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− | + | {{encyclopedia|A bat, flitting in the darkness outside, took the wrong turn | |
− | + | as it made its nightly rounds and came in through the window | |
− | + | which had been left healthfully open. It then proceeded to | |
− | [ | + | circle the room in the aimless fat-headed fashion habitual |
+ | with bats, who are notoriously among the less intellectually | ||
+ | gifted of God's creatures. Show me a bat, says the old | ||
+ | proverb, and I will show you something that ought to be in | ||
+ | some kind of a home. | ||
+ | [ A Pelican at Blandings, by P. G. Wodehouse ] | ||
+ | }} |
Revision as of 21:58, 24 August 2017
B vampire bat | |
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Difficulty | 7 |
Attacks |
Bite 1d6, Bite poison |
Base level | 5 |
Base experience | 66 |
Speed | 20 |
Base AC | 6 |
Base MR | 0 |
Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
Frequency (by normal means) | 2 (Quite rare) |
Genocidable | Yes |
Weight | 30 |
Nutritional value | 20 |
Size | Small |
Resistances | sleep, poison |
Resistances conveyed |
None |
A vampire bat:
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Reference | monst.c#line1141 |
The vampire bat, B, is a monster in NetHack. It is the most powerful variety of bat and, despite its name, cannot drain life.
Its corpse is poisonous, but does not stun the player.
As of version 3.6.0 a vampire bat may actually be a shapeshifted vampire or vampire lord, and resurrect in that form after being killed.
Player
Players polymorphed into vampire bats
- are permanently stunned.
- will polymorph into vampires when the player polymorphs without polymorph control.
Biology
Vampire bats are real, and common to the American Southwest as well as Central and South America. There are three distinct species of vampire bat, and are the only animals known to feed primarily or soley on the blood of other animals.
Encyclopedia entry
A bat, flitting in the darkness outside, took the wrong turn
as it made its nightly rounds and came in through the window
which had been left healthfully open. It then proceeded to
circle the room in the aimless fat-headed fashion habitual
with bats, who are notoriously among the less intellectually
gifted of God's creatures. Show me a bat, says the old
proverb, and I will show you something that ought to be in
some kind of a home.
[ A Pelican at Blandings, by P. G. Wodehouse ]