Crazy Yiuf

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Crazy Yiuf g
HP	12-26
HD	3
XP	40
Speed	10
AC	2
EV	9
Will	10
Attack1	9 (hit: plain)
Resistances	None
Vulnerabilities	Silver
Habitat	Land
Intelligence	Human
Uses	Starting equipment Open doors
Holiness	Natural
Size	Medium
Type	gnoll, gnoll
Flags	Speaks Warm-blooded Unique Male

A withered old gnoll with a long silver beard, wielding a quarterstaff and wearing a cloak. He looks like a figure from mythology! Wait, is his beard held on to his ears with hooks? “There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, ‘It is just as I feared! Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!’” -Edward Lear, _A Book of Nonsense [No. 1]_. 1846.

Useful Info

Crazy Yiuf the Enlightened is a deranged unique gnoll who shouts gibberish while murdering trespassers. He always generates wearing a cloak and wielding a chaos-branded quarterstaff, which has the potential to be extremely dangerous. He may occasionally generate with a powerful wand as well.

His vault is very distinct and recognizable: a stone chamber accessed through a characteristic uneven path, usually through trees and occasionally blocked off by fungi. His hut is guaranteed to contain at least one hammer; sometimes, many hammers are scattered throughout its entrance. This vault is always blocked by a transparent runed door.

Location

• The Dungeon:2-7

Tips & Tricks

• His chaos quarterstaff can be very dangerous - it may heal you, or it may electrocute you for enough damage to one-shot some low XL characters.
• Other than his quarterstaff, Crazy Yiuf is just a simple, 100% speed, melee monster with no resistances.
  • Spriggans or hasted players can just kite him to death.
  • Tukima's Dance can disarm the quarterstaff, turning him into a relatively harmless opponent. A wand of paralysis or wand of polymorph can also do the trick.
  • A reasonably strong character (160 HP or so) can survive a string of worst-case chaos effects and just kill him.
• Crazy Yiuf can wake up if you see him. So if you recognize his hut, you might want stay away until you're ready to fight him.
  • However, there can be artefact hammers inside or outside the hut. If you never plan on fighting Crazy Yiuf, it's worth checking out.
• Note that you can be teleported or shafted inside Crazy Yiuf's hut.

Trivia

If you are a follower of Xom or you've inflicted confusion on Yiuf, his dialogue will become... interesting.

History

• Prior to 0.31, the worst-case effects of the chaos brand were more dangerous. You could be banished or paralysed for multiple turns, which made chaos attacks dangerous even to high level characters.
• Prior to 0.29, Crazy Yiuf's hut had maces instead of hammers.
• Prior to 0.23, the door to Crazy Yiuf's hut was opaque.
• Prior to 0.17, Crazy Yiuf's hut had hammers instead of maces.
• Prior to 0.13, you could find hammers as weapons outside Crazy Yiuf's hut.