Eight ball
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|---|---|
| Name | Eight ball |
| Appearance | plastic orb |
| Base price | 30 zm |
| Weight | 20 |
| Material | plastic |
| Monster use | Will not be used by monsters. |
An eight ball is a type of tool that appears in EvilHack and Hack'EM. It has a base material of plastic, and appears as a plastic orb when unidentified.
The Magic 8-Ball is an artifact eight ball.
Generation
The eight ball is not randomly generated, though it can be wished for or found in bones levels.
Hack'EM
In Hack'EM, plastic golems may drop eight balls among the plastic items they leave behind on death instead of a corpse.
Description
Applying the eight ball prints a message about the hero shaking the eight ball, but has no other 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 designed as 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, the Magic 8-Ball is often used for humor, with 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.
Message
- You vigorously shake your eight ball...
- You applied an eight ball.
