Weeping angel - Revision history

Umbire the Phantom: word choice

2025-02-21T12:26:47Z

word choice

Umbire the Phantom: create disambig and wrap this up

2025-02-17T06:46:28Z

create disambig and wrap this up

NetSysFire: rm stray .

2024-05-25T08:15:16Z

rm stray .

TalentlessF2P: Behavior and starting inventory

2024-05-01T00:21:52Z

Behavior and starting inventory

ScienceBall: /* dNetHack */ Effigy link

2024-02-02T21:40:16Z

‎dNetHack: Effigy link

Aximili: Deslex category

2022-08-25T15:55:40Z

Deslex category

Aximili: Deslex the other sentence

2022-08-25T15:54:25Z

Deslex the other sentence

NetSysFire: /* Slash'EM Extended */ - remove, deslex

2022-08-24T21:30:51Z

‎Slash'EM Extended: - remove, deslex

Lysdexia at 22:20, 8 January 2020

2020-01-08T22:20:51Z

Pinkbeast: not clear why this is in italics

2019-12-21T12:49:53Z

not clear why this is in italics

← Older revision		Revision as of 12:26, 21 February 2025
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−	On NetHackWiki, a '''weeping angel''' may refer to ~~either~~ of the following monsters:	+	On NetHackWiki, a '''weeping angel''' may refer to any of the following monsters:

	* [[Weeping angel (UnNetHack)]], as it appears in UnNetHack		* [[Weeping angel (UnNetHack)]], as it appears in UnNetHack

