From: nethack.allison Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 01:38:48 +0000 (+0000) Subject: data.base updates - archeologist, hunter, shark X-Git-Tag: MOVE2GIT~3150 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=12ede98a6fe672e8b9dc703fe7ff2477d338f6a8;p=nethack data.base updates - archeologist, hunter, shark --- diff --git a/dat/data.base b/dat/data.base index e93ecc8a2..65009e92c 100644 --- a/dat/data.base +++ b/dat/data.base @@ -183,6 +183,12 @@ apple and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when. [ The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce ] +archeologist + Archeology is the search for fact, not truth. [...] + So forget any ideas you've got about lost cities, exotic travel, + and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried + treasure, and X never, ever, marks the spot. + [ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ] archon Archons are the predominant inhabitants of the heavens. However unusual their appearance, they are not generally @@ -1743,6 +1749,16 @@ player resent the intrusion of such beasts. They are capable of using weapons and magic, and it is even rumored that the Wizard of Yendor is a member of this species. +hunter + What of the hunting, hunter bold? + Brother, the watch was long and cold. + What of the quarry ye went to kill? + Brother, he crops in the jungle still. + Where is the power that made your pride? + Brother, it ebbs from my flank and side. + Where is the haste that ye hurry by? + Brother, I go to my lair to die. + [ The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling ] ice devil Ice devils are large semi-insectoid creatures, who are equally at home in the fires of Hell and the cold of Limbo, @@ -3333,6 +3349,22 @@ shan*lai*ching seas - which deals with the monster Kung Kung trying to seize power from Yao, the fourth emperor. [ Spectrum Atlas van de Mythologie ] +shark + As the shark moved, its dark top reflected virtually no + light. The denticles on its skin muted the whoosh of its + movements as the shark rose, driven by the power of the + great tail sweeping from side to side, like a scythe. + The fish exploded upward. + Charles Bruder felt a slight vacuum tug in the motion of + the sea, noted it as a passing current, the pull of a wave, + the tickle of undertow. He could not have heard the faint + sucking rush of water not far beneath him. He couldn't + have seen or heard what was hurtling from the murk at + astonishing speed, jaws unhinging, widening, for the + enormous first bite. It was the classic attack + that no other creature in nature could make -- a bomb from + the depths. + [ Close to Shore, by Michael Capuzzo ] shito A Japanese stabbing knife. shrieker