View source for Mer-kin dreadscroll

{{item|
itemid=6353|
descid=943310239|
desc=This dread sea scroll almost certainly contains ancient Mer-kin religious secrets.|
type=usable|
notrade=1|
autosell=0|
quest=1}}

==Obtained From==
;[[Mer-kin Library]]
:[[Hook, Line and Sinker]]

==When Used==
{{useitem|
text=You unroll the dreadscroll and look it over -- it appears to be some sort of ancient prophecy predicting the return of the Elder God of Hatred, but a lot of the words are... strange. They fade, and flicker, and shift through multiple interpretations.

Man. Mer-kin theology is ''complicated''.}}

{{adventuretop|noname=yes|num=703}}
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| style="border: 1px solid black;" |When the <div style="border:1px black solid;display:inline;padding-left:2px;padding-right:2px;background:#EEEEEE;"><RandomlySelect>lonely|double|thrice-cursed|fourth</Randomlyselect></div> <div style="border:1px black solid;display:inline;padding-left:2px;padding-right:2px;background:#EEEEEE;"><RandomlySelect>starfish|moonfish|sunfish|planetfish</Randomlyselect></div> is in the House of <div style="border:1px black solid;display:inline;padding-left:2px;padding-right:2px;background:#EEEEEE;"><RandomlySelect>Cards|Blues|Pancakes|Pain</Randomlyselect></div>,<br><br>and the <div style="border:1px black solid;display:inline;padding-left:2px;padding-right:2px;background:#EEEEEE;"><RandomlySelect>Northern|Southern|Eastern|Western</Randomlyselect></div> Current runs <div style="border:1px black solid;display:inline;padding-left:2px;padding-right:2px;background:#EEEEEE;"><RandomlySelect>as red as blood|as black as ink|as green as bile|as yellow as piss</Randomlyselect></div>,<br><br>when a <div style="border:1px black solid;display:inline;padding-left:2px;padding-right:2px;background:#EEEEEE;"><RandomlySelect>blind|giant|finless|two-headed</Randomlyselect></div> <div style="border:1px black solid;display:inline;padding-left:2px;padding-right:2px;background:#EEEEEE;"><RandomlySelect>eel|turtle|shark|whale</Randomlyselect></div> births <div style="border:1px black solid;display:inline;padding-left:2px;padding-right:2px;background:#EEEEEE;"><RandomlySelect>one thousand squirming young|two and twenty stillborn spawn|conjoined triplets|a brand new dance craze</Randomlyselect></div>,<br><br>the Elder shall awaken.
|}<br>{{button|Read Aloud}}
:''If you get all 8 choices correct:''

{{useitem|
text=You read the prophecy aloud from the scroll.

The murky darkness that led you to the scroll once again descends on you. But this time, there are voices in the darkness. Chanting voices.

You look up and find yourself surrounded by a circle of Mer-kin dressed in blood-red cowls. Their posture is not threatening -- I mean, they still look like jerks, but they don't look like jerks who are an immediate danger to you.

The circle closes in, the chanting intensifies, and you are suddenly wracked with searing pain in your forehead. It's like somebody drew a really elaborate rebus on you with a marker made of molten lead.

As the pain recedes, so does the circle of hooded Mer-kin. As the murk lifts, a voice inside your head gurgles:

"Arise, High Priest. They await you in the Temple."

I guess you're the Mer-kin High Priest now. Cool!
}}

:''If you do not:''

{{useitem|
text=You read the prophecy aloud from the scroll.

Something about that... wasn't right. Murk clouds your vision as your mind revolts against the innacuracy.|
posteffect={{acquireEffect|effect=Deep-Tainted Mind|duration=3-24}}}}

:''If you already have a [[Deep-Tainted Mind]]:''

{{useitem|
text=Your mind is still addled from your last failed prognostication. You should wait. And also get better at prognostication, dummy.}}

:''If you are the Champion of the Arena:''

{{useitem|
text=The sigil burned into your forehead (you know, the one you got for winning the tournament in the Colosseum?) flares up in intense pain as you look at the dreadscroll. A tendril of fire curls out and burns the scroll to ashes.

Guess that settles ''that'', then.}}

==Notes==
*You can get the two adjectives and the last clue from [[Playing the Catalog Card]], the colour from using a [[Mer-kin killscroll]] in combat, the ___fish clue from using a [[Mer-kin healscroll]] in combat, the direction from using a [[Mer-kin knucklebone]], the house from casting [[Deep Dark Visions]], and one from eating [[sushi]] while having [[Mer-kin worktea]] in inventory.
*For those inclined on skipping the worktea clue, it is clue 7 (the [animal] one).
*The number of turns of [[Deep-Tainted Mind]] is 3x the number of incorrect words.
*Failure and success both take an adventure.  The number of turns of Deep-Tainted Mind is decremented by 1 by this turn, so you actually get (3x - 1) turns upon failure. If your last adventure was underwater and you do not have the [[Fishy]] effect, it takes 2 adventures instead (so you get (3x - 2) turns).
*Can be used with 0 adventures.