Douglas Adams (monster)

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Douglas Adams, A, is the name of a unique monster that appears in NetHack: The Next Generation and SlashTHEM. Douglas Adams is a mindless, humanoid angelic being that is capable of flight and will seek out items to pick up, and they are considered a lord to their kind.

Douglas Adams has a claw attack and a headbutt attack that can drain intelligence.

Generation

Douglas Adams is always generated hostile, and is not a valid form for polymorph.

Douglas Adams is always generated in a special level known as The Hitchhiker's Level, where he is generated asleep and placed a short distance southeast of the entrance stair at level creation.

Origin

Douglas Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, screenwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist. He is generally best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a work of science fiction comedy which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy and developed into a "trilogy" of five books; The Hitchhiker's Guide sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime and generated several adaptations.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy follows the adventures of Arthur Dent; thought to be the last survivor of the Earth's destruction by a Vogon constructor that was making way for a hyperspace bypass, he is rescued by Ford Prefect, a humanoid alien writer for the in-universe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and the pair travel around the galaxy. Vanilla NetHack has a few scattered references to The Hitchhiker's Guide, particularly in the towel and the tendency of thrones to disappear in a "puff of logic".

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