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{{flavour|Banished to the chaotic realm of the Abyss, Lugonu the Unformed seeks followers to spread bloodshed and corruption in the overworld. Those who gain Lugonu's favour will be granted some of the power of the Abyss itself, allowing them to call forth eldritch horrors, and even to travel between the overworld and the Abyss at will.
 
{{flavour|Banished to the chaotic realm of the Abyss, Lugonu the Unformed seeks followers to spread bloodshed and corruption in the overworld. Those who gain Lugonu's favour will be granted some of the power of the Abyss itself, allowing them to call forth eldritch horrors, and even to travel between the overworld and the Abyss at will.
  
Followers of Lugonu gain powers to depart the Abyss at will, to bend space around themselves, and to banish monsters to the Abyss. Later they will be able to corrupt the ordered world, opening a gate for creatures of the Abyss to pass through, and to gate themselves directly into this realm of chaos. Lugonu will eventually offer to corrupt a follower's weapon, imbuing it with the distorting energies of the Abyss, and will protect the follower from the normally harmful effects of unwielding such a weapon. Lugonu expects followers to spread unceasing chaos in the overworld, and as such does not grant piety to worshippers while they remain in the Abyss itself.
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Followers of Lugonu gain powers to depart the Abyss at will, to banish monsters there, and to flee back inside when needed. Lugonu will also banish nearby foes if any other god attempts to interfere with their followers. Later, followers will be able to corrupt the ordered world, opening a gate for creatures of the Abyss to pass through, and to gate themselves directly into this realm of chaos. Lugonu will protect followers who unwield weapons imbued with the distorting energies of the Abyss, and eventually will offer to corrupt a follower's weapon in that way. Lugonu expects followers to spread unceasing chaos in the overworld, and as such does not grant piety to worshippers while they remain in the Abyss itself.
  
Lugonu likes it when you kill living beings, you destroy the undead, you kill
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Lugonu likes it when you kill living beings, you destroy the undead, you kill demons, you kill holy beings, you banish creatures to the Abyss and you destroy nonliving beings.}}
demons, you kill holy beings, you banish creatures to the Abyss and you destroy
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nonliving beings.}}
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==Racial Restrictions==
[[Abyssal Knight]]s begin play worshiping Lugonu.
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[[Demigod]]s can't worship Lugonu (or any other god).
  
 
==Appreciates==
 
==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.
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*Killing or having an ally kill a living, holy, undead, demonic, or non-living creature.
*Banishing any kind of creature (67% chance of +1 [[Piety]]; higher chance for creatures with high [[HD]], lower as your your experience level rises).
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*Banishing any kind of creature.
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Lugonu does not grant piety while you are in [[the Abyss]].
  
 
==Deprecates==
 
==Deprecates==
*Inactivity: You lose 1 piety every 320 turns or so
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*Inactivity: You lose 1 piety per 340 turns, on average (1/17 chance every 20 turns).
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*Abandonment. Unlike most gods, you may not rejoin Lugonu during penance.
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==Altar==
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Altars to Lugonu are mainly found in [[the Abyss]]. Very rarely, a corrupted version of the [[Ecumenical Temple]] may be generated, or part of the dungeon may be corrupted.
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Joining Lugonu for the first time in the Abyss provides a +40 piety bonus, resulting in 55 piety.<ref>{{source ref|0.30.0|religion.cc|3795}}</ref> Subsequent joins in the Abyss will give +20 piety (to 35 piety). This allows the player to use the first power, Depart the Abyss, immediately. (There's no bonus for worshippers outside the Abyss.)
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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.
  
 
==Given Abilities==
 
==Given Abilities==
 
'''[[Piety|Piety level -]]''': "Abyss-Baptised"
 
'''[[Piety|Piety level -]]''': "Abyss-Baptised"
*You may unwield [[distortion]] [[brand]]ed weapons without suffering any of the normal ill effects. (Passive)
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*You may unwield [[distortion]] [[brand]]ed weapons without suffering any ill effects. (Passive)
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Lugonu will also protect you from other gods' [[divine retribution|wrath]]. When a wrath effect is triggered, Lugonu has an 80% chance to [[banish]] any [[durably summoned]] monsters, and a 30% chance to banish any other monster in your [[line of sight]]. This can't trigger for [[Ashenzari]] or [[Hepliaklqana]] wrath, as these gods have entirely passive effects, but all other gods are eligible.
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'''[[Piety|Piety level *]]''': "Unweaver"
 
