Semi-Rare Adventures

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Introduction

Semi-rare adventures are special adventures that provide unique rewards or allow the player to fight rare monsters. Like Clover Adventures, they only exist in some zones.

All players have a flag which is set to a specific turn number. When that turn number is reached, the player will have a semi-rare adventure, if the player is adventuring in a zone that has one and the player did not receive that same semi-rare adventure on his most recent successful semi-rare opportunity. The semi-rare will simply be missed if the player spends that turn anywhere other than in a zone that has a semi-rare adventure. Whether or not a semi-rare adventure was received, the flag will then be set as described below.

A semi-rare cannot be obtained from the same location twice in a row. In order to obtain a particular semi-rare more than once, a different one must be obtained in between. This resets on ascension.

The very first semi-rare that is available in any run will occur 70-80 turns after the start of the run. Each time the flag is set following a semi-rare adventure opportunity, it will be set to a number 160-200 higher than the current turn (or 100-120, if the run is an Oxygenarian run).

Fortune Cookies

The semi-rare counter can be exposed by eating a fortune cookie -- one of the three "lucky numbers" given by each fortune will be the difference between the current turn and the semi-rare flag value ("flag" and "semi-rare adventure number" maybe be used interchangeably here). The other two numbers are apparently random, and may be larger than 200 (up to 299 has been observed). To determine which of the three numbers is the correct one, the player might eat two cookies and look for matching numbers, though an observant player can deduce the correct number if the other numbers fall outside the expected range. If the player's flag is equal to the current turn number (i.e. his/her next adventure click will cause the SR adventure to occur), all three lucky numbers will be random. Since semi-rares occur the turn after the counter expires (when the counter reaches 0), the first semi-rare adventure will occur between turns 71-81.

Semi-rare adventures are obtainable without eating fortune cookies -- the cookies merely reveal the adventure number, as opposed to creating it. The power of fortune cookies thus lies in pinpointing the exact adventure during which a semi-rare will take place.

