Frankenstein's Monster
' Frankenstein's Monster 
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| Difficulty | 23 |
| Attacks |
Claw 3d8 physical, Claw 3d8 physical |
| Base level | 20 |
| Base experience | 635 |
| Speed | 8 |
| Base AC | -5 |
| Base MR | 50 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | Unique |
| Genocidable | no |
| Weight | 1400 |
| Nutritional value | 600 |
| Size | large |
| Resistances | cold resistance, shock resistance, sleep resistance, poison resistance, drain resistance |
| Resistances conveyed | cold (25%), shock (25%), sleep (25%), poison (25%) |
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Frankestein's Monster:
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| Reference | SLASH'EM 0.0.7E7F2/monst.c#line3569 |
Frankenstein's Monster, ', is a unique monster that appears in SLASH'EM and SlashTHEM. He is a strong, undead golem that is very similar to a more powerful flesh golem.
Frankenstein's Monster has two claw attacks and possesses cold resistance, shock resistance, sleep resistance, and poison resistance.
Eating the corpse or tin of Frankenstein's Monster grants one of cold resistance, shock resistance, sleep resistance, or poison resistance, with an equal 1⁄4 chance (25%) of each.
Generation
Frankenstein's Monster is always created hostile, and will always generate with 400 HP.[1] He is not a valid form for polymorph.
Frankenstein's Monster is guaranteed to appear in Frankenstein's Lab, where he is found wandering the maze surrounding the lab at level creation.
Frankenstein's Monster leaves a corpse that is aged 100 turns upon death.[2]
Strategy
While Frankenstein's Monster has a lot of HP, solid AC of -5 and a sizable MR score of 50, he is slow at 8 speed and unlikely to be a threat for any hero that has reached Gehennom and found the laboratory's branch: his melee attacks hit only moderately hard for the depth he is encountered at, he lacks special abilities, and he is fairly slow at 8 speed. Most players can take advantage of his vulnerability to fire damage to make the fight much quicker.
As Frankenstein's Monster is mindless, locating him can be difficult - quaffing a blessed potion of monster detection or casting the detect monsters spell with Skilled or higher skill level in divination spells can make him easy to spot. For heroes who are determined to kill him, the corpse is generally unsuitable for consumption without using a tinning kit, but can provide valuable resistances should they lack any.
Origin
Frankenstein's monster (or Frankenstein's Creature) is the main antagonist of 1818 Mary Shelley novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The story itself begins with Captain Robert Walton on an exploration of the North Pole: Walton had come to the area in pursuit of scientific knowledge, and during the voyage his crew spotted a dog sled driven by a gigantic figure, later revealed to be Frankenstein's monster. A few hours later, they rescue a freezing and emaciated man from near-death, who identifies himself as Victor Frankenstein, the monster's creator; Victor then recounts his life story to Captain Walton as a warning.
While at university, Victor Frankenstein excels in chemistry and other sciences, developing a secret technique to give life to non-living matter. He undertakes the creation of a humanoid being over the course of two years in the attic of his boarding house in Ingolstadt. Due to the difficulty of replicating the minute parts of the human body, Victor makes his monster about 8 feet (2.4 m) in height and proportionally large, and selects for features commonly considered beautiful during the process.
Despite this, when the monster is finally animated he takes on a hideous appearance, with dull and watery yellow eyes and yellow skin that barely conceals the muscles and blood vessels underneath. Repulsed by his work, Victor flees from it in horror; frightened, and unaware of his own identity, the monster wanders through the wilderness. Far from being an unintelligent brute, the monster is an emotional, contemplative being that attempts to fit into human society, but his shunning leads him to seek revenge against Frankenstein.
Frankenstein's monster has since become iconic in popular culture, and has been featured in various forms of media, including films, television series, merchandise and video games; due to his significant role, the monster is commonly and erroneously referred to by "Frankenstein", his creator's name. The most popularly recognized versions are the trilogy of film portrayals by Boris Karloff: the 1931 film Frankenstein, the 1935 sequel Bride of Frankenstein, and the 1939 sequel Son of Frankenstein. Frankenstein's monster is described by scholar Joseph Carroll as occupying "a border territory between the characteristics that typically define protagonists and antagonists".
Encyclopedia entry
With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected
the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark
of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was
already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against
the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the
glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow
eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive
motion agitated its limbs.
How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how
delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I
had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I
had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!--Great God!
His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and
arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and
flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances
only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that
seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in
which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight
black lips.
