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Monday, 20 June, 2005 by roncli
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@ "Polypiling is fun! It's like getting free stuff for doing nothi..." 
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The orangeWhat was the fruit like? Unfortunately, no one can describe
a taste. All I can say is that, compared with those fruits,
the freshest grapefruit you've ever eaten was dull, and the
juiciest orange was dry, and the most melting pear was hard
and woody, and the sweetest wild strawberry was sour. And
there were no seeds or stones, and no wasps. If you had once
eaten that fruit, all the nicest things in this world would
taste like medicines after it. But I can't describe it. You
can't find out what it is like unless you can get to that
country and taste it for yourself.
        [ The Last Battle, by C.S. Lewis ]

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. 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. breathes sleeping gas! You are hit by the sleep ray! 
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The gelatinous cubeThese 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 ]

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. ate many items! You can move again.
@ "I hope this is just a bad dream."
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Nameless June 20, 2005 02:36
First comment: 29 December, 2004 281 comments written
Sigh. That might have been more funny if almost the exact same thing hadn't happened to me a few weeks ago.
M June 20, 2005 03:13
First comment: 1 June, 2005 13 comments written
I'm not enjoying these jokes.

"the killer beeThis giant variety of its useful normal cousin normally
appears in small groups, looking for raw material to produce
the royal jelly needed to feed their queen. On rare
occasions, one may stumble upon a bee-hive, in which the
queen bee is being well provided for, and guarded against
intruders.

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. hits"
"you die..."
"Dudley, killed by a killer beeThis giant variety of its useful normal cousin normally
appears in small groups, looking for raw material to produce
the royal jelly needed to feed their queen. On rare
occasions, one may stumble upon a bee-hive, in which the
queen bee is being well provided for, and guarded against
intruders.

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."
gray@: "DAMMIT I DIED" ... "haha! get it? died?"

:P
Nameless June 20, 2005 07:57
First comment: 29 December, 2004 281 comments written
^lol M.
Wow June 20, 2005 12:40
First comment: 20 June, 2005 1 comments written
I'm a newbie... what is polypiling? I mean, I know what it is, but how can it help you?
L June 20, 2005 13:45
First comment: 10 February, 2005 285 comments written
Oh, I get it. He thinks there's a chance that he's still asleep, because the sleep ray hit him, and...

Or maybe I'm giving the author too much credit.
Lawful ihope June 20, 2005 17:58
First comment: 7 June, 2005 29 comments written
Wow: Sometimes your items turn into better ones. :-D
Eemeli June 20, 2005 19:00
First comment: 2 March, 2005 143 comments written
So if you have a lot of useless stuff that you would otherwise throw away, you can polymorph it to (hopefully) more useful.
Plague June 20, 2005 22:07
First comment: 31 January, 2005 102 comments written
Such sad notes to hear for a piece of comedy. When does Act II start?
Fathead June 20, 2006 01:30
First comment: 1 April, 2006 1136 comments written
Yach. At least in CotW you got your things back.
  April 14, 2007 18:56
First comment: 1 April, 2004 431 comments written
I find it odd that gelatinous cubes can eat the endgame riders. Don't you?
Grognor April 14, 2007 19:35
First comment: 4 April, 2007 1161 comments written
That was me that posted that above message that you see that is up there.
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