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Mike's Adventure Game - Mini FAQ - Traps, Food, Potions, Scrolls,
Experience Levels, Objects, Treasure

November 25, 2005 - Here is a mini faq
for the excellent MAG roguelike game. I release this
FAQ into the public domain - Steve Ued.

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Mini-FAQ Contents:
1. Game Information
2. Mini-FAQ Information
3. Mini-FAQ public domain notice
4. The game
4.1 Experience Levels
4.2 Dungeon Level Generation
4.3 Traps
4.4 Objects
4.4.1 Food
4.4.2 Potions
4.4.3 Scrolls
4.4.3 Rings
5. Mini-FAQ Version Information

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Section 1. Game Information:

Mike's Adventure Game is a roguelike game developed by
Michael J. Teixeira in 1986-1988. MAG and PCMAG are
shortened names for this game. MAG is quite similar
to Rogue as well as Hack (which is the ancestor of Nethack).

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Section 2. Mini FAQ Information:

a) This FAQ is based on playing the game as well
as looking at the game source code.
b) This FAQ is not done with any help or endorsement
of MAG's creator Michael Teixeira.
c) This is a mini-FAQ until it covers all of the major
sections of the game.
d) This FAQ is donated to the public domain with no
restrictions on use.
e) This FAQ will be posted to the
rec.games.roguelike.development usenet group.
f) I'd appreciate any information that Michael Teixeira
could post to rec.games.roguelike.development about
the game.

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Section 3. Mini-FAQ public domain notice

This FAQ for Mike's Adventure Game is donated to the
public domain.

Please do not remove this public domain notice if you
put this on a web site, email, usenet post, ftp site, etc.
since the purpose of the FAQ is to encourage people to
play MAG as well as to encourage developers of future
games.

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Section 4. The Game

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Section 4.1. Experience Levels

Players gain experience in one of three ways:
1) Killing monsters
2) Drinking potion of raise level
3) Eating a mushroom - only 2.78 percent of the time
(see section on food for more mushroom information)

Gaining an experience level has the following effects:
a) Adding 2 to 10 hit points to maximum hit points as
well as current hit points
b) (unverified ????) Making the player a more effective
fighter.

Players start the game with 12 hit points 95 percent time
and 5 percent of the time start with 10 to 14 hit points.

Experience levels are given by the table below. The points
to reach level X is given by the formula "100 * (2^X)"
where "2^X" is 2 raised to the X power.

level | experience points | title
------|-------------------|-----------------------
1 | 0 | Novice
2 | 200 | Adventurer
3 | 400 | Veteran
4 | 800 | Warrior
5 | 1,600 | Swordsman
6 | 3,200 | Warder
7 | 6,400 | Myrmidon
8 | 12,800 | Hero
9 | 25,600 | Swashbuckler
10 | 51,200 | Protector
11 | 102,400 | Defender
12 | 204,800 | Champion
13 | 409,600 | Superhero
14 | 819,200 | Chevalier
15 | 1,638,400 | Knight
16 | 3,276,800 | Knight Errant
17 | 6,553,600 | Lord
18 | 13,107,200 | Lord Keeper
19 | 26,214,400 | High Lord
20* | 52,428,800 | Lord Noble
* The maximum experience level is 20.

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Section 4.3. Dungeon Level Generation

(To be done - give statistics on how levels are generated
starting with
number of rooms,
types of rooms,
decoration in a room (water, torch),
distribution of traps,
distribution of objects
distribution of treasure
distribution of monsters)

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Section 4.3. Traps

Trap Facts:

1) Traps can affect both players and dungeon creatures.

2) Traps are hidden until the player steps on one or
until a monster steps on it when the monster is
visible to the player (usually while in the same room).

3) A player avoids traps 47.5 percent of the time. (Unknown
if a monster always set off traps ???).

While playing the game I've seen a monster chose to
not step on a trap even though the trap is in the
shortest path to the player.

4) A ring of free action allows the player to avoid all traps

5) A monter can be affected by a trap even when the monster is
not visible to the player (i.e., in another room).

