I initially went in here to change the description of "unreadable" text
on the card, since it has been possible to read it in-game since commit
870b124 in 2015. Then I also ended up making some edits to stylistic
issues I noticed, primarily varying vocabulary to eliminate the
repetition/reuse of words in phrases like "an /ancient/ artifact...
inscribed with /ancient/ runes" and "when /carried/, it grants the one
who /carries/ it ESP, and reduces all spell damage done to the
/carrier/". The result is a little bit tighter and I think reads
somehwat better.
Pull request from entrez: change erinyes from lame devils named
after the Furies of Greek myth into those Furies.
Bumps EDITLEVEL because of changes to saved data. I augmented the
new data.base entry.
Closes#1150
Part of the pull request by entrez, changing a few data.base entries
recently introduced by PR #1108.
Changes ice box to a different quote, but I've re-applied the prior
quote to ice terrain rather than delete it. Also replace a UTF
apropostophe in the ice quote which escaped the previous purge of
such things.
Replaces the C.S.Lewis quote for Demonbane with a one-liner from the
Bible. I realized a bit late that Demonbane is no longer a sword and
never given to lawful Angels as starting gear anymore, consequently
the new quote doesn't fit very well.
The PR changed the helm of brilliance entry to be for all helms and
this rejects that. Instead, it adds a few generic helmet descriptions
and changes the helm of brilliance quote--now misquote--to be useful
to players, describing it as crystal rather than steel.
Pull request 1109 is still open--there's a second commit in it dealing
with fruit name handling that this commit doesn't touch.
Change the stalker entry attribution of "H. G. Wells" to "H.G. Wells"
to match the other attributions. There was once a mixture of both
styles but at some point all the ones with the expected--and possibly
stylistically preferred--extra space got changed to the condensed form.
The sasquatch quote still contains "J. W. Burns", in the text rather
than in an attribution. I wasn't sure whether it should be changed
so left it alone. Presumably the source of the quote had that space.
Separate the old generic text for athame from the new quote with an
empty attribution line. Reformat both the old and new portions so
that they won't their widths won't be so different from each other.
The new entry for 'shade' had "acrossthe" run together on the first
line. While fixing that, I changed that entry to use two-space
separation between sentences and did the same for 'shield'.
I also made indentation for various attribution lines (new necessarily
new ones) be more consistent (two tabs, for for the data file format
and one for indentation, unless the line is wide-enough to warrant
shrinking the second tab) but burned out before getting very far with
that. Also removed line split between "Dante" and "Alighieri" in a
couple of places. Shouldn't split a name unless other alternatives
are worse...
Pull request from NullCGT: a lot of new data.base entries. Over 20
separate commits; this time I didn't squash them together because I
didn't want to mess with their log messages.
Three had non-ascii characters where apostrophe or single-quote or
long dash are intended. _The_Invisible_Man_ for stalker was the worst
offender. While fixing those, I changed period followed by single
space when separating sentences to period followed by two spaces but
didn't do that for the other new entires. A few had trailing spaces and
one existing entry had trailing tabs. I've fixed up those situations.
The ice box quote is out of whack with everything else due to wider
lines but the capitalization indicates that it's from a poem that was
formatted that way. I left it as is instead of splitting several of
the lines.
The conical hat entry is iffy since nethack's conical hat is not a
wide-brimmed witch's hat, but I've left it in. Likewise helm of
brilliance says that it's made of steel but nethack's is now crystal.
Closes#1108
Sourced from xnethack. Seems like an excellent candidate for
replacement, since the quote gets across what shades are and also
hints at their weakness.
This commit adds entries for the following items:
- Credit card
- Silver bell
- Bell
- Walking shoes
- Iron shoes
- Hard shoes
- Dragonbane
- Gauntlets of Power
- Gauntlets of Fumbling
- Gauntlets of Dexterity
- Potion of Sickness
- Splashes of Venom (Various)
- Shields (Various)
The following monsters also now have associated entries:
- Stalker
I was going to add a joke entry for "microscope" to data.base and
disocovered that stethoscope was missing. (There is a rumor about
cursed ones.) Add a lame entry for it so that the joke has something
to relate to.
