Tweak flame talisman

Recipes assume, and to extent need to assume, that talismans are made one at a time, so had to add a purpose to flame talismans that would justify what would otherwise be a waste of blood essence outside of emergencies.
Mystic-Spider · Dec 14, 2020 · 94afb75 · 94afb75
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diff --git a/Arcana/items/comestibles.json b/Arcana/items/comestibles.json
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@
     "comestible_type": "MED",
     "category": "tools",
     "name": { "str": "flame talisman" },
-    "description": "A crude paper talisman marked with strange patterns, and anointed with a meager sacrifice.  It can be used to rapidly spark a fire, if you're desperate.",
+    "description": "A crude paper talisman marked with strange patterns, and anointed with a meager sacrifice.  It can be used to immolate an enemy at close range, or to rapidly spark a more controlled fire if you're desperate.",
     "//": "Talismans are natural magic, rare to non-existent pre-cataclysm as they develop from survivors studying otherworldly phenomena and connecting it to familiar concepts.",
     "price_postapoc": 300,
     "weight": "150 g",
@@ -209,9 +209,8 @@
     "looks_like": "birchbark",
     "symbol": ",",
     "color": "cyan",
-    "charges": 10,
-    "charges_per_use": 1,
-    "use_action": { "type": "firestarter", "moves": 5 },
+    "charges": 1,
+    "use_action": [ { "type": "cast_spell", "spell_id": "arcana_item_immolate", "no_fail": true, "level": 0 }, { "type": "firestarter", "moves": 5 } ],
     "flags": [ "NO_SALVAGE", "NO_INGEST", "FIRESTARTER", "NUTRIENT_OVERRIDE" ]
   },
   {

diff --git a/Arcana/spells/spells_item.json b/Arcana/spells/spells_item.json
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
   {
     "id": "arcana_item_athame_sanguine_art",
     "type": "SPELL",
-    "//": "Todo: add a difficulty of 1 and remove no-failure from the item's action, if it turns out that skill reasonably reduces an unleveled spell's failure rate to be feasible, when spell skill is no longer hardcoded.",
     "name": { "str": "Sanguine Art" },
     "description": "Prepares a ritual to turn part of your life force into a usable form of essence.  Doing so will take 5 minutes, inflicting blood loss and damage at the end, as well as potential consequences if overused...",
     "message": "You work a ritual to draw power from your own blood, instinct guiding your hand as you trace patterns across your skin with the dull blade.  As you work the last rune, the only one to actually break the skin, wounds open elsewhere on your body!",
@@ -475,6 +474,28 @@
     "min_field_intensity": 1,
     "max_field_intensity": 1
   },
+  {
+    "id": "arcana_item_immolate",
+    "type": "SPELL",
+    "name": { "str": "Immolate" },
+    "description": "Blast a nearby target with fire.",
+    "message": "The talisman burns away, loosing a bolt of flame!",
+    "effect": "attack",
+    "shape": "blast",
+    "valid_targets": [ "ally", "hostile", "ground" ],
+    "flags": [ "NO_HANDS", "NO_LEGS", "SILENT" ],
+    "min_damage": 15,
+    "max_damage": 15,
+    "damage_type": "heat",
+    "min_range": 5,
+    "max_range": 5,
+    "base_casting_time": 5,
+    "final_casting_time": 5,
+    "field_id": "fd_fire",
+    "field_chance": 1,
+    "min_field_intensity": 1,
+    "max_field_intensity": 1
+  },
   {
     "id": "arcana_item_jade_hauberk_healing",
     "type": "SPELL",

diff --git a/Arcana_BN/items/comestibles.json b/Arcana_BN/items/comestibles.json
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@
     "comestible_type": "MED",
     "category": "tools",
     "name": { "str": "flame talisman" },
-    "description": "A crude paper talisman marked with strange patterns, and anointed with a meager sacrifice.  It can be used to rapidly spark a fire, if you're desperate.",
+    "description": "A crude paper talisman marked with strange patterns, and anointed with a meager sacrifice.  It can be used to immolate an enemy at close range, or to rapidly spark a more controlled fire if you're desperate.",
     "//": "Talismans are natural magic, rare to non-existent pre-cataclysm as they develop from survivors studying otherworldly phenomena and connecting it to familiar concepts.",
     "price_postapoc": 300,
     "weight": "150 g",
@@ -196,9 +196,9 @@
     "looks_like": "birchbark",
     "symbol": ",",
     "color": "cyan",
-    "charges": 10,
+    "charges": 1,
     "charges_per_use": 1,
-    "use_action": { "type": "firestarter", "moves": 5 },
+    "use_action": [ { "type": "cast_spell", "spell_id": "arcana_item_immolate", "no_fail": true, "level": 0 }, { "type": "firestarter", "moves": 5 } ],
     "flags": [ "NO_SALVAGE", "NO_INGEST", "FIRESTARTER", "NUTRIENT_OVERRIDE" ]
   },
   {

diff --git a/Arcana_BN/spells/spells_item.json b/Arcana_BN/spells/spells_item.json
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
   {
     "id": "arcana_item_athame_sanguine_art",
     "type": "SPELL",
-    "//": "Todo: add a difficulty of 1 and remove no-failure from the item's action, if it turns out that skill reasonably reduces an unleveled spell's failure rate to be feasible, when spell skill is no longer hardcoded.",
     "name": { "str": "Sanguine Art" },
     "description": "Prepares a ritual to turn part of your life force into a usable form of essence.  Doing so will take 5 minutes, inflicting blood loss and damage at the end, as well as potential consequences if overused...",
     "message": "You work a ritual to draw power from your own blood, instinct guiding your hand as you trace patterns across your skin with the dull blade.  As you work the last rune, the only one to actually break the skin, wounds open elsewhere on your body!",
@@ -449,6 +448,27 @@
     "min_field_intensity": 1,
     "max_field_intensity": 1
   },
+  {
+    "id": "arcana_item_immolate",
+    "type": "SPELL",
+    "name": { "str": "Immolate" },
+    "description": "Blast a nearby target with fire.",
+    "message": "The talisman burns away, loosing a bolt of flame!",
+    "effect": "target_attack",
+    "valid_targets": [ "ally", "hostile", "ground" ],
+    "flags": [ "NO_HANDS", "NO_LEGS", "SILENT" ],
+    "min_damage": 15,
+    "max_damage": 15,
+    "damage_type": "fire",
+    "min_range": 5,
+    "max_range": 5,
+    "base_casting_time": 5,
+    "final_casting_time": 5,
+    "field_id": "fd_fire",
+    "field_chance": 1,
+    "min_field_intensity": 1,
+    "max_field_intensity": 1
+  },
   {
     "id": "arcana_item_jade_hauberk_healing",
     "type": "SPELL",