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Hey, I guess I should talk about the KoL Item of the Month, eh? No? Well, I do it every month anyway! Deal!

This month, in keeping with previous years, we have a form-changing elemental-aligned item in the container of Spooky Putty. I am a big fan of the previous such item, the Naughty Origami Kit. I bought it because I wanted the +Ghuol Whelp and ended up using more often for stat gains, but generally loved it all around, even if it didn’t have a completely welcome reception from the feedback on it I read. So I snatched up some Spooky Putty immediately. This item, however, is certainly going to turn some heads. It is Pow Er Ful.

How is it powerful? The more I see about it, the more it’s pretty clear that the Spooky Putty Sheet kinda breaks the game. Basically, it lets you copy a monster to fight later from your inventory at your leisure. There is all kinds of crazy shit you can get up to with such an ability. You could copy Dia De Los Muertos Borrachos monsters for the scaling stat gains and amazing drinks, and fight five of them every day for forever. You could copy one-time event content, and fight it all you’d like. You could copy Battlefield War Heroes, and fight as many Basingstoke-Pratts as you’d like. I’ve even been using it to break things myself, by copying Underwater monsters, and then fighting their copies to farm items without the restrictions of the gear you have to wear to be down there. It does CRAZY things. Crazy gamebreaking things. I’m sure the majority of these items that they sell are going to be sold exclusively for sheet use.
Still, there are other powerful parts to this item. The Spooky Putty Ball is probably going to open up all of my Moxie runs from now on, because it’s certainly one of the best low-level ranged weapons in the game. The extra stats on a hat from the Spooky Putty Mitre is probably second in power level to the sheet, because there’s only one other stat option for hats, and it’s higher level, gives less stats, and I believe it destroys itself, so the mitre is a welcome leveling boost. The Spooky Putty Snake is also just about the best low-level Chefstaff in the game, and will easily be used on Mysticality runs until I can equip the highest level staffs.
The only form I don’t get is the Spooky Putty Leotard. I mean, I guess they can’t all be winners? And you can equip it at level 1? But it’s not like Stainless Steel Slacks are hard to get at all. I have a pair. And if you’re looking for +meat drops, you are probably in the level 12 quest or are farming for meat, and should have no trouble equipping the Slacks instead. This is a form I can never really see me using.

Still, overall, this item is completely powerful and completely worth getting. You know… if you’re the kind of person who buys virtual in-game items to support games they love like me. If so, and you love KoL, this is a damn, damn good purchase. It’ll keep being useful for you. There’s less humor value than the Origami stuff, but all kinds of utility and game-breaking awesome.