AI crystal
The AI Crystal is an object with which player characters can interact to obtain information about items (similar to the bardic loresong ability). To use the crystal, hold the item of inquiry in your character's left hand and TOUCH the crystal.
Enchantment
| Enchantment Table | |
|---|---|
| Color | Bonus |
| Red | +1 to +5 |
| Orange | +6 to +10 |
| Yellow | +11 to +15 |
| Green | +16 to +20 |
| Blue | +21 to +25 |
| Indigo | +26 to +30 |
| Violet | > +30 |
One function of the AI Crystal is to reveal the level of enchantment of weapons or armor. The crystal will respond to enchantment by shooting a beam of light toward the ceiling (1x, 2x, etc). For items of successively increasing enchantment, the beam of light progresses in color according to the colors of the rainbow. The log below indicates that the item carries a bonus between +16 and +20 inclusive (4x enchantment):
>touch crystal
You touch the crystal with one hand, your green armor in the other hand. Tiny sparks of brilliant golden light dance across your armor. A green beam shoots up from your green armor toward the ceiling.
Other Properties
The crystal will also reveal special abilities of weapons and armor (such as weighting or padding). The messaging will differ depending upon what type of item is being examined. The log below shows that the armor in question has critical padding:
>touch crystal
You touch the crystal with one hand, your scale armor in the other hand. Tiny sparks of brilliant golden light dance across your armor. A green beam shoots up from your scale armor toward the ceiling. A low resonant note sounds, echoing through the room.
Weapons
- Blessed or holy item: A silver nimbus glows for a moment around the <item>.
- Voln or pure potion blessed: A pure high note sounds, echoing through the room.
- Elemental flares or wizard enchanted: Shrill piercing note
- Defender weapon: Low mellow tone
- Critical weighting: A low resonant note sounds, echoing through the room.
- Damage weighting: A deep bass note sounds, echoing through the room.
- Cursed: Shadow
Armor
- Blessed or holy item: A silver nimbus glows for a moment around the <item>.
- Voln or pure potion blessed: A pure high note sounds, echoing through the room.
- Elemental flares or wizard enchanted: Shrill piercing note
- TD enhancing: Low mellow tone
- Critical padding: A low resonant note sounds, echoing through the room.
- Damage padding: A deep bass note sounds, echoing through the room.
- Cursed: Shadow
Items With Charges
- Contains a clerical spell: Silver nimbus
- Imbeddable: Golden scintillating light
- Above 32 charges remaining: Shrill piercing note
- 17 to 32 charges remaining: High ringing note
- 9 to 16 charges remaining: Pure high note
- 5 to 8 charges remaining: Clear even note
- 3 to 4 charges remaining: Low mellow note
- 2 charges remaining: Low resonant note
- 1 charge remaining : Deep bass note