From: PatR <rankin@nethack.org>
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 00:28:00 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: tribute update: The Last Hero
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tribute update: The Last Hero

Add six passages, bringing total to 13.
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diff --git a/dat/tribute b/dat/tribute
index bf79af785..f39417aa9 100644
--- a/dat/tribute
+++ b/dat/tribute
@@ -6563,7 +6563,7 @@ And Clodpool went away, satisfied.
 # text pages include decorations of varying degrees of elaborateness.
 # The actual text is probably only novella length.
 #
-%title The Last Hero (7)
+%title The Last Hero (13)
 # p. 41 (EOS edition)
 %passage 1
 Too many people, when listing all the perils to be found in the search
@@ -6681,6 +6681,102 @@ betray 'em, quick as a wink.  'Cos that's villaining.'
 
   [The Last Hero, written by Terry Pratchett, illustrated by Paul Kidby]
 %e passage
+#
+# 6 new passages added for 3.7
+#
+# p. 16
+%passage 8
+The wizards began to gather around the device.
+
+'Can you see into the future?' said Lord Vetinari.
+
+'In /theory/ yes, sir.' said Ponder.  'But that would be highly... well,
+inadvisable, you see, because initial studies indicate that the fact of
+observation would collapse the waveform in phase space.'
+
+Not a muscle moved on the Patrician's face.
+
+'Pardon me, I'm a little out of date on faculty staff,' he said.  'Are you
+the one who has to take the dried frog pills?'
+
+'No, sir.  That's the Bursar, sir,' said Ponder.  'He has to have them
+because he's insane, sir.'
+
+'Ah,' said Lord Vetinari, and now he /did/ have an expression.  It was that
+of a man resolutely refraining from saying what was on his mind.
+
+'What Mr Stibbons /means/, my lord,' said the Archancellor, 'is that there
+are billions and billions of futures that, er, /sort of/ exist, d'yer see?
+They're all... the possible /shapes/ of the future.  But apparently the
+first one you actually /look/ at is the one that /becomes/ the future.
+It might not be one you'd like.  Apparently it's all to do with the
+Uncertainty Principle.'
+
+'And that is...'
+
+'I'm not sure.  Mr Stibbons is the one who knows about that sort of thing.'
+
+  [The Last Hero, written by Terry Pratchett, illustrated by Paul Kidby]
+%e passage
+# p. 31 (Leonard of Quirm is heading up a project for Lord Vetinari and
+#        describing requirements)
+%passage 9
+[...]
+
+'And the help of, oh, sixty apprentices and journeymen from the Guild of
+Cunning Artificers.  Perhaps there should be a hundred.  They will need to
+work round the clock.'
+
+'Apprentices?  But I can see to it that the finest craftsmen--'
+
+Leonard held up a hand.
+
+'Not craftsmen, my lord,' he said.  'I have no use for people who have
+learned the limits of the possible.'
+
+  [The Last Hero, written by Terry Pratchett, illustrated by Paul Kidby]
+%e passage
+# p. 80
+%passage 10
+'I'd rather die than sign my name,' said Boy Willie.
+
+'I'd rather face a dragon,' said Caleb.  'One of the proper old ones, too,
+not the fireworky ones you get today.'
+
+'Once they get you signin' your name, they've got you where they want you,'
+said Cohen.
+
+'Too many letters,' said Truckle.  'All different shapes, too.  I always
+put an X.'
+
+  [The Last Hero, written by Terry Pratchett, illustrated by Paul Kidby]
+%e passage
+# p. 97
+%passage 11
+He hesitated.  Lord Vetinari was not a man who delighted in the technical.
+There were two cultures, as far as he was concerned.  One was the real
+one, the other was occupied by people who liked machinery and ate pizza
+at unreasonable hours.
+
+  [The Last Hero, written by Terry Pratchett, illustrated by Paul Kidby]
+%e passage
+# p. 122 (/Kite/ is the ship's name)
+%passage 12
+On the /Kite/, the situation was being 'workshopped.'  This is the means by
+which people who don't know anything get together to pool their ignorance.
+
+  [The Last Hero, written by Terry Pratchett, illustrated by Paul Kidby]
+%e passage
+# p. 161 (Carrot and Rincewind are wondering about the fate of Cohen and
+#         "the Silver Horde" who seem to have plummeted to certain death)
+%passage 13
+'There's always hope.'
+
+'So?  There's always taxes, too.  It doesn't make any /difference/.
+
+Carrot sighed and straightened up.  'I wish you weren't right.'
+
+  [The Last Hero, written by Terry Pratchett, illustrated by Paul Kidby]
 %e title
 #
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diff --git a/doc/fixes37.0 b/doc/fixes37.0
index 01a3c7903..dcc16aa44 100644
--- a/doc/fixes37.0
+++ b/doc/fixes37.0
@@ -1090,7 +1090,7 @@ using 'f' while quiver is empty and 'autoquiver' is Off when wielding a
 	Lords and Ladies, two to Soul Music, three to Interesting Times, four
 	to Maskerade, three to Hogfather, two to Jingo, four to The Last
 	Continent, four to Carpe Jugulum, three to The Fifth Elephant, five
-	to The Truth, six to Thief of Time
+	to The Truth, six to Thief of Time, six to The Last Hero
 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