Fortune cookie

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Fortune cookie

Fortune cookie

Information or advice on this page may be out-of-date due to NS13. Needs range of lucky numbers (and how they pertain to semi-rare adventures) and info on added or removed fortunes due to new quests.

This page is in need of content. Needs a lot more messages for quests.

Obtained From

Stores

The Market (40 Meat)

Chez Snootée (sometimes) (60 Meat)

Quests

Toot Oriole Quest

Obsoleted Areas/Methods

Stores

The Hermitage

When Consumed

Fortune cookie

This fortune cookie is delicious! This cookie has a scrap of paper inside.

You gain 1 Adventure.

Random message from the list below. Lucky numbers: X, Y, Z

(You gain 1 Fullness.)

• If you have not yet completed the Spooky Forest Quest:
  • Perhaps a walk in the forest will clear your head.
• If you have the Bitchin' Meatcar Quest and have not yet assembled the bitchin' meatcar, you will receive one of the following messages:
  • Stack up your meat to fill your tank.
  • You may find the rims only if you are permitted to do so.
  • Some say the shiny rims are priceless. Others say they're worthless. Remember who has them?
• If you do not have your Epic Weapon:
  • Can't find the first part of your Epic Weapon? Perhaps the old man has hidden himself somewhere secluded, so he doesn't have to worry about kids on his lawn.
  • Can't find the second part of your Epic Weapon? Maybe he hid it as a prize in one of the casino games. You'll have to be pretty lucky to win it, though...
  • Can't find the third part of your Epic Weapon? It might be right under your nose...
• If you have your Epic Weapon but have not completed your Legendary Epic Weapon:
  • To get into Beelzebozo's lair, you'll need to trick his security system into letting you in...
• If you have found The Dark and Dank and Sinister Cave but not yet opened the first gate:
  • The first door is the Door of Nostalgia, hearkening back to the earliest days of your career.
• If you have found The Dark and Dank and Sinister Cave but not yet opened the second gate:
  • The second door is the Door of the Burning Heart; those with no stomach for pain need not apply.
  • The third door is the Door of Skill; Only the craftiest of adventurers will pass.
• If you have reached the end of The Dark and Dank and Sinister Cave but have not yet defeated your Nemesis:
  • Does this fortune cookie fortune remind you of anything?
• If you have the Typical Tavern Quest and have not yet turned off the faucet, you will receive the following message:
  • Not all those who stumble through the darkness are lost. Just most of them.
• If you have the Boss Bat Quest and have not yet adventured in the Guano Junction with stench resistance, you will receive the following message:
  • Bachelor Rule #37: Covering up an odor is just as effective as eliminating it, no matter what the commercials say.
• If you have the Boss Bat Quest and have not yet broken all barriers with sonar-in-a-biscuits, you will receive the following messages:
  • What is the sound of one wall breaking? Is it different than that of four walls breaking?
  • When life gives you obstacles, make obstacleade. Or just keep beating your head against them until you find something useful.
• If you have The King of Cobb's Knob Quest and have not completed it, you will receive the following message:
  • You'll catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. And you'll catch more lechers with perfume and suggestive attire than with... er... vinegar.
• If you are in the midst of the optional Azazel, Ma Belle quest:
  • Seek and ye shall find
    Subtle are evil's designs
    So go to Hey Deze.
• If you have Mt. McLargeHuge Quest and haven't mined for ore yet:
  • Never serve alcohol to miners, but miners (or those dressed like miners) are more likely to get ore.
  • All that glitters is ore. Except when it's not.
• If you have collected the ore, but not yet collected the goat cheese for the Mt. McLargeHuge Quest:
  • We're not trying to get your goat, but you'd better get several.
• If you have the Orc Chasm Quest, and have not yet made it beyond the chasm, you will receive the following message:
  • If you blend in, ye swab, ye'll find help in the most arrrbitrary of places.
  • If ye find some arrrbitrary assistance, ye might have to tinker with it a bit. Or, y'know, the opposite.
• If you have the Orc Chasm Quest, and have not yet visited the Baron Rof L'm Fao, you will receive one of the following messages:
  • The gates of knowledge await you. Are you 1337 3nough?
  • You're in the middle of a basic, by-the-numbers quest.
  • S0m3tim3s, num83rs c4n l00k lik3 l3773rs.
  • If nothing's adding up, try adding some things up.
• After Step Up to the Table, Put the Ball in Play and before winning at Insult Beer Pong:
  • Barrrtleby sells a useful-looking book... shame it only has insults, and not comebacks.
• If you have the Giant Trash Quest and have not yet turned the Wheel, you will receive one of the following messages:
  • The wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'. But it's not going to turn itself, you know.
