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From: lando@aecom.UUCP (Brian Lando)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Re: PC Rogue ***SPOILER***
Message-ID: <955@aecom.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Nov-84 18:26:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 19 18:26:00 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Nov-84 06:18:10 EST
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> What is the name and full function of the scroll that causes
> whatever weapon you are wielding to give off a flash of light?
> Here is what I know about it:
> 
> 1. After reading the scroll and seeing the flash of light, I have
>    observed that the affected weapon gains +1,+1.
> 
> 2. You can Zap with the weapon.
> 
> 3. If you Zap indescriminately, you get some cynical message implying
>    that you just wasted something good and the gods are laughing at you.
> 
> 4. However, I once waited until my "enchanted" mace gave off a flash
>    of light during battle and made a Nymph disappear (teleport or die,
>    I'm not sure).
> 
> 5. If you read another of these scrolls before Zapping the weapon, the
>    weapon disappears.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John Bell

The actual name of this scroll is 'vorpalize weapon' (as listed in
the code of the program) It has the effect of enabling your weapon 
to indiscriminantly slay some monster at random. Yours happened to
make your mace into 'a mace of nymph slaying' (as you would have 
discovered using a identify scroll).
Unfortunately, for some reason it sometimes seems to work permanently
and sometimes goes away after one zap. We have yet to figure out why
this variation happens. 

		Zvi, "Dungeon Master"
				lando @ aecom (philabs/aecom)