The_Red_Hawk
Level: Smitemaster
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Registered: 09-02-2003
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I just recently found out that if you put a scroll at the entrance to a room, you can't read it until you leave the square and come back. Is this a bug?

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mrimer
Level: Legendary Smitemaster

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Registered: 02-04-2003
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Hmm...at least it's a known issue. The reasoning for doing it this way is basically that on the entrance into a room nothing happens until the first actual move. For example, I think you can enter and be standing on a potion without drinking it until you make the first move. It's kinda weird, but that's the way DROD puzzles are structured (no "real-time" puzzles, like other games have, which mask the absence of nothing happening on the first frame when a room is entered).

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Gandalf the Grey. That was my name.
I am Gandalf the White.
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Oneiromancer
Level: Legendary Smitemaster

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No, if you enter the room onto an invisibility potions it takes effect immediately. Not sure about mimic potions.

Game on,

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eytanz
Level: Smitemaster

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Registered: 02-05-2003
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Mimic potions too. And I'm pretty sure that if the sword ends up on an orb the orb is activated. So basically the scrolls are an exception here.

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