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Artifacts

On occasion, an item will be found that is already named and has special properties. These artifact items add to a player's score at the end of the game.

Special Effects

Artifacts can be generated with a variety of special effects/attributes, including:

• Acid resistance
• Aflame
• Bleeding
• Breathless
• Cold resistance
• Extra melee damage (various types)
  • on armor, these fall under Improvised attacks
• Extra thrown damage (various types)
• Fire resistance
• Light (with a radius; 3 appears typical if not universal)
• Reflection
• Regeneration
• Speed
• Search
• Telepathy
• Teleport control
• Unchanging
• Vulnerability to Physical Attacks
• Vulnerability to Cold
• Vulnerability to Fire
• Warning
• Water-walking

Names

Artifact names are generated by randomly linking 2 or 3 of the following parts (among others - list is not currently exhaustive):

• Amy
• Bar
• Baz
• Brask
• Frost
• Klay
• Oma
• Orc
• Relat
• Slug
• Shock
• Smash
• Tree
• Trey
• Upa
• Wang
• Were
• Whiz
• Wor
• Yyz
• Zub

Special Staffs

There are a few staffs that may be found in the depths of the cavernous passages , as well. These staffs allow the user to cast a wide variety of spells - providing of course that you have the mana available.

Basic Forms

• Crook
• Iron-shod Staff
• Bejeweled Staff
• Gnarly Staff

Identified Forms

Utility Staff

• Light
• Knock
• Possess
• Preserve
• Teleport
• Detect Curse
• Direct Wind
• Petrify