'''[[Piety|Piety level *]]''': "Unweaver"
*'''Depart the Abyss''' - You can immediately leave the Abyss, returning to the point you initially entered the Abyss from. (Costs 1 MP, 150-300 Food, and 10-15 Piety)
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*'''Depart the Abyss''' - You can immediately leave the Abyss, returning to the point you initially entered the Abyss from. (1 MP and 10-15 Piety)
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'''[[Piety|Piety level **]]''': "Distorting [Species Name]"
 
'''[[Piety|Piety level **]]''': "Distorting [Species Name]"
*'''Bend Space''' - You can perform uncontrolled blinks 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, as well as the damage dealt, increases 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 1d4 HP)
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*'''Banish''' - Zap a beam of [[banishment]]. Like the monster spell, it checks [[willpower]]. If you succeed the willpower check, the monster will be sent to the [[Abyss]] (or deeper into the Abyss if inside it), and you'll get full XP as if you killed them. If you fail, the monster will be inflicted with [[malmutate]]. Higher Invocations increases the chance to banish. (4 MP and 3-4 Piety)
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** Banished [[uniques]] (and some powerful, non-unique monsters) are not technically dead, and can 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.
  
{| class="prettytable" style="border:none; margin:0; padding:0;"
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'''[[Piety|Piety level ***]]''': "Agent of Entropy"
! Invocations || Adjacent Monster Blink Chance
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* No new abilities.
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| <2 || 0%
 
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| 3 || 10%
 
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| 5 || 25%
 
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| 10 || 47%
 
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| 15 || 59%
 
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| 27 || 74%
 
|}
 
  
'''[[Piety|Piety level ***]]''': "Agent of Entropy"
 
*'''Banish''' - You can zap a beam of [[banishment]], sending a single target to the Abyss. The power of the beam scales with your Invocations skill. You receive XP proportional to the percentage of the monster's max HP you had already inflicted as damage on it: 50 + 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|Piety level ****]]''': "Schismatic"
 
'''[[Piety|Piety level ****]]''': "Schismatic"
*'''Corrupt''' - You can corrupt the non-Abyss floor you're on, randomly converting the walls and floors of a large area around you to randomly selected other 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 abyssal creatures will be summoned, all of them neutral. The higher your Invocations, the higher the amount of monsters. You may only corrupt a floor once. (Costs 7 MP, 5 HP, 500-1000 Food, and 10-14 Piety)
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*'''Corrupt''' - Corrupts the non-Abyss floor you're on, randomly converting the walls and floors of a large area around you to randomly selected other tiles. Stairs and portals cannot be changed, and harder walls are more likely to resist - unnaturally hard walls are immune. In addition, a pack of neutral abyssal creatures will be summoned. The higher your Invocations, the higher the amount of monsters. You may only corrupt a floor once. (7 MP, 5 HP, and 10-14 Piety)
 
'''[[Piety|Piety level *****]]''': "Envoy of Void"
 
'''[[Piety|Piety level *****]]''': "Envoy of Void"
*'''Gate yourself to the Abyss''' - You can instantly banish yourself to 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, and 35 Piety)  
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*'''Enter the Abyss''' - Instantly sends yourself to the Abyss. (Costs a random non-lethal amount of HP, 10 MP, and 35 Piety)  
  
 
In addition, Lugonu provides the following:
 
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)
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*'''Abyssal Rune Attraction''' - While in the Abyss, the chance of a finding the Abyssal rune is higher, as if you were a floor lower. (Passive)
 
'''[[Piety|Piety level ******]]''': "Corrupter of Planes"
 
'''[[Piety|Piety level ******]]''': "Corrupter of Planes"
*'''Corrupt Your Weapon''' - Once per game, Lugonu will corrupt a weapon of your choice. Corrupting a weapon removes [[curse]]s, adds 1-3 to its enchantment, and adds the [[distortion]] brand. You can corrupt any non-artifact melee weapon as long as it isn't already branded with distortion.
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*'''Corrupt Your Weapon''' - Once per game, Lugonu will corrupt a weapon of your choice. Corrupting a weapon adds +1d3 to its enchantment and adds the [[distortion]] brand. You can corrupt any non-artifact melee weapon as long as it isn't already branded with distortion.
  
 
==Punishments==
 
==Punishments==
 
{{flavour|Lugonu does not appreciate abandonment, and will call down fearful punishments on disloyal followers!
 
