The Tavern

Perhaps this is a stupid question, but I'm playing MiBe right now and have saved up a big pile of spellbooks (I was thinking of converting for the late game). I've decided to stick with Trog so I should probably burn my stash in case he gives me some nice axes.

My question is, can the hunger cost kill me outright if I press a f next to a big stack of books and my nutrition drops to zero?

The hunger cost is negligible.

If you are already Starving, you'd have to burn around 50+ books to get to 0 nutrition.

Good to know, thanks!

On a related note, assuming I have enough books to roll over the gift timeout, can more than one gift be delivered in one turn? Otherwise, I should probably split my stack up before burning...

My understanding is that it does not matter how many books are burnt, you pay hunger cost for ability invocation only.

I am not sure about Trog but I did get several gifts after sacrificing a single body to Oka. I assume these 2 gods work identically.

Yes. I've had multiple enemies die from poison in the same turn I burned a pile of corpses and then received multiple gifts in a turn. This was probably in 0.5 or something, though, so it may have changed since then.

Before you toss all those books on the flames, know that they can be occasionally useful tactically as a conjure flame equivalent that allows you to escape or deal additional damage in one-tile wide hallways. Not incredibly important, but you probably have piety to spare as troglodyte so why burn them.

Book of Annihilation makes a dandy land mine!