Mummy (monster)

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This page is about the various mummy monsters. For the player race, see mummy. For other monstrous mummies, see list of mummies.

mummy M
HP	15-24
HD	3
XP	18
Speed	6
AC	3
EV	6
Will	20
Attack1	20 (hit: plain)
Resistances	rC+, rPois+++, rN+++, rTorm, rRot+++, rDrown
Vulnerabilities	Fire, Holy, Holy wrath
Habitat	Land
Intelligence	Normal
Uses	Open doors
Holiness	Undead
Size	Medium
Type	mummy, mummy
Flags	Evil

An undead figure covered in bandages and embalming fluids, compelled to walk by an ancient curse. It radiates a malign aura to those who intrude on its domain. I see Egypt and the Egyptians — I see the pyramids and obelisks; I look on chisel’d histories, songs, philosophies, cut in slabs of sand-stone, or on granite-blocks; I see at Memphis mummy-pits, containing mummies, embalm’d, swathed in linen cloth, lying there many centuries; I look on the fall’n Theban, the large-ball’d eyes, the side-drooping neck, the hands folded across the breast. -Walt Whitman, Salut au Mond

Useful Info

Mummies are the preserved corpses of the dead, raised by Necromancy for various reasons. They are unique in that they give death curses to whatever being kills them. Although more powerful mummies have devastating death curses, common mummies merely curse a single piece of equipment in your inventory. Apart from that, they have a decent attack which low-level characters should watch out for, but they move slowly and have meager durability. They can be found in the Ossuary, the Tomb, and certain undead-themed vaults.

Tips & Tricks

• Mummies are vulnerable to fire and holy wrath weapons, but you may wish to avoid killing them yourself to avoid the curse. Use a wand of enslavement or summoned/raised forces to kill them for you. You'll get less XP, but you'll avoid the death curse.
• Don't waste a scroll of remove curse removing only one cursed item. If there are multiple mummies around, kill them all and then clean yourself of all curses with a single scroll. If any unequipped items in your inventory were cursed, wear them first. You can even run back to your stash and experiment with some unidentified loot; if any of it's cursed, you can get it cleansed along with whatever the mummy zapped.
• Worshippers of Ashenzari are immune to common mummy death curses, so they can kill them with impunity. This has no effect on the death curses of more powerful mummies.
• Mummies are slow enough that you can walk them upstairs and outrun them, leaving them on a cleared level. Be aware that you may encounter them again if you head back up to retrieve items from your stash (though you can just run away from them again).