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  • Whelk
    Adept
    • Jun 2007
    • 211
    #1

    Interesting scroll names.

    I've come across some interesting scroll names in my time playing Angband, but I think this is my favorite so far:

    You see a Scroll titled "manus wizzy".
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    • Poop Loops
      Scout
      • May 2008
      • 49
      #2
      I've been wondering whether they are completely randomly generated (the names, that is) or if there is a list of names that they are picked from.

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        • Eamonite
          Rookie
          • Mar 2008
          • 9
          #3
          My favorite so far has been "wizzy mo."

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            • Nick
              Vanilla maintainer
              • Apr 2007
              • 9647
              #4
              Originally posted by Poop Loops
              I've been wondering whether they are completely randomly generated (the names, that is) or if there is a list of names that they are picked from.
              They're made from a collection of syllables randomly stuck together.
              One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
              In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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                • takkaria
                  Veteran
                  • Apr 2007
                  • 1951
                  #5
                  Originally posted by Nick
                  They're made from a collection of syllables randomly stuck together.
                  Not in V, actually-- they now use the same method as the randart names (Markov chains), except seeded with Latin names (and also "abracadabra", "piffpaffpouf", "izzy", "wizzy", "letsgetsbusy", "justlikethat", "hocus", "pocus", "shazam", "please", which explains why if izzy and wizzy crop up so much, since there are no other words that like them in the list...). You get some cracking scroll names in V now; I believe I got something like "precogitat" for a scroll once.
                  takkaria whispers something about options. -more-

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                    • Seany C
                      Swordsman
                      • Apr 2007
                      • 283
                      #6
                      Hehe - I'm starting a petition to have Tommy Cooper and Sooty in as uniques for the next version of V...

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                        • Ingwe Ingweron
                          Veteran
                          • Jan 2009
                          • 2129
                          #7
                          Just found this scroll, "im rectum"... a little afraid to use it.
                          “We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
                          ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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                            • kandrc
                              Swordsman
                              • Dec 2007
                              • 299
                              #8
                              Originally posted by Ingwe Ingweron
                              Just found this scroll, "im rectum"... a little afraid to use it.
                              That's only scary to Germans.

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                                • AnonymousHero
                                  Veteran
                                  • Jun 2007
                                  • 1393
                                  #9
                                  (ಠ_ಠ)

                                  Anit-spam: Turn down for what

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                                    • Whelk
                                      Adept
                                      • Jun 2007
                                      • 211
                                      #10
                                      Found one titled "infins pedo".

                                      It was Protection from Evil.

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                                        • PowerWyrm
                                          Prophet
                                          • Apr 2008
                                          • 2987
                                          #11
                                          A scroll labeled "se sus reculor" (of Banishment).
                                          PWMAngband variant maintainer - check https://github.com/draconisPW/PWMAngband (or http://www.mangband.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=9) to learn more about this new variant!

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                                            • Grotug
                                              Veteran
                                              • Nov 2013
                                              • 1637
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by Eamonite
                                              My favorite so far has been "wizzy mo."
                                              Found one that said "sae no wizzy"

                                              Some others I've found recently:

                                              "shazam for"
                                              "at as india"
                                              "pudis come pra"
                                              "decappa us" I can't remember what this one did, but I think my head was still attached after reading it.

                                              "vadveo opollo"
                                              "abi infectus" If it was a potion named thus, I may have been leery..
                                              "relerolo"
                                              "coleo inc" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleo
                                              "que emansus"
                                              "fugnas inus"
                                              "pro santas"
                                              Beginner's Guide to Angband 4.2.3 Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9c9e2wMngM

                                              Detailed account of my Ironman win here.

                                              "My guess is that Grip and Fang have many more kills than Gothmog and Lungorthin." --Fizzix

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