Henzell's learndb

Updated on Sat, 19 May 2012 06:55:20 GMT

03

http://crawl.develz.org/main/0.3.txt

05 changelog

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=143991&release_id=689263

1

The most dangerous of dangerous demons outside of the named guardians in Pandemonium. Anything with Fiend in the name can cast Torment. Executioners are lightning-fast melee opponents. If you are looking at your map and you see a mysterious green 1 and can't figure it out, that's a waypoint. :)

12 axe

Nexos the Ducker (L5 MfIE), slain by a centaur (the +4,+12 hand axe "Rummage") on D:5 on 2011-08-23, with 387 points after 4995 turns and 0:10:20.

12 club

redrum the Skirmisher (L3 DrCK), worshipper of Makhleb, slain by Ijyb (a +6,+12 club) on D:2 on 2010-08-19, with 120 points after 1033 turns and 0:04:06.
Xenene the Insei (L3 OpMo), slain by Ijyb (a +12,+6 club) on D:2, with 110 points after 1254 turns and 0:06:41.

12 flail

subochre the Eviscerator (L23 FeMo), worshipper of Elyvilon, slain by an elf zombie (the +12,+0 flail "Xuxtait") (animated by a deep elf death mage) on Elf:7 (minmay elf hall circle) on 2010-11-23, with 376147 points after 110880 turns and 11:03:55.

12 knife

Sildraith the Skirmisher (L9 DSCK), worshipper of Xom, slain by an orc priest (the cursed -3,+12 knife of Dishonesty) on D:10 (erik orc 4) on 2011-04-11, with 4325 points after 10273 turns and 0:51:04.

12 spear

inspector071 the Martial Artist (L9 OpMo), worshipper of Okawaru, slain by a gnoll sergeant (a +12,+4 spear) on D:7 (gnoll camp medium 01) on 2011-09-30

12 whip

bh the Thaumaturge (L10 DEWz), worshipper of Sif Muna, mangled by a minotaur (the +12,+6 whip of Success drain) in Lab, with 6608 points

2

A demon between a 3 and a 1. Summon Greater Demon summons these and 1s. Many of the demons in this category used to be 1s before 0.10.

200 power

With all skills at 27, you need 3 enhancers and 34 INT, or 2 enhancers and 50 INT. Impossible with just 1. Four enhancers don't give an effect better than three.
Useful for airstrike.

20110619

The day of the infinite experience bug.

27

Levels of the dungeon.
Levels in each Ziggurat.
Highest skill and experience levels.
Gods. (Some day, anyways...)
see knife of accuracy
Strength you need to wear GDA without extra penalties.
7+8+2+9+1
number of points in xomscumming's high score, divided by 1000000
number of the heads of The Lernaean Hydra

3

The strongest of the common demons: sun demon, soul eater, ice devil, smoke demon, neqoxec, ynoxinul, chaos spawn.

4

The weaker common demons.

41

Crawl (NOT stone soup) 4.1 Alpha, Brent Ross' ill-fated rewrite of Crawl. DCSS was spawned by two people who got tired of waiting for this to come out of alpha. Nearly unwinnable. NEVER CONFUSE THIS WITH SS 0.4.1
http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/ancient/meneril/morgue-meneril-20080714-105929.txt
<elliott> what's really overpowered in 4.1 <rwbarton> elliott: monsters

42

No, 27.

4chan

Anonymous 03/26/12(Mon)13:18 No.2506850 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is the only Roguelike worth a damn, fuck off and die.

5

A minor demon of minimal threat... unless it, say, picked up a pile of stones and you're low level.

72

Str, Int and Dex can reach a maximum of 72

7777

Zeliboba the Chucker (L8 MiBe), worshipper of Trog, blasted by a shadow dragon (bolt of negative energy) on D:7 on 2011-05-15, with 1980 points after 7777 turns and 1:05:50.

78291

A very prolific player with an incredibly high number of wins and a pretty good win percentage to boot.
Holy shit you are the luckiest most awesome son of a spriggan I have ever seen
!lm @78291 char=hosk 1 rune=dark -tv:<0.5
Killed the Royal Jelly in four hits.
Once in #chaosforge he was accused of being a collective pseudonym.
The Chuck Norris of crawl.

8

This is either a statue or a golem. It's either totally harmless or one of the most deadly things in the game.
Is also a marker for extremely out of depth monsters in vaults; both traditional and valued by most devs. Good results: d:4 unseen horrors, d:5 centaur warriors, d:6 fire crabs, d:9 sphinxes, d:10 fire giants, d:11 lichs. See also !tv vesto drwz place=d:9 1, !tv phyphor MiBe place=d:11 3, !tv davejl teae map=~three, !tv inde drtm place=d:5 4
!lg wpd 1 map=minivault_25_ag -tv

80x24

The proper size to play Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup curses version in.
http://pastebin.com/LE83dffY - download and compile with `gcc file.c -o 80x24` to use the industry standard size terminal regardless of actual window size. Or just type "stty rows 24 cols 80" (without the quotes).

8888

Tollymain the Miscreant (L9 SpEn), worshipper of Kikubaaqudgha, blasted by a fire crab (blast of flame) on D:8 on 2012-03-03, with 3071 points after 8888 turns and 1:07:31.

9

Gargoyles!

9999

BDR the Grappler (L10 TrBe), worshipper of Trog, shot by a centaur warrior (bolt of flame) on D:9 on 2007-02-23, with 4932 points after 9999 turns and 2:26:10.

a bit more experienced

You killed something offscreen.

a dark tunnel

see volcano

a doctor

Welcome to the law offices of Danei!

abandoned shop

Either you bought out all of the shop's contents, you passed the tiny chance a shop was generated to not have any loot, or it's a flavour feature like a pre-dry fountain.

abbreviations

Species and backgrounds are often abbreviated to two letters; for example Merfolk is Mf and Ice Elementalist is IE. Thus people will often refer to Merfolk Ice Elementalist as MfIE. Use the commands "!wtf Mf" and "!ftw Merfolk" to have Henzell tell you what the abbreviations are.
A few other common abbreviations: randart = random artefact, unrandart = fixedart = fixed artefact, LCS = Lehudib's Crystal Spear, LRD = Lee's Rapid Deconstruction, GDR = Guaranteed Damage Reduction. Most abbreviations are linked in the learndb, so commands like "??LRD" will usually tell you what an abbreviation means.

abjuration

Sends hostile summons back where they came from -- or reduces the amount of time before they disappear, at least. Note that going away and resting for a little while has the same effect. Comes in two flavours: single target (level 3) and full LOS (level 6).
Monsters never use this spell. Instead, they have a 50% (if applicable) chance of abjuring instead of performing certain summons.
<N78291> firestorm is the new mass abjuration

abomination

A hideous form with randomized ac, ev, speed - possibly faster than you. Random color x; uppercase abominations are much stronger. A scroll of summoning will give you a small one as a permanent ally. Usually found in the Abyss. If encountered near the wizard, it should be noted that they cannot open doors.

abyss

A merry-go-round of doom, featuring many, many, many different kinds of monsters who will find your flesh, bones, mind, and life tasty. Be sure to pick everything up on the way and kill everything you can so the demons can get better fed.
Each square has a 1/7500 chance of being a portal out. There is also an infinite amount of loot and the possibility of an abyssal rune. Staying in the abyss longer increases the chance of an abyssal rune being generated, with the probability maxing out when you have been in the abyss for 8260 turns.
Converting to Lugonu will also let you get out, but be warned that divine retribution is typically of the same nastiness level as banishment.
To get in, definitely: Fail your MR check against Banishment. Go down on a portal. Draw Damnation by yourself. Successfully invoke Lugonu's final power.
To get in, maybe: Get hit by distortion. Unwield distortion. Badly fumble a Translocation or Summoning. Step on a Zot trap. Arouse the wrath of Vehumet or Lugonu. . Attract the attention of Xom. Try to affix (with vorpalise weapon) a temporary distortion brand. Misread the Grand Grimoire.
You can run away from most stuff in the Abyss with haste. The only danger is getting mobbed by spammable minor demons and having Daevas or smoke demons to smite you. Ah yes, and the other big danger is boredom.
<pwnmonkey> The abyss is like boris in level form
<ktgrey> i wonder if everyone in the abyss, is there because they got banished to it <ktgrey> its like fantasy australia

abyss scumming

Doing this is a sure sign that you are playing like an idiot. Stop it.

abyssal knight

A renamed Chaos Knight of Lugonu.

abyssal knight reasons

!lg * won urune=15 min=xl

abyssal rune

The longer you are in the abyss without leaving, the greater the odds of the rune being generated. If you're a Lugonu worshipper with at least *****, your odds are much better. Generation odds are maximized after 8260 turns (1990 for lugonite). The player may only have one abyssal rune, but another will be generated if the first is somehow lost.
Each item in the abyss has a chance of being replaced by an abyssal rune at a chance ranging from 1/200 to 1/6 (assuming one doesn't currently exist)
The starting abyss for Chaos Knights of Lugonu, aka Abyssal Knights, can never generate an abyssal rune.
Since Sprint-Abyss doesn't spawn any loot, no, you cannot get this rune in Sprint III (i.e. The Ten Rune Challenge) and finish with 11 runes.

abyssal stair

see hydrataur
The biggest balls of them all.

ac

Armour Class; the last line of defence against damage. The vast majority of sources of damage are subject to reduction by a random number between 0 and your AC; this is applied after resistances.
Torment, smite, hellfire, sticky flame, and several other things completely ignore AC.

ac13

<Henzell>ac13 the Blocker (L16 MDFi) entered the Vaults on turn 66666. (Vault:1)

accuracy

Your ability to hit and not miss things in combat. Affected by weapon modifiers, some spells, fighting skill, and some randarts.
see spell accuracy

acehack

NetHack with improved interface. Public servers: http://AceHack.us/ (US), http://acehack.eu/ (EU). Features autoexplore! If you're bored of ##crawl, try #acehack for more helpful information on acehack.

acid

Acidic attacks and defenses come from many Js, plus spiny worms, yellow draconians, and oklob plants. In addition to damaging you, they reduce the +s of weapons (to-dam only) and armour. Items are immune if the relevant plus is +5 or better, or if the item is an artefact. +4 or dwarven is good enough outside Slime. See also resist corrosion.
If an item is not immune: having resist corrosion saves the item 9 times out of 10. Failing that, dwarven items and crystal plate mail save 4 times out of 5. Failing that, the item's plus (from 0 to 4, positive or negative) will cause it to save 6%, 18%, 34%, 58%, or 98% of the time.
Acid damage increases for each unequipped armour slot (50% chance if wearing a cloak).

