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Umbire the Phantom: copyedit

2024-04-22T18:10:32Z

copyedit

Umbire the Phantom: should leave the category ig - def. rephrase the DD section further

2023-10-26T02:02:31Z

should leave the category ig - def. rephrase the DD section further

Umbire the Phantom: formatting pass

2023-10-26T01:56:59Z

formatting pass

Bcode: /* Yield */ Remove quotation marks around table headings

2012-09-18T18:04:07Z

‎Yield: Remove quotation marks around table headings

Tjr: Text replace - "== Source code references ==" to "==References=="

2011-01-05T09:36:25Z

Text replace - "== Source code references ==" to "==References=="

Kernigh: Mention Dudley's dungeon.

2007-06-12T03:42:50Z

Mention Dudley's dungeon.

Kernigh: Create scissors spoiler, using NetHack brass source code as reference. (Perhaps I should do some wizard-mode testing to check this?)

2007-06-12T03:04:13Z

Create scissors spoiler, using NetHack brass source code as reference. (Perhaps I should do some wizard-mode testing to check this?)

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''[[NetHack brass]]'' includes a new [[item]], the '''scissors'''. [[Apply]] them to cut [[cloth]] items into [[bandage]]s. The resourceful [[adventurer]] may wish to undo some [[tailoring]] and destroy spare [[cloak]]s and other cloth items that the adventurer recovers from the dungeon.

Scissors are most effective in the hands of those who know [[bandage]]s best: either a [[Healer]], or alternatively a [[female]] wearing either a [[nurse cap]] or [[nurse uniform]].

== Messages ==
{| class="prettytable"
|| "You can't cut that!"
|| You tried to cut a [[material]] other than [[cloth]], so nothing happened.
|-
|| "You can't cut something you're wearing."
|| Regardless of how low your [[intelligence]] or [[wisdom]] may be, ''[[NetHack brass]]'' does not permit [[you]] to injure yourself by applying scissors to that [[cloak]] or [[robe]] on your [[body]].
|-
|| "You cut your (item) asunder."
|| You completely destroyed the item without producing any bandages. (The yield of bandages would have been zero or negative.)
|-
|| "You cut your (item) into a bandage."
|| You produced one bandage.
|-
|| "You cut your (item) into some bandages."
|| You produced multiple bandages.
|-
||
"Oops! (count) bandages slip away from you!" (when you are underwater, on the [[Plane of Air]], or inside a monster that engulfed you)

"Oops! (count) bandages slip to the floor!" (anywhere else)
|| You managed to produce some bandages, but you had not enough room to carry them in your [[inventory]].
|}

== Yield ==
If you use a scissors to cut an existing bandage, then you destroy it. Otherwise, you destroy the [[item]] but produce some number bandages. You can produce the most bandages if either you are a [[healer]], or you are a [[female]] wearing a [[nurse cap]] or [[nurse uniform]]:

{| class="prettytable"
! "Item"
! "Amount (before adjustments)"
|-
|| [[mummy wrapping]] || 1 bandage
|-
|| [[kitchen apron]], [[frilled apron]] || 3 bandages
|-
|| [[towel]], [[T-shirt]], [[Hawaiian shirt]] || 5 bandages
|-
|| [[nurse uniform]] || 7 bandages
|-
|| other [[cloth]] items || [[weight]] divided by 4
|}

If you are not a healer, and you are not a female wearing a nurse cap or nurse uniform, then you will only produce a random number of bandages, from 0 to the number in the above table. If the scissors are cursed, then you produce 1 or more fewer bandages. If your [[dexterity]] is less than 18, then you produce 1 or more fewer bandages. (The two effects are compounding if you use cursed scissors while your dexterity is less than 18.) However, neither of these penalties applies to healers, or to females wearing a nurse cap or nurse uniform.

