From: PatR Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 21:29:07 +0000 (-0700) Subject: tribute update: The Last Continent X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4aceb467ce765895488c6d10a2d8ecf194083221;p=nethack tribute update: The Last Continent Add page citation to passage 2. Add four new passages, bringing total to 14. --- diff --git a/dat/tribute b/dat/tribute index 24cf99e70..05f9adff5 100644 --- a/dat/tribute +++ b/dat/tribute @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# NetHack 3.7 tribute $NHDT-Date: 1624053070 2021/06/18 21:51:10 $ $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.105 $ +# NetHack 3.7 tribute $NHDT-Date: 1624656533 2021/06/25 21:28:53 $ $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.106 $ # Copyright (c) 2017 by Robert Patrick Rankin # NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. # A tribute introduced in NetHack 3.6.0 to: @@ -5414,7 +5414,10 @@ all the way up to "Sometimes things just happen." # # # -%title The Last Continent (10) +# The last continent is Discworld's analog of Australia, known variously +# as "XXXX", "EcksEcksEcksEcks", and "FourEcks". +# +%title The Last Continent (14) # p. 260 (Harper Torch edition) %passage 1 "Is it true that your life passes before your eyes before you die?" @@ -5430,6 +5433,7 @@ FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED "LIVING". [...] [The Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage +# p. 16 %passage 2 "When You're Up to Your Ass in Alligators, Today Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life." @@ -5590,6 +5594,99 @@ of clothes, often with the same sort of insignia. [The Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett] %e passage +# +# 4 new passages added for 3.7 +# +# pp. 113-114 (passage ends mid-paragraph) +%passage 11 +"This is certainly a very... /original/ cart," said Rincewind. + +"Got a few modifications of my own," said Mad. He grinned evilly. "You a +wizard, mister?" + +"Broadly speaking, yes." + +"Any good?" Mad was loading another crossbow. + +Rincewind hesitated. "No," he said. + +"Lucky for you," said Mad. "I'd have killed you if you were. Can't stand +wizards. Bunch of wowsers, right?" + +He grasped the handles of the bent stovepipe and swiveled it around. + +"Here they come," he muttered. + +Rincewind peered over the top of Mad's head. There was a piece of mirror +in the bend of the pipe. It showed the road behind, and half a dozen dots +under another cloud of red dust. + +"Road gang," said Mad. "After my cargo. Steal anything, they will. All +bastards are bastards, but some bastards is /bastards/." [...] + + [The Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# pp. 246-247 (Ponder Stibbins had stayed behind, then changed his mind and +# isn't wearing his robe after swimming to catch up with the +# senior wizards' boat; Ridcully is smoking a pipe) +%passage 12 +"And, while it is good to see you, Stibbins, albeit rather more of you +than I would usually care to contemplate, I am moved to ask why you are, +in fact, here." + +"I suddenly felt it would be unfair to deprive the University of my +services, sir." + +"Really? A sudden rush of nostalgia for the old alma mater, eh?" + +"You could say that, sir." + +Ridcully's eyes twinkled behind the smoke and, not for the first time, +Ponder suspected that the man was sometimes rather cleverer than he +appeared. It would not be hard. + + [The Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# p. 263 (Rincewind is going to be executed the next day; a previous prisoner +# who was well known for multiple escapes had scratched "look at the +# hinges" on the cell's wall--the cell's door just lifts off) +%passage 13 +At moments like this cowardice was an exact science. There were times +that called for mindless, terror-filled panic, and times that called for +measured, considered, /thoughtful/ panic. Right now he was in a place of +safety. It was, admittedly, the death cell, but the point was that it +was perhaps the one place in this country where nothing bad was going to +happen for a little while. The Ecksians didn't look like the kind of +people who went in for torture, although it was always possible that they +might make him eat some more of their food. So, for the moment, he had +/time/. Time to plan ahead, to consider his next move, to apply his +intellect to the problem at hand. + +He stared at the wall for a moment, then stood up and gripped the bars. + +Right. That seemed to be about long enough. Now to run like hell. + + [The Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage +# pp. 333-334 (passage starts mid-paragraph and ends mid-paragraph; Rincewind +# has asked whether a haunted brewery might have been built on a +# site that's sacred to indigenous people; the answer is no) +%passage 14 +"[...] Some chief went to prison to see the prime minister and said, +'Mate, your mob can dig it all up and drop it over the edge of the world, +no worries.'" + +"Why did he have to go to prison?" + +"We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they're elected. Don't +you?" + +"Why?" + +"It saves time. [...]" + + [The Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett] +%e passage %e title # # diff --git a/doc/fixes37.0 b/doc/fixes37.0 index e08eefa4f..9d712daf4 100644 --- a/doc/fixes37.0 +++ b/doc/fixes37.0 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.575 $ $NHDT-Date: 1624322667 2021/06/22 00:44:27 $ +NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.578 $ $NHDT-Date: 1624656533 2021/06/25 21:28:53 $ General Fixes and Modified Features ----------------------------------- @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ tribute (Discworld snippets) typos, in book order rather than fix order: Men at Arms passage #1, italicize /for/, passage #2, insert omitted word "had": 'it was /fate/ that _had_ let Edward' Interesting Times passage #1, italicize several words - Feet of Clay passage #1, "does not need" -> "doesn't even need" + Feet of Clay passage #1, second "does not need" -> "doesn't even need" Hogfather passage #7 missing initial double quote for "Oh, just ...", also #7 insert missing "you" into "Why are you feeling [...]" Soul Music passage #1, italicize /feel/, #8, "fossile" -> "fossil" @@ -1045,7 +1045,8 @@ using 'f' while quiver is empty and 'autoquiver' is Off when wielding a the quiver (inspired by xNetHack) 3.6's tribute: add one new passage to Sourcery, three to Small Gods, one to Lords and Ladies, two to Soul Music, three to Interesting Times, four - to Maskerade, three to Hogfather, two to Jingo + to Maskerade, three to Hogfather, two to Jingo, four to The Last + Continent monsters can see and remember hero resistances monsters can gain resistances by eating corpses menu for what-is command supports /^ and /" to view a list of nearby or whole