LNH/Meta: About those sub-basements

[Martin Phipps]

On 5月3日, 上午11時10分, Arthur Spitzer <arspit... at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 5/2/12 7:52 PM, Adrian J. McClure wrote:
>
> > Where did the idea that the LNHQ sub-basements go infinitely deep and
> > are full of Weird Stuff come from? That's always been one of my
> > favorite LNH tropes. I've read about the first year's worth of LNH
> > stories now and they haven't broached that issue yet.
>
> Doing a googles group search (which is a horrible search engine -- I
> know) the Saint's Case of the Clueless Mystery seems to be the oldest
> mention... although it's possible that Hubert came up with the idea in
> Tales of the LNH..

Well, Hubert had Panta sleeping in "the" basement so we didn't have
sub basements at the time and I know I didn't have the idea.  I
suspect it was probably Drizzt but I can't say what story.

Martin