From a bug report, the whatis description
for monks (a passage about a monk being invited to a meal) was using "month"
where "mouth" is clearly intended. I think this came up a few years ago
when monk was first added and am not sure why it wasn't changed them, even
if it happens to be an accurate transcription from the quote's source.
Nothing to do with <Someone>'s recent list of missing entries, just
an amusing quote I like. The book itself isn't remotely nethackish; it's
about a teenage boy and a teddy bear who are operating as hardboiled-style
detectives in a land of sentient toys where nursery rhyme characters start
getting murdered.
Fix the situation <Someone> reported where requesting information about
the not too unlikely word "offering" would match the "ring" quote. I didn't
add a new quote for it but made "offer[ing]" and "sacrific[e|ing]" match the
existing altar quote. I also added one small quote I've had laying around
for a while.
Add the caveman, healer, and monk data.base entries supplied by
<Someone>, plus the healer one from <Someone>'s list of outstanding bugs and
requests. Every role now has its own entry. I left "dwarven caveman"
and "gnomish caveman" pointing at the generic dwarf and gnome entries
respectively, because the caveman quote feels to me to be more human-
specific than the earlier role ones have been.
I added blank lines to the monk quote to break it into paragraphs,
and made two minor tweaks to the text. I hope we can find or invent a
separate entry for Master Kaen though. Getting a quote that refers to
Buddhism for him seems wrong to me, but leaving the generic human one
now that there's a monk-specific one didn't feel right either.
I've moved a few quest guardians around this time. Deciding which
of them should yield the corresponding role entries and which shouldn't
involves judgement calls and I don't claim that the current situation
is now perfect.
Add the wizard entry submitted by <Someone>. It doesn't fit
perfectly but seems better than getting the generic human (or other
race) entry. It pointed out that "gnomish wizard" is ambiguous between
a type of monster and a player character race/role combination. I had
to add a special case to the code to make that work out right.
This also makes all the roles that have the their entry match any
race; conversely, match the race's monster for roles that don't have an
entry (caveman, healer, monk, priest, and samurai; we really should get
them their own). Previously many of the non-human ones yielded "I don't
have any information on such things" and at least one (elven priest)
yielded the generic human entry.
Regarding the Shrieker source,
http://www.peldor.com/chapters/story678.html:
" The player characters depicted in these stories are copyright
1991-2000 by Thomas A. Miller. Any resemblance to any persons
or characters either real or fictional is utterly coincidental.
Copying and/or distribution of these stories is permissible under
the sole condition that no money is made in the process. In that
case, I hope you enjoy them!
Thomas A. Miller"
