Summon Crimbo Candy woes

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Spiny

Member
This is the second time I've done this *grumble*

Code: 
> summon crimbo candy

Verifying ingredients for scroll of ancient forbidden unspeakable evil (1)...
Creating scroll of ancient forbidden unspeakable evil (1)...
You acquire an item: scroll of ancient forbidden unspeakable evil
Successfully created scroll of ancient forbidden unspeakable evil (1)
Summoning crimbo candy...
Requests complete.

> cast summon crimbo candy

Casting Summon Crimbo Candy 1 times...
You acquire an item: Crimbo peppermint bark
You acquire an item: Crimbo peppermint bark
You acquire an item: Crimbo peppermint bark
Summon Crimbo Candy was successfully cast.

Ordinarily if I forget the word "cast" I get a helpful little red message that says "Unable to invoke <spellname>," however in this case I assume that it attempts to summon the pie demon (whose name I've yet to discover? Or is it?

Moments later I tried to summon the greed demon and lo and behold:

Code: 
> summon Preternatural Greed

Verifying ingredients for scroll of ancient forbidden unspeakable evil (1)...
You need 1 more inkwell to continue.

So I grab an inkwell and make a scroll and appear to successfully summon the greed demon:

Code: 
> summon Preternatural Greed

Verifying ingredients for scroll of ancient forbidden unspeakable evil (1)...
Creating scroll of ancient forbidden unspeakable evil (1)...
You acquire an item: scroll of ancient forbidden unspeakable evil
Successfully created scroll of ancient forbidden unspeakable evil (1)
Summoning Kel'baz'vek...
You acquire an effect: Preternatural Greed (duration: 30 Adventures)
Requests complete.

So I guess that my initial omission of the word "cast" didn't really create a scroll or try to summon anything? Because if it DID try to summon an unknown pie demon (whose name I don't yet know) then it's my understanding that I wouldn't have been able to summon the greed demon successfully.

Double-checking after summoning the greed demon to see if indeed I have a scroll or not:

Code: 
> inv ancient forbidden unspeakable evil

> buy afue

Searching for "scroll of ancient forbidden unspeakable evil"...
Purchasing scroll of ancient forbidden unspeakable evil (1 @ 2,900)...
You acquire an item: scroll of ancient forbidden unspeakable evil
Purchases complete.

> inv afue

I can buy afue, but can't do a successful inv command with it?

Code: 
> inv scroll of ancient forbidden unspeakable evil

scroll of ancient forbidden unspeakable evil

Ok so after all that, what exactly happened originally when I typed "summon crimbo candy?"
 
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heeheehee

Developer
Staff member
Copy-pasted from the (KoL) wiki:

# You can summon a demon only once per day. Failed attempts don't prevent you from summoning again that day. Trying to use "Tatter" after the first time is an exception.

I think that should answer your question (i.e. you did summon "crimbo candy", which didn't prevent you from summoning the greed demon).
 
jasonharper

jasonharper

Developer
"inv" only uses substring matching, which is why "inv afue" didn't work. Only commands that require a single, specific item use the full fuzzy matcher, which is capable of finding an item by an acronym or other extreme abbreviation. "inv" is rather different in that it's just filtering a list; there aren't the same concerns about ambiguity as there are with commands like "use" or "buy".
 
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StorellaDeville

Member
By the way (in the relay browser chat pane) I just use /cast crim (or /cast crimb or /cast crimbo, whatever my fingers get to before I hit Enter). I suppose that's the native KoL chat command interface at work.
So if you're using the KoLmafia gCLI, won't this work?
cast crimb
 
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Spiny

Member
Hehe, I responded to your message in the bug report thread, but yes it probably would work, I just don't tend to think that way for things I don't use often. When in doubt, I spell it out.
 
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