Scroll of gold detection
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| Name | gold 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 gold detection detects gold on the current level. This includes gold pieces, gold golems and any gold hidden in containers, buried, or embedded in rock. A blessed scroll will also detect gold rings.
Reading scrolls of gold detection while confused, however, has a very different and useful effect. If the scroll was non-cursed, all traps on the level will be revealed to the player. If the scroll was cursed, all traps on the level will be marked with a $ as if the scroll was detecting gold. If there weren't any traps on the level, if the player was a Beginner you receive the message "You have a strange feeling for a moment, then it passes"; otherwise, the message "Your toes stop itching" if you have toes. If you are polymorphed, replace "toes" with an appropriate extremity.
Strategy
You can use this scroll to ascertain the location of vaults quickly. However, usually there is more than enough gold in the game, and finding vaults is not particularly difficult anyway, so trap detection is this scroll's key benefit.
This special ability of the scroll of gold detection comes in especially useful on the Elemental Planes, as a quick way to find the portal to the next plane. (Crystal balls are another method of doing this).
In the early game or as a low-level pacifist, you might want to use this scroll to quickly detect polymorph traps in order to preempt high level enemies by securing the trap, or to improve your pets. This goes especially for the lower mines levels, any place you hear typical sounds, and some quests. For example, the six random traps on the wizard quest home add up to slightly less than 60% chance of a polymorph trap. (There is also a guaranteed one in the locate level.)
Messages
- "You feel very greedy, and sense gold!"
- "You feel greedy!"
- You detected gold on the level
- "You feel entrapped"
- You detected traps while confused
- "Your toes stop itching"
- The scroll is cursed or you read the scroll while confused, but detected no traps on the level. Replace "toes" with the following extremities if polymorphed:
| Extremity |
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| pseudopod extremities |
| rear hoof tip |
| rear claw tips |
| rhizome tips |
| caudal fins |
| lower tentacle tips |
| rear scales |
| beams |
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