Gremlin

g gremlin
Difficulty	8
Attacks	Claw 1d6, claw 1d6, bite 1d4, claw intrinsic-stealing

g gremlin
Difficulty	8
Attacks	Claw 1d6, claw 1d6, bite 1d4, claw intrinsic-stealing
Base level	5
Base experience	60
Speed	12
Base AC	2
Base MR	25
Alignment	-9 (chaotic)
Frequency (by normal means)	Rare
Genocidable	Yes
Weight	100
Nutritional value	20
Size	Small
Resistances	Poison
Resistances conveyed	Poison

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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