Bloodletter
) Bloodletter 
| |
|---|---|
| Base item | morning star |
| Damage vs. small | 2d4 +1d12 |
| Damage vs. large | 1d8+1 +1d12 |
| To-hit bonus | +1d8 |
| Bonus versus | (any) |
| Weapon skill | morning star |
| Size | one-handed |
| Affiliation | |
| When carried |
(none) |
| When wielded |
|
| When invoked |
(none) |
| Base price | 4000 zm |
| Weight | 80 |
| Material | iron |
Bloodletter is an artifact weapon that appears in dNetHack and notdNetHack. It is unaligned, and its base item is a morning star.
Generation
Any character may receive Bloodletter as a sacrifice gift.
Description
Bloodletter has +1d8 to-hit and deals +1d12 bonus damage against monsters with blood - the weapon also gains +1d12 blood damage if the wielder is at anywhere between 1⁄4 and 1⁄2 of their maximum hit points, or +2d12 if they are at less than 1⁄4 of their maximum HP. Bloodletter can be safely enchanted to +10 and is also an insight weapon, gaining extra bonus damage when used by Madpeople.
Invoking Bloodletter "activates" the artifact, dealing damage to the character equal to 1⁄5 of their maximum health and coating it in blood for 20 + 2d10 turns: while coated in blood, Bloodletter grants a flat damage bonus equal to the monster level of a target that it hits; hitting a monster with blood reduces the timer from anywhere between ML⁄10 to (ML⁄10) - 4 turns, and time cannot be added. Invoking or applying a wielded, blood-coated Bloodletter will slam it down, ending the effect and causing a 3x3 explosion of rotten blood centered on the character: the explosion deals 6d6 damage to monsters caught in it, including the character; though there is no full immunity to this attack, monsters without blood are not subject to the level-based bonus damage.
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