Cancelling monsters ===================== by Boudewijn Wayers (kroisos@win.tue.nl). You can cancel a monster by zapping a wand of cancellation at it. Also, when a gremlin manages to steal an intrinsic from a monster, that monster is automatically cancelled as well. That also goes if that gremlin is you, by the way. Now, something about cancelled monsters in general. A monster that has been cancelled cannot: - blind you - cast spells at you - charm you - confuse you - drain your constitution - drain your dexterity - explode in your face - paralyse you - poison you - rust or rot something, offensive or defensive - seduce you - slow you down - spit at you - steal an item - steal intrinsics - steal your gold - stun you - teleport you away - turn you to sleep - use a wand of make invisible on itself - use acid against you - use its breath weapon - use its cold attack, offensive or defensive - use its electricity attack, offensive or defensive - use its fire attack, offensive or defensive - wrap itself around you Then, there are the individual monster abilities that can be cancelled. More specifically, when it has been cancelled: - Medusa cannot be turned to stone with a reflecting item - Medusa's gaze cannot turn you to stone - a black or brown pudding cannot divide - a chameleon cannot polymorph - a clay golem will die - a cockatrice won't turn you to stone - a demon cannot summon other demons - a floating eye cannot be paralysed with a mirror - a lycanthrope cannot change you into another one - a lycanthrope cannot summon help - a nymph or succubus won't steal your mirror if you apply it - a tengu cannot teleport - an umber hulk cannot be confused with a mirror - a xan's prick doesn't weaken you When a monster cannot use a certain attack on you, it normally cannot use it on another monster either. Note that the above only goes for monsters that are still alive. Monster corpses still function exactly the same as if the monster had not been cancelled when it was still alive.