Ichneumon

a ichneumon larva File:Ichneumon larva.png
Difficulty	6
Attacks	Sting 2d3 poison (drain dexterity)

a ichneumon larva File:Ichneumon larva.png
Difficulty	6
Attacks	Sting 2d3 poison (drain dexterity)
Base level	3
Base experience	?
Speed	18
Base AC	-1
Base MR	0
Alignment	0 (neutral)
Frequency (by normal means)	0 (Not randomly generated)
Genocidable	Yes
Weight	30
Nutritional value	30
Size	Small
Resistances	Poison
Resistances conveyed	Poison
An ichneumon larva: can fly. has no hands. is an animal. does not eat. (*) is normally generated hostile.
Reference	SpliceHack 1.1.0 monst.c L171

a giant ichneumon File:Giant ichneumon.png
Difficulty	12
Attacks	Sting 2d3 poison (drain dexterity), Sting 2d3 inject larvae

a giant ichneumon File:Giant ichneumon.png
Difficulty	12
Attacks	Sting 2d3 poison (drain dexterity), Sting 2d3 inject larvae
Base level	8
Base experience	?
Speed	18
Base AC	-1
Base MR	0
Alignment	0 (neutral)
Frequency (by normal means)	2 (Quite rare)
Genocidable	Yes
Weight	100
Nutritional value	100
Size	Small
Resistances	Poison
Resistances conveyed	Poison
An ichneumon larva: can fly. has no hands. is an animal. can lay eggs. does not eat. (*) is female. is normally generated hostile.
Reference	SpliceHack 1.1.0 monst.c L202

The ichneumon larva and giant ichneumon are monsters in SpliceHack.

The giant ichneumon has an attack that can inject you with larva that eventually burst out of your body.

When the larva burst out, they will initially do 1d5 damage, plus damage equal to half your current HP. If the 1d5 damage kills you, your epitaph will explain that you were "eaten alive from the inside by insects".

If you have been injected with larva, you can prevent the bursting from occurring by quaffing a potion of sickness or casting the spell of cure sickness.

Messages

The giant ichneumon injects something into you!

The larva injection attack occurred.

You are feeling a little strange.

Your skin is crawling.

You can feel something moving inside your body!

The larva will soon burst out of you.

Insects burst from your body!

The larva have burst out of you.

You feel as if your body is your own again.

You cured the infestation by quaffing the potion of sickness.

You feel as if something inside you has just died.

You cured the infestation by casting the spell of cure sickness.

History

Early versions of SpliceHack had brood wasps, which had slightly different abilities. Brood wasps were replaced with ichneumon in SpliceHack 1.0.0.

Origin

There are real-life parasitic insects called ichneumon wasps. They are a diverse group including 25,000 described species.

Encyclopedia entry

These insects are feared for their ability to lay eggs inside the bodies of their prey.