Typographical Clutter

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Choice adventure number: 451

Typographical Clutter

You descend the slant of the greater-than sign, and find yourself in a crowded room, filled with all manner of alphanumeric characters and punctuation marks. Which one would you like to investigate?

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The left parenthesis

You approach the left parenthesis and stare at it for a while without figuring out what it's for. You snag it and take it with you -- maybe you'll figure it out later.

You acquire an item: left parenthesis

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The lower-case L

• First visit and alternating visits thereafter:

You walk up to investigate the L more closely, and abruptly notice that your wallet is lighter and that the L is gone. You throw a very stylish hissy-fit, then move on.

You lose 30 Meat.

You gain 12-13 Roguishness.

• Second visit and alternating visits thereafter:

You walk up to investigate the L more closely, and... Hey! This is that L that stole your Meat earlier! You kick it over, recover your Meat (plus a bunch it apparently stole from other Adventurers!) and walk away with a moxious swagger.

You gain 500−800 Meat.

You gain 14-15 Sarcasm.

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The big apostrophe

You investigate the apostrophe, considering it from various angles, until you finally discover the angle at which you have to investigate it in order to knock it over and break it into a thousand pieces. Nice work.

On the bright side, it looks like there was a plus sign hidden inside the apostrophe, so that's a plus.

You acquire an item: plus sign

• If you already have the plus sign:

You stare at the big apostrophe for a while. You can't figure out what it's for, so you just push it around for a while. It's surprisingly heavy.

You gain 10 Beefiness.

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The lower-case E

You approach the lower-case E. You stare at it for a while, and suddenly find yourself unable to move.

You gain 15 Mysteriousness.

You gain some Mana Points.

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The upper-case Q

As you approach the Q, it touches you with its (insert the name of whatever you call the straight part of a capital Q here,) and disappears.

You notice the scenery beginning to change at random...

You acquire an effect: Teleportitis (duration: 5 Adventures)

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Occurs at The Enormous Greater-Than Sign‎.

References

• The lower-case L is really a leprechaun.
• The apostrophe is a statue. (In the default character set for nethack, however, statues are backticks, not apostrophes.)
• The lower-case E is a floating eye.
• The Q is a Quantum Mechanic.