Bestiary/Lava Snake

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Lava Snake

General
Type	Reptile
Category	Reptiles & serpents
Alignment	Evil
Karma	−600
Fame	600
Behavior	Attacks on sight
Speed	Medium
Stats
Strength	43–55
Dexterity	16–25
Intelligence	6–10
Hit points	28–32
Stamina	16–25
Mana	0
Damage	1–8
Armor	24
Resources
Carving	1 raw ribs

The Lava Snake is a small fiery snake with only 28–32 hit points, but it still has a little fire breath.

Overview

• In-game name: a lava snake
• Corpse: a lava snake corpse
• Behavior: it attacks the nearest target it sees and fights in melee.
• No mana: its script sets its mana to 0.
• Colour: one of six fiery colours, picked at random.
• Old name: its script keeps the old type name Lavasnake as an alias, so old saves still load.
• Death Adder charm: it's one of the serpents a necromancer's Death Adder familiar can charm (its script marks it DeathAdderCharmable).

Stats

Stat	Value
Strength	43–55
Dexterity	16–25
Intelligence	6–10
Hit points	28–32
Stamina	16–25 (same as its Dexterity)
Mana	0
Melee damage	1–8
Armor rating	24
Fame / Karma	600 / −600

Skills

Skill	Range
Tactics	19.3–34.0
Wrestling	19.3–34.0
Magic Resistance	15.1–20.0

Abilities

Fire breath

The lava snake 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 lava snake deals about 1). 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 lava snake can't use it.

Loot

Every lava snake carries:

• Gold: about 1–25 in total (from its "Poor" loot)
• 1 sulfurous ash

It may also carry:

• A musical instrument (about 0.02% or less)

Carving

Use a blade on the corpse to get:

• 1 raw ribs

Location

• 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.

Tips

• Its fire breath is tiny because the damage depends on its own (low) hit points.
• Carve it for 1 raw ribs.