CLEESH

CLEESH

Type: Combat
MP Cost: 10

By casting this spell, you can turn any monster into a toad, which will enable your cowardice to know no bounds.

Turns monsters into various amphibians.

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Skill number: 0015

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Source:	Strange Leaflet Quest
Price:	N/A
Class:	N/A
Level:	9
When Used:

You cast CLEESH at your opponent. He/she/it/they turns into a frog/newt/salamander.

You can cast this spell during combat. It changes the monster into one of three random amphibians: a frog, a newt, or a salamander. They are very weak, and give only 1 <substat> and 1 item - a squashed frog, eye of newt or salamander spleen. The monster does NOT drop any of the items that it would originally have dropped before being CLEESHed unless, at the time of the CLEESHing, the monster has an effect on it which causes it to take continual damage (i.e. Disco Bleeding).

Notes

• This skill does not have to be used in the first round of combat, and so you could pickpocket and then CLEESH.
• The skill can be made permanent when ascending.
• Having CLEESH as a permanent skill does not allow you to use CLEESH in the strange leaflet earlier than you normally would.
• The following monsters are immune to CLEESH:

• Amphibians

• newt
• frog
• salamander
• apathetic lizardman

• Bosses

• Baron Von Ratsworth
• Boss Bat
• The Knob Goblin King
• The Bonerdagon
• Felonia, Queen of the Spooky Gravy Fairies
• The Naughty Sorceress, both forms

• Specials

• topiary golem
• mimic
• All monsters in The Sorceress' Tower
• All monsters in Fernswarthy's Basement
• All sub-boss monsters in The Cyrpt
• Ancient Protector Sprits

• Attempting to cleesh a monster which is immune results in the following message:

You cast CLEESH at your opponent. It burps quietly, but nothing else happens.

• Cleeshing a monster with a plural name (e.g. the Twig and Berries) results in the ungrammatical message, "You cast CLEESH at your opponent. They turns into a frog/newt/salamander."

References

• A similar spell of the same name appeared in the Enchanter trilogy of text-adventure games, part of the Zork series from the 1980's. The Zork magic spell would change a creature into a small amphibian.
• This is probably a reference to actor John Cleese. One of his characters in Monty Python and the Holy Grail was turned into a newt (but he got better).
• This could also be a reference to the actress Karen Cliche of Flash Gordon, whose last name is pronounced identically to that of the spell.