{{flavour|Lugonu does not appreciate abandonment, and will call down fearful punishments on disloyal followers!
  
Lugonu's ire renders the barrier between reality and the Abyss weak and permeable. Space warps, hurling victims across the dungeon, or even directly into the Abyss; and when that's not enough, Lugonu reaches out and sends minions out from the Abyss to assault the offender directly. Inexperienced adventurers face small abominations and thrashing horrors; veterans fight tentacled starspawn and starcursed masses. Lugonu does not forgive easily, and will not allow ex-worshippers to rejoin the fold while Lugonu's wrath still lasts.}}
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Lugonu's ire renders the barrier between reality and the Abyss weak and permeable. Space warps, hurling victims across the dungeon, or even directly into the Abyss. Lugonu also reaches out and sends the chaotic inhabitants of the Abyss against victims, with veteran adventurers facing the greatest horrors of the Abyss. Lugonu does not forgive easily, and will not allow ex-worshippers to rejoin the fold while Lugonu's wrath still lasts.
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Lugonu's wrath lasts for a relatively long duration.}}
  
 
If you leave Lugonu, your penance counter will be increased by 50. Lugonu will not accept you again until your penance counter reaches zero.
 
If you leave Lugonu, your penance counter will be increased by 50. Lugonu will not accept you again until your penance counter reaches zero.
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A punishment from Lugonu has two independent components:
 
A punishment from Lugonu has two independent components:
*(1) 50%: Random [[Miscast#Translocation|Translocation miscast]] effect. This can include [[banishment]]!
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*(1) 50%: You [[teleport]] next to monsters
*(1) 17%: You [[teleport]] instantly
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*(1) 25%: [[Banishment]]
*(1) 8%: You randomly blink
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*(2) <code>1 + experience level/7</code> hostile [[small abomination]]s, [[large abomination]]s, [[thrashing horror]]s, and [[ancient zyme]]s are summoned to fight you (100% if your experience level is <= 14, less likely as your experience level increases, large abomination rate replacing small abomination rate with experience level, ancient zymes rather unlikely).
*(1) 25%: Nothing
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*(2) A hostile [[Tentacled starspawn]], [[Wretched star]], or [[Starcursed mass]] is summoned to fight you, alongside <code>1 + (1d[experience level/9] - 1)</code> of the previous set.
*(2) 1 + experience level/7 hostile [[small abomination]]s, [[large abomination]]s, [[thrashing horror]]s, and [[ancient zyme]]s are summoned to fight you (100% if your experience level is <= 14, less likely as your experience level increases, large abomination rate replacing small abomination rate with experience level, ancient zymes rather unlikely).
 
*(2) A hostile [[Tentacled starspawn]], [[Wretched star]], or [[Starcursed mass]] is summoned to fight you, alongside 1 + (1d[experience level/9] - 1) of the previous set.
 
 
**Any monsters that Lugonu summons to fight you are [[durably summoned]].
 
**Any monsters that Lugonu summons to fight you are [[durably summoned]].
  
 
==Strategy==
 
==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 a useful method of dealing with dangerous monsters.
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Worshipping Lugonu is a guaranteed way out of the Abyss. While you'll receive [[penance]] from your old god, Lugonu provides strong protection against most gods' wrath. For an XL 9 or so character, Lugonu is likely your best chance at surviving a banishment.
  
Altars to Lugonu are mainly found in [[the Abyss]], quite rarely, a corrupted version of the [[Ecumenical Temple]] is generated. Part of the dungeon may very rarely be corrupted, either containing an altar of [[Xom]] or Lugonu. 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. Alternatively, [[Miscast effect#Translocations|Miscast Effects]] for the [[translocations]] school can send you to the abyss, if you can take up to 43 damage from failed attempts
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Lugonu itself offers a number of strong abilities:
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*Banishment is very powerful: it is a spammable ability that can ''instantly'' remove a given monster from the Dungeon. Even if you fail to actually banish, you'll still cripple the monster heavily; the [[malmutate]] effect is a better version of [[corrosion]]. Malmutate also reduces the targets' [[HD]], thus reducing their [[willpower]], thus making them easier to banish in the future. Note that [[nonliving]] and [[undead]] monsters are immune to malmutate.
  