acid blob

Acidic monster with a highly accurate ranged attack that can degrade your armour. Attacking it in melee can degrade your weapons, just like a jelly. Has better than average speed.
Resist corrosion won't save equipment that's not immune, but it will save your life. Tends to be a hassle in any situation, especially if more than one. Worth 4k exp for a reason!
<Kalir> Acid blobs are like brown oozes with oklob plants for hats.

acidrobin

A 100% accurate emulation of exploring a dungeon during a hallucinogenic trip. The password is 'robin'. It's probably advisable not to play if you have epilepsy or are prone to motion sickness.
see notthepope

acquirement

Will give you a random item moderately likely to be better than a random item off the ground! See also ??<type> acquirement, where <type> is book, staff, weapon, jewellery, armour, misc, gold, food, wand,misc e.g. weapon acquirement.
Q: What should I acquire? A: Wand. Or armour, or gold. Or, in rare cases, staff or jewellery. Or, in really rare cases, like you decided to do abyss with no food, food.
Do not use over lava or deep water! What kind of item would you like to acquire? (\ to view known items) Something appears before you! You hear a sizzling splash.

action counts

Add dump_order += action_counts to your rc to add a table showing weapons, spells, abilities, and items used along with frequency of usage to your morgue files.

adder

A renamed snake.
Its poison can add to your hit point loss.

adeon

Xom's younger twin.
my favourite is toccata and fugue
1. win

adjectives

List of item and randart prefixes: http://rush68.net/~dave/adjectives.htm
(rtef|glo|run|dye|emb|hin|smo|twi|d-s|spar|ncr|pitt|limy|poli|fine|crud|ed l|stea|iri|bloo|cry|jew|ich|humm|furr|atin|erin|twit|black|dul|y-b|silk|tatt|nd s|fabu|sapp|jade|rust|blue|lden|brut|soft|smel|ming|anc|ck g|ne g|bron|stee|weir|ebon|mang|ue m|mith|very|dirt|tiny|e-c|litt|phos|arp|ork|pur|one l|t ser|ruby|chunky|in d|ivor|ephe)

adom

Ancient Domains of Mystery. Contains emperor liches.
Add doppelganger kings, too.
And a dude named Khelavaster in a top hat.
Possibly including partridges in pear trees. This is unconfirmed.
More like Ancient Domains of Masochism. LOL ACID TRAPS LOL
More like RUNE TRAPS LOL
has female ogres
<nooodl_> Pacra: i've been playing for two months and am still at the character creation screen :U

adom reasons

frogs
talking to frogs
talking to frogs on mikee_'s account

adriyel

Zaps things like an angry middle eastern deity

advice

RUN
Don't die
go kiku
(Hit _)
see which stat
see where is my loot
see im starving
see hugeterm[1]
Actually, ??advice is probably the only learndb entry you should trust for advice.
see what speed
see imp_parking
see disarming
<Ryak> you dont fight 8 headed hydras on lair 2, you put an exclusion down
Always have a backup plan.
see when do I stop raising str
see resists
see am i diesel

aerie drop

HangedMan wants you dead.

aerie vault

(In)famous greater vault found at middling depths, containing a large green crystal spiral with lots of water, ball lightnings, vapours, and air elementals.
This is probably a get-off-the-level vault. -LP

aevp

Adjusted body armour evasion penalty. Affects spell success, melee accuracy. Its value is [base_penalty + max(0, 3*base_penalty - str)] * [45 - armour_skill]/45.

af cold

Attacks deal (1 to 3) * monster HD additional COLD damage (bypasses AC)
This is why Golden Dragon simulacra can kill you.
Stay the fuck away from hydra simulacra.

af elec

Electricity melee damage, electric golem (and sixfirhy) special. Reduced by electricity resistance, and by a further third if airborne. Deals 1-1.5x attacker HD elec damage (15-22 for golems).

agate snail

Very slow, but healthy and strong. Still easy to kill if you're prepared for melee or good with conjurations. Will withdraw into its shell in order to heal, which grants it regeneration and +10 AC, but causes it to stop attacking and become stationary.

agility

Provides temporary Dex, EV, and stealth bonuses.

agnes

A megabatshit crazy spriggan fighter with a good lajatang. Speed 18, base damage 30.
A unique anaconda that somehow learned to use weapons and armour. As you can see, she coiled herself up into an i shape.
She may spawn with a potion of speed and an elec lajatang because CRAWL LOVES YOU
Try a felid, so she can kill and banish you in the same blow!
I got it from Agnes!
!lg blashyrkh tebe killer=agnes 1 -tv

agony

Agony does to one living creature what Torment does to all living creatures in sight: halves its hit points, but never directly kills it. Unlike torment, however, agony does a magic resistance check and won't work on those with any negative energy resistance. It has a bonus to effective power, so it can affect even enemies that resist most hexes.

ahrin

nemelex xobeh ; sif muna ; trog ; cheibriados ; fedhas ; jiyva

air elemental

An incredibly fast (speed 25) construct that can hide in empty space. Does not occur naturally outside of the Abyss, but can be summoned. Found in a couple of vaults and a wizlab as well.
High-level (15 skill) air elementalists can control these beasts to deadly effect, but always (doubly so at low skill) be prepared to deal with a hostile one. See air elemental fan.

air elemental fan

Evoke for an (Evocations/30) chance of summoning an air elemental. It will be friendly with an (Air Magic/15) chance (capped at 96%), but any extant friendly elemental decreases your effective Air Magic skill by 5 for this purpose.

air elementalist

Starts with skill in conjurations and air magic, plus a book of Air. See bolt bouncing.

air elementalist reasons

The god you want always seems to be in that vault with the altar behind lava.

air magic

Elemental spell school.

air miscast

1: 4-12 elec dmg / meph cloud / rain cloud 2: 3d8 elec explosion / poison cloud 3: ball lightning / twister / 12-40 dmg airstrike.

air walk

Air elemental form spell; was L9 Tm/Air, removed long ago. Made you drop your whole inventory.

airstrike

A single target attack spell; uses smite targeting, so it can hit any monster you can see. It checks AC and does 1/2 more damage on flying or levitating monsters. Spell level 4.
Does less damage than Iskenderun's Mystic Blast at equal power. However, IMB is capped at 100 power, whereas Airstrike is capped at 200. High power Airstrike does more damage than 100 power IMB against flying monsters. 200 power Airstrike also requires a staff of air, robe of the Archmagi, 27 Spellcasting, 27 Air Magic, and 50 Int, so whatever.
Of course you should.

ais523

it's amazing how inconsistent Crawl's interface actually is, it's much worse than NetHack's

aizul

A guardian serpent who fell asleep on the job, letting thieves loot his vault. Disgraced, he is now a warrior! Spells: venom bolt, blink other, sleep, poison arrow. Unlike other intelligent monsters, he cannot open doors.

akrasia

Weakness of the will.

akrasiac

Person who suffers from akrasia.
Including practically all the folks on this channel.

aladar

<Aladar> i'm waiting for the forest branch so i can kill all spriggans
<Aladar> fuck crawl <Aladar> worst game
plays offline, see uncool[2]
Hates high elves and octopodes.
<Aladar> i am the beardiest

alarm trap

Wakes nearby enemies. Not particularly loud or threatening for most characters, but could be a pain if you're overwhelmingly stealth-based or if monsters stumble into it.

alchemist

See alchemist_card or hat_of_the_alchemist.

alchemist card

Transmutes gold into hp/mp. Always restores some health, and sometimes restores some magic depending on card power. Amount of gold spent increases with card power.

alcohol

< mikee_> for some reason when i'm drunk i hit the wrong keys instead of the keys i want

alefury

directional shouts
player tile overlays
look up that good hexes breaking through MR idea on the tavern
rough monster AC/EV estimate in descriptions

alexor

< Alexor> swamp is a fun branch
<Alexor> AGH WHY ARE THERE OGRES EVERYWHERE, AN OGRE ON D4, ANOTHER ON D5, AND GUESS WHO IS GREETING ME ON D6 (it is an ogre)
is a bad joke police deputy

alistairs intoxication

L4 Transmutation-Poison spell. Has a (40 + power/3)% (max 73%) chance of confusing each natural, non-poison resistant monster in line of sight with greater than animal intelligence. Has a (60 - power/3)% chance of affecting you, even with rPois, if you do not have a source of clarity. Also drains 1-3 points of intelligence 5% of the time.

alive

What you start out being. Not for long, most likely.
Unless you're undead.
Except if you're a vampire.

alligator

Nasty new monster in 0.6, it has roughly 3/2s the health of a komodo dragon, an extra attack, swiftness spell, gets bonus to speed in water, and likes to wait in ambush before chasing you onto land. Also comes in a much weaker baby version. Likes to kill you, thinks @ tastes like chicken.

alligator snapping turtle

They have reaching attacks! With 50 damage! That's more damage than a stone giant!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alligator_snapping_turtle.jpg

alliteration

Helpless, the hell hound fails to dodge your headbutt. You headbutt the hell hound. You hit the hell hound.

almost dead

Still entirely capable of obliterating you.

altar

Unlike other roguelikes, you won't be sacrificing much - altars are generally only used for religious conversion. You also can't use them to discover curse status, sorry. Silly Hacker.
Well, unless you use the altar to change gods to Ashenzari, in which case you can. Clever Hacker.
see overflow

alter

Alter means "to change". You probably wanted ??altar, or ?? alter self.

alter self

Gives a random mutation. Same as eating a fresh mutagenic chunk. Hurts your current HP, but cannot kill you directly. Cannot cast this if you are too low on HP. Level 7 transmutation, found in the Book of Morphology and the Book of Transfigurations. Removed in 0.8.

altered rat

A rat found in a certain vault that can breathe fire. Since many altered rats are in a small room, they tend to kill each other with their breath.
Ignore them, they trash your scrolls and don't give any experience.

am i diesel

<Elynae> elliptic: 46/31 is when you can start calling yourself diesel

am i going to die

Yes.

amazing games

!lm !78291 xl=12 milestone=~orb of zot -tv:>1
!lm rob char=ddbe rune=decaying xl=11 -tv:<2
!lm jenius char=dgie milestone=~orb 2 -tv
!lm heteroy char=kemo rune=silver -tv:<2
!lm tartakower rune=silver 24 -tv:<2.5

ambrosia

Restores MP and provides nutrition at the cost of confusion (Clarity does work). Found only in the Spider's Nest. In 0.11 eating ambrosia only takes a single turn, and the MP restoration is not instant, instead you regenerate MP quickly for a while.
<N78291> nothing says emergency mp source like multiturn eating and confusion

ammo acquirement

Gives you ammo suitable for your highest trained launcher type (if throwing, darts/javelins). Gives 5 times the size of a typical stack, almost guaranteed to have an ego, almost guaranteed to have an enchantment (+1-+4 commonly).