6) The number of traps per dungeon level is:

levels | minimum | maximum | formula used
--------|---------|---------|-------------------------------
1 - 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 + rnd(2)
11 - 20 | 1 | 5 | 1 + rnd(2) + rnd(4)
21+ | 1 | 8 | 1 + rnd(2) + rnd(4) + rnd(4)

NOTE: rnd(X) is calculated using "(rand() MOD X)" where rand()
generates an integer random number

===
Traps are generated with equal frequency (1 out of 9 chance
(11.1 percent) to generate each trap).

Trap Frequency | Trap Name | Basic Effect
---------------|-----------------|------------------
11.1 percent | Bear trap | Stuck
11.1 percent | Flying spear | Damage
11.1 percent | Pendulum | Damage
11.1 percent | Poison needle | Poison
11.1 percent | Sleeping gas | Sleep
11.1 percent | Spider web | Stuck
11.1 percent | Strangle weed | Stuck and Damage
11.1 percent | Stun | Damage and one of
| | (Confused, Sleep or Blind)
11.1 percent | Teleportation | Teleport to random location

Types of Traps

1) Bear trap:
Player:
- Effect: Player loses 1 to 6 hit points and becomes
stuck. See "Being Stuck" section below
Player stuck for 1 turn if wearing a ring of
free action or 5 to 9 turns otherwise.
- Message: "A bear trap snaps shut on your foot!"
- Message when avoided: no message

Monster:
- Effect: Monster loses 1 to 6 hit points and becomes
stuck. See "Being Stuck" section below
- Message: "A bear trap snaps shut on the MONSTER_NAME."

2) Flying spear: Has no effect when in a maze room.
Player:
- Effect: Same damage as being attacked with a spear.
Damage is 0 to 4 points.
Damage type for a spear is "2d3" which is a
random number from 0 to 2 plus another random
number from 0 to 2.
- Message: "A spear shoots out from a hole in the wall!"
- Message when avoided: no message

Monster: not affected by this trap

3) Pendulum:
Player:
- Effect: Player loses (5 + dungeon_level) to (9 +
dungeon_level) hit points
The percent chance to be damaged by this trap
is given the table below.

experience | Percent chance
level | to be damaged
-----------|--------------
1 | 45.0
2 | 42.5
3 | 40.0
4 | 37.5
5 | 35.0
6 | 32.5
7 | 30.0
8 | 27.5
9 | 25.0
10 | 22.5
11 | 20.0
12 | 17.5
13 | 15.0
14 | 12.5
15 | 10.0
16 | 7.5
17 | 5.0
18 | 2.5
19+ | 0.0

- Message: "A huge sharp pendulum blade swings down from
above..."

Monster:
- Effect: Monster loses (5 + dungeon_level) to (9 +
dungeon_level) hit points
- Message: "A pendulum swings down and slices into the
MONSTER_NAME!" (only if monster visible to player)

4) Poison needle:
Player:
- Effect: Player loses 5 to 9 hit points and strength.

Strength is not lost if player is wearing a ring of
sustain strength.

There is a 50 percent chance that player strength will
go down 1 point for 500 to 999 turns.

There is a 50 percent chance that strength will be down
2 points for 500 to 999 turns and then be down 1 point
for an additional 500 to 999 turns.

It takes 500-999 turns to regain 1 strength point.

- Message: "Ouch! A poison needle stabbed you in the foot."
- Message when avoided: no message

Monster:
- Effect: Monster loses 5 to 9 hit points.
- Message: "A needle jabs the MONSTER_NAME."

5) Sleeping gas:
Player:
- Effect: Player falls asleep for 5 to 9 turns
- Message: "A curious white mist encircles you...you
fall asleep."
- Message when avoided: no message

Monster:
- Effect: Monster sleeping (for how long ???. Source
code looks like monster sleeps until woken
up by player)
- Message: "A faint white wisp of mist encircles
the MONSTER_NAME."

6) Spider web:
Player:
- Effect: player cannot move. See "Being Stuck" section below
- Message: "You are caught in a sticky, strandy spider web!"
- Message when avoided by ring of free action:
"Wait! The web melts and you pass through it."

Monster:
- Effect: Monster cannot move. See "Being Stuck" section below
- Monster message if monster visible to player:
"The MONSTER_NAME gets caught in a spider web!"

