Jester

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Jesters were a class available briefly in trunk, shortly before the release of 0.12, for the week following April Fool's Day in 2013. They started off worshiping Nemelex Xobeh, while simultaneously being under penance from Xom. Their starting set included a cap, robe, Book of Party Tricks, quarterstaff of chaos, and pies. The last were a new comestible introduced specifically for them: in addition to being eaten, they could also be thrown at monsters to blind them.

While Jesters only existed briefly, many ascensions with them were had, including a number of all-runers. While not every species saw an ascending Jester, most did.

'Jester' is also a piety title for Nemelex.

Unique Items

The jester came with two items that were not available to any other character:

• A +0 cap with a unique appearance.

• A stack of X pies. Although they primarily functioned as food items which restored X nutrition, they also functioned as Throwing weapons which dealt damage on par with a dart, weighed 0.6 aum each, and would temporarily blind the target you struck.

A custard pie. It appears anachronistically dangerous. "And from that moment on I could not banish Oedipus's terrible end from my mind: putting his own eyes out with a pin after hearing those fateful words that Tiresias had uttered and being present when his mother hanged herself." -- Fernando Vidal Olmos, Report on the Blind Ernesto Sabato, On Heroes and Tombs, Translated by Helen R. Lane