Hell rat

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For a list of all rats, see list of rats.

orange rat r
HP	9-24
HD	3
XP	34
Speed	12
AC	7
EV	10
Will	12
Attack¹	20 (bite: drain experience)
Resistances	None
Vulnerabilities	Holy
Habitat	Land
Intelligence	Animal
Uses	Uses nothing
Holiness	Natural
Size	Little
Type	rat, orange rat
Flags	Evil Glows Warm-blooded

A unusually large rat with weird knobbly orange skin, glowing with unholy energies.

HAMLET [Drawing his sword.]: How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead [Stabs through the arras.]
-William Shakespeare, _The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark_, III, 4. 1603.

Useful Info

Orange rats are an unusually dangerous breed of rat. Like their weaker cousins, they have fairly low HP, but they move fast and have a powerful draining bite. They can be found as the bosses of some Sewer layouts, in packs in the Lair, or in rat vaults.

Tips & Tricks

Orange rats are thankfully rare in the early game, but finding one in the Sewers can prove very dangerous, and getting swarmed in the Lair can be extremely lethal. Do everything in your power to kill them at range, especially if you lack negative energy resistance.
They've got negligible magic resistance and very low HD, so pretty much any negative status conditions you can hit them with should work.