amphibious

Monsters with this flag can move through (deep) water and most of them are faster than normal while doing so.

amulet of faith

Piety increases one third faster. Yes, this means you get more gifts. Good gods save you more frequently. Xom has more dynamic piety and acts more often. Removing the amulet reduces your piety (-1/3).
Wearing it during penance makes wrath happen more frequently (and so shortens the amount of time you spend in penance).

amulet of inaccuracy

Mostly harmless. -5 To hit in melee and range (for the person wearing it). This will affect anything (spells, breath, you name it) that has a chance to miss.

amulet of rage

Allows you to go berserk, and may extend the duration on kills. Chance of success depends on evocations.

amulet of resist mutation

When you would otherwise be mutated, this amulet has a nine in ten chance of stopping the mutation and giving the message "you feel odd for a moment". If you are undead, this also covers mutation-induced rotting.

amulet of stasis

Blocks teleport, blink, haste, slow, berserk, finesse, and paralysis. Gives you some (possibly yellow) glow and cancels the status if you put it on while hasted or slowed, or while waiting for teleport.
Yes, it stops paralysis in case you didn't read the previous entry carefully. Helpful against giant eyeballs caged in transparent walls, sphinx bands and such. It does not, however, protect against Aizul's and the Enchantress' sleep spell.

amulet of statis

Blocks claims unsupported by the data or supported by gambler's fallacy like reasoning. May make you look like you know what you're talking about if you put it on while arguing.

amulet of the air

the amulet of the Air {cFly +Lev rElec EV+3 Stlth++} Always appears unidentified as "a sky-blue amulet."

amulet of the four winds

clarity, rN+, 100 MR (!)

amulet of yendor

see {#nethack}

amulets

The only potentially bad amulets are guardian spirit, faith, inaccuracy and stasis. The list is: clarity, conservation, controlled flight, gourmand, inaccuracy, rage, resist corrosion, resist mutation, warding, guardian spirit (0.6+), stasis (0.6+), faith (0.6+). 0.5 and earlier had resist slowing.
Rage, gourmand, guardian spirit, and faith (if you have a religion) identify upon wearing. Stasis and controlled flight will ID if you utilize their effects (e.g. haste/slow; levitate). Clarity, warding, rCorr, and rMut can be figured out by checking for their effects, but won't autoID. Conservation and inaccuracy are left over.

anaconda

Super-fast annihilator of spellcasters foolish enough to let it get close, and of anyone who doesn't kill it quickly. If you see an anaconda on Lair:8, read elephant shaped statue first. Otherwise, read on.
Makes great undead minion fodder. Has no poison attack and is good to eat! A prime target for all that curare you've been saving up.
<G-Flex> did I really just kill an orb of fire with an anaconda

anagram

ynoxinul <-> unix only
Sigmund <-> din smug
Potion of brilliance <-> a bionic open if troll

ancient

congratulations, you've found a randart

ancient champion

A very dangerous spellcasting skeleton, found in one vault. Try not to lead them downstairs. Spell sets: iron shot, haste, pain OR bolt of draining, haste, throw frost OR venom bolt, haste, haunt OR IMB, slow, haste.

ancient gears

The labyrinth just rearranged itself.

ancient lich

A fossil lich, resistant to fire, poison, and very resistant to cold and electricity. Can summon greater demons, and can usually cast iron shot or crystal spear, comfortably doing 3d48 damage in one shot.
LuckyNed the Shatterer (L26 OgBe), worshipper of Trog, slain by a Fiend (summoned by an ancient lich (summoned by a Blue Death (summoned by an ancient lich))) in Zig:12 on 2011-04-05, with 438717 points after 68761 turns and 6:09:39.

angband

That other other game
The homeland of harpies!

angel

If you manage to kill one, you get its stuff. Holy scourge, eudemon blade anyone? Sometimes a Lemuel vault places it in lowlevel dungeons behind translucent walls just to scare the hell out of you.
Killing one can provoke retribution from TSO but this is mostly harmless.

angelscumming

The majestic art of running around as a mummy, being chased by up to 10 angels holding gold, while trying to find a exit out of the abyss to clone the angels and thus the gold. Doesn´t work anymore.
angel´s cumming

animal skin

AC+2, EV+0. Can be obtained by skinning sheep or yaks. The only difference between a skin and a robe is that the skin weighs almost twice as much, and it stinks. Unlike in old versions, non-randart skins can now have an ego property.

animate dead

Attempts to raise all corpses in LoS as zombies (if they're fresh enough) or skeletons.

animate skeleton

Animates a skeleton. If cast over a corpse, the skeleton will rip itself away, producing chunks; useful if you're wielding a mace of distortion or something.

ankus

An elephant goad. (one-handed Mace; Dam 9 Acc +2 Delay 14)

annihilated

You had -22 hp or less when you died. Parts of you are all over the dungeon.

ant vault

ANT VAULT
THERE ARE FOUR ANT VAULTS, ONE OF WHICH IS NAMED ANTHELL

antaeus

This guy resides in Cocytus:7 and guards the icy rune. Unlike his demonic counterparts he does not summon and only has cold and lightning bolt spells at his disposal, but he hits like a ton of bricks and has a massive amount of HP. Bring cold resistance, lots of it.
In 0.5 he learned how to swim, so plan accordingly. Notice that he is vulnerable to fire and *not* poison resistant.
Don't vampiric drain him. !lg arafel char=hane place=coc:7 1 -tv

antennae

Detects monsters in a 2/4/6 square radius of the player; detected monsters are represented by a red {. Gives sInv and removes head slot at 3.

anticlimatic

After twelve years of wait and study... twelve years of rune farming... one man will die to a single sheep.

antimagic

A weapon brand added in 0.8. Dealing damage with it sometimes makes monsters lose a turn when they try to cast spells. Wielding it reduces max mp by around 2/3, getting hit by it depletes mp. Works on everything that has non-divine spells, including demons, orbs of fire, electric golems, etc.
Miscast chance for monsters increases based on damage dealt (with the weapon), decreasing every turn.

antique lich

Just a recoloured and renamed ancient_lich[1]. You'll get a lot for one, if it's in mint condition!

antique shop

Shopkeepers know as much as you do, and price accordingly.
In particular, you can learn nothing about the item from its price. And that scroll labelled PLOG will be 50x more expensive after you ID it as acquirement.

antiskillrobin

Only train one skill at a time. No switching until you reach 27!

anym

Quite possibly related to Mr. Norrell, or the man himself. Wants DSHe to become a playable combination, because demonspawn are not evil, just misunderstood, really, and Elyvilon loves everyone equally.
His campaign for president is being financed by Mephistopheles, but this has nothing to do with his stance on demonspawn rights.
When Anym starts using quotes, be very afraid.
Is not Markus Mackey, you can stop asking.
Is very likely not wearing pants.
Convicted perfectionist

aoe

area of effect. used to describe spells that affect enemies in more than one square. Normally, the implicit area is all of LOS

api

Application Programming Interface

apis

It's basically a Life Yak.

apocalypserobin

!lg apocalypserobin -tv:<0.1

apostrophe

A superfluous bit of punctuation that some old-timers habitually leave out of learndb entries. Legends tell of a time when it was deleted from input automatically.

appears from thin air

The monster in question teleported into your LOS.

apportation

Yoink! Pulls an object in LOS to your feet. Great for dealing with those pesky ice statue vaults and the Orb Chamber; also quite nice for ranged-combat characters and Tukima users. Does not work through glass walls.
Also good when you can't decide whether to loot or run, like the Abyss and SpWr speed divers. And for rescuing wands/potions from being picked up by intelligent monsters. And rescuing loot from jellies. And if you get into the habit of apporting damn near everything, can save you a lot of turns.
Max mass is 3-5 aum per point of spell power. If you fail to apport a pile, and cannot apport any part of it, nothing happens; otherwise the non-apported part remains where it is.
In 0.8, your ability to apport the orb is dependent on spellpower. There's a flat chance (1-in-6) of it failing; otherwise it will move a maximum of (pow / 10) - 1 squares towards you.

april

The cruellest month. This is official.

apropos

see apropos randarts
the hand axe "Giantbane" (weapon) {chop, -TELE rC+ SInv Stlth++}

apropos panlords

Pandemonium lords with cohesive flavour.
"A powerful demon, Stank has an armoured body with shiny metal wings. It stinks of brimstone."
Cigeutte has a crystalline body with large insectoid wings. It is surrounded by a sickening stench.
A powerful demon, Klear has a glassy body

apropos randarts

Randarts with cohesive flavour.
X - the ring of the Three Eyes {EV+6 SInv}
<heteroy> h - the Grimoire of Supportive Black Arts 666 gold
i - the ring of Xom's Flight of Fancy {MUT +Lev SInv} 403 gold
see uber_randarts[7]
see crap
the +0 robe of Peek-a-Boo {+Blink} (BirdoPrey)
K - the +1,+5 war axe "Spiderbane" {venom, rPois rN+}
H - the ring of Xom's Amusement {MUT+ rElec rF+ rC+ AC+4 Int+5 Stlth+}
the mace "Blugeona" {crush, +Blink +Inv rC+ rN+}. A long handle with a heavy lump on one end.
G - the cursed +5,+6 halberd of Truncation (weapon) {slay orc, rF+ MR Int+3 SIn
The cursed -1,-1 double sword of Frustration {pain, +Rage Dex-3 Int-3 SInv Stlth--}
d - the ring of the Good {rF++ rC+ MR}
x - the +1 crystal plate mail of Cocytus {+Rage rElec rC+ Curse}
r - the +4,+2 demon blade of Evil (weapon) {god gift, pain, AC-1}
x - the +10,-1 dagger of the Mosquito (quivered) {god gift, vamp, Dex+3}
the +0 robe of Supple Strength {EV+4 Str+2}
y - the cursed spear "Bighot" (weapon) {slay orc, MUT+ rPois Str+2}
the ring of Spontaneous Combustion {rF- Dex+3 Int+2 Acc+1}
< Stathol> A - the ring "Grats" {SustAb Str+4 Int+4}
the +4,+3 great mace "Kilit" {slay orc, rN+ MR SInv}
<ZChris13> _E - the +2 leather armour of Supple Strength {Str+1 Dex+3}
<mikee_> U - the cursed short sword "Spiderslayer" (weapon) {venom, rPois rN+ Curse}
the +2 cap of the Thirteen Spirits Spirit
the +4 robe of Brilliance {god gift, Int+3}
l - the +0 leather armour of Boredom {god gift, SInv}
Y - the amulet of Coward {Ward Stlth++}
the ring "Stat" {MR Int+4}
You finish putting on the cursed +2 robe of Wrong Decisions {Str-5 Int-1}. You feel stupid.
l - the demon whip of Pain and Death (weapon) {pain, -CAST rF+ Dex-5}
the ring "Fries" {Hunger- rElec rPois}
<Chapayev> first acq for this character: You finish putting on the +1 gold dragon armour of the Dragon {+Blink}.
<valrus> L - a transparent robe <valrus> the +1 robe of the Moon (worn) {Int-2}
v) mace "Hulk" {crush, MUT+ *Rage Str +4 Noisy}
J - +2 leather armour of the Bagpipe {Stlth--}
the +2 cloak of the Sun {rF++}
r - the +3 shield of Shielding (worn) {rF+ MR}
The -1 scale mail of Useu {Stlth--} (u - a +0 orcish plate mail)
e - the +6,+1 falchion of Hacking and Slashing {speed, +Blink rF+}
Y - the ring of Disaster {MUT+ *TELE +Inv Dam-5}
n - the hand axe of Righteous Anger {holy, +Rage, Dex+1}
You finish putting on the cursed +0 robe of Trial and Error {Int-5}. You feel stupid.
s - the -11 chain mail "Ifailiw" {Dex+1 Dam+5}.
<Patashu> You finish putting on the +1 plate armour of Fun {+Blink MR Dam+2}.
k - the cursed ring of Suqin {Str-2 SInv}

