Pill - Revision history

MrSurvivor1997: Added origin of the pills. Also the protein pill exists for the Anachrononaut.

2024-07-24T17:58:24Z

Added origin of the pills. Also the protein pill exists for the Anachrononaut.

Ion frigate: debated whether to just make that a redirect, but for now just piping the link

2024-07-24T09:32:23Z

debated whether to just make that a redirect, but for now just piping the link

Ion frigate: frequency, that rather spectacular but hard to exploit bug

2024-07-24T09:30:52Z

frequency, that rather spectacular but hard to exploit bug

Hackemslashem: Pills in Hack'EM

2023-08-04T16:27:27Z

Pills in Hack'EM

Umbire the Phantom: cat

2022-10-05T00:18:33Z

cat

Aximili at 07:53, 30 April 2022

2022-04-30T07:53:50Z

Aximili: mark defunct

2022-04-30T04:47:00Z

mark defunct

Ardub23: "SLASH'EM-specific item" → "item introduced in SLASH'EM"

2019-10-31T16:40:05Z

"SLASH'EM-specific item" → "item introduced in SLASH'EM"

Phol ende wodan: add to splicehack category

2019-01-21T23:27:29Z

add to splicehack category

Phol ende wodan: splicehack has pills

2019-01-21T23:21:07Z

splicehack has pills

← Older revision		Revision as of 17:58, 24 July 2024
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	* The case where it ("tastes like vitamins") now only gives 80 nutrition, but also grants gain ability (just like fountains, with a blessed effect if the player has high luck)		* The case where it ("tastes like vitamins") now only gives 80 nutrition, but also grants gain ability (just like fountains, with a blessed effect if the player has high luck)
	* Pills always cure larval infection no matter what effect they roll.		* Pills always cure larval infection no matter what effect they roll.
		+
		+	== Origin ==
		+	A pill is a small, solid dose of a medical substance or drug. While pills are typically made to help a person with health or sickness, they can be dangerous if overdosed. The effects of the pill in game are based off of many real life substances.
		+	* Getting nutrition from a pill is based on vitamin tablets.
		+	* Getting poisoned by a pill is based on how poisons may be disguised as pills or on taking the wrong medication.
		+	* Getting hallucinations from a pill is based on real life psychedelic drugs, which is also what many of the [[hallucinatory messages]] in the vanilla game is based on.
		+	* Falling asleep upon taking a pill is based on real life sleeping medications.
		+
		+
		+	== See also ==
		+	*[[Protein pill]]

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 ==Medical kits==
-[[Looting]] a [[medical kit]] will reveal the presence of pills, phials, and bandages.  While these are technically real items, they are not intended to be accessible: you cannot directly take them, and [[apply]]ing the medical kit will have its usual effects, rather than allowing you to access them.  However, due to a [[Bug Hall of Fame#SLASH'EM|rather spectacular bug]], it is possible to access these items by [[burying]] the medical kit, waiting several hundred turns for it to rot away, and then digging up the items found inside it. The resultant pills will be ordinary pills with a {{frac|7}} chance of giving a wish.  As medical kits have more than seven pills on average, it is possible to gain infinite wishes this way by wishing for more medical kits.  Attempting to dig up the items too early will reset the rot timer, but waiting too long will cause the pills themselves to rot away; a [[wand of probing]], [[potion of object detection]], or [[spellbook of detect treasure]] can be used to "check on" the medical kit without disturbing the timer.
+[[Looting]] a [[medical kit]] will reveal the presence of pills, phials, and bandages.  While these are technically real items, they are not intended to be accessible: you cannot directly take them, and [[apply]]ing the medical kit will have its usual effects, rather than allowing you to access them.  However, due to a [[Bug Hall of Fame#SLASH'EM|rather spectacular bug]], it is possible to access these items by [[Pit#buried objects|burying]] the medical kit, waiting several hundred turns for it to rot away, and then digging up the items found inside it. The resultant pills will be ordinary pills with a {{frac|7}} chance of giving a wish.  As medical kits have more than seven pills on average, it is possible to gain infinite wishes this way by wishing for more medical kits.  Attempting to dig up the items too early will reset the rot timer, but waiting too long will cause the pills themselves to rot away; a [[wand of probing]], [[potion of object detection]], or [[spellbook of detect treasure]] can be used to "check on" the medical kit without disturbing the timer.
 Overall, this method is quite slow, and there is a nontrivial chance of receiving zero wishes from a medical kit, meaning it may "fizzle out" at the start.

