Bloodletter

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Base item	morning star
Damage vs. small	2d6 +1d12
Damage vs. large	1d8+1 +1d12
To-hit bonus	+1d8
Bonus versus	monsters with blood
Weapon skill	morning star
Size	one-handed
Affiliation	unaligned insight weapons
When carried	can be enchanted to +10
When wielded	bonus damage at lower HP bonus damage while blood-coated (see article)
When invoked	inflicts 1⁄5 of max HP in damage to wielder, becomes blood-coated invoking or applying while blood-coated causes explosion of rotten blood
Base price	4000 zm
Weight	80
Material	iron

Bloodletter is an artifact weapon that appears in dNetHack and notdNetHack. It is unaligned, and its base item is a morning star.

Generation

Any character may receive Bloodletter as a sacrifice gift.

Description

Bloodletter has +1d8 to-hit and deals +1d12 bonus damage against monsters with blood - the weapon also gains +1d12 blood damage if the wielder is at anywhere between ¹⁄₄ and ¹⁄₂ of their maximum hit points, or +2d12 if they are at less than ¹⁄₄ of their maximum HP. Bloodletter can be safely enchanted to +10 and is also an insight weapon, gaining extra bonus damage when used by Madpeople.

Invoking Bloodletter "activates" the artifact, dealing damage to the character equal to ¹⁄₅ of their maximum health and coating it in blood for 20 + 2d10 turns: while coated in blood, Bloodletter grants a flat damage bonus equal to the monster level of a target that it hits; hitting a monster with blood reduces the timer from anywhere between ^ML⁄₁₀ to (^ML⁄₁₀) - 4 turns, and time cannot be added. Invoking or applying a wielded, blood-coated Bloodletter will slam it down, ending the effect and causing a 3x3 explosion of rotten blood centered on the character: the explosion deals 6d6 damage to monsters caught in it, including the character; though there is no full immunity to this attack, monsters without blood are not subject to the level-based bonus damage.

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