aptitude

A number from -5 to 5 reflecting your character's ability with a specific skill; higher is better. An aptitude of n means the race takes 2^(-n/4) times as much exp to advance as a human. Press ?% in game to see the big table of races and aptitudes. An aptitude of -1 or better is good, -2 is manageable even as your main skill, -3 is quite bad.
0.6 to 0.7 conversion: -5 = 238, -4 = 200, -3 = 168, -2 = 141, -1 = 119, 0 = 100, 1 = 84, 2 = 71, 3 = 59, 4 = 50, 5 = 42
Try "!apt <race>" or "!apt <skill>" in ##crawl or in PM with Henzell. An "!" next to an apt indicates that it's highest apt possible for that skill out of all races.

arachne

A half-spider caster with a staff of poison and a spell that ensnares you with webs. And poison arrow and venom bolt. Unlike spiders, she is not poison-vulnerable---and the staff gives her resistance.

arafel

!tv arafel place=coc:7 1

arcane marksman

<Melum> I'm gonna assume an Arcane Marksman is exactly what it sounds like
Like a hunter but with hexes too. And fireballs. Starts with the Book of Debilitation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z_DUMmFKNU
<ebarrett> go trog, use the book to kill the first dangerous thing you find

archer guide

Play ADOM.

archer statue

A statue that shoots missiles at you, resists a lot of things, can't be disintegrated, and runs out of ammo.

archiiij

<archiiij> ogaz: ooga chaka ooga chaka I can't stop this feeling

arga

+10,+6 mithril war axe of speed, +2 str, 30 MR, 0% overpowered. (The "mithril" is just flavor.)

arguments

Harder for mikee to win than crawl.

aristotle

A player that has finished over 1700 games and yet still has never managed better than 100,000 points.

armor

<MarvinPA_> what's an armor
see armour

armour

If a monster hits you for up-to-X damage, and you have Y AC, you take 1dX - 1dY damage or so, with a minimum of 0. Special effects like poison are not applied in the 0-damage case. Melee attacks are affected by gdr.
see armour skill

armour acquirement

Will only give armour that you can currently wear (factoring in feet, claws, horns, body size). Troll/dragon armours are possible, but are rare (and the better types even more so).
Will also give shields, rather than just worn armour.

armour popularity

Robe:36.5% GDA:30.8% Plate:6.37% Leather:6.13% Storm_DA:3.60% Dragon_Armour:3.12% Animal_Skin:2.40% Crystal_Plate:2.64% Ring:1.08% Swamp_DA:0.84% Troll_Armour:0.72% Mottled_DA:0.72% Ice_DA:0.72% None:0.72% Splint:0.60% Chain:0.60% Banded:0.48% Steam_DA:0.24% (22% of these are randart)
Percent of winners wearing given base armour type, including randarts and branded armours. Uses the same pool of morgues as spell_popularity.

armour skill

Armour skill defrays the penalties associated with heavy armours, and increases the effectiveness of your armour by 1/22nd of its base value per level of skill.
The EV penalty of a piece of armour is reduced by Armour skill. See aevp.

armours

Robe:2/-0 Steam:5/-0,rSteam Leather:3/-1 Troll:4/-1,regen Mottled:6/-1,rSticky Ring:5/-2 Swamp:7/-2,rPois Scale:6/-3 Dragon:8/-3,rF++,rC- Ice:9/-3,rC++,rF- Pearl:10/-3,rN Chain:7/-4 Splint:8/-5 Storm:10/-5,rElec Plate:10/-6 Crystal:14/-8 Gold:12/-9,rF,rC,rPois
Key: <armour name>:<AC>/<EV penalty>,<Effects/Resistances>. To avoid extra penalties, you need strength greater than or equal to three times your body armour's evasion penalty.

arrow

You shoot these from a bow or use them for sticks to snakes! (Hint: Use them for Sticks to Snakes.)

arrow trap

1d(7 + depth) damage.

artefact

Artefacts in Crawl come in three flavors. Randarts are a normal equippable item with zero or more special properties, like a +3 scale mail with electricity resistance. Unrandarts are like randarts, but specified as part of the game, like cekugob. Fixedarts are weapons with unique and deeply special properties, like the Sword of Power.
All artefacts are equippable items with special unidentified descriptions and (except for jewelry) can be identified by wearing. They are immutable except for curse status. See also ego.

article name

article text

articulated kraken

http://tinypic.com/r/jrtrih/3

artificer

A class that starts with three wands (enslave, flame, random effects (all with 15 charges)), a +0 staff, light armour, some evocations/traps&doors/fighting/dodging skill, and knowledge of recharge scrolls.

artificer reasons

Wands of random effects will never screw up your wand IDing again!
Diving XL1 spriggans.

ascii

American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a 1960s standard for assigning numbers to the characters of the Latin alphabet and common English punctuation. If you say ASCII outside the context of teletypewriter design or character encoding standards, you probably don't know what you're talking about.
You probably meant to look up character graphics.

ash skill boost

Ash boosts some of your skills for each level of bondage. The boosts come in three sizes (low, medium, high: see [2]) and also depend on your skill level and piety.
Low: staves+evocations (evoc staff), shield, dodging+stealth (evp < 2 armour), dodging+armour (evp 2 or 3 armour), all magic+evoc (jewellery). Medium: weapon, spellcasting (non-evoc staff), evoc (rod), armour (evp > 3 armour). Weapon bonus increased if 2h (or 1.5h with no shield), armour and jewellery bonuses increased if fully bound.

ashandarei

IRCs as "EulerLiar".

ashenzari

God of divinations, curses and knowledge, new in 0.8. Likes when you wear cursed gear and explore the world. Grants passive divinations, mapping, SInv, Clarity, and an active scrying ability at increasing levels of piety. Allows you to reskill. Now provides ash skill boost.
God of bondage.
Piety gain is 6+6*Bondage_level/2 per level

ashenzari reasons

Automatic identification of many items, passive mapping and monster/item detection, reskilling, clarity, see invis, and you get skill boosts from wearing cursed items. What's not to like?
You have berserkitis.
The escape hatch is a mimic!

ashenzari wrath

-4 to all skills and halved xp gain. Also boosts enemy AI: better pathfinding, they're more likely to target you when you're invisible, and they never forget about you. The wrath ends after you've gained two experience levels, not after a certain number of turns.

ashscumming

I wonder if letting this boring beatle run all over lair:8 while I struggle with hydras and infinite frogs will create more "space" for ash to appreciate me exploring

asmodeus

Casts hellfire, and summons hellions, brimstone fiends, balrugs and assorted fiery popcorn. Guards the obsidian rune, and drops the Sceptre of Asmodeus when killed.

asp

Adjusted shield evasion penalty. Affects melee accuracy, attack speed, and (1.5-handed weapons only) damage. Its value is base_penalty - shield_skill/(5 + size_factor).
Base penalty is 1 for bucklers, 3 for shields, 5 for large shields. Size factor is -2 for Og, Tr, Na, Ce; +2 for Ha, Ko; +4 for Sp; 0 for others.

assassin

A thief who accidentally left his short sword at home, but at least was smart enough to bring an enchanted dagger, a blowgun, and even a curare needle or two.

assassin reasons

Enemies have hard time seeing you, and even harder time staying alive once you plant your +2 dagger firmly in their back. You get a blowgun and curare!
The possibility of getting to backstab Sigmund

asshole

see Sigmund
see tgw
see mennas

assume

makes an ass out of u and me; similar to the way assumption makes an ass of u and mption.

atheism

// 1 out of 7 non-priestly orcs are unbelievers. | else if (mons_genus(mg.cls) == MONS_ORC) {if (!one_chance_in(7)) mon->god = GOD_BEOGH;}

atheism reasons

Crawl is a game where you can KILL GOD - if there are no Jiyva worshipers left in the game, Jiyva ceases to exist.
Gods can seriously mess up decision making if you are new to Crawl. Particularly when deciding when to sacrifice vs. when to eat.

atomjack

has one of the fastest wins ever on CAO at 21k turns.

att

pasting eating apt +156
fuck it

attack delay

Attack delay is 10 time units for a weapon with base speed 100%. Every 2 levels of weapon skill lower the delay by 1 unit.
A weapon's minimum delay is half of its base delay (rounded down) but no more than 7 (5 for sabres). For example, a club (base delay 13) has minimum delay 6, while an executioner's axe (base delay 20) has minimum delay 7.
Speed brand cuts delay by half (round up), and haste cuts delay by a third (round randomly up or down). These effects stack, after the base cap. As of 0.5, there's an absolute cap of 2 for attack delay.
You can get an estimate of your attack speed by pressing '@'. See player.cc >_display_attack_delay() for details. >=200 extremely slow | >=155 very slow | >=125 quite slow | >=105 below average | >=95 average | >=75 above average | >=55 quite fast | >=45 very fast | >=35 extremely fast | <34 blindingly fast
Since average speed is 10 time units, which is multiplied by 10 to get the 100% you see listed in a weapon description, the estimate can be translated like this: 20+ extremely slow | 19-16 very slow | 15-13 quite slow | 12-11 below average | 10 average | 9-8 above average | 7-6 quite fast | 5 very fast | 4 extremely fast | 3 blindingly fast

augment

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Augment

augmentation

0.10 Demonspawn Tier 3 mutation: gives scaling spell enhancers and slaying bonuses with self-damage: bonuses are equal to floor((mutlevel+1)*(maxhp-hp)/maxhp)*(1 enhancer + 3 slaying).

