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Thursday, 7 October, 2004 by Dion Nicolaas
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BaalzebubThe "lord of the flies" is a translation of the Hebrew
Ba'alzevuv (Beelzebub in Greek). It has been suggested that
it was a mistranslation of a mistransliterated word which
gave us this pungent and suggestive name of the Devil, a
devil whose name suggests that he is devoted to decay,
destruction, demoralization, hysteria and panic...
        [ Notes on _Lord of the Flies_, by E. L. Epstein ]

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. hits! BaalzebubThe "lord of the flies" is a translation of the Hebrew
Ba'alzevuv (Beelzebub in Greek). It has been suggested that
it was a mistranslation of a mistransliterated word which
gave us this pungent and suggestive name of the Devil, a
devil whose name suggests that he is devoted to decay,
destruction, demoralization, hysteria and panic...
        [ Notes on _Lord of the Flies_, by E. L. Epstein ]

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. bites! 
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@ "Those monsters are always so well prepared. I wonder how they know..." 
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@ From: wizardEbenezum walked before me along the closest thing we could
find to a path in these overgrown woods. Every few paces he
would pause, so that I, burdened with a pack stuffed with
arcane and heavy paraphernalia, could catch up with his
wizardly strides. He, as usual, carried nothing, preferring,
as he often said, to keep his hands free for quick conjuring
and his mind free for the thoughts of a mage.
        [ A Dealing with Demons, by Craig Shaw Gardner ]

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.@ yendor.geh
To: baalzebubThe "lord of the flies" is a translation of the Hebrew
Ba'alzevuv (Beelzebub in Greek). It has been suggested that
it was a mistranslation of a mistransliterated word which
gave us this pungent and suggestive name of the Devil, a
devil whose name suggests that he is devoted to decay,
destruction, demoralization, hysteria and panic...
        [ Notes on _Lord of the Flies_, by E. L. Epstein ]

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.@ baalzlair.geh
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Mandragora October 7, 2004 00:43
First comment: 7 October, 2004 7 comments written
*muffled by ground* Eh, I'm not surprised. I always suspected those uniques had some way of keeping in touch.
Robert Barber, Tamer of a Digital One October 7, 2004 01:38
First comment: 28 September, 2004 64 comments written
What's a sentient plant doing here? *Digs up Mandragora*
Mandragora October 7, 2004 01:56
First comment: 7 October, 2004 7 comments written
Stop that. I friggin' HATE when people do that to me.
Violist October 7, 2004 03:05
First comment: 25 June, 2004 206 comments written
Eh? I agree with Mandragora, there is a conspiracy going on...
Christopher October 7, 2004 04:13
First comment: 10 May, 2004 30 comments written
A consipricy eh? I bet IzchakThe shopkeeper of the lighting shop in the town level of the
gnomish mines is a tribute to Izchak Miller, a founding member
of the NetHack development team and a personal friend of a large
number of us. Izchak contributed greatly to the game, coding a
large amount of the shopkeep logic (hence the nature of the tribute)
as well as a good part of the alignment system, the prayer code and
the rewrite of "hell" in the 3.1 release. Izchak was a professor
of Philosophy, who taught at many respected institutions, including
MIT and Stanford, and who also worked, for a period of time, at
Xerox PARC. Izchak was the first "librarian" of the NetHack project,
and was a founding member of the DevTeam, joining in 1986 while he
was working at the University of Pennsylvania (hence our former
mailing list address). Until the 3.1.3 release, Izchak carefully
kept all of the code synchronized and arbitrated disputes between
members of the development teams. Izchak Miller passed away at the
age of 58, in the early morning hours of April 1, 1994 from
complications due to cancer. We then dedicated NetHack 3.2 in his
memory.
                [ Mike Stephenson, for the NetHack DevTeam ]

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.'s involved somehow, he look awfully suspicios. Where does he get that coffee I wonder, and who manages to give him magic lamps...
Mantar October 7, 2004 05:36
First comment: 17 June, 2004 197 comments written
I knew you couldn't trust those mail daemons. I'm going to set nethack up to monitor my mail just so I can fling daggers at the little bastards.
Robert Barber, Tamer of a Digital One October 7, 2004 13:11
First comment: 28 September, 2004 64 comments written
Sorry, sir/ma'am. *Re-buries Mandragora*
Kassil, Mithril Dragon October 7, 2004 21:40
First comment: 7 October, 2004 14 comments written
MolochMail: The ONLY way to get a message safely through hell.
Robert Barber, Tamer of a Digital One October 15, 2004 01:15
First comment: 28 September, 2004 64 comments written
I got a bad feeling about this.......
Fathead April 11, 2006 21:15
First comment: 1 April, 2006 1136 comments written
Use the farce, Luke.
Grognor April 7, 2007 04:17
First comment: 4 April, 2007 1161 comments written
Shut the farce up.
HK June 6, 2007 01:33
First comment: 1 June, 2007 309 comments written
So that's why they're so prepared?
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