New Content - Implemented Anapestic Combat

I went to the Junkyard while under the Just the Best Anapests effect. I was not surprised to discover that there were no special messages from the gremlins to let me know when I should try to extract the tool from them.

I'd like to suggest that you provide 4 special Anapests to apply when the correct gremlin whips out his tool:

Batwinged gremlin with molybdenum hammer
Erudite gremlin with molybdenum crescent wrench
Spider Gremlin with molybdenum pliers
Vegetable gremlin with molybdenum screwdriver

If you could supply 4 more special Anapests to apply when the INCORRECT gremlin of the appropriate type does his special move which replaces the "whips out his tool" move, that would be gravy, but it's more important to be able to recognize when to try to get the tool than it is to know when you can stop stasising waiting for it. Thanks.

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I think there room for additional Content from the Just the Best Anapests effect. I love the way it turns combat into rhyme. There are a few places, however, where it makes the game unplayable. In particular, there are certain items and situations when you need to do something in response to a particular monster action or in which you need to look at the monster's specific response to an action that you do. With Just the Best Anapests, you cannot successfully play the game in those situations.

Consider the process of gathering pirate insults. You have to use The Big Book of Pirate Insults and notice when the pirate comes back with an insult that you don't know. Having done so, that insult will be available for you to use in Insult Beer Pong.

There are 8 insults, each with a specific "successful" response. There are also 5 general "unsuccessful" responses.

In normal combat:

Using The Big Book of Pirate Insults:

You flip open the Big Book of Pirate Insults and pick one at random.
"You're more pathetic than a toothless watchdog!"

Response 1:

The pirate sneers at you and replies "I'm not really comfortable being compared to your girlfriend that way."

Dang, man. That hurts.

You acquire an effect: Embarrassed (duration: 1 Adventure)

Response 2:

The pirate stammers for a moment, finally blurting out "Look, a three-headed monkey!" He turns red with embarrassment.

Monster attack power reduced by 8
Monster defense reduced by 8

Consider what you could do with Anapests:

You find in your book a rude way to compare him
to a neutered hound wholly lacking in vim.

Response 1:

The pirate just sneers and deflects your harsh jeer
by commenting that it applies to your dear.

(the "you got an effect; click the icon" anapest for Embarrassed)

Response 2:

The pirate turns red and responds, oh, so clunky
with a feeble report of a three-headed monkey.

Monster attack power reduced by 8
Monster defense reduced by 8

(Note that if you use a barrrnacle, for example, the "Monster attack power reduced by X" messages are printed, even in Anapestic Combat).

I would love it if you would make it possible to learn pirate insults while under the effect of Just the Best Anapests.

New Content:

8 anapests for the 8 possible insults you can read from the book
13 anapests for the 8 successful and 5 unsuccessful retorts that a pirate can make.

The first 8 retorts get added to your "list of known insults" as always and make you Embarrassed - which you report via anapest.
The other 5 retorts make the pirate embarrassed - which you show in combat, just as you do for the barrrnacle.

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(sphere of fire)
You hurl a thing that you took from your pack,
and deal 9 points with a thingly attack.

(sphere of lightning)
You hurl a thing that you took from your pack,
and deal 9 points with a thingly attack.

(sphere of nature)
Activating an item caused something to happen!
What? I don't know. I guess you caught me napping.

(sphere of water)
Activating an item caused something to happen!
What? I don't know. I guess you caught me napping.
You heal a few damage -- not much, I'll admit,
but the hitpoints you've added will help you a bit.

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Test 1:

I went to the Giant Castle
I saw an Alphabet Giant
I cast CLEESH
It says

You cast CLEESH at your opponent. He turns into a newt.

The monster image on that page is now a newt, labeled "You're fighting a newt"
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Test 2:

I used a groose grease and got Just the Best Anapests
I went to the Giant Castle
I saw an Alphabet Giant
I cast CLEESH
It says

You use a skill -- it isn't a damaging one,
but skills don't have to cause pain to be fun.

The monster image on that page is an Alphabet Giant, labeled "You're fighting an Alphabet Giant"

I use a seal tooth
It says:

You hurl a thing that you took from your pack,
and deal 1 points with a thingly attack.

The monster image on that page is a salamander, labeled "You're fighting a salamander"
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Conclusion:

Using CLEESH while under Just the Best Anapests does not immediately change the monster image to the polymorphed amphibian, unlike using that skill without that effect active. The new monster/image is not shown until the next round.

That looks like a bug.

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With Just the Best Anapests, if I cast a spell which does lots of damage, I have seen the following messages:

The magic you launched at your foe overflowed,
and made some of hiss internal organs explode.

The magic you launched at your foe overflowed,
and made some of hers internal organs explode.

The magic you launched at your foe overflowed,
and made some of itss internal organs explode.

I am pretty sure you do not mean "some of hiss", "some of hers", or "some of itss"; "his", "her", and "its" will do just fine.

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I have Just the Best Anapests active.
I funkslung a pair of bang potions: a bubbly potion (of sleepiness) and a murky potion (of teleportitis).
Here's what was reported on my fight page:

You used a thing from your bag, and something happened, I guess!
I can't give you much detail, I must confess.

You used a thing from your bag, and something happened, I guess!
I can't give you much detail, I must confess.

I'm not surprised, but it's a pity. Yet Again, we have an opportunity for some Content.

For each of the 9 bang potions, write a custom Anapest for when they are used in combat so we can tell what's what. For example:

You hurl the bottle and raise quite a stink
The monster now reeks of powerful drink

Which one is that? Duh - the potion of inebriety.

What do you think? Thanks.

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When I am under the Just the Best Anapests effect, I can damage the monster in various ways.

- With a weapon. The fight text shows the icon of my weapon and a verse. Sometimes the verse contains the amount of damage I did. Sometimes not. In any case, there is hover text on the icon that says "Damage: 123" to tell me what I did.
- With a combat item. The fight text shows the icon of my item and the hover text shows me the name of the item. There is no way to extract, from the icon, what the Damage was.
- With a familiar. The fight text shows my familiar's icon, but no way to get Damage from the icon.
- with a skill. The fight text does not include the skill's icon at all. Instead, we simply see something like:

The magic you launched at your foe overflowed,
and made some of hiss internal organs explode.

Suggestion: when we use a combat skill, add the icon of that skill to the fight text (they DO have icons; I can see them when I look up a skill via desc_skill.php.) Add hover text to the icon to say "Damage: 123", say, if it did damage.)

Thanks.

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Banana Lord said:

ED ate or drank [url='http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Just_the_Best_Anapests]something[/url] that gave me Just the Best Anapests today. Mafia doesn't seem to notice when I putty a monster while the effect is active (i.e.: it doesn't update spookyPuttyMonster or spookyPuttyCopiesMade).

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