==See Also==
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*Corrupt creates a mass of neutral monsters, which can deal with enemies up to Zot:5. These creatures won't go out of their way to attack you. However, they'll attack if you get in their way. In addition, this ability lets you break through stone walls, including [[Slime Pits]]:5's loot vault (without killing TRJ).
*[[IonFrigate's Abyssal Knight guide]]
 
  
==History==
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*Enter the Abyss is incredibly expensive, but powerful, escape tool. While the Abyss isn't exactly ''safe'', it's likely safer than a dangerous situation inside [[Zot:5]], [[the Tomb]], etc., and it only takes 1 turn to activate.
Prior to [[0.18]], '''Banish''' did not benefit from invocations skill above 10.5.
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**Remember that you end up on the lowest floor you've reached. If you went to Abyss:7 in the past, this ability will send you to Abyss:7. Try to avoid delving deeper than you need to.
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**Also remember that, when exiting the Abyss, you'll end up back where you started. Make sure to buff up before exiting!
  
Prior to [[0.17]], Lugonu gave piety for corpse sacrifices. Also, '''Corrupt Weapon''' required the player to find and pray at an altar of Lugonu, instead of being available at any time.
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*[[Distortion]] is a powerful melee brand. Before considering the banish chance, it's already stronger than [[electrocution]]. It also has a 5% chance to banish, which is effectively an instakill. However, it can [[blink]] enemies around, which can be annoying. This brand is best on fast weapons like [[Short Blades]], as distortion deals flat damage and has a flat chance to banish.
  
Prior to [[0.14]], Lugonu followers received no protection from distortion weapon unwielding effects.  
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In addition, Lugonu makes the Abyssal rune much easier to obtain. Characters who struggle with their 3rd rune may want to pick Lugonu.
  
Prior to [[0.12]], Lugonu's wrath would summon demons instead of Abyss natives.
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==History==
 
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*Prior to [[0.31]], Lugonu always banished 1d3 mosnters every time another god's wrath happened. Also, the wrath protection did not activate on [[Elyvilon]] or [[Gozag]] wrath effects.
Prior to [[0.10]], banishing enemies provided no experience, and Lugonu gave no piety for demon kills.
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*Prior to [[0.30]],
 
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** Lugonu did not protect you from other gods' wrath. Lugonu did not provide a special bonus to first-time worshippers. Lugonu altars were less common in the Abyss.
Prior to [[0.9]], followers of Lugonu had better blinking in the Abyss.
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** Banish was a 3* ability, had a higher failure rate, and did not malmutate if it failed the willpower check.
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** Lugonu had a 2* ability, Bend Space. This ability cost 1d4 HP and would [[blink]] you and nearby monsters. Monsters would tend to be blinked away from the player. This ability worked on teleport-immune creatures, including [[Formicid]]s and [[Tree Form]] players.
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** You could worship Lugonu via the [[Abyssal Knight]] background.
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*Prior to [[0.29]], Bend Space scaled with Invocations, dealt up to 1d6 to blinked monsters, and would tend to blink monsters away from the origin rather than away from the destination.
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*Prior to [[0.26]], Banish did not provide full experience.
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*Prior to [[0.20]], Enter the Abyss required at least 9 MP and could deplete all your magic.
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*Prior to [[0.18]], Banish was capped at 10.5 [[Invocations]] skill, but had a higher base power.
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*Prior to [[0.17]], Lugonu gave piety for corpse sacrifices. Also, Corrupt Weapon required the player to find and pray at an altar of Lugonu, instead of being available at any time.
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*Prior to [[0.14]], Lugonu followers received no protection from distortion weapon unwielding effects.
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*Prior to [[0.12]], Lugonu's wrath would summon demons instead of Abyss natives.
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*Prior to [[0.10]], banishing enemies provided no experience, and Lugonu gave no piety for demon kills.
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*Prior to [[0.9]], followers of Lugonu had better blinking in the Abyss.
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*In early versions of ''Crawl'', Lugonu was known as Lucy, but the name was changed to make the god more androgynous.
  
In early versions of ''Crawl'', Lugonu was known as Lucy, but the name was changed to make the god more androgynous.
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==References==
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[[Category:Evil Gods]]
 
[[Category:Evil Gods]]
 
[[Category:Chaotic Gods]]
 
[[Category:Chaotic Gods]]

Latest revision as of 20:48, 25 February 2024

Version 0.31: This article is up to date for the latest stable release of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
Lugonu altar.png "Spread carnage and corruption!"
Banished to the chaotic realm of the Abyss, Lugonu the Unformed seeks followers to spread bloodshed and corruption in the overworld. Those who gain Lugonu's favour will be granted some of the power of the Abyss itself, allowing them to call forth eldritch horrors, and even to travel between the overworld and the Abyss at will.

