Forum:VoR's Hallucinatory Bestiary

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I'm quite keen to see how far I can take this

Wikid (talk) 06:45, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

You know what would be cool? If you could give stats that those monsters might have if they existed, because I'm developing a variant that will implement (almost) any monster idea no matter how silly ;) --Bluescreenofdeath (talk) 06:05, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Ha! You realise you have been part of the target audience for this project, a tiny fanfic tribute to Slash 'Em Extended :-) Anyhow, I guess with stats we're looking for something like the table here? Trouble is, it's guesswork for me with a lot of this, especially the difficulty, level, and XP value. Guidance is welcomed. Veal curries and Phone zombies on offer :-) Wikid (talk) 09:44, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Oh great! Yeah it doesn't have to be exact stats actually, just stuff like monster glyph (unless it's obvious, e.g. in the cases of the colored unicorns I already know they'd be 'u' and the color is in their name :D), maybe their main attacks and other specialties. For example: "phone zombie: level 20 gray Z that can gate in demons (basically "call them with their phone"); veal curry: level 13 orange % that breathes fire and also conveys fire resistance when eaten". I'd then use my artistic license to fill in the rest of the monst.c entries :D Many thanks, I *really* like your idea! --Bluescreenofdeath (talk) 11:30, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Super - what I'll do is keep this page as an index, and link to category pages for the descriptors. Thanks for encouragement! I was planning to make the veal currie more electric than fiery though (Valkyrie spin-off). Phone zombies are blind and invisible (mainly invisible because they think they are); collision with a phone zombie has a chance of summoning the Kops. :-) Wikid (talk) 09:24, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

I decided in the end to not take the content to a page called "VoR's Hallucinatory Bestiary". Because I am worried that the posting of hallucinatory content in the main Wiki will draw the ire of the Wiki Mods. Even though one day it will ALL be REAL. Wikid (talk) 09:54, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

Gotcha 10 new unicorns and 2 morality monsters! :-) Wikid (talk) 09:37, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

That's great! I'll implement them eventually :) Also you may look at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SLASHEM-Extended/SLASHEM-Extended/master/include/monsym.h and https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SLASHEM-Extended/SLASHEM-Extended/master/include/monattk.h for inspiration, because since SLEX is most probably the only variant in existence that would ever implement your monsters, you might as well also use the SLEX-specific monster types and attacks :D In fact, some monster classes (e.g. flying fish, rub monsters and wall monsters) are in desperate need of new interesting members, and the list of available monster attacks in slex makes it possible to have all kinds of interesting attack combos! Good work, keep it coming ♥ --Bluescreenofdeath (talk) 12:31, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for those links -- some source-diving for me there. Hey wow, I could be part of SLEX Devs! :-) I'm still holding out that some other variant might add these ideas to its hallucinatory code. One day maybe :-) Okay, back to it …

Music Monsters done now -- scrolls that drop potions -- happy to evolve thinking on this.

Nethack Stuff done now -- took about a day :-D

And 4 meals.

And 3 pets.

PS I think when / if any / some of this makes it to playable code, I can take the page into the main wiki. No hurry :-) Wikid (talk) 07:42, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Chromatic Unicorns

orange unicorn

blue unicorn

brown unicorn

rainbow unicorn

ultraviolet unicorn

xray unicorn

yellow unicorn

pink unicorn

spotted unicorn

lesser spotted unicorn

Morality Monsters

Consequence of Your Insouciance

moment of clarity

moral hazard

moral event horizon

Music Monsters

1812 Overture

BLERTA

enigma variation

lynyrdskynyrd

warped record

Nethack Stuff

agony ant

apologetic customer

bobby on the beat

caveperson

DIElithium crystal

filth beatle

funky monkey

Highest Priestess

orchaealogist

phone zombie

Purple Ampersand

Samurukhai

Nutritional Monsters

fries with that

carnivorous lentil

Happy Meal™

veal currie

Personas

Grand Moff Tarkin

Pinocchio

Woyzeck

Random Set

atomic budgie

hypotonic saline infusion

perfidious Albion

protest vote

registered trademark

round tuit

sinking feeling

winning ticket

Monsters of the Sciences

coefficient of friction

polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon

tropical sunset

Things

The Thing

Das Ding

Thing 1

Thing 2

Thing That Should Not Be

Wild Thing

Writings

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