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Ankhegg: A play off the DnD monster the Ankheg. The joke works on three levels to my reckoning.

1) The Ankh is a holy symbol of ancient egypt, so it would best fit an old temple ruin or have an egyptian design to make the pun work.

2) How is the DnD name actually pronounced? I think its a short 'A' as in yank but I know at some tables it's a tomato/tomahto situation. However, ankh is a long 'A' no question... OR IS IT??

3) Therefore, you could say "no no, not *that* monster, this is an ANKHegg! Very different!" because it doesn't have to look like a burrowing insect monster. You could make it what you wanted.

I'm up to Mercado so far and am having a great time. I could feel how painful animating a lot of these sprites must have been, and I'm really admiring the level of polish that you've put on all the visuals and the customized 1v1 battles. Superb.

There's some good and some bad to my mind as I play. But I can tell you two things right now:

1) I'm really happy that you've put all the little goodies and new areas across the map in addition to the traditional locations. They may not amount to much, but in a game as bare bones as Dragon Quest I they go a long way to making the world more rich and letting players scratch the exploration itch. No future games had as interesting or expansive world maps as I & II but they were so empty! Hidden landmarks and items were the touch most needed.

2) I'm disappointed that you can't throw torches or holy water at enemies. It was a very negligible feature of the GB version but there are so few items as it is, best to give them as much versatility as possible for the additional fun factor.


Question: Does the Death Necklace exist? I don't want to go rolling dice to find out; was just curious.

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I think RMN's statuses have reached some kind of event horizon. The gravitational pull of the escort services are too strong.

I wonder if escorts have experience in siege warefare