7) Strangle weed:
NOTE: Each strangle weed trap will have treasure on top of it.
Player:
- Effect: Player becomes stuck and loses 1 hit point
each turn. See "Being Stuck" section below
- Message: "A weed snakes out and wraps around your neck!"
- Message when avoided: no message
- Message when avoided by ring of free action: "You manage
to slip from its grasp!"

Monster:
- Effect: Monster becomes stuck and loses 1 to 4 hit
points. See "Being Stuck" section below
- Message: "A weed snakes out and wraps around the
MONSTER_NAME!"

8) Stun:
Player:
- Effect: Player loses 1 to 5 hit points and one of the
following

- Message: "<<ZZRRRRAAAPP>> An electric burning rips
through your body!"
- Message when avoided: no message

Monster:
- Effect: Monster loses 1 hit point and has a 50 percent
chance to become stuck or 50 percent chance to
become confused. See "Being Stuck" section below
- Message: "You hear a zapping sound." (Always printed
even for monsters not visible to the player.)

9) Teleportation:
Player:
- Effect: Player teleported to a random square on the
current dungeon level and is confused for 1 to
3 turns. (Need to verify if this includs being
teleported into vaults.???)
- Message: no message

Monster:
- Effect: Monster teleported to a random square on
the current dungeon level.
- Message: no message

Being Stuck:
- Player: Player has to try to move for 5 to 9 turns
to escape the trap.

- Monster: If not on the sapphire level the monster has
a 1 out of 7 chance (14 percent) to escape

If on the sapphire level, the moster will be
stuck for 1 turn if it is already damaged or
be stuck for 2 turns if it is not damaged
when it becomes stuck.

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Section 4.3 Objects

Dungeon objects fall into the two types: treasure and
non-treasure.

The only unique object in the game is the sapphire. The
goal of the game is to find the sapphire and return it
to the surface (i.e., exit the dungeon with it). The
sapphire is found on a level with only two objects: a key
and the sapphire.

Treasure:

treasure | percent |
| chance |
---------|--------------|--------------
Platinum | 8.3 percent | 3 out of 36
Gold | 30.6 percent | 11 out of 36
Electum | 30.6 percent | 11 out of 36
Silver | 30.6 percent | 11 out of 36

The amount of treasure in each pile is given by the
following table. There can be multiple piles of
treasure on the same dungeon level.

dungeon level | treasure amount
--------------|-----------------
1 to 3 | 1 to 52 pieces
4 to 7 | 1 to 102 pieces
8 to 11 | 1 to 152 pieces
12 to 15 | 1 to 202 pieces
16 to 19 | 1 to 252 pieces
20 to 23 | 1 to 302 pieces
25 to 27 | 1 to 352 pieces

Objects:

object | percent
type | chance
------------|------------
food | 6 percent
potion | 25 percent
scroll | 25 percent
wand | 4 percent
ring | 3 percent
weapon | 15 percent
armor | 7 percent
shield | 5 percent
key | 3 percent
miscleanous | 4 percent
gem | 3 percent

Distribution:

object | distribution | different
type | | types
------------|-----------------------------
food | random | 7
potion | * see below | 20
scroll | * see below | 21
wand | random | 21
ring | random | 25
weapon | * see below | 14
armor | | 10
shield | | 4
key | random | 4
miscleanous | | 8
gem | random | 12

Potions:

percent | potion
chance |
--------|----------
5 | acid
5 | blindness
5 | confusion
5 | delusion
5 | extra healing
5 | gain strength
5 | haste self
* 7.5 | healing
* 2.5 | heroism
5 | invisibility
5 | levitation
5 | magic detection
5 | monster detection
5 | paralysis
5 | poison
* 2.5 | raise level
* 7.5 | restore strength
5 | see invisible
5 | self polymorph
5 | thirst quenching

Potions of heroism and raise level are twice as hard to find.

Potions of healing and restore strength are twice as easy to find.

This may not be such a bad thing since drinking a potion of
healing while your hit points are almost at maximum may raise your
hit points by 2. See healing potion in potions section for details.

Also, since drinking a potion of restore strength while at maximum
strength points will raise the player's strength by 1 point 33
percent of the time.

