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Umbire the Phantom: lede

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lede

Umbire the Phantom: follow-up

2025-01-02T23:29:34Z

follow-up

Netzhack: "medieval-era" is a pleonasm: L. "mediaevum" = middle era

2025-01-02T15:01:20Z

"medieval-era" is a pleonasm: L. "mediaevum" = middle era

Umbire the Phantom: /* Generation */ hidden dungeon

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‎Generation: hidden dungeon

Umbire the Phantom: /* Generation */ eggs

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‎Generation: eggs

Umbire the Phantom: fuck it, they're almost completely identical

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fuck it, they're almost completely identical

Umbire the Phantom: /* Strategy */ geno

2024-11-24T09:45:52Z

‎Strategy: geno

Umbire the Phantom: then evil

2024-11-24T09:43:43Z

then evil

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{{monster
|name=basilisk
|symbol={{brightgreen|c}}
|difficulty=16
|level=12
|experience=469
|speed=12
|AC=-10
|MR=70
|align=-5
|frequency=1
|genocidable=Yes
|attacks=Bite 2d4, Touch 1d6 [[stoning]], Touch 1d6 [[stoning]], Claw 2d8, [[Passive]] [[stoning]]
|resistances conveyed=poison (+5%)
|resistances=poison, sleep, petrification
|attributes={{attributes|A basilisk|animal=1|nohands=1|omnivore=1|thick_hide=1|hostile=1|lord=1|strong=1|nasty=1|accurate=1|infravisible=1}}
|size=Medium
|nutr=50
|weight=90
|reference=[https://github.com/k21971/EvilHack/blob/0.8.1/src/monst.c#L239 EvilHack 0.8.1 - monst.c, line 239]
}}
{{for|the monster in other variants|basilisk}}

A '''basilisk''', {{brightgreen|c}}, is a type of [[monster]] that appears in [[EvilHack]]. The basilisk is a [[strong]], [[thick-skinned]] and [[omnivorous]] [[Cockatrice (monster class)|cockatrice-like]] [[animal]] that is essentially a much faster, stronger and deadlier relative of the [[cockatrice]]. Like a cockatrice, basilisks have the ability to [[Stoning|stone]] anyone that makes bare-skin contact with their body or [[corpse]]; they are [[strong]], can be seen via [[infravision]] and are accurate with their attacks.

A basilisk has a normal bite attack, two touch attacks and a claw attack that can all induce delayed stoning, and a passive attack that causes delayed stoning. Basilisks possess poison resistance, [[sleep resistance]] and stoning resistance.

[[Eating]] a basilisk [[corpse]] or [[tin]] will turn the eater to stone unless they have stoning resistance. A [[hero]] that eats a basilisk corpse or tin with stoning resistance gains {{frac|20}} (+5%) [[Partial intrinsic|additional poison resistance]].

==Generation==
Randomly generated basilisks are always created hostile.

The [[Wizard of Yendor]] may create a clone of himself in the guise of a basilisk via the [[Double Trouble]] [[monster spell]].

==Strategy==
With a staggering AC of -10, the basilisk is a vicious late-game threat that can prove difficult to dispatch unless a hero is well-prepared. Yellow [[dragon-scaled armor]] can completely eliminate their stoning threat and weaken them with its passive [[acid]] damage.

==Origin==
{{Wikipedia|Basilisk}}
A basilisk (from the Greek form βασιλίσκος, ''basilískos'', Latin ''basiliscus'', meaning "little king") is a mythological reptile first described in the ''[[wikipedia:Naturalis Historia|Naturalis Historia]]'' of [[wikipedia:Pliny the Elder|Pliny the Elder]]. The basilisk was a small snake reputed to be so venomous that it leaves a wide trail of deadly venom in its wake, and its gaze was just as lethal. Basilisks have a 'mitre' or crown-shaped crest adorning their head, suggesting that their description was based on various cobras, particularly the spitting cobra and king cobra. The basilisk and cockatrice are often referred to interchangeably, as seen in the [[encyclopedia]] entry that both share in variants of ''NetHack'' - many languages still translate the term "cockatrice" as "basilisk" in some form.

