Bestiary/Solen Warrior

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Solen Warrior

General
Type	Insect (solen)
Category	Arachnids & insects
Alignment	Evil
Karma	−3,000
Fame	3,000
Behavior	Attacks on sight
Speed	Medium
Stats
Strength	196–220
Dexterity	101–125
Intelligence	36–60
Hit points	96–107
Stamina	101–125
Mana	36–60
Damage	5–15
Armor	35
Resources
Carving	Nothing

The Solen Warrior guards the solen hives. It's much tougher than a worker, and hitting it up close makes it spray acid.

Overview

• In-game names: a red solen warrior or a black solen warrior
• Corpse: a solen warrior corpse
• Red and black: red and black solen warriors have identical stats; the black one is darker.
• Behavior: it attacks the nearest target it sees and fights in melee.
• Solen friendship. Players who finished the Solen Matriarch quest are friends of either the red or the black hive. Solen of your hive don't treat you, your pets or your summons as enemies. If you, your pet or your summon damages a solen of your own hive, the friendship ends at once: "The solen revoke their friendship. You will now be considered an intruder."

Stats

Stat	Value
Strength	196–220
Dexterity	101–125
Intelligence	36–60
Hit points	96–107
Stamina	101–125 (same as its Dexterity)
Mana	36–60 (same as its Intelligence)
Melee damage	5–15
Armor rating	35
Fame / Karma	3,000 / −3,000

Skills

Skill	Range
Tactics	80.0
Wrestling	80.0
Magic Resistance	60.0

Abilities

Acid sac

While it has 50 or more hit points, every time something standing next to it (within 1 tile) damages it, it sprays acid (the acid sac spills message) and leaves a pool of acid under the attacker. The first time its hit points drop below 50 the sac bursts (overhead message) and it stops spraying. When it dies it leaves 4 more pools around its body.

• A pool lasts 10 seconds (it dries halfway through) and deals 30 damage every second to any player, pet or summon standing on it, plus 30 more each time you step onto it.
• Fight it with ranged attacks or spells to avoid the spray, or step off the pool right away.

Loot

Every solen warrior carries:

• Gold: about 260–350 in total (from its "Rich" loot)
• 1–4 random gems (amber, amethyst, citrine, diamond, emerald, ruby, sapphire, star sapphire or tourmaline)
• 3 zoogi fungus (5% chance of 13 instead)

It may also carry:

• A magic weapon, armor piece or shield (up to 3 chances, from about 20% down to 1% each)
• A musical instrument (about 1% or less)
• A Bracelet of Binding (5% chance)
• A picnic basket holding a bottle of wine and a cheese wedge (1% chance)

Zoogi fungus is part of the Solen Matriarch quest: the matriarch turns it into powder of translocation (1 powder for every 2 fungus, up to 100 at a time).

Carving

There's nothing to carve from its corpse.

Tips

• Use spells, a bow or a pet: only attackers standing next to it get sprayed.
• Once it's under 50 hit points the sac has burst and melee is safe, but it still leaves 4 acid pools when it dies — step away from the body.
• It's one of the few creatures that can drop a Bracelet of Binding.