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		+	On NetHackWiki, a '''weeping angel''' may refer to either of the following monsters:
		+
		+	* [[Weeping angel (UnNetHack)]], as it appears in UnNetHack
		+	* [[Weeping angel (dNetHack)]], as it appears in dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack
		+	* [[Weeping angel (SlashTHEM)]], as it appears in SlashTHEM
	{{variant-343}}		{{variant-343}}
−	{{~~wikipedia\|Weeping Angel~~}}	+	{{disambig}}
−
−	~~'''Weeping angels''' are [[monster]]s originally added in [[UnNetHack]]. They also appear in [[dNetHack]] and [[SlashTHEM]]. UnNetHack also includes a more powerful form, the '''weeping archangel'''.~~
−
−	Weeping angels have a unique property when it comes to movement: they are only able to move if they are not visible to the player. If they are visible, they become [[sessile]] and cannot move until the player loses sight of them, although they are still able to attack and use items. Detecting weeping angels via [[telepathy]] does not count as seeing them.
−
−	~~==UnNetHack==~~
−	~~{{monster~~
−	~~\|name=weeping angel~~
−	~~\|symbol={{gray\|A}}~~
−	~~\|difficulty=~~
−	~~\|level=12~~
−	~~\|experience=~~
−	~~\|speed=16~~
−	~~\|AC=−5~~
−	~~\|MR=70~~
−	~~\|align=−7~~
−	~~\|frequency=2 (quite rare)~~
−	~~\|genocidable=Yes~~
−	~~\|attacks=Gaze 0d0 [[blink]], claw 2d4 [[drain energy]], claw 2d4 [[drain life]], touch 2d3 [[levelport]]~~
−	~~\|weight=1450~~
−	~~\|nutr=0~~
−	~~\|size=Medium~~
−	~~\|resistances=Fire, cold, sleep, disintegration, poison, acid, stoning~~
−	~~\|resistances conveyed=None~~
−	~~\|attributes={{attributes\|A weeping angel\|breathless=1\|humanoid=1\|regen=1\|seeinvis=1\|nopoly=1\|neuter=1\|hostile=1\|magic=1\|nasty=1\|infravision=1\|sheol=1\|hell=1\|nocorpse=1\|sgroup=1}}~~
−	~~\|reference={{refsrc\|src/monst.c\|1191\|unnethack=1986}}~~
−	}}
−
−	In UnNetHack, weeping angels have melee attacks that [[drain energy\|drain spellcasting energy]], [[life drain\|drain experience levels]], and [[level teleport\|teleport the victim to another dungeon level]], all of which are affected by [[magic cancellation]]. They also have a gaze attack that ''exercises'' [[intelligence]] (the weeping angel's "reflection in your mind weakens you"), but is completely nullified by [[reflection]] (the weeping angel "is covering its face").<ref>https://sourceforge.net/p/unnethack/git/ci/master/tree/src/mhitu.c#l2202</ref>
−
−	~~If two Weeping Angels attack each other under conflict, they will turn to stone ("The weeping angel and the weeping angel are permanently quantum-locked!")~~
−
−	Weeping angels have 33% chance to generate with a [[potion of blindness]], allowing them to blind the player and approach them.<ref>https://github.com/UnNetHack/UnNetHack/blob/master/src/makemon.c#L1009</ref>
−
−	~~{{clear}}~~
−	~~===Weeping archangel===~~
−	~~{{monster~~
−	~~\|name=weeping archangel~~
−	~~\|symbol={{brightmagenta\|A}}~~
−	~~\|difficulty=~~
−	~~\|level=17~~
−	~~\|experience=~~
−	~~\|speed=18~~
−	~~\|AC=−5~~
−	~~\|MR=80~~
−	~~\|align=−10~~
−	~~\|frequency=1 (very rare)~~
−	~~\|genocidable=Yes~~
−	~~\|attacks=Gaze 0d0 [[blink]], claw 2d8 [[drain energy]], claw 2d8 [[drain life]], touch 2d6 [[levelport]]~~
−	~~\|weight=1450~~
−	~~\|nutr=0~~
−	~~\|size=Medium~~
−	~~\|resistances=Fire, cold, sleep, disintegration, poison, acid, stoning~~
−	~~\|resistances conveyed=None~~
−	~~\|attributes={{attributes\|A weeping archangel\|breathless=1\|humanoid=1\|regen=1\|seeinvis=1\|nopoly=1\|neuter=1\|hostile=1\|magic=1\|nasty=1\|infravision=1\|sheol=1\|hell=1\|nocorpse=1}}~~
−	~~\|reference={{refsrc\|src/monst.c\|1201\|unnethack=1986}}~~
−	}}
−
−	~~UnNetHack also includes weeping archangels, which are more powerful than ordinary weeping angels. They are only generated in [[Gehennom]] and [[Sheol]].{{refsrc\|src/monst.c\|1201\|unnethack=1202}}~~
−
−	Weeping archangels have a 33% chance to be generated with a [[wand of lightning]] and [[amulet of reflection]], allowing them to blind the player to approach them and protecting them from ray attacks, including their own wands.<ref>https://github.com/UnNetHack/UnNetHack/blob/master/src/makemon.c#L1015</ref>
−
−	Weeping archangels become [[extinct]] after seven have been generated.{{refsrc\|src/makemon.c\|1273\|unnethack=1986}} This is a likely reference to the [[Wikipedia:Seven Archangels\|seven archangels]] in some Christian traditions.
−
−	~~{{clear}}~~
−	~~==dNetHack==~~
−	~~{{monster~~
