POV: Your overdue book fines have been piling up

I wanted to see the oubliette.

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8 Comments

milkisklim@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y (5 replies)

I didn't know what an oubliette was, so I looked it up.

It's a type of dungeon where the only entrance is a trap door in the ceiling of the oubliette. They are shaped like a bottle, narrow and vertical. The word comes from the French word "oublier" meaning"to forget"

USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website · 4 pts · 2y (4 replies)

So you're saying you don't just have an encyclopaedic knowledge of medieval European torture methods?

Huh. Weird.

milkisklim@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y

I'm not a Iron Maiden Jim, I'm a bloody eagle!

Stormygeddon@startrek.website · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I learned the term from Baldur's Gate 3, personally.

USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website · 3 pts · 2y

I learned it from a comic book.

FormerGameDev@midwest.social · 1 pts · 2y

Quake, here, I think

kamenlady@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Encountering a correct use and great execution of POV always makes my day.

usernamefactory@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y