Talk:Melvil Dewey Would Be Ashamed

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Option 1: I get the Necrotelicomnicon--Toffile 23:36, 29 May 2007 (CDT)

Option 2 (the green book) gives the Cookbook of the Damned. --Discordia 23:51, 29 May 2007 (CDT)

Option 3: I got Sinful Desires Ershatz 00:01, 30 May 2007 (CDT)

How rare is this adventure? Does it occur for non-spellcasters? I've put in 60 advs as a TT and not gotten it yet. --Jonrock 00:23, 30 May 2007 (CDT)

• It does occur for non-spellcasters, I got it in about 10 advs with a Seal Clubber multi. However after more than 40 advs as a Turtle Tamer I have not yet got this adv. Also it appears to only occur once a day.--Manial 00:29, 30 May 2007 (CDT)
• Got it as a PM in ~5 turns, haven't gotten it again yet. Trying to get it as a SC... Still need to unlock the Manor. Also, it might be once per run, too. Can't say it's once per day with only one day to test it. --TechSmurf 00:38, 30 May 2007 (CDT)
  • Got it again as a PM, took ~45 turns to get it the second time. So, not once a day (as a PM, at least).--TechSmurf 00:50, 30 May 2007 (CDT)

• One more datum: I got it after 20adv as a DB. --Club (#66669) (Talk) 14:12, 30 May 2007 (CDT)

• I got it on my first adventure as a PM, and not again in 54 more. (And the actual number of clicks was much higher, because I chose "Reading is for losers" every time I found a bookshelf -- which happened a lot -- and that doesn't cost adventures.) Next day, another 65 adventures -- again, not including dozens of skipped bookshelves -- and never saw it. --Baltar 01:11, 1 June 2007 (CDT)

I got it on my first adventure as a Pasta, this might be a theme --KEM 00:51, 30 May 2007 (CDT)

• It's not *that* much of a theme - just got it for the first time, after ~30 adventures, with a pastamancer. --Neminem 01:44, 30 May 2007 (CDT). EDIT: Got it a second time, about 80 adventures after the first. --02:09
  • Next day, got the third one with the same character, after about 50 adventures spent in the library. Yay, more anecdotal evidence!--Neminem 00:34, 31 May 2007 (CDT)

Well, per the announcement it apparently is supposed to be much easier for a PM than for other classes. I ended up with close to 100 advs (I lost count) with my TT and never saw it. Note: this TT is my *unascended* multi that will be spading Q11 and Q12, so ascension count might also make a difference. --Jonrock 01:16, 30 May 2007 (CDT)

I've also gotten it nearlly 4 times, i'm wondering if i should stock pile the books...they work really well in combat

Level 30 disco bandit, I used all my rollover adventures (don't know how many, but I only had 2 at rollover), plus all my adventures from eating 3 rat appendix chows. I didn't get the adventure, and I'm giving up on it for now ColtsScore 02:36, 30 May 2007 (CDT) Used another 34 turns, still didn't get it. Must be some karmic revenge for turning down the corners in my library books or something. If someone's going to start working on spading this out, k-mail me and I'll help out : ) ColtsScore 03:12, 30 May 2007 (CDT)

Got it on the 2nd adv. as a TT, in hardcore. --Lerah1 23:47, 3 July 2008 (CDT)

Reference: Is it just me, or is the "gaffling the purple-bound book" to be sung to the tune of "Follow the Yellow-brick road"?--MaskedLihc 03:00, 30 May 2007 (CDT)

Reference: The line about "Quiet, please, or I'll swallow your soul" is a reference to "Army of Darkness" where Ash confronts the dedite who screams "I'll swallow your soul." and Ash replies, "Come get some!"--Fettucini carabinieri 09:01, 30 May 2007 (CDT)

• Or maybe Cthulhu? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DsgZ4JXXB8&mode=related&search= Except he's not a librarian either. "I'll swallow your soul" is an over used cliche phrase. We need something more to know if it is a reference to something specific, like Army of Darkness, Evil Dead II, Cthulhu, or dozen of other places this one phrase is used. --Crowther 13:42, 30 May 2007 (CDT)

Spelling

What an abomination of his name, but Wikipedia has it that way, too. It seems to me it should be Melville Dewey (his birth name) or Melvil Dui (his reformed spelling version, Dui being an activist in spelling reform, besides a librarian). Move along, I have nothing real to add. --Club (#66669) (Talk) 12:50, 30 May 2007 (CDT)

More reference?

"take a look at the book" could be a take off of the theme from Reading Rainbow - (The old one, with Levar Burton) - the tune included "Take a look, it's in a book"...... --DreamTheEndless 14:24, 30 May 2007 (CDT)

• Too simple. Besides, that reference has been done already, in the same zone even! --Quietust (t|c) 14:30, 30 May 2007 (CDT)

Wand testing?

• Has anybody tested these with a Dungeons of Doom wand to see if they group with the other elemental books?--Dornbeast 15:59, 30 May 2007 (CDT)

I did when I got my Necrotelimicon, and it didn't zap. This was just after rollover, so the functionality may be there now.--Toffile 12:21, 31 May 2007 (CDT)

The Necrotelicomnicon shudders for a moment, but nothing happens. (today). Blimey 04:58, 13 August 2007 (CDT)

Likelihood

• as an L12 SC i've had this adventure precisely zero times in over a hundred adventures. is it really that rare? does choosing "reading is for losers" change the probability? --Evilkolbot 12:13, 4 June 2007 (CDT)
  • Taking "Reading is for losers" in one of the other adventures definitely doesn't affect the ability to get this adventure (personally tested, by accident). --Aemeth 02:34, 29 June 2007 (CDT)
    • I should qualify that, and say this is as a PM, and I didn't always choose "Reading is for losers", only sometimes. --Aemeth 02:39, 29 June 2007 (CDT)

I just received this adventure as a L9 SC, on my second adventure after unlocking the Library. --Jonrock 02:34, 1 July 2007 (CDT)

I've received this adventure twice in a row on my lvl 8 pastamancer twice in a row. And then another time lvl 9 pastamancer. All pre-ascension. --Not a pasta 23:04, 31 August 2007 (CDT)

I just got it once as a S in my first adventure.--Larryboy 10:11, 8 July 2008 (CDT)

Semi-rare?

Now that semi-rare adventures have been established, could this possibly be a semi-rare? Could somebody help test out my theory? -Goffrie 19:46, 14 July 2007 (CDT)

• Doubtful, it already has a semi-rare. --jupider 14:27, 4 August 2007 (CDT)
  • Still worth testing. This adventure is about as rare as a semi-rare, and who says there can't be two semi-rares in the same area? I got a book yesterday, but no sign of another, or of the black eyedrops. It's typical of semi-rares to not recur immediately. Blimey 05:02, 13 August 2007 (CDT)
    • It's very unlikely. I got this adventure then the 'Like the Sunglasses, But Less Comfortable' adventure two adventures later as a PM. I'm oxycore, so I couldn't eat a fortune cookie to tell. haruki_jitsunin 11:15, 12 October 2007 (CDT)
• I thought it was said by Jick that this is more likely to occur for a Pastamancer than the other class. Like a conditional super-likely (if you're a PM) for the first time during that run and then less likely for the rest of the run? --Shoptroll 10:14, 8 July 2008 (CDT)
• I got it twice in 10 adventures as a PM, definitely not semi-rare. Eran of Arcadia 13:05, 8 July 2008 (CDT)