Pool Skill

There are some vague or non-exact figures and information on this page. Some spading is required. Check whether the lucky adventure pool skill bonus carries into Bad Moon.

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Pool Skill is a mechanic that tracks your ability to play pool, either in The Haunted Billiards Room, in the Typical Tavern, in your clan's VIP lounge, or at Speakeasy (Wrong Side of the Tracks). It can be viewed (if non-zero) in the Other Accomplishments section of Your Quest Log, or through the Quest Tracker, but only after encountering Welcome To Our ool Table and before defeating the ghost in afore-mentioned adventure.

Known Pool Skill Increasers

Source	Source Type	Pool Skill	Duration	Cost	Notes
government-issued eyeshade	Hat	5	Always		Obtained by using 22 government requisition forms, dropped by one of the wandering Daily Loathing Ballot monsters
Staff of Ed	Weapon (1H)	5	Always		Only available in the Actually Ed the Undying special challenge path. This version doesn't help with practicing pool
Staff of Fats	Weapon (2H)	5	Always		Only available in the Actually Ed the Undying special challenge path.
Staff of Fats	Weapon (2H)	5	Always		A Quest Item
pool cue	Weapon (2H)	3	Always		Moxie +3
pantogram pants	Pants	5	Until Rollover		With 8-ball sacrifice Various other possible effects; see Pantagramming
Bauxite Baubles	Outfit	Variable	Always		The outfit bonus depends on the number of toddlers at the Boxing Daycare: X = 10 + <toddlers>0.25, rounded down.
Chalked Weapon	Effect	5	10 Adventures	Item Loss	Obtained from cube of billiard chalk Regular attacks can't miss
Influence of Sphere	Effect	5	10 Adventures	Item Loss	Obtained from sugar sphere
Video... Games?	Effect	5	5 Adventures		Obtained from defective Game Grid token +5 to just about everything else; see page for a full list
	Food			Item Loss, 1 Full	Obtained from bowl of Tastee-Wheet™ +5 to just about everything else; see page for a full list
Chalky Hand	Effect	3	5 Adventures	Item Loss	Obtained from handful of hand chalk Never Fumble Weapon Damage +3
Swimming with Sharks	Effect	3	15 Adventures	Item Loss	Obtained from shark cartilage +20% Meat from Monsters Makes you a better diver
Bustle Hustlin'	Booze	5	40 Adventures	Item loss, 1 Drunk	Obtained by drinking Bustle Hustler, an untradeable Fortune Teller drop
Sharky	Spleen Item	5	20 Adventures	Item loss, 1 Spleen	Obtained from pool shark hair oil Moxie +15
Welcome To Our ool Table	Adventure	1-4 each time	Until Ascension	1 Adventure	Chalky Hand and Staff of Fats will increase the amount by one and two, respectively, if "Hustle over to the other table and practice" is chosen. Pool Skill gained from this appears to be either uncapped, or capped somewhere above 1,000,000.
Choosing to rack 'em up in A Shark's Chum	Lucky Adventure	0 - 10	Always		Permanently adds to your Pool Skill. This is capped at a maximum of 10 points (after 25 visits). This does carry across ascensions. The amount added based on a formula.
Drunkenness	Drunkenness	0-10 or variable	Always		Each point of drunkenness up to and including 10 yields +1 pool skill. Each point beyond 10 drunkenness yields -2 pool skill, (11 drunkenness = +8, 14 drunkenness = +2, 19 drunkenness = -8) Is not displayed in the Other Accomplishments tab or the quest tracker, plan accordingly.

No Pool Skill Effect

Some noteworthy items that do not increase Pool Skill include:

• the Staff of Ed
  • however, when you're Ed, it does increase Pool Skill
  • if you're not Ed, it can be untinkered into the Staff of Fats, which does increase Pool Skill
    • For Ed, the Staff of Fats increases Pool Skill, but doesn't help with practicing pool
• a lucky rabbit's foot
• a shark jumper

History

• Shortly after the Spookyraven Manor revamp on 14th May 2014, the effect of your drunkenness on pool skill was shown in the Quest Tracker when trying to get the Spookyraven library key. This was then made hidden sometime the next day.
• On May 30, 2014, Pool Skill was added to the Quest Log.

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