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| − | {{Flavour|A hideous form, created or summoned by some arcane process.}} | + | {{Flavour|A hideous form, created or summoned by some arcane process. |
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| + | "No - it wasn't that way at all. It was everywhere - a gelatin - a slime yet it had shapes, a thousand shapes of horror beyond all memory. There were eyes - and a blemish. It was the pit - the maelstrom - the ultimate abomination. Carter, it was the unnameable!" | ||
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| + | -H.P. Lovecraft, _The Unnameable_. 1925.}} | ||
==Useful Info== | ==Useful Info== | ||
Revision as of 03:47, 20 January 2013
Version 0.11: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.
| small abomination x [[File:{{{tile_name}}}.png|32px]] | |
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| HP | 12 - 42 |
| HD | 6 |
| XP | 141 |
| Speed | Varies "Varies" is not a number.
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| AC | Varies "Varies" is not a number.
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| EV | Varies "Varies" is not a number.
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| Will | 40 |
| Attack1 | 23 (hit: plain)
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| Resistances | rPois+, rRot, rN+, rTorm |
| Vulnerabilities | Holy, Silver |
| Habitat | land |
| Intelligence | Plant |
| Uses | Uses nothing |
| Holiness | Demonic |
| Size | Large |
| Type | abomination small, abomination small |
| Flags | Evil |
| A hideous form, created or summoned by some arcane process.
"No - it wasn't that way at all. It was everywhere - a gelatin - a slime yet it had shapes, a thousand shapes of horror beyond all memory. There were eyes - and a blemish. It was the pit - the maelstrom - the ultimate abomination. Carter, it was the unnameable!" -H.P. Lovecraft, _The Unnameable_. 1925. |
Useful Info
Small abominations are mindless horrors with semi-random stats that stalk the Abyss. They are much less dangerous than large abominations, but can still be pests, especially when their speed is higher than 10.
You can receive a friendly one by reading a scroll of unholy creation or by casting the Twisted Resurrection spell.
Tips & Tricks
- Though these are much weaker than the big version, they are much more likely to have high speed. This makes running from them in the Abyss a challenge, and you generally don't want to stand and fight there.
- Being mindless, they can be lured into traps easily.
- Using corpses to create abominations instead of zombies offers some advantages. Although expensive, abominations can heal and use stairs. You can also make abominations out of corpses that can't be zombified, such as ugly things. They can also be upgraded to large abominations through further use of Twisted Resurrection.
Alternate Tiles
Being haphazard collections of random body parts, small abominations can take multiple forms:
