Pegasus (EvilHack)
u pegasus | |
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Difficulty | 20 |
Attacks |
Kick 2d6, Kick 2d6, Bite 4d4 |
Base level | 18 |
Base experience | 528 |
Speed | 24 |
Base AC | -4 |
Base MR | 50 |
Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
Frequency (by normal means) | 0 (Not randomly generated) |
Genocidable | No |
Weight | 1800 |
Nutritional value | 350 |
Size | Large |
Resistances | sleep, poison |
Resistances conveyed |
None |
A pegasus:
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Reference | EvilHack - monst.c, line 1182 |
A pegasus, u, is a type of monster that appears in EvilHack. It is a strong, oviparous and domestic horse-like animal that is herbivorous, oviparous, capable of flight, has infravision, and has regeneration.
A pegasus has two kick attacks and a bite attack, and possesses sleep resistance and poison resistance.
Generation
Pegasi are not randomly generated, and are not valid forms for polymorph. A pegasus can grow up into a greater pegasus, and a pegasus egg or greater pegasus egg can hatch into a pegasus.
A pegasus is always generated on the lowest floor of the Ice Queen's Realm at level creation, where it inhabits a small 2x2 cell next to the central room of the castle with up to 3 pegasus eggs placed on its square.
Strategy
For riding-capable characters, a pegasus is easily among the best steeds and a generally solid pet besides, and will generally grow up into a greater pegasus in almost no time at all. Its lower magic saving throw of 50 compared to the greater pegasus's 90 also makes it the preferable form for zapping with beneficial wands such as speed monster.
The pegasus in the Ice Queen's Realm is usually freed after a character defeats Kathryn the Ice Queen, but it is possible to liberate the pegasus without having to face her: reading a non-cursed scroll of taming while confused and standing as close as possible to the walls of its cell can potentially tame it, and if it is not resisted by the pegasus's 50 MR, you can then warp it out of the room with a magic whistle or blessed eucalyptus leaf.
Encyclopedia entry
The famous winged horse, whose origin is thus related. When
Perseus struck off the head of Medusa, with whom Poseidon had
had intercourse in the form of a horse or a bird, there sprang
forth from her Chrysaor and the horse Pegasus. The latter
obtained the name Pegasus because he was believed to have made
his appearance near the sources (pegai) of Oceanus.
[ Encyclopedia Mythica, ed. M.F. Lindemans ]
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