Hunting horror

w hunting horror
Difficulty	28
Attacks	Bite 5d12 physical

w hunting horror
Difficulty	28
Attacks	Bite 5d12 physical
Base level	25
Base experience	1155
Speed	16
Base AC	-6
Base MR	30
Alignment	0 (neutral)
Frequency (by normal means)	1 (Very rare)
Genocidable	Yes
Weight	9000
Nutritional value	1500
Size	gigantic
Resistances	none
Resistances conveyed	none
A hunting horror: can fly. has no hands. has no limbs. is an animal. has a slithy or serpent-like body. can lay eggs. is carnivorous. is normally generated hostile. wanders randomly. is nasty. is strong. does not appear in Gehennom. normally appears in large groups.

~ hunting horror tail (No tile)
Difficulty	1
Attacks

~ hunting horror tail (No tile)
Difficulty	1
Attacks
Base level	0
Base experience	8
Speed	0
Base AC	0
Base MR	0
Alignment	0 (neutral)
Frequency (by normal means)	0 (Not randomly generated)
Genocidable	No
Weight	0
Nutritional value	0
Size	tiny
Resistances	none
Resistances conveyed	none
The hunting horror tail: does not eat. (*) is not a valid polymorphable form. never leaves a corpse.

A hunting horror, w, is a type of monster that appears in dNetHack and notdNetHack. A hunting horror is a flying worm-like creature that has a multi-segmented tail, ~, similar to a long worm - unlike the long worm, it will never grow more than two tail segments, quickly regrows segments if one or both are lost, and the severed tail of a hunting horror will never become a new hunting horror. Hunting horrors move erratically similar to bat or bird monsters, with a ¹⁄₃ chance of the monster moving in a random direction during each of its turns.

A hunting horror has a strong bite attack.

Generation

Randomly-generated hunting horrors are generated in large groups, and are not randomly generated in Gehennom.

Strategy

The hunting horror is quite fast at 16 speed and very dangerous to most characters. A character fighting one can take advantage of its wandering behavior and attack the tail segments.

Encyclopedia entry

And in the air about him were great viperine creatures,
which had curiously distorted heads, and grotesquely great
clawed appendages, supporting themselves with ease by the
aid of black rubbery wings of singularly monstrous
dimensions.

The Lurker At the Threshold, HP Lovecraft & August Derleth

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