Werejackal
@ werejackal (human) 
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| Difficulty | 3 |
| Attacks |
Weapon 2d4 |
| Base level | 2 |
| Base experience | 22 |
| Speed | 12 |
| Base AC | 10 |
| Base MR | 10 |
| Alignment | -7 (chaotic) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 1 (Very rare) |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 1450 |
| Nutritional value | 400 |
| Size | Medium |
| Resistances | Poison |
| Resistances conveyed |
Lycanthropy |
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A human werejackal:
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| Reference | monst.c#line2120 |
d werejackal (animal) 
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| Difficulty | 4 |
| Attacks |
Bite 1d4 lycanthropy, Summon friends |
| Base level | 2 |
| Base experience | 22 |
| Speed | 12 |
| Base AC | 7 |
| Base MR | 10 |
| Alignment | -7 (chaotic) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | Always starts in human form |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 300 |
| Nutritional value | 250 |
| Size | Small |
| Resistances | Poison |
| Resistances conveyed |
Lycanthropy |
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An animal werejackal:
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| Reference | monst.c#line212 |
A werejackal, @ / d, is a type of monster that appears in NetHack. The werejackal is an omnivorous human lycanthrope that can shift between human and canine form - in both forms, they possess enhanced regeneration and can be seen via infravision. In human form, werejackals will seek out and pick up items.
A werejackal in human form has a weapon attack, and in wolf form it has a bite that can cause lycanthropy and the ability to summon other wolves on adjacent and nearby squares when in melee range of a character. Werejackals possess poison resistance and are weak to silver.
A werejackal corpse is poisonous to eat, and eating a werejackal corpse or tin will confer lycanthropy - monsters cannot catch lycanthropy this way.
Generation
Randomly-generated werejackals are always created hostile and in human form. They are not a valid form for normal polymorph.
A werejackal summoning help has a 6⁄7 chance of generating a hostile jackal, a 2⁄21 chance of generating a hostile coyote, and a 1⁄21 chance of generating a hostile fox on each applicable square[1] - characters that get lycanthropy from a werejackal can summon the above monsters as pets by using the #monster extended command with at least 10 power.
Strategy
History
The werejackal first appears in NetHack 3.0.0. From this version to NetHack 3.0.10, their animal forms are referred to as wolfweres.
The ability of werejackals to summon allied coyotes and foxes is introduced in NetHack 3.6.0. In NetHack 3.4.3 and previous versions, including some variants based on those versions, werejackals summoning help will only generate hostile jackals on each applicable square.
Encyclopedia entry
In 1573, the Parliament of Dole published a decree, permitting the inhabitants of the Franche-Comte to pursue and kill a were-wolf or loup-garou, which infested that province, "notwithstanding the existing laws concerning the chase." The people were empowered to "assemble with javelins, halberds, pikes, arquebuses and clubs, to hunt and pursue the said were-wolf in all places where they could find it, and to take, burn, and kill it, without incurring any fine or other penalty." The hunt seems to have been successful, if we may judge from the fact that the same tribunal in the following year condemned to be burned a man named Giles Garnier, who ran on all fours in the forest and fields and devoured little children, "even on Friday." The poor lycanthrope, it appears, had as slight respect for ecclesiastical feasts as the French pig, which was not restrained by any feeling of piety from eating infants on a fast day.
