Bestiary/Serpentine Dragon

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Serpentine Dragon

General
Type	Dragon
Category	Dragons
Alignment	Good
Karma	15,000
Fame	15,000
Behavior	Attacks evil creatures and players
Speed	Medium
Stats
Strength	111–140
Dexterity	201–220
Intelligence	1,001–1,040
Hit points	480
Stamina	201–220
Mana	1,001–1,040
Damage	5–12
Armor	36
Resources
Carving	19 raw ribs, 20 barbed hides, 6 black or white scales

The Serpentine Dragon is a good-aligned dragon that only attacks the evil. It's a master spellcaster with a thousand Intelligence, breathes fire, and can turn your own pets against you.

Overview

• In-game name: a serpentine dragon
• Corpse: a dragon corpse
• Behavior: it attacks creatures and players with negative karma (evil) on sight, ignores everyone else, and fights like a spellcaster (mage AI), mixing spells with melee.
• Target switching: it re-picks its target whenever it moves, so it may switch to whoever is closest.

Stats

Stat	Value
Strength	111–140
Dexterity	201–220
Intelligence	1,001–1,040
Hit points	480
Stamina	201–220 (same as its Dexterity)
Mana	1,001–1,040 (same as its Intelligence)
Melee damage	5–12
Armor rating	36
Fame / Karma	15,000 / 15,000

Skills

Skill	Range
Magery	110.1–120.0
Evaluating Intelligence	100.1–110.0
Meditation	100.0
Magic Resistance	100.0
Wrestling	30.1–100.0
Tactics	50.1–60.0

Abilities

Fire breath

The serpentine dragon breathes fire at its target.

• Chance: 50% each time it gets a chance to act in combat, then it waits 30–45 seconds before it can breathe again.
• Damage: 5% of its current hit points, at most 200 (a full-health serpentine dragon deals about 24). It does less damage as it gets hurt. (100% fire damage; the type doesn't matter under New Bradford's combat rules.)
• Range: the target has to be within its sight range and in line of sight.
• It stops for about a second to breathe, so you can see it coming.
• A peacemade (calmed) or summoned serpentine dragon can't use it.

Magic

It fights with the mage AI: it closes to melee range but casts between swings. Its Magery is 110.1–120.0 and its Evaluating Intelligence 100.1–110.0.

• Damage spells: Magic Arrow, Harm, Fireball, Lightning, Mind Blast, Energy Bolt, Explosion and Flame Strike.
• Other spells: about 1 cast in 8 is Poison (only if you aren't poisoned already). It may also Bless itself, curse you (Weaken, Clumsy, Feeblemind or Curse), drain your mana (Mana Drain or Mana Vampire) or Paralyze you.
• Healing: it cures itself when poisoned, and sometimes heals itself (Greater Heal when badly hurt), more often the higher its Magery.

Dispels summons

Any summoned creature that can be dispelled is destroyed instantly when it hits the serpentine dragon in melee or the serpentine dragon hits it. Blade spirits, energy vortexes, summoned elementals and daemons are wasted against it.

Special behaviors

• Turns pets on their masters. When a tamed pet hits it in melee, there's a 20% chance the pet turns around and attacks its own master. It does no extra damage to pets.

Loot

Every serpentine dragon carries:

• Gold: about 804–1,300 in total (from its "Filthy Rich" ×2 loot)
• 2 random gems (amber, amethyst, citrine, diamond, emerald, ruby, sapphire, star sapphire or tourmaline)

It may also carry:

• A magic weapon, armor piece or shield (up to 8 chances, from about 33% down to 5% each)
• A musical instrument (about 4% or less)
• A level 4 treasure map (1% chance)

Carving

Use a blade on the corpse to get:

• 19 raw ribs
• 20 barbed hides
• 6 scales, either black or white (random)

Location

• Champion spawn: it is a level 4 creature of the Forest Lord champion spawn (champion: Lord Oaks), so it appears at the fixed Forest Lord altar at 5559, 3757 (Lost Lands). Each one killed during a spawn gives the killer Valor and champion-title progress.

Tips

• Leave your pets at home: one in five of their melee hits can make them attack you.
• Only players with negative karma get attacked on sight.
• Its 480 hit points are low for a dragon, but its 1,000+ Intelligence fuels a lot of Magery.