Woodchuck

r woodchuck
Difficulty	4
Attacks	Bite: 1d6

r woodchuck
Difficulty	4
Attacks	Bite: 1d6
Base level	3
Base experience	29
Speed	3
Base AC	0
Base MR	20
Alignment	0 (neutral)
Frequency (by normal means)	no random generation
Genocidable	Yes
Weight	30
Nutritional value	30
Size	small
Resistances	None
Resistances conveyed	None

The woodchuck is an extremely rare creature - it is not generated in the dungeons, and must be explicitly created by means of a figurine, stone to flesh a statue, reverse genocide, or polymorph. Otherwise, it serves no special purpose, apart from being a pain to extinctionists. It can swim.

Its inclusion is a joke, to do with the Oracle and "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?". In SLASH'EM, they are marginally more common, as there's often a single woodchuck generated in the Oracle level.

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The Usenet Oracle requires an answer to this question!

> How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could
> chuck wood?

"Oh, heck!  I'll handle *this* one!"  The Oracle spun the terminal
back toward himself, unlocked the ZOT-guard lock, and slid the
glass guard away from the ZOT key.  "Ummmm....could you turn around
for a minute?  ZOTs are too graphic for the uninitiated.  Even *I*
get a little squeamish sometimes..."  The neophyte turned around,
and heard the Oracle slam his finger on a computer key, followed
by a loud ZZZZOTTTTT and the smell of ozone.
        [ Excerpted from Internet Oracularity 576.6 ]

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