Traitor

A traitor is a monster attribute introduced in SLASH'EM that is used to denote a pet capable of turning against you. 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. 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. Thus, increasing the pet's tameness and not abusing them will decrease the chance of rebellion, but neither will eliminate the chance of it occurring entirely.

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.