Table of Semi-Rare Adventures

Location	Adventure	Reward	Result
Seaside Town
The Haunted Billiards Room	A Shark's Chum	boost stats (non-combat) OR cube of billiard chalk (combat)	10 Strongness, Mysteriousness and Chutzpah OR Regular Attacks Can't Miss (10 adventures)
The Haunted Kitchen	Play Misty For Me	freezerburned ice cube	+50 Cold Damage (10 adventures)
The Haunted Library	Like the Sunglasses, But Less Comfortable	black eyedrops	Sublime Spooky Resistance (10 adventures)
The Haunted Pantry	The Pilsbury Doughjerk	tasty tart (3)	5-6 adventures 5-6 Fortitude, Magicalness and Sarcasm 1 fullness
The Sleazy Back Alley	In the Still of the Alley	distilled fortified wine (3)	5-6 adventures 5-6 Fortitude, Magicalness and Sarcasm 1 drunkenness
The Big Mountains
The Goatlet	Natural Selection	can of spinach	Weapon Damage +30 (10 adventures)
Itznotyerzitz Mine	7-Foot Dwarf Foreman (combat)	7-Foot Dwarven mattock, miner's helmet, miner's pants	All pieces of Mining Gear outfit. Drops are not 100%.
Lair of the Ninja Snowmen	Not Quite as Cold as Ice	bottle of antifreeze	Sublime Cold Resistance (10 adventures)
The Limerick Dungeon	The Bleary-Eyed Cyclops	cyclops eyedrops	+100% Items from Monsters (10 adventures)
The Valley of Rof L'm Fao	Bad ASCII Art (combat)	ASCII shirt, 30669, 33398, and 2 334 scrolls	All components for a 64735 scroll ASCII shirt will drop only if you have Torso Awaregness
A-boo Peak	Oh, There Have it Gone	death blossom	Combat item that does Prismatic Damage.
Twin Peak (prior to lighting peak)	Synecdoche, Twin Peak	miniature boiler	Combat item
Oil Peak	It's a Gas Gas Gas	unnatural gas	Combat item that delevels.
The Nearby Plains
A Battlefield	Prior to Always	six-pack of New Cloaca-Cola	6 cans of New Cloaca-Cola (restore 140-160 MP each)
The Batrat and Ratbat Burrow	How Does He Smell?	Dogsgotnonoz pills	Sublime Stench Resistance (10 adventures)
The Castle in the Clouds in the Sky (Basement)	Fit and Finish	Super Weight-Gain 9000	+300 Maximum HP (10 adventures)
The Castle in the Clouds in the Sky (Ground Floor)	Ahead of the Game	possibility potion	+100% Combat Initiative (10 adventures)
The Castle in the Clouds in the Sky (Top Floor)	All The Rave	Mick's IcyVapoHotness Inhaler	+200% Meat from Monsters (10 adventures)
Guano Junction	Le Chauve-Souris du Parfum	Eau de Guaneau	+50 Stench Damage (10 adventures)
Cobb's Knob Harem	Hands On	scented massage oil (3)	Combat usable, restores all HP and stuns foe for 1 round
Cobb's Knob Barracks Cobb's Knob Kitchens	Knob Goblin Elite Guard Captain (combat)	Knob Goblin elite helm, Knob Goblin elite pants, Knob Goblin elite polearm	Knob Goblin Elite Guard Uniform
Laboratory	You Can Top Our Desserts, But You Can't Beat Our Meats	bottle of Mystic Shell	+30 Damage Reduction (10 adventures)
Menagerie Level 2	Rokay, Raggy!	irradiated pet snacks	+10 to Familiar Weight (10 adventures)
The Misspelled Cemetary	A Menacing Phantom	poltergeist-in-the-jar-o	Combat item, 200-250 damage.
The Outskirts of Cobb's Knob	Lunchboxing	Knob Goblin lunchbox	1-2 Knob pasties 1-2 thermoses full of Knob coffee 3 items total
Cobb's Knob Treasury	Knob Goblin Embezzler (combat)	meat stack (0-4), Knob Goblin visor (0-1), and 400-600 meat
Desert Beach
South of The Border	Filth, Filth, and More Filth	donkey flipbook	Sublime Sleaze Resistance (10 adventures)
The Distant Woods
The Dark Elbow of the Woods The Dark Heart of the Woods The Dark Neck of the Woods Pandamonium Slums	It's The Only Way To Be Sure	SPF 451 lip balm	Sublime Hot Resistance (10 adventures)
The Hidden City	Two Sizes Too Small	shrinking powder	Deals 50% to 65% of an enemy's HP in damage (only one is usable per fight)
The Hidden Temple	Baa'baa'bu'ran (combat)	stone wool (1-3)	+3 Damage Reduction (5 adventures), can be used to get the Fitting In adventure
The Inexplicable Door	Some Bricks Do, In Fact, Hang in the Air	fire flower	+50 Hot Damage (10 adventures)
The Spooky Forest	Blaaargh! Blaaargh!	fake blood	+50 Spooky Damage (10 adventures)
Whitey's Grove	Monty of County Crisco	bag of lard	+50 Sleaze Damage (10 adventures)
The Mysterious Island of Mystery
The Hippy Camp (pre-war)	The Latest Sorcerous Developments	teeny-tiny magic scroll	+100 Mysticality (10 adventures)
Orcish Frat House (pre-war)	Sand in the Vaseline	bottle of rhinoceros hormones	+100 Muscle (10 adventures)
The Obligatory Pirate's Cove	Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Whatever This Is	bottle of pirate juice	+100 Moxie (10 adventures)
Hobopolis
A Maze of Sewer Tunnels	C. H. U. M. chieftain (combat)	Filthy Crown	Clan Trophy
Burnbarrel Blvd.	A Tight Squeeze (costs 5 hobo nickels)	jar of squeeze	25-30 adventures 25-45 Fortitude, Magicalness and Sarcasm 7 drunkenness
Exposure Esplanade	Cold Comfort (costs 5 hobo nickels)	bowl of fishysoisse	27-32 adventures 45-80 Fortitude, Magicalness and Sarcasm 6 fullness
The Heap	Juicy! (costs 5 hobo nickels)	concentrated garbage juice	+75 Stench Damage (20 adventures)
The Ancient Hobo Burial Ground	Flowers for You (costs 5 hobo nickels)	deadly lampshade	+75 Spooky Damage (20 adventures), poisons on hit
The Purple Light District	Maybe It's a Sexy Snake! (costs 5 hobo nickels)	lewd playing card	Combat item, 110-187 (+100) damage
The Sea
The Briny Deeps	Deeps Impact	1-3 filets of beefy fish meat, filets of glistening fish meat, filets of slick fish meat	2-3 Adventures 4-8 Muscle (beefy), Mysticality (glistening), or Moxie (slick) 5 turns of Fishy (15 with Warm Belly) 1 fullness
The Brinier Deepers	The Haggling	50 turns of Fishy	-1 Adventure cost underwater
An Octopus's Garden	moister oyster (combat)	giant pearl	Autosells for 12000 meat
The Wreck of the Edgar Fitzsimmons	Camera On, James	long-forgotten necklace	+15% Meat from Monsters
The Dive Bar	Razor, Scooter	shavin' razor	Hairless and Airless (30 adventures)
Madness Reef	Dragon the Line	20 turns of Eyes of the Dragon	+100% Items from Monsters (underwater only)
The Mer-Kin Outpost	A Drawer of Chests	15-20 sand dollars	Currency for use at Big Brother's store.
Map to Vanya's Castle
Vanya's Castle Chapel	The Time This Fire	pixel stopwatch	Stuns for 5 rounds
Retired Adventures
Elf Alley	What a Tosser (costs 50 hobo nickels)	gift-a-pult	Allows gift items to be used as combat items while equipped

