Magic 8-Ball
| ( Magic 8-Ball (No tile) | |
|---|---|
| Base item | eight ball |
| Affiliation | unaligned |
| When carried | |
| When applied | |
| When invoked | none |
| Base price | 5000 zm |
| Weight | 20 |
The Magic 8-Ball is an artifact that appears in EvilHack. It is unaligned, and its base item is an eight ball.
Generation
The Magic 8-Ball cannot be wished for, and reverts to its base item if left in bones.
The Oracle is always generated with the Magic 8-Ball during the creation of her level.
Description
The Magic 8-Ball is implied to be the source of the Oracle's knowledge.[1] It grants warning while carried, and can be applied to divulge a random rumor - the rumor will be true or false based on the artifact's beatitude: true if blessed, false if cursed, and an equal probability of each if uncursed. Additionally, there is a 1⁄100,000 chance that applying the blessed Magic 8-Ball will grant the user a wish, which causes it to disappear afterward.
Reading the Magic 8-Ball randomly generates one of twenty responses that have no effect.
Origin
A Magic 8-Ball is a plastic sphere made to look like an oversized billiards eight-ball, used for fortune-telling or seeking advice. It was invented in 1946 by Albert C. Carter and Abe Bookman, and is currently manufactured by Mattel - originally designed as a paperweight, it has since become a popular office toy and children's toy. The Magic 8-Ball contains a blue twenty-sided die with white letters in a pool of blue liquid; the user asks a yes–no question to the ball, then turns it over to reveal an answer in a window on the ball.
In fiction, the Magic 8-Ball is often used for humor, with it giving very accurate, very inaccurate, or otherwise statistically improbable answers. The standard Magic 8-Ball has 20 possible responses when read: 10 affirmative answers, 5 non-committal answers, and 5 negative answers. The artifact in EvilHack uses these standard responses when read, and one of them is used as the encyclopedia entry.
Encyclopedia entry
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