Chakram (Hack'EM)
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| Name | chakram |
| Appearance | circular blade |
| Damage vs. small | 1d10 |
| Damage vs. large | 1d10 |
| To-hit bonus | +1 |
| Weapon skill | boomerang |
| Size | one-handed |
| Base price | 20 zm (+10/positive enchant) |
| Weight | 5 |
| Material | silver |
- This article is about the weapon in Hack'EM. For the weapon in other variants, see chakram.
A chakram is a type of ranged weapon that appears in Hack'EM. The chakram is a stackable one-handed weapon that is designed for throwing in an arc and uses the boomerang skill. It has a base material of silver and appears as a circular blade when unidentified.
Generation
Chakrams make up 3⁄500 (0.6%) of all weapons that are randomly generated on the ground, in general shops or as death drops. Used armor dealerships and antique weapons outlets can also stock chakrams.
Chakrams have the following possible object materials: silver (16⁄25), steel (1⁄10), iron (1⁄20), bone (1⁄20), wood (1⁄20), copper (1⁄25), mithril (3⁄100), gold (1⁄100), glass (1⁄100), mineral (1⁄100), or platinum (1⁄100).
Upgrading a boomerang successfully will produce a chakram.
A chakram can be created at a forge by combining a boomerang and a shuriken.
Description
Chakrams function similarly to boomerangs, dealing 1d10 damage versus monsters with a base +1 to-hit bonus and a further +4 to-hit bonus when thrown, and they fly in an arc that returns them to the hero's square unless their path is blocked by a wall, a monster, a closed door or a sink: chakrams do not mulch from being thrown, and the hero has the same dexterity-based chance of catching a thrown chakram as they do a boomerang, i.e. DEX20 unless they are fumbling—they also have a skill-based chance of "slicing" through monsters (more literally in this case) and continuing their flight arc after each hit. A hero that fails to catch a chakram will be hit the hero for physical damage, with its enchantment accounted for as it is when hitting monsters. Chakrams can also be poisoned like many other projectile weapons.
When thrown, a chakram will travel in a circular path from the direction it was thrown and hit anything in its path, alternating between left and right parenthesis glyphs (( ) () as it flies to simulate spinning. The exact trajectory of the chakram depends on whether the hero is right- or left-handed: a right-handed hero will throw the boomerang counter-clockwise, while a left-handed one will throw it clockwise. Like boomerangs, chakrams can be "multishot" by throwing them multiple times in one action, which will be aborted if a returning chakram hits the hero.
Wielding a chakram or (stack of chakrams) and using it as a melee weapon will cause it to only inflict d2 damage as with other objects that are not designed for melee, but chakrams do not have a luck-dependent chance of splintering or otherwise breaking on impact as boomerangs do by default (with it depending on the weapon's material as normal).
A whetstone can be applied to a chakram with a water source in order to scour erosion and negative enchantments (up to a minimum of +0) from a chakram.
Upgrading a chakram successfully will produce a boomerang.
Monsters will not throw chakrams.
History
The chakram first appears in dNetHack, and also appears in SpliceHack.
Encyclopedia entry
The people of the kingdom ... are very good fighting men and good knights, armed with many kinds of weapons; they are great bowmen, and very strong men; they have very good lances, swords, daggers, steel maces, and battle-axes, with which they fight; and they have some steel wheels, which they call chakarani, two fingers broad, sharp outside like knives, and without edge inside; and the surface of these is of the size of a small plate. And they carry seven or eight of these each, put on the left arm; and they take one and put it on the finger of the right hand, and make it spin round many times, and so they hurl it at their enemies, and if they hit anyone on the arm or leg or neck, it cuts through all. And with these they carry on much fighting, and are very dexterous with them.