Meditating

Some monsters are created meditating. They cannot move or attack until you wake them up. Internally, the game splits it into STRAT_WAITFORU and STRAT_CLOSE.

The following monsters are generated meditating:

• Vlad (WAITFORU)
• Prisoners (CLOSE)
• Medusa (WAITFORU)
• The Wizard of Yendor (WAITFORU)
• All guaranteed unique demons (WAITFORU)
• All quest leaders (CLOSE) and nemeses (WAITFORU)

You can wake up your quest leader by #chatting to them. Usually, you will have to become at least fast and move adjacent on a free turn, else they initiate the dialogue themselves, which does not work unless you are ready to get permission.

See also

• sleeping
• paralysis
• stethoscope