1*41208Sbostic Hack & Quest data file - version 1.0.3 2*41208Sbostic@ human (or you) 3*41208Sbostic- a wall 4*41208Sbostic| a wall 5*41208Sbostic+ a door 6*41208Sbostic. the floor of a room 7*41208Sbostic a dark part of a room 8*41208Sbostic# a corridor 9*41208Sbostic} water filled area 10*41208Sbostic< the staircase to the previous level 11*41208Sbostic> the staircase to the next level 12*41208Sbostic^ a trap 13*41208Sbostic$ a pile, pot or chest of gold 14*41208Sbostic%% a piece of food 15*41208Sbostic! a potion 16*41208Sbostic* a gem 17*41208Sbostic? a scroll 18*41208Sbostic= a ring 19*41208Sbostic/ a wand 20*41208Sbostic[ a suit of armor 21*41208Sbostic) a weapon 22*41208Sbostic( a useful item (camera, key, rope etc.) 23*41208Sbostic0 an iron ball 24*41208Sbostic_ an iron chain 25*41208Sbostic` an enormous rock 26*41208Sbostic" an amulet 27*41208Sbostic, a trapper 28*41208Sbostic: a chameleon 29*41208Sbostic; a giant eel 30*41208Sbostic' a lurker above 31*41208Sbostic& a demon 32*41208SbosticA a giant ant 33*41208SbosticB a giant bat 34*41208SbosticC a centaur; 35*41208Sbostic Of all the monsters put together by the Greek imagination 36*41208Sbostic the Centaurs (Kentauroi) constituted a class in themselves. 37*41208Sbostic Despite a strong streak of sensuality in their make-up, 38*41208Sbostic their normal behaviour was moral, and they took a kindly 39*41208Sbostic thought of man's welfare. The attempted outrage of Nessos on 40*41208Sbostic Deianeira, and that of the whole tribe of Centaurs on the 41*41208Sbostic Lapith women, are more than offset by the hospitality of 42*41208Sbostic Pholos and by the wisdom of Cheiron, physician, prophet, 43*41208Sbostic lyrist, and the instructor of Achilles. Further, the Cen- 44*41208Sbostic taurs were peculiar in that their nature, which united the 45*41208Sbostic body of a horse with the trunk and head of a man, involved 46*41208Sbostic an unthinkable duplication of vital organs and important 47*41208Sbostic members. So grotesque a combination seems almost un-Greek. 48*41208Sbostic These strange creatures were said to live in the caves and 49*41208Sbostic clefts of the mountains, myths associating them especially 50*41208Sbostic with the hills of Thessaly and the range of Erymanthos. 51*41208Sbostic [Mythology of all races, Vol. 1, pp. 270-271] 52*41208SbosticD a dragon; 53*41208Sbostic In the West the dragon was the natural enemy of man. Although 54*41208Sbostic preferring to live in bleak and desolate regions, whenever it was 55*41208Sbostic seen among men it left in its wake a trail of destruction and 56*41208Sbostic disease. Yet any attempt to slay this beast was a perilous under- 57*41208Sbostic taking. For the dragon's assailant had to contend not only with 58*41208Sbostic clouds of sulphurous fumes pouring from its fire-breathing nos- 59*41208Sbostic trils, but also with the thrashings of its tail, the most deadly 60*41208Sbostic part of its serpent-like body. 61*41208Sbostic [From: Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library)] 62*41208SbosticE a floating eye 63*41208SbosticF a freezing sphere 64*41208SbosticG a gnome; 65*41208Sbostic ... And then a gnome came by, carrying a bundle, an old fellow 66*41208Sbostic three times as large as an imp and wearing clothes of a sort, 67*41208Sbostic especially a hat. And he was clearly just as frightened as the 68*41208Sbostic imps though he could not go so fast. Ramon Alonzo saw that there 69*41208Sbostic must be some great trouble that was vexing magical things; and, 70*41208Sbostic since gnomes speak the language of men, and will answer if spoken 71*41208Sbostic to gently, he raised his hat, and asked of the gnome his name. 72*41208Sbostic The gnome did not stop his hasty shuffle a moment as he answered 73*41208Sbostic 'Alaraba' and grabbed the rim of his hat but forgot to doff it. 74*41208Sbostic 'What is the trouble, Alaraba?' said Ramon Alonzo. 75*41208Sbostic 'White magic. Run!' said the gnome ... 76*41208Sbostic [From: The Charwoman's Shadow, by Lord Dunsany.] 