Pools are a randomly generated dungeon feature that the player can drink from. Doing so can cause many different effects, both desirable and undesirable. Some of the latter include the summoning of poisonous snakes and dangerous water elementals; the most notable desirable outcome is that of receiving a wish, although this cannot occur if the PC is doomed.
There are many different colored pools, but the difference between them is uncertain. It has been rumored that drinking from pools whose color aligns with the color of the PC's eyes will yield more positive effects, but no evidence has been found to support this.
Below is a list of possible messages generated by pools, and what they mean, credited to the online ADoM Guidebook.
Pool Messages[]
Intrinsics[]
Intrinsic | Gain Message | Lose Message |
Acid resistance | You swallow hard | You taste bitter bile in your mouth |
Cold resistance | You feel hot-headed | You shiver |
Cursed | You sense trouble
|
You feel relieved |
Death ray resistance | You feel bold at the thought of danger | You feel like an endangered species |
Doomed | You become depressive
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You feel elated |
Fate smiles | You feel very lucky | You feel very bad off |
Fire resistance | You feel cool | You sweat |
Permanent invisibility | You feel dizzy for some seconds
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Your outfit suddenly looks much cleaner
|
Temporary invisibility | Suddenly you are gone
|
You suddenly can see yourself or You suddenly are visible again
|
Lucky | You feel lucky | You feel cheated |
Paralyzation resistance | You are moved by the sheer pleasure of this sip of fluid | You feel inflexible |
Petrification resistance | You feel flexible | You feel inflexible
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Poison resistance | Your digestion calms down | Your stomach stings painfully |
See invisible | Your eyes tingle for a second | Your eyes sting for a second |
Shock resistance | You hear a voice calling you 'Iceberg'.. | You feel shocked |
Sleep resistance | You feel totally awake | You feel tired |
Stun resistance | You feel very controlled | You feel shaken |
Teleport control | You suddenly feel like jumping around | You suddenly hate the thought of jumping around |
Teleportitis | You feel jumpy | You feel steady |
Stat Changes[]
Stat | Increase Message | Decrease Message |
Appearance | Your looks improve | You are growing a wart |
Charisma | You feel very self-confident | You feel reserved |
Dexterity | Your movements are getting swifter | You are getting shaky |
Learning | You feel studious | Thinking seems to get tougher |
Mana | You feel more in touch with the world | You are getting out of touch with everything |
Perception | Your senses sharpen | You seem to get less perceptive |
Strength | Your muscles feel stronger | Your muscles soften |
Toughness | Your health increases | It seems that you are getting a cold |
Willpower | Your will seems inflexible | You feel soft-hearted |
Stat potential | You feel great about your <STAT> potential | You feel bad about your <STAT> potential |
Status conditions and other Magical Effects[]
Message | Effect |
A gush of water hits you! | Water damage |
Lots of vipers burst out of the pool | Vipers + chance of water damage |
You are hit by lots of water. | Same as monster water breath attack |
You slip and fall in! | Water effects on PC and equipment |
A small frog pops up... | The frog gives the frog quest to female PCs (if PC is male, the frog retorts that he is "of the boring kind"). Note that frog may explode (!) if the PC is male and deaf |
Bah! This liquid is extremely filthy! | Sickness |
Great! Pure dwarven ale! or Wow! Pure beer! |
Like drinking a potion of booze |
Nothing happens | The PC would have been healed, but was at full HP. This message has also been noted to appear even when the PC was not at full health (without healing the PC) as of v.1.2.0. |
You feel much better | HP restoration and may add a point of HP |
Suddenly a water elemental rises from the pool! | Water elemental summoned, also possible water damage |
Suddenly your ears start to bleed! | Bleeding for very few turns |
The pool bubbles | Pool tries to summon water snakes but there's no more room for any |
The pool suddenly dries up. | Pool disappears |
The water is suddenly writhing with snakes! | Water snakes are summoned |
The liquid tastes bitter. | Poison, but PC is poison resistant |
Urgh! Poison! | Poisoned for 2d10 poison effects. |
What do you wish for? | Get a wish! It's important to ask for plurals — i.e. "spellbooks" instead of "spellbook". The chance of getting a wish from pool is currently 1/54 |
While you drink small waves seem to ripple the otherwise calm surface of the pool. | Unknown (may no longer exist) |
You age! | Unnaturally ages |
You feel younger! | Removes some years of unnatural aging |
You suddenly remember your early youth | Would've removed some unnatural aging, but PC doesn't have any |
You feel altered in an eerie way | Causes 2 corruptions. Only happens with the pool in the Ancient Stone Circle. |
You feel corrupted! | Adds some corruption |
You feel exhausted | Abuses Strength |
You feel slightly strengthened | Trains Strength |
You hear hissing sounds | Water snakes summoned (but PC is blind) |
You suddenly hear many hissing sounds! | Snakes or vipers, but PC is blind |
You suddenly hear roaring waves! | Water elemental summoned, but PC is blind |
Your wounds no longer bleed | Stops bleeding |
Your blood seems to cool down | Would have stopped bleeding, but the PC wasn't losing blood |