Notes

• The adventure number is reset by adventure.php when you receive each semi-rare.
  • The fortune cookie number may be indeterminate after a player has been in adventure.php if the flag is equal to the current turn (meaning the very next adventure is a semi-rare); a fortune cookie will never display "0" as one of its numbers.
  • If a semi-rare adventure has been skipped, and the player has not been in adventure.php (for example, spending turns in Fernswarthy's Basement, The Shore, or the Daily Dungeon), then the flag has not been set, and fortune cookies will show invalid numbers.
• Semi-rares will be overridden by adventuring while drunk, as you are redirected to the Drunken Stupor zone.
• Semi-rares can also be overridden by Clover Adventures and Bad Moon adventures, but not Feast of Boris and El Dia de Los Muertos Borrachos encounters, as of an update in July 2009. They also cannot be overridden by superlikelies.
• Violet Fog flashbacks will override your semi-rare. It is not known whether choosing to escape from the fog rather than pursue it to the end will give a second chance at the semi-rare, although it is postulated that it should.
• Oxygenarians have a semi-rare counter range of 100-120 adventures. This shorter interval will be used until they break the prism or drop the path; once path restrictions have been lifted, the next semi-rare interval will revert to the normal 160-200 adventures.
  • Dropping an Oxygenarian path from the account menu will automatically re-roll your semi-rare to the 160-200 range.
• Escaping combat using tattered scraps or similar items which don't cost adventures does not increment your turn count, and therefore can be used to recover from a mis-click. This can be helpful if you know you should be getting a semi-rare adventure but go to the wrong zone by mistake. However, if the semi-rare is a combat adventure, like the Knob Goblin Elite Guard Captain, you cannot use a free runaway from him to get the Bad ASCII Art on that same adventure. This is to prevent possible exploitation.
• If adventuring in The Sea without the Fishy effect, then the semi-rare adventure will only be encountered if the adventure starts with the counter at zero. If you are due to get a semi-rare on the second adventure then it will be skipped.
• If you encounter The Haggling without Fishy, then you will gain 50 turns of the Fishy effect after two adventures have been consumed.
• Teleportitis will not override your semi-rare adventure; it will only take you to a random zone, and if that zone has a semi-rare, you get that semi-rare.
• Spending a turn normally but gaining back a free turn via a V for Vivala mask or a Temporal Riftlet does increase your turn counter, and therefore does bring you closer to your semi-rare turn, even though your "turns left" counter does not decrease.
• Semi-rare adventures after the first (in a run) are distributed triangularly around their center value. In the case of all semi-rares after the first one, the counter is set to 180 + rand(0,20) - rand(0,20) for non-oxygenarian runs and 110 + rand(0,10) - rand(0,10) for oxygenarian runs, meaning that the values closer to 180 or 110 are much more likely than the values closer to the ends of the range. However, the first semi-rare is distributed uniformly; the counter is set to 70 + rand(0,10).
• For more information on how semirares relate to other encounter types, see Encounter.