Rumors
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Rumors are a way to learn about the game without reading spoilers. Rumors come in two forms: true and false. The true ones are useful hints, while the false ones are useless or incorrect.
Getting rumors
- The Oracle always tells you a true rumor when you pay for a minor consultation.
- The following items give you a true rumor if blessed, a false rumor if cursed and either if uncursed:
- Fortune cookies contain a rumor that is revealed when you eat the cookie. You may also just read the cookie, if you want to keep the vegan conduct.
- The Magic Mirror of Merlin and The Master Key of Thievery, the knight and rogue quest artifacts respectively, give you a rumor when applied or wielded.
- You can sometimes find rumors in the dust on the dungeon floor. Sometimes these can be difficult to read.
- You can write something on the dungeon floor, then engrave with a wand of polymorph to get a rumor.
Examples
True rumors
- Rumor #330: Throwing food at a wild dog might tame him.
This encourages the player to throw tripe at dogs to tame them.
- Rumor #47: Eating a freezing sphere is like eating a yeti.
This suggests that by eating a freezing sphere or a yeti you may get the cold resistance. Unfortunately, freezing spheres never leave corpses.
- Rumor #326: They say the gods get angry if you kill your dog.
This suggests that if you kill a pet, you get an alignment record penalty (-15 to be exact, and also lose 1 point of Luck).
False rumors
- Rumor #7: A cockatrice corpse is guaranteed to be untainted!
This encourages the player to eat a cockatrice corpse, which is usually a fatal mistake.
- Rumor #157: Sorry, no fortune this time. Better luck next cookie!
This is just plain useless.
- Rumor #195: They say that a hacker named David once slew a giant with a sling and a rock.
Some false rumours are just random references to random things.
See also
- Source:rumors.tru — the data file that contains all the true rumors
- Source:rumors.fal — the data file that contains all the false rumors
- Rumor messages — explains the meaning of each rumor
