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BattleAxe Registered user Last page view: 6333 days, 56 minutes and 2 seconds ago. |
Are there any penalties to reading Tracts of Order, Tracts of Balance, and Tracts of Choas? |
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Jan Erik Administrator Last page view: 1 day, 3 hours, 28 minutes and 31 seconds ago. |
Well tracts of Chaos can corupt you IIRC. I also think reading the "wrong" kind of tract (depending on alignment) will negatively affect your standing with your diety, though I must admit I'm a bit fuzzy on the spesifics... Jan Erik Mydland HoF admin |
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PeanutGod Registered user Lord of Misery Last page view: 5052 days, 20 hours and 29 minutes ago. |
There certainly is. Reading a tract of Order of Order or Balance will cause you to lose some piety. So basically, you need to be very close to your God when you read them. What they do is remove a slight bit of corruption. However the piety loss is the price. Reading a tract of Chaos works in the reverse, granting a slight bit of corruption, but still with some piety loss. I tried it a few times with scrolls of Dark predictions, and had a slight change afterwards in both situations. _____ What do you wish for: Babes "We are feelings lonely aren't we?" Ladies and Gentleman, take my advice. Pull down your pants, and slide on the ice. |
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tongHoAnh Registered user adoomed Last page view: 6627 days, 14 hours, 30 minutes and 27 seconds ago. |
Hmm, I'm thinking along the line of: Obtain a natural corruption Read tract of order to get rid of it. Read tract of chaos to get a new one. Repeat till you get one of the light corruption. My RL dumpyard: http://www.geocities.com/ceruleannebula/index.html |
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Silfir Registered user Writer of Overly Long Guides Last page view: 4069 days, 27 minutes and 31 seconds ago. |
Instead of reading tracts of chaos, how about triggering corruption traps instead? You drop the golden ball. You kick the golden ball. It slides to the west. Suddenly Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, appears! "That's not how you play Quidditch! are you even listening?" Which direction? (123456789) 4 Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is hit by a bolt of acid! Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is annihilated. You hear the ecstatic cries of a large crowd! |
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Molach Registered user Lord of DurisMud Last page view: 5142 days, 5 hours, 39 minutes and 44 seconds ago. |
Yeah reading chaos tome is a bad idea, since you should be L alignment for reading the Order one. Tract of order is very good for this purpose, you read it right after getting an undesirable corruption. |
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Nchurmdaz Registered user Goblin flash mobber Last page view: 5988 days, 14 hours, 23 minutes and 10 seconds ago. |
Hmm.. They are 250 stones each? I'll get one for meself. Ubi patria ibi bene! |
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Sargoth Registered user Bard Last page view: 4956 days, 10 hours, 8 minutes and 31 seconds ago. |
Isn't there some sort of bug involved with the tracts? I think I have read as much in these very forums... http://tankefel.blogspot.com/ So far you have only killed one wild cat. |
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Nchurmdaz Registered user Goblin flash mobber Last page view: 5988 days, 14 hours, 23 minutes and 10 seconds ago. |
What kind of bug? I've found all three types of tracts during adventures. All of them were legible. Ubi patria ibi bene! |
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anonumus Unregistered user |
I once read a tract of order on i think it was D48 the *turn* after getting a corruption. It had no effect. |
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Iridia Moderator on this forum YASD Last page view: 3756 days, 8 hours, 29 minutes and 31 seconds ago. |
Well, D48 has quite a bad corruption rate; you could have gained the corruption points right back while you were reading the tome. Die Gedanken sind Frei |
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Morio Registered user Holy Champion of ADoM Last page view: 3898 days, 22 hours, 1 minute and 21 seconds ago. |
Tract of order 250s Tract of balance 200s Tract of chaos 150s also I've read that the game might crash when reading a tract of order, but I've never experienced that myself "I don't know what World War 3 will be fought with, but I know World War 4 with be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein |
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foxhenchman Unregistered user |
i read a tract of chaos by accident, and my deity (neutral) fought and resisted the chaotic deity. i didn't check, but i think i did not get any corruptions from it. |
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PowerWyrm Registered user Great Wyrm of Order Last page view: 4506 days, 22 hours, 7 minutes and 4 seconds ago. |
There was a point where reading any tract at any alignment did piss off your diety without having significant impact. Since then, I didn't bother to read and even carry tracts. Maybe that bug was corrected in the meantime... The Great Wyrm of Order breathes light (more) - wow, you feel very smart! |