The Malus of Forethought

The Malus of Forethought

The Malus of Forethought is located in The Brotherhood of the Smackdown. You gain access to it by having the skill Pulverize:

You learn a new skill: Pulverize.

Torg looks up at you. "Lemme show you something," he says, and points to a giant hammer in the back corner that you hadn't noticed before. "This is the Malus of Forethought. You're probably strong enough to use it now. You can pulverize stuff with your regular tenderizing hammer, but the Malus allows you to combine the essences of things you pulverize."

The malus allows you to combine powders into nuggets, which can be further combined into wads.

• Smash 5 twinkly powders into 1 cluster of twinkly nuggets
• Smash 5 hot powders into 1 cluster of hot nuggets
• Smash 5 cold powders into 1 cluster of cold nuggets
• Smash 5 sleaze powders into 1 cluster of sleaze nuggets
• Smash 5 spooky powders into 1 cluster of spooky nuggets
• Smash 5 stench powders into 1 cluster of stench nuggets
• Smash 5 clusters of twinkly nuggets into 1 twinkly wad
• Smash 5 clusters of hot nuggets into 1 hot wad
• Smash 5 clusters of cold nuggets into 1 cold wad
• Smash 5 clusters of sleaze nuggets into 1 sleaze wad
• Smash 5 clusters of spooky nuggets into 1 spooky wad
• Smash 5 clusters of stench nuggets into 1 stench wad

References

• The name is a play on the legal term malice aforethought.
• The name also references a quest item in the game Diablo II (The Horadric Malus).
• Malleus is Latin for hammer. Malus, on the other hand, is Latin for bad/evil, or the mast of a ship, or an apple tree.