Stupid Questions for experienced players

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s3053974@student.rmit.edu.au wrote:

> I've started playing explore mode games (sick and tired of YASDs)
> and I have two questions:
> 1)I luckily poly'ed my pet into a mind flayer. It keeps doing some sort
> of brain thingy on me (the wording of which i've temporarily forgotten)
> and it has no effect. what is it trying to do?

It's a mind attack that, if the mind flayer were hostile, would damage you.

> 2)Whilst hallucinating, I was dipping my unicorn horn into unknown
> potions to see if they were bad ones etc, when I dipped it into a
> 'swirly' potion, and the two combined and formed a can of grease. Could
> someone tell me what possibily happened here?

SPOILER ALERT!!!



















It was a potion of polymorph. It polymorphed your unicorn horn into a
different type of tool, in this case a can of grease.

--
Benjamin Lewis

Evelyn the dog, having undergone further modification, pondered the
significance of short-person behavior in pedal-depressed panchromatic
resonance and other highly ambient domains... "Arf", she said.

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s3053974@student.rmit.edu.au writes:

> I've started playing explore mode games (sick and tired of YASDs)
> and I have two questions:
> 1)I luckily poly'ed my pet into a mind flayer. It keeps doing some sort
> of brain thingy on me (the wording of which i've temporarily forgotten)
> and it has no effect. what is it trying to do?

The equivalent of cuddling, I think. If it were hostile,
it would instaed launch a psyonic attack (not subject to
MR, btw) hurting you.

> 2)Whilst hallucinating, I was dipping my unicorn horn into unknown
> potions to see if they were bad ones etc, when I dipped it into a
> 'swirly' potion, and the two combined and formed a can of grease. Could
> someone tell me what possibily happened here?

Potion of polymorph.

Best,
Jakob

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Benjamin Lewis wrote:
> s3053974@student.rmit.edu.au wrote:
>
> > I've started playing explore mode games (sick and tired of YASDs)
> > and I have two questions:
> > 1)I luckily poly'ed my pet into a mind flayer. It keeps doing some
sort
> > of brain thingy on me (the wording of which i've temporarily
forgotten)
> > and it has no effect. what is it trying to do?
>
> It's a mind attack that, if the mind flayer were hostile, would
damage you.

Mind you wilst recently playing a monk, I got a message of something
like "you feel a psychic pulse" or whatever the message is that warns
you that mindflayers are around followed by "It feels mildly soothing".
Why on earth does it feel soothing? At the time I had warning,
telepathy, and helm of brilliance (as well as many other things). Any
ideas?