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I did check the manual. About 2, the mod manual (version 3.8, i haven't patched yet) says that both the fly and explosion sprites are taken from table 4, which is where I got the 1001 sprite from. Even choosing a fly sprite from table 5, I'm not not seeing eithor an explosion of flight.

for 1, all I was missing was the newspell.