Lamashtu

& Lamashtu File:Lamashtu.png
Difficulty	60
Attacks	Bite 3d7 vampiric, Touch 3d7 armor teleportation, Touch 3d7 abduction, Cast 0d7 clerical spell, Cast 0d7 clerical spell

& Lamashtu File:Lamashtu.png
Difficulty	60
Attacks	Bite 3d7 vampiric, Touch 3d7 armor teleportation, Touch 3d7 abduction, Cast 0d7 clerical spell, Cast 0d7 clerical spell
Base level	107
Base experience	12988
Speed	24
Base AC	−26
Base MR	95
Alignment	−20 (chaotic)
Frequency (by normal means)	0 (Not randomly generated)
Genocidable	No
Weight	1500
Nutritional value	500
Size	huge
Resistances	fire, disintegration, poison, acid, petrification, disease
Resistances conveyed
Lamashtu: can fly. has no hands. can see invisible creatures. is poisonous to eat. does not eat. (*) is not a valid polymorphable form. is a demon. is an overlord to its kind. is female. is normally generated hostile. can follow you to other levels. is nasty. is strong. can throw boulders. wants the Amulet of Yendor. waits for you to come. wants the Amulet of Yendor, the Bell of Opening, the Book of the Dead, the Candelabrum of Invocation, and your quest artifact. has infravision. can be seen through infravision. never leaves a corpse. resists death magic. may turn against you when tame.

Demon Queen Lamashtu appears in dNetHack. She is very fast and gets multiple attacks in each turn. Her melee attacks consist of a level-draining bite, a touch attack capable of teleporting pieces of armor off your body to a random location on the level, and a touch attack capable of teleporting you to a random location on the level. Of these, only the last is affected my magic cancellation. Lamashtu can inflict a wide variety of harmful effects including disease, hallucination, stunning, curse inventory items, destroy armor, touch of death, and punishment. She is vulnerable to silver.

Lamashtu casts from both a 50% favored spell list and from a standard clerical monster spell list. Her favored spell list consists of summon angel, summon devil, summon alien, nightmare, filth, curse items, death touch, and evil eye.

Strategy

Here is a ttyrec example in which Lamashtu is taken down.

Some tactical suggestions after watching Tariru's game from 2015-05-02:

• Don't bother with armor—you'll just lose it. Instead, go for maximum protection. Naked AC of −21 was observed.
• Curse your weapon and any rings not in the weapon hand—that will stop them from falling off in the filth.
• Upwards of 500HP is a good idea.
• A stack of potions of full healing, individually named, is a good idea−this minimizes the chance of losing them all to dilution from filth and exposure from acid; full healing will clear illness, hallucination, and confusion.
• Teleport control is helpful. Park on the upstairs at least one level higher from Lamashtu's.
• Be very fast with extra speed. Lamashtu will still always get the first hit in.
• Some form of escape is needed—a cursed scroll of teleportation, or branch- or level-port artifact such as the Silver Key.
• A stethoscope is handy.
• The Garnet Rod was helpful in one game for its timestop ability.
• Lamashtu does not fully respect any ward. She will respect the following wards ¹⁄₃ of the time: Fully reinforced (seven-lobed) elder elemental eye, Pentagram, Hexagram, and Heptagram. She will also respect a scroll of scare monster ¹⁄₃ of the time. She will respect a Gorgoneion ward ²⁄₃ of the time, though the base success rate of a Gorgoneion ward depends on the reinforcement (reaching 99% at 3 levels of reinforcement—a trio of Gorgoneia). A space may contain both a scroll of scare monster and a ward, acting independently. As a priestly spellcaster, however, Lamashtu may be able to cast the flame strike monster spell, which destroys flammable items at your feet, such as scrolls of scare monster.