Draft:Denebian slime devil
| s Denebian slime devil | |
|---|---|
| Form | Ordinary creature |
| Attacks | 1 low physical attack, raw 0–14; 40% disease chance per hit; no defense |
| Special abilities | Disease; surprise |
| Base level | 4 |
| HP | 75 |
| Hit | 30 |
| Defense | 10 |
| Action interval | 12 ticks; lower is faster |
| Kill experience | 125, when death is in sight |
| Generation | Ordinary and special encounters |
| Carried items | None at ordinary generation |
| Immunities | Fire, electricity, poison |
| Remains | Denebian slime; 50% on normal death |
| Remains use | Eating has only messages; curing-potion alchemy |
Traits
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| Reference | minit.h in Omega 0.90.4, line 133[1] |
A denebian slime devil is an initially invisible, disease-inflicting swimmer. Its slime has an alarming eating message, but that message does not actually inflict the threatened incurable death.[2]
Generation
Denebian slime devils belong to ordinary random-monster pools and the dedicated sewer selection. They carry no ordinary possessions.[3]
Disease and surprise
Its single low attack deals a raw 0–14 physical damage. A successful hit has a 40% chance to attempt infection, adding one through eight disease counts unless you have infection immunity. Disease normally decreases at ten-minute game-time status checks and interferes with normal recovery. Poison immunity is not infection immunity.[4]
The slime devil starts invisible and can surprise you after combat has been attempted. Without true sight, the surprise reveals it; without alertness it also costs your next action. True sight prevents that surprise branch but does not itself clear the creature's invisible status. An attack need not have hit to establish the combat condition.[5]
It is immune to fire, electricity and poison, but not cold, sleep or infection. Safe food pacifies its hungry form. Poisonous food cannot hurt this poison-immune creature and consumes its feeding opportunity while leaving it hostile.[6]
Slime
Half of normal deaths leave denebian slime. Eating it produces threatening messages but no disease, death, attribute change or nutrition in this version. Ambrosias buys it for 6 Au or charges 40 Au to turn the selected stack into one blessed +4 potion of curing. The potion's disease cure is a separate result of conversion; it is not obtained by eating the slime.[7]
Strategy
True sight or alertness helps avoid losing an action to surprise, but infection protection is needed for the disease rider. Damage reduction and displacement do not cancel that rider after a successful hit. Its slow interval makes disengagement more practical than against fast invisible enemies, although water does not contain it.
The slime is more useful as a cheap curing-potion ingredient than as food. Its frightening message is not a reason to expect a hidden unavoidable death, but eating it still supplies no useful meal.
References
- ↑ lev.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 373–394; mon.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 134–203; mmelee.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 8–145; mmelee.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 227–311; aux2.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 689–727; time.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 47–74; item.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 63–139. Ordinary construction, combat, timing and remains.
- ↑ minit.h in Omega 0.90.4, line 133; mmelee.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 129–137; itemf1.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 693–696.
- ↑ lev.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 105–120; lev.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 280–395; minit.h in Omega 0.90.4, line 133.
- ↑ mmelee.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 129–137; effect3.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 801–811; aux2.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 340–410; time.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 19–74.
- ↑ minit.h in Omega 0.90.4, line 133; mspec.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 220–252; aux1.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 378–390; mmelee.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 59–65; mon.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 390–399.
- ↑ minit.h in Omega 0.90.4, line 133; inv.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 430–467.
- ↑ mon.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 134–203; item.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 63–139; itemf1.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 693–696; minit.h in Omega 0.90.4, line 133; iinit.h in Omega 0.90.4, line 172; site1.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 845–869.