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1.1     ! root        1:        Hack & Quest data file - version 1.0.3
        !             2: @      human (or you)
        !             3: -      a wall
        !             4: |      a wall
        !             5: +      a door
        !             6: .      the floor of a room
        !             7:        a dark part of a room
        !             8: #      a corridor
        !             9: }      water filled area
        !            10: <      the staircase to the previous level
        !            11: >      the staircase to the next level
        !            12: ^      a trap
        !            13: $      a pile, pot or chest of gold
        !            14: %%      a piece of food
        !            15: !      a potion
        !            16: *      a gem
        !            17: ?      a scroll
        !            18: =      a ring
        !            19: /      a wand
        !            20: [      a suit of armor
        !            21: )      a weapon
        !            22: (      a useful item (camera, key, rope etc.)
        !            23: 0      an iron ball
        !            24: _      an iron chain
        !            25: `      an enormous rock
        !            26: "      an amulet
        !            27: ,      a trapper
        !            28: :      a chameleon
        !            29: ;      a giant eel
        !            30: '      a lurker above
        !            31: &      a demon
        !            32: A      a giant ant
        !            33: B      a giant bat
        !            34: C      a centaur;
        !            35:        Of all the monsters put together by  the  Greek  imagination
        !            36:        the  Centaurs (Kentauroi) constituted a class in themselves.
        !            37:        Despite a strong streak  of  sensuality  in  their  make-up,
        !            38:        their  normal  behaviour  was  moral, and they took a kindly
        !            39:        thought of man's welfare. The attempted outrage of Nessos on
        !            40:        Deianeira,  and  that  of the whole tribe of Centaurs on the
        !            41:        Lapith women, are more than offset  by  the  hospitality  of
        !            42:        Pholos  and  by  the  wisdom of Cheiron, physician, prophet,
        !            43:        lyrist, and the instructor of Achilles.  Further,  the  Cen-
        !            44:        taurs  were  peculiar in that their nature, which united the
        !            45:        body of a horse with the trunk and head of a  man,  involved
        !            46:        an  unthinkable  duplication  of  vital organs and important
        !            47:        members. So grotesque a combination seems  almost  un-Greek.
        !            48:        These  strange  creatures were said to live in the caves and
        !            49:        clefts of the mountains, myths associating  them  especially
        !            50:        with the hills of Thessaly and the range of Erymanthos.
        !            51:                       [Mythology of all races, Vol. 1, pp. 270-271]
        !            52: D      a dragon;
        !            53:        In the West the dragon was the natural  enemy  of  man.  Although
        !            54:        preferring to live in bleak and desolate regions, whenever it was
        !            55:        seen among men it left in its wake a  trail  of  destruction  and
        !            56:        disease. Yet any attempt to slay this beast was a perilous under-
        !            57:        taking. For the dragon's assailant had to contend not  only  with
        !            58:        clouds  of  sulphurous fumes pouring from its fire-breathing nos-
        !            59:        trils, but also with the thrashings of its tail, the most  deadly
        !            60:        part of its serpent-like body.
        !            61:        [From: Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library)]
        !            62: E      a floating eye
        !            63: F      a freezing sphere
        !            64: G      a gnome;
        !            65:        ... And then a gnome came by, carrying a bundle, an old fellow
        !            66:        three times as large as an imp and wearing clothes of a sort,
        !            67:        especially a hat. And he was clearly just as frightened as the
        !            68:        imps though he could not go so fast. Ramon Alonzo saw that there
        !            69:        must be some great trouble that was vexing magical things; and,
        !            70:        since gnomes speak the language of men, and will answer if spoken
        !            71:        to gently, he raised his hat, and asked of the gnome his name.
        !            72:        The gnome did not stop his hasty shuffle a moment as he answered
        !            73:        'Alaraba' and grabbed the rim of his hat but forgot to doff it.
        !            74:        'What is the trouble, Alaraba?' said Ramon Alonzo.
        !            75:        'White magic. Run!' said the gnome ...
        !            76:                        [From: The Charwoman's Shadow, by Lord Dunsany.]