aum

Arbitrary Unit of Mass. Is exactly as arbitrary as it sounds, and nobody knows exactly how much it is. In old versions you gained 10 aum of carrying capacity per point of strength, since 0.6 you get 30 aum.

aut

Arbitrary unit of time.

autochannel

Bored of manually filling up on mana from Sif Muna or staff of channeling? Try autochannel! Latest version: http://pastebin.com/EjVeZuzq bugs / suggestions / improvement to ekiM please.

autodie

lua script by monqy; automatically dies

autoexplore

Not using this is hazardous to your health
Likes to wander around in circles in the shoals and still gets confused in hive occasionally

autofight

put lua_file = lua/autofight.lua (in the default rcfile) in your rcfile and bind a key to CMD_AUTOFIGHT (tab by default). You have to macro a key to ===hit_closest in 0.7 and previous versions.
<HangedMan> thank you, autofight, for walking up to this giant spore to punch it

autojuggle

Planned mcrawl feature: attempting to melee with a weapon inscribed with !a automatically swaps weapons and performs a melee attack.

automated text processing

A perfect opportunity to blame Erik.

autopickup

Autopickup is a function which allows you to automatically pick up items when you pass over them. Items which will be picked up automatically have green boxes around them in tiles.
By default, only food you can eat, unidentified and useful potions, jewellery, wands, curare-tipped needles, books and scrolls, used ammunition, an edged weapon if you do not have one (for butchering corpses), and coins will be picked up. This list can be changed (see [3] and [4]).
Which items are automatically picked up is defined in settings/autopickup_exceptions.txt, or by pressing 'o' to edit options on the server. The format for adding new rules is "autopickup_exceptions = <[item type/name fragment]" for items to be included and "ae = [item type/name fragment]" for items to be excluded from autopickup.
Autopickup rules can use item type ('weapon', 'armour', etc.) or name fragments (such as 'dagger', 'scroll' etc). One use for this is automatically picking up items that are glowing, runed etc.

autorobin

A robin for playing crawl by holding down the letter 'd'. Now with automatic Lair -> Orc -> Vaults branch order!
FLEEEEING
Currently can clear L and O and die in V, on a good day
see cashybrid
11686 ||| EATING scroll labeled PHIASA GEAH

autumn katana

A +8,+8 vorpal katana clarity who didn't get the news about katana removal. Dam 14 Acc +3 Delay 12.

auxiliary unarmed

Auxiliary unarmed attacks are /extra/ melee attacks using body parts. You can get auxiliary unarmed attacks by having hooves, horns, talons, fangs, a beak, or a large muscular tail, or by having non-zero Unarmed Combat skill.
0.7 base damage | Kick: 5 + (hooves mutation level * 5 / 3) + (talons mutation level) | Headbutt: 5 + (beak mutation level) + (horns mutation level * 3) + 2 with helmet + another 3 with spiked or horned helmet | Tail-slap: 6 + (6 if grey drac) + (stinger mutation level * 2 - 1 [venom branded]) |
| Punch: 5 + UC skill / 3 + (6 with blade hands) + 1d3 with claws (does not stack with blade hands) | Bite: (fangs mutation level * 2) + UC skill 5; + 2d4 with acidic bite mutation (and possible corrosion) | Pseudopods: 4 * (pseudopod mutation level) |
see unarmed_effects

avatar

of Farewell: win three different Chaos Knight combinations.

average

Describes an experience level 4-6 player ghost.

awaken forest

does (high) damage to enemies (you) next to trees for the (long) duration

awesome books

Xom's Grimoire of Loss god gift a - Pain b - Fulsome Distillation c - Evaporate d - Regeneration e - Twisted Resurrection

awesome game

splat the Spry (L15 SpCK), worshipper of Lugonu, escaped with the Orb and 3 runes on 2008-09-09, with 1888791 points after 30462 turns and 1:37:14.

awesomely powerful

Describes a experience level 26 player ghost.

awfulplayers

Membership in the awfulplayers list is strictly voluntary, but only open to those with over 1000 games and a win rate under 1%.
<Wensley> once a year, mantis requires that we feed it one awfulplayer

axe magic

http://www.youtube.com/user/Pedjt#p/c/9163D30ECE5BA2F9/0/aWHd4M0QKNE

axe trap

1d(15 + depth) damage.

axes

Once, the most popular weapon class. Hand axes are decent at start, but upgrade to a war axe when you can. And then switch to a broad axe or battleaxe when you find one. Executioner axes are the best two-hander in the game that can be wielded by normal-size races. Cross-trains with Maces & Flails and Polearms.
[hands](Dam,Acc,Delay): Hand axe (7,3,13); War axe (11,0,16); Broad axe[1.5] (14,-2,16); Battleaxe[2] (17,-4,17); Executioner's axe[2] (20,-6,20)

axioms of law

Thou shalt not use a termsize greater than 80x24
Thou shalt not play local crawl

azrael

A unique efreet. Uses fire spells (bolt of fire, fireball, sticky flame), but also uses both types of hellfire. Appears with hell hounds and fire elementals (several of each).
Is certainly not a pushover, as hellfire does huge amounts of irresistable damage.
<valrus> fire dude <valrus> whatitsface

azriel

Health: 6000 - Speed: 30 - AC: 170 - Attacks: 50(drain), 50(drain), 100, 100 - Spells: breathe nether for 550 damage. Aren't you glad you're not playing Angband.
Psst, you aren't playing Angband. You're probably looking for Azrael.

azure jelly

Fast moving jelly that hits very hard with multiple cold damage attacks. Frail characters need cold resistance and must avoid melee contact. Azure jellies are vulnerable to fire, and are in fact only rC+.

azuzu

<Azuzu> Nobody loves me! :c

b0rsuk

b0rsuk is a badger of such great power that he has mastered his own mortality. He is enormous, three-headed and capable of breathing fire. Born before the history of time, he has grown in might and magical mastery. Being immortal, there is nothing left to acquire but godhood. His claws are golden and enchanted.
Likes ogres. Raw, with a little mint sauce.
Has killed Boris 4 times in a game.
Loves Ball Lightning
Has actually found a dwarven naga barding and a blessed eudemon blade. (Sic!)
y - the -3,+15 bardiche of the Penguin (weapon) {god gift, speed, +Blink rElec AC+6}
Finally, let it be known that my current nickname is 'b0rsuk', all lowercase in accordance with unix tradition. And "Borsuk" is not my name - "Borsuk Euroazjatycki" means "Eurasian Badger" (meles meles).

b26

Dungeon Crawl 4.00b26, the last official Crawl release for several years preceding the start of work on Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
Available at http://dungeoncrawl.org/ To get this working on a modern Linux system, change SAVE_DIR_PATH in source/AppHdr.h to "/usr/local/share/games/crawl-b26/" (trailing slash critical, make sure dir exists); and remove the braces from religion.cc lines 56-67. Then make install.

baby alligator

Seen in packs with their adult counterparts, they are slightly faster than the average race, hit as hard as a crocodile, but have more health. Not a great threat unless multiple ones gang up on you in water.

background reasons

See species reasons.

bad

ideas
your ideas

bad excuse

but i wanted the loot
but i was running out of food
but jellies will eat it
but i would lose xp
but the wiki said
but i like chei
but my aptitude is -2
but i might need it later
<punpun> I didn't expect the minotaur to actually hit me 2/3 times
<Lotus> but ill die
it got lucky
<eeviac> I thought I could kill it
but I was wearing faith
<HangedMan> ew, 3020 zig, that won't have anything of worth
<Ragdoll> but my winrate
but the learndb said

bad idea

You can't have just one. See bad ideas.

bad ideas

See http://crawl.akrasiac.org/bad_ideas.txt or http://sites.google.com/site/cherrypickedbadideas/ for ortoslon's selection of ~100 favorites.
<rwbarton> !learn del bad_ideas[2000]

bad ides

Visual Basic IDE
of March

bad randarts

the -12 splint mail of Joy {Str-3 Int+1}
You finish putting on the cursed -7 gold dragon armour "Usupatad" {EV-5 Dex-4}
the -6 robe of Winter {EV-4 Dex-4 Int-1}
the amulet "Phitwautz" {Faith MUT+}
i - the cursed ring "Doacepam" {MUT Acc-2 Dam-3} 28 gold
the -15 plate mail of the Good {god gift, Stlth--}
the -7 wizard hat of a Thousand Suns {god gift, Dex-2 Acc-2}

bad sa

My understanding is that you can't make randarts ponderous, right? As it is, I'd rather have the +5 to stats than max resists in most cases
Gloorx's pack of Executioners is pretty scary for anyone except a Chei worshiper.
It's a Giant Spiked Club of Speed! I'm not using it because I'm deadly afraid of ditching my shield.
If you're weren't a naga, I'd suggest wearing the [golden dragon] hide without enchanting it. The AC is disappointing, sure, but the EVP is much more manageable and you still get all those sweet resists.
Trolls are really garbage as the game goes on, and lose all their advantages when the game actually gets into being good

bad vaults

minmay_temple_entry_levitate, minmay_temple_entry_oklob, vehumet_trees, general_overflow_altar, D:8 temples, labyrinth_trapped, minivault_12, minmay_statue_hallways
that entry vault that makes grinding noises
that entry that traps you behind a horde of plants
Entries with secret doors.

bad words

Any word that isn't in words.

badchar

type '!rng @badchar' to get a random bad character. "Bad" is defined as the greyed-out race/class combinations in character creation.
see rng[8]

badcrawl

reskill to tornado
I figure, if i learn the game with chei, when i'm better, everything will just seem so much faster.