  • Don't put it off until tomorrow - put your shoulder to the wheel.
• If you have not yet looted Cap'm Caronch's dentures from the Orcish Frat House on your way to completing the Cap'm Caronch Quest:
  • Infiltration is a tricky business -- good thing you've got several options for how to proceed.
• If you are doing the I Rate, You Rate Quest, you get:
  • Looks like the Cap'm forgot to give you any cleaning supplies. Maybe the pirates have some.
• If you have your father's MacGuffin diary, and have not finished the quest, you will receive one of the following messages:
  • Your dad's diary holds all sorts of useful information.
  • There's more to a bird than just eyes and wings, but hey, those are the important bits, right?
• If you have started the Never Odd Or Even quest:
  • I am a snake head eating the head on the opposite side.
• If you have not yet opened Spookyraven Manor Wine Cellar:
  • Having trouble finding Spookyraven Manor? Perhaps you could find an entrance somewhere sufficiently haunted...
  • That sheet music in your father's diary looks important. But where to play it?
• If you have "I Love Me, Vol. I", and have not found Mr. Alarm:
  • If you were a disgruntled ex-lab technician, where would you be?
• If you have not yet opened the Hidden City during the Quest for the Holy MacGuffin:
  • Confounded by temple traps? Perhaps your dad had some helpful info.
  • That trap'll meet you at the bleachers -- no principals, no student-teachers.
• If you have unlocked The Hidden City, and have not placed the spheres on the altars:
  • Those ancient gods don't much like frivolous sacrifices. Surely there's some way to tell who wants what...
• If you have not yet completed the cellar leg of the MacGuffin quest:
  • That wine cellar sure is spooky. You keep seeing things out of the corner of your eye, but when you turn to look directly at them, they're gone.
• If you have the Mysterious Island Quest, and have not started the war:
  • Try assassinating Franz Ferdinand.
  • If you're trying to start a war, a little subterfuge is probably necessary. Play dress-up!
  • Trying to start a war? Dressing up is key / Get a little bit sneaky / And keep looking up.
• If you have the Mysterious Island Quest, and have not ended the war:
  • War going too slow? / Help some other people out / Maybe they'll help you.
  • There are a finite number of hippies and frat boys on the battlefield. Try to keep track!
• Lacking a cheese-destroying item, you may receive this message:
  • If you don't have enough lack of cheese, maybe you should go on vacation. Confusing but true.
• If you have not combined items to create a goat, you may receive this message:
  • What's goat cheese without the cheese? I mean, really?
• If you have not combined sabre-toothed lime cub yet, you will receive this message:
  • Ever see a sabre-toothed lime? It's as easy as adding one and one...
• If you have not obtained the leprechaun hatchling from the Spooky Forest yet, you will receive this message:
  • They say the Spooky Forest is full of lucky creatures.
• If you have not obtained the blood-faced volleyball yet, you will receive this message:
  • Don't play volleyball with an injured hand, unless you want to succeed.
• If you have not obtained the pregnant mushroom yet, you will receive this message:
  • Mushrooms and gravy / Two great tastes that come to life / in a hot oven.
• If you have not obtained the potato sprout from the Daily Dungeon yet, you will receive this message:
  • Don't miss your daily chance to claim a totally tuberular familiar!
• If you have not obtained the barrrnacle hatchling from The F'c'le yet, you will receive this message:
  • Avast, matey! P'raps ye could be doin' with a new familiarrr?
• If you have opened The Hole in the Sky and have not obtained the star starfish by using a star chart yet:
  • Twinkle, twinkle, little pet. / Do you wonder how to get? / / In the Hole, get stars and lines, / and see what's made when they combine.
• If you have not obtained any keys from the Daily Dungeon, you will receive this message:
  • The keys to your future success may lie in the Daily Dungeon.
• It is believed that eating fortune cookies before finishing the hedge maze (or, perhaps, before finishing the Tower) will give one of these fortunes:
  • The puzzle is the map. The map is the puzzle. The cat's in the cradle.
  • If you're going to fight the sorceress, you're gonna need some empty calories, some ambience, and a limp drink.
  • Reading is fun-damental! Be a fundamentalist and check out your Quest Log today!
  • The stars suggest you go back to your campsite and do some reading.
• If you have the Naughty Sorceress Quest and haven't passed the three gates:
  • You're going to have to alter your physical and mental state to pass through the gates. Read the text carefully, then scour the miscellaneous section of your inventory.
  • The gates are vexing / The solutions are swallowed / Neither food nor booze.
• If you have the Naughty Sorceress Quest and haven't passed the giant mirror:
  • Don't let anything come between you and your reflection.
• At The Sorceress' Tower (The Stairs):

Weapons and spells are no good here - you'll have to get creative.

