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Sidahum Malfinum the level 1 Skeleton Cursed by Critcher

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GameTales of Maj'Eyal: Age of Ascendancy 1.3.1
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Modifies the character creation dialog to bypass the lock check for races and classes, allowing characters to be created using locked races and classes. Doesn't actually unlock anything.

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Marson's UI Modifications 1.3.0

v3.7.0 *** FOR ToME v1.3.0+ ONLY ***
If you are using an older version of ToME, visit http://te4.org/games/addons/tome/marson-ui and choose an earlier version of this addon.

An attempt to make 1920x1080 easier on my decaying eyesight, plus a few personal preferences. This is a revamp for the Minimalist UI. It may work for Classic, but hasn't been tested for it. Most settings can be found on the UI tab on the Game Options screen.

• Adds a 'Fonts' tab to 'Game Options'. Choose separate font styles and sizes for six categories:

    * menus & dialogs
    * HUD elements
    * tooltips & character sheet
    * chat & combat log
    * flying text
    * lore

• Expanded font size range to 8 - 36 points. (Stock range is 10 - 18)
• Ability to add your own fonts with a fontpack addon.
http://te4.org/games/addons/tome/font_example
• Scales most dialog boxes to account for larger fonts.
• Hotkey bar revamp:
   * Frame colors: green = activated talent, blue = sustained talent, yellow = equipped item, orange = unequipped item. Colors on talent screen and buff bar changed to match.
   * Frame colors do not change when on cooldown.
   * All talents/items on cooldown will have a red overlay.
   * Z-layer of key text (C8, etc) moved under color overlay to better differentiate from cooldown text.
   * Unequipped items get pale yellow color overlay similar to cooldown overlay.
   * Right-clicking on an item no longer clears the item; it brings up the hotkey assignment menu. (You may clear it from there, as with talents.)

• 'Use Talent' screen now also lists all usable items, allowing you to associate a hotkey using the dropdown menu. Objects are separated based on whether they are worn or not and display their current cooldowns.
• When assigning a hotkey, the list will show available hotkeys as 1 through 0,-,= with C,S,A,AS, modifiers (example: "Hotkey C7") instead of "Hotkey 1" through "Hotkey 60", so as to match the labels on the hotkey bar.
• Enabled and modified 'Creature List' code that was in stock ToME but not used. Lists NPCs in player's sight along with their remaining energy and distance. Mousing over an NPC in the Creature List will center the screen on that creature. Toggle the list on/off with Ctrl-Tab.
• 'Limit Terrain Height' option will rescale trees and mushrooms to prevent them from overlapping the grid above them. (Will not affect current level until you leave and return.)
• Adds viewport options: 'Original' is the stock behavior from v1.1.5 ToME. The game will use Scroll Distance, but won't show a black border around the map. With a high Scroll Distance, you will remain centered until you get to the edge of the map, at which point the map stops moving and your character moves off-center. 'No Hiding' is now the stock behavior of v1.2.x ToME. It is a bit of a hybrid. The map will scroll similar to 1.1.5, but will show enough of a black border so that your avatar will not hide under UI elements such as the mini-map and hotkey bar. 'Centered' will force the viewport to strictly follow the Scroll Distance setting. If you have it a high number, you will be centered 100% of the time.
• Adds option to enable right-click dragging of the viewport. This will coexist with mouse gestures but may not mix with them in a visually pleasing manner.
• Separate adjustable background transparencies for dialogs, tooltips, combat log, chat, and hotkeys.
• Adjustable tooltip width.
• Ability to change tooltip location: each of the four corners / at mouse cursor / opposite corner from mouse.
• Tooltip will get out of the way of target location via keyboard as well as mouse cursor.
• Ability to disable ambient background noises (dogs barking, water dripping, etc.) on the UI tab in Game Options. Defaults to 'enabled' (no change from stock).
• Shields (damage, temporal, etc.) will play a sound when they expire on a character you are controlling. (I've missed that my antimagic shield went down one too many times.) I've included a couple versions of the sound, including silence.
(shield_off.ogg created by reg7783 and licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.)
• Adds a choice of tooltip style for the Inventory screen. 'Original' is the same as stock. 'Small Screen' moves the tooltip to either side of the screen so that it obscures less and doesn't bounce around. 'Big Screen' uses a dedicated location between the rag doll and the item list.
• If your character knows the talent 'Extract Gems', a tab will appear on the inventory screen listing all items that may be converted to gems based on your current talent level, including items in the Transmogrification Chest.
• Adds a 'Usable Items' tab to the Inventory screen.
• Adds a 'Preview Talents' button to the character creation screen. This will allow you to view the stats and talents of the current race/class combo without needing to generate a new game.
• Character creation screen will remind you if you are in dev/cheat mode.
• Ability to ESC from character creation screen.
• Alchemist quest shows details about the various rewards you are working towards: "Agrimley the hermit needs your help making an Elixir of Explosive Force, which permanently increase your chance to critically strike with spells by 4%." This will only apply to characters who take the quest after enabling this addon.
(Also available as separate addon.)
• ToME Bugfix: 'Tactical Overlay' dropdown menu.

