Hallucinatory monster

In NetHack, hallucination can cause you to perceive monsters as other beings, including those that otherwise do not exist in the game. These hallucinatory monsters are based on creatures from other roguelikes, fantasy worlds, folklores and popular culture.

Some of the creatures used as hallucinatory monsters may appear as real monsters in SLASH'EM and other variants of NetHack.

List of hallucinatory monsters

Games

Quendor (Zork, etc.)

• grue
• Christmas-tree monster
• luck sucker
• paskald
• brogmoid
• dornbeast

Moria

• Ancient Multi-Hued Dragon
• Evil Iggy

Rogue

• rattlesnake
• ice monster
• phantom
• quagga
• aquator
• griffin
• emu
• kestrel
• xeroc
• venus flytrap

Dungeons & Dragons

• basilisk
• beholder
• efreeti
• marid
• nightmare
• rot grub

NetHack

• apostrophe golem
• voluptuous ampersand

Typos of NetHack monsters

acid blog acute blob aria elemental aliasing priest aligned parasite aligned parquet aligned proctor baby balky dragon baby blues dragon baby caricature baby crochet baby grainy dragon baby bong worm baby long word baby parable worm barfed devil beer wight boor wight brawny mold rave spider clue golem bust vortex Semigorgon errata elemental elastic eel electrocardiogram eel

fir elemental tire elemental flamingo sphere fallacy golem flush golem gloating eye frizzed centaur forest centerfold frosted giant fierceness sphere geriatric snake gnat ant giant bath grant beetle grind bug giant mango glossy golem gnome laureate gnome dummy gooier ooze green slide guardian nacho hell hound pun high purist hairnet devil ice trowel

killer beet feather golem lounge worm martyr orc mortar orc mountain lymph pager golem pie fiend prophylactic worm mock role sock mole rogue piercer seesawing sphere simile mimic moldier ant stain vortex scone giant uberhulk umbrella hulk vampire mace verbal jabberwock water lemon water melon winged grizzly yellow wight

Angband

• yeek
• quylthulg
• Greater Hell Beast

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

• Sigmund
• lernaean hydra
• Ijyb
• Gloorx Vloq
• Blork the orc

Other games

• battlemech
• killer bunny
• creeping coins
• cacodemon
• scrag
• Lord British
• kitten prospecting robot
• weighted Companion Cube
• tridude
• enderman
• zergling
• meeple

Literature

Greek mythology

• hydra
• siren
• amazon
• harpy

J. R. R. Tolkien

• Ent
• Morgoth

Lewis Carroll

• white rabbit
• snark

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

• microscopic space fleet
• Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal

Xanth

• tangle tree
• nickelpede
• wiggle

Comics

• aardvark
• teenage mutant ninja turtle
• samurai rabbit

Other literature

• pushmi-pullyu
• questing beast
• Luggage
• vermicious knid
• womble

Movies

• Godzilla
• King Kong
• killer tomato
• rodent of unusual size
• Ewok
• Terminator
• Audrey II
• Predator
• killer bunny
• were-rabbit

Television

Anime

• Totoro
• ohmu
• youma
• nyaasu
• Invid
• boomer

Star Trek

• tribble
• Klingon
• Borg

Other television

• smurf
• Dalek
• Barney the dinosaur
• Vorlon
• Crow T. Robot
• manbearpig
• fraggle

Music

• witch doctor
• one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater
• particle man

Real creatures

• maggot
• pterodactyl
• tyrannosaurus rex
• rhinovirus
• praying mantis
• beluga whale
• chicken
• coelacanth
• star-nosed mole
• lungfish
• slow loris
• sea cucumber
• tapeworm
• liger
• velociraptor
• corpulent porpoise
• quokka
• potoo

Humans

• attorney
• mother-in-law
• clown
• mime
• peddler
• haggler

Fictitious beasts

• wolpertinger
• elwetritsch
• skvader
• Nessie
• tatzelwurm
• dahu
• dropbear
• wild haggis
• jackalope
• flying pig
• hippocampus
• hippogriff
• kelpie
• catoblepas
• phoenix
• amphisbaena

Computing

• buffer overflow
• dangling pointer
• walking disk drive
• floating point
• regex engine
• netsplit
• wiki
• peer
• COBOL

