Polish meal

polish meal is a miscellaneous item in item asylum. It is a pot of indeterminate sludge.
== Functionality ==
Activating polish meal causes the user to drink from the pot. This heals for half the user's maximum HP, but also applies a poison effect that lasts forever. It is possible to out-heal the damage-over-time the poison inflicts by consuming more initially; however, due to the poison's infinite duration, each use of polish meal will inflict more damage-over-time until the user is no longer able to heal fast enough and is killed.
=== Notes ===
*While the poison sometimes lasts forever, it may spontaneously end due to currently unknown circumstances. This happens particularly in BOSS rounds such as uncertified and manofnature, implying a correlation with killing an amount of enemies and the poison effect ending; distance travelled and time do not seem to be factors.
== Tips ==
* It is generally inadvisable to drink this item due to the poison DoT, and its use should be reserved for when the need to heal outweighs any other potential risks.
* If you are forced to drink this, there are little avenues to help you survive.
** One method is to just keep eating more, which works temporarily but as the damage increases it will stop working. Do your best to avoid this tactic if you can, but as a last resort it is viable.
** Another is to get kills frequently in order to out-heal the poison damage. this is made easier with the darkheart or other self-healing items.
== Gallery ==
Polishmealidle.gif|Holding polish meal.
PolishmealEAT.gif|Consuming polish meal.
Photo 2024-04-20 19-30-43.jpg|The text shown upon trying to use polish meal during any active movement of da capo.
=== Origin ===
GoodThingImNotPolish.gif|The meme that polish meal is based on.
== Trivia ==
* polish meal is a reference to a meme that shows a pot of indeterminate sludge, which the poster calls "the most delicious polish food".
* If any movement of da capo is active, polish meal will become unusable, prompting the user with the text "You wouldn't consume such things in the middle of a performance, right?".
== Changes ==
* v1.6.0
** No longer usable when any movement of da capo is active.
* v1.5.6
** Reverted v1.5.5 changes.
* v1.5.5
** Grants 9 stacks of poison instead of 1.
** Cooldown text changed to "disgusting".
* v1.5.0
** Added polish meal.
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