Mirror

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Name	mirror
Appearance	looking glass
Base price	10 zm
Weight	13
Material	[[{{{material}}}]]
Monster use	Will not be used by monsters.

A mirror, known as a looking glass when unidentified, is a type of tool with many uses. Probably the most common is to apply it to a monster to scare it; this only works if they can see it (i.e. are not blind and have eyes). A cursed mirror only works half the time, the rest of the time it will "fog up" instead.

Other uses including applying it to monsters with gaze attacks such as floating eyes, Medusa, and umber hulks.

Nymphs often carry mirrors. Breaking a mirror gives a -2 penalty to luck; therefore, it is a bad idea to attack nymphs with spells of force bolt or wands of striking. Applying a mirror to a nymph will cause her to steal the mirror and teleport away, which can prevent her from stealing something more useful (or dangerous).

The luck penalty for breaking a mirror can be used to intentionally lower your Luck to prevent getting crowned while praying.

Vanity

Applying a mirror at yourself will often produce yet another funny message, particularly if you are polymorphed.

• If you have charisma below 15: You look as ugly as ever.
• If you are weak (or worse) from hunger: You look undernourished.
• If you are a vampire: You don't have a reflection.
• If you are an umber hulk: Huh? That doesn't look like you! (you become confused)
• If you are a floating eye without free action: Yikes! You've frozen yourself! (you become paralyzed)
• If you are hallucinating: You look <color>. <color> is replaced with either ultraviolet, infrared, bluish-orange, reddish-green, dark white, light black, sky blue-pink, salty, sweet, sour, bitter, striped, spiral, swirly, plaid, checkered, argyle, paisley, blotchy, guernsey-spotted, polka-dotted, square, round, triangular, cabernet, sangria, fuchsia, wisteria, lemon-lime, strawberry-banana, peppermint, romantic, or incandescent.
• If you apply a mirror while hallucinating under water: You give the fish a chance to fix their makeup.

Encyclopedia entry

But as Snow White grew, she became more and more beautiful,
and by the time she was seven years old she was as beautiful
as the day and more beautiful than the queen herself.  One
day when the queen said to her mirror:

       "Mirror, Mirror, here I stand.
       Who is the fairest in the land?" -

the mirror replied:

       "You, O Queen, are the fairest here,
       But Snow White is a thousand times more fair."
       [ Snow White, by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm ]