[SPOILY] new corruption effects

[Sami]

Click on Show spoiler to see a table of new corruptions, their listed effects and other observed effects. Observed effects are surely still incomplete, so please add if you find them out.

Corruption	Listed effects	Other observed effects
Your bones are made from bronze	Dx: -2, DV: -2, PV: +3	None
Your eye(s) turned black	Pe: +3	Grants see invisible
You sport a babbling mouth on your forehead that rants and raves darksecrets	Le: +8, Ch: -6, Ap: -6, Pe: -4, stealth impossible	Occasionally casts a random spell (like wand of wonder).
You are attached to ChAoS corrupting your foes	Corrupts enemies when attacked	Same or similar effect than weapons with "of corruption" suffix.
The voice of ChAoS whispers disturbing secrets into your thoughts	Le: +4, Wi: -6, Ma: +2	None
Your legs have stretched into long, fragile stilts	Base movement cost: 750 energy points; PV: -4; -4 kicking damage; Ap: -6	It's actually base action cost that's reduced (to 751 energy points). At least attacking, eating and moving had energy costs reduced.
Your blood is freezingly cold	Dx: -2, Ap: -1, -10 speed	Similar effect as being drakeling: cold slows you down, heat speeds you up and causes damage.
You sweat blood	Ch: -2, Ap: -4, +5 speed	None
You thrive on the flesh of Order	None	Temporary speed boost when eating a lawful creature. (as high as +75 has been observed)
Your bodily tissues seem to be in a state of decay requiring a lot of will to stay up	St: -5, Wi: +10, Ap: -5, -10 Speed	Halves healing rate (at least natural regeneration and items of regeneration).
Your eyes are shrouded by the mists of ChAoS	Pe: -10	None
Your blood turned to acid	None	Enemies hitting you will receive acid damage and have a change of being blinded, grants acid immunity.
Your eyes have merged to form one larger eye	Ch: -2, Ap: -2, Pe: +4	Gives +4 Pe only if not wearing helmet.
Your mouth has turned into a writhing mass of prehensile tentacles	Dx: +6, Ap: -15	Makes chatting and casting spells to fail often (maybe about 80 percent failure rate).
You sport gills	Ap: -3, water breathing	None
You hate the sun and try to blot it	None	Occasionally darkens 3x3 area around you.
Your flesh continually spouts disease-ridden maggots	To: -6, Ch: -2, Ap: -4, DV: +4	Occasionally spawns tame worms (random color) and causes a few points of damage.

Suggested other effects, but not yet confirmed by anyone:

Sweating blood: increased chance of bleeding wounds.
Acid blood: slower healing.

[grobblewobble]

Some effects I am pretty sure about because they were proposed that way, although I did not test them:

Sweating blood: increased chance of bleeding wounds.
Cold blood: drakeling effects (high speed in tower, lower speed from ice breath)
Acid blood: slower healing.

Also, I think one of the above is a bad bug:

thin legs reducing all action costs.. wow

[Maul]

That one corruption giving inbuilt 7LBs? Now that's extremely powerful! Other than that, they all seem fine.

[_Ln_]

Acid immunity? That is somewhat extreme imo.

[SirTheta]

Acid immunity? That is somewhat extreme imo.

Why? You can go whole game without even seeing dangerous acid-breathing monster. There is rare situation indeed where acid immunity is even useful, and almost none where it is necessary (since black dragon-kind are vulnerable to darkness). It is nice to have in a pinch so you don't open a great black wyrm threat room and get annihilated (poor gut[?]), and it certainly has (or seems to have) no downsides, but it is not really anywhere close to overpowered or even most desirable new corruption.

edit: it is, however, essential to RPing an Alien, so mad style points for sure.

[JellySlayer]

The corruption that blocks spells is this one, AFAIK.

Your mouth has turned into a writhing mass of prehensile tentacles

[Sami]

The corruption that blocks spells is this one, AFAIK.

That's what I think too, but couldn't get suitable character to verify it.

[_Ln_]

Why? You can go whole game without even seeing dangerous acid-breathing monster. There is rare situation indeed where acid immunity is even useful, and almost none where it is necessary (since black dragon-kind are vulnerable to darkness). It is nice to have in a pinch so you don't open a great black wyrm threat room and get annihilated (poor gut[?]), and it certainly has (or seems to have) no downsides, but it is not really anywhere close to overpowered or even most desirable new corruption.

edit: it is, however, essential to RPing an Alien, so mad style points for sure.

Just compared to other corruptions it is quite insane. Take into account the fact that every (!) old corruption had a downside (at least Ap or Ch loss). Now we get immunity or see invisible, which are not nearly gamebreaking of course, but an icing on the cake for free. If acid immunity shows from corruption is true immunity, one can increase the chance to get =Fire at crowning, which is not game-breaking either, but good. The only good thing out of this if it really doesn't give negative effects is that someone can play challenge game to kill everyone by acid damage from their attacks, Thorny Man (har har) or something.

[Sami]

Immunities aren't that much better than resistances and acid resistance is maybe the easiest to get (ants, or even immunity from giant slugs). Also grobblewobble suggested that also that corruption has a downside. And also other stuff in the list is still to be discovered.

[Al-Khwarizmi]

Come on, no intrinsic in ADOM is game-breaking all by itself, but immunities are awesome, they are among the most desirable intrinsics. And SeeI is not as good but it's definitely relevant, it can mean wearing your eternium plate mail instead of the AMW against the Cat Lord. I think these corruptions are *really* powerful.

I don't think this is necessarily bad though. There has always been a minority of beneficial corruptions with no or few downsides (breathing acid, thin and nimble) and the new corruptions follow the same pattern.