From: nethack.rankin Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 01:49:38 +0000 (+0000) Subject: another data.base update X-Git-Tag: MOVE2GIT~2288 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3e9610f5bb4421685134812a8648a3588e52670d;p=nethack another data.base update Add 's priest and samurai entries. --- diff --git a/dat/data.base b/dat/data.base index 3aa0012f3..62dc37d8c 100644 --- a/dat/data.base +++ b/dat/data.base @@ -1076,7 +1076,6 @@ electric eel elvenking elven cave*man elven healer -elven priest The Elves sat round the fire upon the grass or upon the sawn rings of old trunks. Some went to and fro bearing cups and pouring drinks; others brought food on heaped plates and @@ -1745,10 +1744,8 @@ human human cave*man human healer human monk -human samurai acolyte apprentice -arch priest attendant cave*man chieftain @@ -1760,9 +1757,7 @@ monk ninja nurse page -*priest* ronin -samurai shopkeeper student thug @@ -3026,6 +3021,24 @@ poseido*n preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific -- and without science we are as the snakes and toads. [ The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce ] +priest* +* priest* + [...] For the two priests were talking exactly like priests, + piously, with learning and leisure, about the most aerial + enigmas of theology. The little Essex priest spoke the more + simply, with his round face turned to the strengthening stars; + the other talked with his head bowed, as if he were not even + worthy to look at them. But no more innocently clerical + conversation could have been heard in any white Italian cloister + or black Spanish cathedral. The first he heard was the tail of + one of Father Brown's sentences, which ended: "... what they + really meant in the Middle Ages by the heavens being + incorruptible." The taller priest nodded his bowed head and + said: "Ah, yes, these modern infidels appeal to their reason; + but who can look at those millions of worlds and not feel that + there may well be wonderful universes above us where reason is + utterly unreasonable?" + [ The Innocence of Father Brown, by G.K. Chesterton ] prisoner Where am I? In the Village. @@ -3274,6 +3287,19 @@ salamander salamander, in fact, comes from a Greek word meaning "fire animal". [ Salamanders, by Cherie Winner ] +samurai +* samurai + By that time, Narahara had already slipped his arm from the + sleeve of his outer robe, drew out his two-and-a-half-foot + Fujiwara Tadahiro sword, and, brandishing it over his head, + began barreling toward the foreigners. In less than a minute, + he had charged upon them and cut one of them through the torso. + The man fled, clutching his bulging guts, finally to fall from + his horse at the foot of a pine tree about a thousand yards + away. Kaeda Takeji finished him off. The other two Englishmen + were severely wounded as they tried to flee. Only the woman + managed to escape virtually unscathed. + [ The Fox-horse, from Drunk as a Lord, by Ryotaro Shiba ] sandestin Ildefonse left the terrace and almost immediately sounds of contention came from the direction of the work-room.