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(Expand slightly. Give three causes of hallucination: yellow mold corpses, exploding black lights, the potion.)
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Very much like real life, hallucination will cause you to see things that aren't there. Any objects will be seen as continually changing items of the same class, so a unicorn horn may be seen as a sack, key, but not as a sword. The most dangerous thing about hallucination is that it conceals what the actual monster is. For instance, "I see a fungus over there, I'll kill it real easy. Whack, whack. (Fungus replies) WHACK! DYWYPI? Foo, killed by a hallucinogen-distorted soldier ant." Easily cured by a unihorn.
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Very much like real life, '''hallucination''' will cause you to see things that are not there. Hallucination changes the appearance of both mosnters and objects. You can easily cure hallucination with a [[unihorn]].
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Any [[object]]s will be seen as continually changing items of the same class, so a [[pick-axe]] may be seen as a [[sack]], [[key]], but not as a [[sword]]. The most dangerous thing about hallucination is that it conceals what the actual monster is. For instance, "I see a fungus over there, I'll kill it real easy. Whack, whack. (Fungus replies) WHACK! [[DYWYPI]]? Foo, killed by a hallucinogen-distorted [[soldier ant]]."
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There are a few different ways to hallucinate:
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* eat the [[corpse]] of a [[yellow mold]]
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* let a [[black light]] explode on you
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* quaff a [[potion of hallucination]]
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Revision as of 00:03, 23 May 2006

Very much like real life, hallucination will cause you to see things that are not there. Hallucination changes the appearance of both mosnters and objects. You can easily cure hallucination with a unihorn.

Any objects will be seen as continually changing items of the same class, so a pick-axe may be seen as a sack, key, but not as a sword. The most dangerous thing about hallucination is that it conceals what the actual monster is. For instance, "I see a fungus over there, I'll kill it real easy. Whack, whack. (Fungus replies) WHACK! DYWYPI? Foo, killed by a hallucinogen-distorted soldier ant."

There are a few different ways to hallucinate: