Lizard

A lizard may seem at first like an unassuming monster, but in fact it is very helpful to any aspiring adventurer.

Killing a lizard always leaves a corpse. Eating lizard meat, whether from a corpse or a tin, will cure stoning from a cockatrice. It is usually better to eat the corpse since opening a tin may take many turns, and lizard corpses do not rot. Because of this, it is wise to keep at least one lizard corpse in your inventory.

Note that only actual lizard corpses will stop stoning; while other monsters represented by [[:|Colon]] such as newts and geckos are technically "lizards", their corpses do not share this property.