Fortress talisman

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A miniature battlement, carved from a piece of shell. Transforms the user into a heavily armoured crab, fusing whatever body armour they are wearing into the shell in the process. In this form, they are slow-moving, but well-defended and even capable of wielding a weapon in their large main claw. They can also breathe clouds of rust at the cost of their own HP, which corrode and weaken enemies.

A fortress talisman is a talisman that changes you into a heavily-armoured crab.

Useful Info

When eVoked, a fortress talisman turns you into Fortress Crab Form, which lasts until you end the form. Entering or exiting a form takes 5 turns.

Fortress Crab Form has the following effects:

Offensive traits

• Unarmed Combat: 8-13 base damage, depending on your Shapeshifting skill.
• You can breath clouds of rust, which corrode and weaken enemies. The cost is 12 HP + 12% max HP. The size of the cloud is 9-25 tiles, depending on your Shapeshifing skill. Note that there is no breath timer for this ability.

Defensive traits

• Body armour base AC increased by 70%-135%, depending on your Shapeshifting skill.
• Corrosion resistance (rCorr)
• Poison vulnerability
• Innate AC: 3 AC

Restrictions

• Melded Gear: Offhand, helmet, gloves, boots, barding, cloak
• Suppressed mutations: Anatomy, bones
• You are slow (-30% move speed).
• You can't use a shield, but you can equip any 2 handed weapon your base form can use.

Fortress Crab Form has a minimum Shapeshifting skill of 12, and the maximum skill is 20.

Strategy

Fortress Crab Form is relatively niche - the loss of aux slots not only reduces your AC (up to -12 AC with plain +2 items), but egos and artefact properties as well. In addition, it prevents shields, has slow movement, and requires significant investment.

Note that there is no synergy with Awaken Armour; that spell uses the base AC from the armour type, without accounting for the form bonus.

Fortress Crab Form	Gargoyle

History

• Fortress talismans were added in 0.33.