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I wanted to see the oubliette.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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

Huh. Weird.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Quake, here, I think

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