Small abomination

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small abomination x
HP	12 - 42
HD	6
XP	141
Speed	7-15
AC	Varies
EV	Varies
MR	40
Attack1	23 (hit: plain)
Attack2
Attack3
Attack4
Max Chunks	0
Type of Meat	None
Resistances	rPois+, rRot, rN+, rTorm
Vulnerabilities	Holy, Silver
Habitat	land
Intelligence	Plant
Uses	Uses nothing
Holiness	Demonic, Undead
Size	Large
Type	abomination small, abomination small
Flags	Evil

A hideous mass of body parts, part animated dead flesh, part demon. "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, demonic, undead 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 friendly abominations through use of 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 by fusing with further crawling corpses or macabre masses 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:

History

Prior to 0.14 small abominations could heal naturally. Prior to 0.12, you could read a scroll of unholy creation to get a permanent friendly abomination.