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Umbire the Phantom: material

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Umbire the Phantom: de-SLEX

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Actual-nh: /* Opening the doors in Vlad's Tower */ Grammar/style

2021-03-17T03:40:53Z

‎Opening the doors in Vlad's Tower: Grammar/style

Bluescreenofdeath: Mention the bug where they go into containers

2017-03-27T09:50:43Z

Mention the bug where they go into containers

Bluescreenofdeath at 10:54, 27 January 2016

2016-01-27T10:54:42Z

Quantum Immortal at 05:42, 6 April 2015

2015-04-06T05:42:02Z

94.109.109.35: /* Usefulness otherwise */

2014-10-15T07:36:49Z

‎Usefulness otherwise

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 The '''alignment keys''' are three [[artifacts]] that appear in [[SLASH'EM]] and [[SlashTHEM]]. Each key - the '''Key of Law''', '''Key of Neutrality''' and '''Key of Chaos''' - is [[intelligent]], and their [[base item]] is a [[skeleton key]].

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-The alignment keys are artifact [[skeleton key]]s found at the end of the [[alignment quest]]s in [[SLASH'EM]]. They are all [[intelligent]] but otherwise have no special properties. Wishing for any of them is not allowed ("For a moment, you feel something in your hands, but it disappears!").
+The '''alignment keys''' are three [[artifacts]] that appear in [[SLASH'EM]] and [[SlashTHEM]]. Each key - the '''Key of Law''', '''Key of Neutrality''' and '''Key of Chaos''' - is [[intelligent]], and their [[base item]] is a [[skeleton key]].
-==Opening the doors in Vlad's Tower==
+==Generation==
-The main purpose of the alignment keys is to open the artifact doors in Vlad's Tower.  To reach Vlad himself, two of the three keys (any two) are needed.  However, as mentioned in the [[alignment quest#Necessity|alignment quest]] article, this is not absolutely necessary to obtain the [[Candelabrum of Invocation]].
+Each of the alignment keys can only be found in the possession of each [[alignment quest]] nemesis: [[Nightmare (SLASH'EM)|Nightmare]] in the [[Lawful Quest]], [[Beholder (SLASH'EM)|Beholder]] in the [[Neutral Quest]], and [[Vecna]] in the [[Chaotic Quest]]. As they are guaranteed to appear in every game, they cannot be [[wish]]ed for.
-==Usefulness otherwise==
+==Description==
-In [[SLASH'EM]], [[unlocking tool]]s can break, whereas these artifact keys never will( they can corrode and rust however).  Therefore, one's own alignment key is ultimately a very useful item to have, and even a cross-aligned key can be useful to open a chest without risking breaking its contents, although one will sustain up to 8d10 [[artifact blast|blasting]] damage for every use.
+The purpose of the alignment keys is to open the central six doors at the top level of [[Vlad's Tower]], which have been made indestructible: any two of the three keys can be used for this purpose, though there are also [[Alignment quest#SLASH'EM|methods to circumvent the doors]].
-==Bug==
+Unlike other artifacts that are 'required' to access the invocation items and win the games, the alignment keys can be put into containers - if a container is destroyed with an alignment key inside, it is lost forever; the game will often throw a "indestructible object free" error message. If more than one of the keys is destroyed this way and the doors on Vlad's tower are not yet unlocked, winning the game requires the player to use one of the alternate strategies to wake up Vlad.
-[[Category:SLASH'EM items]]
+==Strategy==
-[[Category:SLASH'EM]]
+Outside of access to Vlad, the alignment keys can also be used as permanent unlocking tools, since SLASH'EM and SlashTHEM make it possible for standard unlocking tools to break - a character can keep the key of their own alignment around in their open inventory for this purpose, since the other artifact keys will [[Artifact blast|blast]] them.
-[[Category:SLASH'EM Artifacts]]
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-The alignment keys are artifact [[skeleton key]]s found at the end of the [[alignment quest]]s in [[SLASH'EM]].  They are all [[intelligent]] but otherwise have no special properties. Wishing for any of them is not allowed ("For a moment, you feel something in your hands, but it disappears!").
+The alignment keys are artifact [[skeleton key]]s found at the end of the [[alignment quest]]s in [[SLASH'EM]]. They are all [[intelligent]] but otherwise have no special properties. Wishing for any of them is not allowed ("For a moment, you feel something in your hands, but it disappears!").
 ==Opening the doors in Vlad's Tower==
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 ==Bug==
 They can be put into containers, including a [[bag of holding]], and if such a bag of holding blows up, the artifact key is lost forever and the game also often throws a "indestructible object free" error message. If more than one of the keys is destroyed this way and the doors on Vlad's tower are not yet unlocked, winning the game requires the player to use one of the alternate strategies to wake up Vlad.
 [[Category:SLASH'EM items]]
 [[Category:SLASH'EM]]
 [[Category:SLASH'EM Artifacts]]

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 ==Opening the doors in Vlad's Tower==
-The main purpose of the alignment keys is to open the artifact doors in Vlad's Tower.  To reach Vlad himself, two of the three keys (any two) are needed.  However, as mentioned on [[alignment quest#Necessity|alignment quest]], this is not absolutely necessary to obtain the [[Candelabrum of Invocation]].
+The main purpose of the alignment keys is to open the artifact doors in Vlad's Tower.  To reach Vlad himself, two of the three keys (any two) are needed.  However, as mentioned in the [[alignment quest#Necessity|alignment quest]] article, this is not absolutely necessary to obtain the [[Candelabrum of Invocation]].
 ==Usefulness otherwise==

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 ==Usefulness otherwise==
 In [[SLASH'EM]], [[unlocking tool]]s can break, whereas these artifact keys never will( they can corrode and rust however).  Therefore, one's own alignment key is ultimately a very useful item to have, and even a cross-aligned key can be useful to open a chest without risking breaking its contents, although one will sustain up to 8d10 [[artifact blast|blasting]] damage for every use.
 ==Differences in variants==
-In [[Slash'EM Extended]] the alignment keys can only open the specific locks in Vlad's Tower, and nothing else. This was done to prevent standard (non-artifact) unlocking tools from becoming useless once the player acquires their own alignment key.
+In [[Slash'EM Extended]] the alignment keys can only open the specific locks in Vlad's Tower, and nothing else. This was done to prevent standard (non-artifact) unlocking tools from becoming useless once the player acquires their own alignment key. They also cannot be confined in containers anymore, which fixes the bug where exploding/cursed bags of holding could destroy them permanently.
 [[Category:SLASH'EM items]]
 [[Category:SLASH'EM]]
 [[Category:SLASH'EM Artifacts]]

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