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-A '''pill''' is an item introduced in [[SLASH'EM]]. It can refer to white pills, which are only found inside [[medical kit]]s, or to pink pills which are found on their own.
+A '''pill''' is a food item introduced in [[SLASH'EM]] that has one of seven random effects when eaten.
 When a pink pill is eaten, it will have one of seven equally likely effects ("You swallow the little pink pill."):
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 You may suffer the ill effects of [[Comestible#Rotten food|rotten food]], including passing out. Thus it is best to eat your pills in a safe place while not satiated or starving.
 == SpliceHack ==

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 == SpliceHack ==
 Early versions of [[SpliceHack]] had pink pills which were mostly the same as in SLASH'EM, but did not grant wishes. The other six outcomes remained equally likely. They were removed on or before SpliceHack 1.0.0, becoming a [[defunct features (SpliceHack)|defunct]] feature.
 {{slashem-7E7}}

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 {{slashem-7E7}}
 [[Category:SLASH'EM items]]
-[[Category:Slash'EM Extended items]]
+[[Category:SlashTHEM items]]
 [[Category:Defunct features (SpliceHack)]]

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-A '''pill''' is a [[SLASH'EM]]-specific item.  It can refer to white pills, which are only found inside [[medical kit]]s, or to pink pills which are found on their own.
+A '''pill''' is an item introduced in [[SLASH'EM]]. It can refer to white pills, which are only found inside [[medical kit]]s, or to pink pills which are found on their own.
 When a pink pill is eaten, it will have one of seven equally likely effects ("You swallow the little pink pill."):
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 | "That tasted like vitamins"
 |-
-| You become very fast for 200-209 turns.
+| You become very fast for 200&ndash;209 turns.
 | "Wow... everything is moving in slow motion..."
 |-
-| You are poisoned for 1-4 points of strength and 1-15 hit points.
+| You are poisoned; you lose 1&ndash;4 points of strength and 1&ndash;15 hit points.
 | "You feel your stomach twinge."
 |-
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 | "You feel drowsy..."
 |-
-| You will hallucinate for 150 (more) turns.
+| You hallucinate for 150 (more) turns.
 | "Oh wow! Look at the lights!"
 |-
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 |}
-The four negative effects may be resisted, or fixed with a unicorn horn, making pills a safe, albeit unlikely, way of getting a wish. If any of the negative effects are resisted, you will get the message "Hmm. Nothing happens."
+The four negative effects may be resisted, or fixed with a [[unicorn horn]], making pills a safe, albeit unlikely, way of getting a wish. If any of the negative effects are resisted, you will get the message "Hmm. Nothing happens."
-Note that you may suffer the ill effects of [[Comestible#Rotten_food | rotten food]], including passing out.
+You may suffer the ill effects of [[Comestible#Rotten food|rotten food]], including passing out. Thus it is best to eat your pills in a safe place while not satiated or starving.
 == SpliceHack ==
-[[SpliceHack]] has pink pills which are mostly the same as described in SLASH'EM, but do not grant wishes. The other six outcomes remain equally likely.
+[[SpliceHack]] has pink pills which are mostly the same as in SLASH'EM, but do not grant wishes. The other six outcomes remain equally likely.
 {{slashem-7E7}}
-[[Category: SLASH'EM items]]
+[[Category:SLASH'EM items]]
 [[Category:Slash'EM Extended items]]
 [[Category:SpliceHack]]

← Older revision		Revision as of 23:27, 21 January 2019
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	[[Category: SLASH'EM items]]		[[Category: SLASH'EM items]]
	[[Category:Slash'EM Extended items]]		[[Category:Slash'EM Extended items]]
		+	[[Category:SpliceHack]]