Just the Facts

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Just the Facts

Type: Passive
MP Cost: N/A

You know basically every bit of trivia about every monster in the Kingdom. A veritable Ken Jennings of Loathing.

You will recall facts about monsters as you adventure

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Skill number: 228

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Source:	book of facts
Price:	N/A
Class:	N/A
Level:	N/A
Effect:	Monsters are seeded to drop extra items, stats, or effects. Items include pocket wish (3/day), tattered scrap of paper. Also grants 2 combat skills, one grants an effect that is consumed fighting monsters of the same phylum and grants extra rollover adventures. The other is usable 3x per day to create 4-5 wandering copies of a monster.

Notes

• Gives the combat skills Recall Facts: Monster Habitats and Recall Facts: Circadian Rhythms.

• Usually gives additional items, item drop percent, meat, stats, or effects after combat; monsters that drop nothing might drop something in other battles. The rewards are sometimes also phylum dependent. The messages themselves have some variance to them based on phylum, location, and body parts.

• Against a monster that can drop a pocket wish:

I bet you didn't know that the chalkdust wraith has a secret bone in its eye, that if you stick it up your nose, it will grant you a wish.

You acquire an item: pocket wish

• Against a monster that can drop a pocket wish, but the daily limit has been reached:

Some biologists believe that these creatures evolved from hagfish, but others believe they were created by an angry god to punish us.

• Against a monster that drops a gob of wet hair:

These guys usually have a bunch of extra armpit hair wadded up in a fold of skin somewhere.

You acquire an item: gob of wet hair

• Against a monster that drops a worthless trinket:

Although they won't admit it publicly, biologists agree that the Knight in White Satin has a secret pouch under its solar plexus, where its stores its lucky charms.

You acquire an item: worthless gewgaw

• Against a monster that drops...something:

These monsters have vestigial organ that collects things they can't digest.

You acquire... something. [[Data:]]

• Against a monster that can give you Ultrahydrated:

I bet you didn't know that the magical fruit bat keeps itself hydrated by storing emergency water in its butt, like a camel.

or

Renowned biologist Dr. Peter Grödenfarb discovered that the pygmy witch nurse keeps itself hydrated by storing emergency water in its butt, like a camel.

You acquire an effect: Ultrahydrated (duration: 5 Adventures)

• Against a monster that can give elemental resistance:

Monsters 101 will teach you that the ganger secretes a natural antiantifreeze from its giblets to keep it cool during the hot summer months.

You acquire an effect: Antiantifrozen (duration: 10 Adventures)

It's well known in biology circles that the pygmy witch lawyer 's guts are so hot, even just imagining cutting one open and crawling inside will keep you warm for hours.

You acquire an effect: Imagining Guts (duration: 10 Adventures)

Nine out of ten cryptozoologists agree that the sabre-toothed ferret's giblets smell so bad, the human brain temporarily shuts down its scent processing functions rather than deal with it.

You acquire an effect: Disabled Olfactory Processing (duration: 10 Adventures)

Did you know that the Eldritch Tentacle has a secret orifice that grants great shame to anyone who sees it.

You acquire an effect: Shamed (duration: 10 Adventures)

• Against a monster that gives HP restoration:

There's a compound in the blood of this particular creature that acts as a potent medicine.

You gain X hit points.

• Against a monster that gives MP restoration:

These creatures always have a soda stashed somewhere nearby. You fine one in inside a sand dune and chug it.

You gain X Mana Points.

• Against a monster that can give you an effect, but didn't:

This type of monster is immune to every sexually-transmitted disease but one. Nobody knows which one.

• Against a monster secretly made of gummi:

Did you know that on average every fourth pygmy headhunter is actually made of gummy material? You take a bite out of this one, and sure enough, it is!

You acquire an effect: Gummibrain (duration: 10 Adventures)

or

You acquire an effect: Gummiheart (duration: 10 Adventures)

or

You acquire an effect: Gummiskin (duration: 10 Adventures)

• Against a lickable monster:

Did you know that the angry piñata has a very particular flavor? Go ahead, give it a try!

You acquire an effect: Ooh, Bitter! (duration: 10 Adventures)

• Against a beast phylum that drops a long pork :

These things have a really long muscle near their calf that tastes just like pork!

You acquire an item: long pork

• A message that implies increased item drops:

These guys will drop a lot more stuff if you turn them upside down and shake them.

• Potentially, against some slime phylum monsters:

It's totally fun to swim around in the remains of this kind of slime after you defeat it.

You acquire an effect: Slimed (duration: 20 Adventures)

or

The gooey coating on the outside of the ascender part of this type of slime is a powerful hallucinogen.

You gain X Fortitude. You gain X Magicalness. You gain X Smarm.

• Potentially, against a fish phylum monster:

This type of fish has way more scales than you'd expect.

You acquire 3 dull fish scales

• Potentially, against a construct phylum monster:

Every white chocolate golem has a tiny little mechanical core.

You acquire an item: clockwork key

Every creepy doll has a tiny little mechanical core.

You acquire an item: spring

References

• Ken Jennings is famous as a successful contestant on American quiz show Jeopardy!, later becoming a host of the same show.

See Also

• Elemental Resistance
• Antiantifrozen
• Disabled Olfactory Processing
• Imagining Guts
• Shamed
• Spooked