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# --\|----- \|[..i..\| \|....i.\| #####...@....## -------- # # # # Specify what? (type the word) tenguThe tengu was the most troublesome creature of Japanese legend. Part bird and part man, with red beak for a nose and flashing eyes, the tengu was notorious for stirring up feuds and prolonging enmity between families. Indeed, the belligerent tengu were supposed to have been man's first instructors in the use of arms. [ Mythical Beasts, by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library) ] 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.	# --\|----- \|[..i..\| \|....i.\| #####...@....## -------- # # # # @ "...the belligerent tenguThe tengu was the most troublesome creature of Japanese legend. Part bird and part man, with red beak for a nose and flashing eyes, the tengu was notorious for stirring up feuds and prolonging enmity between families. Indeed, the belligerent tengu were supposed to have been man's first instructors in the use of arms. [ Mythical Beasts, by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library) ] 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.... ...man's first instructors in the use of arms."	Ten millenia earlier... \|..------ \|.....`\| ----- \|...i...--- .`\| \|`...@...`\| ..---``........-- .................. .............*... i "This, my hairy friend, is a bec de corbin, or a beaked polearm."	---- \|..------ \|.....`\| ----- \|...i...--- .`\| \|`...@...`\| ..---``........-- .................. .............*... i "It is superior to the partisan and the fauchard, but is much heavier."
---- \|..------ \|.....`\| ----- \|...i...--- .`\| \|`...@...`\| ..---``........-- .................. .............*... i "Here, let's see what you can do with it, shall we?"	---- \|..------ \|.....`\| ----- \|...i...--- .`\| \|`...@...`\| ..---``........-- ..............:... .............*... @ "Gunnh?"	---- \|..------ \|.....`\| ----- \|...i...--- .`\| \|`... ...`\| ..---``........-- .................. .............*... Stoneroller drops the beaked polearm on his head! Stoneroller dies...	---- \|..------ \|.....`\| ----- \|...i...--- .`\| \|`... ...`\| ..---``........-- .................. .............*... i "Maybe that black monolith wasn't such a bad idea after all..."
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korodzik@poczta.onet.pl	June 27, 2005 08:58
First comment: 20 April, 2005	23 comments written
LOL!!!!!
Eskimo	June 27, 2005 09:04
First comment: 14 April, 2004	166 comments written
Unknown stuff to me. What's the reference?
Netaddict	June 27, 2005 10:42
First comment: 14 April, 2004	34 comments written
2001.
Beowulf	June 27, 2005 11:48
First comment: 8 January, 2005	114 comments written
Bwahahahaha!!! But shouldn't Stoneroller be a Y instead of an @?
nethacker	June 27, 2005 13:42
First comment: 13 January, 2005	13 comments written
nice comic
Anonymous	June 27, 2005 17:31
First comment: 3 September, 2004	29 comments written
TenguThe tengu was the most troublesome creature of Japanese legend. Part bird and part man, with red beak for a nose and flashing eyes, the tengu was notorious for stirring up feuds and prolonging enmity between families. Indeed, the belligerent tengu were supposed to have been man's first instructors in the use of arms. [ Mythical Beasts, by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library) ] 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. are from JAPANESE mythology, aren't they? They 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. believed to be the native inhabitants of the island, I think...
Eemeli	June 27, 2005 20:30
First comment: 2 March, 2005	143 comments written
That stoneroller might be Dudley's grand-grand...father
Kernigh	June 27, 2005 20:38
First comment: 6 April, 2005	349 comments written
It seems like a Slashem or Nethack-4.0 feature... The tenguThe tengu was the most troublesome creature of Japanese legend. Part bird and part man, with red beak for a nose and flashing eyes, the tengu was notorious for stirring up feuds and prolonging enmity between families. Indeed, the belligerent tengu were supposed to have been man's first instructors in the use of arms. [ Mythical Beasts, by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library) ] 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. zaps a wand of'Saruman!' he cried, and his voice grew in power and authority. 'Behold, I am not Gandalf the Grey, whom you betrayed. I am Gandalf the White, who has returned from death. You have no colour now, and I cast you from the order and from the Council.' He raised his hand, and spoke slowly in a clear cold voice. 'Saruman, your staff is broken.' There was a crack, and the staff split asunder in Saruman's hand, and the head of it fell down at Gandalf's feet. 'Go!' said Gandalf. With a cry Saruman fell back and crawled away. [ The Two Towers, by J.R.R. Tolkien ] 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. sleep! The bolt of sleep hits you! ... You wake up. You feel more experienced in daggerIs this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. [ Macbeth, by William Shakespeare ] 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..
Plague	June 27, 2005 21:22
First comment: 31 January, 2005	102 comments written
Kernigh's post reminds me of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Neutral ihope	June 27, 2005 23:11
First comment: 8 June, 2005	14 comments written
/Plague: Yeah, like Netaddict just said ;-)
tracer	June 28, 2005 01:07
First comment: 22 June, 2005	32 comments written
Beowulf wrote: > >But shouldn't Stoneroller be a Y instead of an @? Not if we're only talking about 10 millennia. Modern humans 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. pretty, well, modern by 8,000 B.C.E.. Then again, the bec-de-corbin hadn't exactly been invented by 8,000 B.C.E., either....
Netaddict	June 28, 2005 09:19
First comment: 14 April, 2004	34 comments written
Yeah, but that's why the guy died. A bone wouldn't have been much to train him with..
Beowulf	June 28, 2005 10:19
First comment: 8 January, 2005	114 comments written
The tenguThe tengu was the most troublesome creature of Japanese legend. Part bird and part man, with red beak for a nose and flashing eyes, the tengu was notorious for stirring up feuds and prolonging enmity between families. Indeed, the belligerent tengu were supposed to have been man's first instructors in the use of arms. [ Mythical Beasts, by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library) ] 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. calls him "my hairy friend" so I was thinking it was supposed to be a monkey"Listen, man-cub," said the Bear, and his voice rumbled like thunder on a hot night. "I have taught thee all the Law of the Jungle for all the peoples of the jungle--except the Monkey-Folk who live in the trees. They have no law. They are outcasts. They have no speech of their own, but use the stolen words which they overhear when they listen, and peep, and wait up above in the branches. Their way is not our way. They are without leaders. They have no remembrance. They boast and chatter and pretend that they are a great people about to do great affairs in the jungle, but the falling of a nut turns their minds to laughter and all is forgotten. We of the jungle have no dealings with them. We do not drink where the monkeys drink; we do not go where the monkeys go; we do not hunt where they hunt; we do not die where they die...." [ The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling ] 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..
Fathead	June 20, 2006 20:52
First comment: 1 April, 2006	1136 comments written
Stoneroller's no Y, because usually Orcs are o and dwarfs are h, and gnomes, G, but all are @ when you are controlling them.
Grognor	April 14, 2007 19:54
First comment: 4 April, 2007	1161 comments written
BOOM
Melnor the Mad	May 3, 2008 08:00
First comment: 19 February, 2008	23 comments written
Dion, I think you need to install countermeasures to keep Grognor from exploding. Pieces of him keep landing on other peoples' comments...

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