Giant turtle (SlashTHEM)
: giant turtle 
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| Difficulty | 9 |
| Attacks |
Bite 4d6 physical damage |
| Base level | 7 |
| Base experience | ? |
| Speed | 2 |
| Base AC | -5 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 3 (Rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 14500 |
| Nutritional value | 4000 |
| Size | Gigantic |
| Resistances | none |
| Resistances conveyed | none |
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A giant turtle:
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- This article is about the monster in SlashTHEM. For the monster in other variants, see giant turtle.
A giant turtle, :, is a type of monster that appears in SlashTHEM. The giant turtle is a type of gigantic, herbivorous lizard that is strong, thick-skinned and amphibious, and is capable of swimming—it is one of the largest monsters in the game, but unlike other variants it does not block the vision of the hero or other monsters.
A giant turtle has a single bite attack.
Generation
Randomly-generated giant turtles are normally created as hostile.
Giant turtles can appear among the : that are part of the second quest monster class for Firefighters and make up 6⁄175 of the monsters randomly generated on the Firefighter quest.
Strategy
The corpse of a giant turtle is incredibly filling at 4000 nutrition, which is far greater than the corpses of giants and even adult dragons.
History
The giant turtle first appears in SporkHack, with SlashTHEM using its red glyph from its appearance in dNetHack.
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