Skeletal pirate (Hack'EM)

Z skeletal pirate
Difficulty	7
Attacks	Weapon 1d6 physical

Z skeletal pirate
Difficulty	7
Attacks	Weapon 1d6 physical
Base level	5
Base experience	?
Speed	8
Base AC	4
Base MR	0
Alignment	0 (neutral)
Frequency (by normal means)	1 (Very rare)
Genocidable	No
Weight	300
Nutritional value	5
Size	medium
Resistances	cold resistance, sleep resistance, poison resistance, stoning resistance
Resistances conveyed	none
A skeletal pirate: does not need to breathe. is mindless. has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso. does not eat. (*) is undead. is a non-zombie type of undead. is normally generated hostile. wanders randomly. is nasty. is strong. can pick up weapons and food. has infravision. never leaves a corpse.

This article is about the monster in Hack'EM. For the monster in other variants, see skeletal pirate.

A skeletal pirate, Z, is a type of monster that appears in Hack'EM. The skeletal pirate is a type of strong, humanoid and zombie-class undead being that is similar to the skeleton: it is capable of swimming, has infravision, displays a tendency to wander while moving, and will collect items that it comes across. Like other pirate monsters, skeletal pirates have a mutual grudge with mercenaries, and they will attack a Pirate hero that has The Treasury of Proteus in their open inventory.

Skeletal pirates have a single weapon attack, and possess cold resistance, sleep resistance, poison resistance, stoning resistance, death resistance, drain resistance, and immunity to sickness. They are capable of flanking the opponent.

Generation

Randomly-generated skeletal pirates are always created hostile. They are not a valid genocide target.

For a Pirate hero in any branch of the dungeon other than Gehennom or the Elemental Planes, ¹⁄₅ of randomly-generated monsters will be skeletal pirates.

The skeletal pirate is the first quest monster for Pirates, and makes up ⁹⁶⁄₁₇₅ of monsters that are randomly generated on the Pirate quest. Several of them are generated on many levels of each quest branch during level creation: 12 skeletal pirates are placed randomly on the ship of the home level, 4 are placed randomly on each upper filler level, 19 are placed randomly on the locate level, 11 are placed randomly on each lower filler level, and 9 more are placed on the goal level.

Skeletal pirates can appear among the zombie-class monsters that are part of the first quest monster class for Priests and make up ²⁴⁄₁₇₅ of the monsters randomly generated on the Priest quest.

Skeletal pirates are generated with a cursed primary weapon that has a roughly ¹⁄₂ chance of being a scimitar or a knife, and will be eroded if they are made of rust- or burn-prone object materials—they are also given a piece of cursed armor that has a roughly ¹⁄₂ chance of being a pair of high boots or a jacket, and will be eroded if they are made of a corrosion- or rot-prone material. Like other pirate monsters, they have a ¹⁄₂ chance of generating with a fire bomb.

Skeletal pirates do not leave a corpse upon death.

A Pirate hero that is killed by any non-specific means (e.g. not by a wraith or a cockatrice) will arise as a skeletal pirate instead of a ghost if a bones file is created.

History

The skeletal pirate first appears in ChrisANG's Pirate role patch.

Encyclopedia entry

You best start believing in ghost stories, Miss Turner... you're in one!

[ Hector Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Curse of the Black Pearl ]

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