Monochrome

Monochrome is an illness that causes the game to appear in shades of grey. It is contracted by getting hit by an after already being monochromed by one.

Contracting and Onset
An attack that penetrates a creature will inflict them with  for 50-100 turns. If an adiyy attack penetrates a monochromed target, they will get the message "Your vision blurs." and contract blurry vision.

Blurry vision by itself has no effects. However, every day after the initial contraction (1,200 turns), the creature with blurry vision must make a toughness save of difficulty 13. If this succeeds, the message "You feel a bit better." shows up in the message log, and the stage decreases by 1. This save can be made easier by eating or an unpreserved  for a +2 bonus, but these do not stack if both are consumed. Any cooking effects that increases saves against disease like The Porridge will add the +3 bonus in addition to to the +2. Note that unlike glotrot, you cannot cure monochrome using the cure in this stage.

If the save fails ("Your vision blurs."), the stage increases by 1. Blurry vision will be cured if the stage goes down to -2 before 5 days have passed("Your vision clears up."). If the stage progresses past stage 2 or more than 5 days have passed, the blurry vision will progress into full monochrome.

Full Onset
If the player is inflicted with monochrome, the entire game will appear only in shades of grey. This also effects the UI unless "exclude the UI from full screen effects" is checked in the options menu. This is merely a cosmetic effect, but limits how much information can be seen by just looking. Note that this occurs even when "Disable full screen color effects" is checked in options. Because pressing alt only gives information through colors, it is nearly impossible to use while under the effects of monochrome.

Cure
As stated in the, monochrome can be cured by ingesting a specified liquid and then get hit by either a , , or. The possible liquids are:

Trivia

 * If the player has monochrome, they are unable to compliment colorful hair. This will prevent getting the achievement until monochrome is cured.