Scrolls:

percent | scroll
chance |
---------|------------
4.28 | aggravate monster
4.28 | confuse monster
4.28 | continual light
4.28 | create monster
4.28 | detect food
4.28 | enchant armor
4.28 | enchant weapon
4.28 | galvanization
* 2.14 | genocide
* 2.14 | hold monster
* 11.42 | identify
4.28 | labyrinth
* 11.42 | magic mapping
4.28 | negation
4.28 | object attraction
4.28 | remove curse
4.28 | restore charges
4.28 | scare monster
4.28 | sleep
4.28 | teleportation
4.28 | treasure finding

Weapons:

percent | weapon
chance |
--------|-----------
6.6 | arrow
6.6 | long bow
6.6 | crossbow bolt
6.6 | crossbow
6.6 | sling bullet
6.6 | sling
* 10 | dagger
6.6 | dart
6.6 | flail
6.6 | hand axe
6.6 | long sword
6.6 | mace
6.6 | boulder
6.6 | spear
* 3.3 | two-handed sword

Weapons have the following enchantment percentage.

Damage:

percent | damage
chance | enchantment
--------|--------------
2.8 | -3
2.8 | -2
2.8 | -2
* 82.8 | none
2.8 | +1
2.8 | +2
2.8 | +3

To Hit Bonus:

percent | to hit bonus
chance | enchantment
--------|--------------
3.5 | -3
3.5 | -2
3.5 | -2
* 78.5 | none
3.5 | +1
3.5 | +2
3.5 | +3

Armor:

percent | armor
chance |
--------|--------------
10 | banded
10 | chain
10 | coconut
10 | leather
* 15 | padded
* 5 | plate
10 | ring
10 | scale
10 | splint
10 | studded leather

Shield:

percent | shield
chance |
--------|----------------
25 | buckler
* 32.5 | medium shield
25 | great shield
* 12.5 | mithril shield

Miscleanous:

percent | misceleanous item
chance |
--------|----------------------
14.2 | compass of translocation
14.2 | cross
14.2 | mirror
14.2 | oil flask
14.2 | tinderbox
14.2 | vial of ethereal oil
14.2 | chime of opening

There are two types of rooms and each type of room has a
different object and treasure generation method.

Normal Rooms:

Normal rooms have both treasure and non-treasure objects.

The following table gives the probability of the number
of treasure items generated in that room.

number | percent
treasure | chance
items |
---------|--------------------------------------------
1 | 50 percent -> 1 out of 2
2 | 12.5 percent -> 1 out of 8
3 | 3.125 percent -> 1 out of 32
4 | 0.781 percent -> 1 out of 128
5 | 0.195 percent -> 1 out of 512
6 | 0.049 percent -> 1 out of 2048
7 | 0.012 percent -> 1 out of 8192
...
X | 1/2 * (1/4)^(X-1)

In addition to random treasure, each and every strangle
weed trap will have treasure.

Non-Treasure objects are generated with the following
percentages.

number | percent
non-treasure | chance
items |
-------------|--------------------------------------------
1 | 40 percent -> 4 out of 10
2 | 5 percent -> 4 out of 80
3 | 0.625 percent -> 4 out of 640
4 | 0.078 percent -> 4 out of 5120
5 | 0.010 percent -> 4 out of 40960
6 | 0.001 percent -> 4 out of 327680
...
X | 4/10 * (1/8)^(X-1)

Treasure Trove Rooms:

Each square inside of a treasure trove room has a chance
to have something.

The type of object or type of treasure are generated as
described above.

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Section 4.3.1. Food

Food:

Types of Food:

The seven types of food and 1 food type potion are given
in the table below.

--------------------|-------|------------|----------------
| | food units |
| food | if rotten | percent chance
food name | units | (1/8th) | of being rotten
--------------------|-------|------------|----------------
food ration | 1400 | 175 | 20 percent
slime mold | 1200 | 150 | 20 percent
beef jerky | 1000 | 125 | 20 percent
moldy cheese wedge | 800 | 100 | 20 percent
stale bread roll | 600 | 75 | 20 percent
dried fruit | 400 | 50 | 20 percent
mushroom | 200 | n/a | never rotten
potion of quench thirst* (sets food units
to 1900. See potions section of FAQ)
----------------------------------------------------------

Non-Mushrooms:
a) The message "You still feel a little hungry." will be
printed for non-mushrooms where the player has less than
200 food units remaining.

Mushrooms:
a) A mushroom will set player food units to a minimum of
250 units
b) A mushroom has one of the following effects.

