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Umbire the Phantom: touch-ups

2025-10-07T20:07:37Z

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Umbire the Phantom: lede

2025-03-31T06:51:58Z

lede

Umbire the Phantom: potholes et. al.

2025-01-16T18:23:06Z

potholes et. al.

Umbire the Phantom: cat + deets

2024-08-03T12:00:55Z

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Umbire the Phantom: spacing + category

2024-08-03T11:59:10Z

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Furey: /* Variants */ EvilHack offers the permahallu conduct.

2024-06-20T12:26:45Z

‎Variants: EvilHack offers the permahallu conduct.

Furey: Link directly to new page TNNT (the game).

2024-06-18T12:01:43Z

Link directly to new page TNNT (the game).

Furey: Set version templates to {{variant-343}},

2024-06-15T16:21:31Z

Set version templates to {{variant-343}},

Furey: TNNT: copy edit

2024-06-15T04:03:37Z

TNNT: copy edit

Furey: /* The November NetHack Tournament */ add 2023 stat: 1 player earned permahallu.

2024-05-22T18:38:02Z

‎The November NetHack Tournament: add 2023 stat: 1 player earned permahallu.

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 **Going back to the upstairs when you think something dangerous is approaching lets you more easily escape if it turns out to be a fight you can't handle.
 **When a spellcasting monster casts the [[summon nasties]] [[monster spell]], it becomes incredibly easy to get lost in the crowd if you lose track of them, allowing them to continue to summon more. You also can't [[name]] a spellcaster to make it easier to track them while hallucinating.
-*Every letter you write while [[engraving]] has a 50% chance to be impaired while hallucinating, making it effectively impossible to engrave [[Elbereth]] to protect yourself.
+*Every letter you write while [[engraving]] has a 50% chance of being engraved incorrectly while hallucinating, making it effectively almost impossible to engrave [[Elbereth]] to protect yourself.
 *You won't get paranoid prompts when attacking enemies, making it very easy to accidentally anger peaceful monsters, especially [[pet]]s, [[shopkeeper]]s, and [[aligned priest]]s. When walking near peacefuls or monsters that you aren't sure are peaceful or not, press {{kbd|m}} before moving to avoid automatically attacking them when you bump into them.
-*Dropping items on [[altar|altars]] will not perfectly tell you their [[BUC]] status: items that are blessed or cursed will flash a random color, so you can only definitely identify if an item is uncursed.
+*Dropping items on [[altar]]s will not perfectly tell you their [[beatitude]] status: items that are blessed or cursed will flash a random color, so you can only definitively identify if an item is uncursed.
 **Pets can tell if an item that flashes on an altar is blessed or cursed, but pets should rarely, if ever, be used outside this purpose because of how easy it is to accidentally attack and kill them.
-Some lesser challenges that come with permanantly hallucinating include:
+Some lesser challenges that come with permanently hallucinating include:
 *Item glyphs being distorted not only makes it easy to forget what objects were left behind in each level, it also makes [[Sokoban]] significantly harder. [[Boulder]]s become hard to distinguish from other objects on the ground when their glyphs constantly randomize, and on the final level, the [[giant mimic]]s won't appear as boulders like they normally do, requiring you to be cautious about every item you find that didn't initially appear on the map.
 *You can only name items in your inventory: trying to name an item on the floor makes it “decide to call you <foo>” instead.

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−	'''Permahallu''' is an [[unofficial conduct]] in some [[variants]] of ''[[Nethack]]'' that requires the hero to have [[hallucination]] for the entire game.	+	'''Permahallu''', short for '''permanent hallucination''', is an [[unofficial conduct]] in some [[variants]] of ''[[Nethack]]'' that requires the hero to have [[hallucination]] for the entire game.

	To activate permanent hallucination, you must set <code>OPTIONS=hallucinating</code> before starting the game. Once activated, the conduct is automatic. Wielding [[Grayswandir]] ends hallucination and breaks the conduct.		To activate permanent hallucination, you must set <code>OPTIONS=hallucinating</code> before starting the game. Once activated, the conduct is automatic. Wielding [[Grayswandir]] ends hallucination and breaks the conduct.

