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{{flavour|Probably made by some mage who wanted to teach a lesson to adventurers who hungrily read every [[scroll]] that falls into their hands, this scroll creates a fiery explosion that damages anyone in the vicinity... including the user!}}
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Reading a '''scroll of immolation''' will immediately release a burst attack centered upon you, dealing 3d10 [[fire]] damage to you and everything around you, as well as generating a lot of noise. Unlike most fire attacks, this cannot destroy your scrolls. Due to the possibility of this killing low-level characters, it will not generate on D:1-4.
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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; until the [[status effect]] wears off, killing them will cause them to release a violent fiery explosion. The size and damage of the explosion varies based on the size of the monster slain, and is powerful enough to severely injure or kill careless characters. Used wisely, however, these [[scroll]]s can be very usful; coupled with a decent ranged weapon or an attack wand, you can safely kill a single weak monster and initiate a chain reaction that eradicates everything around it. If you happen to have rF++ or better, along with high [[AC]], you can generally ignore the risks involved in using these scrolls and simply resist the explosion, though this may still destroy some of your scrolls.
  
==Strategy==
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Reading this scroll has no effect on summoned or magic-immune monsters.
Used accidentally, these are mostly nuisance [[scroll]]s, injuring you and waking up nearby enemies. However, characters with high [[AC]] and fire resistance usually take next to no damage from them, making them useful for damaging swarms of weak enemies. As [[djinni]] characters are completely immune to fire, they treat these scrolls as useful, picking them up automatically.
 
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
This item will be change completely in [[0.13]]. It will apply the [[Inner Flame]] enchantment to all susceptible monsters in [[LOS]] of the player. Only summoned or magic-immune monsters will resist it.
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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.
 
 
In early versions of ''Crawl'', these scrolls could destroy other scrolls when read.
 
 
 
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Type Scroll
Name Scroll of immolation
Icon Scroll of immolation.png
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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; until the status effect wears off, killing them will cause them to release a violent fiery explosion. The size and damage of the explosion varies based on the size of the monster slain, and is powerful enough to severely injure or kill careless characters. Used wisely, however, these scrolls can be very usful; coupled with a decent ranged weapon or an attack wand, you can safely kill a single weak monster and initiate a chain reaction that eradicates everything around it. If you happen to have rF++ or better, along with high AC, you can generally ignore the risks involved in using these scrolls and simply resist the explosion, though this may still destroy some of your scrolls.

Reading this scroll has no effect on summoned or magic-immune monsters.

History

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.