−	~~\|name=weeping angel~~
−	~~\|symbol={{gray\|A}}~~
−	~~\|tile=~~
−	~~\|difficulty=19~~
−	~~\|level=12~~
−	~~\|experience=317~~
−	~~\|speed=48~~
−	~~\|AC=−5~~
−	~~\|MR=70~~
−	~~\|align=−7~~
−	~~\|frequency=2~~
−	~~\|genocidable=No~~
−	~~\|attacks=Gaze attack 0d0 [[blink]], Touch 2d20 [[energy drain]], Touch 2d4 [[angel's touch]], Claw 2d6 physical~~
−	~~\|weight=1450~~
−	~~\|nutr=0~~
−	~~\|size=medium~~
−	~~\|resistances=[[fire]], [[cold]], [[sleep]], [[disintegration]], [[poison]], [[acid]], [[petrification]]~~
−	~~\|resistances conveyed=~~
−	~~\|attributes={{attributes~~
−	~~\|A weeping angel\|=~~
−	~~\|amphibious=1~~
−	~~\|breathless=1~~
−	~~\|humanoid=1~~
−	~~\|thick=1~~
−	~~\|regen=1~~
−	~~\|nopoly=1~~
−	~~\|neuter=1~~
−	~~\|hostile=1~~
−	~~\|magic=1~~
−	~~\|nohell=1~~
−	~~\|nocorpse=1~~
−	~~\|notame=1~~
−	}}
−	~~\|refline=~~
−	}}
−
−	In dNetHack, weeping angels move significantly faster, but are limited to one attack per game turn. While they are immobilized from observation, their AC is greatly amplified. They will stay in rooms and not venture into corridors, to avoid forcing the player into a permanent standoff in a dead-end corridor.
−
−	Their angel's touch attack teleports the character to a higher dungeon level, and drains experience levels based on how many dungeon levels up the character is moved. The angel's touch attack can be blocked by both teleportation control and drain resistance.
−
−	Weeping angels are dangerous to look at, however. Viewing a weeping angel without reflection may inflict weeping angel contamination, in which the remembered image of a weeping angel begins taking over the characters mind, eventually converting them into a new weeping angel. Characters contaminated by a weeping angel gradually lose wisdom to abuse. Once wisdom goes below 3, the character dies and rises from the grave as a new weeping angel.
−
−	~~Weeping angel contamination can be removed by:~~
−	*any means of [[curse removal]], such as a scroll, the spell, or an [[effigy]]. Using an effigy to remove weeping angel contamination will create another weeping angel next to you.
−	*a source of [[amnesia]] (though this of course has significant drawbacks and should only be used as a last resort)
−	*[[Prayer\|praying]] on a coaligned altar while in good standing with your deity. Weeping angel contamination is considered a major trouble, but ''only'' while praying on an altar.
−
−	~~During the endgame, weeping angels will enter corridors. Their touch attack also no longer teleports you and is no longer resisted by teleport control.~~
−	~~{{clear}}~~
−
−	~~==Mythology==~~
−	Weeping angels are inspired by a race of creatures from the BBC television series ''[[wikipedia:Doctor Who\|Doctor Who]]'', which disguise themselves as inanimate statues in order to prey on the energy of other living creatures. A common method of feeding involves sending their prey into the past. To keep up their disguise, weeping angels in ''Doctor Who'' do not move while observed, but can move rapidly when not being observed.
−
−	~~The weeping angel's method of feeding, and avoidance of moving when observed, have been incorporated into its [[NetHack]] counterparts in various ways.~~
−
−	~~==Encyclopedia entry==~~
−	~~{{encyclopedia\|~~
−	~~Lonely assassins they used to be called. No one quite knows~~
−	~~where they came from, but they're as old as the universe. Or~~
−	~~very nearly, and they have survived this long because they~~
−	~~have the most perfect defense system ever evolved. They're~~
−	~~quantum locked. They don't exist when they're being observed,~~
−	~~in the moment they are seen by any other living creature~~
−	~~they freeze into rock. No choice, it's a fact that their~~
−	~~biology, in the sight of any other living thing they literally~~
−	~~turn to stone. And you can't kill a stone. 'Course a stone~~
−	~~can't kill you either, but then you turn your head away.~~
−	~~Then you blink. And oh yes it can.~~
−	~~\|Doctor Who, "Blink"~~
−	}}
−	~~{{encyclopedia\|~~
−	~~"This whole book, it's a warning about the weeping angels, so~~
−	~~why no pictures? Why not show us what to look out for?"~~
−	~~"There was a bit about images. What was that?"~~
−	~~"Yes. Hang on.... 'That which holds the image of an angel~~
−	~~becomes itself an angel.'"~~
−	~~\|Doctor Who, "The Time of Angels"~~
−	}}
−
−	~~==References==~~
−	~~<references />~~
−
−	~~[[Category:UnNetHack monsters]]~~
−	~~[[Category:dNetHack monsters]]~~