Searching for "stethoscope" led to the "cope" comment, which is near
the "cornuthaum" entry. Add a comment giving Janet credit for coining
the term.
16 years ago the "combat" entry got inserted in between a comment and
the "cope" entry, making the comment end up being out of place. Move
that and add a bit more detail.
The second paragraph about Medusa is an excerpt from Bulfinch's
Mythology, but first paragraph is not. Insert an empty attribution
line between them. Also, remove the reference to Graeae from the
introduction since it contradicts Bulfinch, which describes them as
"three sisters who were gray-haired from their birth" and Gorgons as
"monstrous females with huge teeth, brazen claws, and snaky hair".
Requesting a lookup of "arc ranks" or "wizard ranks" will show a
list of the rank titles and the experience levels that use them
for the specified role. Looking up a specific rank title such
as "curator" works for many of them, but some such as "wizard"
already match existing entries and continue to do so. There is
just a bare list of the titles with the levels they apply to, no
attempt at flavor text.
Also, add a lookup key for "novel" and "paperback book" which
have been yielding the "no match" result. It lists all 41 of
the Discworld titles. Again, just a bare list, no added flavor.
These all look ok on tty, curses, Qt (which watches for any line
containing four consecutive spaces while collecting the text to
be displayed and switches to fixed-width font if it is sees that),
and X11 (which specifies fixed-width font for popup text windows
in default NetHack.ad file). It might not look good on Windows
GUI if that is using a proportional font.
Add some missing monster types for the recent male/female/neuter
name split. "vampire lady" was missing but getting false hit on
"*lady, offler" entry for Discworld's Lady Luck, aka The Lady,
goddess, god. "{dwarf,gnome,kobold} lady" got the corresponding
"{dwarf,gnome,kobold}" entry but "ogre lady" got "Lady Luck"; all
wildcard matches that are affected by their ordering in the file.
The pull request adopted yesterday added "battle axe" but it was
missing a hyphen so didn't match. I've fixed that and moved it
from the generic "weapon" entry to the more specific "axe" one.
I accidentally omitted the addition of "luckstone" but since the
luck quote is about bad luck, having it match that would be too
misleading for novice players so am now intentionally omitting it.
Improves the consistency of quote citations. Mostly by adding
missing commas but there are a handful or more substantial
corrections.
Pull request changed one "G.K. Chesterton" to "G. K. Chesterton"
but I went the other way. There are roughly 60 citations with
two or three initials, and about 50 omit the space, only 10-ish
included it. I changed those to match the rest. It's slightly
less visual clutter when reading an entry.
Also adds some new keys that previously had no entry to now match
some existing entries.
I added various comments and also inserted a few blank lines to
separate paragraphs but made no attempt to be thorough about that.
Fixes#472
Let ki-rin cure themselves (of being stunned, confused, or blinded)
with their own horn, and make them be poison resistant. They
aren't unicorns but their horn is very much like a unicorn horn.
They're flagged no-corpse so this hasn't changed them to leave
behind a horn upon death.
They were flagged as animals who neighed but they are also spell
casters. I took the animal flag off (they're still no-hands so
shouldn't be able to use items; also, unicorns aren't flagged as
animals either) and changed sound to 'ms_spell'.
Displacer beast and genetic engineer lacked data.base entries so
I've made a couple up from thin air. I tried to look up "genetic
engineering" in _the_Concise_Dictionary_of_Biology_ (after seeing
that the quantum mechanic quote comes from _Concise_Dictionary_of_
_Physics_) but could only view the first sentence so don't know
whether it had anything more useful. I also skipped the AD&D
Monster Manual for displacer beast except for remembering the
puma-like bit from previously checking it. So regardless of any
old copyright issues in data.base, there shouldn't be any new ones.
A quote about "winning team" doesn't fit nethack very well but this
is too good to pass up. I considered adding "/Rule Six/" as a false
rumor, but the rumors don't offer any way to specify attribution.
Also, give full attribution for another Douglas Adams quote that's
used for a random ungraving.