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 ==Strategy==
 While hallucination is normally only a mild, but amusing inconvenience in normal play, playing with permanent hallucination makes the game significantly harder, many reasons of which are shared with the [[Zen]] conduct.
-*Not being able to determine monster identities means you won't know how dangerous an enemy is until it starts attacking you. That fast enemy running at you could be a [[bat]], [[soldier ant]], [[kitten]], or [[leocrotta]], the stationary enemy could be a [[lichen]], [[floating eye]], [[blue jelly]], or sleeping [[nymph]], etc.
+*Not being able to determine monster identities means you won't know how dangerous an enemy is until it starts attacking you. That fast enemy running at you could be a [[bat]], [[soldier ant]], [[kitten]], or [[leocrotta]], the stationary enemy could be a [[lichen]], [[floating eye]], [[blue jelly]], or sleeping [[Nymph (monster class)|nymph]], etc.
 **There are still some means of informally identifying what a monster can be: a monster's speed, attack types, ability to use weapons, and other attributes can help narrow down how dangerous it is, applying a [[stethoscope]] can also show you its max health and [[AC]], and some monsters have specific responses when [[chat|#chatting]] with them.
 **Going back to the upstairs when you think something dangerous is approaching lets you more easily escape if it turns out to be a fight you can't handle.
-**When a [[Monster_spell|spellcasting monster]] casts [[summon nasties]], it becomes incredibly easy to get lost in the crowd if you lose track of them, allowing them to continue to summon more. You also can't [[Name|#name]] a spellcaster to make it easier to track them while hallucinating.
+**When a spellcasting monster casts the [[summon nasties]] [[monster spell]], it becomes incredibly easy to get lost in the crowd if you lose track of them, allowing them to continue to summon more. You also can't [[name]] a spellcaster to make it easier to track them while hallucinating.
 *Every letter you write while [[engraving]] has a 50% chance to be impaired while hallucinating, making it effectively impossible to engrave [[Elbereth]] to protect yourself.
-*You won't get paranoid prompts when attacking enemies, making it very easy to accidentally anger peaceful monsters, especially [[pets]], [[shopkeepers]], and [[Aligned_priest|aligned priests]]. When walking near peacefuls or monsters that you aren't sure are peaceful or not, press {{kbd|m}} before moving to avoid automatically attacking them when you bump into them.
+*You won't get paranoid prompts when attacking enemies, making it very easy to accidentally anger peaceful monsters, especially [[pet]]s, [[shopkeeper]]s, and [[aligned priest]]s. When walking near peacefuls or monsters that you aren't sure are peaceful or not, press {{kbd|m}} before moving to avoid automatically attacking them when you bump into them.
 *Dropping items on [[altar|altars]] will not perfectly tell you their [[BUC]] status: items that are blessed or cursed will flash a random color, so you can only definitely identify if an item is uncursed.
 **Pets can tell if an item that flashes on an altar is blessed or cursed, but pets should rarely, if ever, be used outside this purpose because of how easy it is to accidentally attack and kill them.
 Some lesser challenges that come with permanantly hallucinating include:
-*Item glyphs being distorted not only makes it easy to forget what objects were left behind in each level, it also makes [[Sokoban]] significantly harder. [[boulder|Boulders]] become hard to distinguish from other objects on the ground when their glyphs constantly randomize, and on the final level, the [[Mimic#Giant_mimic|giant mimics]] won't appear as boulders like they normally do, requiring you to be cautious about every item you find that didn't initially appear on the map.
+*Item glyphs being distorted not only makes it easy to forget what objects were left behind in each level, it also makes [[Sokoban]] significantly harder. [[Boulder]]s become hard to distinguish from other objects on the ground when their glyphs constantly randomize, and on the final level, the [[giant mimic]]s won't appear as boulders like they normally do, requiring you to be cautious about every item you find that didn't initially appear on the map.
 *You can only name items in your inventory: trying to name an item on the floor makes it “decide to call you <foo>” instead.
-**Because you must pick up items to identify them, this makes you unable to name [[loadstones]] and puts you at risk of destroying a [[scroll of scare monster]] if picking it up to name it in a [[shop]].
+**Because you must pick up items to identify them, this makes you unable to name [[loadstone]]s and puts you at risk of destroying a [[scroll of scare monster]] if picking it up to name it in a [[shop]].
-*[[Traps]] will have their appearance randomized, even if you found them by searching, making it much harder to know how dangerous they are until you step on them. However, you can tell if the trap is an [[Arrow_and_dart_trap|arrow]], [[Arrow_and_dart_trap|dart]], or [[Beartrap|bear trap]] by trying to [[untrap]] it.
+*[[Trap]]s will have their appearance randomized, even if you found them by searching, making it much harder to know how dangerous they are until you step on them. However, you can tell if the trap is an [[arrow trap]], [[dart trap]] or [[bear trap]] by trying to [[untrap]] it.
 *Because hallucination constantly abuses [[wisdom]], you will very quickly drop to 3 wisdom and stay there the entire run, which both greatly reduces the amount of [[power]] you gain and significantly reduces [[spellcasting]] success chance for [[Healers]], [[Knights]], [[Monks]], [[Priests]], and [[Valkyries]].
-*When searching a [[container]] for [[Container_trap|container traps]], you may occasionally find a fake trap: trying to disarm it has no effect “That chest was not trapped", making it harder to find and remove traps from containers.
+*When searching a [[container]] for [[container trap]]s, you may occasionally find a fake trap: trying to disarm it has no effect “That chest was not trapped", making it harder to find and remove traps from containers.
-*[[Tin|Tins]] will have the type of meat inside them distorted, making it unsafe to eat unidentified tins. The only exception is [[spinach]], which will always appear as such if uncursed, and of a random color of decaying substance if cursed.
+*[[Tin]]s will have the type of meat inside them distorted, making it unsafe to eat unidentified tins. The only exception is [[spinach]], which will always appear as such if uncursed, and of a random color of decaying substance if cursed.
-*[[Gems]] cannot be informally identified as glass by rubbing an uncursed [[touchstone]] on them; they will always make fractals instead. You will need to bless the touchstone, be an [[archaeologist]] or be a [[Gnome (starting race)|gnome]] to identify gems with it.
+*[[Gems]] cannot be informally identified as glass by rubbing an uncursed [[touchstone]] on them; they will always make fractals instead. You will need to bless the touchstone, be an [[Archaeologist]] or be a [[Gnome (starting race)|gnome]] to identify gems with it.
 *Because wielding Grayswandir suppresses hallucination and breaks the conduct, you lose access to one of the best artifact weapons in the game.