The basilisk's reputed weakness was the the odor of the "weasel", which is likely based on mongooses (such as the Egyptian mongoose) that possess immunity to snake venom and prey on the king cobra and some other Asiatic snakes. The basilisk was also a popular subject in medieval-era European bestiaries, which attributed it chicken-like traits and popularized the idea that a basilisk resulted from a chicken hatching the egg of a serpent or toad (the reverse of the cockatrice). Modern incarnations of the basilisk and cockatrice, such as those seen in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' and various other fantasy media, portray them as distinct creatures: the modern basilisk is usually a vicious low-slung creature that is either lizard-like or serpentine, as opposed to the typically more bird-like cockatrice.

The basilisk of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' is an eight-legged reptilian with a single row of bony spines on its back, and occasionally has a curved horn on its nose - they come in a variety of dark colors, with the most common color being a dull brown body with a yellowish underbelly. Despite their multiple legs, basilisks are sluggish and clumsy, though they were still often shrewd hunters. Basilisks make their lairs in dark underground caves with ready and easily accessible supplies of food and water. A basilisk's eyes glow with a pale green light that can non-lethally petrify any non-gaseous creature that makes eye contact, including other basilisks and even themselves if their gaze is reflected; basilisks were more than capable of eating and digesting petrified prey. The gaze is so potent that it can affect victims with better eyesight at much further ranges, with multiple reports of basilisk victims from "arcane eye" spells, crystal balls, and eyes of the eagle - basilisk gazes could even penetrate into the astral or ethereal planes with concentration.

==Encyclopedia entry==
{{encyclopedia|Once in a great while, when the positions of the stars are
just right, a seven-year-old rooster will lay an egg. Then,
along will come a snake, to coil around the egg, or a toad,
to squat upon the egg, keeping it warm and helping it to
hatch. When it hatches, out comes a creature called basilisk,
or cockatrice, the most deadly of all creatures. A single
glance from its yellow, piercing toad's eyes will kill both
man and beast. Its power of destruction is said to be so
great that sometimes simply to hear its hiss can prove fatal.
Its breath is so venomous that it causes all vegetation
to wither.

There is, however, one creature which can withstand the
basilisk's deadly gaze, and this is the weasel. No one knows
why this is so, but although the fierce weasel can slay the
basilisk, it will itself be killed in the struggle. Perhaps
the weasel knows the basilisk's fatal weakness: if it ever
sees its own reflection in a mirror it will perish instantly.
But even a dead basilisk is dangerous, for it is said that
merely touching its lifeless body can cause a person to
sicken and die.
{{right-align|[ Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library)
and other sources ]}}
}}

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 {{for|the monster in other variants|basilisk}}
-A '''basilisk''', {{brightgreen|c}}, is a type of [[monster]] that appears in [[EvilHack]] and [[Hack'EM]]. The basilisk is a [[strong]], [[thick-skinned]] and [[omnivorous]] [[Cockatrice (monster class)|cockatrice-like]] [[animal]] that is essentially a much faster, stronger and deadlier relative of the [[cockatrice]]. Like a cockatrice, basilisks have the ability to [[Stoning|stone]] anyone that makes bare-skin contact with their body or [[corpse]]; they are [[strong]], can be seen via [[infravision]] and are accurate with their attacks. In Hack'EM only, they are also [[oviparous]] and can lay eggs.
+A '''basilisk''', {{brightgreen|c}}, is a type of [[monster]] that appears in [[EvilHack]] and [[Hack'EM]]. The basilisk is a [[strong]], [[thick-skinned]] and [[omnivorous]] [[Cockatrice (monster class)|cockatrice-like]] [[animal]] that is essentially a much faster, stronger and deadlier relative of the [[cockatrice]]. Like a cockatrice, anyone that makes bare-skin contact with a basilisk's body or [[corpse]] is subjected to instant [[stoning]]. Basilisks are also [[strong]], can be seen via [[infravision]] and are accurate with their attacks; in Hack'EM only, they are [[oviparous]] and can lay [[egg]]s.
 A basilisk has a normal bite attack, two touch attacks and a claw attack that can all induce delayed stoning, and a passive attack that causes delayed stoning. Basilisks possess poison resistance, [[sleep resistance]] and stoning resistance.
-[[Eating]] a basilisk [[corpse]] or [[tin]] will turn the eater to stone unless they have stoning resistance, and basilisk [[egg]]s can also turn monsters that eat the eggs or are hit by them to stone. A [[hero]] with stoning resistance who eats a basilisk corpse or tin gains {{frac|20}} (+5%) [[Partial intrinsic|additional poison resistance]].
+[[Eating]] a basilisk [[corpse]] or [[tin]] will turn the eater to stone unless they have stoning resistance, and in Hack'EM basilisk eggs can also turn monsters that eat the eggs or are hit by them to stone. A [[hero]] with stoning resistance who eats a basilisk corpse or tin gains {{frac|20}} (+5%) [[Partial intrinsic|additional poison resistance]].
 ==Generation==

