Protean progenitor

Version 0.31: This article is up to date for the latest stable release of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.

protean progenitor C
HP	54-110
HD	14
XP	1307
Speed	14
AC	7
EV	8
Will	120
Attack1	55 (hit: plain)
Resistances	rPois+
Vulnerabilities	Silver
Habitat	Land
Intelligence	Human
Uses	Open doors
Holiness	Natural
Size	Giant
Type	giant, protean progenitor
Flags	Warm-blooded Speaks See invisible No poly Regenerates No zombie No gen derived

A gargantuan humanoid of fractured shape from the aeons when the seas were but primordial soup. The many shapeshifters of the dungeon once sloughed off from these unfathomably ancient beings, and when they themselves finally cease, even their remains will give birth one last time to furious monsters.

Useful Info

Protean progenitors are primordial, unstable, and giant monsters. On their own, they are fast and cast Irradiate. On death, it will split into random monsters. They appear exclusively in the Realm of Zot.

When a protean progenitor dies, it splits into 2-4 aspiring flesh. After a few turns, an aspiring flesh will transform into a permanently hasted and mighted copy of a given monster.

• Aspiring flesh transforms one at a time. The first aspiring flesh takes 2-4 turns to transform. Each flesh thereafter takes 1-2 turns longer than the previous.
• All aspiring flesh from the same progenitor will turn into the same type of monster. This monster is determined when the progenitor dies. ("For just a moment, the protean progenitor begins to look like <monster>, then it explodes!") The more HD said monster has, the less flesh is created.

Spells

Spell set I
Slot1	Irradiate (3d25)	Wizard flag

Tips & Tricks

• You can use Yara's Violent Unravelling or a wand of quicksilver to remove the haste and might from aspiring flesh-created monsters.

History

• In 0.31, protean progenitors were introduced.