badforum

Make skill levels in magic skills (spellcasting, fire magic, hexes...) give a penalty to HP.
<omndra> I have NO problems with having challenge Races. However, It is a BIG mistake to have Ogres fill in that gap. (It is by far the worst design choice made by the devs for this game IMHO)
(On Vehumet) "For a magic oriented god it's pretty flavorless to gain piety from melee IMHO, it's better to grant piety only for kills using magic."
"...it seems weird that Halflings remain as a choice. They have almost nothing going for them to make them a viable choice!"
Also - what if armour had a chance of getting its EV penalty lowered by the "ECW I" aspect of the scroll?
Revise Orc Priest smiting ability. Transform it to reduce a target to 1-15% of total health
Make throwing skill important for both accuracy and damage of [throw frost and throw flame].
Idea regarding manuals: Turn them into 1 time use items that increase your aptitude in the skill by 1.
"Equipment in crawl is generally a bit of a nobrainer IMO."
For all other species moving on ground is primary and water is an obstacle. Make octopodes primary water creatures and implement a minivault random cave river system.
"As in, all enemies fall in one of two categories: popcorn and extremely dangerous (liches, including Boris fall into the first category for example, steam dragons in the second - even with rElec and 50+ SH) with little to no middle ground."
"I like the food reform, it makes things more realistic"
Shadow Creatures can get you Orbs of Fire to fight against Orbs of Fire.
"The woman's body appeared to leap like a frog as her limbs twitched convulsively at each impact of the sexual onslaught..."
That and my burning love for Jellies has nothing to do with my orientation. n_n It's hard to explain, but... the thought of their thick, gelatinous form melding to my shape to grip me firmly, combined with the burning heat from the acid... it just gets me so excited.
A little prompt that says "you need 9 strength to wear this" would prevent a lot of seemingly unavoidable deaths for new players.
AC is all but irrelevant to Spriggans
I'd definitely consider switching to TSO or Zin for Zot.
Im still standing to my word.the gong is the answer to all my prayers!!
2 runes!!!!!!!!more than i ever had!!!!!!and not even in wizard mode!!!!!!!!!!
the guaranteed starting shield tends to be a stronger choice than beginning with Trog.
nerf uncontrolled blink by allowing it to land you in lava/deep water. compensate by making levitation level 1.
Apportation at higher power should be able to open and close doors at range.
In the course of 17 turns you went from what I'm assuming is full/near full health to 10 HP. That's insane.
Really, if I get !faith early, then I have plenty of ?identify. If not, I burn !identify on amulets until I find !faith.
Pre-haste and pre-fly/levitate self. Then Scroll of Vulnerability
Reflection is hands down the best brand in the game.
An idea that just popped in my head. Maybe this has been discussed before; A mutation which causes you to forget things.
An MDFi who does Elf with no rN can drop over 5-10 levels.
If you don't find at least rN+ on elf 5, I would either switch to TSO (rN+++ at full piety) and scum abyss for piety, or try slime pits for the third rune
Kill a mummy and get a pile of wrappings. use enchant armor to get a robe of Rneg+ and Rfire-. Dunno how useful it would be but I guess if someone was lacking rneg and wanted to do the crypt it might help.
Don't enter Elf without rN+ at the very least.
The damndest thing about Swamp is how cool those wisps are, and how they can ruin a caster's day if he doesnt stop and think a little bit.
Having a shield stat of 60+ has serious implications on the game and makes almost everything trivial.
Let the player cultivate a garden. Gardening is an active and optional interaction and it would make the game more interesting for the players who chose to do it. Players who hated carving chunks could just farm all their food somewhere. Since fruit is faster to eat anyway, this would be a strategic decision as well.
Take away Tormentor's other attack and make them only able to torment. Make them 4s instead to compensate.
You shouldn't put anything into weapon skills before XL10, and you should be sure to pick one by XL15. If you find something nice between those points, go for it. If you're XL15, you can't wait any longer and will need to settle for something FAST.
Has anyone else noticed ice beasts doing less damage than normal in the latest trunk? Seriously, they can hardly hurt high-AC enemies anymore. Summon Ice Beast is now near-useless as an anti-hydra and anti-bee weapon now, and it's easily outperformed by CCF.
What about changing the disposition of the loot in the labyrinth so that, instead of having it all in a pile by the exit with the Minotaur sitting on top, it's scattered at random around the labyrinth?
It's more fun to ignore 'good' advice and play terribly and still win.
I'M WEARING BOOTS OF ESCAPING! I'M WEARING BOOTS OF ESCAPING!!
I just lost all of my elite named and leveled up orc warriors and spell casters, as well as all of my lesser orc minions to an elf named Nikola on level two of the Elf Mines.
I dont find okawaru helpful at all since Im really stingy with my hunger cost so I usually die before I activate heroism. also its very hard to find the 3 books that contain dragonform so I would think sif muna definately fit the build alot more unless you find the book early then should just go okawaru or evilyvon.
What if you couldn't use a wand in the normal way, but instead, being a furry animal, you could charge your fur with it's ambient static power. as a Felid (and MAYBE Kobolds, being hairy, could have this), you like roll around on a wand or something, draining all it's charges.
Train spellcasting even if you never want to learn a spell. A good 3-4 levels will do. I forgot about doing that and ended up getting stuck between a rock and a hard place (an Unseen Horror) with my TrMo of Chei. My backup plan was Slouch, but... yea, cant cast slouch with 3 mana!
Must learn spell is: Sticks to Snakes, with this, you can try to conquer Elven Hall. This is one of the best spell, for killing all elves, quick and easy.
Luckily I don't think that there is any monster in the game called "Dragon".
Why spriggan of chei?Spriggan speed as you see is not so important (considering i managed to go so far)-the only disadvantage Chei gives.So why not
For example, Octopode is Op because those are on the syllables. Spriggan is Sp because those are the first two letters, presumably because it has 3 syllables.
This might be a bit out there, but check it out. Change Felid to Familiar. Put in a mechanic that gives you the chance to convert any spellcaster based on your charms skill. Make the total amount of things you can have charmed based on level. You can probably take away the nine-lives thingy at this point.

badirc

<DarthCloakedGuy> I've gotten an AC of 2 on a felid before <DarthCloakedGuy> That's better than a robe
<DarthCloakedGuy> I thought Iron Shot was a powerful, high-damage spell, likely to kill Sigmund. <DarthCloakedGuy> I was wrong
< Lightli_> Seriously, Fire Storm spam works on everything but Cerebov and diamond obelisks
<DarthCloakedGuy> Sif Muna gives you an evocable ability to get mana from health
DDs: Good for bra sizes, not adventurers
If I wanted comfort, I'd get a USB console controller. Vikeys is okay, until I have to move diagonally. Then they're a pain.
really? is it even possible to survive pan/hell without tso/kiku
<Perryman> LOOK AT THAT INVISIBLE GLOWING THING LETS ATTACK <Perryman> fr: remove invis or make it useful ?
anyone have any ideas on how I kill ghost moths as a dark elf caster
Also, the second Diablo 3 comes out, I can stop playing DCSS
Whatever. Mak and Veh rule but they wont win you the game. Where as TSO will
i pretty much consider necromutation or undeadform necessary for extended game.
if you have no damage dealing capability Pacify won't work

badlearndb

TOO MANY LISTS
Please take a look at any entry that needs improving!?
<MarvinPA> worse than badwiki

badmantis

0005611: Received +3 lightning scales {sslith, rElec} barding as NaSt.

badwiki

An old wiki (with lots of out of date and incorrect info; enter at your own risk): http://chaosforge.org/crawl/ There is an interesting essay about the relevance of the Chaosforge wiki located here: http://eronarn.info/misc/wiki.html
"Freeze, the first spell [in Frost], is not the best. it's [sic] damage is decent, and it slows cold-blooded enemies, but it can only hit adjacent enemies, and unlike Flame Tongue, it's [sic] range does not increase with spell power."
"Azrael and his fire elementals all trail fire, you can use that to fence in other enemies nearby, if there are enemies."
Beware of the food cost!
http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?title=The_Ziggurat&oldid=13247#Archer_strategy
recommendations include: ddne of chei, spen of tso, abandoning makhleb in the midgame (because his power dips).
Mountain Dwarf Fighter of Cheibriados (strategy guide): A wrecking ball
My power is increasing. I can feel Vehumet's pride and ice in my veins as I stride forward, destruction filling my mind. This lair will prove no more difficult than fighting an angry child.
"Like with bears, they have tentacle and bite attacks; pulls a target next to the body, tries to bite."
Volcano - "To fully explore it, you'll need a reliable means of levitation to cross the lava, which is rare at this point in the game."
Draining weapons are devastating at any point in the game
Skalds need Evasion (to cast magic)
Besides fire resistance you won't be needing much, although making the effort to reach rC+++ to protect yourself in case you need to pop an Ice Storm at close range is an excellent idea.
You completely deleted the original Mummy Wizard guide article and replaced it with a link to your own shorter, incomplete guide. This is not acceptable in a community-driven wiki.
"Strength [...] increases the rate at which you learn the Armour skill and weapon skills."
Magic Dart is a definite upgrade over Freeze any way you look at it

badwordpress

The amount of vanilla races is already very low, unless you count elves.

bag of holding

The Floor.

bailey

A forbidden dungeon of the mad chevalier. A timed portal vault. It's full of axes, polearms, gnolls, orcs, or elves, depending on the RNG. Loot is somewhere between "some crappy axes" and "multiple scrolls of acquirement."
One bailey: 4 scrolls of acquirement, 3 potions of experience, 2 potions of magic, a potion of resistance, a potion of gain dex, EW I and EW II, a potion of heal wounds, and a ring of control teleport.
G - the +21 crystal plate armour of the Great Game (worn) {rC++ Dex+1}
It is possible to encounter two baileys in the same game - one axes and one polearms.

balance

<Henzell> That's easy, balance doesn't even exist!

ball lightning

Like a giant spore, but zappier. They don't exist naturally, but Conjure Ball Lightning (L7 C/A in Sky) can make them, and are also in rare abyss, swamp, and aerie vaults. Cannot be conjured over water or lava. Remember that ones casted will explode when they time out!
!lg Ahrin id=651986 -tv

ball of energy

Evoke for MP. Gives (9+Evocations)/2 MP (average!). 5.5% chance to drain all your MP, drain 1-3 INT or confuse you for 11-20 turns at max Evoc. Has another 4% chance at max Evoc to fail. The closer you are to 0 MP, the higher your chance to fail. Then another 4% chance to fail no matter what. Lower Evoc, lower success!
At low Evocations, don't bother. The initial bad effects become less onerous as you reach double digits, but this is by no means a reliable item in 0.10. Optimally, use clarity, or keep a stock of potions of curing, as situations where you need 20 MP are situations where 11-20 turns of confusion are almost entirely unwanted.
Details: 9 in Evocations x 6 times, it fails horribly. Then after that, Has a 133/Evocations% chance of failing. Even if it doesn't fail, it rolls 4d((77-Evocations skill)/4). If that roll is greater than your MP percentage, it fails. Even if that doesn't fail, it has a flat 4% chance of failing.

ball of seeing

Takes a random number between 0 and (Evocations * 6), and causes the first applicable of the following: If it's <2: temporary loss of 1 int, <5: set MP to 0, <10: confusion, <15: nothing. Otherwise, 50% chance of nothing, 50% chance that it magic maps based randomly on your evocation skill.

ball python

A renamed small snake with constriction instead of poison.
<rwbarton> it's a cross between a snake and a ball lightning

ballistomycete

they make a buttload of spores
spores make a buttload of them
polystyrus the Transmogrifier (L12 SETm), worshipper of Sif Muna, killed by an exploding giant spore (created by an active ballistomycete (created by a giant spore (created by an active ballistomycete (created by a giant spore)))) on D:11 on 2010-01-05, with 19181 points after 18777 turns and 2:15:14.
A buttload is am imperial unit of impedance.