Raising strength will increase maximum strength if needed

The 'F' (food) command will print out message telling how full you are.

Food facts:
a) The player starts the game with 1000 food units.
b) A potion of quench thirst sets food units to 1900 and
stops the player from being hungry or fainting.
c) A ring of sustinance will give a 33.3 percent chance of
1 extra food unit per turn
d) Food units are decreased by 1 on each turn that does some
action (e.g., moving, quaffing a potion, reading a
scroll, etc.).
Attempting to move into a wall, looking at inventory
does not, etc., does not decrease food units.
e) Eating food cures fainting.
f) The maximum number of food units you can have is 2000. The
message "You ate too much and vomited!" will be printed and
the player will become hungry in 2 moves if he exceeds this
2000 food unit limit.
g) The player has 100 turns after becoming hungry before
fainting starts.
h) Fainting from lack of food causes the player to sleep for 2
to 6 turns. The player will faint again in 1 to 19 turns.

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Section 4.4. Potions

Drinking a potion causes:
- The player to gain 10 experience points
- Self identifying potions to become known to the player and
visible via the 'a' command.
- Non-self identifying potions to prompt the user to call
the potion a user entered name.
- Every potion can be thrown at (monsters ???) (???what are the
effects, can it (e.g., acid) be thrown at other things??)

Potion:
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Acid:
- Effect: Player takes a random number of hit points damage from 0
to
all of the player's current hit points. This can kill
even
a completely healed up player.
The source code comment is "/* damn, I'm mean */"
- Message: "YAAAAHH! The fluid burns your entrails!"
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Blindness: (Self identifying)
- Effect: player blind for 400 to 799 turns
- Message: "A cloak of darkness falls around you!"
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Confusion:
- Effect: player confused for 10 to 19 turns
- Message: no message
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Delusion:
- Effect: Player hallucinates until he is cured.
He has a 1.33 percent chance to be cured each turn
(1/75).
- Message: "Everything seems so cosmic!"
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Extra Healing:
- Effect: heals player, cures blindness, cures confusion
(More healing than a "Healing" potion)
- If player is healed above maximum hit points then
maximum hit points is increased by 2.
Let X = random number 0 to (max hit points / 2)
Heals "(max hit points / 4) + 2X" hit points
- Message: "You feel much better."
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Gain Strength:
- Effect: player gains gain 1 point of strength.
- This will raise strength if player is already
at maximum strength
- Message: "Your muscles start growing before your very eyes!
-------------------------------------------------------
Haste Self: (Self identifying)
- Effect: speed up the player for 10 to 14 turns
- Message: "You feel yourself speeding up..."
-------------------------------------------------------
Healing:
- Effect: heals player, cures blindness, cures confusion
(Less healing than an "Extra Healing" potion)
- If player is healed above maximum hit points then
maximum hit points is increased by 2.
Let X = random number 0 to (max hit points / 4)
Heals "(max hit points / 4) + 2X" hit points
- Message: "You feel better."
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Heroism:
- Effect: If player is level 16 or higher, it has no effect

If player is level 1 to 15, for 40 to 79 turns the
player gains:
- temporary raised 3 experience levels
- temporary gains 30 hit points
- temporary maximum hit points increased by 30
hit points

If the player is level 1 to 15, the player will
permanently gain 1 experience level if he drinks a
second heroism potion while under the effect of a
heroism potion. After permanently gaining the level,
the temporary effects of heroism potion takes effect.
- Message: If there was no effect: "You feel zonked-out for a
moment."
If there was an effect: "Wow! You feel extremely
powerful!"
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Invisibility: (Self identifying)
- Effect: player is invisible for 250 to 499 turns
- Message: no message
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Levitation: (Self identifying)
- Effect: Player floats in the air for 100 to 149 turns.
There is a 50 percent chance that the player will
take 1 to 4 hit points of damage when levitation ends.
- Message: "You slowly rise above the ground."
If player lands without being damaged: "You gently sink
to the ground."
If player lands and is damaged: "You crash to the
ground!"
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Magic Detection: (Self identifying)
- Effect: Any magic items on the level will become visible
- Message: If magic items were made visible: "You sense the
presence of magic!"
If there are no magic items on the level: "You feel a
pull downward."
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Monster Detection: (Self identifying)
- Effect: Any monsters on the level will become visible
- Message: If monsters were made visible: "You sense the monsters
around you!"
If there are no magic items on the level: "You feel a
pull downward."
-------------------------------------------------------
Paralysis: (Self identifying)
- Effect: player paralized for 10 to 14 turns
- Message: "Your feet are frozen to the ground!"
-------------------------------------------------------
Poison: (Self identifying)
- Effect: If wearing a ring of sustain strength, nothing happens.
Otherwise, lose 1 or 2 strength points (permanently ??)
- Message: "Oh, yucko...poison!"
If not affected: "But you feel fine!"
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Raiselevel: (Self identifying)
- Effect: Player gains 1 experience level.
- Message: "You feel more experienced!"
-------------------------------------------------------
Restore Strength:
- Effect: If player is at maximum strength, player will gain 1
strength
point 33.3 percent of the time.
If player is below maximum strength, it sets strength to

