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* 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'''. | * 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'''. | * 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'''. | * '''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''', or in the late-game after the player character learns '''Degreelessness'''. | * '''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) | * '''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). | *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 === | === 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 | 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: | If the player character '''[L]'''ooks at Tony's Open Diet Coke, the following message is displayed: | ||
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and then | and then | ||
You feel like <nowiki>[[Tony! | Antonio!]]</nowiki>. | You feel like <nowiki>[[Tony! | Antonio!]]</nowiki>. | ||
'''Note:''' Despite the implication of the messages, Tony always spawns aggressive to the player character, regardless of whether the player character holds Tony's Open Diet Coke | '''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 <nowiki>[[Tony! | Antonio!]]</nowiki>. | |||
* 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). | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|+Tony prefixes / suffixes | |||
!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'''<nowiki/>'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 === | === Curing Tony === | ||
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* The '''Name Game''' skill still uses the player character's original name, even after being afflicted with '''Tony'''. | * 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''', 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. | * 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 | * 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) == | == Amulet of Yendor (artifact) == | ||
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*'''"Yendor" is "Rodney" spelled backwards.''' This is the most commonly-accepted theory. | *'''"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, 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), revealed an image of the word "Yendor" upside-down. | ** 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. | *'''"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. | ||
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