Devil's snare (dNetHack)

{ devil's snare
Difficulty	16
Attacks	Bearhug 1d1 drowning, Bearhug 4d6 physical

{ devil's snare
Difficulty	16
Attacks	Bearhug 1d1 drowning, Bearhug 4d6 physical
Base level	14
Base experience	407
Speed	10
Base AC	3
Base MR	0
Alignment	-2 (chaotic)
Frequency (by normal means)	2 (Quite rare)
Genocidable	Yes
Weight	1500
Nutritional value	400
Size	large
Resistances	cold resistance
Resistances conveyed	none
A devil's snare: can blend in with its surroundings. can survive underwater. does not need to breathe. cannot pick up items. has no eyes. has no hands. has no limbs. has no head. is mindless. does not eat. (*) is not a valid polymorphable form. is neither male nor female. is normally generated hostile. does not move normally, but can attack and perform other actions.

For the monster in UnNetHack, see Devil's Snare (UnNetHack).

A devil's snare, {, is a type of monster that appears in dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack. The devil's snare is a plant that is amphibious, unbreathing, mindless, inediate, stationary, and lacks eyes, limbs or a head. Devil's snares can hide themselves on the dungeon floor, waiting for the hero or another victim to step adjacent to it before attacking.

A devil's snare has a pair of crushing holding attacks, with the first being capable of drowning victims if the Snare is stationed on or near enough to a moat or pool—currently, neither attack functions properly. Devil's snares possess cold resistance.

Generation

Randomly generated Devil's Snares are always created hostile. They are not a valid polymorph form.

Origin

The Devil's Snare is a fictional type of flora from Harry Potter, a franchise originating from a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author Joanne Rowling (who is sometimes known by "Joanne Murray" and the pen name "J. K. Rowling"). The novels chronicle the lives of the titular young wizard as he attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and learns of his connection to Lord Voldemort, a dark wizard who intends to become immortal and subjugate the wizarding world and "mundane" world alike.

Within the setting of Harry Potter, the Devil's Snare is a sentient plant that attacks those who touch it by wrapping its vines around the "aggressor" to strangle them. It prefers damp, dark environments and is repelled by fire or bright light, so those caught in Devil's Snare can use spells that produce light or fire to force the plant to release them. The Devil's Snare's strangling is specifically stimulated by struggling, meaning that a victim can actually escape from the plant by relaxing themselves, which causes the plant to release them.

The fictional Devil's Snare coincidentally shares its name with the common name of a real plant, Datura stramonium, which is also known as "thornapple", "jimsonweed" (or "jimson weed"), or "devil's trumpet"—D. stramonium is a poisonous flowering plant in the Daturae tribe of the nightshade family Solanaceae that likely originated in Central America, and is an aggressive invasive weed in temperate climates and tropical climates across the world. D. stramonium has frequently been employed in traditional medicine to treat a variety of ailments, and has also been taken as a hallucinogen of the anticholinergic/antimuscarinic, deliriant type to cause intense, sacred or occult visions; the tropane alkaloids responsible for the psychoactive effects may be severely toxic as well.

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