Draft:Jub-jub bird
| j Jub-jub bird | |
|---|---|
| Form | Ordinary creature |
| Attacks | 2 high attacks: 0–24 physical each before absorption; no defensive actions |
| Base level | 4 |
| HP | 50 |
| Hit | 18 |
| Defense | 12 |
| Action interval | 3 ticks; lower is faster |
| Kill experience | 125, when death is in sight |
| Generation | Random pools and encounter details |
| Carried items | None at ordinary generation |
| Immunities | Poison |
| Remains | Jube-jubes; 50% on normal death |
| Remains use | Ordinary food; no alchemy |
Traits
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| Reference | minit.h in Omega 0.90.4, line 135[1] |
A jub-jub bird is a hungry, hostile flying creature, displayed as a purple j. It has two high attacks, poison immunity and edible remains called jube-jubes.[2]
Generation
Jub-jub birds belong to ordinary random-monster pools. They are not separately favored by the named countryside terrain tables, but may occur through those tables' random slots. An ordinary bird has no starting possessions.[3]
Behavior and feeding
The bird flutters toward the player, crosses water and hedges by flying, and attempts two high physical attacks with raw rolls of 0–24. It has no block, ranged attack or special ability. Its burbling conversation is only a response, not a spell or food transaction.[4]
While hungry, it accepts ordinary food and becomes peaceful. Give requires an adjacent target and a non-cursed item. Poisonous food fails as an attack: the bird's poison immunity prevents the 100 poison damage, but it still consumes the offering, loses hunger, remains hostile and shifts your alignment two points toward Chaos. That also removes reliance on a second ordinary feeding response.[5]
Jube-jubes have a 50% chance to appear on normal death. They are ordinary edible remains, providing six points of food reserve, not poison resistance or a special magical effect. They have no alchemical transformation.[6]
Strategy
An ordinary meal is a useful way to end a fight with a still-hungry bird; poison food wastes that opportunity. If fighting is necessary, its high-directed attacks help when planning a defensive sequence, but neither a pond nor a hedge isolates it. Do not assume that eating a poison-immune creature grants the same immunity: these remains are only food.
Origin
The Jubjub bird appears in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky. Omega hyphenates the name and gives this creature a burbling response, another word from the poem.[7]
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; 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 135.
- ↑ lev.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 11–70; lev.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 280–395.
- ↑ minit.h in Omega 0.90.4, line 135; mon.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 12–76; mmove.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 151–177; util.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 93–151; mtalk.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 392–404.
- ↑ command2.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 400–454; inv.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 430–467; inv.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 1584–1591; mon.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 114–131.
- ↑ mon.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 134–203; item.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 63–139; command2.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 130–161.
- ↑ Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, chapter I, "Jabberwocky"; minit.h in Omega 0.90.4, line 135; mtalk.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 392–404.