If you have a melee combat buff that causes a visual effect, such as from a confuse monster effect (or other ones in variants, such as the burning hands spell) it should be readily visible in either the #seeweapon ()) command if you are non-blind as e.g. “a - a dagger (weapon in hand). Your hands are glowing red.” or in the #attributes (ctrl-x) command as e.g. “You are able to confuse monsters that you hit.”, or both. Possibly, if implementing both, the effect should not be provided in #attributes, but only in feedback from enlightenment.

If you have confusion charges from the scroll or spell (meaning your hands are glowing red), the Z menu will gain a “confuse” spell option that always has a 0% failure rate, with the associated key being “-“. Casting this allows you to “zap” a confusion charge in any direction, confusing the first monster it touches.

Confuse monster scrolls grant more charges than castings of the spell do. This means that the uncursed scroll should grant several charges, and the blessed one even more.

If the player has glowy confuse-monster hands, ranged projectile attacks also work to confuse monsters, not just melee attacks.