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Monday, 15 November, 2004 by Dion Nicolaas
                    
    JABBERWOCKY     
  by Lewis Carroll  
                    
  an illustrated    
      NetHack       
       poem         
                    
                    
NetHacked and illustrated by Dion Nicolaas
                    
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'Twas brillig, and the b

    Did hit me and touch me in the planes;
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...KKKK.............
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Schnee November 15, 2004 01:39
First comment: 10 November, 2004 76 comments written
Planes? That's only mineMade by Dwarfs. The Rule here is that the Mine is either long
deserted or at most is inhabited by a few survivors who will
make confused claims to have been driven out/decimated by humans/
other Dwarfs/Minions of the Dark Lord. Inhabited or not, this
Mine will be very complex, with many levels of galleries,
beautifully carved and engineered. What was being mined here
is not always evident, but at least some of the time it will
appear to have been Jewels, since it is customary to find
unwanted emeralds, etc., still embedded in the rock of the
walls. Metal will also be present, but only when made up into
armor and weapons (_wondrous_).
[ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]

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town on the pictures if I'm not mistaken, isn't it? ^^
Aaron November 15, 2004 06:17
First comment: 11 March, 2004 32 comments written
The middle frame looks like Astral.

"He left it dead, and with its head, he went gallumphing back."
Schnee November 15, 2004 17:34
First comment: 10 November, 2004 76 comments written
Ah, yes, you're right.

"And, hast thou slain the Jabberwock"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
                        [ Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll ]

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? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! A frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" He chortled in his joy.
Fnordulicious November 15, 2004 19:00
First comment: 23 September, 2004 6 comments written
Hey, K doesn't rhyme with i!
Factitious November 15, 2004 21:45
First comment: 22 October, 2004 3 comments written
No, but planes does.
freshme@ January 7, 2005 01:37
First comment: 4 January, 2005 67 comments written
"Acid blobs" loosely rhymes with "Keystone Kops".
Kal Zekdor May 12, 2005 14:19
First comment: 28 October, 2004 16 comments written
I was just looking back over the comic archives and noticed something weird with this Japperwocky comic. When you hover the mouse pointer over the text that has a black background, like the b, K, and i in this comic, it tells you what it stands for. And apperlently b is not acid blobs, but quiv'ringThree Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne,
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
        [ The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]

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blobs.
Kal Zekdor May 12, 2005 14:23
First comment: 28 October, 2004 16 comments written
I spelled Jabberwocky wrong, damn it. I'm still half asleep. And the grey/silver text does the same thing as well.
Fathead April 13, 2006 00:10
First comment: 1 April, 2006 1136 comments written
Cool. Didn't know you could do that.
Grognor April 25, 2007 05:28
First comment: 4 April, 2007 1161 comments written
Well, I forgot one. But that's fixed now.
HK June 6, 2007 06:49
First comment: 1 June, 2007 309 comments written
Wonderful, simply wonderful!
TK August 12, 2007 17:06
First comment: 11 August, 2007 69 comments written
of course the b is quiv'ringThree Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne,
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
        [ The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]

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blobThese giant amoeboid creatures look like nothing more than
puddles of slime, but they both live and move, feeding on
metal or wood as well as the occasional dungeon explorer to
supplement their diet.

But we were not on a station platform. We were on the track ahead
as the nightmare, plastic column of fetid black iridescence oozed
tightly onward through its fifteen-foot sinus, gathering unholy
speed and driving before it a spiral, re-thickening cloud of the
pallid abyss vapor. It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster
than any subway train -- a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic
bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes
forming and unforming as pustules of greenish light all over the
tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic
penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its
kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.
        [ At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft ]

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; acid blobs are green!
Deshmeister Prime May 15, 2008 01:05
First comment: 15 May, 2008 20 comments written
Poetry in motion... but unfunny
rogerb June 12, 2008 17:56
First comment: 12 June, 2008 2 comments written
Only trouble being, manesThe gnats of the dungeon, these swarming monsters are rarely
seen alone.

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the spirit doesn't rhyme with planes (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manesThe gnats of the dungeon, these swarming monsters are rarely
seen alone.

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Kohkelxon December 7, 2008 13:27
First comment: 8 January, 2008 52 comments written
What the heck's this about :O
Ath'gaar January 17, 2009 08:07
First comment: 17 January, 2009 2 comments written
...
Everything looks SO boring now.

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