Cream pie

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Name	cream pie
Base price	10 zm
Nutrition	100
Turns to eat	1
Weight	10
Conduct	vegetarian

Cream pies are comestibles and can be eaten or thrown. Keystone Kops will throw them at you, making you temporarily blind. If you are hit by a cream pie, you can #wipe your face or apply a towel to regain sight faster. It is possible to apply a cream pie to yourself; this in effect makes you blind.

You can also wield a cream pie if you want to avoid killing monsters. Throwing a cream pie, or hitting with a wielded one, does not break any conducts. Eating the pie breaks the vegan conduct but preserves the vegetarian conduct.

Applying or otherwise destroying a wielded cream pie can crash the game (Bug C343-218). You are safe if you immediately wield w something else or even nothing -, or if you save and restore the game.

Zapping a cream pie with a wand of striking gives the message "What a mess!" and destroys the cream pie.

Strategy

Cream pies can sometimes be a useful, if limited, source of blindness (for telepathy) if the RNG has refused to provide you with a blindfold or a towel. The fact that each pie can only be used once is somewhat compensated for by the copious numbers in which Kops drop them when killed.

The usefulness of cream pies as a food source is limited due to their low nutrition to weight ratio.

Pacifist players will often wield a cream pie (or a whole stack of them) to avoid doing any damage if they accidentally hit a monster.