Giant turtle (EvilHack)
: giant turtle 
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| Difficulty | 8 |
| Attacks |
Bite 4d6 physical damage |
| Base level | 7 |
| Base experience | 87 |
| Speed | 2 |
| Base AC | -8 |
| Base MR | 10 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 1 (Very rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 4000 |
| Nutritional value | 1200 |
| Size | Huge |
| Resistances | stoning resistance |
| Resistances conveyed | stoning resistance |
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A giant turtle:
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| Reference | EvilHack 0.9.3 - src/monst.c, line 4052 Hack'EM - src/monst.c, line 7320 |
- This article is about the monster in EvilHack and Hack'EM. For the monster in other variants, see giant turtle.
A giant turtle, :, is a type of monster that appears in EvilHack and Hack'EM. The giant turtle is a type of huge, herbivorous lizard that is strong, thick-skinned and amphibious, and is capable of swimming at a faster movement speed underwater compared to moving on land. The body of a giant turtle is so large that it can block vision similar to a boulder, but one that is rendered invisible can be seen through by the hero and other monsters even if they have see invisible. In EvilHack, giant turtles are capable of eating grass.
A giant turtle has a single bite attack, and possesses stoning resistance and a vulnerability to cold.
Eating a giant turtle corpse or tin is flagged to grant stoning resistance, but this does not occur since that specific feature for this resistance property is not implemented in EvilHack or Hack'EM.
Generation
Randomly-generated giant turtles are normally created as hostile, and will not be randomly generated within Gehennom in EvilHack or in Hack'EM.
In Hack'EM, giant turtles can occur in certain locations within the dungeon and its branches:
- A giant turtle has a 1⁄4 chance of being placed randomly on the filler level for the Town branch during level creation.
- Eight of the twenty possible maps for the Big Room each have a 1⁄2 chance of randomly placing a giant turtle during level creation.
Strategy
The corpse of a giant turtle is very filling at 1200 nutrition, which is far greater than the corpses of giants but less than those of adult dragons in either variant.
History
The giant turtle first appears in SporkHack.
Encyclopedia entry
The most popular Hawaiian turtle legend is that of Kauila.
Historian Daniel Akaka, Jr. tells the story this way:
This takes place on the island of Hawai'i at a black sand beach
called Punalu'u. Two turtles, the female named Honupo'okea
(White-headed Green Sea Turtle) and the male named Honu'ea
(Hawksbill), entered the beach of Punalu'u and dug out a pond
which provided the people of the area with a supply of drinking
water. Honupo'okea left a nest of eggs and when they hatched,
all but one of the hatchlings entered the sea and that one
hatchling lived in the nearby pond. The people named the baby
turtle Kauila, for her shell was the color of a dark-brown natice
hardwood of that name. This female turtle grew in the pond and
was known to possess special powers. She could transform herself
into a little girl and would often be seen on the beach with the
other children. When children were caught in the strong ocean
currents while swimming she would go out and save them. When
Kauila wanted to retire back to her home pond she would once again
transform back into her turtle form. The people of Punalu'u loved
Kauila as the guardian of their children and also for the spring
that gave them pure drinking water.
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