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Shadow Wisp

General
Type	Wisp
Category	Fey & magical creatures
Alignment	Neutral
Karma	0
Fame	500
Behavior	Only when attacked
Speed	Medium
Stats
Strength	16–40
Dexterity	16–45
Intelligence	11–25
Hit points	10–24
Stamina	16–45
Mana	11–25
Damage	5–10
Armor	18
Resources
Carving	Nothing

The Shadow Wisp is a small, dark wisp that only fights when attacked. It glows faintly and carries a body part instead of gold.

Overview

• In-game name: a shadow wisp
• Corpse: a wisp corpse
• Behavior: it leaves you alone unless you attack it, then fights like a spellcaster (mage AI), mixing spells with melee.
• Enemies: fey creatures (wisps, pixies, centaurs, ethereal warriors and the like) and the undead are enemies and attack each other on sight.
• Light: it carries a light source, so it glows in the dark.

Stats

Stat	Value
Strength	16–40
Dexterity	16–45
Intelligence	11–25
Hit points	10–24
Stamina	16–45 (same as its Dexterity)
Mana	11–25 (same as its Intelligence)
Melee damage	5–10
Armor rating	18
Fame / Karma	500 / 0

Skills

Skill	Range
Magery	50.0
Evaluating Intelligence	40.0
Meditation	40.0
Wrestling	25.1–40.0
Tactics	0.1–15.0
Magic Resistance	10.0

Abilities

Magic

It fights with the mage AI: it closes to melee range but casts between swings. Its Magery is 50.0 and its Evaluating Intelligence 40.0.

• Damage spells: Magic Arrow, Harm, Fireball and Lightning.
• 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) or drain your mana (Mana Drain).
• Healing: it cures itself when poisoned, and sometimes heals itself (Greater Heal when badly hurt), more often the higher its Magery.

Loot

Every shadow wisp carries:

• one body part: bone pile (40%), rib cage (20%), left arm, right arm, torso or bone (10% each)

It has no loot packs, so it carries no gold.

Carving

There's nothing to carve from its corpse.

Location

• Champion spawn: it is a level 1 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.
• The Deceit brazier (a scripted item named for the dungeon Deceit): double-clicking it from within 2 tiles summons one creature picked at random from a list of about 90, and this is one of them. The brazier warns players who step next to it ("Heed this warning well, and use this brazier at your own peril"). It works once every 15 minutes and places the creature within 5 tiles. The summoned creature is set to attack the closest target, even if it would normally leave you alone, and it stays within 5 tiles of the brazier.

Champion spawns only exist if the staff have generated them (with the staff command [GenChamps); the code doesn't say whether that's been done on New Bradford.

Tips

• With 10–24 hit points it's an easy kill, but there's nothing valuable on it.
• Undead attack it on sight, and it attacks them.