Abominable Snowman (EvilHack)
| Y Abominable Snowman (No tile) | |
|---|---|
| Difficulty | 27 |
| Attacks |
Bite 8d4, Weapon 6d6, Claw 6d6 knock-back damage |
| Base level | 25 |
| Base experience | 963 |
| Speed | 12 |
| Base AC | 0 |
| Base MR | 50 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | Unique |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 5000 |
| Nutritional value | 2000 |
| Size | Gigantic |
| Resistances | sleep,poison,petrification,cold |
| Resistances conveyed | cold (100%) |
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The Abominable Snowman:
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| Reference | EvilHack - monst.c, line 2636 |
- For the monster in notdNetHack, see Abominable Snowman (notdNetHack).
The Abominable Snowman, Y, is a unique monster that appears in EvilHack. The Abominable Snowman is a thick-skinned apelike creature that has infravision, enhanced regeneration, can swim, is capable of lifting and throwing boulders, and can freeze pools of water underneath it as it moves.
The Abominable Snowman has a strong bite attack, a strong weapon attack, and a strong claw attack that can knock targets back, and may go berserk when its HP is low enough. It possesses sleep resistance, poison resistance, stoning resistance, cold resistance, and is vulnerable to fire.
Eating the Abominable Snowman's corpse or tin grants +55% (11⁄20) additional cold resistance.
Generation
The Abominable Snowman appears on the second floor of the Ice Queen's Realm, where it is generated in the middle of the gorge's narrow pass on level creation. It is always generated with a dozen boulders in its inventory.
Strategy
The Abominable Snowman's ice power makes it immune to drowning, and the boulders it will pelt you with can obstruct the pass. It is typically worth keeping a wand of striking or two around so that non-giant characters can break them and pass by; casters such as Healers can also try the stone to flesh spell.
Origin
The Abominable Snowman is also known as the Yeti, an iconic cryptozoological animal said to inhabit the Himalayan region of Nepal and Tibet. Folklorists trace the origin of the Yeti to a combination of factors, including the folklore of pre-Buddhist Himalayan cultures such as the Sherpa people, and misidentified fauna such as bears or yak. The Abominable Snowman is often described as a large, bipedal ape-like creature that is covered with brown, gray, or white hair, and it is sometimes depicted as having large, sharp teeth.
Encyclopedia entry
The Abominable Snowman, or yeti, is one of the truly great
unknown animals of the twentieth century. It is a large hairy
biped that lives in the Himalayan region of Asia ... The story
of the Abominable Snowman is filled with mysteries great and
small, and one of the most difficult of all is how it got that
awful name. The creature is neither particularly abominable,
nor does it necessarily live in the snows. _Yeti_ is a Tibetan
word which may apply either to a real, but unknown animal of
the Himalayas, or to a mountain spirit or demon -- no one is
quite sure which. And after nearly half a century in which
Westerners have trampled around looking for the yeti, and
asking all sorts of questions, the original native traditions
concerning the creature have become even more muddled and
confused.
[ The Encyclopedia of Monsters, by Daniel Cohen ]
