Waterspout gargoyle
| g waterspout gargoyle (No tile) | |
|---|---|
| Difficulty | 12 |
| Attacks |
Claw 2d6 physical, claw 2d6 physical, bite 2d4 physical, spit 0d0 rust |
| Base level | 8 |
| Base experience | 95 |
| Speed | 10 |
| Base AC | -4 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | -10 (chaotic) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 1 (Very rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 1100 |
| Nutritional value | 250 |
| Size | Medium |
| Resistances | stoning resistance |
| Resistances conveyed | stoning resistance |
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A waterspout gargoyle:
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| Reference | NetHack 3.6.7 - src/monst.c, line 401 |
A waterspout gargoyle, g, is a type of monster that appears in the biodiversity patch and SlashTHEM. The waterspout gargoyle is a gremlin-like monster that is a relative of the gargoyle and has the highest difficulty of its monster class. Waterspout gargoyles are strong and thick-skinned like standard gargoyles, and are amphibious as well as unbreathing.
A waterspout gargoyle has two claw attacks and a bite attack, along with a spitting attack that shoots water (implemented as a form of "venom") at targets and can rust their worn armor—gremlins hit by this attack will divide, while iron golems and other monsters that are vulnerable to water will take 1d6 damage; a hero polymorphed into an iron golem will instead be forced back to their base form, or else dies instantly if they have unchanging. Waterspout gargoyles possess stoning resistance.
Generation
Randomly created waterspout gargoyles are always hostile. Statues of waterspout gargoyles generated during level creation will have a fountain placed on their square, including statue traps.
Origin
A gargoyle is a semi-decorative figure carved from stone and primarily associated with medieval and Gothic architecture, though the concept of animal-shaped water diversions existed centuries prior. The term originates from the French "gargouille", which in English roughly means "throat" or "gullet", and its root is the Latin "gar" ("to swallow"), associated with the gurgling sound of water. Gargoyles are used to divide the flow of rainwater and direct it away from the sides of a building—a trough is cut in the back of a gargoyle, and the rainwater typically exits through the open mouth, preventing it from eroding the mortar between masonry walls; such gargoyles are typically given elongated forms to achieve the desired distance from the wall, and may optionally be given wings as well.
Mythical gargoyles are directly based on the carved stone figures, and have been conceived as animated statues or living statue-like being similar to golems—some works depict them as beings of demonic affinity, e.g. the 1972 television film Gargoyles that provides their encyclopedia entry, or else vessels for demonic possession, as in the popular 1984 movie Ghostbusters. The concept of the gargoyle as a guardian partly derives from the French legend of a dragon-like monster called Gargouille (or Goji), which was subdued or captured by Romanus of Rouen with the aid of either a crucifix or a condemned man that acted as the sole volunteer. The monster was led back to Rouen and burned, with its head and neck preserved due to being tempered by the fire breath, and the head was mounted on the walls of the newly built church as a ward for protection and scaring off evil spirits.
Messages
- <The waterspout gargoyle> breaks free from the fountain.
- You found a waterspout gargoyle that was part of a statue trap.
Encyclopedia entry
- See the encyclopedia entry for gargoyle.
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