A nice surprise when quaffing random
NetHack potions, especially after building up
poison resistance or getting
whacked by certain monsters.
Quaffing the
uncursed potion restores one
random statistic to its previous
maximum amount (i.e. if
Strength is chosen, and you started with 17 but got
poisoned a couple of times so it dropped to 10, it'll go back up to 17). The
blessed version restores
all ability scores to their previous maximum values.
The cursed version does nothing at all ("Ulch! This makes you feel mediocre!"). Throwing the potion at a monster restores it to full hit points. Inhaling the vapors from a smashed potion restores one randomly-chosen ability score by one point (if the potion was blessed, all ability scores are restored by one point).