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Sunday, 10 February, 2008 by Dion Nicolaas
                    
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@ "So, the first result of the audience survey are in." 
                    
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@ "Someone asked for a runesword..." 
                    
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@ "There!" 
                    
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@ "Then a corpse, a happy new year, other assorted items: here you go:" 
                    
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c - a corpse.
r - a roll of tape.
y - a happy year.
F - a figurineThen it appeared in Paris at just about the time that Paris
was full of Carlists who had to get out of Spain. One of
them must have brought it with him, but, whoever he was, it's
likely he knew nothing about its real value. It had been --
no doubt as a precaution during the Carlist trouble in Spain
-- painted or enameled over to look like nothing more than a
fairly interesting black statuette. And in that disguise,
sir, it was, you might say, kicked around Paris for seventy
years by private owners and dealers too stupid to see what
it was under the skin.
        [ The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett ]

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@ "The blessed +2 silver 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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@ "Now for the interface changes... Your wish is my command." 
                    
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@ "... but COLOR?!?!"
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Antheridium February 10, 2008 00:33
First comment: 17 May, 2007 442 comments written
What, you thought we 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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But in any case, thanks for changing the top menu if nothing else. That'll make things a bit more convenient.
Nameless February 10, 2008 02:18
First comment: 29 December, 2004 281 comments written
We already have color. TWO of them!
Wonderer February 10, 2008 04:54
First comment: 22 March, 2007 106 comments written
A runesword! Excellent!
Grognor February 10, 2008 11:12
First comment: 4 April, 2007 1161 comments written
If we don't get a color interface I'm going to scream and scream until I'm sick!
Wellan February 10, 2008 22:33
First comment: 27 November, 2007 247 comments written
Can you find Grognor a spellbookThe Book of Three lay closed on the table. Taran had never
been allowed to read the volume for himself; now he was sure
it held more than Dallben chose to tell him. In the sun-
filled room, with Dallben still meditating and showing no
sign of stopping, Taran rose and moved through the shimmering
beams. From the forest came the monotonous tick of a beetle.
His hands reached for the cover. Taran gasped in pain and
snatched them away. They smarted as if each of his fingers
had been stung by hornets. He jumped back, stumbled against
the bench, and dropped to the floor, where he put his fingers
woefully into his mouth.
Dallben's eyes blinked open. He peered at Taran and yawned
slowly. "You had better see Coll about a lotion for those
hands," he advised. "Otherwise, I shouldn't be surprised if
they blistered."
        [ The Book of Three, by Lloyd Alexander ]

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Huh! You actually found a happy new year! I'm impressed!
It looks a bit strange, though...

Wait! That's an annual 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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  February 11, 2008 10:34
First comment: 1 April, 2004 431 comments written
I'd just like to call attention to how I died in this old NAO game, I think it's appropriate to the occasion!

http://www.alt.org/nethack/chardump/greyknight/greyknight.20070101-000001.txt


Also, Dion, try using a CSS class something like the below for your navigation links to get a button-like effect while still remaining a regular link. :-)

.button
{background: #AAA;
border: 2px solid;
border-color: #EBECEB #636563 #636563 #EBECEB;
color: #000;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 1px 3px;}
Dion February 11, 2008 17:06
First comment: 2 February, 2004 100 comments written
Nah, that's ugly because they're just unlike all other buttons. I like the links. They're nice and inconspicuous.
Armv February 11, 2008 17:44
First comment: 5 October, 2006 28 comments written
With the roll of tape I will be unstoppable! Ahahaha! What is that I have an injust!? Apply# tape as bandage. Oh? Stormy doesn't want to be duel wielded with vorpy!? Why just a little #apply tape will fix that! Fear me!
Impostergrog February 11, 2008 20:26
First comment: 11 February, 2008 1 comments written
I'm Grognor!
Quint Sakugarne February 13, 2008 08:43
First comment: 1 January, 2008 233 comments written
[Impostergrog] I'm Grognor!

Some things don't ever change, do they?
Fathead February 18, 2008 21:54
First comment: 1 April, 2006 1136 comments written
Sure you can get color. Just have a second matrix with 0-9, A-F in it. Or something.
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