Magical eye

The magical eye, e, is a monster that appears in SporkHack and EvilHack. In both games, it has several gaze attacks, and resists damage from the main three elements (i.e., fire, cold and shock damage).

Monster stats by variant

• SporkHack
• EvilHack

e magical eye (No tile)
Difficulty	?
Attacks	Gaze slowing, Gaze 2d6 sleep, Gaze stun, Gaze 4d6 fire, Gaze 4d6 cold, bite 2d4

e magical eye (No tile)
Difficulty	?
Attacks	Gaze slowing, Gaze 2d6 sleep, Gaze stun, Gaze 4d6 fire, Gaze 4d6 cold, bite 2d4
Base level	9
Speed	6
Base AC	4
Base MR	90
Alignment	-10 (chaotic)
Frequency (by normal means)	2 (Quite rare)
Genocidable	Yes
Weight	10
Nutritional value	10
Size	Small
Resistances	cold, fire, shock
Resistances conveyed	None
In SporkHack, a magical eye: can fly. does not breathe. has no limbs. has no head. does not eat. (*) is not a valid polymorphable form. is a lord to its kind. is neither male nor female. is normally generated hostile. is nasty. has infravision. can be seen through infravision.
Reference	monst.c#line359

e magical eye (No tile)
Difficulty	12
Attacks	Gaze slowing, Gaze 2d6 sleep, Gaze stun, Gaze 4d6 fire, Gaze 2d4 cold, Gaze steal luck

e magical eye (No tile)
Difficulty	12
Attacks	Gaze slowing, Gaze 2d6 sleep, Gaze stun, Gaze 4d6 fire, Gaze 2d4 cold, Gaze steal luck
Base level	8
Base experience	226
Speed	6
Base AC	0
Base MR	90
Alignment	-10 (chaotic)
Frequency (by normal means)	2 (Quite rare)
Genocidable	No
Weight	10
Nutritional value	10
Size	Small
Resistances	cold, fire, shock
Resistances conveyed	None
In EvilHack, a magical eye: can fly. does not breathe. has no limbs. has no head. does not eat. (*) is not a valid polymorphable form. is neither male nor female. is normally generated hostile. is nasty. has infravision. can be seen through infravision.
Reference	EvilHack - monst.c, line 442

In EvilHack, the magical eye is a combination of its counterpart from SporkHack above and the evil eye from UnNetHack. It is skittish, meaning it will evade and kite its target where possible. Magical eyes also cannot be tamed or genocided.

Eating a magical eye corpse will randomly increase or decrease the player's Luck by 2 points.

Strategy

As with the SporkHack magical eye, a blindfold or towel is effective to prevent its gaze attacks.

Encyclopedia entry

A serious nuisance, especially when encountered with other
monsters. Harasses the player with six different gaze attacks
at its disposal, and it's skittish, meaning it will evade and
kite its target, making the magical eye somewhat difficult to
kill. Eating its corpse will randomly increase or decrease the
player's luck by two points.