Scrolls for Breakfast!

Well, Vasp is back, so we might be expecting some updating work at Spellcheck Project, undoubtedly one of the most useful sites on the net for everything related to spells. The new ones need to be added (and some old ones completed); some of the component information needs changing too. All interested wizards had better start sending logins there with the purpose of enhancing the usefulness of that wonderful page...

Yesterday was quite a nice day in the field of improving my magic skills. I've also changed the silver flute and violin for the carved bone aulos and the dark glossy lute. The new instruments are lighter, more beautiful (I'll post their descriptions one of these days) and have nicer, personalized feedbacks. Oh, and they also seem to taskmaster better too...

I've been trying to carry some research at the Bes Pelargic Wizard's Guild in the field on Magical Billiards, where (it seems) each different coloured ball requires a skillcheck and might allow for tms too. At the moment, I haven't received any, so the association between colours and magic skills is only a supposition, born out of the outputs; Elanor has discovered so far that the brown ball uses earth and the magenta ball conjuring.

I ignore what the tm range is with the balls. It seems that with less than 200 bonuses you will hardly be hitting the balls. The use of the staff is also skillchecked, and a failiure makes it fall off your hands.

Current suspicions of the skills used are as follows:

Beige > Earth
Pink > ? same/similar outputs to magenta ball. Conjuring, or another of the Spiritual branch
Grey > Air
Cyan > water
Purple > ? Ball behaves as a leaping frog. Perhaps one of the Physical branch? Enchanting?
Black > same as grey
Aqua > same as cyan
Orange > flames and/or sparks, Fire
Mauve > A dove appears (physical? Enchanting?)
Green > ? Physical branch. Binding [1]
Violet > same as purple
Blue > same as aqua
Red > ? sparks, Fire
Yellow > same as red

But as the heading indicates, this entry is specially devoted to the effects of eating scrolls. Some months ago, scrolls were subjected to a change. No longer would spells be easily written down on cigarette paper from then on, as it has become very hard to scribe on small papers (probably a skillcheck based on high scribing bonuses?). Another of the effected changes is funny and cosmetic: scrolls may be eaten, have curious flavours and generate some output lines and -in some cases-, a small amount of physical damage (around 300 hps), which seems to be capped and unrelated to the number of scrolls eaten (this was tested the very day the changes appeared; a group of wizards worked round the clock to make 100 scrolls for Vire to eat all at once, and the damage he received was the same you would get from eating 2 or 3 big spell-scrolls).

The outputs I've noted down so far ar as follows:

>eat scroll
You open your mouth up widely and pop the sheet of cheap writing paper into your mouth. After a moment's deliberation, you chew and consume the sheet of cheap writing paper.

Mmm! Awesome / Indescribably / Cinnamon / Sheep / Paper / Pencil / Kumquat / Blue ink / Pragi / String / Green ink /Chalk dust / Celery / Eyeball / Monkey / Love Heart / Sock flavoured! [2]

You feel something rather odd squirming in your stomach. It tastes... thaumaturgical. Something like hot metal and dusty paper and old, faded ink.

You turn an interesting shade of green. Then an interesting shade of lavender, then (in rapid succession) slightly less interesting shades of yellow and magenta. The brown and grey shades are downright boring.

You cough a few times, and a sad-looking frog hops out of your mouth and scuttles away.

You belch, filling the room with a strong scent of old dusty paper.

A wizened, bespectacled demon clambers out of your mouth and angrily berates you in some unknown language before storming off in a huff.

The air around you crackles and rustles.

You turn green, bend over abruptly, and heave up a sad-looking pile of twitching letters and eldritch glyphs, which steam and smoke for a moment before melting into a small puddle of foul-smelling liquid.

You sneeze violently.

You sneeze violently, with a revolting shower of inky amber/red/charcoal grey/green/lilac/fuchsia/dandelion yellow mucus.

A short string of magenta/lime green/silver/red/amber sparks erupts from your mouth.

A thin stream of black smoke trickles from your mouth.

Spiky, eldritch-looking letters seem to be trying to push their way out through your skin.

You cough a bit at the sudden assault of soot.
Your stomach rumbles ominously. After a few moments of calm, a gout of greasy black fire erupts messily from your mouth, leaving behind rather a lot of soot. Oh, and a certain amount of pain.

Your stomach settles down again, with a last greasy orangeish pink burp.

NOTES:

[1] Apparently, the green ball was the only one that co-player and young wizard Morituri could hit, and, being a Lodger and having his highest bonuses in the Physical field, specifically, in Binding, it looks probable that green might be behind that magic skill.

[2] There's many more flavours for sure. If you get any different from these, feel free to send them and post them here as comments.