mie@panda.UUCP (Martin I. Eiger) (03/20/85)
One of the more inane features of rogue 5.3 is the -d flag. When you invoke
rogue -d, it kills you right away, prints out a tombstone, and tries to add
you to the score file. It selects some small number of gold for you, a
level where you died, and a cause of death. The amount of gold is always
something small, ranging from about 2 to 90. The level, which appears only
if you make the score file, is typically something credible like level 53.
The cause of death is either a random monster (Aquator, Bat, Centaur, ...),
a weapon (arrow, bolt, dart, ...), or a medical phenomenon (hypothermia,
starvation, ...).
Or you can be killed by "a Wally the Wonder Badger".
Does anybody know anything about "Wally the Wonder Badger"?
Martin Eiger
{genrad, talcott, wjh12}!panda!mierick@sesame.UUCP (Rick Richardson) (03/23/85)
> Or you can be killed by "a Wally the Wonder Badger". > Does anybody know anything about "Wally the Wonder Badger"? > Martin Eiger > {genrad, talcott, wjh12}!panda!mie This wouldn't be the U of Wisconsin Badger, would it? Maybe put in by a Big-10 fan? -- Rick Richardson, PC Research, Inc. {genrad|ihnp4|ima}!wjh12!talcott!sesame!{rick|pcrat!rick} {cbosgd|harvard}!talcott!sesame!{rick|pcrat!rick} rick%sesame@harvard.ARPA
mopa@ur-univax.UUCP (03/23/85)
Wally the Wonder Badger is the wizard of the dungeon. He is the one who gets the 10% of your gold when you die. (at least this makes more sense than "He's dead, Jim." which I can't figure out.... mike opacity mopa@ur-univax
kalash@ucbcad.UUCP (03/25/85)
> > Does anybody know anything about "Wally the Wonder Badger"? > Yes, I know a lot about "Wally the Wonder Badger". I knowwhere the name comes from, and why Ken put it in, and even a small reference to the printed word. Joe Kalash
jona@clyde.UUCP (Jon Allingham) (03/29/85)
> > > > Does anybody know anything about "Wally the Wonder Badger"? > > > > Yes, I know a lot about "Wally the Wonder Badger". I > knowwhere the name comes from, and why Ken put it in, and even > a small reference to the printed word. > > Joe Kalash We're all very glad/impressed/etc... that YOU know the TRUTH about Wally the Wonder Badger. Since you didn't condescend to enlighten us, why did you waste our time telling us about it? -- Jon M. Allingham (201)386-3466 AT&T Bell Laboratories-WH "Beam me up Scotty, no intelligent life down here!"
arnold@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Ken Arnold%CGL) (03/30/85)
Well, well. I wondered when someone would notice that. Wally the Wonder Badger is the resident wizard of the dungeon. He, along with Shreldalff the Shy, cleaned out the Evil One, and he took over the dungeon. He is an industrious badger, made intelligent by accidentally nosing into Shreldalff's study. While there, he traced out a rune of questing on the floor (by accident, actually; he just was chasing a spider around, but Shreldalff is not only Shy, but credulous), and Shreldalff was intruiged enough to cast a spell of intelligence on him to find out what quest would have been entrusted to a badger. Although disappointed when he found out what had been happening, Wally was such a wonderful conversationalist, he adopted him as an apprentice. Having taught him everything he knew (although Wally was able to overcome this handicap), Shreldalff and Wally went off to evict the Evil One from the Dungeons of Doom for non-payment of rent, not to mention keeping evil mutant creatures around, thus lowering property values in the neighborhood. After the battle, Shreldalff and Wally agreed that Wally should clean out the dungeon. Unfortunately, the people who want the Amulet of Yendor (unnamed, except to say they are distant relations of Libby the Kid) can't wait for the cleanup task to be finished. Sorry.
jcgowl@ihlpg.UUCP (r. gowland) (03/30/85)
> > > Does anybody know anything about "Wally the Wonder Badger"? > > Yes, I know a lot about "Wally the Wonder Badger". I > > knowwhere the name comes from, and why Ken put it in, and even > > a small reference to the printed word. > > Joe Kalash > We're all very glad/impressed/etc... that YOU know the TRUTH about > Wally the Wonder Badger. > Since you didn't condescend to enlighten us, why did you waste our > time telling us about it? > Jon M. Allingham (201)386-3466 AT&T Bell Laboratories-WH > "Beam me up Scotty, no intelligent life down here!" ^ | .---------------------' | Quite right, intelligent life would have spotted the absence of the word SPOILER in the article heading -- If there are any views expressed above, I apologise. They are definitely not those of my employer who won't have netnews installed so I have to come to AT&T Bell Labs, Indian Hill ihnp4!ihlpg!jcgowl Roger R. Gowland at AT&T Bell Labs, IH and going home Saturday to ... hvlpa!hvmga!rgowland at APT UK. USA - Two nations separated by a common language - UK