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{{ monster
|name=lava gremlin
|symbol={{red|g}}
|difficulty=8
|level=5
|experience=56
|speed=12
|AC=2
|MR=25
|align=-9
|frequency=2
|genocidable=Yes
|attacks=Claw 1d6 [[fire]], Claw 1d6 [[fire]], Bite 1d4 physical, Claw 0d0 [[intrinsic theft]]
|resistances conveyed=poison (+5%), fire (+5%)
|resistances=poison, fire
|attributes={{attributes|A lava gremlin|humanoid=1|pois=1|stalk=1|infravisible=1|m4_vulnerable_cold=1|hell=1}}
|size=Small
|nutr=20
|weight=100
|reference=[https://github.com/k21971/EvilHack/blob/master/src/monst.c#L532 EvilHack - monst.c, line 532]
}}

A '''lava gremlin''', {{red|g}}, is a type of [[monster]] that appears in [[EvilHack]] and [[Hack'EM]]. The lava gremlin is a small [[humanoid]] monster that is a [[fiery]] variant of the standard [[gremlin]]: they can be seen via [[infravision]], and can [[follow]] the [[hero]] to other levels if they are adjacent.

In contrast to normal gremlins, lava gremlins cannot [[swim]], but can freely cross lava squares: they will duplicate into two identical clones with half the maximum [[HP]] via [[division]] if they make contact with [[lava]] of any kind, including [[Forge (dungeon feature)|forges]], and will actively seek out lava to divide themselves; a lava gremlin cannot divide if their max HP is 1. Cloned lava gremlins retain the properties of the original (including being a [[shape changer]] if they were cloned from one in lava gremlin form), and a hero that clones themselves this way while [[polymorph]]ed into a gremlin will create a [[tame]] lava gremlin.

Lava gremlins have two claw attacks that deal [[fire]] damage and can burn vulnerable items in open inventory, a bite attack, and a third claw attack that deals no damage, but has a {{frac|10}} chance of [[intrinsic theft]] during the [[Time|daytime]] if the lava gremlin is not [[cancelled]]–the attack cancels monsters it hits with the same chance, instantly destroying [[clay golem]]s, and a hero polymorphed into a clay golem is forced back to normal form if an intrinsic would be stolen, even with unchanging. Lava gremlins possess [[poison resistance]] and [[fire resistance]], and unlike normal gremlins lack any weakness to [[light]], though they have a [[vulnerability]] to [[cold]].

A lava gremlin corpse is [[poisonous]] to [[eat]], and eating a lava gremlin corpse or [[tin]] grants {{frac|20}} each (+5%) of [[Partial intrinsic|additional fire and poison resistance]].

[[Chatting]] to a lava gremlin causes it to laugh, with one of four different messages - of note is that one of them is the same as the message for a successful intrinsic theft attack.

==Generation==
Lava gremlins are only randomly generated in [[Gehennom]], and normally-created ones may be peaceful towards [[chaotic]] heroes.

A lava gremlin that makes contact with a square of lava or a forge, or else is splashed by lava, will divide into two gremlins with half the maximum HP of the original—this can cause any forges used to explode with a {{frac|3}} chance, and does not respect [[extinction]].

[[Orcus-Town]] has a {{frac|5}} chance of generating a lava gremlin in the lava to the west of the "town" at level creation.

