Small abomination

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small abomination xSmall abomination.png
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:

Abomination small.png Abomination small1.png

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.