Scroll of immolation
| Type | Scroll |
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| Name | Scroll of immolation |
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| A scroll that fills the creatures around the reader with an unstable and powerful inner flame. This fire is released any time the victims are hit, and explosively released upon their death. Giant creatures cause bigger explosions. |
Reading a scroll of immolation will affect all creatures in your line of sight as though they were the victim of an Inner Flame spell. Damaging them will create flame clouds, and if the monster dies, it will create a large fiery explosion. The size and damage of the explosion varies based on the size of the monster slain, usually 3x3, and is powerful enough to severely injure or even kill careless characters.
This scroll has no effect on monsters with infinite willpower, though the scroll does not otherwise check willpower.
Strategy
Used wisely, these scrolls can be very useful. You can use a decent ranged attack (or means of generating allies), kill a single weak/low HP monster, and have the chain reaction kill everything else. The scroll excels particularly:
- In monster packed areas. Vaults:5 is a prime example - read it on descending, kill 2-3 vault guards, and the rest will be cleared.
- Against summoned monsters, such as those from The Royal Jelly, Dissolution, or Mnoleg. The explosions will clear the summons and damage their master.
- When using your own allies. Whether your ally or the monster wins, you'll get an explosion. Summons, undead (except spectral things), and Hepliaklqana ancestor work equally well.
This scroll can also be useful against lone or spread out enemies for its other effect (creating flame clouds every time an affected monster is damaged). This can increase your damage output significantly, especially in the early game. For reference, the damage is identical to the Freezing Cloud spell (a level 5, triple school spell), allowing weak ranged attacks to outright win in the early game. Just be careful to not get yourself killed by an explosion.
The main risks of the scroll are the explosions hitting you and the noise they create. Explosions can be avoided with careful play. Or, if you have rF++ or better with high AC, you can generally tank a few explosions to the face. Meanwhile, noise will attract monsters. For example, you may not want to immolate the guards on Vaults:5, since this'll bring out the scarier monsters just outside.
Tips & Tricks
- The actual Inner Flame explosions can hurt enemies outside line of sight.
- Be careful about using immolation around allies if your god hates you harming allies.
History
- Prior to 0.25, the scroll had no effect on summons (except for durably summoned monsters). Also, the Inner Flame enchantment did not create flame clouds on hit, making the scroll weaker.
- Prior to 0.13, these scrolls were significantly less useful; they would unleash a single moderately-powerful explosion centered on the reader, though thankfully this explosion could only destroy scrolls in very early versions of the game.
| Scrolls |
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| Acquirement • Amnesia • Butterflies • Blinking • Brand weapon • Enchant armour • Enchant weapon • Fear • Fog • Identify • Immolation • Noise • Poison • Revelation • Silence • Summoning • Teleportation • Torment • Vulnerability |
