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.................... ..................). ...%...........!.... .................... .........@d......... ...[..............$. .................... .^....j..........F.. ............*....... @ "'Dear Dogley,' — Gah! CurseCurses are longstanding ill-wishings which, in Fantasyland, often manifest as semisentient. They have to be broken or dispelled. The method varies according to the type and origin of the Curse: [...] 4. Curses on Rings and Swords. You have problems. Rings have to be returned whence they came, preferably at over a thousand degrees Fahrenheit, and the Curse means you won't want to do this. Swords usually resist all attempts to raise their Curses. Your best source is to hide the Sword or give it to someone you dislike. [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. you, RN GodGoddesses and Gods operate in ones, threesomes, or whole pantheons of nine or more (see Religion). Most of them claim to have made the world, and this is indeed a likely claim in the case of threesomes or pantheons: Fantasyland does have the air of having been made by a committee. But all Goddesses and Gods, whether they say they made the world or not, have very detailed short-term plans for it which they are determined to carry out. Consequently they tend to push people into the required actions by the use of coincidence or Prophecy, or just by narrowing down your available choices of what to do next: if a deity is pushing you, things will go miserably badly until there is only one choice left to you. [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details.!" d "Ahem!"	.................... ..................). ...%...........!.... .................... .........@d......... ...[..............$. .................... .^....j..........Fw. ............*....... d "'Dear Dogley, tell me about Dudley's twelve siblings. Sincerely, Erdrick.'"	.................... ..................). ...%...........!.... .................... .........@d......... ...[..............$. .................... .^....j..........w.. ............*....... d "Well?" @ "Well, I'm the youngest of my parents' thirteen offspring."
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.................... ..................). ...%...........!.... .................... .........@d......... ...[..............$. .................... .^....b..........F.. ............*....... d "Wait, they named you Dudley, even though you're a girl?"	.................... ..................). ...%...........!.... .................... .........@d......... ...[..............$. .................... .^....b..........F.. ............*....... @ "Hey, just because I play a ValkyrieThe Valkyries were the thirteen choosers of the slain, the beautiful warrior-maids of Odin who rode through the air and over the sea. They watched the progress of the battle and selected the heroes who were to fall fighting. After they were dead, the maidens rewarded the heroes by kissing them and then led their souls to Valhalla, where the warriors lived happily in an ideal existence, drinking and eating without restraint and fighting over again the battles in which they died and in which they had won their deathless fame. [ The Encyclopaedia of Myths and Legends of All Nations, by Herbert Robinson and Knox Wilson ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. doesn't mean I'm any less of a man!"	.................... ..................). ...%...........!.... .................... .........@d......... ...[..............$. .................... .^....b..........F.. ................... d "Except biologically and mentally, of course." @ "Well, yeah.*"
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ihope	May 26, 2006 04:09
First comment: 20 April, 2005	67 comments written
:-D
ihope	May 26, 2006 04:14
First comment: 20 April, 2005	67 comments written
...Not that I like these long ones...
L	May 26, 2006 06:31
First comment: 10 February, 2005	285 comments written
This is an explanation for the "Mom and my twelve siblings" comment Dudley made two weeks ago today.
Mikoangelo	May 26, 2006 13:59
First comment: 19 October, 2005	82 comments written
Are those lab rats in the fourth-eldest panel? And why are the doors open?
Mr. DOS	May 26, 2006 16:57
First comment: 10 January, 2006	40 comments written
Now that was funny! I really liked frame 15, that was good... ...and on a completely unrelated note, never, ever ever ever try surfing on a Win3.1 machine with IE5 in 800x600... the font sizes are all HUGE!... I'm viewing everything in the smallest font size and the text in this text box is like, 12pt... --- Mr. DOS
Oraki, Born of Alchemy	May 29, 2006 19:59
First comment: 15 May, 2006	4 comments written
Now I see where this Dudley gets bad luck... Being a 13th child means having a connection to the number 13, which is known for misfortune.
Fathead	July 22, 2006 00:35
First comment: 1 April, 2006	1136 comments written
Hm, I couldn't figure out all the allusions.
Grognor	April 19, 2007 00:14
First comment: 4 April, 2007	1161 comments written
Each panel is a reference to some of the classes. Example: Panel 12 represents the monkOne day, an army general invited the Buddhist monk I-Hsiu (literally, "One Rest") to his military head office for a dinner. I-Hsiu was not accustomed to wearing luxurious clothings and so he just put on an old ordinary casual robe to go to the military base. To him, "form is void". As he approached the base, two soldiers appeared before him and shouted, "Where does this beggar came from? Identify yourself! You do not have permission to be around here!" "My name is I-Hsiu Dharma Master. I am invited by your general for a supper." The two soldiers examined the monk closely and said, "You liar. How come my general invites such a shabby monk to dinner? He invites the very solemn venerable I-Hsiu to our base for a great ceremony today, not you. Now, get out!" I-Hsiu was unable to convince the soldiers that he was indeed the invited guest, so he returned to the temple and changed to a very formal solemn ceremonial robe for the dinner. And as he returned to the military base, the soldiers observed that he was such a great Buddhist monk, let him in with honour. At the dinner, I-Hsiu sat in front of the table full of food but, instead of putting the food into his month, he picked up the food with his chopsticks and put it into his sleeves. The general was curious, and whispered to him, "This is very embarrassing. Do you want to take some food back to the temple? I will order the cook to prepare some take out orders for you." "No" replied the monk. "When I came here, I was not allowed into the base by your soldiers until I wear this ceremonial robe. You do not invite me for a dinner. You invite my robe. Therefore, my robe is eating the food, not me." [ Dining with a General - a Zen Buddhism Koan ] 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. and priest[...] For the two priests were talking exactly like priests, piously, with learning and leisure, about the most aerial enigmas of theology. The little Essex priest spoke the more simply, with his round face turned to the strengthening stars; the other talked with his head bowed, as if he were not even worthy to look at them. But no more innocently clerical conversation could have been heard in any white Italian cloister or black Spanish cathedral. The first he heard was the tail of one of Father Brown's sentences, which ended: "... what they really meant in the Middle Ages by the heavens being incorruptible." The taller priest nodded his bowed head and said: "Ah, yes, these modern infidels appeal to their reason; but who can look at those millions of worlds and not feel that there may well be wonderful universes above us where reason is utterly unreasonable?" [ The Innocence of Father Brown, by G.K. Chesterton ] 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. classes.
Quint Sakugarne	January 2, 2008 06:44
First comment: 1 January, 2008	233 comments written
Working in the character classes. I really liked this one.
Grognor	January 19, 2008 07:40
First comment: 4 April, 2007	1161 comments written
That was back when I didn't know the proper name for NetHack's classes is "roles"
kureshii	March 16, 2008 16:44
First comment: 8 March, 2008	37 comments written
Wow, I didn't know there 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. 16 Horsemen[Pestilence:] And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. [War:] And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. [Famine:] And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. [Death:] And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. [ Revelations of John, 6:1-8 ] 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. (& women)...

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