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Thursday, 8 March, 2007 by Nameless
You kill the red    
nagaThe naga is a mystical creature with the body of a snake and
the head of a man or woman. They will fiercely protect the
territory they consider their own. Some nagas can be forced
to serve as guardians by a spellcaster of great power.

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! You see here a camera. |.T.| |...| |@..| -----
@ "Hmmm..." Apply
|||||||++++++-------
|||||||++++++-------
|||||||--++---------
|||||||--++----TTTTT
|||||....^.......T..
||||...^^.^^.....T..
||...^^.....^^...T..
.................!..
....................
@ "Oh, wow! This is so awesome!"
The trollThe troll shambled closer.  He was perhaps eight feet tall,
perhaps more. His forward stoop, with arms dangling past
thick claw-footed legs to the ground, made it hard to tell.
The hairless green skin moved upon his body. His head was a
gash of a mouth, a yard-long nose, and two eyes which drank
the feeble torchlight and never gave back a gleam.
[...]
Like a huge green spider, the troll's severed hand ran on its
fingers. Across the mounded floor, up onto a log with one
taloned forefinger to hook it over the bark, down again it
scrambled, until it found the cut wrist. And there it grew
fast. The troll's smashed head seethed and knit together.
He clambered back on his feet and grinned at them. The
waning faggot cast red light over his fangs.
        [ Three Hearts and Three Lions, by Poul Anderson ]

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hits! |||||||++++++------- ||||TTTTTTTTTT------ ||||TTTTTTTTTT---!-- |||||...TT.......!.. ||||...^TT^^.....!.. ||...^^.TT..^^...... ........TT.......!.. ........TT..........
@ "Hey! Get back in place! You're ruining my shot!"
    -----------     
   /  REST IN  \    
  /    PEACE    \   
 /               \  
 |     Dudley    |  
 |   killed by   |  
 |   a close-up  |  
 |   *  *  *     |  
/\\_/(\/(/\)\//\/|  


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Jac March 8, 2007 00:19
First comment: 26 May, 2006 48 comments written
A red nagaThe naga is a mystical creature with the body of a snake and
the head of a man or woman. They will fiercely protect the
territory they consider their own. Some nagas can be forced
to serve as guardians by a spellcaster of great power.

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? Another angband crossover?
Talita March 8, 2007 00:33
First comment: 7 February, 2007 20 comments written
Where is Dudley in the second or third panels?
. March 8, 2007 01:07
First comment: 7 December, 2005 48 comments written
Behind the camera, I assume -- this is his view through the lens, I'd guess.
SomeoneElse March 8, 2007 01:11
First comment: 11 September, 2006 143 comments written
Jac, red nagas do exist in NetHack, what do you mean?
Kernigh March 8, 2007 01:56
First comment: 6 April, 2005 349 comments written
The trap, the trollThe troll shambled closer. He was perhaps eight feet tall,
perhaps more. His forward stoop, with arms dangling past
thick claw-footed legs to the ground, made it hard to tell.
The hairless green skin moved upon his body. His head was a
gash of a mouth, a yard-long nose, and two eyes which drank
the feeble torchlight and never gave back a gleam.
[...]
Like a huge green spider, the troll's severed hand ran on its
fingers. Across the mounded floor, up onto a log with one
taloned forefinger to hook it over the bark, down again it
scrambled, until it found the cut wrist. And there it grew
fast. The troll's smashed head seethed and knit together.
He clambered back on his feet and grinned at them. The
waning faggot cast red light over his fangs.
        [ Three Hearts and Three Lions, by Poul Anderson ]

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, and the 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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are also from Angband. However, that room has blades and wands instead of walls?
Talita March 8, 2007 02:27
First comment: 7 February, 2007 20 comments written
Oh I see. The little Ts make a big T. That's really clever!
Rose March 8, 2007 02:36
First comment: 3 July, 2006 79 comments written
Its a completely ordinary nethack room until dudley applies the camera and gets a closeup. The trollThe troll shambled closer. He was perhaps eight feet tall,
perhaps more. His forward stoop, with arms dangling past
thick claw-footed legs to the ground, made it hard to tell.
The hairless green skin moved upon his body. His head was a
gash of a mouth, a yard-long nose, and two eyes which drank
the feeble torchlight and never gave back a gleam.
[...]
Like a huge green spider, the troll's severed hand ran on its
fingers. Across the mounded floor, up onto a log with one
taloned forefinger to hook it over the bark, down again it
scrambled, until it found the cut wrist. And there it grew
fast. The troll's smashed head seethed and knit together.
He clambered back on his feet and grinned at them. The
waning faggot cast red light over his fangs.
        [ Three Hearts and Three Lions, by Poul Anderson ]

