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Dudley's (New, Improved) Dungeon

< Aug 9th, 2009 >SmashFan2005
You feel very cold! 
                    
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@: "Burr... it's freezing. I need to make a fire or I'll freeze to death like those wolves did."
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@: "Hmm.. thank you Anu! I shall use your gift of sticks to build.. fire!"
As you rub the stick
 together they explo
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@: "..."
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   /  REST IN   \   
  /    PEACE     \  
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 |     Dudley     | 
 |   killed  by   | 
 |  SmashFan2005`s| 
 |     antics     | 
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Anu: "Okay that was pretty funny. I'm surprised the Devteam hasn't thought of this yet."

SmashFan2005: "Me too."

Dudley + caveman = Bad idea
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9 Comments

#1 NobodySpecial Sun, 9 Aug 2009 01:32:39
Was this inspired by Slash'EM's "red sticks"?

#2 Quint Sun, 9 Aug 2009 04:57:14
What the hell happened here?

#3 TobyBartels Sun, 9 Aug 2009 06:32:08
Dudley should have noticed that those sticks were wands, not tools (or weapons). But in his defence, the RNG didn't ask him to confirm when he applied them.

#4 SmashFan2005 Sun, 9 Aug 2009 19:26:22
they are supposed to be wands of fire that are made of wood. So when caveman Dudley rubs them together and creates a spark the fire magic in the wands causes them to explode.

It was supposed to be an attempt to show that the DevTeam hasn't really thought of everything. I was gonna do a comic about an exploding glass wand of fire but I picked this instead. Glass wands of fire break when thrown but don't explode. However if you break it in half while holding onto it it does. Which doesn't make sense obviously.

And damn you guys really hated this comic..=( Oh well.

Last edited: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 19:26:36

#5 minmay Sun, 9 Aug 2009 20:01:51
Making a shattered glass wand explode would be interesting but probably a bad idea. I have accidentally kicked glass wands before, and the loss of the wand is bad enough; I don't need an explosion of lightning on top of it.

Although wands of light as glass wands would be useful, or rather, chucking them at monsters would. It would at least obsolete the requests to add flash-bang grenades to SLASH'EM.

#6 SmashFan2005 Sun, 9 Aug 2009 20:40:26
Yes it would be more dangerous, but it'd just add to the list of what NOT to do in NetHack. Experienced players need more of a challenge in my opinion, lol.

#7 Sorceror Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:54:12
I argue that shattering from breaking against a wall is different to breaking in half with your hands.

#8 SmashFan2005 Wed, 7 Oct 2009 04:32:39
@ Sorceror:

Really? Well, i guess that when you smash it against a wall it breaks into several pieces, while breaking it in half is.. 2 pieces.

Last edited: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:22:17

#9 fordperfect Fri, 6 Dec 2019 12:51:17
I really think the gravestone should have read "Dudley killed by an exploding wand of fire" or something like that. Not only would it have made the comic much easier to understand, it also would have been a lot funnier that the inane metahumor in the current version. However, ignoring the last panel, the comic is funny, so I gave it an F.

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