maximum strength.
- Message: "You feel warm and tingly all over!"
-------------------------------------------------------
Polymorph Self: (Self identifying)
- Effect: If player is not invisible, player becomes polymorphed
into a
monster for 50 to 99 turns.
If player is invisible, nothing happens.
- Message: If nothing happens because player is invisible: "It
tastes
yummy and magical, but nothing happens."
-------------------------------------------------------
See Invisible:
- Effect: Player is cured of blindness and can see
invisible monsters for 5000 turns.
- Message: "This tastes like fruit juice."
-------------------------------------------------------
Quench Thirst:
- Effect: Player is cured of hunger and fainting and has food
units set to 1900.
- Message: No message
-------------------------------------------------------
Otherwise:
- Effect: None
(?? Is this a way to ignore unknown potion bugs???)
- Message: "quaff: Unknown potion!"
-------------------------------------------------------

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Section 4.5. Scrolls

The player gains 10 experience points every time he reads a scroll.

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Agravate Monsters:
- Effect: Wakes all sleep monsters and makes them aggravated
- Message: "You hear a high pitched shrieking sound."

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Negation:
- Effect: Negates all active magic. Cures or stops all of the
following:
Confused monsters
Confused player
Blindness
Player speed / player haste self
Player Invisiblity
Player heroism
Player levitation
- Message: "This scroll appears to be blank."

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Confuse Monster:
- Effect: Player will confuse any monster he hits with a hand to
hand attack. (?? Need to verify that this is only for hand to hand
attack and does not include missile weapons)
This ability lasts for 100 to 199 turns.
- Message: "Your hands begin to glow irridescently."

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Create Monster:
- Effect: If the player is not in a labyrinth level, it creates
a random monster in a square adjacent to the player if
there
is an empty square.
If the player is in a labyrinth level, no monster is
created.
- Message: If a monster was created: "Fwwoooosh..."
If a monster was not created: "Nothing happens."

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Detect Food: (Self identifying)
- Effect: Makes all treasure visible to the player
- Message: If there was some food made visible: "You sniff the
presence of food!"
If there was no food: "Your nose tingles."

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Detect Treasure: (Self identifying)
- Effect: Makes all treasure visible to the player
- Message: If there was some treasure made visible: "You sense the
presence of treasure!"
If there was no treasure: "You feel a pull downward."

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Enchant Armor:
- Effect: Player can select a piece of armor to increase its armor
class by 1.
A cursed piece of armor becomes uncursed.
The player's armor class is increased by 1 if he is wearing that
armor.
- Message: "This is a scroll of enchant armor!"

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Enchant Weapon:
- Effect: Player can select a weapon to increase damage or attack
rating.
A cursed weapon becomes uncursed.
Wands and staves get a +1 to damage rating.
All other weapons have a 50 percent chance to get a +1 damage rating
or a 50 percent chance to get a +1 to hit rating.
(??? needs to be verified - utilize())
- Message: "This is a scroll of enchant weapon!"

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Galvanize:
- Effect: Player can protect 1 piece of armor from rust.
This has no effect on coconut, mithril, and padded armor.
- Message: "You seem to see the image of a man with red hair."
"Wow! This is a scroll of galvanization!"
If the armor is not affected by galanization: "Not much
happens to it."
If the armor is galvanized: "Your ARMOR_NAME ARMOR_TYPE
glows golden-red!"

