Bestiary/Chaos Dragoon
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| General | |
|---|---|
| Type | Human |
| Category | Juka, Meer & Chaos Dragoons |
| Alignment | Evil |
| Karma | −5,000 |
| Fame | 5,000 |
| Behavior | Attacks on sight |
| Speed | Medium |
| Stats | |
| Strength | 176–225 |
| Dexterity | 81–95 |
| Intelligence | 61–85 |
| Hit points | 176–225 |
| Stamina | 81–95 |
| Mana | 61–85 |
| Damage | 24–26 |
| Armor | 0 |
| Resources | |
| Carving | Nothing |
The Chaos Dragoon is a mounted human knight (one of the Lord Blackthorn's Revenge creatures), armored in dragon scales and riding a swamp dragon. It hits for 24–26, breathes fire, and does triple damage to dragons and similar pets.
Overview
- In-game name: a chaos dragoon
- Corpse: a chaos dragoon corpse
- Looks: a human knight in dragon scale armor with a chaos shield, riding a swamp dragon.
- Behavior: it attacks the nearest target it sees and fights in melee.
- Bard skills: it can't be provoked, calmed with Peacemaking or discorded.
- Notoriety: it always shows as a murderer (red), so anyone can attack it freely.
- Rummages corpses: from time to time it takes a random item from a corpse within 2 tiles (*rummages through a corpse and takes an item*). Loot your kills quickly near one.
- Fast: its script gives it quicker-than-normal movement and attacks.
Stats
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Strength | 176–225 |
| Dexterity | 81–95 |
| Intelligence | 61–85 |
| Hit points | 176–225 |
| Stamina | 81–95 (same as its Dexterity) |
| Mana | 61–85 (same as its Intelligence) |
| Melee damage | 24–26 |
| Armor rating | 0 |
| Fame / Karma | 5,000 / −5,000 |
Skills
| Skill | Range |
|---|---|
| Magic Resistance | 77.6–97.5 |
| Fencing | 77.6–92.5 |
| Mace Fighting | 77.6–92.5 |
| Swordsmanship | 77.6–92.5 |
| Healing | 60.3–90.0 |
| Anatomy | 77.6–87.5 |
| Tactics | 77.6–87.5 |
Abilities
Fire breath
The chaos dragoon 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 chaos dragoon deals about 8–11). 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 chaos dragoon can't use it.
Dispels summons
Any summoned creature that can be dispelled is destroyed instantly when it hits the chaos dragoon in melee or the chaos dragoon hits it. Blade spirits, energy vortexes, summoned elementals and daemons are wasted against it.
Special behaviors
- Dragon armor that won't drop. It wears a full suit of dragon scale armor (helm, tunic, sleeves, gloves and leggings) in one of six scale colours, a chaos shield, and a kryss, broadsword or katana. All of these are fixed to it (can't be moved), so none of them drop as loot.
- Its mount survives. It rides a swamp dragon. When the dragoon dies, the swamp dragon is set free and stays in the world as an ordinary wild swamp dragon, which you can try to tame (see Bestiary/Swamp Dragon).
- Dragon-slayer. Its melee hits do triple damage to dragons, white wyrms, swamp dragons, drakes, nightmares, hiryu, lesser hiryu and daemons, so keep those pets away from it.
Loot
Every chaos dragoon carries:
- Gold: about 260–350 in total (from its "Rich" loot)
- 1–3 dragon scales of the same colour as its armor
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)
Carving
There's nothing to carve from its corpse.
Tips
- Keep dragon, drake, nightmare and swamp dragon pets away: triple damage.
- After the kill, its swamp dragon is still there and can be tamed.
- It can dispel your summons, and bard skills don't work on it.
- Its armor can't be looted; only the 1–3 scales are.
- It always shows as a murderer.
- It rummages through corpses, so loot your kills before it reaches them.