==Encyclopedia entry==
{{encyclopedia|
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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   |genocidable=Yes
   |attacks=Claw 1d6 [[Fire (element)|fire]], Claw 1d6 [[Fire (element)|fire]], Bite 1d4 physical, Claw 0d0 [[intrinsic theft]]
-  |resistances conveyed=poison (+5%), fire (+5%)
+  |resistances conveyed=[[poison resistance]] (+5%), [[fire resistance]] (+5%)
-  |resistances=poison, fire
+  |resistances=[[poison resistance]], [[fire resistance]]
   |attributes={{attributes|A lava gremlin|humanoid=1|pois=1|stalk=1|infravisible=1|m4_vulnerable_cold=1|hell=1}}
   |size=Small
   |nutr=20
   |weight=100
-  |reference=[https://github.com/k21971/EvilHack/blob/v0.8.4/src/monst.c#L549 EvilHack 0.8.4 - monst.c, line 549]
+  |reference=[https://github.com/k21971/EvilHack/blob/v0.9.1/src/monst.c#L559 EvilHack 0.9.1 - monst.c, line 559]
 }}
 A '''lava gremlin''', {{red|g}}, is a type of [[monster]] that appears in [[EvilHack]] and [[Hack'EM]]. The lava gremlin is a small [[humanoid]] monster that is a [[fiery]] variant of the standard [[gremlin]]: they can be seen via [[infravision]], and can [[follow]] the [[hero]] to other levels if they are adjacent.
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 A lava gremlin corpse is [[poisonous]] to [[eat]], and eating a lava gremlin corpse or [[tin]] grants {{frac|20}} each (+5%) of [[Partial intrinsic|additional fire and poison resistance]].
-[[Chatting]] to a lava gremlin causes it to laugh, with one of four different messages - of note is that one of them is the same as the message for a successful intrinsic theft attack.
+[[Chatting]] to a lava gremlin causes it to laugh, with one of four different messages&mdash;of note is that one of them is the same as the message for a successful intrinsic theft attack.
 ==Generation==
-Lava gremlins are only randomly generated in [[Gehennom]], and normally-created ones may be peaceful towards [[chaotic]] heroes.
+Lava gremlins are only randomly generated in [[Gehennom]], and normally-created ones may be peaceful towards [[chaotic]] heroes that do not yet have the [[Amulet of Yendor]].
 A lava gremlin that makes contact with a square of lava or a forge, or else is splashed by lava, will divide into two gremlins with half the maximum HP of the original&mdash;this can cause any forges used to explode with a {{frac|3}} chance, and does not respect [[extinction]].
-[[Orcus-town]] has a {{frac|5}} chance of generating a lava gremlin in the lava to the west of the "town" at level creation.
+[[Orcus-town]] has a {{frac|5}} chance of generating a lava gremlin in the lava to the west of the "town" during level creation.
 ==Origin==

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	British author Roald Dahl is credited with popularizing the concept of gremlins, having himself served in 80 Squadron of the Royal Air Force in the Middle East. In January 1942, he was transferred to Washington, D.C. as Assistant Air attaché at the British Embassy, where he wrote his first children's novel, ''The Gremlins'', featuring the titular characters as tiny men who lived on RAF fighters. Though plans to create a live-action or animated full-length feature film (and then an animated short) fell through, Disney managed to have the story published in the December 1942 issue of ''Cosmopolitan'' magazine. At Dahl's urging, Random House published a revised version of the story as a picture book in early 1943, which was considered an international success.		British author Roald Dahl is credited with popularizing the concept of gremlins, having himself served in 80 Squadron of the Royal Air Force in the Middle East. In January 1942, he was transferred to Washington, D.C. as Assistant Air attaché at the British Embassy, where he wrote his first children's novel, ''The Gremlins'', featuring the titular characters as tiny men who lived on RAF fighters. Though plans to create a live-action or animated full-length feature film (and then an animated short) fell through, Disney managed to have the story published in the December 1942 issue of ''Cosmopolitan'' magazine. At Dahl's urging, Random House published a revised version of the story as a picture book in early 1943, which was considered an international success.
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		+	==Messages==
		+	{{for2\|messages associated with losing intrinsics to a gremlin\|[[Intrinsic theft#Messages\|intrinsic theft messages]]}}
		+	{{message\|<The lava gremlin> chuckles.\|You chatted to a lava gremlin, with a {{frac\|4}} chance of this message being printed—otherwise, it is daytime and a lava gremlin attempted to steal an intrinsic from you, a lava gremlin destroyed your clay golem form, or else you saw one use its intrinsic stealing attacking on another monster.}}
		+	{{message\|You hear laughter.\|It is daytime, and the lava gremlin has stolen an intrinsic from you or destroyed your clay golem form while you were [[blind]], or else it used the attack on another monster outside your vision.}}