        !            77: H      a hobgoblin;
        !            78:        Hobgoblin. Used by the  Puritans  and  in  later  times  for
        !            79:        wicked  goblin  spirits,  as in Bunyan's 'Hobgoblin nor foul
        !            80:        friend', but its more correct use is for the friendly  spir-
        !            81:        its  of  the brownie type.  In 'A midsummer night's dream' a
        !            82:        fairy says to Shakespeare's Puck:
        !            83:                Those that Hobgoblin call you, and sweet Puck,
        !            84:                You do their work, and they shall have good luck:
        !            85:                Are you not he?
        !            86:        and obviously Puck would not wish to be called  a  hobgoblin
        !            87:        if that was an ill-omened word.
        !            88:        Hobgoblins are on the whole, good-humoured and ready  to  be
        !            89:        helpful,  but fond of practical joking, and like most of the
        !            90:        fairies rather nasty people to annoy. Boggarts hover on  the
        !            91:        verge of hobgoblindom.  Bogles are just over the edge.
        !            92:        One Hob mentioned by Henderson, was Hob Headless who haunted
        !            93:        the  road  between Hurworth and Neasham, but could not cross
        !            94:        the little river Kent, which flowed into the  Tess.  He  was
        !            95:        exorcised  and  laid under a large stone by the roadside for
        !            96:        ninety-nine years and a day. If anyone was so unwary  as  to
        !            97:        sit  on  that stone, he would be unable to quit it for ever.
        !            98:        The ninety-nine years is nearly up, so trouble may  soon  be
        !            99:        heard of on the road between Hurworth and Neasham.
        !           100:                       [Katharine Briggs, A  dictionary  of Fairies]
        !           101: I      an invisible stalker
        !           102: J      a jackal
        !           103: K      a kobold
        !           104: L      a leprechaun;
        !           105:        The Irish Leprechaun is the Faeries' shoemaker and is  known
        !           106:        under  various  names  in different parts of Ireland: Cluri-
        !           107:        caune in Cork, Lurican in Kerry, Lurikeen in Kildare and Lu-
        !           108:        rigadaun  in  Tipperary.  Although he works for the Faeries,
        !           109:        the Leprechaun is not of the same species. He is small,  has
        !           110:        dark  skin  and wears strange clothes.  His nature has some-
        !           111:        thing of the manic-depressive about it: first  he  is  quite
        !           112:        happy,  whistling merrily as he nails a sole on to a shoe; a
        !           113:        few minutes later, he is sullen and  morose,  drunk  on  his
        !           114:        home-made  heather ale. The Leprechaun's two great loves are
        !           115:        tobacco and whiskey, and he is a first-rate con-man,  impos-
        !           116:        sible  to  out-fox.  No  one, no matter how clever, has ever
        !           117:        managed to cheat him out of his hidden pot of  gold  or  his
        !           118:        magic  shilling. At the last minute he always thinks of some
        !           119:        way to divert his captor's attention  and  vanishes  in  the
        !           120:        twinkling  of  an eye.
        !           121:                          [From: A Field Guide to the Little People
        !           122:                             by  Nancy Arrowsmith & George Moorse. ]
        !           123: M      a mimic
        !           124: N      a nymph
        !           125: O      an orc
        !           126: P      a purple worm
        !           127: Q      a quasit
        !           128: R      a rust monster
        !           129: S      a snake
        !           130: T      a troll
        !           131: U      an umber hulk
        !           132: V      a vampire
        !           133: W      a wraith
        !           134: X      a xorn
        !           135: Y      a yeti
        !           136: Z      a zombie
        !           137: a      an acid blob
        !           138: b      a giant beetle
        !           139: c      a cockatrice;
        !           140:        Once in a great while, when the positions of the  stars  are
        !           141:        just  right, a seven-year-old rooster will lay an egg. Then,
        !           142:        along will come a snake, to coil around the egg, or a  toad,
        !           143:        to  squat  upon  the  egg, keeping it warm and helping it to
        !           144:        hatch. When it hatches, out comes a creature  called  basil-
        !           145:        isk, or cockatrice, the most deadly of all creatures. A sin-
        !           146:        gle glance from its yellow, piercing toad's eyes  will  kill
        !           147:        both  man  and beast. Its power of destruction is said to be
        !           148:        so great that sometimes simply to hear its  hiss  can  prove
        !           149:        fatal.  Its breath is so venomenous that it causes all vege-
        !           150:        tation to wither.
