Re: cursed marker trick [WAS:Re: Advice for a Castle virgin? (also, when should a Monk do the Quest?)]

John H. wrote:

Topi Linkala wrote:

As long as you are able to bless and curse blank scrolls there is no
need to wish for blessed or cursed markers. It's even counter productive
to do so as blessed marker cannot write cursed scrolls and cursed marker
cannot write blessed scrolls.


Good point about the inability to write opposite-curse-state scrolls
with a marker. However, it is not true that there's no need for
blessed/cursed markers if you have a means of blessing or cursing
scrolls. There is no means of blessing or cursing in the game that
does not deplete eventually, and I've had many games where I was in
danger of running out of holy water. Indeed, it's one of the greater
problems in my games.

I always have an abundace of water. Maybe it's becouse I've never had a reason to have 100 dilluted potions of full healing.

But anyway, what do you do with the cursed blank scrolls that paper golems drop? Do you cancel them and if so, what for?

I do concur that if you are making a speed accencion then you might have a reason to wish for cursed MM, but if you take your time you never run out of cursed (or blessed scrolls).

So don't give a newbie an impression that you _need_ to wish for cursed MM's.

Topi
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