rndcolor()

> "A cloud of sangria gas billows from the chest.
> You stagger and your vision blurs."
> When I see the gas billowing from the chest, I'm not yet
> hallucinating. Shouldn't the gas have a normal colour, then?
> Only after my vision blurs should the gas assume a fake colour, I
> think.
>

src/do_name.c

@@ -1002,6 +1002,15 @@ const char *colorpref;
 		hcolors[rn2(SIZE(hcolors))] : colorpref;
 }
 
+/* return a random real color unless hallucinating */
+const char *
+rndcolor()
+{
+	int k = rn2(CLR_MAX);
+	return Hallucination ? hcolor((char *)0) : (k == NO_COLOR) ?
+		"colorless" : c_obj_colors[k];
+}
+
 /* Aliases for road-runner nemesis
  */
 static const char * const coynames[] = {

src/trap.c

@@ -3586,7 +3586,7 @@ boolean disarm;
 		case 0:
 			pline("A cloud of %s gas billows from %s.",
 				Blind ? blindgas[rn2(SIZE(blindgas))] :
-				hcolor((char *)0), the(xname(obj)));
+				rndcolor(), the(xname(obj)));
 			if(!Stunned) {
 			    if (Hallucination)
 				pline("What a groovy feeling!");