Miscast Effects (0.4.3)

While actual miscast effects can be harmless, failing to cast a spell gives always some magic contamination (except when Sif Muna protects you).

Conjuration

Severity 1

Message Effect
Various harmless messages No effect

Severity 2

Message Effect
Smoke pours from your hands! Cloud of grey smoke
A wave of violent energy washes through your body! Damage: 6 + random2avg(7, 2)

Severity 3

Message Effect
Energy rips through your body! Damage: 9 + random2avg(17, 2)
You are caught in a violent explosion! Explosion: 3d12

Severity 4

Message Effect
You are blasted with magical energy! Damage: 12 + random2avg(29, 2)
here is a sudden explosion of magical energy! Explosion: 3d20

Enchantment

Severity 1

Message Effect
No effect

Severity 2

Message Effect
Potion effect: levitation
Spell effect: random uselessness

Severity 3

Message Effect
You sense a malignant aura. Curses an item
Potion effect: slowing
Potion effect: berserk

Severity 4

Message Effect
You sense an overwhelmingly malignant aura! Curses several items
Potion effect: paralysis
Potion effect: confusion
You feel saturated with unharnessed energies! Magic contamination: random2avg(19,3)

Translocation

Severity 1

Message Effect
Various harmless messages No effect

Severity 2

Message Effect
You are caught in a localised field of spatial distortion. Damage: 4 + random2avg(9, 2)
Space bends around you! Damage: 4 + random2avg(7, 2) and random blink
Space twists in upon itself! Creates hostile spatial vortex

Severity 3

Message Effect
You are caught in a strong localised spatial distortion.
Space warps around you!
Space twists in upon itself! Creates 1-3 hostile spatial vortexes
Trip to Abyss!

Severity 4

Message Effect
You are caught in an extremely strong localised spatial distortion! Damage: 15 + random2avg(29, 2)
Space warps crazily around you! Damage: 9 + random2avg(17, 2), instant teleportation and confusion
Trip to Abyss!
You feel saturated with unharnessed energies! Magic contamination: random2avg(19,3)

Summoning

Severity 1

Message Effect
Various harmless messages No effect

Severity 2

Message Effect
You are caught in a localised spatial distortion. Damage: 5 + random2avg(9, 2)
Space twists in upon itself! Creates hostile spatial vortex
Something appears in a flash of light! Summons hostile lesser demon:
imp (17%),
white imp (15%),
lemure (15%),
ufetubus (15%),
manes (15%),
midge (15%) or
shadow imp (8%)

Severity 3

Message Effect
Space twists in upon itself! Creates 1-3 hostile spatial vortexes
Something forms out of thin air! Summons one hostile common demon:
neqoxec (14%),
orange demon (14%),
hellwing (14%),
smoke demon (14%),
ynoxinul (14%),
red devil (4%),
hellion (2%),
rotting devil (2%),
tormentor (2%),
reaper (2%),
soul eater (2%),
hairy devil (2%),
ice devil (2%),
blue devil (2%),
beast (2%),
iron devil (2%),
sun demon (1%) or
shadow imp (1%)
A chorus of chattering voices calls out to you! Summons 1-3 hostile lesser demons:
imp (17%),
white imp (15%),
lemure (15%),
ufetubus (15%),
manes (15%),
midge (15%) or
shadow imp (8%)

Severity 4

Message Effect
Something forms out of thin air. Summons hostile small abomination
You sense a hostile presence. Summons hostile greater demon:
cacodemon (13%),
balrug (13%),
blue death (13%),
green death (13%),
executioner (13%),
fiend (10%),
ice fiend (9%),
shadow fiend (8%) or
pit fiend (7%)
Something turns its malign attention towards you... Summons 1-3 hostile common demons:
neqoxec (14%),
orange demon (14%),
hellwing (14%),
smoke demon (14%),
ynoxinul (14%),
red devil (4%),
hellion (2%),
rotting devil (2%),
tormentor (2%),
reaper (2%),
soul eater (2%),
hairy devil (2%),
ice devil (2%),
blue devil (2%),
beast (2%),
iron devil (2%),
sun demon (1%) or
shadow imp (1%)
Trip to Abyss!

Divination

Severity 1

Message Effect
Various harmless messages No effect

Severity 2

Message Effect
You feel slightly disoriented. Forget map
Potion effect: confusion

Severity 3

Message Effect
You have damaged your brain!
or
You suddenly recall your previous life! (you are undead)
You have a terrible headache. (did not lose int)		 Lose intelligence 1-3, confusion
You feel lost. Forget map, confusion

Severity 4

Message Effect
You have forgotten a spell!
or
You get a splitting headache. (no spells)		 Forget spell, confusion
You feel completely lost. Forget map completely, confusion
You have damaged your brain!
or
You suddenly recall your previous life! (you are undead)
You have a terrible headache. (did not lose int)		 Lose intelligence 3-5, confusion

Necromancy

Kikubaaqudgha protects you from necromancy miscast effects. Completely if your piety is over 150.