The new bandages inherit their [[beatitude]] from both the scissors and the cloth item that you cut. If either the scissors or the cloth was blessed, then this makes blessed bandages; if either the scissors or the cloth was cursed, then this makes cursed bandages; but if one item was blessed and the other was cursed, then this makes uncursed bandages; otherwise both items were uncursed and this makes uncursed bandages.<ref>use_scissors, line 1492 of apply.c of NetHack brass 040923</ref>

== Source code references ==
<references />

[[Category:Items of NetHack brass]]

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-'''Scissors''' are a type of [[tool]] the appears in [[NetHack brass]].
+{{tool
 ==Description==
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 <references/>
 {{variant-343}}
 [[Category:NetHack brass tools]]
 [[Category:Dudley's dungeon]]

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 ==Dudley's dungeon==
-In the [http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20070611 11 June] and [http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20070612 12 June 2007] strips of [[Dudley's dungeon]], [[Dudley]] uses a pair of scissors to play rock-paper-scissors, wielding the scissors, and scaring a [[paper golem]] into fleeing.
+In the [http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20070611 11 June] and [http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20070612 12 June 2007] strips of [[Dudley's dungeon]], [[Dudley]] plays rock-paper-scissors by wielding an actual pair of scissors, scaring a [[paper golem]] into fleeing.
 ==References==
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 [[Category:Items of NetHack brass]]
 [[Category:NetHack brass tools]]

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-''[[NetHack brass]]'' includes a new [[item]], the '''scissors'''. [[Apply]] them to cut [[cloth]] items into [[bandage]]s. The resourceful [[adventurer]] may wish to undo some [[tailoring]] and destroy spare [[cloak]]s and other cloth items that the adventurer recovers from the dungeon.
+'''Scissors''' are a type of [[tool]] the appears in [[NetHack brass]].
-Scissors are most effective in the hands of those who know [[bandage]]s best: either a [[Healer]], or alternatively a [[female]] wearing either a [[nurse cap]] or [[nurse uniform]].
+==Description==
+[[Apply]]ing a pair of scissors allows you to cut a [[cloth]] item up, destroying it and potentially producing a number of [[bandage]]s depending on the item chosen:
 {| class="prettytable"
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 |}
-If you are not a healer, and you are not a female wearing a nurse cap or nurse uniform, then you will only produce a random number of bandages, from 0 to the number in the above table. If the scissors are cursed, then you produce 1 or more fewer bandages. If your [[dexterity]] is less than 18, then you produce 1 or more fewer bandages. (The two effects are compounding if you use cursed scissors while your dexterity is less than 18.) However, neither of these penalties applies to healers, or to females wearing a nurse cap or nurse uniform.
+A [[Healer]] or any [[female]] character wearing a [[nurse cap]] or [[nurse uniform]] can reliably produce the amount of bandages shown above - other characters will produce any number of bandages between 0 and the aforementioned "cap" for that item, with a penalty to the amount of bandages made for using a cursed pair of scissors, as well as a penalty for having less than 18 [[dexterity]]. If the result would be 0 bandages or less, the cloth item is destroyed without yielding any.
-The new bandages inherit their [[beatitude]] from both the scissors and the cloth item that you cut. If either the scissors or the cloth was blessed, then this makes blessed bandages; if either the scissors or the cloth was cursed, then this makes cursed bandages; but if one item was blessed and the other was cursed, then this makes uncursed bandages; otherwise both items were uncursed and this makes uncursed bandages.<ref>use_scissors, line 1492 of apply.c of NetHack brass 040923</ref>
+The new bandages inherit their [[beatitude]] from both the scissors and the cloth item that you cut, similar to a magic marker:<ref>use_scissors, line 1492 of apply.c of NetHack brass 040923</ref>
-== Dudley's dungeon ==
+{|class="wikitable"
-[[Dudley]] made use of a pair of scissors in two strips of ''[[Dudley's dungeon]]'':
+|+Bandage [[beatitude]]
-* [http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20070611 11 June 2007]
+==Messages==
-* [http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20070612 12 June 2007]
+{{message|You can't cut that!|You tried to cut a non-cloth item with scissors.}}
-These strips follow the rules of [http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=149454 rock, paper, scissors]. By simply wielding the scissors, Dudley can scare a [[paper golem]] into flight.
+==Dudley's dungeon==
 ==References==
-<references />
+<references/>
+{{variant-343}}
 [[Category:Items of NetHack brass]]

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 {| class="prettytable"
-! "Item"
+! Item
-! "Amount (before adjustments)"
+! Amount (before adjustments)
 |-
 || [[mummy wrapping]]                         || 1 bandage