+ ToME v1.3.0 compatible.

+ Integrated 0player's NPC List speed performance fix.

+ Added frame highlights when mousing over or dragging a hotkey.

Marson's UI Modifications 1.3.0

Items Vault 1.3.0

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CampaignMaj'Eyal
ModeNormal Adventure
SexMale
RaceSkeleton
ClassCursed
Level / Exp1 / 2%
Sizemedium
Lifes / Deaths
no deaths recorded
1 / 0

Primary Stats

Strength24 (base 18)
Dexterity17 (base 10)
Constitution10 (base 10)
Magic10 (base 10)
Willpower14 (base 14)
Cunning10 (base 10)

Resources

Life110/110
Hate99/100
Healing Factor0.9965
Regeneration0.249125

Speed

Mental0%
Attack0%
Movement0%
Spell0%
Global+100%

Vision

Sight10
Lite2

Offense: Mainhand

Damage29
Accuracy22
Crit Chance4%
APR1
Speed1.00

Offense: Spell

Spellpower15
Crit Chance1%
Speed1

Offense: Mind

Mindpower18.8
Crit Chance1%
Speed1

Defense: Base

Armour (hardiness)9.46 (63.098591549296%)
Defense4.45
Ranged Defense4.45
Fatigue12
Physical Save11.9
Spell Save8.4
Mental Save8.4

Defense: Immunities

Fear Resistance100%
Instadeath Resistance100%
Poison Resistance100%
Bleed Resistance100%

Inscriptions (2/3)

Runes
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: 8
Cooldown: 19
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
Is: a spell
Description: Activate the rune to fire a beam of heat, doing 40.00 fire damage over 5 turns
The intensity of the heat will also remove one random detrimental physical effect from you.
Rune: Heat Beam
Runes
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 15
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
Is: a spell
Description: Activate the rune to create a protective shield absorbing at most 130 damage for 5 turns.
Rune: Shielding

