Talk:Shrieker

are they considered vegan to eat?

Vegan?

as far as I know they count as vegan food. Giz 08:48, 1 December 2006 (UTC)giz

#chatting with shriekers

It also produces the message "The shrieker shrieks." Does anyone know if this can also create monsters, or is it just the attack? -Ion frigate 10:07, January 21, 2010 (UTC)

Just found it, it aggravates monsters but doesn't have a chance to summon. I think I'll add that to the article. -Ion frigate 08:36, February 10, 2010 (UTC)

Do they really summon?

Do shriekers really summon anything, i.e. is the summoning code runnable? In my entire NetHack gaming career, it has not happened a single time. And I was playing a lot of low-level pacifists. --Tjr 13:56, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Yes. Just wiztested it by surrounding myself with 8 shriekers. I blinded myself and used telepathy to detect the monsters (simpler than trying to keep real monster detection going). With 8 shriekers going at once I noticed monsters suddenly appearing on the map at the same time the shriekers went. They definitely appear. It's just hard to notice because the monsters will appear anywhere in the level, so even if you run into the monster created by a shriek, you could just as easily assume it was caused by random generation. -- Qazmlpok 14:31, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Strange. Every 1560 turns spent near a shrieker, it should summon a purple worm. I guess I was just lucky never to get one. --Tjr 19:15, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Why do pets don't eat shrieker corpses?

They're safe to eat, after all. --Tjr 10:06, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

A pet horse just ate a shrieker corpse. Are you wondering why a cat/dog won't? Shrieker corpses are vegan so carnivorous pets won't eat them. -- Qazmlpok 11:48, 25 May 2011 (UTC)