Bestiary/Giant Serpent

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Giant Serpent

General
Type	Reptile
Category	Reptiles & serpents
Alignment	Evil
Karma	−2,500
Fame	2,500
Behavior	Attacks on sight
Speed	Medium
Stats
Strength	186–215
Dexterity	56–80
Intelligence	66–85
Hit points	112–129
Stamina	56–80
Mana	0
Damage	7–17
Armor	32
Resources
Carving	4 raw ribs, 15 spined hides

The Giant Serpent (in game, a giant snake) is a huge poisonous snake with 112–129 hit points. Its bite poisons with Greater poison, and one time in five with Deadly.

Overview

• In-game name: a giant snake
• Corpse: a giant serpent corpse
• Behavior: it attacks the nearest target it sees and fights in melee.
• Colour: it gets a random snake colour.
• Death Adder charm: it's one of the serpents a necromancer's Death Adder familiar can charm.

Stats

Stat	Value
Strength	186–215
Dexterity	56–80
Intelligence	66–85
Hit points	112–129
Stamina	56–80 (same as its Dexterity)
Mana	0
Melee damage	7–17
Armor rating	32
Fame / Karma	2,500 / −2,500

Skills

Skill	Range
Poisoning	70.1–100.0
Wrestling	60.1–80.0
Tactics	65.1–70.0
Magic Resistance	25.1–40.0

Abilities

Poison attack

Each time its melee attack hits, there's a 50% chance it also poisons the target with Greater poison (80% of the time) or Deadly poison (20%).

• Greater poison deals 6.25% of your current hit points (at least 6, at most 26) every 3 seconds, for up to 10 ticks.
• Deadly poison deals 12.5% of your current hit points (at least 7, at most 26) every 4 seconds, for up to 10 ticks.
• Cure it with a cure potion, the Cure or Arch Cure spell, or a healer's bandages and the Healing skill. Higher levels are harder to cure.

Poison immunity: it is immune to poison up to Greater (Lesser, Regular, Greater). Only stronger poison affects it.

Loot

Every giant serpent carries:

• Gold: about 60–150 in total (from its "Average" loot)
• a bone

It may also carry:

• A magic weapon, armor piece or shield (up to 3 chances, from about 5% down to 0.5% each)
• A musical instrument (about 0.4% or less)

Carving

Use a blade on the corpse to get:

• 4 raw ribs
• 15 spined hides

Location

• Champion spawn: it is a level 1 creature of the Cold Blood champion spawn (champion: Rikktor), so it appears at the fixed Cold Blood altar at 5259, 837, and any of the 11 Lost Lands altars that rolls Cold Blood. Each one killed during a spawn gives the killer Valor and champion-title progress.
• The Deceit brazier: 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.

Tips

• Carry cure potions: one bite in five is Deadly poison.
• Carve it for 15 spined hides and 4 raw ribs.