Draft:Mamba

Omega 0.90.4

m Mamba
Form	Ordinary creature
Attacks	2 attacks: 0–19 physical each before absorption; 30% poison chance per hit; no defensive actions
Base level	3
HP	10
Hit	25
Defense	10
Action interval	3 ticks; lower is faster
Kill experience	45, when death is in sight
Generation	Random pools and encounter details
Carried items	None at ordinary generation
Immunities	None innate
Remains	Mamba filet; 50% on normal death
Remains use	Poisonous food; no alchemy
Traits Initially hostile Poisonous attacks and remains
Reference	minit.h in Omega 0.90.4, line 119

A mamba is a hostile venomous snake, displayed as a red m. It is fragile at ten HP, but has high accuracy, two attacks and a chance to poison on each hit.

Generation

Mambas belong to ordinary random-monster pools and are explicitly included in jungle encounters. Ordinary mambas have no starting possessions.

Poisonous attacks

For the shared damage, timing, immunity and treatment rules, see Poison.

The mamba pursues the player and attempts two physical attacks at a base interval of three ticks. Each landed attack rolls 0–19 physical damage before absorption and separately has a 30% chance to add 20 poison-status checks. Poison immunity blocks that added poisoning. While poison remains, each ordinary status update removes one count and applies three poison damage; repeated bites can extend the poisoning.

Armor reduces the physical part, not the separate chance to become poisoned. Displacement can avoid the physical damage after a hit without skipping the subsequent poison check. Poison updates normally occur as game minutes pass, with additional periodic checks, so the duration is not exactly 20 player commands.

The mamba has no innate immunity, no swimming or flying ability, and no food-pacification response. At one HP, its next normal pursuit movement triggers retreat and reduces its interval to two ticks. Its corpse, mamba filet, appears on 50% of normal deaths and is poisonous despite its food-like name. It has no alchemical transformation.

Strategy

The mamba's low HP favors ending the encounter before repeated adjacent exchanges. Poison protection is valuable even with good armor; carry an appropriate antidote when relying on recovery after a bite. Do not eat the filet or try to pacify the living snake with food. The poisonous corpse can be retained as an offering for a genuinely hungry, non-poison-immune enemy, such as a lion, at the usual alignment cost.