77*41208SbosticH a hobgoblin; 78*41208Sbostic Hobgoblin. Used by the Puritans and in later times for 79*41208Sbostic wicked goblin spirits, as in Bunyan's 'Hobgoblin nor foul 80*41208Sbostic friend', but its more correct use is for the friendly spir- 81*41208Sbostic its of the brownie type. In 'A midsummer night's dream' a 82*41208Sbostic fairy says to Shakespeare's Puck: 83*41208Sbostic Those that Hobgoblin call you, and sweet Puck, 84*41208Sbostic You do their work, and they shall have good luck: 85*41208Sbostic Are you not he? 86*41208Sbostic and obviously Puck would not wish to be called a hobgoblin 87*41208Sbostic if that was an ill-omened word. 88*41208Sbostic Hobgoblins are on the whole, good-humoured and ready to be 89*41208Sbostic helpful, but fond of practical joking, and like most of the 90*41208Sbostic fairies rather nasty people to annoy. Boggarts hover on the 91*41208Sbostic verge of hobgoblindom. Bogles are just over the edge. 92*41208Sbostic One Hob mentioned by Henderson, was Hob Headless who haunted 93*41208Sbostic the road between Hurworth and Neasham, but could not cross 94*41208Sbostic the little river Kent, which flowed into the Tess. He was 95*41208Sbostic exorcised and laid under a large stone by the roadside for 96*41208Sbostic ninety-nine years and a day. If anyone was so unwary as to 97*41208Sbostic sit on that stone, he would be unable to quit it for ever. 98*41208Sbostic The ninety-nine years is nearly up, so trouble may soon be 99*41208Sbostic heard of on the road between Hurworth and Neasham. 100*41208Sbostic [Katharine Briggs, A dictionary of Fairies] 101*41208SbosticI an invisible stalker 102*41208SbosticJ a jackal 103*41208SbosticK a kobold 104*41208SbosticL a leprechaun; 105*41208Sbostic The Irish Leprechaun is the Faeries' shoemaker and is known 106*41208Sbostic under various names in different parts of Ireland: Cluri- 107*41208Sbostic caune in Cork, Lurican in Kerry, Lurikeen in Kildare and Lu- 108*41208Sbostic rigadaun in Tipperary. Although he works for the Faeries, 109*41208Sbostic the Leprechaun is not of the same species. He is small, has 110*41208Sbostic dark skin and wears strange clothes. His nature has some- 111*41208Sbostic thing of the manic-depressive about it: first he is quite 112*41208Sbostic happy, whistling merrily as he nails a sole on to a shoe; a 113*41208Sbostic few minutes later, he is sullen and morose, drunk on his 114*41208Sbostic home-made heather ale. The Leprechaun's two great loves are 115*41208Sbostic tobacco and whiskey, and he is a first-rate con-man, impos- 116*41208Sbostic sible to out-fox. No one, no matter how clever, has ever 117*41208Sbostic managed to cheat him out of his hidden pot of gold or his 118*41208Sbostic magic shilling. At the last minute he always thinks of some 119*41208Sbostic way to divert his captor's attention and vanishes in the 120*41208Sbostic twinkling of an eye. 121*41208Sbostic [From: A Field Guide to the Little People 122*41208Sbostic by Nancy Arrowsmith & George Moorse. ] 123*41208SbosticM a mimic 124*41208SbosticN a nymph 125*41208SbosticO an orc 126*41208SbosticP a purple worm 127*41208SbosticQ a quasit 128*41208SbosticR a rust monster 129*41208SbosticS a snake 130*41208SbosticT a troll 131*41208SbosticU an umber hulk 132*41208SbosticV a vampire 133*41208SbosticW a wraith 134*41208SbosticX a xorn 135*41208SbosticY a yeti 136*41208SbosticZ a zombie 137*41208Sbostica an acid blob 138*41208Sbosticb a giant beetle 139*41208Sbosticc a cockatrice; 140*41208Sbostic Once in a great while, when the positions of the stars are 141*41208Sbostic just right, a seven-year-old rooster will lay an egg. Then, 142*41208Sbostic along will come a snake, to coil around the egg, or a toad, 143*41208Sbostic to squat upon the egg, keeping it warm and helping it to 144*41208Sbostic hatch. When it hatches, out comes a creature called basil- 145*41208Sbostic isk, or cockatrice, the most deadly of all creatures. A sin- 146*41208Sbostic gle glance from its yellow, piercing toad's eyes will kill 147*41208Sbostic both man and beast. Its power of destruction is said to be 148*41208Sbostic so great that sometimes simply to hear its hiss can prove 149*41208Sbostic fatal. Its breath is so venomenous that it causes all vege- 150*41208Sbostic tation to wither. 