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| − | On some systems, the [[mail daemon]] can deliver a '''scroll of mail''', containing a message from outside | + | On some systems, the [[mail daemon]] can deliver a '''scroll of mail''', containing a message from outside NetHack, to the [[hero]]. [[You]] can [[read]] the scroll to see the message. This breaks [[illiterate conduct]]. In any case, you can turn the [[Options#mail|option "mail"]] off to prevent scrolls of mail being delivered. |
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| + | The source of the scrolls varies according to which operating system you play on. On UNIX and Linux, you can set up an alert for incoming email. On DOS and Windows, scrolls with random messages are delivered now and then. [[Public server]]s often allow people watching a game to send short messages to the person playing the game. | ||
Mail scrolls are never generated randomly in the dungeon (although in some versions of NetHack, the mail daemon delivers them at random). You could acquire as many of these scrolls as you want by sending many messages to yourself, but they have little use in gameplay: | Mail scrolls are never generated randomly in the dungeon (although in some versions of NetHack, the mail daemon delivers them at random). You could acquire as many of these scrolls as you want by sending many messages to yourself, but they have little use in gameplay: | ||
Revision as of 23:12, 23 November 2010
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| Name | scroll of mail |
| Appearance | stamped scroll |
| Base price | 0 zm |
| Weight | 5 |
| Ink to write | 2 |
| Monster use | Will not be used by monsters. |
On some systems, the mail daemon can deliver a scroll of mail, containing a message from outside NetHack, to the hero. You can read the scroll to see the message. This breaks illiterate conduct. In any case, you can turn the option "mail" off to prevent scrolls of mail being delivered.
The source of the scrolls varies according to which operating system you play on. On UNIX and Linux, you can set up an alert for incoming email. On DOS and Windows, scrolls with random messages are delivered now and then. Public servers often allow people watching a game to send short messages to the person playing the game.
Mail scrolls are never generated randomly in the dungeon (although in some versions of NetHack, the mail daemon delivers them at random). You could acquire as many of these scrolls as you want by sending many messages to yourself, but they have little use in gameplay:
- They will not polymorph into other objects or be consumed by polypiling, they just turn into junk mail. [1][2][3]
- They cannot get wet.[4][5]
- They are not affected by cancellation
- If you wish for or write a scroll of mail, or you discover a bones file with someone else's mail, it will be "junk mail addressed to the finder of the Eye of Larn". (The joke is that the roguelike Larn would send the user mail when they won.)[6][7][8][9]
- A scroll of mail will "activate" an Elbereth square like any other object.
- They weigh as much as any other scroll (5), so you can become burdened by mail.
- Huge quantities of mail scrolls can be used for a shop-robbing exploit ("200 rock steal").
