Fat cat
| f fat cat (No tile) | |
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| Difficulty | 10 |
| Attacks |
Bite 3d4 |
| Base level | 10 |
| Base experience | TBD |
| Speed | 14 |
| Base AC | 3 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 0 (Not randomly generated) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 300 |
| Nutritional value | 300 |
| Size | Medium |
| Resistances | None |
| Resistances conveyed | Intrinsic aggravate monster |
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A fat cat:
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A fat cat, f, is a type of monster that appears in SpliceHack and Hack'EM. The fat cat is a strong domestic feline that can be seen via infravision like all felines, and will seek out gold to pick up.
A fat cat has a single bite attack.
Eating a fat cat corpse or tin will confer the aggravate monster intrinsic, unless the character is an orc or a Caveman.
Chatting to a fat cat will give various responses, depending on its tameness and condition.
Generation
Fat cats are not randomly generated. A large cat can grow up into a fat cat.
Origin
The fat cat being a gold lover is a pun on the term "fat cat": originally used to describe rich political donors, it is commonly used nowadays to describe a rich, powerful and greedy person who is able to "live easy" off the work of others; in the United Kingdom, it is also used to refer to executives whose pay is deemed by others to be excessive.
Messages
- <The fat cat> yowls.
- Your tame fat cat is caught in a trap, confused, scared, or at low tameness.
- <The fat cat> whimpers.
- A leashed tame fat cat is near a square with a trap.
- <The fat cat> meows.
- A tame fat cat is currently hungry.
- <The fat cat> purrs.
- A tame fat cat will become hungry in 1000 turns or less.
- <The fat cat> snarls.
- You chatted to a peaceful fat cat.
- <The fat cat> growls!
- You chatted to a hostile fat cat.
Encyclopedia entry
Well-known quadruped domestic animal from the family of
predatory felines (_Felis ochreata domestica_), with a thick,
soft pelt; often kept as a pet. Various folklores have the
cat associated with magic and the gods of ancient Egypt.
So Ulthar went to sleep in vain anger; and when the people
awakened at dawn - behold! Every cat was back at his
accustomed hearth! Large and small, black, grey, striped,
yellow and white, none was missing. Very sleek and fat did
the cats appear, and sonorous with purring content.