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 A basilisk has a normal bite attack, two touch attacks and a claw attack that can all induce delayed stoning, and a passive attack that causes delayed stoning. Basilisks possess poison resistance, [[sleep resistance]] and stoning resistance.
-[[Eating]] a basilisk [[corpse]] or [[tin]] will turn the eater to stone unless they have stoning resistance, and basilisk [[egg]]s can also turn monsters that eat or are hit by one to stone. A [[hero]] with stoning resistance who eats a basilisk corpse or tin gains {{frac|20}} (+5%) [[Partial intrinsic|additional poison resistance]].
+[[Eating]] a basilisk [[corpse]] or [[tin]] will turn the eater to stone unless they have stoning resistance, and basilisk [[egg]]s can also turn monsters that eat the eggs or are hit by them to stone. A [[hero]] with stoning resistance who eats a basilisk corpse or tin gains {{frac|20}} (+5%) [[Partial intrinsic|additional poison resistance]].
 ==Generation==

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 A basilisk has a normal bite attack, two touch attacks and a claw attack that can all induce delayed stoning, and a passive attack that causes delayed stoning. Basilisks possess poison resistance, [[sleep resistance]] and stoning resistance.
-[[Eating]] a basilisk [[corpse]] or [[tin]] will turn the eater to stone unless they have stoning resistance, and basilisk [[egg]]s can also turn monsters that eat it or are hit by one to stone. A [[hero]] that eats a basilisk corpse or tin with stoning resistance gains {{frac|20}} (+5%) [[Partial intrinsic|additional poison resistance]].
+[[Eating]] a basilisk [[corpse]] or [[tin]] will turn the eater to stone unless they have stoning resistance, and basilisk [[egg]]s can also turn monsters that eat or are hit by one to stone. A [[hero]] with stoning resistance who eats a basilisk corpse or tin gains {{frac|20}} (+5%) [[Partial intrinsic|additional poison resistance]].
 ==Generation==
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 A basilisk is randomly generated in the [[Hidden Dungeon]] at level creation.
-The [[Wizard of Yendor]] may create a clone of himself in the guise of a basilisk via the [[Double Trouble]] [[monster spell]].
+The [[Wizard of Yendor]] may create a clone of himself in the guise of a basilisk by means of the [[Double Trouble]] [[monster spell]].
 ==Strategy==
-With a staggering AC of -10, the basilisk is a vicious late-game threat that can prove difficult to dispatch unless a hero is well-prepared, and they can prove a tempting target for a single-monster [[genocide]]. Yellow [[dragon-scaled armor]] can completely eliminate their stoning threat and weaken them with its passive [[acid]] damage.
+With a formidable AC of -10, the basilisk is a vicious late-game threat that can prove difficult to dispatch unless a hero is well-prepared, and they are a tempting target for a single-monster [[genocide]]. Yellow [[dragon-scaled armor]] can completely eliminate their stoning threat and weaken them with its passive [[acid]] damage.
 ==Origin==
 {{Wikipedia|Basilisk}}
-A basilisk (from the Greek form βασιλίσκος, ''basilískos'', Latin ''basiliscus'', meaning "little king") is a mythological reptile first described in the ''[[wikipedia:Naturalis Historia|Naturalis Historia]]'' of [[wikipedia:Pliny the Elder|Pliny the Elder]]. The basilisk was a small snake reputed to be so venomous that it leaves a wide trail of deadly venom in its wake, and its gaze was just as lethal. Basilisks have a 'mitre' or crown-shaped crest adorning their head, suggesting that their description was based on various cobras, particularly the spitting cobra and king cobra. The basilisk and cockatrice are often referred to interchangeably, as seen in the [[encyclopedia]] entry that both share in variants of ''NetHack'' - many languages still translate the term "cockatrice" as "basilisk" in some form.
+A basilisk (from the Greek form βασιλίσκος, ''basilískos'', Latin ''basiliscus'', meaning "little king") is a mythological reptile first described in the ''[[wikipedia:Naturalis Historia|Naturalis Historia]]'' of [[wikipedia:Pliny the Elder|Pliny the Elder]]. The basilisk was reputed to be a small snake so venomous that it left a wide trail of deadly venom in its wake, and its gaze was just as lethal. Basilisks have a 'mitre' or crown-shaped crest adorning their head, suggesting that their description was based on various real cobras, particularly the spitting cobra and king cobra. The basilisk and cockatrice are often referred to interchangeably, as evidenced by the [[encyclopedia]] entry that they share in variants of ''NetHack'': many languages still translate the term "cockatrice" as some form of the word "basilisk".
