Enchant Armour Scrolls:
Is that two year old shovel of yours not giving enough +dicksize for your satisfaction? Well, now you can give it a <red glow> to awe and bore your friends! A quick trip to your local newbie tiger, and you're good to go with your very own enchant armour scroll. No newbie tigers around? Then brave the newbie mines yourself and hunt the notorious black puddings, the only monsters that carry these scrolls. Unlike most scrolls, enchant armour scrolls appear to be 100% reliable. As with other scrolls, you only get one use each out of them.
With an enchant armour scroll in your inventory, you may use the enchant command:
Command: enchant
Argument: An item you are wearing
Enchant Armour Faq:
Q: What if I enchant an item that already has a <red glow>?
A: It depends on the item. Those that are legitimately magical will be destroyed, those which have just been enchanted with another ea scroll will not.
Q: Do enchant armour scrolls add anything at all to armour prots?
A: I've never heard of them causing any measurable improvement to the value or strength of armour, and even if layering many enchantments on an item were able to add up to some small level of general prot bonus, it would be cheaper and more effective to get some physress eq.
Q: Does enchanting have any benefit at all?
A: If you count adding a <red glow> to an item as a benefit, then yes. There is some indication that enchanting stuff
alters it in a few ways, I'll look into this when I get the chance.
Q: Can I enchant my guild items?
A: You sure can! The glow will vanish when you quit or logoff however.
Q: What if I enchant a <red glow> bardic instrument?
A: It will be destroyed.
Q: What if I enchant my sailor guild item, which has an <aqua glow>?
A: You will be the proud owner of an item with an <aqua glow> <red glow> till you log off.
Q: Can I enchant anything besides an item I'm wearing?
A: No, but you can wear pretty much anything you can carry if you have a held slot.
Q: Can I enchant player city objects (like closets) which I can wear in a held slot?
A: Yes. Those which save will retain their glow through reboots as well.
Q: What if I wear the scroll and then "enchant scroll"?
A: The scroll enchants itself and then is vanishes normally.
Personal Comments:
I've always figured EA scrolls were simply the Batmud Equivalent of Nystul's magic aura: a good way to fake special qualities on an item, but without much practical value. Back in the days when sculptured equipment was a present threat to newbies, they may well have been used to add realism to fake artifacts, though I never actually saw an example of this. The fact of the matter is that there are a heck of a lot of very powerful items with no special glow at all, and more than a few useless items which always sport one. An ea scroll is needed for the merchant toolbelt quest and to charge up stifsim scales, to the best of my knowledge this is the only use they have.