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From: sommar@enea.UUCP (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Reading when confused
Message-ID: <1206@enea.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 14:49:02 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  7 14:49:02 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 10-Mar-86 20:16:22 EST
References: <113@oucs.UUCP> <162@bucsb.UUCP> <176@nbs-amrf.UUCP>
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In article <176@nbs-amrf.UUCP> hopp@nbs-amrf.UUCP writes:
>> P.S.  I have a couple of questions for anyone on the net who would care to 
>>  reply.  Have you guys tried reading other scrolls while confused?  Have 
>> 
>>                      -   Ben Page  -
>
>A scroll of enchant {armor,weapon} will make your {armor,weapon} corrosion
>resistant if you read the scroll while confused.  Likewise, a scroll of
>destroy armor or damage weapon will turn the item back to being
>rustable (yech - what a word!) if read when confused.  Things I'm not
>sure of: a scroll of detection (food/gold/objects/monsters) will give
>nonsense detection if read while confused, and a scroll of mapping will
>give you a partial map if read while confused.  (Does a scroll
>of amnesia make you forget only part of the map?)
>

Some more: If you feel like experimenting: Try to read a genocide scroll
when you're confused, but don't do it in a game where everything is going
fine. A friend of mine read a create monster and got a room filled with acid
blobs.