Bright
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The bright command tells you how much light people or objects emit. Used by itself, it tells you the ambient light level.
You can also use it to check surrounding rooms with: "bright exit <exit name>" or compare the illumination of several items with "bright <object> against <object(s)>".
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Sight modifiers
Brightness is subjective: performing Dark Sight causes the command to show rooms as being brighter than normal.
Wearing a bronze helm doesn't change the apparent brightness, but it does make you more light sensitive. While wearing it, you become effectively blind somewhere in the "very brightly lit" range instead of the "too brightly lit to see clearly" range.
Wearing dwarfish goggles prevents you from being blinded when you would otherwise be unable to see because it is too bright.
Having a higher adventuring.perception allows you to see in darker areas.[research]
Ambient light
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The ambient light levels are as follows:
| Range | Message | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| < 0 | in the darkness that lies beyond darkness. | Negative lighting! |
| 0 - 9 | in pitch darkness. | Much harder to see. |
| 10 - 29 | in near darkness. | Harder to see. |
| 30 - 40 | very poorly lit. | |
| 41 - 48 | poorly lit. | |
| 49 - 65 | dimly lit. | |
| 66 - 82 | quite well lit. | |
| 83 - 99 | well lit. | |
| 100 - 116 | brightly lit. | |
| 117 - 200 | very brightly lit. | |
| 201 - 300 | too brightly lit to see clearly. | Harder to see. |
| > 300 | too brightly lit to see. | Much harder to see. |
The output of bright normally starts with the short name of the room (as in glance):
- <Room's short name> is
If the light is not bright enough (below 10 or between 10 and 29 to a lesser degree) to recognize the room instead it starts with:
- Wherever you are, it's
If the light is too bright (above 300 or between 201 and 300 to a lesser degree) to recognize the room instead it starts with:
- Something is
Yourself and objects
The amount of light you emit depends on the light sources you're carrying, and whether you're under the effects of the Light ritual.
The levels of illumination are:
| Range | Message |
|---|---|
| < 0 | <are/is> dark beyond darkness. |
| 0 | produces no light at all. |
| 1 - 9 | produces a faint light. |
| 10 - 29 | produces a bit of light. |
| 30 - 72 | produces quite a bit of light. |
| 73 - 114 | <are/is> very bright. |
| 115 - 200 | <are/is> extremely bright. |
| 201 - 300 | <are/is> so bright it hurts to look. |
| > 300 | <are/is> so bright you can't bear to look. |
Balsa wands
Balsa wands can be used to make any item a permanent source of light, unless the item is destroyed or otherwise changed in a way that makes this effect lost. Using stable items is recommended, or at least test the change after one zap to see if it remains.
Each successful zap adds some light to the object, enough so that five successful zaps without any failure in between make the item produce quite a bit of light.
If at any time a balsa wand is zapped at an item but the player fails the skillcheck, then all the light that the item produces is removed. Therefore if you zap it 10 times with success but then fail once the object will be producing no light at all.
