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Reko Turja

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Mar 26, 2001, 6:14:25 AM3/26/01
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Just bought and read the book... and finally undestood tourists ;) Didn't
realize the Pratchett connection until now...

-Reko


Gregory Bond

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Mar 26, 2001, 11:10:36 PM3/26/01
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"Reko Turja" <reko....@everscreen.com> writes:

> Just bought and read the book... and finally undestood tourists ;) Didn't
> realize the Pratchett connection until now...

Except that Hack had tourists before Pratchett wrote the books.

I think!

Kate Nepveu

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Mar 27, 2001, 12:31:29 AM3/27/01
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According to the Annotated Pratchett File,

"Although the tourist character class wasn't originally created as a
Discworld reference, there have been many Discworld-inspired additions
in later releases of the game: the tourist's patron gods are now The
Lady, Blind Io, and Offler, while Twoflower himself appears on the
special quest level. And if you're hallucinatory, you may get to see the
Luggage."

http://www.us.lspace.org/books/apf/reverse-annotations.html

Kate
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Dylan O'Donnell

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Mar 27, 2001, 5:29:29 AM3/27/01
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Though Kate has answered the is-it-a-reference question, I'll answer
the (implied) date question. TCoM was published in 1983, and Hack in
1985. Tourists were part of Hack 1.0.3; I don't know whether they
were in Jay Fenlason's original.

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