Breathless
Being breathless allows players to travel underwater, making them amphibious.[1]. Furthermore, breathless players cannot choke on food, but will instead "vomit voluminously" and lose 1000 nutrition.[2] Breathlessness protects from sleeping gas traps[3][4][5] and stinking clouds.[6][7] It does not protect from a worn amulet of strangulation unless the player is also mindless; the messages change but the player still dies from lack of blood flow.
Breathlessness is only granted by eating or wearing an amulet of magical breathing, but is possessed naturally by many monsters.
Breathless monsters
- All e except floating eyes:
- e gas spore
- e freezing sphere
- e flaming sphere
- e shocking sphere
- e beholder (currently not generated, except in SLASH'EM, and in a different form)
- Gargoyles
- All j:
- All m:
- All v:
- v fog cloud
- v dust vortex
- v ice vortex
- v energy vortex
- v steam vortex
- v fire vortex
- All y:
- All F:
- F lichen
- F brown mold
- F yellow mold
- F green mold
- F red mold
- F shrieker
- F violet fungus
- All L:
- L lich
- L demilich
- L master lich
- L arch-lich
- All M
- M kobold mummy
- M gnome mummy
- M orc mummy
- M dwarf mummy
- M elf mummy
- M human mummy
- M ettin mummy
- M giant mummy
- All P:
- All V:
- V vampire
- V vampire lord
- V vampire mage (currently not generated, except in SLASH'EM)
- V Vlad the Impaler
- All W:
- W barrow wight
- W wraith
- W Nazgul
- All Z:
- Z kobold zombie
- Z gnome zombie
- Z orc zombie
- Z dwarf zombie
- Z elf zombie
- Z human zombie
- Z ettin zombie
- Z giant zombie
- Z ghoul
- Z skeleton
- All ':
- ' straw golem
- ' paper golem
- ' rope golem
- ' gold golem
- ' leather golem
- ' wood golem
- ' flesh golem
- ' clay golem
- ' stone golem
- ' glass golem
- ' iron golem
- All ghosts:
- Others:
- X xorn
- b acid blob
- E earth elemental
- the @ Wizard of Yendor
- @ Charon (currently not generated)
- & mail daemon
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Binders gain breathlessness while they have Astaroth bound to them.
References
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