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A vampire bat can be identified as a polymorphed vampire by using any means of probing ([[wand of probing]], [[stethoscope]], attack with [[Magicbane]]); the message will show a "shapeshifter." Attacking a vampire bat with a [[silver]] weapon will sear it if it is really a vampire. | A vampire bat can be identified as a polymorphed vampire by using any means of probing ([[wand of probing]], [[stethoscope]], attack with [[Magicbane]]); the message will show a "shapeshifter." Attacking a vampire bat with a [[silver]] weapon will sear it if it is really a vampire. | ||
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| + | In [[SLASH'EM]], vampiric bats are classified as members of the vampire [[race]]. This does not give them any actual vampiric properties, but [[vampire (starting race in SLASH'EM)|player vampires]] can still use their corpses for [[sacrifice#Sacrificing creatures of own race|same-race sacrifice]]. | ||
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Revision as of 16:50, 5 January 2022
B vampire bat 
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| Difficulty | 7 |
| Attacks |
Bite 1d6, Bite poison |
| Base level | 5 |
| Base experience | 66 |
| Speed | 20 |
| Base AC | 6 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 2 (Quite rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 30 |
| Nutritional value | 20 |
| Size | Small |
| Resistances | sleep, poison |
| Resistances conveyed |
None |
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A vampire bat:
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| Reference | monst.c#line1141 |
The vampire bat, B, is a monster in NetHack. It is the most powerful variety of bat. Despite its name, it cannot drain life the way a vampire can, but it does have a poisonous bite.
Its corpse is poisonous, but unlike the corpses of other species of bat, it does not stun the player.
As of version 3.6.0, a vampire bat may actually be a shapeshifted vampire or vampire lord, and resurrect in that form after being killed.
Player
Players polymorphed into vampire bats
- are permanently stunned.
- will polymorph into vampires when the player polymorphs without polymorph control.
Identifying polymorphed vampires
A vampire bat can be identified as a polymorphed vampire by using any means of probing (wand of probing, stethoscope, attack with Magicbane); the message will show a "shapeshifter." Attacking a vampire bat with a silver weapon will sear it if it is really a vampire.
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, vampiric bats are classified as members of the vampire race. This does not give them any actual vampiric properties, but player vampires can still use their corpses for same-race sacrifice.
Biology
Vampire bats are real, and common to the American Southwest as well as Central and South America. There are three distinct species of vampire bat, and are the only animals known to feed primarily or solely on the blood of other animals.
Encyclopedia entry
A bat, flitting in the darkness outside, took the wrong turn
as it made its nightly rounds and came in through the window
which had been left healthfully open. It then proceeded to
circle the room in the aimless fat-headed fashion habitual
with bats, who are notoriously among the less intellectually
gifted of God's creatures. Show me a bat, says the old
proverb, and I will show you something that ought to be in
some kind of a home.
[ A Pelican at Blandings, by P. G. Wodehouse ]
