Dudley's (New,
(Improved) Dungeon
PRESENTS
A NetHack Carol
| Christmas Eve
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@ Oh, great, bones. Good thing I remembered to set ghosts to X... |
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X "Dudley..." @ "Ghosts can talk?" X "Dudley, I came to warn you that there are three more ghosts on this bones file." @ "Stupid Hearse." |
The Ghost of NetHack
Past appears in a
flash of light!
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Dudley's ghost vanishes! @ "Wait, is that a green ghost?" X "I am the Ghost of NetHack Past." The Ghost of NetHack Past throws a potion of hallucination! | You enter what seems
to be an older, more
more primitive world
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@ Eh? Where are we? X The first time you played Rogue, of course! |
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@ So that @ next to the piece of food is me? The newt hits Dudley! Dudley is killed! @ But there weren't any newts in Rogue... |
Everything looks SO
boring now.
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@ Well, THAT was bizarre. The Ghost of NetHack Present appears in a flash of light! X I am the Ghost of NetHack Present. The Ghost of NetHack Present throws a potion of hallucination! @ Not again... | -------------
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@ So where are we now? X Dungeon Level 1, where you left Dogley starving. On Christmas Eve, no less. The little dog whines. @ Er... | Everything looks SO
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The Ghost of NetHack Yet to Come appears in a flash of light! The Ghost of NetHack Yet to Come throws a potion of hallucination! @ Will you stupid ghosts stop throwing potions at me? |
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@ Hey! This looks the same as the normal dungeon! What gives? | ------|---
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Something is engraved here on the headstone. You read: Dudley, killed by a newt. @ Oh, come on. Like that's supposed to scare me. I get killed by newts all the time. | ------|---
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g - a fortune cookie. @ Maybe this'll clear things up. This fortune cookie tastes terrible! There is a scrap of paper inside. It reads: Due to Christmas-related difficulties, the DevTeam has officially stopped development of NetHack as of version 3.4.3. |
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@ AAAAAAAAHHH! ...wait, I'm still alive? |
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@ Well, I've certainly learned my lesson. |
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@ Never enter a bones level in December without a reliable hallucination cure. |
| https://alt.org/nethack/dudley/ |
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