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isn't quite in view in the first closeup
Jac March 8, 2007 02:53
First comment: 26 May, 2006 48 comments written
SomeoneElse: of course red nagas are in Nethack; I'm the idiot that clearly been playing too much Angband recently... (note to self: try hard not to be an idiot)
Slowpoke March 8, 2007 02:53
First comment: 27 February, 2007 239 comments written
Could also have had Dudley stepping backward to get everything into the frame, and falling into a pitAmid the thought of the fiery destruction that impended, the
idea of the coolness of the well came over my soul like balm.
I rushed to its deadly brink. I threw my straining vision
below. The glare from the enkindled roof illumined its inmost
recesses. Yet, for a wild moment, did my spirit refuse to
comprehend the meaning of what I saw. At length it forced --
it wrestled its way into my soul -- it burned itself in upon my
shuddering reason. Oh! for a voice to speak! -- oh! horror! --
oh! any horror but this!
        [ The Pit and the Pendulum, by Edgar Allan Poe ]

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or a pool (unless Nethack has an abyss) and dying.
Talita March 8, 2007 04:11
First comment: 7 February, 2007 20 comments written
There are two trolls in the first closeup, one of them further away.
Nameless March 8, 2007 08:11
First comment: 29 December, 2004 281 comments written
Kernigh - I only used | and - instead of # for walls so you could more easily see where the walls met in the corner.

Talita - Actually, that second trollThe troll shambled closer. He was perhaps eight feet tall,
perhaps more. His forward stoop, with arms dangling past
thick claw-footed legs to the ground, made it hard to tell.
The hairless green skin moved upon his body. His head was a
gash of a mouth, a yard-long nose, and two eyes which drank
the feeble torchlight and never gave back a gleam.
[...]
Like a huge green spider, the troll's severed hand ran on its
fingers. Across the mounded floor, up onto a log with one
taloned forefinger to hook it over the bark, down again it
scrambled, until it found the cut wrist. And there it grew
fast. The troll's smashed head seethed and knit together.
He clambered back on his feet and grinned at them. The
waning faggot cast red light over his fangs.
        [ Three Hearts and Three Lions, by Poul Anderson ]

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is the doorThrough me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
        [ The Inferno, from The Divine Comedy of Dante
                Alighieri, translated by H.F. Cary ]

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. You can't see the top of it, but it would also be a bunch of +s forming a bigger +;
SomeoneElse March 8, 2007 08:58
First comment: 11 September, 2006 143 comments written
Sorry, Nameless, but I think L is better at doing those dungeon closeup things.
L March 8, 2007 09:00
First comment: 10 February, 2005 285 comments written
See also: (http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20060807)
A March 8, 2007 09:07
First comment: 24 October, 2006 70 comments written
L is better at closeups but this comic is still quite good
Roger Barnett March 8, 2007 09:29
First comment: 7 April, 2006 143 comments written
If Dion's up for it - there'll probably be another Angband/Tales from the PitAmid the thought of the fiery destruction that impended, the
idea of the coolness of the well came over my soul like balm.
I rushed to its deadly brink. I threw my straining vision
below. The glare from the enkindled roof illumined its inmost
recesses. Yet, for a wild moment, did my spirit refuse to
comprehend the meaning of what I saw. At length it forced --
it wrestled its way into my soul -- it burned itself in upon my
shuddering reason. Oh! for a voice to speak! -- oh! horror! --
oh! any horror but this!
        [ The Pit and the Pendulum, by Edgar Allan Poe ]

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crossover at some point, but it won't be for a while.
Feory March 8, 2007 09:31
First comment: 15 August, 2006 63 comments written
What do the ^s represent?
jukka March 8, 2007 13:42
First comment: 22 November, 2006 57 comments written
Feory, the ^s form a trap, of course.
Talita March 8, 2007 15:32
First comment: 7 February, 2007 20 comments written
I like this style of closeup. Once you've figured out what's going on, it's quite cool. I prefer it to the over-simplified version L usesd.
Mikoangelo March 8, 2007 21:29
First comment: 19 October, 2005 82 comments written
Miko.likes(Closeuptype(:Nameless)) == Miko.likes(Closeuptype(:L)) # => true

scurries away to nerd-cave of doom
Fathead March 8, 2007 22:37
First comment: 1 April, 2006 1136 comments written
Miko: Always preview.

Nameless: That confused me at first, but I got it.
Fathead March 8, 2007 22:37
First comment: 1 April, 2006 1136 comments written
Only 200 more until the big 1k!
Feory March 9, 2007 14:06
First comment: 15 August, 2006 63 comments written
Bleh. I feel stupid.
Grognor April 22, 2007 09:38
First comment: 4 April, 2007 1161 comments written
You feel stupid! Your last thought fades away... DYWYPI?
Strephon May 21, 2007 04:54
First comment: 12 March, 2007 17 comments written
One thought: It might have been clearer if the doorThrough me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
        [ The Inferno, from The Divine Comedy of Dante
                Alighieri, translated by H.F. Cary ]

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Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers
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, trap and 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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Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers
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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 ]

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visible in the first panel. (I did like it, though.)
Blackened June 3, 2008 00:42
First comment: 14 May, 2008 31 comments written
Took me a while to get it. :-)

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