        !           151:        There is, however, one  creature  which  can  withstand  the
        !           152:        basilisk's deadly gaze, and this is the weasel. No one knows
        !           153:        why this is so, but although the fierce weasel can slay  the
        !           154:        basilisk,  it will itself be killed in the struggle. Perhaps
        !           155:        the weasel knows the basilisk's fatal weakness: if  it  ever
        !           156:        sees  its own reflection in a mirror it will perish instant-
        !           157:        ly. But even a dead basilisk is dangerous, for  it  is  said
        !           158:        that merely touching its lifeless body can cause a person to
        !           159:        sicken and die.
        !           160:            [From: Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun
        !           161:                   Library) and other sources. ]
        !           162: d      a dog
        !           163: e      an ettin
        !           164: f      a fog cloud
        !           165: g      a gelatinous cube
        !           166: h      a homunculus
        !           167: i      an imp;
        !           168:         ... imps ... little creatures of two feet high  that  could
        !           169:        gambol and jump prodigiously; ...
        !           170:                        [From: The Charwoman's Shadow, by Lord Dunsany.]
        !           171: 
        !           172:        An 'imp' is an off-shoot or cutting. Thus an 'ymp tree'  was
        !           173:        a grafted tree, or one grown from a cutting, not from seed.
        !           174:        'Imp' properly means a small devil, an off-shoot  of  Satan,
        !           175:        but  the distinction between goblins or bogles and imps from
        !           176:        hell is hard to make, and many in the  Celtic  countries  as
        !           177:        well as the English Puritans regarded all fairies as devils.
        !           178:        The fairies of tradition often hover  uneasily  between  the
        !           179:        ghostly and the diabolic state.
        !           180:                         [Katharine Briggs, A dictionary of Fairies]
        !           181: j      a jaguar
        !           182: k      a killer bee
        !           183: l      a leocrotta
        !           184: m      a minotaur
        !           185: n      a nurse
        !           186: o      an owlbear
        !           187: p      a piercer
        !           188: q      a quivering blob
        !           189: r      a giant rat
        !           190: s      a scorpion
        !           191: t      a tengu;
        !           192:        The tengu was the  most  troublesome  creature  of  Japanese
        !           193:        legend.   Part  bird  and part man, with red beak for a nose
        !           194:        and flashing eyes, the tengu was notorious for  stirring  up
        !           195:        feuds  and  prolonging  enmity between families. Indeed, the
        !           196:        belligerent tengus were supposed to have  been  man's  first
        !           197:        instructors in the use of arms.
        !           198:                            [From: Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon
        !           199:                                         (The Leprechaun Library). ]
        !           200: u      a unicorn;
        !           201:        Men have always sought the elusive unicorn, for  the  single
        !           202:        twisted  horn  which projected from its forehead was thought
        !           203:        to be a powerful talisman. It was said that the unicorn  had
        !           204:        simply  to  dip  the tip of its horn in a muddy pool for the
        !           205:        water to become pure. Men also believed that to  drink  from
        !           206:        this horn was a protection against all sickness, and that if
        !           207:        the horn was ground to a powder it would act as an  antidote
        !           208:        to  all poisons. Less than 200 years ago in France, the horn
        !           209:        of a unicorn was used in a ceremony to test the  royal  food
        !           210:        for poison.
        !           211:        Although only the size of a small horse, the  unicorn  is  a
        !           212:        very  fierce  beast,  capable  of killing an elephant with a
        !           213:        single thrust from its horn.  Its  fleetness  of  foot  also
        !           214:        makes  this solitary creature difficult to capture. However,
        !           215:        it can be tamed and captured by a maiden. Made gentle by the
        !           216:        sight  of a virgin, the unicorn can be lured to lay its head
        !           217:        in her lap, and in this docile mood, the maiden  may  secure
        !           218:        it with a golden rope.
        !           219:                            [From: Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon
        !           220:                                         (The Leprechaun Library). ]
        !           221: v      a violet fungi
        !           222: w      a long worm;
        !           223:        From its teeth the crysknife can be manufactured.
        !           224: ~      the tail of a long worm
        !           225: x      a xan;
        !           226:        The xan were animals sent to prick the legs of the Lords of Xibalba.
        !           227: y      a yellow light
        !           228: z      a zruty;
        !           229:        The zruty are wild and gigantic beings, living in the wildernesses
        !           230:        of the Tatra mountains.
        !           231: 1      The wizard of Yendor
        !           232: 2      The mail daemon

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