Followers of Lugonu gain powers to depart the Abyss at will, to banish monsters there, and to flee back inside when needed. Lugonu will also banish nearby foes if any other god attempts to interfere with their followers. Later, followers will be able to corrupt the ordered world, opening a gate for creatures of the Abyss to pass through, and to gate themselves directly into this realm of chaos. Lugonu will protect followers who unwield weapons imbued with the distorting energies of the Abyss, and eventually will offer to corrupt a follower's weapon in that way. Lugonu expects followers to spread unceasing chaos in the overworld, and as such does not grant piety to worshippers while they remain in the Abyss itself.

Lugonu likes it when you kill living beings, you destroy the undead, you kill demons, you kill holy beings, you banish creatures to the Abyss and you destroy nonliving beings.

Racial Restrictions

Demigods can't worship Lugonu (or any other god).

Appreciates

  • Killing or having an ally kill a living, holy, undead, demonic, or non-living creature.
  • Banishing any kind of creature.

Lugonu does not grant piety while you are in the Abyss.

Deprecates

  • Inactivity: You lose 1 piety per 340 turns, on average (1/17 chance every 20 turns).
  • Abandonment. Unlike most gods, you may not rejoin Lugonu during penance.

Altar

Altars to Lugonu are mainly found in the Abyss. Very rarely, a corrupted version of the Ecumenical Temple may be generated, or part of the dungeon may be corrupted.

Joining Lugonu for the first time in the Abyss provides a +40 piety bonus, resulting in 55 piety.[1] Subsequent joins in the Abyss will give +20 piety (to 35 piety). This allows the player to use the first power, Depart the Abyss, immediately. (There's no bonus for worshippers outside the Abyss.)

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.

Given Abilities

Piety level -: "Abyss-Baptised"

  • You may unwield distortion branded weapons without suffering any ill effects. (Passive)

Lugonu will also protect you from other gods' wrath. When a wrath effect is triggered, Lugonu has an 80% chance to banish any durably summoned monsters, and a 30% chance to banish any other monster in your line of sight. This can't trigger for Ashenzari or Hepliaklqana wrath, as these gods have entirely passive effects, but all other gods are eligible.

Piety level *: "Unweaver"

  • Depart the Abyss - You can immediately leave the Abyss, returning to the point you initially entered the Abyss from. (1 MP and 10-15 Piety)

Piety level **: "Distorting [Species Name]"

  • Banish - Zap a beam of banishment. Like the monster spell, it checks willpower. If you succeed the willpower check, the monster will be sent to the Abyss (or deeper into the Abyss if inside it), and you'll get full XP as if you killed them. If you fail, the monster will be inflicted with malmutate. Higher Invocations increases the chance to banish. (4 MP and 3-4 Piety)
    • Banished uniques (and some powerful, non-unique monsters) are not technically dead, and can 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.

Piety level ***: "Agent of Entropy"

  • No new abilities.

Piety level ****: "Schismatic"

  • Corrupt - Corrupts the non-Abyss floor you're on, randomly converting the walls and floors of a large area around you to randomly selected other tiles. Stairs and portals cannot be changed, and harder walls are more likely to resist - unnaturally hard walls are immune. In addition, a pack of neutral abyssal creatures will be summoned. The higher your Invocations, the higher the amount of monsters. You may only corrupt a floor once. (7 MP, 5 HP, and 10-14 Piety)

Piety level *****: "Envoy of Void"

  • Enter the Abyss - Instantly sends yourself to the Abyss. (Costs a random non-lethal amount of HP, 10 MP, and 35 Piety)

In addition, Lugonu provides the following:

  • Abyssal Rune Attraction - While in the Abyss, the chance of a finding the Abyssal rune is higher, as if you were a floor lower. (Passive)

Piety level ******: "Corrupter of Planes"

  • Corrupt Your Weapon - Once per game, Lugonu will corrupt a weapon of your choice. Corrupting a weapon adds +1d3 to its enchantment and adds the distortion brand. You can corrupt any non-artifact melee weapon as long as it isn't already branded with distortion.

Punishments

Lugonu does not appreciate abandonment, and will call down fearful punishments on disloyal followers!

