Wand of wind
The wand of wind is a new wand introduced in SporkHack and subsequently adapted into many variants.
Contents
Effects
In all variants, a wand of wind can hurtle monsters (possibly into water or lava) and scatters items wherever it is blasted. If a monster is hurtled as a result, this wand will auto-identify. Big monsters can be hurtled 1-2 spaces, anything smaller can be hurtled 3-5 spaces.
When engraved with, it gives the message "The bugs on the floor are blown away!"
If zapped at the ground, it wipes away any engraving on the floor and scatters any items on that square.
If zapped at yourself, it will hurtle you in a random direction and scatter objects at your location: "You are caught up in the winds!"
Variants
SporkHack
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| Name | wind |
| Appearance | random |
| Base price | 150 zm |
| Weight | 7 |
| Type | beam |
| Maximum charges | 8 |
| Monster use | Will not be used by monsters. |
In SporkHack, this wand can also be used to blow doors apart. It was not enabled for monster use.
If zapped at an open drawbridge, it will destroy the drawbridge.
SlashTHEM
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| Name | wind |
| Appearance | random |
| Base price | 200 zm |
| Weight | 7 |
| Type | beam |
| Maximum charges | 8 |
| Monster use | Will not be used by monsters. |
The SlashTHEM implementation closely follows the SporkHack version, with the only notable difference being the cost.
SliceHack/SpliceHack
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| Name | windstorm |
| Appearance | random |
| Base price | 300 zm |
| Weight | 7 |
| Type | beam |
| Maximum charges | 8 |
| Monster use | May be used offensively by monsters. |
In SpliceHack, it was renamed to "wand of windstorm" and granted some additional effects. It also costs 300 instead of 150.
In addition to the wand of nothing and wand of wonder, this wand was also marked as non-magical. This might have been a copy-paste error due to this wand being listed immediately after those other non-magical wands. On engrave, this wand auto-identifies.
When broken, this wand gives the message "A tornado surrounds you!"
In SpliceHack, monsters can zap the wand of wind at you offensively, "You get blasted by hurricane-force winds!"
Zapping this wand inside a whirly monster will make it expel you: "You blast a hole in <monster>!", otherwise nothing happens and the "<monster> burps."
If you zap yourself, you get the message "Whoosh!". If you are polymorphed into a whirly form, you abuse constitution. With unchanging you immediately rehumanize ("The wind blasts you apart!"); without unchanging, you take 5d6 damage. If you aren't a whirly form you don't take any damage. You are, however, not hurtled.
If zapped upward, nothing happens except "You stir up a whirlwind above you!"
If zapped down, nothing happens except "You scour the floor with wind!"
When zapped at a drawbridge, the drawbridge won't be affect but you get this YAFM: "For all your huffing and puffing, you cannot blow this drawbridge down."
HackEM
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| Name | wind |
| Appearance | random |
| Base price | 300 zm |
| Weight | 7 |
| Type | beam |
| Maximum charges | 8 |
| Monster use | May be used offensively by monsters. |
The Hack'EM implementation closely follows SpliceHack's with a few minor tweaks
It is marked as magical and was renamed back to "wand of wind".
Zapping yourself also hurtles you in a random direction.
History
2008: The wand of wind first appeared in SporkHack.[1]
At some unknown date, it was ported into SLASH'EM Extended from Spork, and made it's way into SlashTHEM.
2018: It was adapted into SliceHack https://github.com/msearle5/slicehack/commit/7ec1e3c18c93c641bcd9e5f3f7927d490364d56e and later merged into SpliceHack. [2]
2022: It was ported from SpliceHack into Hack'EM.[3]