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Genocide:
- Effect: Player can kill all monsters of one type and no more
monsters of that type will be generated on any new
levels or as wandering monsters.
This does not work on red dragons. The player will
become blind for 2 to 4 turns if genocide scroll used
on red dragons.
- Message: "Behold! You have been granted the boon of genocide!"

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Hold Monster:
- Effect: None. It appears that this is a joke played at the
player's expense because of the old hold monster trick
(bug?)
in Rogue. Rogue is the original roguelike game. Is 'Tex'
an abbreviation of the game author's last name?
- Message: "You hear Tex's maniacal laughter in the distance."

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Identify:
- Effect: Allows the player to identify 1 item
- Message: "This is a scroll of identify!"

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Labyrinth:
- Effect: Sends the player to a large 1 room labyrinth
level (a big maze room). The player returns to
the current level after finding the exit of the
labyrinth.
(to do - fill out effects of labyrinths in the rooms
section)
- Message: (to do ???)

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Light:
- Effect: If player is in a room, lights up current room and
each monster in that room has a 25 percent chance to
become confused.
Player has a 25 percent chance to be blinded for 2 to 3
turns.
- Message: If player is not in a room: "There is a momentary bright
flash."

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Magic Mapping:
- Effect: Draws a map of the current level
- Message: "Oh! This has a map on it."

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Object Attract:
- Effect: Teleports 3 to 5 objects on the current level to
be in a square next to the player.
- Message: "You feel pulled in all directions!"

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Remove Curse:
- Effect: Removes curse from any cursed object in use by the player.
- Message: "It feels like someone is helping you."

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Restore Charges:
- Effect: Allows the player to add 2 to 6 charges to a wand or
staff.
(??? needs to be verified - utilize())
- Message: "This is a scroll of restore charges!"

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Scare Monster:
- Effect: All monsters within 7 rows or columns are scared of the
player.
This is a box around the player and does not count
diagonal
distance as longer.
- Message: "There is dead silence momentarily."

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Sleep:
- Effect: The player has a chance to avoid sleep based on player
level.
Player is put to sleep for 10 to 14 turns based on the
formula:
Player level <= (random number from 0 to 19)

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Teleport:
- Effect: Teleports the player to a random dungeon location
Player becomes unstuck and is escapes any strangle
weed trap he is in before the teleport.
You cannot be teleported into a treasure trove room.
- Message: no message

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Default: (to handle unknown scroll errors)
- Effect: no effect
- Message: "readscrl: Unknown scroll!"

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Section 4.6. Rings

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- Add Strength: (Self identifying)
Player's strength and maximum strength are increased
????

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- Adornment: (Cursed)
Does nothing

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- Aggravate Monster: (Cursed)
Wakes up all monsters on the level and makes the aggravated

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- Decrease Damage: (Cursed)
????

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- Decrease Hit Points: (Self identifying, cursed)
Reduce player's hit points by (amt ?? need to verify the amount)
This may kill the player.

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- Dexterity:
????

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- Fire Resistance:
????

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- Free Action:
????

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- Fumbling: (Cursed)
????

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- Increase Damage:
????

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- Increase Hit Points: (Self identifying)
????

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- Magic Absorption:
????

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- Protection: (Self identifying)
Player's armor class is increased

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- Randomness:
????

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- Regeneration:
????

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- Resurrection:
????

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- Searching:
????

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- See Invisible:
Player can see invisible monsters

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- Stealth:
????

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- Sustain Strength:
????

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- Sustinance:
????

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- Teleport: (Cursed)
Player teleports to a random location in 50 to 74 turns

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- Vulnerability: (Self identifiying, cursed)
Player's armor class is reduced

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- Warmth:
????

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- Weakness: (Self identifiying, cursed)
Reduces player's strength and maximum strength

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Section 5. Mini-FAQ Version Information

v00.01 - November 12, 2005 - Initial version covering traps
v00.02 - November 14, 2005 - Food added, experience points, FAQ
message, etc.
v00.03 - November 16, 2005 - Added potions
v00.04 - November 17, 2005 - Added scrolls
v00.05 - November 25, 2005 - Added how dungeon items and treasure are
generated

=== end of mini FAQ ===

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