Class Talents

Cursed / Strife1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 5
    Range: 2
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Turn your attention to a nearby foe, and dominate them with your overwhelming presence. If the target fails to save versus your Mindpower, it will be unable to move for 2 turns and vulnerable to attacks. They will lose 1 Armour, 1 Defense and your attacks will gain 5% resistance penetration. If the target is adjacent to you, your domination will include a melee attack.
    Effects will improve with your Willpower.
    Dominate
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your preternatural senses aid you in your hunt for the next victim. You sense foes in a radius of 0.0. You will always sense a stalked victim in a radius of 10.
    Also increases stealth detection by 5 and invisibility detection by 5.
    Stealth and invisibility detection improves with your Willpower
    Preternatural Senses
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 5
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 13
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: With blinding speed, you suddenly appear next to a target up to 6 spaces away and attack for 21% (at 0 Hate) to 70% (at 100+ Hate) damage. Your sudden appearance catches everyone off-guard, giving you 2 extra Defense for 1 turn.
    The Defense boost improves with your Strength.
    Blindside
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Rather than hide from the onslaught, you face down every threat. While active you have a 2% chance of repelling a melee attack. The recklessness of your defense brings you bad luck (Luck -3).
    Cleave, Repel and Surge cannot be active simultaneously, and activating one will place the others in cooldown.
    Repel chance increases with your Strength, and when equipped with a shield.
    Repel
0/5
Cursed / Slaughter1.30
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 2.5
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: You slash wildly at your target for 121% (at 0 Hate) to 169% (at 100+ Hate) damage.
    At level 3, any wound you inflict with this carries a part of your curse, reducing the effectiveness of healing by 22% for 15 turns. The effect will stack.
    The damage multiplier increases with your Strength.
    Slash
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 2.5
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Assault nearby foes with 4 fast attacks for 16% (at 0 Hate) to 31% (at 100+ Hate) damage each. Stalked prey are always targeted if nearby.
    At level 3 the intensity of your assault overwhelms anyone who is struck, reducing their Accuracy by 12 for 3 turns.
    The damage multiplier and Accuracy reduction increase with your Strength.
    Frenzy
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 6.2
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Charge through your opponents, attacking anyone near your path for 35% (at 0 Hate) to 70% (at 100+ Hate) damage. Small opponents may be knocked away from your path. You can attack a maximum of 2 times, and can hit targets along your path more than once.
    Reckless Charge
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: While active, every swing of your weapon has a 12% (if one-handed) or 25% (if two-handed) chance of striking a second nearby target for 25% (at 0 Hate) to 25% (at 100+ Hate) damage (+25% for two-handed weapons). The recklessness of your attacks brings you bad luck (luck -3).
    Cleave, Repel and Surge cannot be active simultaneously, and activating one will place the others in cooldown.
    The Cleave chance and damage increase with your Strength.
    Cleave
0/5
Cursed / Endless hunt1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 0
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: When you focus your attacks on a single foe and strike them in melee for two consecutive turns, your hatred of them overcomes you and you begin to stalk them with single-minded purpose. The effect will last for 40 turns, or until your prey is dead. Stalking gives you bonuses against your foe that grow each turn you hit them, and diminish each turn you don't.
    Bonus level 1: +0 Accuracy, +4% melee damage, +0.50 hate/turn prey was hit
    Bonus level 2: +0 Accuracy, +9% melee damage, +1.00 hate/turn prey was hit
    Bonus level 3: +1 Accuracy, +13% melee damage, +1.50 hate/turn prey was hit
    The accuracy bonus improves with your Willpower, and the melee damage bonus with your Strength.
    Stalk
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 2.5
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: The connection between predator and prey allows you to speak to the mind of your target and beckon them closer. For 5 turns, they will try to come to you, even pushing others aside to do so. They will move towards you instead of acting 5% of the time, but can save verses Mindpower to slow the effect. If they take significant damage, the beckoning may be overcome altogether. The effect makes concentration difficult for your target, reducing Spellpower and Mindpower by 1 until they reach you.
    The Spellpower and Mindpower reduction increases with your Willpower.
    Beckon
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 6.2
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 6
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Harass your stalked victim with two quick attacks for 35% (at 0 Hate) to 67% (at 100+ Hate) damage each. Each attack that scores a hit disrupts one talent, rune or infusion for 3 turns. Your opponent will be unnerved by the attacks, reducing the damage they deal by 5% for 2 turns.
    Damage reduction increases with the Willpower stat.
    Harass Prey
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Let hate fuel your movements. While active, you gain 2% movement speed. The recklessness of your movement brings you bad luck (Luck -3).
    Cleave, Repel and Surge cannot be active simultaneously, and activating one will place the others in cooldown.
    The speed of your movements, combined with the balance and utility of two weapons, gives you 1 extra Defense while dual-wielding.
    Movement speed and dual-wielding Defense both increase with with the Willpower stat.
    Surge
0/5
Cursed / Gloom1.30
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: 3
    Cooldown: 0
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power
    Description: A terrible gloom surrounds you, affecting all those who approach to within radius 3. Each turn, those caught in your gloom must save against your Mindpower, or have an 12% chance to suffer from slowness, stun or confusion for 3 turns.
    This ability is innate, and carries no cost to activate or deactivate. Each point in Gloom increases the mindpower of all gloom effects (current: +3).
    Gloom
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Each turn, those caught in your gloom must save against your Mindpower, or have an -1% chance to be crippled by fear for 3 turns, reducing damage they inflict by 12%. The first time you melee strike a foe after they have been weakened will give you 2 hate.
    Each point in Weakness increases the Mindpower of all gloom effects (current: +3).
    Weakness
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Each turn, those caught in your gloom must save against your Mindpower or have an -0.3% chance of becoming dismayed for 3 turns. When dismayed, the first melee attack against the foe will result in a critical hit.
    Each point in Dismay increases the Mindpower of all gloom effects (current: +3).
    Dismay
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your gloom has become a sanctuary from the outside world. Damage from any attack that originates beyond the boundary of your gloom is reduced by 0%.
    Each point in Sanctuary increases the Mindpower of all gloom effects (current: +3).
    Sanctuary
0/5

