Chat Guide: Miscellaneous

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Miscellaneous

When you enter chat you will see the number of players in the chat channel; if you are the only player in that chat channel the message "There is currently one player in this channel, and that one player is you!" will replace it.

Chat Effects

Certain items and effects will also affect what you say in chat. Here's a list of everything in the game that affects chat and their availability in Hardcore.

Source	Source Type	Change	Duration	Cost	Prereq	In HC?	Notes
Jazz Hands	Item	Occasionally adds to the end of messages: "~jazz hands~"	20 turns	Item Loss	None	Yes	Obtained from jazz soap.
Unmotivated	Item	Occasionally adds to the end of messages: causes one of the following messages to be appended to your chat messages 10-11% of the time: Meh. Sigh. Whatever.	50 turns	Item Loss	None	Yes	Obtained from: Unmotivator: Crashed Meat Car (50 Adventures) Unmotivator: Crashed Orca (50 Adventures) Unmotivator: Success Warrior (50 Adventures)
Liar's pants	Pants	Occasionally adds to the end of messages: "No, really.", "Seriously.", "Trust Me.", or "Yeah, that's the ticket!"	Always		None	No	Mr. Store item This and origami riding crop cancel each other out
origami riding crop	Weapon	Occasionally adds to the end of messages: ", heh heh heh.", ", if you know what I mean.", or ", wink wink, nudge nudge."	Always		None	No	Mr. Store item This and Liar's pants cancel each other out
Drunkenness	Booze	Occasionally adds to the end of messages: "-hic-"	Until rollover		Boozetafarian or no dietary path	Yes	Adds to messages only if you are within 5 Drunkenness of your limit.
wanged	Effect	Certain abbreviations (thx, u, r, ur, k, y and ppl) will be replaced by their non-abbreviated equivalents. Cancels the effect of the sword and the staph.	100 turns	Item loss	None	Yes	Obtained from a wang
Canadianity	Item	Occasionally adds to the end of messages: ", eh?" and changes "out" to "oot" (e.g. about -> aboot)	3/10 turns	Item loss	None	Yes	Obtained from: White Canadian (3 adventures) fancy chocolate (10 adventures)(sometimes)
Gothy	Item	Occasionally breaks up message into 3-4 words per line, each line ending with a gothy word (agony, anguish, blackness, despair, fear, gloom, heart, loneliness, miasma, rain, soul, or torment).	10/20 turns	Item loss	None	Yes	Obtained from: fancy chocolate (10 adventures) (sometimes) spooky eyeliner (10 adventures) spooky lipstick (10 adventures) gloomy mushroom wine (20 adventures)
Puppet strings (Pull Your Strings)	Item	Causes victim to brag about you, trumping whatever the victim typed into their current channel.	1 chat message	Item loss	None	Yes	Obtained from puppet strings
Talking Like a Pirate	Item	Occasionally adds to the end of messages: "Yarrr.", "Arrr.", "Avast ye!" or "Ahoy, Matey!"	50 turns	Item loss	None	Yes	Obtained from a can of Binarrrca
sword behind inappropriate prepositions	Weapon	Changes your prepositions to inappropiate ones.	Always		None	Yes	Triggers before any other effect, including the repetition filter
staph of homophones	Weapon	While this staff is equipped any word that has a homophone is replaced with one of the possible homophones	Always		None	Yes	Triggers before any other effect, including the repetition filter
V for Vivala mask	Accessory	Gives red color to the first letter V of a word.	Always		None	No	Mr. Store item Only the first letter V in a word turns into a red V.
plastic vampire fangs	Accessory	Changes the following words in chat: "want" becomes "vant" "suck" becomes "saahk" "blood" becomes "blaahd" Adds "Ah, ah, ah." to the end of the /count result when a valid item is found and counted	Always		None	No	Mr. Store item
The Gray Plague	Unknown	Messages would slowly fade to gray, occasionally adding "-cough-" at the end.	Until cured		None	Yes	No longer available (plague occurred in 2005)
Tinnitus	Item	Occasionally adds to the end of messages: "-rimshot-"	20 Turns	Item Loss	None	Yes	Obtained from a cymbal syrup
Emotion Sickness	Item	Puts random words into italics	5/50 Turns	Item Loss	None	Yes	Obtained from: bottle of melodramamine (5 turns) bottle of extra-strength melodramamine (50 turns)
Bruised Jaw	Item	Changes 1/3 of letters a-z to 'm', and A-Z to 'M'.	10 Turns	Item Loss	None	No	Obtained from a jawbruiser
B-b-brr!	Item	Occasionally adds to the end of messages: "*brr!*" and randomly causes stuttering (e.g. cold -> c-c-c-cold)	10 Turns	Item Loss	None	No	Obtained from a snowball
Single-Eyed Vision	Item	Adds various things to other people's text messages	20 Turns	Item Loss	None	No	Obtained from an Atomic Comic
There is No Spoon	Item	Occasionally makes your text green and flashy	5 Turns	Item Loss	None	No	Obtained from a Red Pill Each chat message consumes a turn of the effect
Eso Sí Que Es	Item	Inserts Spanish accents into your messages	10 Turns	Item Loss 6 Fullness	None	Yes	Obtained from eating spaghetti con calaveras
purple prose	Item	Changes random words to purple	3 chat messages.	Item Loss	None	Yes	Obtained from using a purple prose pen
Best effect ever	Item	Changes every other word to "dick", "butt", "fart", or "boner".	69 turns	Item Loss	None	Yes	Obtained from Best joke ever.
SuperStar	Buff	Adds a gold star (★) next to a player's name.	5-20 Turns	5 MP	None	No	Obtained from Gemelli's March of Testery, a custom skill given to Gemelli.
It's Ridiculous	Item	Makes every number said in chat (in word form, so "8" wouldn't be effected but "eight" would) increase by one (so "three" would turn to "four"), from "one" to "ten" (also including homophones, so "too" would change to "three").	111 / 11 Turns	Item Loss / Daily	None	No	Obtained from can of V-11, or resting in an Elevent.
The Crown of Ed the Undying	Hat	Occasionally emits a message describing the thoughts of someone in the chat channel, as a message beginning <Playername> is thinking ....	Always		None	Path	Mr. Store item
Golden Gum	Item	Causes your chat messages to become bold and gold.	3 chat messages	Item Loss	None	Yes	Obtained from golden gum Additional instances of golden gum stack with itself
Lolsipop	Item	Causes your chat messages to become a random color.	10 chat messages	Item Loss	None	Yes	Obtained from Lolsipop The random colors appear different for all users in chat Additional instances of Lolsipop stack with itself Is overriden by golden gum
So Much Holiday Fun!	Item	Causes your chat messages to become festively colored.	3 turns/chat messages	Item Loss	None	No	Obtained from opening a gift package containing Holiday Fun! The duration of the buff decreases by 1 for each chat message sent with this effect
Pirate Bellow	Skill	Adds a skull and crossbones symbol to the start and end of the next message you say in chat, while also making your text bold.	1 chat message	11 MP	None	Yes	Obtained from casting the non-combat skill Pirate Bellow
LOV Emotionizer	Item	Adds a heart symbol to the start and end of the your next 3 chat messages.	3 chat messages	Item Loss	None	Yes	Obtained from being the target of a LOV Emotionizer Stacks with Pirate Bellow
On Safari	Skill	Replaces random words with various animal noises (in italics): bark, bleat, bray, buzz, caw, chirp, cry, growl, hiss, mew, oink, plop, purr, quack, ribbit, screech, snort, trumpet	10 turns/word replacements	10 MP	None	No	Obtained from casting the non-combat skill Experience Safari The duration of the buff decreases by 1 for each word replaced with this effect Hovering your mouse over a word affected by this will reveal the original word that was replaced Cannot be cast on those in Hardcore, but can be cast on yourself even if you are in Hardcore
vampyric cloake	Back Item	Causes the letters A, B, O, and the word "blood" in your chat message to become dark red	Always		None	Yes	Mr. Store item
totes	PvP	When chatting in /pvp, adds the word "totes" to the end of every message.	Until the next PvP fight		None	Yes	Obtained from attacking (or being attacked by) a player with totes When one player gains the totes the other player loses the totes The chat command /totescarriers will list the players who currently have totes
Harpooned and Marooned	Skill	Replaces random words with a different word that rhymes (in italics).	100 turns/word replacements	Item Loss	None	No	Obtained from a cartoon harpoon The duration of the buff decreases by 1 for each word replaced with this effect Hovering your mouse over a word affected by this will reveal the original word that was replaced
Y2K	Item	Replaces any Y's to K's, when it's the first letter of a word (or the only letter), when posting a message in chat while it is being worn.	Always		None	No	Obtained from an "I survived Y2K" T-Shirt. The shirt is obtained from the 2002 Mr. Store item of the month.
Pirate's Currrse	Item	Adds two instances of the letter r after every letter r you type in chat.	20 turns/word replacements	Item Loss	None		Obtained from an pirrrate's currrse, from the TakerSpace item of the month.

