Draft:Dragonette

Omega 0.90.4

d Dragonette
Form	Ordinary creature
Attacks	2 attacks, each raw 0–39 physical plus 0–39 fire; 2 defenses
Special abilities	Fire bolt; valuable gifts take priority over food
Base level	5
HP	50
Hit	20
Defense	15
Action interval	3 ticks; lower is faster
Kill experience	180, when death is in sight
Generation	Ordinary and special encounters
Carried items	No fixed item; 0–3 random possessions
Immunities	Fire
Remains	Dragon steak; 50% on normal death
Remains use	Ordinary food; fire-resistance ring alchemy
Traits Hostile, greedy and hungry Flies
Reference	minit.h in Omega 0.90.4, line 163

A dragonette is a small flying dragon with fire bolts and combined physical-and-fire melee attacks. It is weaker than a full dragon, but each of its two melee hits attempts both types of damage.

Generation

Dragonettes belong to ordinary random-monster pools and a dedicated volcano selection. An ordinary dragonette has no fixed item and zero through three random possessions.

Combat and gifts

It makes two attacks, each attempting a raw 0–39 physical damage and a separate raw 0–39 fire damage. Displacement is checked separately for each damage call. It also has two defenses. Its fire bolt uses a raw 0–39 roll, with ordinary ranged opportunities from distance three through nine.

The dragonette is immune to fire, but not cold, poison or sleep. It flies over water. Although hungry, it is also greedy, so valuable-gift handling takes priority: a single gift worth at least 500 Au removes hostility. Cheap food is not a separate route to pacification while that greedy response applies.

Dragon steak

Normal death drops possessions and has a 50% chance to leave dragon steak. The steak is ordinary edible corpse food, supplying six food units subject to normal eating limits; it does not use the alternate steak message's unused food-setting effect. Ambrosias can instead buy it for 16 Au or charge 100 Au to convert the selected steak into one blessed +5 ring of fire resistance. The ring gives fire immunity while worn; +5 does not strengthen the immunity.

Strategy

Fire immunity removes its ranged damage and the fire part of each melee hit, but leaves physical damage. Keeping range can therefore be useful when fire-protected, while closing without protection exposes you to both components twice per sequence. Sleep and poison remain applicable against the ordinary creature.

Choose between a meal and a low-cost protective ring when retaining the steak. Existing fire immunity makes eating or selling it more attractive; without that protection, conversion can prepare you for later fire encounters.