ANGBAND SESSION C
6/11/22
- New character: Leo the hobbit ranger. The angband manual says rangers need strength, intelligence, and dexterity, so I made him with attributes of 14/16/16/18/14 after bonuses.
- Hobbits have mushroom lore and hold life
- Mushroom lore is a racial ability - "you easily recognize mushrooms"
- Hold life is a racial ability - "your life force is substained"
	I assume that means drain resistance for hp?
- How much you can carry is effected by your strength
- I think history is just for flavor?
- Rangers start with 1 book of nature magics [lesser charms], 3 food rations, 1 scroll of word of recall, 2 torches, 1 main gauche, 2 short bows (?), and 16 arrows
- Town was selling different stuff, but still had 40 phase door scrolls
- Potion: Cure light wounds
	heals 20 hp, cures blindness, reduces length of wounds by 20 turns, reduces length of confusion by 20 turns, feeds you 1%
	so I guess wounds is a harmful status effect, probably similar to poison
- Potion: Cure critical wounds
	Heals 60 hp, cures blindness, cures wounds, cures poisoning, cures stunning, cures amnesia, cures confusion, feeds 1%
- Potion: Resist cold
	Extends cold resistance for 50+1d10 turns
	Q: does cold resistance make you immune or just resistant
- Scroll: magic mapping
	"maps the area around you"
	Q: does it have a range?
	useful for finding buried treasure
- Scroll: holy chant
	Extends your AC and to-hit bonus for 12+1d24 turns
	Q: how much? also, how is this different from blessing (other than the duration)
- Scroll: Monster confusion
	extends monster confusion for 10000 turns
- Mushroom: purging
	leaves you nourished 5%, restores strength, restores constitution, cures poisoning
	Q: "restores"? like if stats were drained?
- Can buy picks and shovels in the general store
- Q: what does the "take notes" command do?
- Q: do spellbooks teach spells, or do I have to carry them around with me?
- Q: does ammo break?
- Scroll: teleportation
	"teleports you randomly a level-dependent distance"
	Q: xp level or depth level?
- Scroll: identify rune
	"identifies a single unknown rune on a selected item"
- Q: does it say "you do not know the full extent of this item's powers" on all items, or just ones with powers
- curse: steelskin
	makes your skin harder to damage, but conduct electricity
- curse: rune of hallucination
	occasionally makes you hallucinate
- status effect: hallucination
	just makes random symbols appear on your screen
- the manual says stores restock every 10000 turns
- you can still shoot while scared
- phase door teleports you 10 grids away
- shriekers make nearby enemies faster
- Q: is buried treasure ever an item, as opposed to just money?
- potion: resist heat
	extends fire resistance for 50+1d10 turns
	Q: resist or immune?
- rods are a type of item which cast a spell, but must then be recharged
- rod: light
	deals 6d8 damage, increased by device skill
	takes 9 turns to recharge
- "a horn blast sounds! you hear a sudden stirring in the distance"
- encountered Farmer Maggot in town, and killed him. Feel kind of bad since he didn't attack me or anything, but he dropped a strong rapier.
	farmer maggot's rapier: (+8, +6), "slay evil" 
	slay evil means it does extra damage to evil creatures (not sure how/why)
- As a level 6 ranger, I have earned the title of Strider
	you'd think Aragorn would be higher than level 6
- "the cave spider bites you! you have been given a graze"
	... "you are no longer bleeding"
- wand: darkness
	creates a line of darkness dealing 6d8 damage
- i'm gonna try throwing potions
- radiation eye: drains mana, drains strength
- idea: use fed% to keep track of time
- Q: what does it mean when it says shit like "a sling (x2)"
- my strength drain lasted a really long time, but finally went away when i went up a level
- potion: infravision
	extends enhanced infravision for 100+4d25 turns
	Q: if i already have infravision, does it do anything?
- rune: brightness
	+1 light
	I found on a torch, idk if it works on other things
- potion: true seeing
	cures blindness
	extends see invisible for 50+2d6 turns
- vomiting causes you to lose a lot of hunger
- potion: salt water
	nourishes 2%, cures poisoning, and paralyzes 4 turns. also causes you to vomit
- Book of Nature Magics [Lesser Charms]	
	Remove Hunger | lvl 3 | mana 1
		Raises your hunger to a maximum of 50%
	Detect life | lvl 5 | mana 2
		"detects all living monsters in the immediate area for one turn only"
	Herbal curing | lvl 9 | mana 6 | high fail%
- ooh, a copper mimic, fun
- detect treasure does not detect monsters mimicking treasure
- not all wands identify on cast
- when you are overburdened, you become slower
- staff: light
	creates a ball of light centered on and hitting the player, with radius 2, dealing 2d8 damage at the center
- wand: heal monster
	Q: by how much?
- potion: toughness
	restores constitution, increases constitution, reduces a different stat
- when "full" (above 90% fed), nutrition goes down very fast
- you cannot aim wands at yourself
- scrolls of remove hunger don't feed you directly, they just stop your hunger from dipping below 50%
- ran into Smeagol on L5. He robbed me :(
	Smeagol dropped:
	- my money back
	- 6 potions of cure serious wounds
	- [1, +6] leather sandals of slow descent
- protip: if an enemy is too fast for you, simply become faster
- wand: slow monster
- green jellies will damage your armor, but not your projectiles
- not all creatures are weak to light damage. usually only the "evil" ones
- when you buy unidentified items, you learn them
- Potion: healing
	heals 300 hp (or 35%, whichever is greater), cures blindness, cures wounds, cures poisoning, cures stunning, cures amnesia, cures confusion, feeds 1%
- Item: Sip of Miruvor
	feeds 3%, restores strength and constitution
- potion: contemplation
	restores wisdom, increases wisdom
	reduces a stat other than wisdom
- wand: stone-to-mud
	"creates a line of rock remover dealing 20+1d30 damage"
	Q: does this remove stone or just make it weaker
- potion of sleep:
	extends paralysis for 5+1d5 turns, feeds 1%
	throwable
- i think all potions feed 1%
- scroll of deep descent took me down 9 floors
- "this place seems murderous" (level 11)
- reading word of recall in town takes you to the last floor visited
- potion: blindness
	extends blindness for 75+4d25 turns
	throwable
- the manual says that you CAN sell things, so i've just been failing at that i guess
- manual: reading a second scroll of recall will cancel the first one
- might be good to carry 3 then