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• Anchor of Space-Time

The Anchor

A powerful stone that provides a strong light for any who wields it. It is rumoured that it may even protect the wearer from the passing of time.

It provides light (radius 1) forever. It prevents the space-time continuum from being disrupted. It cannot be harmed by acid, cold, lightning or fire.

"Prevents the space-time continuum from being disrupted" means that it completely prevents all teleportation whatsoever -- yours or anything else's. This is highly useful against:

• monsters which can teleport away (think Q's, teleporting breeders, and humanoid magic-users, assorted undeads, etc.)
• monsters which can teleport you (think Blink Dogs, Phase Spiders, and most of the above, etc.)
• knock-back effects such as attacks from Hrus, etc.

In addition, it reduces time damage by a factor of 4/(6+1d6) (i.e. from nearly 1/2 to 1/3) and prevents the side effects (experience and stat loss).

All in all, an extremely valuable item to have in your kit, at least as a swap-out.

Chatter

Simon: it also prevents all teleportation whatsoever, unlike other artifacts who merely prevent the player from teleporting. That gets quite useful against Q's, teleporting breeders, and things like princess quests for teleporting monsters.

MayLith: That's what "prevents disruption of the space-time continuum" means. Though perhaps spelling that out may well be worth it for those who have not yet had a chance to play with it.

Simon: I thought the lack of clarity was a 'feature' (i.e. think helm of knowledge's description), except in spoilers.

MayLith: I wasn't intentionally being obtuse; it was perfectly clear to me! Here, is this better?