Draft:Scroll of identification
| ? | |
| Type | Scroll |
|---|---|
| Base value (Au) | 20 |
| Item level | 0 |
| Weight | 5 |
| Unidentified appearance | Random inscription |
| Cursed name | Scroll of forgetfulness |
A scroll of identification reveals the identity and properties of possessions. Blessing changes its scope from one selected item to everything carried, making it especially useful after collecting several unknown items.[1]
Generation
It is an item-level-0 scroll, available through ordinary random generation, the changing stock at Knight's Pawn Shop, and acquirement. Its base value is 20 Au; that is not a universal shop quote.[2][3][4][5]
Description
| Scroll state | Scope | Result[6] |
|---|---|---|
| Uncursed | One selected accessible item | Identifies that item and teaches its type. |
| Blessed | All accessible possessions and backpack contents | Identifies every carried item and teaches their types. |
| Cursed | Every occupied accessible inventory slot | Clears those copies' individual identification and forgets their types. Backpack copies retain their individual identification. |
Accessible inventory includes the belt and shoulders, not just actively worn or wielded equipment. An uncursed scroll cannot select a backpack item until it is made accessible.[7] Food receives its food-identification state; other items receive full identification, including their individual properties. Forgetting a type through an accessible copy can still affect recognition of unknown backpack copies of that type.
The noncursed scroll makes its own type known before the selection or mass identification occurs. Cancelling the initial choice of what to read spends no scroll. Cancelling the subsequent identification target still consumes the scroll, although this particular cancellation sets the flag that skips the normal monster response. Do not treat that as a way to save the scroll.[8][9]
Strategy
Bless a copy before using it on a substantial haul: a single application of blessing can turn one identification into an inventory-wide result. Check unknown healing, escape and equipment items before depending on them in combat. Identification does not remove a curse or improve the object.
An uncursed copy can still be worth using immediately when one unknown item determines survival. Saving it for an ideal future haul is less useful than establishing that a needed healing potion or teleport scroll is safe now.
The identification spell and identification services provide alternatives when available. Jane's guide teaches a whole random category of types but does not identify every carried copy's blessing or enchantment; it is complementary to full identification. Avoid trying a possibly cursed identification scroll with valuable known possessions in accessible slots.
References
- ↑ iinit.h in Omega 0.90.4, line 108.
- ↑ item.c in Omega 0.90.4, line 7 (
create_object). - ↑ site1.c in Omega 0.90.4, line 1022 (
l_pawn_shop). - ↑ effect1.c in Omega 0.90.4, line 647 (
acquire). - ↑ item.c in Omega 0.90.4, line 167 (
make_scroll). - ↑ effect1.c in Omega 0.90.4, line 494 (
identify). - ↑ inv.c in Omega 0.90.4, line 548 (
getitem). - ↑ itemf1.c in Omega 0.90.4, line 170 (
i_id). - ↑ command2.c in Omega 0.90.4, line 38 (
peruse).