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Tony (disambiguation)
Tony might refer to the following game concepts:
- Tony Davis, an optional boss in the Wal-Mart sub-dungeon. For details about the mirror-universe version, see Dony Tavis.
- Tony, an Affliction the player character can contract by consuming Tony's Open Diet Coke.
- A common name for a creature in the Aching Wallop faction (all Aching Wallop adherents have a 7.6% chance to be generated with the name "Tony", compared to a 3.8% chance for any other name). For a full list of potential names for Aching Wallop adherents, see the quest page for Wait patiently in line at the pharmacy until your number is called (post-Ragnarok).
Tony's Open Diet Coke (unique consumable)
Tony's Open Diet Coke is a unique consumable that adds the Tony Affliction for six out-of-game years when consumed. Tony has the following effects on the player character:
- All Water in inventory is converted to Reverse Water. Any Water the player character picks up when Tony has a 55% chance to be converted to Reverse Water. Tip: Any Water that is converted in this way will remain Reverse Water, even after the player removes the Tony status effect. This is a good opportunity in the mid-game to build stocks of Reverse Water for use with Competitive Warehouse Archery in the Dark (or CWAD), which offers an early opportunity to get the permanent buff Lived through Competitive Warehouse Archery in the Dark, simplifying the mid-game quest Help convince the guy who played Magnum P.I. to stop doing reverse-mortgage commercials.
- If the player character's name is four characters or less, the player character's name is temporarily set to Tony!. Else, the player character's name is permanently set to Antonio!. Note: If the player character's name is set to Tony!, the name will revert to the name you chose during player creation after you complete the quest Apologize to Tony and prepare for combat.
- Occupation is set to Wal-Mart.
- Player calling is set to Wal-Mart. Warning: Changing Player calling impacts any skills and attributes affected by callings, such as Hobbies, Jungian archetype, and Breadsense. This might be a desirable effect: for example, if Jungian archetype is set to Round or Rounder. However, if your archetype adds positive effects, consider postponing consuming Tony's Open Diet Coke until after the quest Brian Eno is here to fix your vibe, permanently, or in the late-game after the player character learns Degreelessness.
- 1998 Nissan Elantra is generated in the dungeon. For other ways of generating 98NE, see the quest page for A journey to the inside of King Crimson's album In the Court of the Crimson King: An Observation by King Crimson (1968).
- All doors are now hostile to the player (a known bug). Note: If any doors were friendly to the player character before consuming Tony's Open Diet Coke (for example, through use of the skills Compliment Aesthetics or Advanced Door Comprehension, or by being promoted to Portal Authority), the doors will remain friendly, but gain the Awkward Conversation attribute. All rolls to influence doors now have a -5 penalty.
Finding and consuming Tony's Open Diet Coke
The Wal-Mart sub-dungeon has a 48% chance to generate a 6 x 6 sub-room, which contains a built-in microwave, the Shrieking Icebox, and Tony's Open Diet Coke. If Wal-Mart generates with a break room, Tony's Open Diet Coke is generated either on the counter under the microwave or inside the Shrieking Icebox.
Note: To open the Shrieking Icebox to retrieve Tony's Open Diet Coke, first repeatedly use the [C]ajole command until the Shrieking Icebox stops shrieking. Then, use the [O]pen fridges and lockboxes command, press [F] to select "fridge", confirm that you want to open the fridge with y, confirm the direction that the fridge you want to open is in with the numpad, confirm that there are no other nearby fridges with y, and then use the [O]pen fridges, lockboxes, and your Third Eye command again to open the fridge.
If the player character [L]ooks at Tony's Open Diet Coke, the following message is displayed:
That's Tony's Diet Coke. Looks like he only drank half the can and left the rest of it here. I don't think I've ever seen that fuckin' guy finish a Diet Coke.
