The Best of Select: Games Special 4/THE BEST OF SELECT Games Special 4 (Select CD-ROM)(1996).iso/win95/nethck31/data

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barbed devil
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hezrou
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bone devil
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nalfeshnee
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ice devil
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pit fiend
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yeenoghu
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orcus
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geryon
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dispater
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baalzebub
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demogorgon
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athame
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cockatrice
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*elemental
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*giant
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gnomish wizard
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gold
gold piece
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*golem
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gremlin
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grid bug
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gunyoki
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hobbit
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archeologist
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elf
healer
knight
*priest*
rogue
samurai
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valkyrie
wizard
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imp
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jabberwock
vorpal*
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kabuto
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katana
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koto
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leprechaun
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leu*otta
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*lich
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medusa
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mind flayer
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mithril*
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mumak*
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*naga*
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orcrist
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osaku
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piercer
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quantum mechanic
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quadruped
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rust monster
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sake
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sasquatch
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shito
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snickersnee
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lieutenant
captain
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tanko
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tengu
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tsurugi
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*unicorn
unicorn horn
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wakizashi
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*long worm
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crysknife
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wizard of yendor
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xan
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ya
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yeti
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yugake
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yumi
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*zombie
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zruty
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.
25906,0
        ...  It came to the edge of the fire and the light  faded as
        if a  cloud had  bent over it.  Then  with a rush it  leaped
        the fissure.  The flames roared up to greet it, and wreathed
        about  it; and a black smoke swirled in the air. Its stream-
        ing  mane kindled,  and blazed behind it.  In its right hand
        was a  blade like a stabbing tongue of fire;  in its left it
        held a whip of many thongs.
        'Ai, ai!'  wailed Legolas. 'A Balrog!  A Balrog is come!'
               [ The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]
        Horned devils lack any real special abilities,  though  they
        are quite difficult to kill.
        The incubus and succubus are male and female versions of the
        same  demon, one who lies with a human for its own purposes,
        usually to the detriment of the mortals who  are  unwise  in
        their dealings with them.
        These female-seeming devils  attack hand to hand  and poison
        their unwary victims as well.
        The marilith, a type V demon, has a torso shaped  like  that
        of  a human female, and the lower body of a great snake.  It
        has multiple arms, and can freely attack with all  of  them.
        Since it is intelligent enough to use weapons, this means it
        can cause great damage.
        Barbed devils lack any real special abilities,  though  they
        are quite difficult to kill.
        The vrock is one of the weaker forms of demon, being only  a
        type  I.   It  resembles a cross between a human being and a
        vulture and does physical damage by biting and by using  the
        claws on both its arms and feet.
        ``Hezrou'' is the common name for the type II demon.  It  is
        among the weaker of demons, but still quite formidable.
        Bone devils attack with weapons and with a great hooked tail
        which causes a loss of strength to those they sting.
        Not only do these demons, which are of type IV, do  physical
        damage  with  their  claws and bite, but they are capable of
        using magic as well.
        Ice devils  are  large  semi-insectoid  creatures,  who  are
        equally  at home in the fires of Hell and the cold of Limbo,
        and who can cause the traveller to feel the latter with just
        a touch of their tail.
        Pit fiends are among the more powerful of devils, capable of
        attacking  twice with weapons as well as grabbing and crush-
        ing the life out of  those  unwary  enough  to  enter  their
        domains.
        Little is known about the Faceless Lord,  even  the  correct
        spelling  of  his name.  He does not have a physical form as
        we know it, and those who have peered into his  realm  claim
        he  is  a  slime-like  creature who swallows other creatures
        alive, spits acidic secretions, and causes  disease  in  his
        victims which can be almost instantly fatal.
        Yeenoghu, the demon lord of gnolls,  still  exists  although
        all his followers have been wiped off the face of the earth.
        He casts magic projectiles at those close to him, and a mere
        gaze  into  his  piercing  eyes  may  hopelessly confuse the
        battle-weary adventurer.
        Orcus, Prince of the Undead, has a rams head  and  a  poison
        stinger.   He is most feared, though, for his powerful magic
        abilities.  His wand causes death to those he chooses.
        Geryon is an arch-devil sometimes  called  the  Wild  Beast,
        attacking  with  his claws and poison sting.  His ranking in
        Hell is rumored to be quite low.
        Dispater is an arch-devil who rules the city of Dis.  He  is
        a powerful mage.
        Baalzebub has been known as the lord of the flies.  His bite
        drips  poison,  and a mere glance into his eyes can stun the
        hapless invader of his realm.
        It is said that Asmodeus is the overlord over all  of  hell.
        His  appearance,  unlike  many  other  demons and devils, is
        human apart from his horns and tail.  He  can  freeze  flesh
        with a touch.
        Demogorgon, the prince of demons, wallows in filth  and  can
        spread  a quickly fatal illness to his victims while rending
        them.  He is a mighty spellcaster, and he can drain the life
        of mortals with a touch of his tail.
        The  consecrated ritual knife of  a Wiccan  initiate (one of
        four  basic  tools,  together  with the  wand,  chalice  and
        pentacle).   Traditionally, the  athame  is  a double-edged,
        black-handled,  cross-hilted   dagger  of  between  six  and
        eighteen inches length.
        Of all the monsters put together by  the  Greek  imagination
        the  Centaurs (Kentauroi) constituted a class in themselves.
        Despite a strong streak  of  sensuality  in  their  make-up,
        their  normal  behaviour  was  moral, and they took a kindly
        thought of man's welfare. The attempted outrage of Nessos on
        Deianeira,  and  that  of the whole tribe of Centaurs on the
        Lapith women,  are more than offset  by the  hospitality  of
        Pholos and  by  the  wisdom of Cheiron,  physician, prophet,
        lyrist,  and the instructor of Achilles.  Further,  the Cen-
        taurs  were  peculiar in that their nature, which united the
        body of a horse with the trunk and head of a  man,  involved
        an  unthinkable  duplication  of  vital organs and important
        members.  So grotesque a combination seems almost  un-Greek.
        These  strange creatures  were said to live in the caves and
        clefts of the mountains, myths associating  them  especially
        with the hills of Thessaly and the range of Erymanthos.
                 [ Mythology of all races, Vol. 1, pp. 270-271 ]
        Once in a great while, when the positions of the  stars  are
        just right, a seven-year-old rooster will lay an egg.  Then,
        along will come a snake, to coil around the egg, or a  toad,
        to  squat  upon  the  egg, keeping it warm and helping it to
        hatch.  When it hatches, out comes a creature called  basil-
        isk, or cockatrice, the most deadly of all creatures. A sin-
        gle glance from its yellow, piercing toad's eyes  will  kill
        both man  and beast.  Its power of destruction is said to be
        so great that sometimes simply to hear its  hiss  can  prove
        fatal.  Its  breath is so venomous  that it causes all vege-
        tation to wither.

        There is, however, one  creature  which  can  withstand  the
        basilisk's deadly gaze, and this is the weasel. No one knows
        why this is so, but although the fierce weasel can slay  the
        basilisk, it will itself be killed in the struggle.  Perhaps
        the weasel knows the basilisk's fatal weakness:  if it  ever
        sees  its own reflection in a mirror it will perish instant-
        ly