Dudley's (New, Improved) Dungeon

< Nov 22nd, 2012 >

Anvilgames

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@ See, genocide doesn't just kill monsters. It obliterates them from history entirely.

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@ Their eggs and tins are suddenly empty, any attempt to create or become one will fail - the only hint they ever existed is that you can see them in your hallucinations.

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@ Which raises an interesting question...

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F - 87 uncursed scrolls of genocide

What monster do you wish to genocide?

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Wiped out all grues. Wiped out all tribbles. Wiped out all Daleks. Wiped out all mothers-in-law. Wiped out all Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts of Traal...

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

Rodney genocided Ewoks, too. TRULY HIS EVIL KNOWS NO BOUNDS.

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8 Comments

#1	ais523	Sat, 24 Nov 2012 03:19:41
I like this explanation.
#2	acheron	Sun, 25 Nov 2012 20:37:31
E for using "raises a[...] question" and not misusing "begs the question".
#3	acheron	Sun, 25 Nov 2012 20:38:02
(Yes, I am easily won over.)
#4	Anvilgames	Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:21:41
acheron: YOU NOTICED!
#5	bcode	Thu, 29 Nov 2012 02:17:59
E for 87 being indeed the number of hallucinatory monsters.
#6	Muad	Sun, 30 Dec 2012 01:27:33
This is wonderful.
#7	RamBanjo	Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:09:30
This strip raises a question: Why must Rodney wipe out those monsters, even though he is already very powerful, and can beat those monsters single-handedly? Maybe he hates his mother-in-law? Another question is raised: What would Dudley see in a hallucination before Rodney wiped out all of those hallucinatory monsters? Last edited: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:32:23
#8	Anonymous	Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:02:37
I thought the list of hallucinatory monsters supplements the list of actual monsters but does not replace it: you can still hallucinate that the cockatrice next to use is a newt, or even (rarely) a cockatrice if that happens to be the RNG's choice. So Rodney's geno-spree wouldn't have changed Dudley's hallucinations at all.

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