agaricus5
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 1838
Registered: 02-04-2003
IP: Logged
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The Degenerator (0)
The Degenerator is a monster responsible for the collapsing, decay and destruction of many dungeons from the inside, being a unpleasant pest to get rid of as it often surrounds itself with impassable pits or very loose trapdoors.
It sits, immobile, in the centre of a room and does nothing until it senses an intruder. Once it does realise that Beethro has entered, it will begin to fire bolts of energy outwards to all the squares within a particular radius of it every 30 moves. Once the degenerator has fired its energy bolts outward, all the squares within the affected area will be damaged and degenerate into weaker things, so walls become crumbly, floor tiles become trapdoors, orbs crack, and so on, even if Beethro, mimics, or an object like a potion is on top of them. At first, only the squares in a one square radius become affected, but as every 30 turn cycle is completed, the affected radius becomes one square larger each time, eventually affecting the entire room, if Beethro is slow to get rid of it. Any objects such as mirrors, or torches stuck to the wall will fall off and become destroyed when the wall becomes crumbly. The degenerator will also affect tar for some strange reason, destroying it by evaporation if any is within the affected zone, but is completely harmless to any other type of monster, Beethro, Mimics, or potions.
I originally thought of the monster as just a degrader of dungeon structures, only affecting floors, walls and anything else solid, but have thought of a variation that would make it more unpleasant:
The degenerator can also destroy things if it gets the chance to. It will destroy all crumbly walls in the affected area at the edge of the "block" they are part of, so walls slowly crumble inwards, and all trapdoors at the edge of pits inside the zone will collapse, so pits widen and crumble outwards. This will cause everything on the affected walls to be destroyed, and anything on affected trapdoors, including monsters (except Beethro and his mimics because they block the energy bolt) to fall into the pit (of....) and be destroyed.
Oh, and one more thing...
The degenerator never affects the square it sits on.
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Resident Medic/Mycologist
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