Monkey wrench

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monkey wrench
monkey wrench


This is a drink made of rum and grapefruit juice. Be careful not to have one more indecent accident while you're drinking it, and stay away from dams while you're holding it, you hippy.

(Cocktailcrafting ingredient)
Type: booze
Selling Price: 65 Meat.

Recipe

grapefruit bottle of rum
monkey wrench

Drop Location

Uses

ocean motion

When Consumed

You drink the monkey wrench. It reminds you of the time when you ran with that gang of environmental saboteurs. No, wait, no it doesn't -- it just gets you drunk, and makes you think you did that.

http://www.thekolwiki.net/images/a/af/Hourglass.gif You gain 3-6 Adventure(s).
You gain no Strengthliness.
You gain 4-5 Magicalness.
You gain no Smarm.
(You gain 3 Drunkenness.)

References

  • The item description refers to the Foo Fighters song, "Monkey Wrench": "Don't want to be your monkey wrench/One more indecent accident/I'd rather leave than suffer this/I'll never be your monkey wrench"
  • The item description and drink effects refer to the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, by Edward Abbey, wherein a group of people sabotages bulldozers and trains used to damage the environment of the American Southwest.
  • The "dam" reference in the item description refers to the old Infocom game Zork, in which you use a monkey wrench to open a dam.