Category: Ozblogging
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Ozblogging: The Road to Oz, Part 2
Dorothy and Company arrive at a very odd village. It's inhabited entirely by anthropomorphic foxes. The fox-people are initially suspicious of the newcomers, but the power of the Love Magnet quickly turns that to friendship. Our heroes are conveyed to the throne room of King Renard IV, the ruler of the foxes, known to his…
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Ozblogging: The Road to Oz, Part 1
The Road to Oz is the fifth of L. Frank Baum's immortal Oz series, published in 1909. Like its predecessor Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, it follows Dorothy on another difficult journey to Oz with a group of entertaining companions. Sure, by this point it's a formula, but it's a winning formula and Road…
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Ozblogging: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Part 5
The End of the Story But Not the Book After getting away from the Gargoyles, our heroes have a curiously un-exciting encounter with a room full of dragons. You'd think that a cave containing an unspecified number of dragons — even baby ones — would be a tough level for the player-characters to get through.…
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Ozblogging: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Part 4
Elemental Trouble From the Valley of Voe our heroes climb another long staircase up to the land of the Gargoyles. Along the way they have a couple of odd encounters. The first is when they pass a rift in the wall which looks out over another cavern, and a very strange place it is. The…
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Ozblogging: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Part 3
Un-Player-Character-Like Behavior The Black Pit isn't actually a pit, it's more of a tunnel. The Mangaboos wall our heroes into it with glass boulders, so Dorothy, Zeb, Jim, Eureka and the Wizard follow the tunnel to see where it leads. They go up for a long way and finally emerge in a "delightful valley" with…
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Ozblogging: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Part 2
Humbugs and Humanoid Plants The Sorcerer of the Mangaboos is named Gwig, and unlike the rest of those people he's not eerily handsome. In fact, he's all covered with thorns. Gwig, it seems, is a bit of a humbug, because after the first Rain of Stones he promised there would be no more. He gets…
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Ozblogging: Dorothy And The Wizard In Oz, Part 1
In the Introduction to Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, L. Frank Baum good-naturedly complains that "The children won't let me stop telling tales of the Land of Oz. I know lots of other stories, and I hope to tell them, some time or another; but just now my loving tyrants won't allow me." Every…
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Ozblogging: Ozma of Oz, Part 5
Episode Five: Triumph of the Hen Billina marches into the Nome King's palace like an action-movie hero in the final act. She spots all ten purple (Evish) items and begins reversing the enchantments. When she's done with that she starts finding green objects which are people from Oz. With her inside information to help, Billina…
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Ozblogging: Ozma of Oz, Part 4
Episode Four: Extreme Makeover Edition Ozma goes into the Nome King's palace to find the transformed royal family of Ev, and immediately makes a terrifying discovery. The Nome King apparently hired Liberace as his interior decorator. Read the description and tremble: "The ceilings were composed of great arches that rose far above her head, and…
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Ozblogging: Ozma of Oz, Part 3
Episode Three: The Nome King! The Army of Oz marches north, toward the entrance to the Nome King's dominions. Along the way there's a bit of a delay as Billina has to stop to lay an egg, which the Scarecrow stashes in his pocket when nobody else has a use for it. Pay attention to…
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