Spectre

spectre
Difficulty	12
Attacks	Weapon 1d10

spectre
Difficulty	12
Attacks	Weapon 1d10
Base level	10
Base experience	186
Speed	9
Base AC	-8
Base MR	50
Alignment	-5 (chaotic)
Frequency (by normal means)	1 (Very rare)
Genocidable	No
Weight	1450
Nutritional value	0
Size	Medium
Resistances	cold,disintegration,sleep,poison,petrification,level drain
Resistances conveyed	None
A spectre: can fly. can phase through walls. does not breathe. has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso. does not have a solid form. does not eat. (*) is not a valid polymorphable form. is normally generated hostile. can follow you to other levels. has infravision. never leaves a corpse.

The spectre,  , is an advanced form of ghost that appears in SpliceHack and EvilHack.

Generation

Spectres are often randomly generated in the lower levels of the dungeon, particularly in Gehennom. In addition, when a bones file is created in which the player is at least XL 15 (or XL 21 in EvilHack) and would leave behind a ghost, they instead leave behind a spectre.

Strategy

Spectres that appear in bones are especially dangerous, since they are likely to equip themselves with the weapons and armor that they died with.

Encyclopedia Entry

And now the souls of the dead who had gone below came swarming
up from Erebus -- fresh brides, unmarried youths, old men
with life's long suffering behind them, tender young girls
still nursing this first anguish in their hearts, and a great
throng of warriors killed in battle, their spear-wounds gaping
yet and all their armour stained with blood. From this
multitude of souls, as they fluttered to and fro by the
trench, there came a moaning that was horrible to hear.
Panic drained the blood from my cheeks.
[ The Odyssey, (chapter Lambda), by Homer ]

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