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The Vorpal"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
                        [ Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll ]

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Blade beheads the high priest[...] For the two priests were talking exactly like priests,
piously, with learning and leisure, about the most aerial
enigmas of theology. The little Essex priest spoke the more
simply, with his round face turned to the strengthening stars;
the other talked with his head bowed, as if he were not even
worthy to look at them. But no more innocently clerical
conversation could have been heard in any white Italian cloister
or black Spanish cathedral. The first he heard was the tail of
one of Father Brown's sentences, which ended: "... what they
really meant in the Middle Ages by the heavens being
incorruptible." The taller priest nodded his bowed head and
said: "Ah, yes, these modern infidels appeal to their reason;
but who can look at those millions of worlds and not feel that
there may well be wonderful universes above us where reason is
utterly unreasonable?"
        [ The Innocence of Father Brown, by G.K. Chesterton ]

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of MolochAnd the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever
he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that
sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech;
he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall
stone him with stones.
And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off
from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto
Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes
from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill
him not:
Then I will set my face against that man, and against his
family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after
him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
        [ Leviticus 20:1-5 ]

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! You kill the high priest[...] For the two priests were talking exactly like priests,
piously, with learning and leisure, about the most aerial
enigmas of theology. The little Essex priest spoke the more
simply, with his round face turned to the strengthening stars;
the other talked with his head bowed, as if he were not even
worthy to look at them. But no more innocently clerical
conversation could have been heard in any white Italian cloister
or black Spanish cathedral. The first he heard was the tail of
one of Father Brown's sentences, which ended: "... what they
really meant in the Middle Ages by the heavens being
incorruptible." The taller priest nodded his bowed head and
said: "Ah, yes, these modern infidels appeal to their reason;
but who can look at those millions of worlds and not feel that
there may well be wonderful universes above us where reason is
utterly unreasonable?"
        [ The Innocence of Father Brown, by G.K. Chesterton ]

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of MolochAnd the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever
he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that
sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech;
he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall
stone him with stones.
And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off
from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto
Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes
from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill
him not:
Then I will set my face against that man, and against his
family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after
him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
        [ Leviticus 20:1-5 ]

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J - the Amulet of"The complete Amulet can keep off all the things that make
people unhappy -- jealousy, bad temper, pride, disagreeableness,
greediness, selfishness, laziness. Evil spirits, people called
them when the Amulet was made. Don't you think it would be nice
to have it?"
"Very," said the children, quite without enthusiasm.
"And it can give you strength and courage."
"That's better," said Cyril.
"And virtue."
"I suppose it's nice to have that," said Jane, but not with much
interest.
"And it can give you your heart's desire."
"Now you're talking," said Robert.
        [ The Story of the Amulet, by Edith Nesbit ]

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You hear an evil hiss, and a band of demons join in. You are bathed in darkness...
No       Points     
10233         4     
  Killed by a 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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on level 1. 10234 -456054 Descended to demi-devilhood.


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Comments

Rose December 13, 2007 00:59
First comment: 3 July, 2006 79 comments written
good one!
Grognor December 13, 2007 01:11
First comment: 4 April, 2007 1161 comments written
Hooray, no more Harry Potter! ^_^
Oryx December 13, 2007 01:42
First comment: 27 April, 2007 9 comments written
I'm glad the Harry potter ones are over. Also, I like this one.
Newtnor, killed by Grog December 13, 2007 01:50
First comment: 13 December, 2007 1 comments written
Nice one!
Kernigh December 13, 2007 02:23
First comment: 6 April, 2005 349 comments written
What about the next strip, when the alchemy professor assigns a potionPOTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be
potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage,
although even they find it palatable only when suffering
from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it
is a medicine. Upon nothing has so great and diligent
ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all
countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the
invention of substitutes for water. To hold that this
general aversion to that liquid has no basis in the
preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific --
and without science we are as the snakes and toads.
        [ The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce ]

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with eye of 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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as one of the ingredients, and Dudley Potter has to go hunt newts? For now, I will just link some classic altarAltars are of three types:
1. In Temples. These are for Sacrifices [...]. The stone
top will have grooves for blood, and the whole will be covered
with _dry brown stains of a troubling kind_ from former
Sacrifices.
[ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]

To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late;
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods?
        [ Lays of Ancient Rome, by Thomas B. Macaulay ]

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-of-MolochAnd the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever
he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that
sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech;
he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall
stone him with stones.
And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off
from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto
Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes
from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill
him not:
Then I will set my face against that man, and against his
family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after
him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
        [ Leviticus 20:1-5 ]

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moments.

http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20050719 - The voice of MolochAnd the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever
he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that
sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech;
he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall
stone him with stones.
And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off
from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto
Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes
from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill
him not:
Then I will set my face against that man, and against his
family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after
him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
        [ Leviticus 20:1-5 ]

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booms: "No, mortal! Now is not the right time."

http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20070807 - @ "Whoa! We all here have a degree in cursing but I've never heard such language!"
Mordae December 13, 2007 02:37
First comment: 11 May, 2007 116 comments written
Devil's in the house of the rising sun! mad fiddling
  December 13, 2007 08:46
First comment: 1 April, 2004 431 comments written
The best one since the petrifying mimicThe ancestors of the modern day chameleon, these creatures can
assume the form of anything in their surroundings. They may
assume the shape of objects or dungeon features. Unlike the
chameleon though, which assumes the shape of another creature
and goes in hunt of food, the mimic waits patiently for its
meals to come in search of it.