151*41208Sbostic There is, however, one creature which can withstand the 152*41208Sbostic basilisk's deadly gaze, and this is the weasel. No one knows 153*41208Sbostic why this is so, but although the fierce weasel can slay the 154*41208Sbostic basilisk, it will itself be killed in the struggle. Perhaps 155*41208Sbostic the weasel knows the basilisk's fatal weakness: if it ever 156*41208Sbostic sees its own reflection in a mirror it will perish instant- 157*41208Sbostic ly. But even a dead basilisk is dangerous, for it is said 158*41208Sbostic that merely touching its lifeless body can cause a person to 159*41208Sbostic sicken and die. 160*41208Sbostic [From: Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun 161*41208Sbostic Library) and other sources. ] 162*41208Sbosticd a dog 163*41208Sbostice an ettin 164*41208Sbosticf a fog cloud 165*41208Sbosticg a gelatinous cube 166*41208Sbostich a homunculus 167*41208Sbostici an imp; 168*41208Sbostic ... imps ... little creatures of two feet high that could 169*41208Sbostic gambol and jump prodigiously; ... 170*41208Sbostic [From: The Charwoman's Shadow, by Lord Dunsany.] 171*41208Sbostic 172*41208Sbostic An 'imp' is an off-shoot or cutting. Thus an 'ymp tree' was 173*41208Sbostic a grafted tree, or one grown from a cutting, not from seed. 174*41208Sbostic 'Imp' properly means a small devil, an off-shoot of Satan, 175*41208Sbostic but the distinction between goblins or bogles and imps from 176*41208Sbostic hell is hard to make, and many in the Celtic countries as 177*41208Sbostic well as the English Puritans regarded all fairies as devils. 178*41208Sbostic The fairies of tradition often hover uneasily between the 179*41208Sbostic ghostly and the diabolic state. 180*41208Sbostic [Katharine Briggs, A dictionary of Fairies] 181*41208Sbosticj a jaguar 182*41208Sbostick a killer bee 183*41208Sbosticl a leocrotta 184*41208Sbosticm a minotaur 185*41208Sbosticn a nurse 186*41208Sbostico an owlbear 187*41208Sbosticp a piercer 188*41208Sbosticq a quivering blob 189*41208Sbosticr a giant rat 190*41208Sbostics a scorpion 191*41208Sbostict a tengu; 192*41208Sbostic The tengu was the most troublesome creature of Japanese 193*41208Sbostic legend. Part bird and part man, with red beak for a nose 194*41208Sbostic and flashing eyes, the tengu was notorious for stirring up 195*41208Sbostic feuds and prolonging enmity between families. Indeed, the 196*41208Sbostic belligerent tengus were supposed to have been man's first 197*41208Sbostic instructors in the use of arms. 198*41208Sbostic [From: Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon 199*41208Sbostic (The Leprechaun Library). ] 200*41208Sbosticu a unicorn; 201*41208Sbostic Men have always sought the elusive unicorn, for the single 202*41208Sbostic twisted horn which projected from its forehead was thought 203*41208Sbostic to be a powerful talisman. It was said that the unicorn had 204*41208Sbostic simply to dip the tip of its horn in a muddy pool for the 205*41208Sbostic water to become pure. Men also believed that to drink from 206*41208Sbostic this horn was a protection against all sickness, and that if 207*41208Sbostic the horn was ground to a powder it would act as an antidote 208*41208Sbostic to all poisons. Less than 200 years ago in France, the horn 209*41208Sbostic of a unicorn was used in a ceremony to test the royal food 210*41208Sbostic for poison. 211*41208Sbostic Although only the size of a small horse, the unicorn is a 212*41208Sbostic very fierce beast, capable of killing an elephant with a 213*41208Sbostic single thrust from its horn. Its fleetness of foot also 214*41208Sbostic makes this solitary creature difficult to capture. However, 215*41208Sbostic it can be tamed and captured by a maiden. Made gentle by the 216*41208Sbostic sight of a virgin, the unicorn can be lured to lay its head 217*41208Sbostic in her lap, and in this docile mood, the maiden may secure 218*41208Sbostic it with a golden rope. 219*41208Sbostic [From: Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon 220*41208Sbostic (The Leprechaun Library). ] 221*41208Sbosticv a violet fungi 222*41208Sbosticw a long worm; 223*41208Sbostic From its teeth the crysknife can be manufactured. 224*41208Sbostic~ the tail of a long worm 225*41208Sbosticx a xan; 226*41208Sbostic The xan were animals sent to prick the legs of the Lords of Xibalba. 227*41208Sbosticy a yellow light 228*41208Sbosticz a zruty; 229*41208Sbostic The zruty are wild and gigantic beings, living in the wildernesses 230*41208Sbostic of the Tatra mountains. 231*41208Sbostic1 The wizard of Yendor 232*41208Sbostic2 The mail daemon 233