Magic 8-Ball

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(   Magic 8-Ball   File:Orb.png
Base item orb
Affiliation unaligned
When carried
When applied
When invoked none
Base price 5000 zm
Weight 20

The Magic 8-Ball is an unaligned artifact that appears in EvilHack. Its base item is an eight ball, and it is made out of plastic.

Generation

The Magic 8-Ball is always found in the possession of the Oracle on her level. It cannot be wished for due to its generation method, but does not affect wishing for other artifacts.

Description

The Magic 8-Ball is implied to be the source of the Oracle's knowledge.[1] It grants warning when carried, and can be applied to divulge a random rumor] - the rumor will be true or false based on the artifact's beatitude. Additionally, there is a 1100,000 chance that applying the blessed Magic 8-ball will grant the user a wish.

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 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, it is often used for humor related to 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 - that the artifact in EvilHack uses.

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