Walking crystal tome

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Version 0.31: This article is up to date for the latest stable release of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
walking crystal tome ;Walking crystal tome.png
HP 66-133
HD 20
XP 1816
Speed 10 (atk: 200%)
AC 15
EV 5
Will Immune
Attack1 40 (hit: plain)


Resistances rPois+++
rDrown
rMiasma
rN+++
rTorm
Vulnerabilities None
Habitat Land
Intelligence Brainless
Uses Uses nothing
Holiness Non-living
Size Small
Type walking tome, crystal tome
Flags
A spellbook that has gone too long without being read. It overflows with magic, forming thick armour from its binding, legs from its pages, and periodically erupting in flurries of free-floating, self-casting spells.

It is encrusted with long, sharp, deadly-looking crystals.

Useful Info

Walking crystal tomes conjure living Lehudib's Crystal Spears. While they make melee attacks at half speed, they cast living spells at the normal rate. Walking tomes are most often seen in the Depths and the wizlab, Tukima's Studio.

Spells

Spell set I
Slot1 Conjure Living Spells (1-2x 3d34) Wizard flag

Tips & Tricks

  • If you don't have any sort of AOE, crystal tomes are impeccably scary in an open area, dealing up to 204 damage per turn. While the chance of actually taking 204 damage is minuscule (each crystal spear can miss, be blocked, or be reduced by AC), the damage output can still be very, very high.
  • Living spells work similarly to the player Foxfire spell. It creates a living spell entity, which must have a direct path to a hostile target. If you are in melee range with a tome in a corridor, most of the living spells will be unable to hit you. But unlike the foxfire spell, living spells can spawn behind the player (radius-2 of the walking tome), so a corridor is not foolproof.
    • You can attack a living spell, which will destroy it before it gets the chance to cast itself. Most types of AOE attacks can destroy a few spells while damaging the tome in the process.
  • Silence works on walking tomes, preventing them from creating living spells.

History

  • Prior to 0.31, walking crystal tomes created 2-3 living spells per cast. This was a bug.
  • Prior to 0.30, walking tomes could use Conjure Living Spells when silenced.
  • Prior to 0.29, walking crystal tomes had 20 HD, so they dealt 3d40 damage per crystal spear.
  • Walking crystal tomes were added in 0.28.