Scroll of food detection

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Name food detection
Appearance random
Base price 100 zm
Weight 5
Ink to write 4-7
Monster use Will not be used by monsters.

The scroll of food detection reveals the location of all comestibles on the level.

Reading effects

This scroll detects and reveals the location of all comestibles on the level, including those on the ground and those in monster inventories. If blessed, you acquire the food appraisal intrinsic in addition. If the scroll is cursed, or you are confused regardless of the BUC-status of the scroll, you will detect potions instead.

Messages

Replace <nose> in the messages with the appropriate equivalent based on your current form.

Your <nose> starts to tingle and you smell food.
You read a blessed scroll.
There are comestibles on the level.
You gain the food appraisal intrinsic.
Your <nose> continues to tingle and you smell food.
You read a blessed scroll.
There are comestibles on the level.
You already have the food appraisal intrinsic.
Your <nose> twitches then starts to tingle.
You read a blessed scroll.
There are no comestibles on the level.
You gain the food appraisal intrinsic.
Your <nose> twitches.
You read a scroll of any beatitude.
If not cursed, there are no comestibles on the level.
If cursed or confused, there are no potions on the level.
If blessed, You already have the food appraisal intrinsic.
You smell food nearby. Your <nose> starts to tingle.
You read a blessed scroll.
There are comestibles on the level but only on your square.
You gain the food appraisal intrinsic.
You smell food nearby.
You read an uncursed or cursed scroll.
If uncursed, there are comestibles on the level but only on your square
If cursed, there are potions on the level but only on your square.
You sense a lack of food nearby. Your <nose> starts to tingle.
You read a blessed scroll.
You saw comestibles on the level before but they are gone now.
You gain the food appraisal intrinsic.
You sense a lack of food nearby.
You read an uncursed or cursed scroll.
If uncursed, you saw comestibles on the level before but they are gone now.
If cursed, you saw potions on the level before but they are gone now.
You sense a lack of something nearby.
You read a cursed scroll, or the scroll of any beatitude while confused.
You saw potions on the level before but they are gone now.
Your <nose> tingles and you smell something.
You read a cursed scroll, or the scroll of any beatitude while confused.
There are potions on the level.
You smell something nearby.
You read a cursed scroll, or the scroll of any beatitude while confused.
There are potions on the level, but only on your square.
You have a strange feeling for a moment, then it passes.
You read the scroll of any beatitude while confused or not.
You are a beginner.
If blessed or uncursed, there are no comestibles on the level.
If cursed or confused, there are no potions on the level.
You have a normal feeling for a moment, then it passes.
You read the scroll of any beatitude while confused or not.
You are a beginner.
You are hallucinating.
If blessed or uncursed, there are no comestibles on the level.
If cursed or confused, there are no potions on the level.

Identification

If there are comestibles on the level (if blessed or uncursed) or potions (if confused and/or cursed) then this scroll will auto identify. Otherwise you will get a message below as to the nature of the scroll and you will be able to indirectly identify it - it will not be automatically identified. Players who the game classifies as a beginner will get ambiguous messages in this case.

Strategy

The obvious use is if you are short on food you can read an uncursed or blessed version of the scroll to find food on the level. Beware, this will display all comestibles including tainted and poisoned corpses and corpses that can cause petrification or other harmful effects.

The food appraisal intrinsic is useful to prevent issues from food including food poisoning, petrification and breaking conducts, however it will only warn you once before the intrinsic is lost and will need to be reapplied.

The potion detecting capability of cursed and/or confused readings of the scroll can be used to find useful potions in monster inventories, such as a potion of gain level or smoky potions so that monster could be liberated of the potion quickly before the monster uses it. However this functionality is duplicated by other means.

Otherwise if you are in a point in the game where food is not much of a concern anymore, or you have a spellbook of detect food, this scroll is a good candidate for blanking.


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