Wand of cancellation
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|---|---|
| Name | cancellation |
| Appearance | random |
| Base price | 200 zm |
| Weight | 7 |
| Type | beam |
| Maximum charges | 8 |
| Monster use | Will not be used by monsters. |
A wand of cancellation can be used to:
- change most potions into water (but fruit juice, booze and oil are not changed, and see invisible and sickness become fruit juice).
- change scrolls into blank scrolls
- neutralize monsters by taking away their special attacks
- neutralize negative and positive enchantments of weapons and armor
- uncurse and unbless items
- erase engravings
The wand of cancellation has a number of complicated effects; when you find one, it will behoove you to study thoroughly the article on cancellation before zapping it!
Do not zap yourself with an unidentified wand that makes engravings disappear; if it is a wand of cancellation, you will lose all your scrolls, spellbooks, and potions; these will become blank scrolls or water.
Putting a charged wand of cancellation into a bag of holding will cause a magical explosion that will destroy the bag and everything within it. Don't do this. Zapping a bag of holding, however, will either unbless or uncurse it, and will have no effect whatsoever on the contents.
Zapping a wand of cancellation at a clay golem will erase some writing on its head, killing it instantly.
Among other special attacks, Magicbane has a cancellation attack, which is similar to zapping something with a wand of cancellation.
Generation
Wands comprise 4% of all randomly-generated items in the main dungeon, 6% in containers, 5% on the Rogue level, and 8% in hell. There is a 4.5% chance that a randomly-generated wand will be a wand of cancellation.
