Scarf

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Name	Scarf
Size to wear	Any
Armour Class	0
Encumbrance rating	+0
Maximum Enchantment	+0
Grants	nothing
Time to Wear	5

A length of stylish fabric. At its creation, enchantments were woven into it, and as such it cannot accept further enchantment.

A scarf is a somewhat uncommon magical piece of armour that occupies the cloak slot. Unlike cloaks, they do not provide any AC and cannot benefit from scrolls of enchant armour.

Scarves will always spawn with an ego, and can attain unique egos not found on regular cloaks. They never appear as artefacts.

Egos

Scarves can appear with the following egos:

• Cloud immunity - Completely protects its wearer from the effects of clouds.
• Repulsion - Reduces the chance of missile attacks hitting the wearer, but to a lesser degree than the Deflect Missiles spell.
• Resistance - provides rF+ and rC+
• Spirit shield - Damage dealt to the wearer is split proportionally between HP and MP.

Strategy

While providing no AC on their own, scarves can appear with unique and useful enchantments that may provide situational benefit. If your character has fairly high AC already, it may be worth the sacrifice to provide multiple resistances or a means of repelling missiles.

History

• Prior to 0.21, scarves could appear as randarts.
• Scarves were added in 0.20.

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