Falming Valpurium Sword +10

Hello there! It's been a while since I last played IVAN till a few weeks ago where I decided to start a new game (which ended in a high priest win, by the way ). Everything was normal with the excpetion that in the late game after killing Elpuri and past the portal down a few levels I found a flaming valpurium sword+10, which was weird. Not much time passed and it dissapeared as if it was a mirrored item.

So, after I ended that game I started another one and was doing just fine when I came across a flaming valpurium sword+10 again, only that this time it was much earlier in the game. As it happened before, it dissapeared after a while.

I remember finding two highly valuable items like amulets of life saving on the same level and having one of them dissapear after a while in a previous game, again like if it was a mirrored item, but never a flaming valpurium sword+10, and definitely not two in a row in different games. Any idea how or why were those flaming swords created and why did they dissapear after a while? I'm not sure, but I think in both ocassions there was an eddie in space-time continuum wandering around the level when that happened and it may be related to that.

Here's a screen of the second one I found:



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Edit: I misspelled Flaming on the title but can't edit it

The swords are an rare spawn easter egg, basically. They typically despawn before you can find them, but occasionally you might luck out and find one.

If I remember aright, there's a note in the code regarding this. Somewhere along the lines of "mwahahahaha I'm so evil, I'm gonna give you this awesome sword to rely on, and have it disappear on you, hopefully in the middle of a tough fight spawned because of this sword".

Yep, I have been tricked by these before


From the Best item found near the start of the game thread