Nashkel Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions

These are tombstone inscriptions from a cemetery in the game Baldur's Gate.

Here lies Gilles

Used no net
Knew no fear
Made mis-step
Wound up here
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Here's lies Andrew, the quality of his armor was not assured.
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Here lies John W:

Looked up the mine shaft
to see if the cart was on the way down.
It was.
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A bard, of sorts, with skill in rhyme and reason made the words come clear,
He gladly wrote for all to hear and therein lies the rub, my friends.
He set his starts too far from ends, so "less is more" or go unread.
A lesson learned. Too bad I'm dead.

Lukas K.
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This is the final resting place of Russ.

"Everyone dies, it's how you live that matters."
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Here lies the body of Rob.
If not, please notify the undertakers at once.
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Charles

One note too many. One day too late...
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Here lies Dan M

"When I can no longer stand alone, then it will be time to die."
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Forever to be remembered, Marcia.

"Bestiae sumus, ut non bestiae simus."
(Beasts we are, lest we beast become.)
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Here lies Greg.

Reader if cash thou art
In want of any
Dig four feet deep
And thou wilt find a penny.
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Chris Parker (1 Kytorn, 1347)

He never returned from his last journey up North.
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Ben's last words:

"I regret nothiiinnnngg!"
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The reports of my death have been greatly underestimated, James.
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Here lies Rick
Who was always a few links shy of a chain.
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Here lies Kelly, an Atheist.
All dressed up
And no place to go.
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There once was a man named Don,
who fell asleep out on his lawn.
They thought he was pretending to be dead,
then a tombstone fell on his head.
And now Don is long gone.
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I was Nashkel born
and Nashkel bred
and here I lay
Nashkel Dead!
-Dave H.
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Here lies Scott.
"Sleep? I don't need no stinkin' sleep!"
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Dave F, slain by 13 Gibberlings, 4 Kobolds, 6 Ogres and 2 Dire Wolfs.

Ne invoces expellere non possis
(Do not call up that you cannot put down.)
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Feargus-
who said, "Is it done yet?"
"not yet I bet!"
(once too many!)
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Here lies Arnel.
"You should see the other guy."
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Here lies Tobyn
Who believed in the good of all,
Died at the hands of zombies whilst asking for directions.
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Mike: I feel my body rising towards the bright light... wait, now it's falling.
What the HELL!
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Ross the long-haired hippy agitator: Dead.
But he was so young and beautiful.
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Larry's last words:
"Let's split up, we'll cover more ground."
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Dean
The lean, mean, killing machine, died.
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This is the final resting place of Elben.
Who lost his life to an Ankheg.
Eaten, but never forgotten.
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"Stranger, Tread this ground with gravity
Dentist Mark B is filling his last cavity."
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Poor Steve,
When we said, "Heads up," old friend, we meant it.
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Here lies Henrik,
who was fatally burned
13 Mirtul, 1358,
by the explosion of a lamp
filled with "P. J. Stanford's
Non-Explosive Burning Fluid."
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Dan W,

He died at a public gathering when the platform gave away.
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When they said "animate" the dead,
poor Tony took it literally.
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Here lies Cass.
Mors principium est.
(Death is the beginning.)
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Beneath this stone, a lump of clay
Lies Mark D the young
Who on the twenty-third of May
Began to hold his tongue
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Ray -
Who said, "This damn game will be...
the death of me!"

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