###################################################### # Miscellaneous # ------------- # miscname.txt: lookup miscellaneous names # # This file contains a list of names for miscellaneous things. # This is currently only used for colours, writing types, # smells and sounds. ###################################################### %%%% # Any word other than "glowing" itself will work here. glowing_adj bright brilliant dark dull faint mottled pale pulsating shimmering shining %%%% colour_name aubergine azure beige black blue bronze brown charcoal chartreuse cyan gold green grey indigo leaf green lime green magenta marigold mauve ochre orange pink purple red rubric scarlet silver umber white yellow %%%% glowing_colour_name @glowing_adj@ @colour_name@ %%%% writing_adj angular blocky bold faded flowing glowing shifting sinuous spidery writhing %%%% writing_noun binary code figures glyphs hieroglyphics print-out runes scrawl sigils symbols text writing %%%% writing_name @colour_name@ @writing_noun@ @glowing_colour_name@ @writing_noun@ @writing_adj@ @colour_name@ @writing_noun@ @writing_adj@ @writing_noun@ %%%% smell_name baking bread burning hair coffee fire and brimstone pepper salt something weird sulphur tea wet wool %%%% # This doesn't necessarily have to make sense. For example, a name of a # fruit or an insect will work here. roaring_animal_name albino dragon dragon eggplant frog human millipede pill bug slug yak %%%% sound_name a crunching sound a very strange noise a very strange noise indeed a voice calling someone else's name roaring flames snatches of song the distant roaring of an enraged @roaring_animal_name@ the chiming of a distant gong the tinkle of an enormous bell %%%% SHT_int_loss Your mind reels, touched by the horrors through the portal. Your quiver within your mortal coil, caressed by the liquid insanity through the scintillating gateway. # Bal-Sagoth The summoning rite seemed to take a not insignificant toll on your sanity. You have a brief vision of a great black cyclopean cityscape with towering stygian walls. Your vision is obscured by outlandish glyphs which seem to writhe squamously and alter their shape. You feel inexorably dogged by some nameless and implacable gloom. %%%%