Dudley's (New, Improved) Dungeon

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Xyl

                    
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..>..#### |...).|   
....|     |d....|   
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@ Hey Dogley, I have a question.

d What is it?

                    
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@ Why are scrolls so rare? It's just a piece of paper with magic words. Why can't we just write the words somewhere else and read from that?

d Interesting idea. Why don't you try it then? It's not gonna hurt you or anything.

You write in the dus
t with your fingers.
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%...|   ##-.....|   
....|   # |.@d..|   
..>..#### |...).|   
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@ Okay, so I know that GHOTI is scroll of genocide, let's write it down here...

You read: "GHOTI".  
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..>..#### |..d).|   
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d This is so stupid. This will be a waste of time.

@ Whatever, Dogley. Now if I read it outloud...

As you read the word
s, the dungeon disap
pears!              
                    
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@ Well, that explains something.

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2 Comments

#1	Anonymous	Sat, 12 Nov 2016 21:09:42
Cute, though I thought that GHOTI (or whatever) is just the title of the scroll: to actually read it you have to open the scroll and you get one read before it disappears.
#2	ThePathfinder	Sun, 13 Nov 2016 01:50:39
Another explaination is that GHOTI is the filename,you have to open it and read(2) the gibberish^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbinaries which interacts with the world. There should be some code to make it delete itself after execution. Last edited: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 15:03:31

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