?summoning giving durable allies

[Pollen_Golem]

Well at least it's better than when it made an abomination, what was up with that idea? But casting shadow creatures a couple of times is not particularly impressive, so it doesn't make sense why this scroll is among the rare ones. Let's make the summons durable, and incapable of leaving the branch or level. That would make this a strategic, rather than emergency, scroll. It's a bit of a gamble too, since how can you know where you'll need same-branch allies most?

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[chequers]

The problem I have with scroll of summon is that its summons are not particularly strong. It's not massively different from summon butterflies, for a lot of the game. Especially when using ?summoning as a panic button, durability doesn't really help.

[Sar]

Um what? It's pretty strong in a lot of situations, in my experience.

[gammafunk]

The summons from scroll of summoning are particularly strong, and it makes two or or more of these summons (sometimes a lot more than two). Even two summons are very often more than enough to escape from or kill whatever monster you were fighting.

[Pollen_Golem]

It seems to be especially good when you're getting surrounded complements of guardian serpents, curse toes, and the like.