Dudley's dungeon



Friday, 12 May, 2006 by L
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d "...And that's why you owe me your life thrice over."
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& "Gangway!"
@ "At last! Some mail!"
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@ "I thought everybody had forgotten about me! I wonder who it's from?"
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@ "Mom and my twelve siblings?"
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@ "Did Dion accept my guest strip?"
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@ "... Oh... ... It's for you..."
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d "Aha! It's from one of my loyal readers! 'My dear Dogley...' (a promising start)"
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d "'How come falling down holes drops you in a random location in the floor below?'"
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d "'Sincerely, Dion.' Well, Dion, let me be the first to reveal the truth!"
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d "You see, in between each dungeon level is a magical dimensional void!"
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d "And thanks to the magic of Wizard Mode..."
@ "WIZARD MODE?!"
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d "... I shall now be the first to show this void to you!"
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@ "I did a protection dive and found TWO magic lamps, but it was all for nothing..."
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@ "Because without telling me Dogley set it to WIZARD MODE?!"
                    
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d "And here we are! This is the infinite void between dungeon levels..."
                    
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d "Which has been recently named 'The Dogley Dimension' after its discoverer."
                    
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d "It's mostly filled with scented air and hovering #-symbols."
                    
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d "But occasionally, some symbols will fuse and transform into a random monster..."
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d "Which, having a magical mass index greater than 0, falls through to the level below."
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d "As will anything that falls through a hole in the level above."
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d "But as this place does not occupy the same spatial dimensions as the dungeon..."
                    
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d "Where they end up is both completely arbitrary and always to Dudley's harm."
                    
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d "The dungeon stairways, though, are linked worm-
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d "So you can be sure that you'll always end up at the right spot!"
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d "Well, I hoped that answered your question, Dion..."
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d "And if YOU have any NetHack queries, just go to my webpage at dudley.nicolaas.ne..."
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@ "Wait. You mean YOU'RE the reason all my webspace has been eaten up?"
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d "See you next week, boys and girls!"
Dogley zaps a wand of digging!
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@ "You told me that it was because my text-based comics take up 2MB each!!"
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@ "Come back here before I zap you with this unID'd wand!"


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