• If you have the Naughty Sorceress Quest and haven't passed the perplexing door:
  • Here's 8 bits of advice for you -- your New Year's low resolution should be to find a new key.
  • Trouble moving forward? Keep your feet on the ground, but keep reaching for the stars.
  • The key to this puzzle is to find as many keys as you can.
• If you have the Naughty Sorceress Quest and haven't passed the beam of energy:
  • If you're getting fried by a beam of energy, take some time to reflect on how to deflect it.
• If you have the Naughty Sorceress Quest and haven't defeated your shadow:
  • If your shadow gets you down, don't hurt it -- help yourself.
• If you have the Naughty Sorceress Quest but haven't defeated the giant familiars:
  • Losing to a giant familiar is a good way to collect clues to defeat it.
  • For familiar battles, sometimes it's best to read carefully what happens when you lose.
• If you have the Naughty Sorceress Quest and defeated giant familiars, but haven't defeated the Naughty Sorceress:
  • If you don't have the RIGHT WEAPON to fight the Sorceress, you'll be underground like A GOPHER TWIN.
  • How powerful is the Sorceress? How powerful are you?
• Generic Fortunes:
  • If you're stuck, reread your Quest Log - it puts the FUN back into FrUstratiNg!
  • Help! I'm trapped in a fortune cookie factory!
  • Remember, the persistent bird gets the eldritch objects. And is worth two in the bush.
  • The early bird gets the worm. But you're not after worms, so just keep killing stuff.
  • Confucious say: Keep killing stuff until your goal is accomplished.
  • If you're having trouble finding something, keep looking.
  • Have you checked out the Flea Market in Seaside Town? One man's trash may well be your treasure!
  • Remember the lessons the Toot Oriole taught you.
  • The world is a grand comedy to your sense of humor.
  • Just keep clicking, just keep clicking, clicking clicking clicking...
  • Sometimes violence is not the answer. This is not one of those times.
  • Never trust a random generator in magic fields.

• If you are wearing the Yendorian Finery, you may receive a fortune directly from NetHack's "rumors" list. A list of such can be found here and here.

When Smashed

Fortune cookie

You brutally smash the fortune cookie. There is a scrap of paper inside:

Random message from the list above. It looks like there were some lucky numbers printed on the bottom of the fortune, but they got torn off when you smashed the cookie.

• Smashing a fortune cookie does not give adventures or fullness.

Notes

• The fortune cookie can give a typical fortune cookie fortune, or may provide a hint about where to find something.
• Each cookie eaten, but not smashed, gives you three lucky numbers. These numbers can be used to predict the occurrence of Semi-Rare Adventures (some exceptions, listed on the Semi-Rares page, apply).

History

• These were originally obtained from the Hermit, before they moved to the market on September 26, 2006.
• Prior to this move, fortune cookies produced only a handful of messages, which were:
  • The Hermit's inventory changes each day. If you don't find what you're looking for, try back tomorrow.
  • The world is a grand comedy to your sense of humor.
  • If you take a clover to the casino, you'll get an item that's more valuable than it appears.
  • A clover only works once. Be careful where you go while carrying one.

References

• The description of this item references the song "The Humpty Dance" by Digital Underground. One of the lines goes, "My name is Humpty, pronounced with a umpty. [sic]"
• The description mentions the computer game NetHack, wherein fortune cookies may provide useful tips, vague clues about game mechanics, jokes, or blatantly wrong information.
• In the message regarding the potato sprout, "tuberular" is a combination of the terms "tuber," another word for potato, and "tubular," which is surfer slang.
• In the message for the tavern quest, "not all those who stumble through the darkness are lost" is a reference to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, which contains a poem with a line stating "not all those who wander are lost."
• In the message for the garbage quest, "The wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'" references the adventure in the Castle which is itself a reference to the Journey song "Wheel in the Sky".
• The generic message "Just keep clicking..." is a reference to Finding Nemo in which the character Dory is heard humming or singing, "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming..." several times throughout the movie.
• The "trap'll meet you at the bleachers..." fortune references Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl", which is referenced in the solution to the Dvorak's Revenge puzzle
• "I am a snake head eating the head on the opposite side" is a line from the song "I Palindrome I" by They Might Be Giants.
• The message for the Starry Starfish is a reference to the children's song "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".

Collection

	TOP 10 fortune cookie collections
	1. PsychoPerson - 494413 | 2. madamkiss - 200000 | 3. VeryAzn - 40003 | 4. derkaderka33 - 33701 | 5. piLyongpiLay - 33333 6. RebelWolf - 30001 | 7. jeepygirl - 17173 | 8. MissInnocent69 - 8826 | 9. KaLcaROn - 7146 | 10. Fangotang - 7000 Collection data courtesy of ePeterso2 and Jicken Wings