User:Umbire the Phantom/Vorpal jabberwock

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J vorpal jabberwock Vorpal jabberwock.png
Difficulty ?
Attacks

Bite 3d10, Bite 3d10, Claw 3d10, Claw 3d10

Base level 20
Base experience ?
Speed 12
Base AC -2
Base MR 50
Alignment 0 (neutral)
Frequency (by normal means) 1 (Very rare)
Genocidable Yes
Weight 1300
Nutritional value 600
Size Large
Resistances None
Resistances conveyed None

A vorpal jabberwock:

Reference monst.c, line 1471[1]

The vorpal jabberwock, J, is an unused monster in the code of NetHack. It was intended to be a more powerful version of the regular jabberwock, and like the regular jabberwock, it is guaranteed to be beheaded by Vorpal Blade.

Variant descriptions

Many variants of the game - SLASH'EM, GruntHack, UnNetHack, SpliceHack, and EvilHack - implement the vorpal jabberwock and give it additional buffs, often including a decapitating attack of its own.

J vorpal jabberwock Vorpal jabberwock.png
Difficulty 27
Attacks

Bite 3d10, Bite 3d10, Claw 3d10, Claw 3d10

Base level 20
Base experience 809
Speed 12
Base AC -2
Base MR 50
Alignment 0 (neutral)
Frequency (by normal means) 1 (Very rare)
Genocidable Yes
Weight 1300
Nutritional value 600
Size Large
Resistances None
Resistances conveyed None

A vorpal jabberwock:

Reference SLASH'EM_0.0.7E7F2/monst.c#line2683
The SLASH'EM version of the vorpal jabberwock possesses no beheading attacks. It does not grow up from a regular jabberwock and does not generate in Gehennom; it is no more or less vulnerable to being decapitated by Vorpal Blade than any other non-jabberwock monster.
J vorpal jabberwock Vorpal jabberwock.png
Difficulty 27
Attacks

Bite 3d10, Bite 3d10, Claw beheading 3d10, Claw beheading 3d10

Base level 20
Base experience 809
Speed 12
Base AC -2
Base MR 50
Alignment 0 (neutral)
Frequency (by normal means) 1 (Very rare)
Genocidable Yes
Weight 1300
Nutritional value 600
Size Large
Resistances None
Resistances conveyed None

A vorpal jabberwock:

In GruntHack, the vorpal jabberwock possesses multiple beheading attacks, each with a 5% chance of instantly beheading you on every successful hit; as with Vorpal Blade, this is guaranteed to hit if you are polymorphed into a jabberwock or vorpal jabberwock yourself, and will miss 5% of the time instead if you are currently headless or amorphous. Jabberwocks can grow up into vorpal jabberwocks.

In UnNetHack, the vorpal jabberwock behaves very similarly to GruntHack's version, except that the chance of beheading is only 2.5% per hit, and canceling the vorpal jabberwock prevents it from beheading anything.

J vorpal jabberwock Vorpal jabberwock.png
Difficulty 26
Attacks

Bite 3d10, Bite 3d10, Claw 3d10 beheading, Claw 3d10 beheading

Base level 20
Base experience 729
Speed 12
Base AC -2
Base MR 50
Alignment 0 (neutral)
Frequency (by normal means) 1 (Very rare)
Genocidable No
Weight 1300
Nutritional value 600
Size Large
Resistances None
Resistances conveyed None

A vorpal jabberwock:

Reference EvilHack - monst.c, line 2059

In EvilHack, the vorpal jabberwock behaves very similarly to GruntHack's version. Additionally, it is one of the alternate forms the Wizard of Yendor may take on, monsters may use a wish for a figurine of a vorpal jabberwock, and they cannot be genocided.

The encyclopedia entry is the same as the vanilla entry for the jabberwock.

SpliceHack's vorpal jabberwock acts mostly like SLASH'EM's version, except that Vorpal Blade will always decapitate it.

  1. ↑ src/monst.c in NetHack 3.6.6, line 1471
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