Generic Talents

Cursed / Cursed form1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your body's strength is fed by your hatred. This causes most forms of healing to be between 50% effective (at 0 Hate) to 100% effective (at 100+ Hate). In addition, after each kill, you store the waning life force to invigorate yourself, restoring 8 life (limited by the foe's maximum life, up to a maximum of 17 at any time). You can heal no more than 6.8 life per turn this way, and it is not affected by your hatred level or other effects.
    Healing from kills improves with your Willpower.
    Unnatural Body
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your thirst for blood drives your movements. You gain +-3% confusion, fear, knockback and stun immunity.
    Relentless
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You have learned to hold onto your hate and use your suffering to fuel your body's rage. Every turn you take damage, the damage you inflict increases, until it reaches a maximum of +7% after 5 turns. Any turn in which you do not take damage will reduce the bonus.
    Seethe
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You rise to meet the pain that others would inflict on you. Every turn you take damage, your Strength and Willpower increase until they reach a maximum of +0 after 5 turns. Any turn in which you do not take damage will reduce the bonus. While in effect, your body also has a 5% chance to overcome poisons and diseases each turn.
    Grim Resolve
0/5
Undead / Skeleton1.10
  • Effective talent level: 1.1
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Improves your skeletal condition, increasing Strength and Dexterity by 3.
    Skeleton
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Creates a shield of bones, absorbing 58 damage. Lasts for 10 turns.
    The total damage the shield can absorb increases with your Dexterity.
    Bone Armour
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your undead bones are very resilient, reducing the duration of all detrimental effects on you by up to -4%.
    Resilient Bones
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 53
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Re-position some of your bones, healing yourself for -1.
    At level 5, you will gain the ability to completely re-assemble your body should it be destroyed (can only be used once)
    Re-assemble
0/5
Technique / Combat training1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your skin becomes more resilient to damage. Increases resistance to all damage by 0.0%.
    Thick Skin
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You become better at using your armour to deflect blows and protect your vital areas. Increases Armour value by 5, Armour hardiness by 33%, and reduces chance to be critically hit by 11% with your current body armour.
    (This talent only provides bonuses for heavy mail or massive plate armour.)
    At level 1, it allows you to wear heavy mail armour, gauntlets, helms, and heavy boots.
    At level 2, it allows you to wear shields.
    At level 3, it allows you to wear massive plate armour.
    Armour Training
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases the accuracy of unarmed, melee and ranged weapons by 15.
    Combat Accuracy
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases Physical Power by 13, and increases weapon damage by 25% when using swords, axes or maces.
    Weapons Mastery
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases Physical Power by 0, and increases weapon damage by 0% when using daggers.
    Dagger Mastery
0/5

Effects

talent
Gloom
beneficial effect
The target is under the effect of the cloak of deception, making it look alive.
Cloak of Deception
detrimental effect
The more you use runes, the longer they will take to recharge (+1 cooldowns).
Runic Saturation

