Scorpion
s scorpion 
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| Difficulty | 8 |
| Attacks |
Claw 1d2, Claw 1d2, Sting 1d4 poison |
| Base level | 5 |
| Base experience | 67 |
| Speed | 15 |
| Base AC | 3 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | Rare |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 50 |
| Nutritional value | 100 |
| Size | Small |
| Resistances | poison |
| Resistances conveyed |
poison (58%) |
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A scorpion:
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| Reference | monst.c#line865 |
The scorpion, s, is a monster in NetHack. They are faster than you, have a poisonous sting, and can hide under items, making them a dangerous opponent for low level charsters. Their corpses are poisonous, and convey poison resistance about 50% of the time. Scorpions usualy generating in ranger quest.
Strategy
Fighting with scorpion can be fatal if you lack posion resistance.
If you have small strength (or bad weapon) dont fight in melee!
Try use spells/wands/projectiles or (semi)permanent E-word.
If you have scroll of genocide not worth it for scorpions, just get posion resistance and good weapon!
Encyclopedia entry
A sub-species of the spider (_Scorpionidae_), the scorpion
distinguishes itself from them by having a lower body that
ends in a long, jointed tail tapering to a poisonous stinger.
They have eight legs and pincers.
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