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Tuesday, 22 August, 2006 by Nameless
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@ "Using my great intelligence and cunning, I have come up with a trap for the 'c's."
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@ "Heh-heh-heh. This is so good."
Suddenly, a         
cockatriceOnce in a great while, when the positions of the stars are
just right, a seven-year-old rooster will lay an egg. Then,
along will come a snake, to coil around the egg, or a toad,
to squat upon the egg, keeping it warm and helping it to
hatch. When it hatches, out comes a creature called basilisk,
or cockatrice, the most deadly of all creatures. A single
glance from its yellow, piercing toad's eyes will kill both
man and beast. Its power of destruction is said to be so
great that sometimes simply to hear its hiss can prove fatal.
Its breath is so venomous that it causes all vegetation
to wither.

There is, however, one creature which can withstand the
basilisk's deadly gaze, and this is the weasel. No one knows
why this is so, but although the fierce weasel can slay the
basilisk, it will itself be killed in the struggle. Perhaps
the weasel knows the basilisk's fatal weakness: if it ever
sees its own reflection in a mirror it will perish instantly.
But even a dead basilisk is dangerous, for it is said that
merely touching its lifeless body can cause a person to
sicken and die.
[ Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library)
and other sources ]

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GreyKnight August 22, 2006 00:11
First comment: 24 March, 2006 48 comments written
:-D
shel August 22, 2006 00:36
First comment: 19 August, 2005 107 comments written
Nice of you to drop by.
Jack Simth August 22, 2006 02:08
First comment: 3 January, 2005 59 comments written
Holes in the floor only delay the inevitable confrontation... although they do occasionally scatter forces usefully.
IceLizarrd August 22, 2006 04:29
First comment: 25 May, 2006 7 comments written
CockatriceOnce in a great while, when the positions of the stars are
just right, a seven-year-old rooster will lay an egg. Then,
along will come a snake, to coil around the egg, or a toad,
to squat upon the egg, keeping it warm and helping it to
hatch. When it hatches, out comes a creature called basilisk,
or cockatrice, the most deadly of all creatures. A single
glance from its yellow, piercing toad's eyes will kill both
man and beast. Its power of destruction is said to be so
great that sometimes simply to hear its hiss can prove fatal.
Its breath is so venomous that it causes all vegetation
to wither.

There is, however, one creature which can withstand the
basilisk's deadly gaze, and this is the weasel. No one knows
why this is so, but although the fierce weasel can slay the
basilisk, it will itself be killed in the struggle. Perhaps
the weasel knows the basilisk's fatal weakness: if it ever
sees its own reflection in a mirror it will perish instantly.
But even a dead basilisk is dangerous, for it is said that
merely touching its lifeless body can cause a person to
sicken and die.
[ Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library)
and other sources ]

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.
: the new newt(kinds of) small animal, like a lizard, which spends most of
its time in the water.
        [ Oxford's Student's Dictionary of Current English ]

"Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble."
        [ Macbeth, by William Shakespeare ]

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Kernigh August 22, 2006 21:27
First comment: 6 April, 2005 349 comments written
They all fell near the < too. The Dogley Dimension is being unfriendly today.
Feory August 23, 2006 01:16
First comment: 15 August, 2006 63 comments written
I do wonder how cockatrices eat, considering any creature they touch turns to stone"Gold is tried by a touchstone, men by gold."
        [ Chilon (c. 560 BC) ]

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. Scavengers?
Fathead August 23, 2006 04:54
First comment: 1 April, 2006 1136 comments written
Goodness, how would this work, anyway?

Trices eat rocks, of course.
Jeet December 12, 2006 01:34
First comment: 23 March, 2006 10 comments written
And I spose they would feed the chicks sand?
Grognor June 12, 2007 07:56
First comment: 4 April, 2007 1161 comments written
No damnit! Cockatrices only turn LIVE things to stone.

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