Potions of oil are potions that can be used in a few different ways:
* If drunk, the PC will become poisoned
* Blessed potions can coat items dipped into them, making metal items rustproof and others waterproof. However, they do not remove rust, so it is possible to create rusty rustproof weapon. Waterproof can be applied to scrolls and books, but these are normally protected by waterproof blankets.
* Potions of oil can be 'u'sed while standing on an alarm trap to silence it, removing the trap. Since alarm traps are not dangerous and character needs to stand on the trap to silence it anyway, this application is mostly useless.
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| - Potions of oil are potions that can be used in a few different ways:
* If drunk, the PC will become poisoned
* Blessed potions can coat items dipped into them, making metal items rustproof and others waterproof. However, they do not remove rust, so it is possible to create rusty rustproof weapon. Waterproof can be applied to scrolls and books, but these are normally protected by waterproof blankets.
* Potions of oil can be 'u'sed while standing on an alarm trap to silence it, removing the trap. Since alarm traps are not dangerous and character needs to stand on the trap to silence it anyway, this application is mostly useless.
- The potion of oil is the only potion that can be lit for an extended period of time. Quaffing this potion is not useful and in fact abuses your wisdom ("That was smooth!" or, if cursed, "This tastes like castor oil.") It has other uses, however. One use is to untrap a squeaky board, similar to a can of grease.
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| - Rustproofing certain weapons made from iron can be rather valuable.
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| - Potions of oil are potions that can be used in a few different ways:
* If drunk, the PC will become poisoned
* Blessed potions can coat items dipped into them, making metal items rustproof and others waterproof. However, they do not remove rust, so it is possible to create rusty rustproof weapon. Waterproof can be applied to scrolls and books, but these are normally protected by waterproof blankets.
* Potions of oil can be 'u'sed while standing on an alarm trap to silence it, removing the trap. Since alarm traps are not dangerous and character needs to stand on the trap to silence it anyway, this application is mostly useless.
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| - The potion of oil is the only potion that can be lit for an extended period of time. Quaffing this potion is not useful and in fact abuses your wisdom ("That was smooth!" or, if cursed, "This tastes like castor oil.") It has other uses, however. One use is to untrap a squeaky board, similar to a can of grease. Some uses involve lighting the oil by applying the potion. A lit potion of oil can be thrown at an enemy to cause 4d4 fire damage or thrown up to cause fire damage to yourself, removing slime; no damage is incurred if unlit. A lit potion of oil is dangerous when quaffed - it deals 3d4 fire damage and abuses wisdom unless you are polymorphed into a monster that likes fire (note: this is not the same as intrinsic fire resistance, although that will reduce the damage taken to 1d4). Monsters that like fire include fire vortices, flaming spheres, salamanders, and fire elementals. A lit potion of oil can be snuffed by applying it again. Oil can also be used to fix damaged weapons. By dipping a rusty or corroded weapon into a non-cursed potion of oil, it loses one measure of erosion damage. To completely repair a thoroughly corroded weapon, you thus need three potions of oil: from thoroughly corroded to very corroded to corroded to uncorroded. Oil does not repair rotten or burnt weapons, nor does it repair damaged armor. A potion of oil can be used to refill an empty oil lamp, by #dipping the lamp in the potion. However, if you attempt to do this while either the lamp or potion is lit, the potion will be wasted. (If the lamp is lit and the potion is not, the potion will explode!) Magic lamps behave just like oil lamps in this respect, so you can't identify them with oil. Attempts to use a cursed potion of oil can cause the oil to spill over your fingers, making them too slippery to hold a weapon. If this happens in a shop, the shopkeeper will consider your weapon his newfound property. This is another reason not to apply potions in shops. Applying a towel cleans your hands and removes this effect.
- Potions of oil are potions that can be used in a few different ways:
* If drunk, the PC will become poisoned
* Blessed potions can coat items dipped into them, making metal items rustproof and others waterproof. However, they do not remove rust, so it is possible to create rusty rustproof weapon. Waterproof can be applied to scrolls and books, but these are normally protected by waterproof blankets.
* Potions of oil can be 'u'sed while standing on an alarm trap to silence it, removing the trap. Since alarm traps are not dangerous and character needs to stand on the trap to silence it anyway, this application is mostly useless.
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