Esscooahlipboourrr

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Base item	double sword
Damage vs. small	1d6+2 +1d10 (+1d8)
Damage vs. large	2d6+1 +1d10 (+1d8)
To-hit bonus	+0 +1d20
Bonus versus	targets without drain resistance
Weapon skill	quarterstaff
Size	one-handed
Affiliation	neutral Drow Healer intelligent
When carried	read to learn mass healing apply when non-cursed to heal friendly monsters or inflict ailments on hostile ones apply when non-cursed to inflict ailments on friendly monsters or heal hostile ones cannot be put in container
When wielded	automatic searching drain resistance improves success rate of healing spells and matter spells level drain on hit absorbs and stores magical items (does not anger shopkeepers) 100% damage bonus when consecutively hitting the same target
When invoked	loot as a container (for magical items only)
Base price	4000 zm
Weight	80
Material	iron

Esscooahlipboourrr is the drow Healer quest artifact in dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack. It is the prize for completing the Drow Healer quest, and its default alignment is neutral. Its base item type is a tentacle-auraed shackle-entwined double sword that has somewhat better base damage.

Generation

Esscooahlipboourrr cannot be wished for as with other quest artifacts, though it can be found in bones.

For drow Healers, Esscooahlipboourrr will always generate on the drow Healer quest goal level, where the artifact is created in the possession of Blibdoolpoolp's mindgraven champion, a monster summoned by Mad Grazi using a crystal skull that contains the Champion's spirit and the artifact. If a drow Healer loads a bones level containing the quest artifact, it will always be reverted to its base item.

Description

While wielded, Esscooahlipboourrr grants automatic searching and drain resistance while acting as a spellcasting focus for healing spells and matter spells, and has +1d20 to-hit, +1d10 damage bonuses and drains levels on each hit against monsters without drain resistance—this life-draining applies a further +1d8 damage to the target's current and maximum HP, and restores half of that damage to the wielder's current HP. Additionally, a 100% damage bonus is applied on consecutive hits from the artifact against the same target.

A wielded Esscooahlipboourrr passively steals magical items from adjacent hostile monsters and acts as a container that stores them weightlessly, and it will also pick up magical items from the floor as well; picking up shop items this way will not anger shopkeepers. Esscooahlipboourrr itself cannot physically be stored inside other containers. Invoking Esscooahlipboourrr allows the hero to interact with the artifact as a container and is subject to the invocation cooldown timer, though Esscooahlipboourrr will only allow magical items to be stored this way.

Reading Esscooahlipboourrr teaches the mass healing spell. Applying Esscooahlipboourrr can cure status ailments for the wielder or other allied monsters similar to a unicorn horn, as with The Staff of Aesculapius, and inflicts status ailments on opposing monsters while completely ignoring monster MR—this is reversed if the artifact is cursed, and in all cases skips over ailments that do not apply (for curing) or else cannot be applied (for inflicting). The status ailments cured or applied in order of priority are: blindness, deafness, stunning and confusion, sleep, paralysis, cancellation, and plague.

If Blibdoolpoolp, graven-into-flesh is killed while there is a plague victim on the same level, and she either possesses Esscooahlipboourrr or it has not yet been touched by the hero, she will save her life by draining that of the plague victim and killing them instead.

Origin

The name "Esscooahlipboourrr" is a corruption of Excalibur, the legendary sword of King Arthur and an artifact in NetHack and its variants. The artifact itself is implied to have become this way from merging with a pair of long swords.