Lugonu
"Spread carnage and corruption!"
Lugonu the Unformed revels in the chaos of the Abyss, her hellish distorted realm. Followers are sent out to cause bloodshed and disorder in the overworld, and must do so unflaggingly to earn Lugonu's favour. Should they prove worthy, she will grant them the power to bend space, banish their enemies to the Abyss, and directly corrupt the ordered world.
Lugonu is an evil god.
The first time you join this religion, you will start with enough piety to be able to invoke Depart the Abyss. Abyssal Knights start with this religion.
Appreciates
- Killing or having an ally kill a living, holy, undead, or demonic creature. (67% chance of +1 Piety; higher chance for creatures with high HD, lower as your your experience level rises). You cannot receive piety for killing anything in the Abyss.
- Banishing any kind of creature (67% chance of +1 Piety; higher chance for creatures with high HD, lower as your your experience level rises).
- Offering a fresh corpse by praying while standing over it. (40% chance of +1 Piety, better odds for creatures with high HD)
Deprecates
- Inactivity: You lose 1 piety every 320 turns or so
Given Abilities
Piety level -: "Abyss-Baptised"
- No abilities.
Piety level *: "Unweaver"
- Depart the Abyss - You can teleport out of the Abyss (back to the Dungeon). (Costs 1 MP, 150-300 Food, and 10-15 Piety)
Piety level **: "Distorting [Species Name]"
- Bend Space - You can blink randomly at will, with a chance of causing adjacent monsters to blink as well. All affected targets that fail a coinflip check take damage (Max: 1d6 HP). The chance of affecting adjacent monsters, and damage dealt all increase with Invocations. This blink cannot be controlled in any way, ignores stasis, and can't be blocked by the power of the Abyss. (Costs 1 MP, 50-100 Food, and Pain: 1d4)
| Invocations | Adjacent Monster Blink Chance |
|---|---|
| <2 | 0% |
| 3 | 10% |
| 5 | 25% |
| 10 | 47% |
| 15 | 59% |
| 27 | 74% |
Piety level ***: "Agent of Entropy"
- Banish - You can zap a beam of banishment, sending the target to the Abyss. The power of the beam scales with your invocations level. You receive XP proportional to the percentage of the monster's max HP you had already inflicted as damage on it. In trunk, this has been increased to 50 + (Damage/MaxHP) percent. Banished Uniques and more powerful monsters will appear while exploring the Abyss. Do not use this on the royal jelly unless you have some means of breaking into the stone vaults in its lair. (Costs 4 MP, 200-400 Food, and 3-4 Piety)
Piety level ****: "Schismatic"
- Corrupt - You can corrupt the non-Abyss floor you're on, randomly converting walls and floors to others tiles. Altars may become altars to Lugonu. Stairs and portals cannot be changed, and harder walls are more likely to resist. Unnaturally hard walls are immune to this effect. In addition, a pack of demonic creatures will be summoned, most of which will be neutral at first before turning hostile after enough time has past. The higher your Invocations, the more likely each monster will be neutral. You may only corrupt a level once. (Costs 7 MP, 5 HP, 500-1000 Food, and 10-14 Piety)
Piety level *****: "Envoy of Void"
- Gate yourself to the Abyss - You can instantly banish yourself into the Abyss, but at a high price. (Costs a random non-lethal amount of HP, all MP (minimum 9 MP to cast), 500-1000 Food, 35 Piety, and Pain)
In addition, Lugonu provides the following:
- Abyssal Rune Attraction - While in the Abyss, the chance of a placed item resulting in an Abyssal rune is normally 5% in Abyss:3, 10% in Abyss:4, and 23% in Abyss:5. For followers of Lugonu, it is 10% in Abyss:3, 23% in Abyss:4 and 50% in Abyss:5. (Passive)
- Corrupt Your Weapon - If you pray on an altar of Lugonu with piety at 160 or more and while wielding a non-artifact weapon which doesn't have the Distortion brand, Lugonu will corrupt your weapon. Corrupting a weapon removes curses, applies a scroll of enchant weapon III effect to its enchantment, and adds the Distortion brand. This is free, but can only be done once per game. Since the piety cost of travelling to the Abyss may easily take you below 160 Piety, the easiest way to use this ability is by corrupting altars in the main dungeon or entering the Abyss through a portal.
Piety level ******: "Corrupter of Planes"
- No new abilities.
Punishments
If you leave Lugonu, your penance counter will be increased by 50. Lugonu will not accept you again until your penance counter reaches zero.
While under penance (for leaving him/her), Lugonu will punish you about once every 2,000 turns.
A punishment from Lugonu has two independent components:
- (1) 50%: Random Translocation miscast effect
- (1) 17%: You teleport instantly
- (1) 8%: You randomly blink
- (1) 25%: Nothing
- (2) 1 + experience level/7 hostile tier-3 and 4 demons are summoned to fight you (100% if your experience level is <= 7, less likely as your experience level increases)
- (2) A hostile Balrug, Green Death or Blizzard demon is summoned to fight you
Strategy
Worshiping Lugonu offers characters some interesting escape options early on. Bend Space is one of the cheapest means of blinking in the game, and the ability to banish insurmountable obstacles to the Abyss is useful (though overusing it will burn through piety quickly and leave you underleveled).
That being said, Lugonu is not an easy god for new players to follow. Abyssal Knights do not begin with a very focused skill set, and many of their abilities have excellent uses in the very-late game (Corruption can make child's play of many dangerous vaults, and escaping to the Abyss can give you time to recover when a situation is clearly going to get you killed), but are impractical or suicidal for early characters. With low Invocations, many of the demons you spawn when you corrupt a floor will attempt to kill you, and the neutral ones will eventually turn nasty. Even her distortion brand gift is best handled with care.
Altars to Lugonu can only be found in the Abyss, unless the corrupted version of the Ecumenical Temple is generated. You can also create your own altars to Lugonu by using the Corrupt ability on a floor with an altar to another god, but this requires you to already be a follower. Because of this, being an Abyssal Knight is the only way to guarantee yourself access to Lugonu in the early game.
See Also
History
In early versions, Lugonu was known as Lucy, but the name was changed to make the god more androgynous.
Prior to 0.10, banishing enemies provided no experience, and Lugonu gave no piety for demon kills.
Prior to 0.9, followers of Lugonu had better blinking in the Abyss.
