Scroll of blessing
| ? | |
| Base value (Au) | 400 |
|---|---|
| Item level | 2 |
| Random generation | Probability table |
| Weight | 5 |
| Fragility | 1 |
| Rarity | Common |
| Unidentified appearance | Random inscription |
| Cursed name | scroll of cursing |
The scroll of blessing is a scroll in the Omega 0.90.4 remake. It appears as a bright-yellow ? until its shuffled inscription is identified. Its cursed appearance is scroll of cursing.
Generation and appearance
Once item generation has selected the scroll class, it chooses uniformly among all 24 scroll IDs and copies the selected definition. The class definitions are neutral by default. Thirty unidentified inscriptions are shuffled at game initialization, so the visible label does not reliably identify this type between games.
Data and mechanics
The definition has base value 400, item level 2, weight 5, fragility 1, and the COMMON flag. The base value is the definition value, not a promised shop price. Reading is unavailable while blind or afraid; cancelling the inventory prompt spends no scroll, while successful dispatch normally consumes one.
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| BUC state | Result |
|---|---|
| Blessed | Prompts for a target. Blessing -2 disintegrates, values below -2 resist, eligible values below +2 rise by 1, and plus becomes abs(plus)+1. |
| Uncursed | Prompts for a target. Values below -1 resist; eligible values below +1 rise by 1 and plus becomes abs(plus)+1. It cannot disintegrate an item. |
| Cursed | Chooses random equipped gear, lowers its blessing by 2, and reduces its plus when the result is cursed. |
Effects and interactions
A neutral or blessed scroll prompts for a target. If the target can accept the effect, its blessing rises by 1 and its plus becomes abs(plus)+1. A blessed scroll can disintegrate a target at blessing -2, while still more cursed targets resist. A cursed scroll instead selects a random equipped possession, lowers its blessing by 2, and may reduce its plus.
The type is globally identified in every BUC state before the target routine runs. Cash is unaffected. Cancelling a helpful target produces no item change, but the scroll has already entered the normal consumption path.
Strategy
Bless known equipment rather than gambling on a severely cursed target. A blessed copy is the only state that can remove a -2 item by disintegration; a neutral copy cannot. Unequip important gear before reading a suspected cursed copy to reduce the eligible target set.
Trivial
A search of public Omega and roguelike sources found no reliable creator statement establishing a specific cultural origin for this scroll's name. The article therefore treats the source-code name as canonical without assigning an unsupported reference.