Re: Improve weapon scrolls

[Nick Williams <njw@cs.city.ac.uk>]

Excerpts from games.Crossfire: 20-May-94 Re: Improve weapon scrolls
Gregor Schmid@ivu-berlin (883)

> The restrictions that only the person that uses the prepare weapon
> scroll can use the weapon and that you can't enchant beyond your level
> are nice (read: absolutely essential), but how about a bit of extra
> risk ?

I remember someone once mentioning summoning of devils, etc.  If this
happens, then you could use the "surge" of magic to attract demons, as
if summoning....  in fact.  A highly magical artifact would in general
attract violent/evil/nasty/magical/bad things from the netherworld (and
this world).  

?>A demon appears in a cloud of smoke.
?>"I want your weapon" the demon says.
?>"now" the demon says.
?>you die.

Nick Williams, Systems Architecture Research Centre, City University, 
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