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 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.
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 intrisic 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 it quickly before it 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.
Messages
| Monster Type | Nose |
|---|---|
| Humanoid | nose |
| Jelly | sensor |
| Animal | nose |
| Bird | bill |
| Horse | nose |
| Sphere | olfactory nerve |
| Fungus | gill |
| Vortex | leading edge |
| Snake | forked tongue |
| Fish | nostril |
Replace <nose> in the following messages with the appropriate equivalent to the table on the right based on your current form.
- Your <nose> starts to tingle and you smell food.
- You read a blessed scroll, there are comestible(s) on the level, and you gain the food appraisal intrinsic.
- Your <nose> continues to tingle and you smell food.
- You read a blessed scroll, there are comestible(s) on the level, but you already have the food detection intrinsic.
- Your <nose> twitches then starts to tingle.
- You read a blessed scroll, there are no comestibles on the level and you gain the food appraisal intrinsic.
- Your <nose> twitches.
- You read a scroll of any beatitude and there are no comestible(s) or potion(s) on the level; if the scroll was blessed, you already have the food appraisal intrinsic.
- You smell food nearby. Your <nose> starts to tingle.
- You read a blessed scroll, there are comestible(s) on the level but only on your square, and you gain the food appraisal intrinsic.
- You smell food nearby.
- You read an uncursed or cursed scroll and there are comestible(s) or potion(s) respectively 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, and there were comestible(s) on the level at one point that you saw, but they have since disappeared, and you gain the food appraisal intrinsic.
- You sense a lack of food nearby.
- You read a uncursed or cursed scroll, and there were comestible(s) or potion(s) respectively on the level at one point that you saw, but they have since disappeared.
- You have a strange feeling for a moment, then it passes.
- Beginner, not hallucinating, reading any BUC-status scroll, confused or not, and there are no comesitbles (if blessed or uncursed) or potions (if cursed and/or confused) on the level.
- You have a normal feeling for a moment, then it passes.
- Beginner, hallucinating, reading any BUC-status scroll, confused or not, and there are no comesitbles (if blessed or uncursed) or potions (if cursed and/or confused) on the level.
