Dudley's dungeon

Home Comments Archive Print

Tuesday, 14 February, 2006 by L
         | -----    
 }}}}}}} |  <| |    
 };---}} | | | |    
 }--^--}.| |   |    
 }|^^^.@.---- --    
 }--^--}.     |     
 }}---}} ---- ---   
 }}}}}}}    | |     
            |   |
You turn the pages of the Book of the DeadFaustus: Come on Mephistopheles. What shall we do?
Mephistopheles: Nay, I know not. We shall be cursed with bell,
book, and candle.
Faustus: How? Bell, book, and candle, candle, book, and bell,
Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell.
Anon you shall hear a hog grunt, a calf bleat, and an ass bray,
Because it is Saint Peter's holy day.
(Enter all the Friars to sing the dirge)
        [ Doctor Faustus and Other Plays, by Christopher Marlowe ]

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.... 
         | -----    
 }};}}}} |  <| |    
 }}---}} | | | |    
 }--^--}.| |   |    
 }|^^^.@.---- --    
 }--^--}.     |     
 }}---}} ---- ---   
 }}}}}}}    | |     
            |q  |
@ "Dubbs, killed by a leocrotta... the leucrocotta, a wild beast of extraordinary swiftness,
the size of the wild ass, with the legs of a Stag, the neck,
tail, and breast of a lion, the head of a badger, a cloven
hoof, the mouth slit up as far as the ears, and one continuous
bone instead of teeth; it is said, too, that this animal can
imitate the human voice.
        [ Curious Creatures in Zoology, by John Ashton ]

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.. Ducky, killed by a foxOne hot summer's day a Fox was strolling through an orchard
till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine
which had been trained over a lofty branch. "Just the thing
to quench my thirst," quoth he. Drawing back a few paces, he
took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning
round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with
no greater success. Again and again he tried after the
tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked
away with his nose in the air, saying: "I am sure they are
sour."
        [ Aesop's Fables ]

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.." 
         | -----    
 }}}};}} |  <| |    
 }}---}} | | | |    
 }--^--}.| |   |    
 }|^^^.@.---- --    
 }--^--}.     |     
 }}---}} ----q---   
 }}}}}}}    | |     
        &   |   |
@ "Duffy, killed by a falling rockBilbo saw that the moment had come when he must do something.
He could not get up at the brutes and he had nothing to shoot
with; but looking about he saw that in this place there were
many stones lying in what appeared to be a now dry little
watercourse. Bilbo was a pretty fair shot with a stone, and
it did not take him long to find a nice smooth egg-shaped one
that fitted his hand cosily. As a boy he used to practise
throwing stones at things, until rabbits and squirrels, and
even birds, got out of his way as quick as lightning if they
saw him stoop; and even grownup he had still spent a deal of
his time at quoits, dart-throwing, shooting at the wand,
bowls, ninepins and other quiet games of the aiming and
throwing sort - indeed he could do lots of things, besides
blowing smoke-rings, asking riddles and cooking, that I
haven't time to tell you about. There is no time now. While
he was picking up stones, the spider had reached Bombur, and
soon he would have been dead. At that moment Bilbo threw.
The stone struck the spider plunk on the head, and it dropped
senseless off the tree, flop to the ground, with all its legs
curled up.
        [ The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]

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. trap. Duke, killed by a cone of cold." 
         | -----    
 }}}}}}} |  <| |    
 }}---;} | | | |    
 }--^--}.| |   |    
 }|^^^.@.---- --    
 }--^--}.  q  |     
 }}---}}&---- ---   
 }}}}}}}    | |     
            |   |
@ "Dudley: see chapters IX - XVII and appendices vi-xi inclusive."
http://dudley.nicolaas.net

http://dudley.nicolaas.net
Want to contribute? Write an email to dudley@nicolaas.net!
Powered by Nics
<< Previous<< First Random  Today >> Next >>

Rating

003925
Average rating: Excellent
Number of ratings: 37

Comments

AEthelwulf-Kni-Hum-Mal February 17, 2006 19:49
First comment: 5 March, 2005 8 comments written
My money's on "Dudley, drowned in a moat by a krakenOut from the water a long sinuous tentacle had crawled; it
was pale-green and luminous and wet. Its fingered end had
hold of Frodo's foot, and was dragging him into the water.
Sam on his knees was now slashing at it with a knife. The
arm let go of Frodo, and Sam pulled him away, crying out
for help. Twenty other arms came rippling out. The dark
water boiled, and there was a hideous stench.
[ The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]

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." in a minute here.
Aeschylus February 23, 2006 04:15
First comment: 2 December, 2005 22 comments written
Shouldn't Dudley come before Duffy and Duke?
A655321 May 23, 2006 16:49
First comment: 22 May, 2006 4 comments written
Aeschylus, you killed it. I'm still marking it excellent though for the effect it had before you ruinedit.
Fathead July 19, 2006 23:37
First comment: 1 April, 2006 1136 comments written
Hm. Should've started with...oh I dunno...Donald, perhaps.
Gadora September 26, 2006 19:24
First comment: 21 September, 2006 88 comments written
I move for Aeschylus's comment to be struck from the record.
Paradox October 23, 2006 16:33
First comment: 5 October, 2006 17 comments written
I second that motion.
L November 23, 2006 09:10
First comment: 10 February, 2005 285 comments written
Hey guys, Dudley isn't necessarily reading through them one-by-one.
Diefe April 1, 2007 15:18
First comment: 1 April, 2007 3 comments written
Joke killed doubly by Aeschylus's observation and then again by L's defensive response...still a Good though.
Grognor April 17, 2007 08:40
First comment: 4 April, 2007 1161 comments written
Joke killed a third time by Diefe's comment and then a FOURTH time by Grognor's. Luckily, comments don't necessarily count.
Kassil the Erratic April 17, 2007 09:02
First comment: 17 April, 2007 28 comments written
*sets fire to all the joke-killers*

I still think it's an excellent comment on poor Dudley's deaths. Kind of like the ones for Kassil on my hard drive...
Grognor April 18, 2007 01:45
First comment: 4 April, 2007 1161 comments written
FOOL! Fire resistance! Mwa ha ha ha haaa!
Xero Storm February 24, 2008 02:42
First comment: 24 February, 2008 32 comments written
"See volumes 2-7" would've been better.
kureshii March 16, 2008 14:50
First comment: 8 March, 2008 37 comments written
I was under the impression Dudley had his own edition of the Book of the DeadFaustus: Come on Mephistopheles. What shall we do?
Mephistopheles: Nay, I know not. We shall be cursed with bell,
book, and candle.
Faustus: How? Bell, book, and candle, candle, book, and bell,
Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell.
Anon you shall hear a hog grunt, a calf bleat, and an ass bray,
Because it is Saint Peter's holy day.
(Enter all the Friars to sing the dirge)
        [ Doctor Faustus and Other Plays, by Christopher Marlowe ]

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.. It would be too extensive for an appendix, and is probably varied enough (excepting 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 ]

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. deaths) to form a new book in its own right.
Idontexist July 28, 2008 18:27
First comment: 28 July, 2008 1 comments written
E
526 3044
http://dudley.nicolaas.net
Want to contribute? Write an email to dudley@nicolaas.net!
Powered by Nics
<< Previous<< First Random  Today >> Next >>