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[mithriltabby]

I’m finding Kingdom of Loathing rather addictive. Despite being web-based, the game is much closer to Nethack than a MMORPG. (You can trade items with other players in the game, and form up into clans that can attack each other at a clan level without endangering individual players. You can also choose to participate in player vs. player attacks.)

There’s just something delightfully surrealistic about a game where one builds a Meat Engine from a Cog, Spring, Sprocket, Empty Meat Tank, and Meat Stack, and can proceed to combine it with Dope Wheels (created from Sweet Rims and Tires) to build a Bitchin’ Meat Car, with a Frilly Skirt (obtained by defeating a Gnollish Crossdresser in combat) to create a Clockwork Maid that can clean up your campsite and give you four extra moves per day, or with a Gnollish Plunger (obtained from defeating a Gnollish Plungermaster) to create the dreaded Gnollish Autoplunger, one of the more powerful weapons in the game, which uses a Meat Engine to repeatedly plunge your opponents to death with a plumber’s friend.

Some of the best info sites for the game that I’ve found are Kol Trance and KoL Helper.

If you play, make sure to read the descriptions on everything. (“Double Bacon Beelzeburger: This is at least the second most evil hamburger you’ve ever seen. Maybe even the single most evil. Looks pretty tasty, though.”)