Dudley's (New, Improved) Dungeon

< Jan 2nd, 2010 >

BreathOfSorrows

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You enter what appears to be a large field.

@ "What do we have here, Dogley?"

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@ "Uhhh... hello?"

You hear the quarterback calling the play.

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The quarterback throws something. An object mysteriously lands in your hands.

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@ "Oh dear, time to go!"

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@ "Dogley, help!"

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The football player grabs you! The football player tackles you! You are being crushed! You die...

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5 mediocre
6 fair
13 good
18 excellent

Average rating: good
Number of ratings: 44

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22 Comments

#1	DrSunglass	Sat, 2 Jan 2010 06:40:15
G for "You are being crushed!"
#2	Sorceror	Sat, 2 Jan 2010 10:57:08
"what appears to be" is unnecessary. Hack doesn't give messages like that.
#3	BreathOfSorrows	Sat, 2 Jan 2010 18:18:50
I must have used an Angband message in the first panel. My bad
#4	ctaboir	Sat, 2 Jan 2010 21:00:44
@sorceror: "You notice what appears to be a large, squat stone structure nearby." Extract from plain vanilla wizard quest...
#5	ctaboir	Sat, 2 Jan 2010 21:08:10
And by the way, not football, American football. The one you can play with hands. Hands, like in "foot".
#6	Sorceror	Sat, 2 Jan 2010 23:36:15
Well EXCUSE ME for being crap at Hack!
#7	Anonymous	Sun, 3 Jan 2010 15:03:12
Six people, vote E to complete the Fibonacci sequence.
#8	Quint	Sun, 3 Jan 2010 20:44:56
Five more.
#9	Sorceror	Mon, 4 Jan 2010 01:34:14
Won't be complete. Needs to start 1, 1, 2.
#10	Anonymous	Mon, 4 Jan 2010 15:52:49
"Football" being a sport played on foot (by commoners), to distinguish it from a sport played on horseback (by nobles).
#11	ctaboir	Mon, 4 Jan 2010 18:29:57
While "handball" being a sport played on hand (by footless)? Nevertheless, Rugby is the only sport! Last edited: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 18:42:29
#12	Sorceror	Tue, 5 Jan 2010 01:18:47
Soccer/International Football is the only game deserving of being called "football". Only the goalie is allowed to touch the ball with his hands.
#13	TobyBartels	Tue, 5 Jan 2010 06:57:40
@ Sorceror Still won't be complete. Sequence is infinite (in both directions, potentially). But 1,2,3,8,13 would have been an extract from it. Soccer is properly called Association Football, if you want to be like that. (FIFA = Féderation Internationale de Football Association; asSOCiation -> SOCcer.)
#14	BreathOfSorrows	Tue, 5 Jan 2010 07:35:19
The American sport needs a new, and more logical, name. How 'bout "tackleball"? heh
#15	NobodySpecial	Tue, 5 Jan 2010 13:03:11
Only the goalie and Diego Maradona are allowed to touch the ball with their hands. Fixed.
#16	Thvor	Tue, 5 Jan 2010 13:07:19
@TobyBartels You missed a 5 in there. And, of course, the ratings are no longer anywhere near Fib-shaped, so this entire discussion is...well, it's as silly as it was when it started, at least.
#17	TobyBartels	Tue, 5 Jan 2010 22:46:34
@ Thvor Heh, yeah. 2,3,5,8,13 is still possible.
#18	ais523	Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:04:42
"You hear the quarterback calling the play" is actually an ingame message, I think. (Probably while hallucinating.)
#19	jokeserver	Wed, 6 Jan 2010 21:32:48
@ais523: Yes, it is. I love the hallucination messages, they're great.
#20	Sorceror	Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:58:01
I don't see this one getting 6 more E votes any time soon.
#21	BreathOfSorrows	Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:38:00
Neither do I
#22	DarthCliche	Wed, 12 May 2010 18:46:11
P for sports reference.

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