Staff of divination (EvilHack)
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| Name | staff of divination |
| Appearance | wormwood staff |
| Damage vs. small | 1d6 |
| Damage vs. large | 1d6 |
| To-hit bonus | +0 |
| Weapon skill | quarterstaff |
| Size | two-handed |
| Base price | 400 zm (+10/positive enchant) |
| Weight | 40 |
| Material | wood |
- For the item in SporkHack, see staff of divination (SporkHack).
A staff of divination is a type of weapon that appears in EvilHack and Hack'EM. It is a two-handed spell staff that uses the quarterstaff skill. The staff of divination has a default material of wood and appears as a wormwood staff when unidentified.
In Hack'EM, the staff of divination is the base item for the artifact Firewall.
Generation
Staves of divination make up 1⁄200 (0.5%) of all weapons randomly generated on the ground, in general shops or as death drops. Used armor dealerships and antique weapons outlets can also stock staves of divination.
In EvilHack, a hero that is a Druid, Healer, Infidel, Monk, Priest, or Wizard may be given a staff of divination as a 'mundane' sacrifice gift.
In Hack'EM, upgrading a staff of war successfully will produce a staff of divination.
Wood golems may drop staves of divination among the wooden items left behind as part of their special death drop in lieu of a corpse.
Description
The staff of divination deals 1d6 damage to both small and large monsters. A hero wielding a staff of divination gains a flat 50% reduction in the spellcasting failure rate of divination spells, which is applied after all other checks besides the check for metallic body armor.
In Hack'EM, upgrading a staff of divination successfully will produce a staff of war.
Encyclopedia entry
All spell staves in EvilHack share the same encyclopedia entry:
Ged stooped and plucked a blade of wild grass that poked up
dry and frail out of the snow where the otak had lain dead.
This blade he held up, and as he spoke aloud to it in the
True Speech it lengthened, and thickened, and when he was done
he held a great staff, a wizard's staff, in his hand. No
banefire burned red along it when the black, flapping creatures
from the Court of the Terrenon swooped over him and he struck
their wings with it: it blazed only with the white magefire that
does not burn but drives away the dark.
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