balrog

An upstanding citizen of Moria. For the Crawl native, see balrug.

balrug

A giant flaming rug that can smite and toss around fireballs with abandon. Always generated with a branded demon whip.
The balrug hits you with a demon whip of freezing! You are engulfed in flames!

banana

This fruit gives 1000 nutrition, but takes only two turns to eat.

banded mail

AC: 7, Ev:-5 (Heavy armour). Doesn't exist.

banishment

Sends the target to the Abyss. Cast by draconian shifters, deep elf demonologists/sorcerers, Louise and SOME (ancient) liches, wizards, deep elf magi, ogre-magi, Erolcha, and pan lords. You get some XP if you damaged the monster beforehand. In 0.11, XP is handled like for kills by summons.
It's also a Lugonu power.
An equivalent effect may happen if you get hit by a weapon of distortion.
The purple smoke created by banishing can block LOS like a scroll of fog, though obviously not as reliably.

banner ideas

Kill the Serpent of Hell in each of the four hell branches.
Win/get the orb/get 3 runes as a pig

banners todo

vow of courage -> dauntless

banshee card

Acts like a scroll of fear, where the chance of success is based on the card power.

bard ideas

<Kalir> Randart kazoos? <monky> randart kazoos.

bardiche

This polearm is an enormous combination of pike and battle axe. Damage 18, accuracy -6, delay 200, damage type: chopping. Was called lochaber axe in earlier versions. Will always be called lochaber axe in cbus's heart.

barding

Armour for the non-human half of nagas or centaurs. Worn in the boot slot, but has 4 base AC and can be enchanted to +4; they also cannot get the "running" brand, but can get (fire|cold) resistance. Can get the levitation brand, and lasts until cancelled, like boots of levitation.

bardling

a L1 bard. Sings about as well as William Shatner.
You wanted maybe barding?

bargain card

This card (as in, from a deck) will discount prices in stores by 20% during the bargain effect.

barnacled rune

Found at the bottom of the shoals. See shoals for more information.

bart

some tiles player
plays tiles

base damage

In 0.8 : 3: knife; 4: whip, dagger; 5: club, quick blade; 6: short sword, whip; 7:spear, hammer, sabre, hande axe, quarterstaff; 8: mace, falchion; 9: flail, ankus; 10: morningstar, long sword, trident; 11: scimitar, war axe, demon whip; 12: spiked flail
(0.8) 13: demon trident, demon blade; 14: eveningstar, broad axe; 16: great sword, double sword; 17: battleaxe, great mace; 18: bardiche; 19: triple sword; 20: executioner's axe, giant club; 22: giant spiked club

bashrobin

You may only damage things by bashing things clumsily with non weapons. Auxiliary unarmed attacks and constriction are not allowed, so no Ke, Ce, Mi, Dr, DS, Na, Op, Mo, Gl, or Tm.
Nerfed in 0.7 :(

basilisk

Gila monsters were replaced with these in 0.9. Same stats, but with a petrifying gaze attack.

bat

An extreme pest. Moves three times as fast as the average player, but deals only one damage. Has better HP than a rat, and very high EV. If you are two squares away from a bat, step backwards instead of moving next to it, so that it won't be able to hit you and move away in the same turn.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoddamnedBats

bat challenge

Die to a bat as a deep dwarf.
No, berserk doesn't work. And inner flame is cheating. Forms don't work either!

bat form

An ability you get as a vampire at xl3. Grants minimum movement delay and gives a bonus to EV and Dex when unencumbered but cripples your Str. No spellcasting.
Eronarn the Necromancer (L27 DSNe), worshipper of Sif Muna, collapsed under their own weight caused by gaining the bat transformation on Lair:2 on 2008-08-27, with 538692 points after 150318 turns and 17:21:18.

bat vault

MICROBAT MEGABAT GIGABAT FIREBAT GHOSTBAT FRUITYBAT ICEBAT SKELETONBAT DWARFMOUNTAINBAT

battleaxe

17 / -4 / 170%. Largest common axe, and readily available on early orc warriors. Dwarven battleaxes are commonly obtainable from skeletal warriors, hell knights, and vault guards.

battlelust card

Power 0 acts as a potion of might, 1 causes you to berserk after a 10 aut delay, 2 gives you a slaying bonus

battlemage

BATTLEMAGE
SOOTHSLAYER
KILLUSIONIST
TRANSMUTILATOR
CHARMS DEALER
TRAUMATURGE
HEXECUTIONER

bazaar

A room filled with several shops. Portals to bazaars appear on random levels and disappear after a set amount of time, so be quick trying to find it. Once you leave the bazaar you can't return, so buy what you want before leaving. Some bazaars won't disappear until entered (these don't feature the "coins being counted" or bell tolling messages).
Can appear in the main dungeon from floor 10 to 26. They have one chance (per shop) in (thirty minus floor level number) of being generated instead of a shop, with a maximum of one per floor. See shop generation.
< Garhauk> bazaar on d:27 and only 11 portals to check! < Garhauk> ok nvm it was the 2nd one < Henzell> Garhauk the Eviscerator (L21 FeBe) entered Wucad Mu's Monastery on turn 90470. (D:27)

bcrawl

Crawl, with all of the best bugs all at the same time

bdr

A player that spends way too much time adding to the learndb (and so earning the ire of the other IRC participants through the generation of spam).
Is believed to own the trophy for "Most Embarrassing Death", gained through dying to an orange rat summoned by one of his own ghosts AFTER said ghost was slain. Anyone with a more embarrassing death than that may feel free to !tell him about it.

beak

A mutation that gives you a big sharp thing on your face that you can peck things with. Kenku start with a beak. A peck is an auxiliary unarmed attack that does 6 damage. Having a beak prevents you from wearing a hard helmet (caps and hats are okay though).

beam damage

calcdice_calculator<A, B, C, D> means (B + pow * C / D) damage divided among A identical dice. Die size is rounded up/down at random, weighted by remainder.

beam ice

Damage type used for throw icicle and ice storm. 40% resistible (by rC).

beam lava

Damage type used for bolt of magma and fire storm. 55% resistible (by rF).

bear

PARTICULARLY dangerous, particularly when you first see them, particularly when they get particularly low on particles of hp and go PARTICULARLY - BEARSERK!
Whats not to like about Robin Hood? Ill steal from the rich and give to a poor bear: me. Stay here, Friar Boo-Boo.

bear cave

Found on Level 8 of the Lair about half the time (the other half of the time you get a dog cave). Contains Polar bears, Grizzly bears, Bears, and honeycombs. The bears start off behind a wall of plants, so you can run away if you don't think you can handle them.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EverythingISWorseWithBears

beard stats

Beard values for 0.10 are: beardless < 10, choko beard < 30, some beard < 60, quite a beard < 90, very beardy < 120, extreme beard < 150, extraordinary beard < 190, incredible beard < 240, uncanny beard < 300, almost entirely bearded >= 300

beastly appendage

Turns one of your body parts into the "monstrous" equivalent (horns, tentacles, etc). Is not powerful enough to meld armour. Level 1 pure Transmutations. Book of Changes.

beef jerky

The highest nutrition food for its weight at 2 AUM, 1,500 nutrition.
IT'S MINOTAURS! BEEF JERKY IS MINOTAURS!

bend space

Does 1d4 damage to you (this can kill you!) and causes you to blink randomly (ignores cTele, unlike all other blink sources). At high power, damages (by up to 1d5) and blinks nearby monsters.

bend time

Slows down everyone who's standing just next to you, unless the monster passes a (Monster HD)d3 > ((16+INVO*8)d2)/2 check.

beogh

is a deity worshipped by the cave orcs native to parts of the dungeon. Only orcs may devote their service to Beogh, and must prove their devotion by bloodshed and sacrifice. Devout followers of Beogh can smite their foes, and especially fervent devotees of Beogh may even gain followers of their own, for the orcs still look for their Messiah.
The green rat evaporates and reforms as an orc! B - a wand of polymorph other {zapped: 1} The orc falls on its knees before you. It asks, "Are you our saviour?"
Beogh encourages the use of orcish gear by giving additional bonuses for wearing it. With armor, you gain virtual armor skill points based on your piety (+.5 to +2.5) in addition to the virtual armor skill for wearing orcish gear (+2). Weapons are +1 damage bonus (as per magic bonuses) for orcish weapon, then +0 to +6 more based on piety.
In 0.5, Beogh no longer takes sacrifices, but accepts the kills of living, undead, demonic, and holy beings. Beogh also disapproves of cannibalism (all orcish flesh, not just your deceased followers).
Also the god of Anonymous. Arbeogh says, "Never gonna let you down." Arbeogh roars a battle-cry! Your orcs go into a battle-frenzy!
!lg * beogh ktyp=water 2 -tv
You swap places. Oreg drops 526 arrows. Oreg picks up a poisoned arrow.
God of fast food.
< mikee_> my last beogh game mostly involved getting my orcs killed on purpose to sac their corpses for piety

beogh reasons

You like making your own orc army!
You want to do to Sigmund what orc priests do to you.

beogh wrath

ABANDONMENT: 50 penance, you stop walking on water if applicable (glub glub glub glub), all tame orcs go hostile. RETRIBUTION: 25% smiting (and not the 7-17 kind), 12.5% 1d2 dancing orc slaying weaps, 25% followers abandon you if still worshipping, else fall through 37.5% summon hostile (warlord, high priest, knight, warrior, plain)

beos

Unemployed Operating System

berserk

Grants a bonus 1-10 damage, 5 Strength, 50% HP and reduces your attack and movement delay by 33% for 20-40 turns. This duration increases on kills if wearing an amulet of rage or worshipping Trog.
While berserk, you can only move, open/close doors, attack with your wielded weapon, if any, pray, eat, and butcher corpses if you are wielding an edged weapon or have claws or talons. Notably, you cannot use items or abilities, including god abilities, even Trog's. Be prepared before berserking!
After berserk ends, you are slowed for 100-200 turns and exhausted for a while.
There is also a mutation (called "berserk" by crawl, described as you "lose your temper in combat"; plus "makes you angry" on artifacts) that causes you to go berserk sometimes after attacks. The chance varies (5%, 15%, 25%) with the mutation level, and the chance of passing out decreases.
see undead[2]
If you worship Chei and go berserk unintentionally, Chei will prevent the increased speed effect. This should not be considered an endorsement of Cheibriados.
http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/D92514/20.jpg http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/D92514/21.jpg
Berserking uses up a very large amount of nutrition, and you cannot use the ability from Trog or evoke it from an amulet or randart if you're Very Hungry or worse. The rage duration may be extended on kills if you're wearing an amulet of rage or worshipping Trog.
The chance of passing out after your rage is 1 in: 10 + (rage_mutation_level * 25). If worshipping Trog and not penitent, there's an additional piety-in-150 chance of not passing out. You'll never pass out if Xom made you go berserk.

