Draft:Water elemental

Omega 0.90.4

W Water elemental
Form	Ordinary creature
Attacks	2 physical attacks, raw 0–29 each; 2 defenses
Special abilities	No ranged or special attack
Base level	6
HP	100
Hit	15
Defense	10
Action interval	6 ticks; lower is faster
Kill experience	250, when death is in sight
Generation	Ordinary and special encounters
Carried items	None at ordinary generation
Immunities	Cold, sleep
Remains	Essence of water elemental; 50% on normal death
Remains use	Inedible; healing-staff alchemy
Traits Hostile Water-only movement
Reference	minit.h in Omega 0.90.4, line 195

A water elemental is a water-bound physical attacker. Its essence can become a twenty-charge healing staff, giving it a practical value beyond the immediate encounter.

Generation

Water elementals belong to ordinary random-monster pools and dedicated selections in the sewers and on the Astral Plane of Water. They are initially hostile and carry no ordinary possessions.

Combat and water

It makes two physical attacks, each with a raw 0–29 damage roll, and has two defenses. It has no ranged or special attack. It is immune to cold and sleep, but not physical damage, electricity, fire or poison.

Its water-only movement prevents normal movement onto dry floor. This does not prevent it from attacking an adjacent player on shore, and it does not imply that every generation route places it in suitable water. It has no hungry or greedy pacification response.

Essence

Normal death has a 50% chance to leave essence of water elemental. It is inedible. Ambrosias buys it for 66 Au or charges 400 Au to turn the selected essence into one blessed +6 staff of healing with 20 charges.

The noncursed staff heals the player and clears blindness. Its +6 makes the healing call use strength seven; recovery can bring HP to seven above the ordinary maximum. It is not a targeted healing beam for other creatures.

Strategy

Keep beyond adjacency when using a shoreline to separate you from it. Its lack of a ranged attack then limits its options, while cold and sleep are ineffective choices against it. Physical attacks work, but its defensive locations are chosen randomly; a low attack is not guaranteed to avoid a block.

Preserving the essence provides a repeatable healing resource after conversion. The staff's twenty charges and blindness cure can justify retaining the lightweight remain even when you do not need immediate healing.