Dudley's (New, Improved) Dungeon

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Aloha, Dudley, welcome to Nethack! You are a neutral male human Tourist.

@ "Huh? No pet?"

                    
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@ "...wait..."

                    
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a useful item (pick-axe, key, lamp...) (tame chest called Luggage)

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

The way it should be.

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#1	Sorceror	Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:30:37
Aloha, Rincewind. Luggage suddenly disappears out of sight (at the airport)! Last edited: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:31:31
#2	Factorial	Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:03:26
I only vaguely get the reference and I still lol'd. For that it gets an E.
#3	xCheckPoint	Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:49:38
@Sorceror: the tourist is Twoflower, he gets Rincewind as quest artifact.
#4	Anonymous	Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:10:11
Would be an amusing thing to have wandering around the quest home level, at least.
#5	anther	Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:12:00
I guess if you loot it, it'll work like a bag of tricks... "The chest develops an enormous tongue and licks you!"
#6	Quint	Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:37:40
I'm suddenly reminded of Balrog the giant lunchbox from Cave Story. Also, the magical briefcase of Armbrust from Kiddy Grade.
#7	eskimo68	Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:14:38
Airport comments makes this an E.
#8	solidsnail	Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:57:34
Starting with the Luggage as pet would make Tourist the easiest class. You could do a pacifist really easily. You wouldn't even need a magic whistle/leash or worry in any way about the Luggage.
#9	Quint	Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:35:15
But you can't dual-wield while dragging the luggage around.
#10	slowpoke	Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:03:25
This is a Discworld reference? I figured HHGTTG at first.
#11	Anonymous	Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:33:03
Quint: The luggage travels by itself. It's also immune to all magical attack, virtually indestructible vs. any other attack, swallows enemies whole, and is a ferocious little sucker. Solidsnail's right, it would make pacifist a cakewalk.
#12	Quint	Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:12:01
Oh, this is a Discworld reference. No wonder I don't get it.
#13	TobyBartels	Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:38:07
The Tourist class is itself a Discworld reference; it just doesn't go this far.
#14	Sorceror	Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:24:45
slowpoke: Since when was there luggage in H2G2? I thought possibly Dirk Gently at first. xCheckPoint: Obviously my minimal knowledge of Discworld is not extensive enough. Should probably have made it Twoflower in the comic, rather than Dudley.
#15	slowpoke	Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:12:10
Since when was there luggage in H2G2? Probably never. I read it 30 years ago (or whenever), smiled, and put it aside. Later on, teh Internets was invented, and I now seem to pay daily for not having memorized the book in order to catch all the references.
#16	ajbRad	Fri, 2 Oct 2009 23:19:31
Scroll to the bottom, I took a screenshot of a hallucinating message. http://nethack.wikia.com/wiki/User:AjbRad It's proof that the luggage IS a monster, it's just very, very, rare. Last edited: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 23:20:01
#17	Anonymous	Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:15:39
it's a furnilliar!
#18	noxn	Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:03:47
Here is my idea how this could work: Your luggage always sticks to you (even if you teleport away) and you can store stuff in it. But: if your luggage attacks a monster, it wont be killed but will be stored in the luggage, which means: 1:It could eat your food and break your stuff. 2:That every time you open the luggage (putting stuff in, or taking something out) the monster will jump out and attack you.

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