Shoggoth (dNetHack)

b shoggoth
Difficulty	25
Attacks	Touch 1d12 acid, Touch 1d12 sticky, Bearhug 2d12 suction, Passive 2d12 acid

b shoggoth
Difficulty	25
Attacks	Touch 1d12 acid, Touch 1d12 sticky, Bearhug 2d12 suction, Passive 2d12 acid
Base level	20
Base experience	743
Speed	15
Base AC	10
Base MR	0
Alignment	-5 (chaotic)
Frequency (by normal means)	2 (Quite rare)
Genocidable	Yes
Weight	4500
Nutritional value	1000
Size	huge
Resistances	cold, shock, poison, acid, petrification
Resistances conveyed	cold, shock, poison
A shoggoth: can swim. can flow under doors. can survive underwater. has no head. is acidic to eat. is omnivorous. is neither male nor female. is normally generated hostile. can pick up weapons and food. can pick up magical items. appears only in Gehennom. may turn against you when tame.

A shoggoth, b, is a type of monster that appears in dNetHack and notdNetHack.

A shoggoth has two touch attacks, a unique suction attack with a variety of effects, and a passive acidic splash.

Strategy

Suction attack

Each suction effect is rolled for and applied independently, so more than one can occur with the same hit unless otherwise specified. The rolls for each effects occur in the following order:

• If your HP is less than 100, you have a head, and you are not wearing a helmet, there is a ¹⁄₂₀ chance of your head being sucked off, instantly killing you. No further effects will be applied on that turn if this occurs.
• There is a ¹⁄₁₀ chance of both your legs being badly injured.
• There is a ³⁄₂₀ chance of your weapon being sucked out of your grasp, which can be prevented with high strength.
• There is a ¹⁄₁₀ chance of your boots being sucked off your feet, unless they have the randomized appearance of buckled boots.
• There is a ³⁄₂₀ chance of your gloves being sucked off your hands, unless you are wielding a weapon - high strength can block this completely.
• There is a ⁷⁄₁₀₀ chance of your shield being sucked out of your grasp - high strength can help prevent this.
• There is a ¹⁄₄ chance of your helmet being sucked off of your head.

Origin

The shoggoth is a creature that originates from the works of H.P. Lovecraft, where they appear as massive and occasionally intelligent amoeboid creatures made out of iridescent black slime, with multiple eyes floating on the surface. An average shoggoth measures 4.5 meters (15 feet) across while spherical, though they can become much larger.

Encyclopedia entry

"... in the place of utter blasphemy, the unholy pit where
the black realm begins and the watcher guards the gate -
I saw a shoggoth - it changed shape ..."

[ The Thing on the Doorstep, by H.P. Lovecraft ]

It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway
train -- a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly
self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and
un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-
filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic
penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and
its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter. Still came
that eldritch, mocking cry -- "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!" and at
last we remembered that the demoniac Shoggoths - given life,
thought, and plastic organ patterns solely by the Old Ones ...

[ At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft ]

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