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!
  December 13, 2007 10:18
First comment: 1 April, 2004 431 comments written
Me likey.
P December 13, 2007 10:20
First comment: 3 April, 2006 11 comments written
New ideas in Dudley at last!
Great one, thanks.
Richante December 13, 2007 10:30
First comment: 27 August, 2007 32 comments written
:) Brilliant idea. Though it does somewhat invalidate tomorrow's comic.
jukka December 13, 2007 10:56
First comment: 22 November, 2006 57 comments written
Wouldn't it be nice if you could convert to unaligned and #offer to MolochAnd the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever
he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that
sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech;
he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall
stone him with stones.
And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off
from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto
Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes
from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill
him not:
Then I will set my face against that man, and against his
family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after
him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
        [ Leviticus 20:1-5 ]

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..
Nameless December 13, 2007 13:30
First comment: 29 December, 2004 281 comments written
The end of harry potter strips makes this even better than it would have been.
Andronikus December 13, 2007 17:02
First comment: 13 December, 2007 1 comments written
Nice
Roger Barnett December 13, 2007 17:16
First comment: 7 April, 2006 143 comments written
If you can't beat them... join them.
Dextery December 13, 2007 17:27
First comment: 4 October, 2007 6 comments written
Now that's what I call excelent Nethack humor. It's particularily brilliant because there are no reference from outside the game.(e.g. no need to like Harry Potter or MegaTokyo to like this one)
Alcari December 13, 2007 18:18
First comment: 11 September, 2006 93 comments written
Ahhh... if only
Slowpoke December 13, 2007 22:19
First comment: 27 February, 2007 239 comments written
I guess no one picked up on the Babylon 5 reference.
Grognor December 14, 2007 03:00
First comment: 4 April, 2007 1161 comments written
/me shouts an abrasive swear word for the return of the copiers.

be warned: not work safe

FUCK

I hope you get cancer. Twice. At the same time. And then, the instant you are sent out of the hospital after a miraculous recovery, you are hit by a bus and you are forced to live as a vegetable in front of a window in a one story hospital, so the people passing by may shout "Oh, my GodGoddesses and Gods operate in ones, threesomes, or whole
pantheons of nine or more (see Religion). Most of them claim
to have made the world, and this is indeed a likely claim in
the case of threesomes or pantheons: Fantasyland does have
the air of having been made by a committee. But all Goddesses
and Gods, whether they say they made the world or not, have
very detailed short-term plans for it which they are determined
to carry out. Consequently they tend to push people into the
required actions by the use of coincidence or Prophecy, or just
by narrowing down your available choices of what to do next:
if a deity is pushing you, things will go miserably badly until
there is only one choice left to you.
[ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]

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, what is that horrible thing in the window? Don't look, Jimmy!" and any relatives you have are slaughtered at the hands of nameless brigands who have lost any hope for repentance, and that you are devoid of any emotion except pain and rage, so that you may know that I was the one who did this to you. You will burn in the infinitely cleansing fires of hell and watchThese strange creatures live mostly on the surface of the
earth, gathering together in societies of various forms, but
occasionally a stray will descend into the depths and commit
mayhem among the dungeon residents who, naturally, often
resent the intrusion of such beasts. They are capable of
using weapons and magic, and it is even rumored that the
Wizard of Yendor is a member of this species.

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as those you most despised ascend to the kingdom of heaven while you, the contumelious poltroon, are being burned.
Poisoned Rotted Grognor corpse December 15, 2007 03:45
First comment: 15 December, 2007 1 comments written
Good one! glad to see it's finally NH and not someone's wierd idea of cross-universe jokes. Seriously, those are nearly always unfunny.
-3 Tsurugi of Grognor December 15, 2007 03:46
First comment: 15 December, 2007 1 comments written
true.
Custard December 16, 2007 16:17
First comment: 1 December, 2007 10 comments written
Grognor: Is that before or after you explode in an apoplectic fit of rage?

Seriously, if anything major ever happens to you in real life, you're going to feel pretty silly about all the time you spent whinging about someone using the same pseudonym as you.
rongorG December 16, 2007 22:04
First comment: 16 December, 2007 1 comments written
Ah, his whining gives us all a source of humor to stand in for the dull comics.
Quint Sakugarne January 4, 2008 06:58
First comment: 1 January, 2008 233 comments written
Excellent idea.

Extra points for the Devil Went Down to Georgia reference.
Newtkiller November 14, 2008 22:02
First comment: 28 October, 2008 127 comments written
Nice one. Too bad you can't sacrifice the amulet"The complete Amulet can keep off all the things that make
people unhappy -- jealousy, bad temper, pride, disagreeableness,
greediness, selfishness, laziness. Evil spirits, people called
them when the Amulet was made. Don't you think it would be nice
to have it?"
"Very," said the children, quite without enthusiasm.
"And it can give you strength and courage."
"That's better," said Cyril.
"And virtue."
"I suppose it's nice to have that," said Jane, but not with much
interest.
"And it can give you your heart's desire."
"Now you're talking," said Robert.
        [ The Story of the Amulet, by Edith Nesbit ]

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