Computer bugs

• bohrbug
• mandelbug
• schroedinbug
• heisenbug

Typography

• guillemet
• solidus
• obelus
• dingbat
• bold face
• boustrophedon
• ligature
• rebus

Internet

• gazebo
• Bob the angry flower
• Strong Bad
• Magical Trevor
• one-winged dewinged stab-bat
• Invisible Pink Unicorn
• Flying Spaghetti Monster
• /b/tard
• Vendor of Yizard

Memes

• bonsai-kitten
• tie-thulu
• Domo-kun
• looooooooooooong cat
• nyan cat
• ceiling cat
• basement cat
• monorail cat

Miscellaneous

Smokey the bear jumbo shrimp giant pigmy gnu killer penguin giant cockroach giant slug nightmare bookworm master lichen shadow hologram jester sleazoid robot lion-dog

rat-ant Y2K bug angry mariachi arch-pedant bluebird of happiness cardboard golem duct tape golem diagonally moving grid bug evil overlord newsgroup troll ninja pirate zombie robot octarine dragon gonzo journalist lag monster loan shark possessed waffle iron

poultrygeist stuffed raccoon puppet viking wee green blobbie wereplatypus hag of bolding blancmange raging nerd spelling bee land octopus frog prince pigasus conventioneer large microbat small megabat tofurkey

Dudley bouncing eye floating nose wandering eye little green man ghoti earthquake beast orcus cosmicus unicorn pegasus kitten wight supremacist gray goo magnetic monopole first category perpetual motion device existential angst figment of your imagination flash of insight

Real-world objects

• chess pawn
• chocolate pudding
• ooblecks
• terracotta warrior
• hearse
• roomba
• miniature blimp
• dust speck

UnNetHack

UnNetHack adds more possible names for hallucinatory mosnters to have.

Internet Memes

• Boxxy
• lonelygirl15
• Zalgo
• common comma

Monty Python Killer Rabbit

• Gerbenok

Erkan & Stefan

• doenertier

Zamonien

• Bluebear
• Professor Abdullah Nightingale
• Qwerty Uiop
• troglotrool

European Cryptids

• elwedritsche

Monkey Island

• three-headed monkey

Portal

• defective turret
• courtesan angel
• factal bee
• Weasel King
• GLaDOS
• dangerous mute lunatic

Silly golems

• stoned golem
• wut golem
• nice golem
• flash golem
• trash golem

Ask ASCII Ponies

• dwerga nethackus
• dwerga castrum

http://www.youtube.com/user/Irrenhaus3

• Irrenhaus the Third

Homestuck

• semipotent demidog
• shale imp

Talking points

• patriarchy
• bourgeiose

Problem Sleuth

• mainstream media
• Demonhead Mobster Kingpin

Borderlands

• skag
• thresher
• LoaderBot
• varkid

War of Omens

• Yarakeen
• Veil Warden

Homestar Runner

• Trogdor the Burninator

Kingdom of Loathing

• Guy made of Bees
• Toot Oriole

The Adventure Zone

• Magnus Burnsides the Fighter
• Taako the Wizard
• Merle Highchurch the Cleric

rubber ducks are a programmer’s best friend

• rubber duck

Bogus UnNetHack Monsters

• weeping angle
• gelatinous sphere
• gelatinous pyramid
• gelatinous kelin bottle
• gelatinous mandelbrot set
• robot unicorn

Welcome to Night Vale

• John Peters, you know, the farmer

Fallen London and Sunless Sea

• Lorn Fluke
• sorrow spider
• spider council
• chair of the department of antiquarian esquivalience
• the starveling cat
• the Tree of Ages

SLASHEM Extended

• amphitheatre
• banana peel golem
• dissolved undead potato
• dragonbreath nymph
• fart elemental
• floating nose
• goldfish
• kamikaze tribble
• speedotrice
• techno ant
• drum stint reluctance
• tackle deice

Caves of Qud

• Argyve the Tinkerer
• Barathrum the Old
• Oozing bloody gooey acidic lush salty tarry heptasludge
• Saad Amus, the Sky-Bear

External Links

hallucinatory monster names

References

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