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Tuesday, 15 May, 2007 by Dak
You remove your +2  
chain-mail --More-- 
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You remove your     
blessed +5 iron     
helmet --More--     
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You remove your +3  
gauntlets of power  
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You drop everything 
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   /  REST IN  \    
  /    PEACE    \   
 /    Dudley     \  
 |   killed by   |  
 |  a dyslexia-  |  
 |   distorted   |  
 |    dragonIn the West the dragon was the natural enemy of man.  Although
preferring to live in bleak and desolate regions, whenever it
was seen among men it left in its wake a trail of destruction
and disease. Yet any attempt to slay this beast was a perilous
undertaking. For the dragon's assailant had to contend
not only with clouds of sulphurous fumes pouring from its fire
breathing nostrils, but also with the thrashings of its tail,
the most deadly part of its serpent-like body.
[ Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library) ]

"One whom the dragons will speak with," he said, "that is a
dragonlord, or at least that is the center of the matter. It's
not a trick of mastering the dragons, as most people think.
Dragons have no masters. The question is always the same, with
a dragon: will he talk to you or will he eat you? If you can
count upon his doing the former, and not doing the latter, why
then you're a dragonlord."
        [ The Tombs of Atuan, by Ursula K. Le Guin ]

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Wonderer May 15, 2007 01:27
First comment: 22 March, 2007 106 comments written
Is it a vortexSwirling clouds of pure elemental energies, the vortices are
thought to be related to the larger elementals. Though the
vortices do no damage when touched, they are noted for being
able to envelop unwary travellers. The hapless fool thus
swallowed by a vortex will soon perish from exposure to the
element the vortex is composed of.

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? Is it a golem"The original story harks back, so they say, to the sixteenth
century. Using long-lost formulas from the Kabbala, a rabbi is
said to have made an artificial man -- the so-called Golem -- to
help ring the bells in the Synagogue and for all kinds of other
menial work.
"But he hadn't made a full man, and it was animated by some sort
of vegetable half-life. What life it had, too, so the story
runs, was only derived from the magic charm placed behind its
teeth each day, that drew down to itself what was known as the
`free sidereal strength of the universe.'
"One evening, before evening prayers, the rabbi forgot to take
the charm out of the Golem's mouth, and it fell into a frenzy.
It raged through the dark streets, smashing everything in its
path, until the rabbi caught up with it, removed the charm, and
destroyed it. Then the Golem collapsed, lifeless. All that was
left of it was a small clay image, which you can still see in
the Old Synagogue." ...
[ The Golem, by Gustav Meyrink ]

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? No, it's a DUST MONSTER!
L May 15, 2007 09:36
First comment: 10 February, 2005 285 comments written
Didn't we have a slightly more comprehensible dyslexia joke earlier?
Dav May 15, 2007 15:04
First comment: 26 June, 2004 147 comments written
Searching the archives for "dyslexia" doesn't find any comics, not even this one.
a fan May 15, 2007 20:27
First comment: 15 May, 2007 2 comments written
I did one on dysgraphia ages ago: http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20051206

In 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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, the dragonIn the West the dragon was the natural enemy of man. Although
preferring to live in bleak and desolate regions, whenever it
was seen among men it left in its wake a trail of destruction
and disease. Yet any attempt to slay this beast was a perilous
undertaking. For the dragon's assailant had to contend
not only with clouds of sulphurous fumes pouring from its fire
breathing nostrils, but also with the thrashings of its tail,
the most deadly part of its serpent-like body.
[ Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library) ]

"One whom the dragons will speak with," he said, "that is a
dragonlord, or at least that is the center of the matter. It's
not a trick of mastering the dragons, as most people think.
Dragons have no masters. The question is always the same, with
a dragon: will he talk to you or will he eat you? If you can
count upon his doing the former, and not doing the latter, why
then you're a dragonlord."
        [ The Tombs of Atuan, by Ursula K. Le Guin ]

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.
was dysgraphic (not able to write graphemes correctly, i.e. not able to identify itself properly). Meanwhile in Dak's strip Dudley is slightly dyslexic (not able to make out the shape of the character, i.e. not able to identify the monster properly).
Slowpoke May 15, 2007 21:58
First comment: 27 February, 2007 239 comments written
I thought dyslexia affected things like 'b' versus 'd', 'p' versus 'q'. Not less-similar pairs like 'D' versus 'R'.
a fan May 17, 2007 10:10
First comment: 15 May, 2007 2 comments written
Slowpoke, that is a common misconception. Dyslexia has nothing to do with the brain somehow rotating or mirroring the graphemes in question.
Fathead May 19, 2007 19:55
First comment: 1 April, 2006 1136 comments written
Good thing he wasn't hungry too! Har, har....
Grognor May 20, 2007 06:07
First comment: 4 April, 2007 1161 comments written
hmmm...

I give it a good, for lack of good ratings.

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