Nickelpede

s nickelpede
Difficulty	10
Attacks	Bite 3d4 poison

s nickelpede
Difficulty	10
Attacks	Bite 3d4 poison
Base level	8
Base experience	121
Speed	4
Base AC	3
Base MR	0
Alignment	0 (neutral)
Frequency (by normal means)	1 (Very rare)
Genocidable	Yes
Weight	150
Nutritional value	50
Size	Medium
Resistances	poison
Resistances conveyed	poison (53%)
A nickelpede: can hide under items. has no hands. is an animal. can lay eggs. is carnivorous. is normally generated hostile. does not appear in Gehennom.
Reference	SLASH'EM_0.0.7E7F2/monst.c#line1538

A nickelpede, s, is a type of monster that appears in SLASH'EM, SlashTHEM and Hack'EM. It is a stronger relative of the centipede,

A nickelpede has a poisonous bite attack, and possesses poison resistance.

Eating a nickelpede corpse or tin has a ⁸⁄₁₅ chance of conveying poison resistance.

Generation

Randomly generated nickelpedes are always created hostile, and are not generated in Gehennom.

Nickelpedes appear among the random s that are part of the first quest monster class for Tourists and make up ²⁴⁄₁₇₅ of the monsters randomly generated on the Tourist quest. They also appear among the random s that are part of the second quest monster class for Rangers and make up ⁶⁄₁₇₅ of the monsters randomly generated on the Ranger quest.

Nickelpedes generated at level creation are given a random item to hide under.

Strategy

While much more capable of inflicting damage compared to the standard centipede, nickelpedes are just as slow at 4 speed, and are not a significant threat to a character that can keep them away with projectiles and other ranged attacks. Nickelpedes are also similarly vulnerable to magic due to lacking any MR score, and their corpses can be a decent source of poison resistance for characters that lack the property.

Origin

The nickelpede is based on a pun of the words "cent" and "centipede", and is derived from the Xanth novels. In Currant Events, nickelpedes are described as "five times as bad as centipedes, gouging out nickel-sized disks of flesh".