	==Encyclopedia entry==		==Encyclopedia entry==

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	[[Orcus-town]] has a {{frac\|5}} chance of generating a lava gremlin in the lava to the west of the "town" at level creation.		[[Orcus-town]] has a {{frac\|5}} chance of generating a lava gremlin in the lava to the west of the "town" at level creation.
		+
		+	==Origin==
		+	{{wikipedia\|Gremlin}}
		+	Gremlins are mischievous creatures that originate in myths among airmen, and became popularized during World War II among airmen of the Royal Air Force (RAF) units, who blamed gremlins for otherwise inexplicable accidents which sometimes occurred during their flights. Gremlins were also thought at one point to have enemy sympathies, but investigations revealed that enemy aircraft had similar and equally inexplicable mechanical problems. As such, gremlins were portrayed as equal opportunity tricksters, taking no sides in the conflict, but acting out their mischief from their own self-interest. The concept of gremlins as scapegoats eventually became important to pilot morale.
		+
		+	The aviator Pauline Gower's 1938 novel ''The ATA: Women with Wings'' has one of the earliest post-WWII references to gremlins: in the novel, Scotland is described as "gremlin country", a mystical and rugged territory where scissor-wielding gremlins cut the wires of biplanes when unsuspecting pilots were about. An article by Hubert Griffith in the servicemen's fortnightly Royal Air Force Journal, dated 18 April 1942, also chronicles the appearance of gremlins and states that such stories had been in existence for several years, with later recollections of it having been told by Battle of Britain Spitfire pilots as early as 1940. Folklorist John W. Hazen states that some people derive the name from the Old English word gremian, "to vex", while Paul Quinion suggested that the term is a blend of the word "goblin" with Fremlin, the manufacturer of the most common beer available in the Royal Air Force of the 1920s.
		+
		+	British author Roald Dahl is credited with popularizing the concept of gremlins, having himself served in 80 Squadron of the Royal Air Force in the Middle East. In January 1942, he was transferred to Washington, D.C. as Assistant Air attaché at the British Embassy, where he wrote his first children's novel, ''The Gremlins'', featuring the titular characters as tiny men who lived on RAF fighters. Though plans to create a live-action or animated full-length feature film (and then an animated short) fell through, Disney managed to have the story published in the December 1942 issue of ''Cosmopolitan'' magazine. At Dahl's urging, Random House published a revised version of the story as a picture book in early 1943, which was considered an international success.

	==Encyclopedia entry==		==Encyclopedia entry==

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 A lava gremlin that makes contact with a square of lava or a forge, or else is splashed by lava, will divide into two gremlins with half the maximum HP of the original&mdash;this can cause any forges used to explode with a {{frac|3}} chance, and does not respect [[extinction]].
-[[Orcus-Town]] has a {{frac|5}} chance of generating a lava gremlin in the lava to the west of the "town" at level creation.
+[[Orcus-town]] has a {{frac|5}} chance of generating a lava gremlin in the lava to the west of the "town" at level creation.
 ==Encyclopedia entry==

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   |frequency=2
   |genocidable=Yes
-  |attacks=Claw 1d6 [[fire]], Claw 1d6 [[fire]], Bite 1d4 physical, Claw 0d0 [[intrinsic theft]]
+  |attacks=Claw 1d6 [[Fire (element)|fire]], Claw 1d6 [[Fire (element)|fire]], Bite 1d4 physical, Claw 0d0 [[intrinsic theft]]
   |resistances conveyed=poison (+5%), fire (+5%)
   |resistances=poison, fire
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 In contrast to normal gremlins, lava gremlins cannot [[swim]], but can freely cross lava squares: they will duplicate into two identical clones with half the maximum [[HP]] via [[division]] if they make contact with [[lava]] of any kind, including [[Forge (dungeon feature)|forges]], and will actively seek out lava to divide themselves; a lava gremlin cannot divide if their max HP is 1. Cloned lava gremlins retain the properties of the original (including being a [[shape changer]] if they were cloned from one in lava gremlin form), and a hero that clones themselves this way while [[polymorph]]ed into a gremlin will create a [[tame]] lava gremlin.
-Lava gremlins have two claw attacks that deal [[fire]] damage and can burn vulnerable items in open inventory, a bite attack, and a third claw attack that deals no damage, but has a {{frac|10}} chance of [[intrinsic theft]] during the [[Time|daytime]] if the lava gremlin is not [[cancelled]]&ndash;the attack cancels monsters it hits with the same chance, instantly destroying [[clay golem]]s, and a hero polymorphed into a clay golem is forced back to normal form if an intrinsic would be stolen, even with unchanging. Lava gremlins possess [[poison resistance]] and [[fire resistance]], and unlike normal gremlins lack any weakness to [[light]], though they have a [[vulnerability]] to [[cold]].
+Lava gremlins have two claw attacks that deal [[Fire (element)|fire]] damage and can burn vulnerable items in open inventory, a bite attack, and a third claw attack that deals no damage, but has a {{frac|10}} chance of [[intrinsic theft]] during the [[Time|daytime]] if the lava gremlin is not [[cancelled]]&ndash;the attack cancels monsters it hits with the same chance, instantly destroying [[clay golem]]s, and a hero polymorphed into a clay golem is forced back to normal form if an intrinsic would be stolen, even with unchanging. Lava gremlins possess [[poison resistance]] and [[fire resistance]], and unlike normal gremlins lack any weakness to [[light]], though they have a [[vulnerability]] to [[cold]].
 A lava gremlin corpse is [[poisonous]] to [[eat]], and eating a lava gremlin corpse or [[tin]] grants {{frac|20}} each (+5%) of [[Partial intrinsic|additional fire and poison resistance]].

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 	He was thinking that when the man appeared again.
 		[ Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, by Richard Matheson ]
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