Quests

You have been resurrected as an undead by some dark powers.
However, the ritual failed in some way and you retain your own mind. You need to get out of this dark place and try to carve a place for yourself in the world.
You have found a very special cloak that will help you walk among the living without trouble.
The rotting stench of the dead		active

Equipment

Main armor
iron mail armour (2 def, 4 armour)
Requires:
- Strength 14
- Talent Armour Training

14.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / heavy ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +4
Defense: +2 (+2 eff.)
Fatigue: +12%


A suit of armour made of mail.
iron mail armour (2 def, 4 armour)
Light source
brass lantern
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: lite / lite ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Light radius: +2


A brass container with a wick emerging from it, protected from draughts by a sheet of greased paper. It can be carried by a handle.
brass lantern
Cloak
Cloak of Deception
Powered by arcane forces
1.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: armor / cloak

When wielded/worn:
Physical power: +5 (+2 eff.)
Spellpower: +5 (+5 eff.)
Mindpower: +5 (+3 eff.)


A black cloak, with subtle illusion enchantments woven into its very fabric.
Cloak of Deception
In main hand
iron battleaxe (16-24 power, 1 apr)
Requires:
- Strength 11

3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / battleaxe ; tier 1
It must be held with both hands.

Base power: 16.0 - 24.0
Uses stat: 120% Str
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Weapons Mastery
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% crit / acc
Armour Penetration: +1
Physical crit. chance: +4.5%
Attack speed: 100%


Massive two-handed battleaxes.
iron battleaxe (16-24 power, 1 apr)

Inventory

phase door rune (range 10; power 15; dur 5)
Powered by arcane forces
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: scroll / rune ; tier 1

When inscribed on your body:
Effective talent level: 0.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 8
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
Is: a spell
Description: Activate the rune to teleport randomly in a range of 10.
Afterwards you stay out of phase for 5 turns. In this state all new negative status effects duration is reduced by 15%, your defense is increased by 15 and all your resistances by 15%.
It can be used to inscribe your skin with the rune..

Magical runes may be inscribed onto your body, granting you an on-demand ability.
phase door rune (range 10; power 15; dur 5)
Transmogrification Chest
Powered by unknown forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: chest / sher'tul

When carried:
It can be used to transmogrify all the items in your chest at once (also done automatically when you change level), costing 0 power out of 1000/1000.

This chest is an extension of old Sher'tul places of power. Any items dropped inside are transported to an other place, processed and destroyed to extract energy.
The byproduct of this effect is the creation of gold, which is useless to process, so it is sent back to you.

When you possess the chest all items you walk upon will automatically be put inside and transmogrified when you leave the level.
Simply go to your inventory to move them out of the chest if you wish to keep them.
Items in the chest will not encumber you.
Transmogrification Chest

Achievements

Log

Today is the 74th Pyre of the 122nd year of the Age of Ascendancy of Maj'Eyal.
The time is 11:01.

Necromancer's Soul Rot hits Sidahum Malfinum for (51 absorbed), 0 blight (0 total damage).

Necromancer misses Sidahum Malfinum.
Necromancer is stunned with fear!

Sidahum Malfinum hits Necromancer for 37 physical damage.
Necromancer misses Sidahum Malfinum.

Sidahum Malfinum hits Necromancer for 39 physical damage.
Necromancer misses Sidahum Malfinum.
The shield around Sidahum Malfinum crumbles.

Sidahum Malfinum hits Necromancer for 31 physical damage.
Necromancer overcomes the gloom
Necromancer misses Sidahum Malfinum.

Necromancer says: 'ARRGGggg... You are alone! You will be destroyed!'
Quest 'The rotting stench of the dead' status updated! (Press 'j' to see the quest log)
Sidahum Malfinum picks up (b.): Cloak of Deception.
Lore found: Cloak of Deception
You can read all your collected lore in the game menu, by pressing Escape.

Sidahum Malfinum receives 7 healing from Unnatural Body.
An illusion appears around Sidahum Malfinum, making it appear human.
Sidahum Malfinum wears: Cloak of Deception.

Sidahum Malfinum receives 1 healing from Unnatural Body.
Sidahum Malfinum deactivates Gloom.