Lugonu's ire renders the barrier between reality and the Abyss weak and permeable. Space warps, hurling victims across the dungeon, or even directly into the Abyss. Lugonu also reaches out and sends the chaotic inhabitants of the Abyss against victims, with veteran adventurers facing the greatest horrors of the Abyss. Lugonu does not forgive easily, and will not allow ex-worshippers to rejoin the fold while Lugonu's wrath still lasts.

Lugonu's wrath lasts for a relatively long duration.

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, Lugonu will sometimes punish you with one of the following forms of divine retribution:

A punishment from Lugonu has two independent components:

Strategy

Worshipping Lugonu is a guaranteed way out of the Abyss. While you'll receive penance from your old god, Lugonu provides strong protection against most gods' wrath. For an XL 9 or so character, Lugonu is likely your best chance at surviving a banishment.

Lugonu itself offers a number of strong abilities:

  • Banishment is very powerful: it is a spammable ability that can instantly remove a given monster from the Dungeon. Even if you fail to actually banish, you'll still cripple the monster heavily; the malmutate effect is a better version of corrosion. Malmutate also reduces the targets' HD, thus reducing their willpower, thus making them easier to banish in the future. Note that nonliving and undead monsters are immune to malmutate.
  • Corrupt creates a mass of neutral monsters, which can deal with enemies up to Zot:5. These creatures won't go out of their way to attack you. However, they'll attack if you get in their way. In addition, this ability lets you break through stone walls, including Slime Pits:5's loot vault (without killing TRJ).
  • Enter the Abyss is incredibly expensive, but powerful, escape tool. While the Abyss isn't exactly safe, it's likely safer than a dangerous situation inside Zot:5, the Tomb, etc., and it only takes 1 turn to activate.
    • Remember that you end up on the lowest floor you've reached. If you went to Abyss:7 in the past, this ability will send you to Abyss:7. Try to avoid delving deeper than you need to.
    • Also remember that, when exiting the Abyss, you'll end up back where you started. Make sure to buff up before exiting!
  • Distortion is a powerful melee brand. Before considering the banish chance, it's already stronger than electrocution. It also has a 5% chance to banish, which is effectively an instakill. However, it can blink enemies around, which can be annoying. This brand is best on fast weapons like Short Blades, as distortion deals flat damage and has a flat chance to banish.

In addition, Lugonu makes the Abyssal rune much easier to obtain. Characters who struggle with their 3rd rune may want to pick Lugonu.

History

  • Prior to 0.31, Lugonu always banished 1d3 mosnters every time another god's wrath happened. Also, the wrath protection did not activate on Elyvilon or Gozag wrath effects.
  • Prior to 0.30,
    • Lugonu did not protect you from other gods' wrath. Lugonu did not provide a special bonus to first-time worshippers. Lugonu altars were less common in the Abyss.
    • Banish was a 3* ability, had a higher failure rate, and did not malmutate if it failed the willpower check.
    • Lugonu had a 2* ability, Bend Space. This ability cost 1d4 HP and would blink you and nearby monsters. Monsters would tend to be blinked away from the player. This ability worked on teleport-immune creatures, including Formicids and Tree Form players.
    • You could worship Lugonu via the Abyssal Knight background.
  • Prior to 0.29, Bend Space scaled with Invocations, dealt up to 1d6 to blinked monsters, and would tend to blink monsters away from the origin rather than away from the destination.
  • Prior to 0.26, Banish did not provide full experience.
  • Prior to 0.20, Enter the Abyss required at least 9 MP and could deplete all your magic.
  • Prior to 0.18, Banish was capped at 10.5 Invocations skill, but had a higher base power.
  • Prior to 0.17, Lugonu gave piety for corpse sacrifices. Also, Corrupt Weapon required the player to find and pray at an altar of Lugonu, instead of being available at any time.
  • Prior to 0.14, Lugonu followers received no protection from distortion weapon unwielding effects.
  • Prior to 0.12, Lugonu's wrath would summon demons instead of Abyss natives.
  • 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.
  • In early versions of Crawl, Lugonu was known as Lucy, but the name was changed to make the god more androgynous.

References

Gods
Good ElyvilonZinThe Shining One
Neutral AshenzariCheibriadosFedhas MadashGozag Ym SagozHepliaklqanaIgnisNemelex XobehOkawaruQazlalRuSif MunaTrogUskayawVehumetWu Jian
Chaotic JiyvaXom
Evil BeoghDithmenosKikubaaqudghaLugonu *Makhleb *Yredelemnul
* Chaotic & Evil