Jump to content
Toggle menu
  • 3.1K articles
  • 4.4K files
  • 19 users
  • 91.5K edits
Ashenzari's Archive
Toggle preferences menu
Toggle personal menu
Not logged in
Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits.

Small abomination: Difference between revisions

From Ashenzari's Archive
imported>Spudwalt
No edit summary
imported>Spudwalt
Whoops, turns out they actually are undead
Line 9: Line 9:
|meat={{No corpse}}
|meat={{No corpse}}
|xp=141
|xp=141
|holiness={{Demonic}}
|holiness={{Demonic}}, {{Undead}}
|magic_resistance=40
|magic_resistance=40
|hp_range=12 - 42
|hp_range=12 - 42
Line 40: Line 40:


==Useful Info==
==Useful Info==
'''Small abominations''' are mindless [[demonic]] horrors with semi-random stats that stalk [[the Abyss]]. They are much less dangerous than [[large abomination]]s, but can still be pests, especially when their speed is higher than 10.
'''Small abominations''' are mindless, [[demonic]], [[undead]] horrors with semi-random stats that stalk [[the Abyss]]. They are much less dangerous than [[large abomination]]s, but can still be pests, especially when their speed is higher than 10.


You can receive friendly abominations by casting the [[Twisted Resurrection]] spell.
You can receive friendly abominations by casting the [[Twisted Resurrection]] spell.
Line 47: Line 47:
*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.  
*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.
*Being mindless, they can be lured into traps easily.
*Despite being made out of corpses, abominations are [[demonic]] rather than [[undead]]. [[Holy]] damage is still effective against them, but [[Dispel Undead]] won't work.
*Using corpses to create abominations instead of [[zombie]]s offers some advantages. Although expensive, abominations can heal and use [[stairs]]. You can also make abominations out of corpses that can't be zombified, such as [[ugly thing]]s. They can also be upgraded to large abominations through further use of Twisted Resurrection.
*Using corpses to create abominations instead of [[zombie]]s offers some advantages. Although expensive, abominations can heal and use [[stairs]]. You can also make abominations out of corpses that can't be zombified, such as [[ugly thing]]s. They can also be upgraded to large abominations through further use of Twisted Resurrection.



Revision as of 19:00, 1 August 2013

Version 0.12: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.


This chart is not updated automatically.
It may contain outdated information.
small abomination x 
HP 12 - 42
HD 6
XP 141
Speed Varies
AC Varies
EV Varies
Will 40
Attack1 23 (hit: plain)


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 form, created or summoned by some arcane process.

"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 by casting 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 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:

History

Prior to 0.12, you could read a scroll of unholy creation to get a permanent friendly abomination.