>The staff you're looking for is the rod of Asklepios
I'm afraid that may be one of those interesting facts that is lost to history. It doesn't matter which symbol has the correct origin because the caduceus is in widespread use. It's on hospitals and road signs and military patches - everywhere. Google search for "medical symbol" turns up 20 images of the caduceus for every image of the rod of Asklepios. Probably because the caduceus looks way cooler and is a much easier to pronounce than "Asklepios".
Some guy found that commercial organizations were more likely to use the caduceus than professional associations. Since the Chakwas cartel is processing kilotons of platinum, I'd say it falls squarely on the commercial end of the spectrum.
I laughed! Though, there is just something I have to point out in the last panel.
That staff is the caduceus, carried by Hermes and symbolising trade and negotiation. The staff you're looking for is the rod of Asklepios, god of medicine and healing, which only has one snake and no wings.
I think this is a good basis to go and make an indie game with. Obviously there should be more per bug, as well as graphical improvements, but it'd be fun nonetheless.
Badspot, Is there a way to get ROM Shelf to recognize any of the video snapshots from Emumovies.com?? Or might a future version of ROM Shelf be able to do this? I have complete sets I'd like to use with ROM Shelf.
Thanks for the explanation of rules, I do realise that and understood what the word means once I saw it. My previous comment seems to do a poor job of conveying the thought. :) It's not that I can't understand what "Swordstress" means, it just sounds (looks, whatever) weird to me. I suppose that's my problem and a direct cause of not being American (i.e. a native speaker). She looks nice anyway, even though I'm not a fan of that much girlishness (I can into coining words too! xD). Tl;dr: no offence meant, I'm just your average crazy being of teh interwebs.
The top of the outer window was open so they flew in, but there wasn't enough room between the windows for them to fly out. The top part of the outer window is glass so they couldn't climb out either.