Dudley's (New, Improved) Dungeon

< Oct 7th, 2009 >

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--------- \|.......\| \|.......\| \|...@...\| \|.....d.\| \|..@....\| ---\|----- # # 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."	--------- \|.......\| \|.....d.\| \|...@...\| \|.......\| \|..@....\| ---\|----- # # Put on what? g g - a ring of polymoph control Zap what? U U - a wand of polymorph
--------- \|.......\| \|.......\| \|...@...\| \|......d\| \|..@....\| ---\|----- # # d: "You aren't thinking about killing him, are you? Lugh is already angry with you." @: "Just watch."	--------- \|.......\| \|.......\| \|...@...\| \|....d..\| \|.......\| ---@----- # # Become what kind of monster? IRS auditor The shopkeeper turns to flee!
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Ms. Asidonhopo, our records show that you haven't been paying your taxes...

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#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 $.