4/30/2023 0 Comments Open sesame![]() He casually utters the key words "Afghanistan banana stand" to the guard - there's some tension as the guard doesn't act hypnotized, but he does follow instructions and hands over the diamond. At the end of The Hot Rock, Dortmunder finally gets the sought-after diamond after a bank guard was given a hypnotic suggestion.Rather stupidly, the phrase he uses is his own name and he answers his phone in the exact same way. The Bourne Ultimatum has Noah Vosen keep all his incriminating documents in a safe with a voiceprint lock.Sneakers has a voiceprint lock that requires a specific phrase unlike in Shadowrun, it ends up being possible to beat the lock with a tape recorder.By using a colorful or well-known metaphor that implies the intended meaning (this sort of thing is known as a "kenning" among Germanic peoples), one can hopefully bypass (some) censors and improve memory retention of the story's details, useful things for traditional storytellers. Either thing would be hidden, protected, and treasured, and thus a reference implies the keeping of secrets and treasures. The use of "Sesame" ("Simsim" in Arabic) just happens to be a random word, which makes sense why would you make the magic words to a secret chamber of riches something which anyone could figure out? note While in-universe the password seems randomly chosen, "sesame" was probably used by Real Life oral-tradition storytellers because of a certain cultural understanding regarding the sesame seed, which grows in a seed pod that splits open when mature, possibly giving it a passing resemblance to female genitalia but also possibly due to a Hebrew word or phrase pronounced like "sem" or "shem" and referencing the name of God or heaven. The fact that it sounds an awful lot like "Open Says-A-Me" is a coincidence: the phrase is directly translated from Arabic "Iftaḥ yā Simsim", and the pun doesn't work. The flavor text of "Magic Shenanigans" is based on a meme of the same name.A door or area is secured by a lock that uses a sound to open the lock, including a spoken phrase.The flavor text of "Reindeer Season" is a parody of the reindeer names roll call in the Santa's Reindeer song.The flavor text of "Turbo-Charged Soil" is a reference to a line from Idiocracy where the idiotic people in the future think electrolytes is what plants crave. ![]()
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