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 In [[TNNT (the game)]], the permahallu conduct is available, and there is an achievement for receiving the quest with permahallu conduct intact.
-==== History ====
+In the 2022 [[The November NetHack Tournament|tournament]], 1 player earned this achievement.<ref>https://hardfought.org/tnnt/archives/2022/achievements</ref> In the 2023 tournament, 1 player earned this achievement.<ref>https://tnnt.org/achievements</ref>
 ===xNetHack===
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 *When searching a [[container]] for [[Container_trap|container traps]], you may occasionally find a fake trap: trying to disarm it has no effect “That chest was not trapped", making it harder to find and remove traps from containers.
 *[[Tin|Tins]] will have the type of meat inside them distorted, making it unsafe to eat unidentified tins. The only exception is [[spinach]], which will always appear as such if uncursed, and of a random color of decaying substance if cursed.
-*[[Gems]] cannot be informally identified as glass by rubbing an uncursed [[touchstone]] on them; they will always make fractals instead. You will need to bless the touchstone or be an [[archaeologist]] or [[Gnome_(starting_race)|gnome]] to identify gems with it.
+*[[Gems]] cannot be informally identified as glass by rubbing an uncursed [[touchstone]] on them; they will always make fractals instead. You will need to bless the touchstone, be an [[archaeologist]] or be a [[Gnome (starting race)|gnome]] to identify gems with it.
-*Because wielding Grayswandir cures hallucination and breaks the conduct, you lose access to one of the best artifact weapons in the game.
+*Because wielding Grayswandir suppresses hallucination and breaks the conduct, you lose access to one of the best artifact weapons in the game.
 ==References==
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 {{variant-343}}
 <!--{{variant-36X}}-->
-[[Category:Conducts]]
+[[Category:Untracked conducts]]
 [[Category:The November NetHack Tournament]]
 [[Category:XNetHack]]
 [[Category:SpliceHack]]
 [[Category:UnNetHack]]

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 ==References==
 <references/>
 {{variant-343}}
-<!-- {{variant-36X}} -->
+<!--{{variant-36X}}-->
 [[Category:The November NetHack Tournament]]
 [[Category:XNetHack]]
 [[Category:SpliceHack]]
 [[Category:UnNetHack]]

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 ===UnNetHack===
 [[UnNetHack]] offers the permahallu conduct.
 ==Strategy==

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 ==Variants==
 ===TNNT (the game)===
-In [[TNNT|TNNT (the game)]], the permahallu conduct is available, and there is an achievement for receiving the quest with permahallu conduct intact.
+In [[TNNT (the game)]], the permahallu conduct is available, and there is an achievement for receiving the quest with permahallu conduct intact.
 ==== History ====