Shattered Kingdoms

Right, so here I am minding my own business gleefully killing stuff in the cave system, when I enter a room with four kobolds and a germish'din. I unlock the door and open it to get in, enter, kill all of them, and then head for the only exit:



However, when I try to unlock it (I still have the key in my inventory), I get the following message:



This wouldn't be a grave concern of mine if SW wasn't the only way out of here. I like what you've done with the place, but I'm not really all that interested in staying forever. Am I completely missing something here?

Sorry for the bother, it's probably just a case of me being a noob.

You're carrying a sword or something else that starts with sw. The code for finding objects checks your inventory first, so that's the thing you're trying to unlock.

Get around this by typing the entire direction, i.e. unlock southwest.

Thanks a bunch! I was about ready to do a recall and lose my horse

Good to know.

Ah, one more thing before I forget (might as well ask here instead of flooding the board):

How on earth do you actually cast 'continual light'? I'm sure its supposed to be targeted on an item, but whenever I cast it on anything I carry or hold/wield (I tried hold x too), I'm kindly informed that I do not actually hold this. If I proceed to examine self, it would seem this claim is refuted since I am indeed holding whatever it is. What's the trick here?

It must be in your inventory, if I remember correctly. You can't be holding it nor wielding it.

To cast continual light, the object must be in your inventory and not part of your equipment.

Remove helm
->You remove your helm of head-protecting.

c 'continual light' helm
->(spam, spell lag) A helm of head-protecting starts to glow (or whatever the spammage is).

in
-> (glowing) A helm of head-protecting

Thanks a lot, guys. Sheesh, that was quite self-evident. I'm pretty thankful there's a board for people with my level of cunning.

Everyone, with the possible exception of me, starts out as a newb and progresses to experienced. (I never progressed.)

I was actually born a killer-robot from the future.

How do robots-

Nemind, I don't want to know.