the middle of the Destroyer. Maybe as prisoners or it could be Vader is just a big fan since he talks about them on the bridge.
Globe of Death at the top of the Destroyer.
(None)
 Overview (1078, 1110) (1077, 1112) 1 This structure of the Globe of death is part of the Star Destroyer as can be seen in the movies.
Fire system with pure oxygen and two coins room.
Hair Bun Girl: In the event of a fire on one of the decks, this system will seal it off and pump in pure oxygen.
Ponytail: Wait, Oxygen? Not a fire suppressant like-
Hair Bun Girl: Ugh, boring.
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Darth Vader’s gold bullion and Cueball and Ponytail in small room at the top of the hull.
Cueball: Aha! Darth Vader's secret gold bullion reserves! We'll be rich!
Megan: I'm not sure this is canon.
Bags: $ $ $
Boxes: $ $ $ $ $
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Large crocodile near globe of death at the top of the hull.
(None)
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The Emperor Palpatine and his birds at the top of the hull.
Guy: My emperor...
Guy: We all share in your newfound enthusiasm for birdwatching.
Guy: But normally one watches them in the wild, rather than drugging and imprisoning them in a house of stairs.
Emperor: Silence.
Bird: Chirp
Bird: Chirp
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Coin behind the rear end at the top of the hull.
(None)
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Entire Prince of Persia maze.
(N/A)
 Overview
Including both exits 		Overview Computer game: Prince of Persia Compare to this picture of level 1 taken from the game.
Corridor left of Prince of Persia maze.
(None)
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Left entrance to Prince of Persia maze.
(None)
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Left part of Prince of Persia maze.
(None)
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Right part and exit of Prince of Persia maze.
(None)
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Right exit of Prince of Persia maze and shafts.
(None)
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Ant Queen and alarm ante room.
(N/A)
 Overview Overview In this section all rooms have the same dome shaped ceiling that goes a little below the walls of the corridors.
Corridor with alarm and trapped Cueball.
Alarm: …Beep…
Alarm: …Beep…
Alarm: …Beep…
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Ant Queen in Destroyer.
Cueball: What's up?
Ant queen: The usual. Poopin' out ants.
Cueball: Eww.
 Overview (1078, 1095) (1077, 1094) 1 Comic: 1610: Fire Ants and 1641: Hot Dogs The ant comic was released only a week after this comic and refers how cool ants are. Ants are also used twice in T.E. A zoom in on an ant is used to indicate size in Earth's past and under the Tree in that explanation there is an ant colony where one ant is much bigger than the others; an ant queen, a clear reference to the ant queen in the Destroyer. The other comic is a discussion running along the exact same template ending in Eww.

This is probably a reference to a part of Orson Scott Card's "Xenocide" in his Ender series. In it, the main character, Ender, visits a hive queen "bugger" he saved on his travels and became friends with, at a time after the queen has settled in on a new planet. At one point, Ender brings other humans to meet the queen at a time when she was giving birth to some of her drones. This is most likely meant to represent a parody of that conversation or else represent a comedic idea of his first conversation with her when she had been birthing, where Ender is alone and is speaking to the Hive Queen. In this version, when he finds out that she is in the process of birthing more ants, rather than being compassionate and understanding with the Queen (as he is in the book), Ender is weirded out like the other humans he brings along with him later.
Entire shafts from top to bottom towards the rear end.
(N/A)
 Overview Overview This is the longest shaft in the Destroyer, and with the other shaft going out at the rear end, it is possible to go from the top room at the emperor and out beneath in a very short time.
Coin in the longest shaft.
(None)
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Cueball and Megan hanging on to each other in a shaft figuring this out.
Cueball: Okay
Cueball: We can figure this out.
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Zoom out on light bulb with corridor and other room.
(N/A)
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Giant light bulb room.
(None)
 Overview (1084, 1090) (1085, 1090) 1 In The pieces everything is made of in T.E. a light bulb is used as reference for the entry on tungsten as the filament in such bulbs is made from this element.
Hair Bun Girl proposition room and Cueball losing his sandwich at the rear end.
Hair Bun Girl: Use a proposition instead of a preposition if you need something to end a sentence with, baby.
Cueball: My sandwich!
 Overview (1086, 1091) (1089, 1091) One comment is inside the other on the outside of the Destroyer. Cueballs sandwich will fall to the ground.
Coin bouncing out from a shaft below the hull.
Coin: Bounce
 Overview (1086, 1088) (1086, 1090) In relation to the colon interpretation (see above) then this would literally be the rear of this living space ship, and the coin is the waste going out the rear entry!
Megan hanging on below the bottom of the hull.
Megan Hmm.
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Zoom out on shaft and small dead end room at the rear end.
(N/A)
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Zoom out on shafts and part of the rear end.
(N/A)
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Coin in a small indentation corridor at the rear end.
(None)
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Megan wants synesthesia at the rear end at bottom of the hull.
Megan: I want synesthesia so bad I can taste it.
 Overview (1090, 1088) Comic: 1213: Combination Vision Test synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. One typical version is where numbers are perceived as having colors. This was used in the comic referenced. In this comic a wish for something makes Megan almost taste it. If she did indeed have this dysfunction, she might already have what she wished for... This is one of the rare incidences where there are two almost identically Megans in one scene.
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