When picked up, the player sees the following message:
I don't think that's your Diet Coke. Are you sure you want to take it? (y/n)
If the player chooses y, the following message is displayed:
Your fuckin' funeral, dude! Tony sets the schedule and if I were you, I would want my weekends off!
When consumed, the player sees the following two messages in sequence (separated by a [More, please!] prompt:
Uh-oh! You really fucked up this time! If Tony figures out you drank his Diet Coke, he's gonna be super-pissed at you!!
and then
You feel like [[Tony! | Antonio!]].
Note: Despite the implication of the messages, Tony always spawns aggressive to the player character, regardless of whether the player character picked up, holds, or consumed Tony's Open Diet Coke.
Long-term game effects of Tony
The effects of Tony last six out-of-game years. After drinking Tony's Open Diet Coke, the following things apply to any character you play for the following six years:
- The player is still prompted to enter a name during character creation. However, all player characters are automatically named Tony! or Antonio!, depending on the length of the name you entered (see Tony's Open Diet Coke for details). If the Name field is left blank, the game displays the following message, and the player character's name is set to Tony! (34% chance by default, 37% chance with the skill Tony Time), or Antonio!:
You forgot to enter a name, dingus! Let's go with [[Tony! | Antonio!]].
- All player characters start with the Tony Affliction.
- All NPCs with the name "Tony" or "Antonio" have one or more of the following phrases prepended or appended to their name. Some suffixes include an additional comma for grammatical purposes; see table below).
| Tony! prefix | Tony! suffix | Antonio! prefixes | Antonio! suffixes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mega | and Tony!'s just wild about me | I'm only talkin' 'bout | We can dig it! |
| I'm just wild about | Hawk | Thank God it's | mayor of the local McDonald's on Foursquare |
| Ur- | inventor of the modern SCUBA suit | Ultra- | Space Marine |
Here are some example names, drawn from message logs:
I'm just wild about Tony! and Tony!'s just wild about me casts Doublebutt! It's super-effective!
Thank God it's Antonio!, mayor of the local McDonald's on Foursquare's candy-cane jetpack runs out of fuel! [more] Thank God it's Antonio!, mayor of the local McDonald's on Foursquare is totally screwed!
I'm only talkin' 'bout Antonio! We can dig it! is lowered into the chasm in his Laser Coffin.
Mega Tony Hawk furrows his brow and intones, "You must bring me all three of the original members of the Bee Gees before I will let you pass."
Curing Tony
See the quest page for Tony's scheduled you to clopen for the last time. Kick Tony's ass.
Trivia
- The Name Game skill still uses the player character's original name, even after being afflicted with Tony.
- If the player character's name is set to Antonio!, the only known way to change it back is by wielding Phone Book in your main hand, activating it, and renaming the Phone Book to the player's preferred name before it burns to ashes. It's unknown whether this is a bug or intended behavior.
- The community often refers to the Tony's Open Diet Coke consumable as simply "Tony", which is often a source of confusion for new players. The generally-accepted community term for Tony the affliction is the stolen-Coke blues, or sometimes simply "the Coke". For example, the sentence "Tony Davis consumed Tony's Open Diet Coke and contracted Tony" would instead read "Tony Davis consumed Tony and contracted the Coke".
Amulet of Yendor (artifact)
"Yendor" is "Rodney" spelled backwards. There are two prominent fan theories about this:
- "Yendor" is "Rodney" spelled backwards. This is the most commonly-accepted theory.
- The theory was seemingly confirmed on Twitter by prominent community member @CarlSharks, who posted a picture of the word "Yendor" written on a piece of paper. Then, after using a deprecated version of iMovie to reverse the image (reversing images for public exhibition was outlawed in the United States in 2003, but some forks of older software still retain these features), Carl revealed an image of the word "Yendor" upside-down.
- "Yendor" is not "Rodney" spelled backwards. Proponents of the theory say that "Rodney" is a meaningless collection of phonemes. Therefore, "Rodney" is "Yendor" backwards, not the other way around.