User:Wikid/Morality Monsters

Piped from the sages of VoR's Hallucinatory Bestiary, we bring you the Morality Monsters.

Smiting things in Nethack is generally good, but whacking Morality Monsters can get the injudicious adventurer into precarious trouble. Unfortunately the whacking can be hard to avoid, as some of these Morality Monsters can be hard to eliminate without whacking, increase on contact with cold iron, and can get in the way.

Consequence Of Your Insouciance

Consequence Of Your Insouciance is a unique iron golem, whose probability of being spawned increases as alignment record worsens. Each alignment-reducing act has a probability of (2% * alignment decrement) of spawning Consequence Of Your Insouciance.

Consequence Of Your Insouciance has a levelporting attack, that ports to the lowest accessible level. If spawned in the Mazes of Menace, it ports to the Valley of the Dead. If spawned in Gehennom, it ports to the Vibrating Square or Moloch's Sanctum. Consequence of Your Insouciance is covetous, and ports alongside the player character.

Consequence Of Your Insouciance	'
Template	Iron golem
Attacks	Weapon 4d10 (levelport to nadir), Poison breath 4d6
Alignment	0 (neutral)
Frequency	0 (Unique)
Resistances	poison
Consequence Of Your Insouciance	Wants the Amulet of Yendor

I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.

Charles Baudelaire

Moment of Clarity

Ouch! These confounded things prick away at the conscience, increasing encumbrance.

Moment of Clarity	!
Template	Xan
Attacks	Passive Sting 1d4 scratching, targets legs
Speed	0
Alignment	0 (neutral)
Frequency	0 (Not randomly generated)
Resistances	poison
Drops	1 potion of booze
A moment of clarity	is normally generated peaceful, occurs in large groups

Well, yeah. I was just sitting here, eating my muffin, drinking my coffee, when I had what alcoholics refer to as a moment of clarity.

Q. Tarantino, Pulp Fiction

Moral Hazard

A nuisance that assembles in large numbers and is obstructive to the hitherto non-slimy.

Moral Hazard	P
Template	Black pudding
Attacks	Passive sliming
Speed	1
Alignment	14 (lawful)
Frequency	0 (Not randomly generated)
Base MR	100
Resistances	Acid, Cold, Fire, Poison, Shock, Stoning
Intrinsics conveyed	Conflict (30%), otherwise Aggravate Monster
A moral hazard	is normally generated peaceful, occurs in large groups

In economics, moral hazard occurs when someone increases their exposure to risk when insured, especially when a person takes more risks because someone else bears the cost of those risks. A moral hazard may occur where the actions of one party may change to the detriment of another after a financial transaction has taken place.

[Editor Anonymous, Wikipedia]

Moral Event Horizon

A nastier proposition with a corrosive effect on the pugilistic, who may find parts of themself disappearing over the horizon.

Moral Event Horizon	P
Template	Black pudding
Attacks	Bite 3d8 corrosion, Passive corrosion, Passive intrinsic stealing
Speed	1
Alignment	14 (lawful)
Frequency	0 (Not randomly generated)
Base MR	100
Resistances	Acid, Cold, Fire, Poison, Shock, Stoning
Intrinsics conveyed	Conflict (70%), otherwise Aggravate Monster
A moral event horizon	is normally generated peaceful, is solitary

Tarkin, if ever there was a shred of humanity in you or these twisted creatures of yours, it's dead now. You're at war with life itself.

[Princess Leia Organa (after Grand Moff Tarkin wipes out Alderaan), Star Wars Radio Dramas; via T.V. Tropes]