Traitor

A traitor is a term used to describe a pet that is capable of turning against you through a feature introduced in SLASH'EM. Traitor pets are also included in Slash'EM Extended and dNetHack.

Description

The M3_TRAITOR monster flag denotes monsters that have a chance of spontaneously rebelling against the player when tame and becoming hostile; dNetHack uses MT_TRAITOR for the same purpose. Increasing the pet's tameness and not abusing the pet will decrease the chance of the pet rebelling, but will not eliminate the chance of it occurring. Monsters that turn on you will additionally have the text "traitor" added when examined with a stethoscope or wand of probing.

The check for betrayal occurs whenever you abuse the pet or with a 1 in 850 chance on every move. The betrayal check will always fail if the pet is a spell being, is further than 3 squares away, is mindless, or if you have more hit points than the pet. If those checks pass, then there is a $(21-tameness)(abuse+1)/66(abuse+2)$ chance that the pet will turn traitor.

Messages

<foo> turns on you!

A tam monster with the "traitor" flag has spontaneously become hostile.

You feel uneasy about <foo>.

As above, but you were unable to see the former pet at that time.