| abstract
| - Fortune cookie messages is a term often given to a collection of one or two line messages that usually serve as hints, tips and warnings related to the game (though some of the messages are cryptic), whilst several others are jokes. A fortune cookie message is generated (or rather, selected randomly from a collection of messages and displayed) when certain actions are performed. Whilst there are ways by which the PC can read or hear a fortune besides eating fortune cookies, joke messages referring to fortune cookies are only activated by such (as of v. 1.2.0 [1]). The following actions are known to make these messages appear:
* Eating a fortune cookie, logically enough. The PC must be literate to read the scrap of paper inside the cookie, and also intelligent enough not to eat the paper!
* Buying an ale from Torgall, the innkeeper in Dwarftown, for 1 gold piece (he'll tell a fortune as if it was a rumor he heard).
* If a beggar is given a small (~40gp) amount of gold, they may sometimes say a fortune cookie message (in the form of advice/a warning) when spoken to again.
* Yggaz will sometimes (though rarely) tell a fortune instead of one of his usual babblings.
* Reading the book "The Collected Works of Confucius"
* A possible room effect is a mouth appearing on a wall of a dungeon room, and speaking a fortune before disappearing. Below is a list of fortune cookie messages found in ADOM; along with possible explanations for the more cryptic messages.
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