Misleading Message?

[ManaUser]

I always thought this sounded wrong. When engrave-IDing a wand that does
something before you actually engrave anything like like Light or
Cancellation, I usually press Enter to cancel writing at that point and
see "The wand glows then fades." Since you already saw the wand do
something, to me that makes it sound as though you've used up second
charge somehow (which you haven't). Does anyone else think that's odd?

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[Raisse the Thaumaturge]

ManaUser wrote:

> I always thought this sounded wrong. When engrave-IDing a wand that does
> something before you actually engrave anything like like Light or
> Cancellation, I usually press Enter to cancel writing at that point and
> see "The wand glows then fades." Since you already saw the wand do
> something, to me that makes it sound as though you've used up second
> charge somehow (which you haven't). Does anyone else think that's odd?

It doesn't sound like that to me; it just uses up the charge you've
started already, same as if you let it do what it usually does (light up
the room, dig a hole, you name it). You might as well write.

Raisse, killed by a wand

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[Dylan O'Donnell]

Raisse the Thaumaturge <rai...@valdyas.org> writes:
> ManaUser wrote:
>
> > I always thought this sounded wrong. When engrave-IDing a wand that does
> > something before you actually engrave anything like like Light or
> > Cancellation, I usually press Enter to cancel writing at that point and
> > see "The wand glows then fades." Since you already saw the wand do
> > something, to me that makes it sound as though you've used up second
> > charge somehow (which you haven't). Does anyone else think that's odd?
>
> It doesn't sound like that to me; it just uses up the charge you've
> started already, same as if you let it do what it usually does (light up
> the room, dig a hole, you name it). You might as well write.

Except in the case of lightning, where you might want to avoid being
blinded.

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