Dudley's (New, Improved) Dungeon

< Jul 24th, 2009 >

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d "Dudley, are you sure that..."

@ "I'm going to wish for a +2 gray dragon scale mail. What could go wrong?"

Quaff what? [i or ?*]i  
Ooph! This tastes like  
liquid fire!            
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Quaff what? [i or ?*]i  
Ooph! This tastes like  
liquid fire!            
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Quaff what? [i or ?*]i  
Ooph! This tastes like  
liquid fire!            
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Quaff what? [i or ?*]i  
In a cloud of smoke, a  
djinni emerges!         
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& "I am in your debt! I will grant one wish!"

                        
                        
                        
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@ "I'd *hic* like some more of *hic* those shmoky *hic* potions."

https://alt.org/nethack/dudley/

I hear some people actually wish for smoky potions. I couldn't help but think of this situation.

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11 Comments

#1	Chish	Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:33:02
no ascension kit is complete without them!
#2	Quint	Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:12:19
Dudley fail. As usual.
#3	Dajaaj	Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:17:33
Or, if the djinni were hostile: The djinni hits! You strike at the djinni's displaced image and miss him!
#4	solidsnail	Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:49:23
Rated E. I was missing some original nethack-contained joke, without external references.
#5	ctaboir	Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:47:57
wishing for smoky potion is the one and only possibility to get a wish from a wish.
#6	Zarpheek	Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:46:48
The djinni says, "May I see your ID?"
#7	Quint	Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:07:02
k - 10 potions of fruit juice.
#8	noxn	Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:53:27
Hey, If I were dudley (in real life), I would wish for the same. I mean, drunk people always want more "stuff". hic
#9	ais523	Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:43:20
@ctaboir: wrong, it's theoretically possible to wish for a container and have it contain a wand of wishing.
#10	Anonymous	Wed, 7 Nov 2012 19:55:46
It's also theoretically possible to get a wrestable wand of wishing from a wish.
#11	Anonymous	Mon, 5 Jan 2015 01:11:58
Wishing for WoW gives at best 1 wish, for net gain of 0. Wishing for a stack of smoky potions gives you a chance of multiple wishes, and thus of actual net gain (though the odds suck). Wishing for a container could also give multiples, but the odds REALLY suck. In any case, I wouldn't bother unless blessed smoky potions were valuable for something other than wishing in my particular game.

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