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The '''vorpal jabberwock''' is a [[:Category:UnNetHack monsters|monster]] in [[UnNetHack]], derived from the [[deferred feature]] in NetHack. It is a more powerful [[jabberwock]]. They possess two [[Instadeath|beheading]] attacks; each successful hit it lands has a {{frac|40}} chance of beheading you, killing you instantly. If you are polymorphed into a jabberwock or vorpal jabberwock, ''any'' hit from a vorpal jabberwock will behead you.
  
The '''vorpal jabberwock''' is a [[:Category:UnNetHack monsters|monster]] in [[UnNetHack]], derived from the [[deferred feature]] in NetHack. It is a more powerful [[jabberwock]] ([[Vorpal Blade]] will still behead them), possessing two [[Instadeath|beheading]] attacks - 1 in 40 successful hits it lands beheads you, killing you instantly (this is a 100% chance if you are polymorphed into a jabberwock or vorpal jabberwock yourself). Polymorphing into a headless or amorphous form will protect you, as will cancelling the vorpal jabberwock.
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Polymorphing into a headless or [[amorphous]] form protects you from its beheading attacks, as does [[Cancellation|cancelling]] the vorpal jabberwock. [[Vorpal Blade]] always beheads vorpal jabberwocks.
  
 
==Encyclopedia entry==
 
==Encyclopedia entry==

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The vorpal jabberwock is a monster in UnNetHack, derived from the deferred feature in NetHack. It is a more powerful jabberwock. They possess two beheading attacks; each successful hit it lands has a 140 chance of beheading you, killing you instantly. If you are polymorphed into a jabberwock or vorpal jabberwock, any hit from a vorpal jabberwock will behead you.

Polymorphing into a headless or amorphous form protects you from its beheading attacks, as does cancelling the vorpal jabberwock. Vorpal Blade always beheads vorpal jabberwocks.

Encyclopedia entry

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
  The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
  The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand;
  Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
  And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
  The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
  And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
  The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
  He went galumphing back.

[ Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll ]