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Ilde: /* Failure and other messages */ Banishing of Prying Eyes causes the warming message, adding

2012-07-18T20:37:16Z

‎Failure and other messages: Banishing of Prying Eyes causes the warming message, adding

Ilde: /* Direction messages */

2011-05-27T05:32:30Z

‎Direction messages

Ilde: /* Distance messages */

2011-05-26T19:47:31Z

‎Distance messages

Ilde: /* Failure and other messages */

2011-03-22T17:00:56Z

‎Failure and other messages

Ilde: /* Failure messages */

2010-07-22T23:22:49Z

‎Failure messages

Xiodic at 00:14, 18 February 2010

2010-02-18T00:14:47Z

Ilde: /* Distance messages */

2010-01-14T02:05:53Z

‎Distance messages

Ilde: /* Distance messages */ correcting a couple of distances--find is not quite the same as find corpse

2010-01-14T02:01:12Z

‎Distance messages: correcting a couple of distances--find is not quite the same as find corpse

Ilde: /* Distance messages */ tightening ranges

2010-01-13T23:53:07Z

‎Distance messages: tightening ranges

Ilde: /* Messages */ rewriting and reformatting a little, adding some correlation between distance and textual message

2010-01-13T22:07:18Z

‎Messages: rewriting and reformatting a little, adding some correlation between distance and textual message

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   Your holy amulet warms, but doesn't move.
-This means that find doesn't work on the target.  Some quest npcs have this property.
+This means that find doesn't work on the target.  The witch spell Banishing of Prying Eyes is one possible cause of this, and some quest npcs have this property, as well.
   You cannot find a target for this ritual.

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 Next, around a bonus of 261 to 269, the directions you get will start getting more precise: in addition to the original directions, you'll also get north-northwest, south-southwest, and so on.
-Finally, at a bonus of somewhere around 335, you'll get a numeric description of the direction, such as, "27 degrees west from due north".
+Finally, at a bonus of somewhere around 335, you'll get a numeric description of the direction, such as, "27 degrees west from due north".  You can also get descriptions like "marginally south from due east", which appear to mean less than a degree off of a due direction.
 == Distance messages ==

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 |none
 |from about three-fourths of the way across AM to at least the entire distance across AM, in the same city
 |-
 |steadily

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   Your holy amulet goes cold to the touch for a moment.
-This means that the ritual failed because there are multiple possible targets.  For example, this fails if you perform find on "beggar", because there are a lot of beggars.
+This means that the ritual failed because there are multiple possible targets.  For example, this fails if you perform find on "beggar", because there are a lot of beggars.  It can also mean that the target is not loaded.
   Your holy amulet swings wildly in every direction.

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 *46.4 inches: Genua to BP
-== Failure messages ==
+== Failure and other messages ==
 There are several failure messages, which mean different things.
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   You cannot find a target for this ritual.
 This means that the target is hiding and you don't have enough perception to see them. (In this case, you don't actually perform the ritual.)
 = Granted By =

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 == Distance messages ==
-At first you'll textual descriptions of the distance to the target; these give way to numeric descriptions at bonuses of around 405 (at a high altar and having prayed), 406 (near holy ground and having prayed), 407 (at a high altar, or recently prayed and special bonus), or 408 (near holy ground or recently prayed).
+At first you'll get textual descriptions of the distance to the target; these give way to numeric descriptions at bonuses of around 405 (at a high altar and having prayed), 406 (near holy ground and having prayed), 407 (at a high altar, or recently prayed and special bonus), or 408 (near holy ground or recently prayed).
 With the numeric descriptions, the number of inches specified increases the further away you are.  The scale appears to be linear, with .1 inches for every ten miles. (Note: you don't get these until around the "steadily" or "ponderously" range.  Up until then you still get the textual messages.)

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 |steadily
 |none(?)
-|just outside the city with the target<!--, ''or'' 1 - 5 rooms away from the terrain room with the target Commenting out, need to check this-->
+|just outside the city with the target, ''or'' 1 - 5 rooms away from the terrain room with the target
 |-
 |ponderously
 |.1 - 1.4 inches
-|From a few rooms outside of AM to the Drum, from AM to Dinky
+|From a few rooms outside of AM to the Drum (or from 6 terrain rooms away), from AM to Dinky
 |-
 |gradually

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 |-
 |ponderously
-|.1 - 1.3 inches
+|.1 - 1.4 inches
 |up to about 10 rooms away from the city with the target, ''or'' 6 - 14 rooms away from the terrain room with the target.
 |-
 |gradually
-|2.0 - 3.6 inches
+|1.4 - 4.3 inches
 |From AM to Scrogden or Pekan Ford
 |-
 |slowly
-|5.4 - 8.5 inches
+|4.4 - 9.6 inches
 |From AM to DJB or the Land of the Giants
 |-
 |indolently
-|11.1 inches
+|9.7 - 19.2 inches
 |From AM to the Listeners' Valley or Escrow
 |-
 |sluggishly
-|24.6 - 34.4 inches
+|19.3 - 38.5 inches
-|From AM to Genua or BP
+|From AM to Genua or BP; from BP to DJB
 |-
 |almost imperceptibly
-|46.6 inches
+|38.6 - 47.7 inches
-|From Genua to BP
+|From BP to Genua or west of DJB - very probably the largest range
 |}

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 = Messages =
-As your skills improve, your results will get more specific.  First, at a bonus of around 261 to 269 (varying depending on difficulty modifiers), you'll start getting directions like "north-northwest" instead of just north or northwest.  Next, at a bonus of around 335, you'll start getting a numeric description of the direction, like "27 degrees west from due north".  Finally, with a bonus of 405 (at a high altar and having prayed), 406 (near holy ground and having prayed), 407 (at a high altar, or recently prayed and special bonus), or 408 (near holy ground or recently prayed) you'll start getting numeric descriptions of the distance, such as, "yanks you 7.2 inches in that direction."
+As your [[faith.rituals.misc.target]] bonus improves, your results will get more specific.
-== Non-numeric messages ==
+== Direction messages ==
-The non-numeric distance messages appear to be exactly the same as for [[Find Corpse]].
+At first, the direction will be specified as one of eight: north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, northwest.
-== Numeric messages ==
+Next, around a bonus of 261 to 269, the directions you get will start getting more precise: in addition to the original directions, you'll also get north-northwest, south-southwest, and so on.
-For distance, the number of inches increases the further away you are.  The scale appears to be linear, with .1 inches for every ten miles. (Note: you don't get these until around the "steadily" or "ponderously" range.  Up until then you get the textual messages.)
-Some examples for distance:
+Finally, at a bonus of somewhere around 335, you'll get a numeric description of the direction, such as, "27 degrees west from due north".
 *0.1 inches: one journey east from AM to the Drum<!--3 degrees north from due west -->
 *0.3 inches: Sto Lat marketplace to the Drum<!--1 degree south from due west-->