Skeletal pirate (Pirate patch)

Z skeletal pirate
Difficulty	7
Attacks	Weapon 1d6 physical

Z skeletal pirate
Difficulty	7
Attacks	Weapon 1d6 physical
Base level	5
Base experience	96
Speed	8
Base AC	4
Base MR	0
Alignment	0 (neutral)
Frequency (by normal means)	0 (Not randomly generated)
Genocidable	No
Weight	300
Nutritional value	5
Size	medium
Resistances	cold resistance, sleep resistance, poison resistance, stoning resistance
Resistances conveyed	none
A skeletal pirate: does not need to breathe. is mindless. has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso. does not eat. (*) is undead. is normally generated hostile. wanders randomly. is nasty. is strong. can pick up weapons and food. has infravision. never leaves a corpse.

This article is about the monster in the Pirate patch. For the monster in other variants, see skeletal pirate.

A skeletal pirate, Z, is a type of monster that appears in ChrisANG's Pirate role patch. The skeletal pirate is a type of strong, humanoid and zombie-class undead being that is somewhat similar to the skeleton: it has infravision, displays a tendency to wander while moving, and will collect items that it comes across. Like other pirate monsters, skeletal pirates have a mutual grudge with soldiers and sergeants—they are intended to attack a Pirate hero that has The Treasury of Proteus in their open inventory, but a copy-paste error duplicates the case for damned pirates instead.

Skeletal pirates have a single weapon attack, and possess cold resistance, sleep resistance, poison resistance, stoning resistance, death resistance, and drain resistance.

Chatting to a skeletal pirate will freeze the hero in place for a few turns regardless of hostility, and free action will not prevent this.

Generation

Skeletal pirates are not randomly generated, and normally-generated skeletal pirates are always created hostile. They are not a valid genocide target.

For a Pirate hero that has their quest artifact in open inventory and is in any branch of the dungeon other than Gehennom or the Elemental Planes, ¹⁄₅ of randomly-generated monsters will be small groups of skeletal pirates.

The skeletal pirate is the first quest monster for Pirates, and makes up ⁹⁶⁄₁₇₅ of monsters that are randomly generated on the Pirate quest. Several of them are generated on many levels of the quest branch during level creation: 12 skeletal pirates are placed randomly on the ship area of the home level, 19 are placed randomly on the locate level, and 9 more are placed on the goal level.

Skeletal pirates are generated with a cursed and rusty primary weapon that has a roughly ¹⁄₂ chance of being a scimitar or a knife, and a piece of cursed and rotted armor that has a roughly ¹⁄₂ chance of being a pair of high boots or a leather jacket. Like skeletons, they also have a ¹⁄₄ chance of being given leather armor and a separate ¹⁄₄ chance of a weapon that will either be a knife with a ²⁄₃ chance or a short sword otherwise.

Skeletal pirates do not leave a corpse upon death.

A Pirate hero that is killed by any non-specific means (e.g. not by a wraith or a cockatrice) will arise as a skeletal pirate instead of a ghost if a bones file is created.

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