Digestion

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Digestion is a damage type dealt by some engulfing attacks. It causes delayed instadeath, and mostly affects players with high (bad) armor class. Digestion can be completely prevented by wearing a ring of slow digestion, which causes monsters trying to digest you to instead regurgitate you. The following monsters digest:

Messages

"The <monster> digests you!"
You take damage from digestion.
"The <monster> thoroughly digests you!"
You take damage from digestion. You will die in 2 more turns.
"The <monster> utterly digests you!"
You take damage from digestion. You will die in 1 more turn.
"The <monster> totally digests you!"
You die.