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h "I'm Eitri."
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@ "And I am the envoy of Thor." 
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@ "I have come for MjollnirForged by the dwarves Eitri and Brokk, in response to Loki's
challenge, Mjollnir is an indestructible war hammer. It has
two magical properties: when thrown it always returned to
Thor's hand; and it could be made to shrink in size until it
could fit inside Thor's shirt. Its only flaw is that it has
a short handle. The other gods judged Mjollnir the winner of
the contest because, of all the treasures created, it alone had
the power to protect them from the giants. As the legends
surrounding Mjollnir grew, it began to take on the quality of
"vigja", or consecration. Thor used it to consecrate births,
weddings, and even to raise his goats from the dead. In the
Norse mythologies Mjollnir is considered to represent Thor's
governance over the entire cycle of life - fertility, birth,
destruction, and resurrection.

Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team
Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers
NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details., which you wereIn 1573, the Parliament of Dole published a decree, permitting
the inhabitants of the Franche-Comte to pursue and kill a
were-wolf or loup-garou, which infested that province,
"notwithstanding the existing laws concerning the chase."
The people were empowered to "assemble with javelins,
halberds, pikes, arquebuses and clubs, to hunt and pursue the
said were-wolf in all places where they could find it, and to
take, burn, and kill it, without incurring any fine or other
penalty." The hunt seems to have been successful, if we may
judge from the fact that the same tribunal in the following
year condemned to be burned a man named Giles Garnier, who
ran on all fours in the forest and fields and devoured little
children, "even on Friday." The poor lycanthrope, it appears,
had as slight respect for ecclesiastical feasts as the French
pig, which was not restrained by any feeling of piety from
eating infants on a fast day.
        [ The History of Vampires, by Dudley Wright ]

Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team
Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers
NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. commanded to forge." 
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h "And forged it is. It fits every specification that He gave us!" 
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h "There is, however, something that we have to tell you. You see..." 
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h "And we thought, seeing as we're specialists in polearms..." 
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K - a lucern hammer named MjollnirForged by the dwarves Eitri and Brokk, in response to Loki's
challenge, Mjollnir is an indestructible war hammer. It has
two magical properties: when thrown it always returned to
Thor's hand; and it could be made to shrink in size until it
could fit inside Thor's shirt. Its only flaw is that it has
a short handle. The other gods judged Mjollnir the winner of
the contest because, of all the treasures created, it alone had
the power to protect them from the giants. As the legends
surrounding Mjollnir grew, it began to take on the quality of
"vigja", or consecration. Thor used it to consecrate births,
weddings, and even to raise his goats from the dead. In the
Norse mythologies Mjollnir is considered to represent Thor's
governance over the entire cycle of life - fertility, birth,
destruction, and resurrection.

Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team
Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers
NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details..
@ "What was Thor thinking!?"
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Jonas September 16, 2005 08:09
First comment: 15 July, 2005 24 comments written
We have a new winner in "poor comics" category.
L September 16, 2005 09:59
First comment: 10 February, 2005 285 comments written
What?! No way can this comic be worse than, for instance, this:
http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/archive.php?f=20040331
Zeddi September 16, 2005 10:20
First comment: 5 June, 2004 80 comments written
I think it was somewhat funny :P
Dion September 16, 2005 11:29
First comment: 2 February, 2004 100 comments written
How can you dislike that comic if you didn't even do one tiny little Google Groups search for Efembe?
(Yes, I'm that old.)
Jonas September 16, 2005 12:41
First comment: 15 July, 2005 24 comments written
Okay, I looked for Efembe. And I still don't get it.
freshme@ September 16, 2005 13:05
First comment: 4 January, 2005 67 comments written
I wouldn't call it a poor comic, but it's not exactly witty either. It assumes a knowledge of hammers and polearms that most players just don't have.

Still, it did have me momentarily trying to visualize just how Thor might throw and catch a lucern hammer, which was probably the point.
Daverd September 16, 2005 19:56
First comment: 18 August, 2004 26 comments written
A comic I submitted a couple weeks ago still hasn't been posted yet and I never got any reply, positive or negative. What's going on?
Nobody Special September 17, 2005 02:37
First comment: 8 June, 2005 118 comments written
Well, I liked it, even if it wasn't exactly laugh-out-loud funny. I think it's good and neccessary that this comic doesn't feature fairly obvious, directly NetHack-related jokes each and every time. Without plenty of variety, comic strips inevitably have very abbreviated lifespans.
Kernigh September 18, 2005 04:00
First comment: 6 April, 2005 349 comments written
Consider http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20041022; I am the only user to rate it, so I can unilaterally set its status...
Garbled September 20, 2005 00:32
First comment: 20 September, 2005 12 comments written
I thought it was a clever twist on the mythos. very funny.
tracer September 25, 2005 23:06
First comment: 22 June, 2005 32 comments written
So ... why the "Several millenia later..." in the last panel?
Fathead July 18, 2006 19:45
First comment: 1 April, 2006 1136 comments written
Uhhh...
ariamaki@gmail.com September 12, 2006 04:51
First comment: 12 September, 2006 1 comments written
Actually, the whole joke is that MjollnirForged by the dwarves Eitri and Brokk, in response to Loki's
challenge, Mjollnir is an indestructible war hammer. It has
two magical properties: when thrown it always returned to
Thor's hand; and it could be made to shrink in size until it
could fit inside Thor's shirt. Its only flaw is that it has
a short handle. The other gods judged Mjollnir the winner of
the contest because, of all the treasures created, it alone had
the power to protect them from the giants. As the legends
surrounding Mjollnir grew, it began to take on the quality of
"vigja", or consecration. Thor used it to consecrate births,
weddings, and even to raise his goats from the dead. In the
Norse mythologies Mjollnir is considered to represent Thor's
governance over the entire cycle of life - fertility, birth,
destruction, and resurrection.

Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team
Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers
NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. was coded in to replace on older lightning-damage based item that could be thrown. But, thanks to a coder having no idea what a particular weapon type was, made it a Lucern Hammer-- A polearm. Hence, the joke.
Grognor April 16, 2007 08:19
First comment: 4 April, 2007 1161 comments written
I understood. It's a lot better when you get the joke.
Toby Bartels December 11, 2007 20:29
First comment: 11 August, 2007 83 comments written
There's nothing bad about obscure jokes, as long as they're good!
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