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 '''Weeping angels''' are [[monster]]s originally added in [[UnNetHack]]. They also appear in [[dNetHack]] and [[SlashTHEM]]. UnNetHack also includes a more powerful form, the '''weeping archangel'''.
-Weeping angels have a unique property when it comes to movement: they are only able to move if they are not visible to the player. If they are visible, they become [[sessile]] and cannot move until the player loses sight of them, although they are still able to attack and use items. Detecting weeping angels via. [[telepathy]] does not count as seeing them.
+Weeping angels have a unique property when it comes to movement: they are only able to move if they are not visible to the player. If they are visible, they become [[sessile]] and cannot move until the player loses sight of them, although they are still able to attack and use items. Detecting weeping angels via [[telepathy]] does not count as seeing them.
 ==UnNetHack==

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 '''Weeping angels''' are [[monster]]s originally added in [[UnNetHack]]. They also appear in [[dNetHack]] and [[SlashTHEM]]. UnNetHack also includes a more powerful form, the '''weeping archangel'''.
 ==UnNetHack==
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 }}
-In UnNetHack, weeping angels have attacks that [[drain energy|drain spellcasting energy]], [[life drain|drain experience levels]], and [[level teleport|teleport the victim to another dungeon level]]. All these attacks are affected by [[magic cancellation]].
+In UnNetHack, weeping angels have melee attacks that [[drain energy|drain spellcasting energy]], [[life drain|drain experience levels]], and [[level teleport|teleport the victim to another dungeon level]], all of which are affected by [[magic cancellation]]. They also have a gaze attack that ''exercises'' [[intelligence]] (the weeping angel's "reflection in your mind weakens you"), but is completely nullified by [[reflection]] (the weeping angel "is covering its face").<ref>https://sourceforge.net/p/unnethack/git/ci/master/tree/src/mhitu.c#l2202</ref>
 If two Weeping Angels attack each other under conflict, they will turn to stone ("The weeping angel and the weeping angel are permanently quantum-locked!")
-Weeping angels' gaze attack continues even locked in place. It causes d4 damage and ''exercises'' [[intelligence]] (the weeping angel's "reflection in your mind weakens you"), but is completely nullified by reflection (the weeping angel "is covering its face").<ref>https://sourceforge.net/p/unnethack/git/ci/master/tree/src/mhitu.c#l2202</ref>
+Weeping angels have 33% chance to generate with a [[potion of blindness]], allowing them to blind the player and approach them.<ref>https://github.com/UnNetHack/UnNetHack/blob/master/src/makemon.c#L1009</ref>
 {{clear}}
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 UnNetHack also includes weeping archangels, which are more powerful than ordinary weeping angels. They are only generated in [[Gehennom]] and [[Sheol]].{{refsrc|src/monst.c|1201|unnethack=1202}}
 Weeping archangels become [[extinct]] after seven have been generated.{{refsrc|src/makemon.c|1273|unnethack=1986}} This is a likely reference to the [[Wikipedia:Seven Archangels|seven archangels]] in some Christian traditions.
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 }}
-In dNetHack, weeping angels won't move while the player character can see them, but move exceedingly fast when unobserved. Despite their fast speed, they make at most one attack per game turn. While they are immobilized from observation, their AC is greatly amplified. They will stay in rooms and not venture into corridors, to avoid forcing the player into a permanent standoff in a dead-end corridor.
+In dNetHack, weeping angels move significantly faster, but are limited to one attack per game turn. While they are immobilized from observation, their AC is greatly amplified. They will stay in rooms and not venture into corridors, to avoid forcing the player into a permanent standoff in a dead-end corridor.
 Their angel's touch attack teleports the character to a higher dungeon level, and drains experience levels based on how many dungeon levels up the character is moved. The angel's touch attack can be blocked by both teleportation control and drain resistance.

