Gift timeout

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The Gift Timeout is the period during which you cannot receive any more gifts from your current god. It begins the turn you receive a gift, and decreases every time you gain piety (this piety is only applied toward ending the gift timeout). The exact duration of this period varies from god to god. Gods that grant both weapon and ammo gifts will also have a shorter timeout for the ammo than for the weapons.

The only way to speed up the Gift Timeout period is to increase the rate at which you gain piety. Wearing an amulet of faith will speed it up significantly, but be aware that ever removing said amulet will decrease your piety.

Gods

Gods which grant gifts based on the Gift Timeout method include:

• Beogh - Weapons, armour, and ammo to other loyal orcs.
• Jiyva - Bursts of mutations. These gifts don't cost any piety.
• Nemelex Xobeh - Cards.
• Okawaru - Weapons, ammunition, and armour.
• Sif Muna - Spellbooks.
• Trog - Melee weapons (brands are limited to antimagic, flaming, vorpal, or speed).
• Vehumet - Offers knowledge of destructive spells, one at a time.

Although Xom does grant gifts, they do not follow any sort of Gift Timeout procedure. Xom's gifts are essentially luck of the draw.

History

• Prior to 0.28, Yredelemnul would gift permanent servants.
• Prior to 0.25, Trog gifted ammunition as well as weapons.
• Prior to 0.19, Nemelex Xobeh would gift decks as physical items.
• Prior to 0.15, Nemelex Xobeh gifted decks of destruction, escape, summoning, and wonders.
• Prior to 0.14, Nemelex Xobeh could gift decks of dungeons and the types of gifted decks were dependent on the types of sacrificed items. Yredelemnul gifted freezing wraiths instead of vampires.
• Prior to 0.13, Yredelemnul could gift rotting hulks.
• Prior to 0.12, Vehumet gifted Conjurations and Summonings school spellbooks.