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The '''gremlin''', {{monsym|gremlin}}, is a [[NetHack]] [[monster]].  Getting them [[water|wet]] will cause them to [[division|divide]] into two gremlins with half the maximum HP as the original; they will actively seek moats and fountains in order to promote this process.  In addition, at [[night]] they have the ability to steal [[intrinsic]]s.
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The '''gremlin''', {{monsym|gremlin}}, is a [[NetHack]] [[monster]].  Getting them [[water|wet]] will cause them to [[division|divide]] into two gremlins with half the maximum HP as the original; they will actively seek moats and fountains in order to promote this process.  In addition, at [[night]] they have the ability to steal [[intrinsic]]s.  Their flesh is poisonous.
  
 
==Encyclopedia entry==
 
==Encyclopedia entry==

Revision as of 22:01, 22 June 2008


The gremlin, g, is a NetHack monster. Getting them wet will cause them to divide into two gremlins with half the maximum HP as the original; they will actively seek moats and fountains in order to promote this process. In addition, at night they have the ability to steal intrinsics. Their flesh is poisonous.

Encyclopedia entry

The gremlin is a highly intelligent and completely evil
creature.  It lives to torment other creatures and will go
to great lengths to inflict pain or cause injury.
Suddenly, Wilson thought about war, about the newspaper
stories which recounted the alleged existence of creatures in
the sky who plagued the Allied pilots in their duties.  They
called them gremlins, he remembered.  Were there, actually,
such beings?  Did they, truly, exist up here, never falling,
riding on the wind, apparently of bulk and weight, yet
impervious to gravity?
He was thinking that when the man appeared again.
       [ Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, by Richard Matheson ]
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