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Dudley's (New, Improved) Dungeon

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d: "Dudley, you've picked up all items in the shop, you don't have any zorkmids, and you are lawful. How do you expect to pay for all this?"

@: "I don't need to."

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Put on what? g

g - a ring of polymoph control

Zap what? U

U - a wand of polymorph

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d: "You aren't thinking about killing him, are you? Lugh is already angry with you."

@: "Just watch."

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Become what kind of monster?

IRS auditor

The shopkeeper turns to flee!

Ms. Asidonhopo, our records show that you haven't been paying your taxes...
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13 Comments

#1 anther Wed, 7 Oct 2009 06:30:13
Should probably be the YRS, though. (But I can see that would risk killing the joke.)

#2 Factorial Wed, 7 Oct 2009 08:36:09
Much as I think that an organization as totalitarian as the IRS should die in a fire... I can still laugh at jokes about them. E.

#3 NobodySpecial Wed, 7 Oct 2009 11:18:50
You can't polymorph into an @, and the joke would hardly be lessened if the symbol for a taxman was given as &. Still, quite Good.

#4 danirijeka Wed, 7 Oct 2009 11:33:53
Snicker. :p

#5 Dentarthurdent Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:26:14
Not quite true, NobodySpecial. You can polymorph into an Elvenking. I can't remember how many other @ are valid poly targets, though.

#6 Orl Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:29:35
A comic has to be funny, not correct...

#7 Sorceror Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:07:36
Should probably change IRS symbol to & and wait for it to appear in SLASHEM.

#8 xCheckPoint Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:39:47
How fitting: IRS - an invisible, snakelike creature rotting your treasury.

#9 danirijeka Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:02:08
>> Should probably change IRS symbol to & and wait for it to appear in SLASHEM.

Or in vanilla, as a hallucination-substitute for leprechauns. :D

#10 ais523 Fri, 9 Oct 2009 16:32:38
@NobodySpecial, and everyone else who suggests &: I think V would work much better.

#11 ThePathfinder Wed, 13 May 2015 11:34:16
Qailise Gavenmengte f*s!

#12 Anonymous Thu, 6 Aug 2015 01:09:20
IRS could just be high level l

#13 Anonymous Sat, 16 Apr 2016 19:20:29
The taxman could also be a $.

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