Spellbooks: Acid Ball Improved Fireball Acid Bolt Invisibility Bless Knock Burning Hands Know Alignment Calm Monster Light Create Item Lightning Ball Cure Critical Wounds Lightning Bolt Cure Disease Magic Lock Cure Light Wounds Magic Map Cure Serious Wounds Magic Missile Darkness Mystic Shovel Death Ray Neutralize Poison Destroy Undead Petrification Disarm Trap Remove Curse Earthquake Revelation Farsight Scare Monster Fire Bolt Slow Monster Fireball Slow Poison Frost Bolt Strength of Atlas Greater Identify Stun Ray Heal Summon Monsters Ice Ball Teleportation Identify Web Wish All spellbooks weigh 100s. Tracts: Tract of order 250s Tract of balance 200s Tract of chaos 150s Artifacts: The Black Tome of Alsophocus 400s Other: The Collected Works of Confucious 400s (this book generates random fortune cookie messages when read and disappears after several readings)
Scroll of... | Unidentified appearance | Effect when read | Misc |
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Amnesia | ECNETOPINMO | PC forgets some parts of maps and identified items | |
Balance | SutsI | Reveals PCs balance of alignment | |
Blank | Unlabeled | New scrolls can be written on these | |
Chaos resistance | Yik Mech'Shegoth | Removes corruptions; about 1.6 corruptions when blessed | |
Charging | KAPOW | Recharges wands | |
Crumpled | Crumpled | Unique; held by the Emperor Moloch; Khelavaster summons the Trident of the Red Rooster when non-chaotics give him this scroll | Always "crumpled scroll" |
Cure blindness | YNORI ERUP | A joke (scrolls can't be read while blind) | |
Danger | REGNAD | Increases danger factor of current dungeon level; quest object for Gaab'Baay | |
Dark predictions | Odiv | Reveals PCs percentage of corruption | |
Darkness | ZTORF | Darkens area around PC; the area can be lit again | |
Defense | HITME | Improves an items DV (fails more often with better items) | |
Education | ? | Grants or increases proficiency of a random skill | |
Familiar summoning | mead ni najap | Summons a tame companion whose power corresponds to the current dungeon level | |
Gold detection | MKMNFST | Reveals locations of gold on current dungeon level for one turn | |
Great identify | DOGO FUTSF | Reveals some (all if blessed) of an item's properties | |
IBM guild manual | irk gleknow mizk | Confuses until divinely removed | |
Identify | KLATHA DATHA NY'ARYATHA | Identifies one item if cursed, one class if uncursed, all worn/carried if blessed | |
Ill fate | IAZNAB | Grants the cursed intrinsic | |
Increase melee accuracy | WoPaK | Improves an item's to-hit (fails more often with better items) | |
Increase melee damage | HcUo | Improves an item's to-damage (fails more often with better items) | |
Information | ENO OWT EERHT | Unique; found in small cave; reveals number of squares to the waterproof blanket | Always labeled "ENO OWT EERHT" |
Item creation | GNOZAB | Creates a random item | |
Item detection | ABABILA | Reveals locations of items on level for one turn | |
Item destruction | MUNCH MUNCH | Destroys a random worn or carried item | |
Light | FROTZ | Lights area around PC (it can be darkened again) | |
Literacy check | EDEVESH HANAGASH | Checks literacy | |
Luck | YIKES | Removes cursing if present OR grants lucky if absent OR grants Fate Smiles if absent when lucky is present; no effect on dooming | |
Magic mapping | IDNUM AIROLG TISNART CIS | Reveals parts (or all if blessed) of the current level | |
Monster aggravation | RambaZamba | Makes all monsters on current level hostile | |
Monster detection | KTTdLwrgt | Reveals locations of monsters on the current level for one turn | |
Omnipotence | Ancient | Unique if it exists; probably a red herring from Thomas | |
Papyrus | Papyrus | Unique; appears on the dungeon level when the PC reaches experience level 13; invitation to Pyramid | Always "papyrus scroll" |
Peace | GNAY-GNIY | Reduces danger factor (and thus corruption rate) of the current level | |
Power | Carpe Diem | Recharges some PP | |
Protection | CUTME | Improves an item's PV (fails more often with better items) | |
Ratling pamphlet | Tattered | Ratling rebel distributes them on the Arena level | Always "tattered scroll" |
Repair | FOO BAR | Removes broken trait from an item (cursed breaks items) | |
Satiation | FPMAM | Acts as food when read; can be read even when Bloated | |
Strange message | Fox Nawagu | Unique; found in high mountain village; mentions scroll of omnipotence | Always labeled "Fox Nawagu" |
Teleportation | YTTOCS PU EM MAEB | Teleports PC | |
Treasure creation | NADSIL SEETRURA | Creates a random valuable | |
Uncursing | ACME | Uncurses a single item, or all if blessed; a cursed scroll of uncursing curses a single item | |
Vermin control | CHUTZPAH | Sterilizes all breeders on current level | |
Warning | Scribbled | Unique; found in small cave, warns about small cave | Always "scribbled scroll" |
All scrolls weigh 1s.
Scrolls can be written if the PC is literate, has seen an example of the scroll, has a magical writing set and a blank scroll to write on. Blank scrolls can be found in the dungeons (usually an unlabeled scroll, although this is not guaranteed), or they can be created by dipping other scrolls into *normal* water - not holy water or unholy water. Be aware that the cost for writing scrolls of chaos resistance is high - there is a permanent loss of two or three mana points, apparently depending on the blessed vs uncursed status of the magical writing set. In addition, any combination of a blessed MWS with an uncursed blank scroll or an uncursed MWS with a blessed or uncursed blank scroll will result in a loss of hitpoints. This loss ranged from 70 to 145 HP with a WADOMF'd experience level one PC. The HP loss may go down with increasing experience level. The PC in question was a wizard with Literacy at 100.
Writing other scrolls does not have such drastic consequences, though the exact effects have yet to be worked out.