Eating cancelled corpses should not cause negative effects

[chappg]

Eating cancelled corpses should not cause negative effects.

Example: eating a cancelled kobold corpse should not cause poisoning.

My rationale is that this is similar to an inert vaccine that delivers the positive benefit (vaccination) without causing the underlying illness. This is also consistent with the behavior of cancelling a living monster (ex: cancelling a kobold removes it's ability to inflict poison).

This suggestion applies both to corpses that have been cancelled and also to cancelled monsters that leave a corpse.

[copperwater]

Cancellation in NetHack generally means any magical effects are stripped. So I can see the argument for a cancelled wraith corpse not granting the player a level up, for instance. But the poison in a kobold corpse is chemical, not magical, and I don't think cancellation should affect it.

I don't understand what you mean by cancelling a living kobold removing its ability to inflict poison; kobolds do not have natural poison attacks. I guess they can throw poison darts at you but that would be unaffected by canceling them.

[chappg]

I didn't realize cancelation was intended to be limited to magic effects, though the implementation of this also seems quite inconsistent. Let's use a better example that I tested in wizard mode: cancelling a killer bee will disable it's poison attack, but eating the corpse will still cause poison damage. How does that make sense?