-The basilisk's reputed weakness was the the odor of the "weasel", which is likely based on mongooses (such as the Egyptian mongoose) that possess immunity to snake venom and prey on the king cobra and some other Asiatic snakes. The basilisk was also a popular subject in medieval-era European bestiaries, which attributed it chicken-like traits and popularized the idea that a basilisk resulted from a chicken hatching the egg of a serpent or toad (the reverse of the cockatrice). Modern incarnations of the basilisk and cockatrice, such as those seen in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' and various other fantasy media, portray them as distinct creatures: the modern basilisk is usually a vicious low-slung creature that is either lizard-like or serpentine, as opposed to the typically more bird-like cockatrice.
+The basilisk's reputed weakness was the the odor of the "weasel", an idea probably based on mongooses (such as the Egyptian mongoose) that possess immunity to snake venom and prey on the king cobra and some other Asiatic snakes. The basilisk was also a popular subject in medieval European bestiaries, which attributed it chicken-like traits and popularized the idea that a basilisk resulted from a chicken hatching the egg of a serpent or toad (the reverse of the cockatrice). Modern incarnations of the basilisk and cockatrice, such as those seen in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' and various other fantasy media, portray them as distinct creatures: the modern basilisk is usually a vicious low-slung creature that is either lizard-like or serpentine, as opposed to the typically more bird-like cockatrice.
 The basilisk of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' is an eight-legged reptilian with a single row of bony spines on its back, and occasionally has a curved horn on its nose - they come in a variety of dark colors, with the most common color being a dull brown body with a yellowish underbelly. Despite their multiple legs, basilisks are sluggish and clumsy, though they were still often shrewd hunters. Basilisks make their lairs in dark underground caves with ready and easily accessible supplies of food and water. A basilisk's eyes glow with a pale green light that can non-lethally petrify any non-gaseous creature that makes eye contact, including other basilisks and even themselves if their gaze is reflected; basilisks were more than capable of eating and digesting petrified prey. The gaze is so potent that it can affect victims with better eyesight at much further ranges, with multiple reports of basilisk victims from "arcane eye" spells, crystal balls, and eyes of the eagle - basilisk gazes could even penetrate into the astral or ethereal planes with concentration.
 ==Encyclopedia entry==
-{{encyclopedia|Once in a great while, when the positions of the stars are
+{{encyclopedia|Once in a great while, when the positions of the stars are just right, a seven-year-old rooster will lay an egg.  Then, along will come a snake, to coil around the egg, or a toad, to squat upon the egg, keeping it warm and helping it to hatch.  When it hatches, out comes a creature called basilisk, or cockatrice, the most deadly of all creatures.  A single glance from its yellow, piercing toad's eyes will kill both man and beast.  Its power of destruction is said to be so great that sometimes simply to hear its hiss can prove fatal. Its breath is so venomous that it causes all vegetation to wither.
-There is, however, one creature which can withstand the
+There is, however, one creature which can withstand the basilisk's deadly gaze, and this is the weasel.  No one knows why this is so, but although the fierce weasel can slay the basilisk, it will itself be killed in the struggle.  Perhaps the weasel knows the basilisk's fatal weakness:  if it ever sees its own reflection in a mirror it will perish instantly. But even a dead basilisk is dangerous, for it is said that merely touching its lifeless body can cause a person to sicken and die.
 {{right-align|[ Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library)
 			and other sources ]}}