Mummy death curse is usually severity 4 effect. (guardian mummy, mummy priest, greater mummy)

Severity 1

Message Effect
Various harmless messages No effect

Severity 2

Message Effect
Pain shoots through your body!
or
You feel weird for a moment. (res torment)		 Damage: 5 + random2avg(15, 2)
or
no effect if you have res torment
You feel horribly lethargic. Potion effect: slowing
You smell decay. rot (1)
Your bandages flutter. (you are mummy) no effect

Severity 3

Message Effect
Flickering shadows surround you. Creates 0-2 hostile shadows
if no life protection: drain experience
else continue to next effect
You convulse helplessly as pain tears through your body!
or
You feel weird for a moment. (res torment)		 Damage: 15 + random2avg(23, 2)
or
No effect if you have res torment

Severity 4

Message Effect
Something just walked over your grave. No, really! (undead) No effect for undead
Tormentation for others
You are engulfed in negative energy! if no life protection: drain experience
else continue to next effect
lose random stats 1-7
rot (1-7)
Something reaches out for you... Creates hostile soul eater
Death has come for you... Creates hostile reaper

Transmigration

Severity 1

Message Effect
Various harmless messages No effect

Severity 2

Message Effect
Your body is twisted painfully. Damage: 1 + random2avg(11, 2)
Spell effect: random uselessness

Severity 3

Message Effect
Your body is twisted very painfully! Damage: 3 + random2avg(23, 2)
You feel saturated with unharnessed energies! Magic contamination: random2avg(19,3)
Potion effect: paralysis
Potion effect: confusion

Severity 4

Message Effect
Your body is flooded with distortional energies! Damage: 3 + random2avg(18, 2)
Magic contamination: random2avg(35, 3)
You feel very strange. Damage: 5 + random2avg(23, 2)
Remove random mutation
Your body is distorted in a weirdly horrible way! Damage: 5 + random2avg(23, 2)
Give one or two bad mutations

Fire

Severity 1

Message Effect
Various harmless messages No effect

Severity 2

Message Effect
Smoke pours from your hands! Random smoke
Flames sear your flesh. expose_player_to_element(BEAM_FIRE, 3) (burn scrolls)
2..14 damage if vulnerable to fire

Severity 3

Message Effect
You are blasted with fire. Fire damage: 5 + random2avg(29, 2) = 5..33
expose_player_to_element(BEAM_FIRE, 5) (burn scrolls)
You are caught in a fiery explosion! Explosion (fire): 3d14

Severity 4

Message Effect
You are blasted with searing flames! Fire damage: 9 + random2avg(33, 2) = 9..41
expose_player_to_element(BEAM_FIRE, 10) (burn scrolls)
There is a sudden and violent explosion of flames! Fireball: 3d20
You are covered in liquid flames! Liquid flames (1..7)

Ice

Severity 1

Message Effect
Various harmless messages No effect

Severity 2

Message Effect
You feel extremely cold. No effect
You are covered in a thin layer of ice. expose_player_to_element(BEAM_COLD, 2) (destroy potions)
4..8 damage if vulnerable to cold

Severity 3

Message Effect
Heat is drained from your body. cold damage: 5 + random2(6) + random2(7) = 5..16
expose_player_to_element(BEAM_COLD, 4) (destroy potions)
You are caught in an explosion of ice and frost! Explosion (cold): 3d11

Severity 4

Message Effect
You are blasted with ice! Cold damage: 9 + random2avg(23, 2) = 9..31
expose_player_to_element(BEAM_COLD, 9) (destroy potions)
Freezing gasses pour from your hands! Freezing cloud

Earth

Severity 1 and 2

Message Effect
Various harmless messages No effect

Severity 3

Message Effect
You are hit by flying rocks!
or
You are blasted with sand!
or
Rocks fall onto you out of nowhere! 		Damage: random2avg(13,2) + 10 - random2(1 + player_AC()) =
10..22 - 0..AC = 0..22

Severity 4

Message Effect
You are caught in an explosion of flying shrapnel! Explosion (fragmentation): 3d5

Air

Severity 1

Message Effect
Various harmless messages No effect

Severity 2

Message Effect
There is a short, sharp shower of sparks. No effect
The wind howls around you!
or
The wind whips around you! (if silenced)		 No effect

Severity 3

Message Effect
Electricity courses through your body. Electricity damage: 4 + random2avg(9, 2) = 4..12
Noxious gasses pour from your hands! Stinking cloud

Severity 4

Message Effect
You are caught in an explosion of electrical discharges! Electricity explosion: 3d8
Venomous gasses pour from your hands! Poison cloud

Poison

Poison miscasts are harmless if you have poison resistance.

Severity 1

Message Effect
Various harmless messages No effect

Severity 2

Message Effect
You feel sick. poison (2-4) (if no poison resistance)
Noxious gasses pour from your hands! Stinking cloud

Severity 3

Message Effect
You feel very sick. poison (3-11) (if no poison resistance)
Noxious gasses pour from your hands! Stinking cloud
Lose random stat. (if no poison resistance)

Severity 4

Message Effect
You feel incredibly sick. poison (10-28) (if no poison resistance)
Venomous gasses pour from your hands! Poison cloud
Lose random stats (1-5). (if no poison resistance)

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