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 Weeping angel contamination can be removed by:
-*any means of [[curse removal]], such as a scroll, the spell, or an effigy. Using an effigy to remove weeping angel contamination will create another weeping angel next to you.
+*any means of [[curse removal]], such as a scroll, the spell, or an [[effigy]]. Using an effigy to remove weeping angel contamination will create another weeping angel next to you.
 *a source of [[amnesia]] (though this of course has significant drawbacks and should only be used as a last resort)
 *[[Prayer|praying]] on a coaligned altar while in good standing with your deity. Weeping angel contamination is considered a major trouble, but ''only'' while praying on an altar.

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−	~~[[Category:Slash'EM Extended monsters]]~~

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 {{wikipedia|Weeping Angel}}
-'''Weeping angels''' are [[monster]]s originally added in [[UnNetHack]]. They also appear in [[dNetHack]], [[Slash'EM Extended]], and [[SlashTHEM]]. UnNetHack also includes a more powerful form, the '''weeping archangel'''.
+'''Weeping angels''' are [[monster]]s originally added in [[UnNetHack]]. They also appear in [[dNetHack]] and [[SlashTHEM]]. UnNetHack also includes a more powerful form, the '''weeping archangel'''.
 ==UnNetHack==

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 {{clear}}
 ==dNetHack==
 {{monster

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 {{wikipedia|Weeping Angel}}
-'''Weeping angels''' are [[monster]]s originally added in [[UnNetHack]]. They also appear in [[dNetHack]], [[Slash'EM Extended]], and [[SLASHTHEM]]. UnNetHack also includes a more powerful form, the '''weeping archangel'''.
+'''Weeping angels''' are [[monster]]s originally added in [[UnNetHack]]. They also appear in [[dNetHack]], [[Slash'EM Extended]], and [[SlashTHEM]]. UnNetHack also includes a more powerful form, the '''weeping archangel'''.
 {{monster
   |name=weeping angel
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 {{clear}}
-=== Weeping archangel ===
+===Weeping archangel===
 {{monster
   |name=weeping archangel
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 {{clear}}
-== Slash'EM Extended ==
+==Slash'EM Extended==
 Weeping angels appear in [[Slash'EM Extended]] as well. Their level-teleporting attack has been replaced by a cold attack in that variant.
 {{stub}}
-== dNetHack ==
+==dNetHack==
 {{monster
   |name=weeping angel
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 Weeping angel contamination can be removed by:
-* any means of [[curse removal]], such as a scroll, the spell, or an effigy. Using an effigy to remove weeping angel contamination will create another weeping angel next to you.
+*any means of [[curse removal]], such as a scroll, the spell, or an effigy. Using an effigy to remove weeping angel contamination will create another weeping angel next to you.
-* a source of [[amnesia]] (though this of course has significant drawbacks and should only be used as a last resort)
+*a source of [[amnesia]] (though this of course has significant drawbacks and should only be used as a last resort)
-* [[Prayer|praying]] on a coaligned altar while in good standing with your deity. Weeping angel contamination is considered a major trouble, but ''only'' while praying on an altar.
+*[[Prayer|praying]] on a coaligned altar while in good standing with your deity. Weeping angel contamination is considered a major trouble, but ''only'' while praying on an altar.
 During the endgame, weeping angels will enter corridors. Their touch attack also no longer teleports you and is no longer resisted by teleport control.
 {{clear}}
-== Mythology ==
+==Mythology==
 Weeping angels are inspired by a race of creatures from the BBC television series ''[[wikipedia:Doctor Who|Doctor Who]]'', which disguise themselves as inanimate statues in order to prey on the energy of other living creatures. A common method of feeding involves sending their prey into the past. To keep up their disguise, weeping angels in ''Doctor Who'' do not move while observed, but can move rapidly when not being observed.
 The weeping angel's method of feeding, and avoidance of moving when observed, have been incorporated into its [[NetHack]] counterparts in various ways.
-== Encyclopedia entry ==
+==Encyclopedia entry==
 {{encyclopedia|
 	Lonely assassins they used to be called. No one quite knows