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Post by North Star on Jul 14, 2005 11:38:19 GMT
Well, alcoholism is a disease so Lone Wolf still can't suffer from that!
NS.
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Post by artichu on Jul 14, 2005 19:41:14 GMT
Hey, he can still get addicted to Adagana, can't he? It's his deep dark secret that he won't let anyone in the New Order know -- spending all night twitching, drooling, calling up the Cener Druids and begging to do anything for another fix... I mean, that's where all the Gold Crowns go that stay in "safekeeping" in the Monastery all the time.
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Post by North Star on Jul 14, 2005 19:43:55 GMT
You really are a mean bastard, you know that, Artichu? Fancy besmirching the name of our favourite all-Sommlending action hero like that! NS.
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Post by Dusk Fox on Jul 14, 2005 19:50:57 GMT
I saw it on "Behind the Music: Lone Wolf" on VH1. They have the whole part of his life where he was hooked on adgana, and Banedon and Rimoah had to stage an intervention. He was put into an Herbalish rehab clinic and dosed daily with Taunor water and Laumspur tinged with Gallowbrush (to keep him docile). Apparently he got through it with the support of his friends and his faith in Kai, and learned to control his cravings with occasional doses of Alether and his new scrapbooking hobby.
I’m sorry to hear that he may have relapsed, though. Soon he’ll be calling himself Lonely Wolf and writing a backhanded collection of memoirs.
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Post by North Star on Jul 14, 2005 19:56:35 GMT
Of course though, he'll take Magnamund by storm by dramatising his memoirs in a series of 350-paragraph books which will take the innovative step of being interactive! Lone Wolf plans a series of 20, with a set of fiction about the Grand Master he REALLY wanted to be, but he's only planning 8-12 of those.
NS.
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Post by The Tagazin Poodle on Jul 19, 2005 17:33:00 GMT
Of course though, he'll take Magnamund by storm by dramatising his memoirs in a series of 350-paragraph books which will take the innovative step of being interactive! Except for Book 5, of course.
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Post by Dusk Fox on Jul 19, 2005 18:00:53 GMT
Of course not Book 5. He’ll have to go on and on telling “the one about finding the Book of the Magnakai,” though most of the story will be about him bravely escaping Maouk and then looking for a hit of oede.
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Manxman
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Post by Manxman on Jul 24, 2005 7:46:33 GMT
The end will come when LW finds out he is the father of two evil kids when one comes looking for him, he will be turned from the path of good and return to Helgedad where he was born and get a really good suit of armour with a life support system in it. he then become the cheif darklord and become immortal. shock ending.
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Post by Manxman on Jul 24, 2005 9:35:54 GMT
or............. LW could get a job with the BBC and trail round the world showing folks pathmanship,huntmastry and how to build shelters and call himself lone mears of ray wolf.
nb ray mears is a survival expert on tv in the UK and a bit of a clever [thingy]. he appears to put weight on every series he does, but mind you he eats everything in sight, nothing appears inedible.
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Post by North Star on Jul 24, 2005 9:35:57 GMT
I can't quite place where I've heard that story idea before, but I'm fairly sure that that story conclusion might be copyrighted... NS.
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Post by Al on Jul 30, 2005 15:07:42 GMT
Well, alcoholism is a disease so Lone Wolf still can't suffer from that! NS. I do not think I would classify it as a desease in the same way that I would a cold or an infection, it is not something that is foreign to your body... more akin to a mental disease wich I am not sure that LW is immune to. Al
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Post by North Star on Jul 30, 2005 23:18:39 GMT
Well alcholism is insidious that if you were once addicted, it doesn't matter how many years you stay dry, any drink from then on can plunge you straight back into alcoholism. That's why it's more of a disease, in my opinion.
NS.
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Post by artichu on Jul 30, 2005 23:53:01 GMT
The same thing is true of gambling addicts, too. That doesn't make alcoholism a "disease" in the physical sense. It's not caused by foreign things entering your body, it's caused by a genetic wiring of the way your brain works enhanced by certain mental habits you build up around it. Lone Wolf shouldn't be immune to alcoholism any more than he should depression, or insomnia, or anxiety attacks around scary girls whose names start with Q.
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Post by outspaced on Jul 31, 2005 10:27:39 GMT
Although not a communicable disease, Lone Wolf likely would be immune to such things as alcoholism because they derive from an addictive personality--a mental flaw. Since Lone Wolf has been trained since a child to be in full control of his faculties, it seems reasonable to me that he could easily decide when 'enough is enough' each session, meaning he would never end up drinking meths from a brown paper bag, sitting in a gutter in the docklands of Holmgard ranting about Lorestones and Darklords.
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Post by Al on Jul 31, 2005 14:35:13 GMT
I am no scientist or expert on addicions, but I think that they have a physical part to them as well, in that the body becomes used to the drug and cannot cope without it. In that sense, I am not sure that LWs training would come in handy, because while I have no doubt that he could suffer the mental part, the actual chemical reactions I am not so sure of. And if we go back to canon, if he can become addicted to some things, why not others? Al
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