Potion of invulnerability

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Name	invulnerability
Appearance	random
Base price	300 zm
Weight	20
Monster use	Will not be used by monsters.

The potion of invulnerability is a potion introduced in SLASH'EM.

Generation

Several potions of invulnerability are guaranteed in the SLASH'EM special levels, including:

• 1 on the Rat level
• 2 in Grund's Stronghold
• 2 in The Spider Caves

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Description

Quaffing a potion of invulnerability will causes the player to become invulnerable for a few turns, with the duration depending on the potion's beatitude: a blessed potion makes you invulnerable for 12–15 turns, an uncursed one will make you invulnerable for 8–11, and a cursed potion only makes you invulnerable for 4–7.

The invulnerability from this potion is not the same as the "invulnerability" offered by a successful prayer, and only protects from hit-point loss; the player will still be vulnerable to petrification, beheading, illness, and other methods of instadeath for its duration.

Strategy

In general, this potion is fairly useless. Unlike in some other roguelikes, monsters in NetHack (and SLASH'EM) tend to inflict slow but steady damage over many turns, rather than a large amount in a short period of time. This potion's duration is simply too short to make much of a difference, and its effectiveness is noticeably less than a burned Elbereth square. Overall, it is a good candidate for dilution.

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