diff --git a/doc/fixes3-7-0.txt b/doc/fixes3-7-0.txt
index 2fec8e6ea..a52b4ac9d 100644
--- a/doc/fixes3-7-0.txt
+++ b/doc/fixes3-7-0.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.1573 $ $NHDT-Date: 1762680996 2025/11/09 01:36:36 $
+NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.1574 $ $NHDT-Date: 1762727599 2025/11/09 14:33:19 $
 
 General Fixes and Modified Features
 -----------------------------------
@@ -2830,6 +2830,8 @@ add "make fetch-docs" to download pre-formatted documentation
 monsters will use throw-and-return weapons such as an aklys
 uncursed genocide while hallucinating deliberately mis-reports hero's role as
 	target but was also inappropriately showing it to livelog/#chronicle
+livelog/#chronicle for bribing a demon lord reported random monster and
+	currency if hero was hallucinating
 
 
 Platform- and/or Interface-Specific New Features
diff --git a/src/minion.c b/src/minion.c
index 6acd508a7..085a51643 100644
--- a/src/minion.c
+++ b/src/minion.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* NetHack 3.7	minion.c	$NHDT-Date: 1624322864 2021/06/22 00:47:44 $  $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.60 $ */
+/* NetHack 3.7	minion.c	$NHDT-Date: 1762727599 2025/11/09 14:33:19 $  $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.81 $ */
 /* Copyright (c) Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1985. */
 /*-Copyright (c) Robert Patrick Rankin, 2008. */
 /* NetHack may be freely redistributed.  See license for details. */
@@ -346,8 +346,12 @@ demon_talk(struct monst *mtmp)
             return 0;
         }
     }
+    /* if 'mtmp' is unrecognizable due to hero's hallucination,
+       #chronicle will reveal its true identity -- just live with that;
+       also, avoid random hallucinatory currency() units */
     livelog_printf(LL_UMONST, "bribed %s with %ld %s for safe passage",
-                   Amonnam(mtmp), offer, currency(offer));
+                   x_monnam(mtmp, ARTICLE_A, (char *) 0, EXACT_NAME, FALSE),
+                   offer, (offer == 1L) ? "zorkmid" : "zorkmids");
     mongone(mtmp);
     return 1;
 }