Draft:Torpor beast
| t Torpor beast | |
|---|---|
| Form | Ordinary creature |
| Attacks | 1 physical attack, raw 0–9; 40% sleep chance per hit; 1 defense |
| Special abilities | Sleep on a successful hit |
| Base level | 4 |
| HP | 40 |
| Hit | 30 |
| Defense | 0 |
| Action interval | 12 ticks; lower is faster |
| Kill experience | 120, when death is in sight |
| Generation | Ordinary and special encounters |
| Carried items | None at ordinary generation |
| Immunities | Fear, sleep |
| Remains | A valium gland; 50% on normal death |
| Remains use | Induces sleep; alertness-potion alchemy |
Traits
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| Reference | minit.h in Omega 0.90.4, line 145[1] |
A torpor beast is a slow, hungry predator whose melee attack can induce sleep. Its valium gland has opposite practical uses: eating it induces sleep, while alchemy produces a potion of alertness.[2]
Generation
Torpor beasts belong to ordinary random-monster pools. They are initially hostile and carry no ordinary possessions.[3]
Sleep attack
The beast makes one physical attack for a raw 0–9 damage, with one defense. Each successful hit has a 40% chance to attempt sleep. Without sleep immunity, and provided you are not already asleep, this adds two through nine sleep counts. These normally expire at game-minute status checks; you cannot take ordinary actions while asleep. Further hits do not extend the existing sleep through this routine.[4]
The sleep check follows the damage call, so armor or displacement does not by itself stop it. The beast is immune to fear and sleep, but has no other innate immunity. Safe food pacifies a hungry specimen.[5]
Valium gland
Normal death has a 50% chance to leave a valium gland. Eating it attempts a longer sleep, two through thirteen counts, without providing food. Ambrosias buys it for 16 Au or charges 100 Au to turn the selected stack into one blessed +4 potion of alertness. Alertness helps against surprise; it does not itself supply sleep immunity.[6]
Strategy
Its low damage and slow interval can hide the danger of losing several minutes of actions near other enemies. Feed it or attack without accepting repeated melee hits when sleep immunity is unavailable. Casting sleep on the beast is ineffective.
Keep the gland for conversion when alertness is useful. Neither eating it nor drinking the resulting alertness potion is a substitute for sleep immunity against another torpor beast.
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 145; item.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 87–91; iinit.h in Omega 0.90.4, line 148.
- ↑ lev.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 280–395; minit.h in Omega 0.90.4, line 145.
- ↑ mmelee.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 138–145; effect3.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 215–224; aux2.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 226–238; time.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 19–38; aux3.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 11–47.
- ↑ mmelee.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 8–20; minit.h in Omega 0.90.4, line 145; 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 87–91; itemf1.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 225–232; effect3.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 215–224; minit.h in Omega 0.90.4, line 145; site1.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 845–869; effect2.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 410–418; mspec.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 220–252.