The Enormous Greater-Than Sign

The Enormous Greater-Than Sign
The Enormous Greater-Than Sign
Zone Num	226
Location	The Dungeoneers' Association
Unlocks	45 main stat
Recom Stat	44
Combat %	80
ML	57 - 61
Terrain	underground
Special Adventures
Lucky	None
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Located in The Dungeoneers' Association in the Big Mountains. Only appears when you have 45 (unbuffed) points in the main stat for your class. Furthermore, you must have 44 (buffed) points in your main stat to actually adventure there.

If your main stat isn't high enough, you'll see the following message:

As you near the sign, you start to get nervous. The nearer you get, the nervouser you get. Then you get nervous because you're not sure if "nervouser" is a word or not. After thinking about this for a few seconds, you turn around and leave.

(You must have at least 44 <stat> to adventure here.)

Upon discovering The Secret of the Dungeons of Doom, this location is replaced with The Dungeons of Doom. Trying to access the Enormous Greater-Than Sign location via the "Last Adventure" link then yields the message:

This area should no longer be accessible to you.

Combat Adventures

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swarm of lowercase As -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: lowercase a, percent sign Meat Drop: None Monster Level: 59 • Substat Gain: 14.75 • Moxie for No Hit*: 69 Monster Defense: 53 Hit Points: 75 Initiative: 90 Elemental Alignment: None

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lowercase B -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: left parenthesis Meat Drop: None Monster Level: 58 • Substat Gain: 14.5 • Moxie for No Hit*: 68 Monster Defense: 52 Hit Points: 70 Initiative: 40 Elemental Alignment: None

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lowercase H -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: left bracket, left parenthesis, percent sign Meat Drop: None Monster Level: 59 • Substat Gain: 14.75 • Moxie for No Hit*: 69 Monster Defense: 54 Hit Points: 77 Initiative: 75 Elemental Alignment: None

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lowercase K -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: equal sign, left parenthesis Meat Drop: None Monster Level: 57 • Substat Gain: 14.25 • Moxie for No Hit*: 67 Monster Defense: 49 Hit Points: 60 Initiative: 45 Elemental Alignment: None

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Uppercase Q -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: left parenthesis, right parenthesis, dollar signp Meat Drop: None Monster Level: 61 • Substat Gain: 15.25 • Moxie for No Hit*: 71 Monster Defense: 51 Hit Points: 81 Initiative: 80 Elemental Alignment: None

Non-Combat Adventures

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Typographical Clutter
	The left parenthesis: Acquire a left parenthesis The lower-case L: Alternates between losing 30 meat and gaining 10-13 Smarm, and gaining 500+5*meat bonus meat and 10-15 Smarm The big apostrophe: Acquire a plus sign, afterward, gain 10-15 Fortitude The lower-case E: Gain 10-15 Enchantedness and up to 100 MP The upper-case Q: Acquire 5 turns of Teleportitis

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The Oracle Will See You Now
	Leave the Oracle: Nothing. (No adventure cost). Pay for a minor consultation: Lose 100 Meat. Pay for a major consultation: Lose 1,000 Meat, plus sign becomes usable. Note: You must have a plus sign and Teleportitis to receive this superlikely adventure. Note: Once you have paid for a major consultation, this becomes a one-time adventure.

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Elbereth? Who's Elbereth?
	Note: Occurs only when adventuring with a hobo code binder equipped.

Retired Adventures

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No Contraction
	Substat Gain: 8 Fortitude

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A big Q.
	Note: Gives 5 turns of Teleportitis. Note: The odds of receiving this adventure double once the plus sign is received.

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Parenthetical Advisory
	Substat Gain: 7 Smarm

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Hyp-mo-tized...
	Substat Gain: 8 Enchantedness

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I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Asterisks.
	Substat Gain: 7 Fortitude

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A Non-Capital Crime
	Meat Drops: -30 Substat Gain: 8 Smarm

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Killer As.
	Substat Gain: 7 Enchantedness Note: Lose 7 HP

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Plus? Plus what?
	Item Drops: plus sign Note: A one time superlikely adventure.

Notes

• On March 18th, 2010 many adventures in this zone were retired and replaced with unidentified versions of The Dungeons of Doom.

References

• Everything about this area is a reference to the computer game NetHack. It is a freeware game, available from the official website.
• The various ASCII characters used to represent the monsters and dungeons reference the interface in NetHack.