Box of beasts

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Type Miscellaneous item
Name box of beasts
Icon Box of beasts.png
A magical box containing many wild beasts. One may allow them to escape by opening the box's lid.

A box of beasts is a miscellaneous magic item which can summon a (generally) friendly companion.

Operation

The player has a 60+Evocations% chance of successfully evoking the box of beasts. This will create one monster from the following list (equal odds): butterfly, bat, hound, jackal, rat, ice beast, snake, yak, water moccasin, crocodile, hell hound. (Hell hound is not an option if you worship a good god.) The chance of the beast being friendly is (4+Evocations)/(5+Evocations).

Evocations Success Rate Friendly
0 60% 80%
5 65% 90%
10 70% 93%
15 75% 95%
20 80% 96%
27 87% 97%

As elsewhere, killing a hostile summons will grant no experience points. If your attempt to use the box fails, there is a 16.7% chance that the box's magic will be exhausted, turning it into a useless empty ebony casket.

A magical box after its power is spent

Xom is mildly amused (maximum excitement 14) by the successful use of a box of beasts.

History

Prior to 0.9, it appeared as a small ebony casket while unidentified.