Joy

joy is a miscellaneous item in item asylum. It is a tiny cyan pill.
== Functionality ==
Upon equipping joy, nothing appears in the user's hands. Text appears on the user's screen that says "Use it in a pinch." 
Using joy causes the character to stare down at the pill for 1.5s before consuming the pill. After consuming the pill, text will emit from the user's torso saying "+Joyed". This heals the user by 66.7% of their HP and adds +90% defense for 15 seconds. After the effect ends, the user enters withdrawal, signified by text emitting from the user's torso saying "-Joyed". Users in withdrawal permanently lose 15% of their damage, 10% of their defense, and 30% of their maximum HP (for a minimum of -30 max HP).
There is a 5% chance that using joy will instead cause the user to become "overjoyed", emitting text from the user's torso saying "+Overjoyed". Overjoyed users gain +99% defense and +150% damage for 25 seconds with no withdrawal effects.
joy has a 15 second cooldown between uses.
If the user takes 3 joy pills in one life or were to die from joy's withdrawal effect, the user will ragdoll onto the ground while a pulsating red meaty overlay starts to fade onto their screen. After the overlay fully envelopes the screen, the user is turned into a joy mutant.
== Tips ==
* Use joy to turn the tide of a fight that would otherwise result in certain death.
** Using joy can allow the user to tank being hit by master spark or lilynette's Cero Metralleta long enough to escape.
** In team-based gamemodes like TC or ZS, the otherwise unparalleled survivability that joy offers can be used to clutch a round.
* The effects of joy takes a while to activate, during which the user is still vulnerable to damage. One should take careful consideration before trying to take it as they may not have enough health to activate the effects.
* The withdrawal effects can be severely hindering, though it can be taken repeatedly to exchange the downsides into something better. Converting into a joy mutant may be more beneficial if the given loadout is underwhelming or during gamemodes that have limited lives.
== Gallery ==
+joyed.gif|joy in use.
-Joyed.gif|The withdrawal effect.
Overjoy.png|The overjoyed effect.
UnOverjoy.png|The overjoyed effect ending.
Joymutanttransform.gif|A player turning into a joy mutant.
=== Miscellaneous ===
Joyed.gif|joy in use prior to v1.6.0.
Sadjoy.png|The withdrawal effect prior to v1.6.0.
Overjoyed.png|The overjoyed effect prior to v1.6.0.
-Overjoyed.png|The overjoyed effect ending prior to v1.6.0.
== Audio ==
Sound 	File	Description
Joyed 	 	Plays upon using joy.
Overjoyed	 	Plays upon using joy (5% chance)
== Trivia ==
* The pill originates from a game called LISA: The Painful RPG.
** The interaction of becoming a Joy Mutant stems from the source material pill's side-effect of turning those who consume it into monstrous beings at the brink of death.
** The animation of taking the pill mirrors that of Brad Armstrong's animation of taking the pill.
* This is the first item that, due to an oversight, allows you to have a negative attack multiplier.
* The tooltip is an obvious reference to the novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Specifically, the part where the character Violet Beauregarde is turned into a giant blueberry after chewing an experimental piece of gum that's supposed to replicate a 3-course meal.
* You actually can use different joys and it will still turn you into a joy mutant after the third one's effect expires. It does not need to be the same joy.
== Changes ==
* v1.6.0
** Dying to joy's withdrawal effects or experiencing withdrawal 3 times in one life now turns the user into a joy mutant.
** Swapped colors of the joy text; +Joyed and +Overjoyed text is now blue, and the -Joyed and -Overjoyed text is now red.
* v1.5.0
** Added joy.
Category:Misc Items
Category:Items
Category:Based on media
Category:Increases stats
Category:Increases defense
Category:Decreases stats
Category:Items based on RNG
Category:Increases attack multiplier
Category:Blinds players