All right, who went and put some of the Orc Norris lines in the game?

And in related news, i need a level editor to fix my savegame 8-(

I have found a bug in vanilla 0.59, a very nasty one that deletes staircases!

If a mirror imp croaks exactly on the stairs it replaces the tile with the crystal they leave and an engraving describing the staircase.

Perhaps Mana could be used to cast spells which you learn from an nPC or expensive scrolls?

They could work similarly to a scroll of immolation.

Any other unusual sprites I could write text for? The "steel chariot" was a fun creative exercise.

Would it be easier to make it a permanent dungeon that you can randomly go to instead of made on-the-fly?

I had an inspiration for the teleport system, all the way back from oldschool Elite where hyperspacing had something like a .01 % chance of getting you interdicted by Thargoids:

Tiny chance for teleporting (via any method except divinity) to take you to an eldritch location with strange items, creatures, limited visibility, slow-but-steady HP loss and potential danger at every step. You get poofed back after a set amount of turns there if you don't have any other way out.

Text for the car!

short: "steel chariot"
long description: "You see here a strange steel chariot"

Too big to pick up, obviously!

Sit message: "you sit comfortably on one of the padded seats."
Rest message: "You stretch out on the long padded bench in the back. It is very soft and cozy."
Apply message (with an 'odd key'): "After much trouble you find a tiny slot in which the key clicks and turns, but nothing seems to happen."
Dig message: "You can't bring yourself to wreck this wonderous object."

If you wanted to implement actual short 'books' in the game, as in the screen changes to text and SPACE progresses, feel free to borrow "Treatise on the Lights of Legifer"