Dudley's (New, Improved) Dungeon

< Jun 29th, 2009 >

minmay

Drop what? [$a-zA]z 
You drop a          
cockatrice corpse.  
                    
       --------     
       +...@..-.....
       |......|     
       +......|     
       --------

Drop what? [$a-yA]1$
You drop a gold     
piece.              
                    
       --------     
       +...@..-.....
       |......|     
       +......|     
       --------

Zap what? [ftv]v    
In what direction? .
                    
                    
       --------     
       +...$..-.....
       |.@....|     
       +......|     
       --------

You irradiate       
yourself with pure  
energy! You die.    
                    
       --------     
       +...$..-.....
       |.@....|     
       +......|     
       --------

Die? [yn] y         
Save bones? [yn] y  
                    
                    
       --------     
       +...$..-.....
       |.@....|     
       +......|     
       --------

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17 Comments

#1	Slandor	Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:44:57
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why you turn off autopickup (except when Sokoban generates nice stuff on top of holes).
#2	eskimo68	Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:26:33
Took me a minute to figure out this is trapping. Duh (even Slandors comment didn't make me see the connection which is emabarrasing considering the last panel :).
#3	TobyBartels	Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:06:51
Set autopickup to only pick up gold pieces, nothing else. Last edited: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:07:03
#4	Zarpheek	Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:56:09
As you pick up the gold, a ghostly wind rolls the corpse onto your hand! You turn to stone . . .
#5	slowpoke	Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:09
I don't understand why this trap is a joke. Unless sociopathy is what's meant to be the humor.
#6	minmay	Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:05:22
My original version of this involved cursed -5 gauntlets of fumbling and an actual joke, but I decided that it was actually funnier like it is now. (No, the joke wasn't a very good one.)
#7	Dav	Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:20:46
Of all the item classes I could auto-pickup, I think % would probably the be the last.
#8	Quint	Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:53:44
slowpoke: yes, the comedic sociopathy is the point. It also took me a while to get. Thanks for the help, Slandor.
#9	ais523	Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:52:30
Rated M due to insufficiently many invisible minotaurs.
#10	Sorceror	Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:24:29
Voted E, even though it doesn't deserve it, but I can't disturb the 3456 of the other ranks.
#11	monotonia	Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:19:02
First strip which remained rated symetricaly to the time I write this.
#12	DarthCliche	Sat, 22 May 2010 00:22:12
You know what's even more cruel? Hiding it under a stack of wands of wishing. Last edited: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:51:01
#13	DarthCliche	Fri, 6 Aug 2010 02:43:31
Or, hell, under a blessed greased +127 GDSM, the blessed greased +50 Grayswandir, the blessed greased +50 Stormbringer, etc.
#14	Anonymous	Thu, 4 Apr 2013 04:23:58
I keep my auto pickup on $/!"_=? Which means I won't accidentally Gluck a trice corpse.
#15	Anonymous	Thu, 4 Apr 2013 04:24:35
Oops, touch not gluck. Stupid iPod keyboard.0
#16	grisha5	Fri, 22 Apr 2016 04:12:52
I don't get it..
#17	Anonymous	Mon, 11 Dec 2017 23:34:04
I didn't get it at first because I always have autopickup exceptions configured to not pick up corpses

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