Enormous rat (dNetHack)
r enormous rat 
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| Difficulty | 4 |
| Attacks |
Bite 1d6 physical |
| Base level | 3 |
| Base experience | 40 |
| Speed | 9 |
| Base AC | 6 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 1 (Very rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 200 |
| Nutritional value | 100 |
| Size | small |
| Resistances | none |
| Resistances conveyed | none |
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An enormous rat:
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An enormous rat, r, is a type of monster that appears in dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack. The enormous rat is a small omnivorous animal that is slightly larger than other early rodents, and can be seen via infravision. All six of an enormous rat's AC points are in the natural category. Like other rats, Convicts can pacify or tame enormous rats by chatting to them.
An enormous rat has a single bite attack.
Generation
Randomly generated enormous rats are always hostile, and may appear in small groups. A giant rat can grow up into an enormous rat, and an enormous rat can grow up into a rodent of unusual size.
The enormous rat makes up 96⁄175 of the monsters randomly generated on the Madman quest as the first quest monster for Madmen that are above the locate level of the branch—enormous rats also appear among the random r that are part of the first quest monster class for those levels and make up 24⁄175 of the monsters randomly generated there.
Enormous rats appear among the random r that are part of the first quest monster class and make up 24⁄175 of the monsters randomly generated on the quests of the following roles:
The Good Neighbor has a 1⁄19 of creating an enormous rat if she is hidden from the hero due to insufficient insight and uses one of her moves to generate monsters at her current location.
An enormous rat has a 1⁄100 of generating with a fedora and either a gentlewoman's dress or gentleman's suit depending on their gender, and otherwise has a 10⁄99 chance of generating with a jacket.
Encyclopedia entry
To set certain popular misconceptions to rest once and for all:
1) He was not found wandering the sewers of London as a child during
the winter of 1864, unable to say anything more than "Powerful
big rats, gentlemen."
2) He was never exhibited in public houses to the curious; only
briefly in July, 1865, to selected gentlemen of standing from
the scientific and literary community.
3) He did not have a vestigial tail.
4) He did indeed have what most people would commonly understand
as "eyes."
5) He was not actually the pilot of the Zeppelin, although he did
disappear for good following the explosion.
6) There is obviously no "underground kingdom beneath London,
inhabited by huge, intelligent rodents." And even if there were,
and suggestion of Neil's involvement in the mazy territorial
negotiations between Londons Above and Below can be considered a
joke, and in poor taste at that.
7) He was afraid of neither mirrors nor street conjurers.
8) There were no tooth marks on the bones.
[ The Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman ]
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