#3714

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vanilla

New objects “scrolls of riches”, which serve as a means of storing large amounts of money without carrying around all the literal gold.

  • Come in 3 types: “scroll of riches” worth $1000, “scroll of greater riches” worth $5000, “scroll of untold riches” worth $10000.
  • Uncursed read effect: creates the scroll’s cost amount of gold on your square.
  • Blessed read effect: as uncursed, but adds some extra gold.
  • Cursed read effect: takes your money up to an amount between half the scroll’s cost and its full cost; if you lack enough gold it will start destroying your items in decreasing order of shop sale cost to cover the cost, excluding unique items.
  • Confused read effect: either summon 1-3 gems (if blessed/uncursed) or glass (if cursed), or summon a gold golem as if from a figurine of the same beatitude of the scroll.
  • Has an ink cost greater than 99, making it unwritable. Not specified whether it can be created from polymorph.
  • Shopkeepers will always buy and sell noncursed scrolls of riches at face value, but will not buy cursed ones.
  • If a guard sees you with a scroll of riches, they get angry.
  • Several scrolls of untold riches appear in Fort Ludios.
  • The thing that seems to be missing is a way to get these scrolls besides happening on them randomly; specifically a way to turn carried gold into them. Possibly shopkeepeers could generate with one or two and will trade them for the equivalent amount of gold.