How to get rid of an intrinsic
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              by Boudewijn Wayers (dedos4@win.tue.nl).


Someone asked how he could get rid of an intrinsic that he didn't
really want. In his most recent case he ate a leprechaun and wanted to
get rid of the teleportitis. Worse was - in his humble opinion - the
time he or drank a blessed (sic!) potion of invisibility and became
permanently invisible, which was great until he wanted something from a
shop...

Well, there is only one way to get rid of most intrinsics:  have a
gremlin hit you (this will only work at night: 21:00 - 06:00). Don't
expect to lose the one you WANT to get rid of the first time, though.
You'll probably lose some other intrinsics as well (I wouldn't mind
losing aggravate monster, but this is - unfortunately - not possible:
see below).

Intrinsic lost		Message
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
fire resistance		You feel warmer.
teleportation		You feel less jumpy.
poison resistance	You feel a little sick!
telepathy		Your senses fail!
cold resistance		You feel cooler.
invisibility		You feel paranoid.
see invisible		You thought you saw something!
speed			You feel slower.
stealth			You feel clumsy.
protection		You feel vulnerable.

Note that the chance of losing an intrinsic is pretty slim, unless you
are facing hundreds of gremlins at the same time, which is possible if
there is a lot of water nearby.

First, a gremlin gets four attacks, only the last of which can remove
an intrinsic. Then, this last attack must hit you. If it hits, you have
only a one-in-ten chance that the game will try to make you lose an
intrinsic. The game then randomly chooses one from the above list, and
if you have that intrinsic, you lose it. Note that the other three
attacks inflict damage, so watch your hit points as well as your
intrinsics.

As far as I know, this is the only way to lose an annoying intrinsic.
There are some other intrinsics that can be lost, but you wouldn't want
to lose these (speed can be lost to shades or by eating quantum
mechanics, protection and telepathy if you anger your god, and there
may be more...).