Vortex
The members of the vortex monster class will all engulf you and cause an appropriate type of damage, except dust vortices, which will blind you, and fog clouds, which will do physical damage. Once you can survive their engulfing long enough to get yourself expelled with your horn or drum, their greatest danger is transporting you into lava or into a black dragon's disintegration blast.
Contents
Fog cloud
v fog cloud | |
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Difficulty | 4 |
Attacks |
Engulf 1d6 |
Base level | 3 |
Base experience | 37 |
Speed | 1 |
Base AC | 0 |
Base MR | 0 |
Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
Frequency (by normal means) | 2 (Quite rare) |
Genocidable | Yes |
Weight | 0 |
Nutritional value | 0 |
Size | Huge |
Resistances | Sleep, Poison, Stoning |
Resistances conveyed |
None |
A fog cloud:
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Reference | monst.c#line937 |
Fog clouds offer a good opportunity for weapon training. Once engulfed you will hit automatically, avoiding the normal trouble non-warrior roles can have with the -4 Unskilled To-hit penalty.
Dust vortex
v dust vortex | |
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Difficulty | 6 |
Attacks |
Engulf 2d8 blind |
Base level | 4 |
Base experience | 55 |
Speed | 20 |
Base AC | 2 |
Base MR | 30 |
Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
Frequency (by normal means) | 2 (Quite rare) |
Genocidable | Yes |
Weight | 0 |
Nutritional value | 0 |
Size | Huge |
Resistances | Sleep, Poison, Stoning |
Resistances conveyed |
None |
A dust vortex:
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Reference | monst.c#line945 |
As with fog clouds, dust vortices offer a good chance for beginning characters to train their weapon skills, particularly since they deal no physical damage.
Ice vortex
v ice vortex | |
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Difficulty | 7 |
Attacks |
Engulf 1d6 cold |
Base level | 5 |
Base experience | 75 |
Speed | 20 |
Base AC | 2 |
Base MR | 30 |
Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
Frequency (by normal means) | 1 (Very rare) |
Genocidable | Yes |
Weight | 0 |
Nutritional value | 0 |
Size | Huge |
Resistances | Cold, Sleep, Poison, Stoning |
Resistances conveyed |
None |
An ice vortex:
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Reference | monst.c#line952 |
Energy vortex
v energy vortex | |
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Difficulty | 9 |
Attacks |
Engulf 1d6 shock, Engulf drain energy, Passive (level + 1)d4 shock |
Base level | 6 |
Base experience | 102 |
Speed | 20 |
Base AC | 2 |
Base MR | 30 |
Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
Frequency (by normal means) | 1 (Very rare) |
Genocidable | Yes |
Weight | 0 |
Nutritional value | 0 |
Size | Huge |
Resistances | Shock, Sleep, Disintegrate, Poison, Stoning |
Resistances conveyed |
None |
An energy vortex:
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Reference | monst.c#line960 |
The energy vortex is a very dangerous monster to encounter if one lacks shock resistance. In addition to its shock attacks, it also has a special drain energy ability, which drains the power of the player. The drain energy ability can be protected against with high magic cancellation, but the other attacks cannot.
Note that the passive attack is only triggered by melee attacks - ranged attacks, even when engulfed, are perfectly fine. This includes repeatedly throwing and picking up your melee weapon, if you have no more powerful alternative. It is sometimes necessary to use wands to survive an unfortunate energy vortex encounter.
Steam vortex
v steam vortex | |
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Difficulty | 9 |
Attacks |
Engulf 1d8 fire |
Base level | 7 |
Base experience | 113 |
Speed | 22 |
Base AC | 2 |
Base MR | 30 |
Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
Frequency (by normal means) | 2 (Quite rare) |
Genocidable | Yes |
Weight | 0 |
Nutritional value | 0 |
Size | Huge |
Resistances | Fire, Sleep, Poison, Stoning |
Resistances conveyed |
None |
A steam vortex:
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Reference | monst.c#line960 |
Fire vortex
v fire vortex | |
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Difficulty | 10 |
Attacks | |
Base level | 8 |
Base experience | 143 |
Speed | 22 |
Base AC | 2 |
Base MR | 30 |
Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
Frequency (by normal means) | 1 (Very rare) |
Genocidable | Yes |
Weight | 0 |
Nutritional value | 0 |
Size | Huge |
Resistances | Fire, Sleep, Poison, Stoning |
Resistances conveyed |
None |
A fire vortex:
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Reference | monst.c#line960 |
Body Parts
Vortex also refers to the grouping of body parts for the forms of vortices. It affects the messages referring to the appropriate body parts as follows[1]:
Bodypart[2] | Description |
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Arm | Region |
Eye | Eye |
Face | Front |
Finger | Minor current |
Fingertip | Minor current |
Foot | Lower current |
Hand | Swirl |
Handed | Swirled |
Head | Central core |
Leg | Lower current |
Light Headed | Addled |
Neck | Center |
Spine | Currents |
Toe | Edge |
Hair | Currents |
Blood | Life force |
Lung | Center |
Nose | Leading edge |
Stomach | Interior |
UnNetHack
UnNetHack adds the surprisingly dangerous antimatter vortex.
References
Encyclopedia entry
Swirling clouds of pure elemental energies, the vortices are
thought to be related to the larger elementals. Though the
vortices do no damage when touched, they are noted for being
able to envelop unwary travellers. The hapless fool thus
swallowed by a vortex will soon perish from exposure to the
element the vortex is composed of.
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