You walk into Twilight Sperglord's basement lab one day. "Hey Twi, just wanted to talk to you about these automated late-book recovery drones—what in holy heck?" Your jaw drops at the scene before you.
Twilight is standing before an instrument panel, wearing thick blast goggles and a sinister grin. Wires from the panel connect to a giant glass tube.
And inside the tube, flickering orange lines outline a familiar shape...
The shape of an arrogant and very pissed off unicorn, with hat and cape. The flickering neon-like lines make her appear to be alternately threatening Twilight's destruction with great bombast, and wheedling and pleading with her for release from this hellish prison.
Bathed in unwholesome light, you gape with awe and terror at the sight of...
The Bright and Cold-Cathoded Nixie.
[Oh man why did I bother to write this no one's ever gonna get it.]
You're right, I don't get it.
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A Nixie tube is a device, similar in appearance to a vacuum tube, which can be made to display letters and numerals, and which is occasionally found in old electronic equipment. They are sometimes built into modern devices, such as clocks, by those who appreciate their retro look.
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I am always happy to explain. "Infra Dig" is slang, short for Latin infra dignitatem, and means "Beneath one's dignity." Spike is making a layered pun, in that the gem as well as the task are alike beneath him, and also to Twilight's suggestion that he use his infravision on an archaeological dig.
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Googling was sufficient for me to create the number. The right search term would help, of course. As stated, the subject of the chapter is related in a way.
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This has been sitting here for a while. I wonder why I didn't pick it up before.
So the true puzzle is to determine what search lead you to this number, with our only true clue being that the chapter is related but does not contain any direct clues itself.
Has horizon caved and now knows, or is it yet oblique?
Is it something to do with a pinball machine?
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Sorry for the delay in response.
1) Correct.
2) Horizon has not solved it, so far as I know.
3) TILT
(that is to say, no.)
(Krillin voice)_I_ got it!(/Krillin voice)
Uhhhhhhhhhhh k