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 ==Generation==
-Randomly generated basilisks are always created hostile.
+Randomly generated basilisks are always created hostile, and in Hack'EM basilisk eggs can hatch into basilisks.
 The [[Wizard of Yendor]] may create a clone of himself in the guise of a basilisk via the [[Double Trouble]] [[monster spell]].

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   |resistances conveyed=poison (+5%)
   |resistances=poison, sleep, petrification
-  |attributes={{attributes|A basilisk|animal=1|nohands=1|omnivore=1|thick_hide=1|hostile=1|lord=1|strong=1|nasty=1|accurate=1|infravisible=1}}
+  |attributes={{attributes|A basilisk|animal=1|nohands=1|omnivore=1|thick_hide=1|hostile=1|lord=1|strong=1|nasty=1|accurate=1|infravisible=1|oviparous=1}}
   |size=Medium
   |nutr=50
   |weight=90
-  |reference=[https://github.com/k21971/EvilHack/blob/0.8.1/src/monst.c#L239 EvilHack 0.8.1 - monst.c, line 239]
+  |reference=[https://github.com/k21971/EvilHack/blob/v0.8.4/src/monst.c#L239 EvilHack 0.8.4 - monst.c, line 239]<br>[https://github.com/k21971/HackEM/blob/master/src/monst.c#L477 Hack'EM 1.3.2 - monst.c, line 489]
 }}
 {{for|the monster in other variants|basilisk}}
-A '''basilisk''', {{brightgreen|c}}, is a type of [[monster]] that appears in [[EvilHack]]. The basilisk is a [[strong]], [[thick-skinned]] and [[omnivorous]] [[Cockatrice (monster class)|cockatrice-like]] [[animal]] that is essentially a much faster, stronger and deadlier relative of the [[cockatrice]]. Like a cockatrice, basilisks have the ability to [[Stoning|stone]] anyone that makes bare-skin contact with their body or [[corpse]]; they are [[strong]], can be seen via [[infravision]] and are accurate with their attacks.
+A '''basilisk''', {{brightgreen|c}}, is a type of [[monster]] that appears in [[EvilHack]] and [[Hack'EM]]. The basilisk is a [[strong]], [[thick-skinned]] and [[omnivorous]] [[Cockatrice (monster class)|cockatrice-like]] [[animal]] that is essentially a much faster, stronger and deadlier relative of the [[cockatrice]]. Like a cockatrice, basilisks have the ability to [[Stoning|stone]] anyone that makes bare-skin contact with their body or [[corpse]]; they are [[strong]], can be seen via [[infravision]] and are accurate with their attacks. In Hack'EM only, they are also [[oviparous]] and can lay eggs.
 A basilisk has a normal bite attack, two touch attacks and a claw attack that can all induce delayed stoning, and a passive attack that causes delayed stoning. Basilisks possess poison resistance, [[sleep resistance]] and stoning resistance.
-[[Eating]] a basilisk [[corpse]] or [[tin]] will turn the eater to stone unless they have stoning resistance. A [[hero]] that eats a basilisk corpse or tin with stoning resistance gains {{frac|20}} (+5%) [[Partial intrinsic|additional poison resistance]].
+[[Eating]] a basilisk [[corpse]] or [[tin]] will turn the eater to stone unless they have stoning resistance, and basilisk [[egg]]s can also turn monsters that eat it or are hit by one to stone. A [[hero]] that eats a basilisk corpse or tin with stoning resistance gains {{frac|20}} (+5%) [[Partial intrinsic|additional poison resistance]].
 ==Generation==
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 [[Category:EvilHack monsters]]