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Thursday, 28 September, 2006

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# # ---.-------- \|...@.......#### \|. d.......\| # \|..........\| ## ------------ ## ## # @ "Huh? What happened? Why is the game asking me if I want my possessions identified?"	# # ---.-------- \|...@.......#### \|. d.......\| # \|..........\| ## ------------ ## ## # @ "Um, Wesley, I don't know how to tell you this, but... you're dead."	# # ---.-------- \|...@.......#### \|. d.......\| # \|..........\| ## ------------ ## ## # @ "You 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. shot by a poisoned dart trap. Now it's game over. You're finished."	# # ---.-------- \|...@.......#### \|. d.......\| # \|..........\| ## ------------ ## ## # @ "Oh... Well, everyone makes mistakes, right? I can just reload the save file, can't I?"
# # ---.-------- \|...@.......#### \|. d.......\| # \|..........\| ## ------------ ## ## #	# # ---.-------- \|...@.......#### \|. d.......\| # \|..........\| ## ------------ ## ## # d "Please, please let me be the one to break it to him!"	# # ---.-------- \|...@.......#### \|. d.......\| # \|..........\| ## ------------ ## ## # @ "Break what?" @ "Ah, fine. But only because you're using those puppy-dogA domestic animal, the _tame dog_ (_Canis familiaris_), of which numerous breeds exist. The male is called a dog, while the female is called a bitch. Because of its known loyalty to man and gentleness with children, it is the world's most popular domestic animal. It can easily be trained to perform various tasks. 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. eyes!"	--\|---- # # ---@-------- \|...........#### \|. d.......\| # \|..........\| ## ------------ ## ## @ "I'll be in the next room. Bracing myself."
\|.....\| \|.....\| --\|---- @ # ---.-------- \|...........#### \|. d.......\| # \|..........\| ## d "So, Noobley, here's the thing about NetHack..."	------- \|.....\| \|.@...\| --+---- # # ---.-------- \|...........####	------- \|.....\| \|.@...\| --+---- # # ---.-------- \|...........#### @ "NOOOOO! NOOOOOOOOO!!"	------- \|.....\| \|.@...\| --+---- # # ---.-------- \|...........#### @ "And thus the age of innocence is over."
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