Scroll of consecration
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|---|---|
| Name | consecration |
| Appearance | random |
| Base price | 300 zm |
| Weight | 5 |
| Ink to write | 25-49 |
| Monster use | Will not be used by monsters. |
The scroll of consecration is a scroll in NetHack: The Next Generation which also appears in dNetHack, Fourk, SlashTHEM, and EvilHack.
When read, the scroll attempts to create an altar at your location. How much control you get over its alignment depends on the scroll's BUC status:
| Case | Effect |
|---|---|
| blessed | The scroll asks you to select the alignment of the altar to create. This includes the option to create an unaligned altar dedicated to Moloch. |
| uncursed | The scroll creates a co-aligned altar - if you are polymorphed into a major demon and read the scroll, the altar will always be chaotic. |
| cursed | The scroll creates an unaligned altar to Moloch. |
Depending on the alignment of the altar created, you may be rewarded or penalized:
| Alignment | Effect |
|---|---|
| co-aligned | +1 bonus to alignment record, prayer timeout reduced by 1-100 turns |
| cross-aligned | -1 penalty to alignment record, prayer timeout increased by 1-100 turns |
| unaligned | -3 penalty to alignment record, prayer timeout increased by 1-300 turns |
Contents
Restrictions
Altars cannot be built in corridors (where furniture will never be found naturally) or on the Astral Plane. The latter would theoretically permit you to win the endgame without reaching one of the high altars, so appropriately this sort of behavior will incur an alignment penalty.
Messages
- You feel claustrophobic!
- You read the scroll on a tile ineligible for an altar (specifically a corridor tile).
- You sense the wrath of the gods.
- You read the scroll on the Astral Plane, and incurred an alignment penalty.
- You build an altar.
- You read the scroll successfully.
- Pronouncing arcane formulas, you consecrate the altar to <deity>.
- Indicates the alignment of the altar.
- You feel comfortable.
- You received a +1 alignment bonus for creating a co-aligned altar.
- You feel uncomfortable.
- You received a -1 alignment penalty for creating a cross-aligned altar.
- You feel very uncomfortable.
- You received a -3 alignment penalty for creating an altar to Moloch.
dNetHack
The behavior is different in dNetHack: blessed or uncursed scrolls create a coaligned altar, while cursed scrolls create an unaligned altar. If read while confused, applies the consecracted or desecrated oprop to your equipped weapon, based on the scrolls beatitude. If not read on a regular floor square, your god will get angry at you and you won't get the altar. You can't write or wish for scrolls of this type.
- One scroll of consecration is found in The Temple of Moloch, in the treasure chamber on the right.
- Never randomly generated.
- Base price 3000, though this doesn't matter much.
Fourk
You will find one free copy of this scroll in the magic chest. Reading the scroll while confused will generate another magic chest, which is linked to the other magic chests as usual.
EvilHack
The scoll of consecration is a unique object in the possession of the quest nemesis. It will create an altar on the spot the player is standing on, and this altar will be based off of the player's alignment. The altar produced will always be unfractured. If read while confused, or in Gehennom, or if the scroll is cursed, the altar produced will always be unaligned. If read while standing on a tile space other than a regular floor/sand/grass, or read while on the Planes or in the Sanctum, nothing happens, and the scroll is used up. The scroll is invulnerable and cannot be blanked by water or cancellation.
