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Summoning

Summoning tends to be used by Loremasters and Summoners, but can be gained through other means.

The summoner's powers of invocation are accessed using the 'm' key. In order to invoke a monster, a summoner must posses a related "totem". There are two kinds of summoning, decided by the totem used:

• Partial Summoning Partial summoning creates a simulacrum of the monster, with little will of its own. The Summoner must maintain the simulacrum using mana; when he runs out, or stops paying the mana, the simulacrum vanishes.

• True Summoning True summoning is quite different in effect from Partial Summoning, but the two are closely related in usage. A True Totem conjures a full copy of the creature in question; the process tends to make the monster a loyal ally to the summoner, but this loyalty is not guaranteed, nor is the survival of the totem used in the summoning.

Totem Creation

In order to summon any creature, the Summoner needs a totem. Totems cannot be found, they must be created through a special process which involves taking the corpse of a creature (the summoner need not have been involved in the death of the creature in question), and extracting certain essences from it.

The summoner can create a totem using the 'm' command, and unless one is working on a unique's corpse, must choose whether the resulting totem is a Partial or True Totem.

N.B.: Uniques are very willful creatures by definition, and thus have three special rules about their summoning:

1. No partial totem can be made from a unique's corpse.
2. The totem in question is always destroyed.
3. The unique is twice as likely to be disloyal.