Of the chat effects that only sometimes fire ("-hic-", "eh?", etc), only one will fire on a single message.

Interactive Bots

• chatbot (#142302) is a multipurpose bot who responds to chat, rolls dice in /games, announces the current song playing on Radio KoL in /radio, provides useful game information and plays games. For more information, private message chatbot with the message, "help".

• Haiku Oracle (#464776) is a multipurpose bot used for strawberrying a player, telling a joke, flipping a coin, and answering yes or no questions Magic 8-Ball style. All of this is done both in haiku and in /haiku, coincidentally.

See Also: Bots, Buffbot

Special Key Bindings

• [Modifier]+UpArrow and [Modifier]+DownArrow will cycle through your recently typed chat window entries. [Modifier]+LeftArrow and [Modifier]+RightArrow will cycle through your chat tabs, if tabbed chat is enabled. In your chat options, you can set the required modifier key to Shift, Control, or Alt, or disable these bindings entirely.

Shout Filter

Disabled March 8, 2011:
The shout filter was a filter that prevented people posting in more than 40% capital letters and exclamation marks (!). Any message that contained more than 40% capital letters and exclamation marks was re-posted as "[shouting]". Posting a "[shouting]" post following another "[shouting]" post acted as a repetition, even if the messages' contents were different. There was no way to turn the shout filter off, but it was disabled in clan chat.

Repetition Filter

Disabled March 8, 2011:
The repetition filter was a filter that prevented people posting the exact same text, or repetitive characters into open chat more than once. It resulted in a message coming back to you saying Repetition. You were still able to /msg a person the same text more than once.