berserk rage

Berserks you! Will not work if you are exhausted from a previous berserk.

berserker

A melee class that starts out worshipping Trog. Starts with a light weapon, animal skin, and enough piety to use Trog's berserk ability.
http://oglaf.com/pinkhaze.html (definitely NSFW)

berserker rage

Level 3 Enchantments spell found in book "War Chants" (crusader starting book) that causes you to go berserk. The main reason why crusaders are great.
No longer exists in 0.9. The main reason why skalds aren't great.

beserk

it's berserk

bestiality

see fuk_da_sac[43]
see beastly_appendage

bhaak

Still believes that Nethack is the most popular roguelike.
Also believes that the earth is flat.
Happens to maintain a Nethack fork, UnNethack. If you're curious how a Nethack with some thoughts spent on balance could look like, give it a try: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/unnethack/
Is on the record as stating that he is not a shark.
Likes ke$ha

bident

Hand and a half polearm: Dam 7.5 Acc +3.5 Delay 12

big fish

It's big, and it lives in water. Also the name of the fish sandwich sold by Burger King.
http://www.dopefish.com/

big kobold

A kobold with much more HP that's worth a decent chunk of exp.
But they can have branded weapons and a kobold pack almost always has some blowdarts. MOSTLY harmless.
kinda like a kobold. only bigger.
Not actually bigger.

big words

pompholugopaphlamasin

birdoprey

Breaker of hearts; crusher of dreams.
http://i.imgur.com/SwSJu.png

bite

An auxiliary unarmed attack you can get if you have sharp teeth or fangs. Damage is (fang mutation level * 2) + (unarmed skill / 5).

black bear

Like a normal bear, only black (well, blue, in this case!). They go berserk when they are afraid. Common sources are scrolls of fear, or low health.
More harmless than you would expect.

black draconian

A form of draconian that is able to shoot lightning. The player race's breath sneezes lightning bolts and explosions in random directions. 2 Air Magic aptitude, and -2 Earth Magic aptitude. Resists electricity at xl 7, and gains big wings (temporary flight) at xl 14.
<FaMott> Its like a disc of storms, with less killing yourself.

black knights horse barding

A +10 centaur barding of ponderousness, with Hunger- and rN+. Appears as a black horse barding.

black magic

<elliptic> !lg * vmsg~~).*).*).*).*)

black mamba

Very fast snake that does a lot of damage and can inflict multiple levels of poisoning with one bite. Extremely dangerous, but susceptible to resistible magic, such as wands of paralysis, confusion, slowing, and disintegration.
Used to be just "black snakes" in 0.5-.
An arrogant creature with a great jump shot who always has the ball in his hands come fourth quarter.

black sheep

!vault african_american_sheep

blackguard

Skill level 8-14 in stabbing. Pronounced "blaggard".

blackrayjack

I hate player ghosts and player ghost accessories

blade card

Prompts you to wield a weapon. Power 0: temporary flaming, freezing, venom, draining or vorpal brand; Power 1: temporary distortion, pain, antimagic, chaos or elec brand; Power 2: Tukima's dance.

blade hands

A potent level 5 transmutation spell that grants a large increase to unarmed damage but impedes spellcasting while active. Base damage is 8 + str/3 + dex/3 + UC. Also adds +6 to offhand punch damage. Does not stack with claws.
You could be casting Blade Hands instead of reading this entry. Get to it.
When you have blade hands, everything starts to look like a pillow.
Kvaak the Gullible (L12 SETm), worshipper of Farts, mangled by a 20-headed hydra on Lair:2 on 2011-07-23, with 105641 points after 28865 turns and 2:38:28. Blade hands is not a good option for dealing with hydras.

blade trap

2*depth + 2d29/2 - 1d(AC+1) damage, or up to 28 + 2*depth. Contrary to its name, does not deposit blades. Scariest of the mechanical traps, but will almost never hit you if your EV is above 10.

blasthardcheese

why

bleeding

Reduces a monster's HP by a tiny fraction each turn, supposedly.
sucks.
Bleeding makes enemies leave blood trails, which can be useful for tracking down fleeing fast enemies or invisible ones, maybe

bless

The final ability (******) of The Shining One, Kikubaaqudgha (if you so chose), and Lugonu is the ability to place a permanent brand on your weapon by praying at their altar. This doesn't make it into an artefact or anything, so you can still enchant it further. See the shining one[4], {kikubaaqudgha[3]}, or lugonu for details.

blessed blade

Blessing a long blade with TSO improves the base type slightly, giving +1 Dam -1 Acc -1 Delay. The resulting weapon is called a Blessed Blade regardless of the original type.

blessed katana

A katana blessed by The Shining One. Dam 15, Acc +2, Delay 120%.

blessed toe

Sort of like a curse_toe, but summons holy monsters instead of undead and mushrooms.

blindrobin

You can't see any monsters.
On CDO, you can't see your HP or MP either.

blink

Magic that translocates you to somewhere visible, not deep water or lava, and not blocked by translucent wall. Statues are fine. Random blink tries for 3 to 6 steps away, then tries closer. You won't go farther than 6. Semi-controlled tries random blink from 2 to 7 steps in the direction you chose. Controlled lets you choose where to land.
Blinking is unreliable in the Abyss and blocked by prev-tele items; it is uncontrolled if confused or on a no-control-teleport level teleport control[2]. Controlled Blink gives semi-controlled blinks on no-TC levels. Blink scrolls respect no-TC normally. Most other sources of blink give uncontrolled blinks, or semi-controlled if you have TC
Lugonu blinks, miscast blinks (including distortion effects), blinks from plain Warp, and blinks from draconian shifters cannot be semi-controlled. All blinks cancel Condensation Shield. Monster blinks, unlike those of players, can pass through walls. If you do manage to blink in the abyss (1 in 3 chance), it's a very nice instant random teleport.
Evokable randart blink costs 1mp and 50 food, and you need 9 skill to use it at excellent.
It doesn't land you in water or lava, but it may land you in clouds. (see embarrassing_deaths[5])

blink frog

One of the toughest enemies in the Lair, though it earns this title mostly due to its ability to blink and its appearance in packs. Poison works well, as do conjurations, and you can even melee them if you can hit them consistently.
Immune to distortion. (Do you care?)

blink range

Blinks the caster a distance away from the player.
Nessos is an asshole.

blinkrobin

blinkrobin: You cannot move.
Press and hold 'o'. When lvl 2, learn blink and assign it to b. Press and hold 'o'. More macros are coming.

blizzard demon

New 2 in 0.10, replacing the blue death: bolt of lightning, freezing cloud, airstrike, bolt of cold.

blog

http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress for interesting articles on play-testing and general development Stuffs!

blood and souls

BLOOD AND SOULS
see arioch

bloodbane

Unrandart +7,+8 vorpal demon blade that lets you berserk, makes you angry, and makes you less stealthy.
< MarvinPA> The centaur goes berserk! < MarvinPA> The centaur hits you with an uncursed blackened katana! < MarvinPA> what < MarvinPA> no < MarvinPA> argh < Gretell> MarvinPA the Arsonist (L11 OgFE), worshipper of Vehumet, slain by a centaur (the +7,+8 katana "Bloodbane") on D:11, with 6649 points after 18712 turns and 0:41:07.

bloodstained

Randart prefix, but if it's a red battleaxe it might be the Wrath of Trog.

blork

A unique spellcaster orc. Tends to have a rather strong weapon, and dangerous if he hastes himself and you don't have much AC.
Not to be confused with Björk the orc.

blowgun

Blowguns shoot needles. Whether or not a needle affects a monster depends on a HD and throwing skill check. See blowgun[2]. Skill and enchantment also affects the duration of effects, see {blowgun[3]}.
You have a flat 2% chance of affecting monsters with HD14 or less. In all other cases, or if this 2% chance fails, you will only affect a monster if 2+ 1d(3 + Throwing Skill + Blowgun To-Hit) is greater than the monster's HD.

blowgun of the assassin

the +6 blowgun of the Assassin {+Inv Stlth+}. Shows up as a tiny blowgun.

blue anna

<dpeg> the Endian guinea pig :)
brought us nisse AND the ring of charms. whatta generous feller
Also responsible for minotaurs with rods.

blue death

A greater demon that can cast shadow creatures. They're usually pretty tame, but every now and then they can pop out something nasty. Also uses bolt of lightning and cold for (when you normally meet it) inconsequential damage. Vulnerable to fire!
!lg puddinbane place=abyss char=mibe -tv
Churchmouse the Blademaster (L27 HaWn), worshipper of Okawaru, blasted by a smoke demon (divine providence) (summoned by a deep elf sorcerer (summoned by a Blue Death (summoned by a deep elf demonologist (summoned by a Blue Death (summoned by a deep elf demonologist))))) in Zig:21 on 2011-08-02, with 649571 points after 98719 turns and 13:08:27.

blue devil

It flies and doesn't like fire. Only a problem if you walk into the wrong ice cave a little too early.

blurry vision

You fail to read scrolls with 20%, 40%, or 60% chance at levels 1, 2, 3 of this mutation. Scrolls that you fail to read aren't wasted. Also affects spell memorization. Having this mutation at all completely disables passive scanning for traps(!), and each level is equivalent to -2 to traps & doors when stepping into an undiscovered trap.

bmh

Has finally embraced civilisation.
Coded Cheibriados. Is rumoured to worship this god in real life.
Hates the other gods so much he is coding new wraths for them.

bmoore

Lair -> Lava

bobbens

An ancient Pokemon lich of considerable power and great evil. For evidence of the latter, search in his .crawlrc for delay_message_clear. Is also rumoured to be training two kittenliches.
Claims that he does not streak and swears he wears clothes. No, seriously.
Beards count as clothes.
Can spell prescience correctly. Wow.

body slot facet

Horns, Hooves, Talons, Claws, Antennae (Anything which restricts or makes an armour slot unavailable)

bog

Originally "B.O.G." for Brian's Orc God, was the (implied) deity associated with orc priest smiting in early 4.0 code. References to Bog were removed from the 4.0 code. Beogh is Bog's descendant, Stone Soup's god of the orcs.

bog mummy

Soggy mummy. Cold and fire resistant to one level, amphibious (but slow); hits harder (25 to 20; additional AF_COLD touch attack for 4). Slows, throws frost, and casts corpse rot.
A brackish-water variant of your average mummy. Instead of canopic jars and copious fluttering bandages, this creature was pushed face first into a bog and left to mummify naturally over hundreds of years.
Like a regular mummy, curses your items when killed. Because Swamp wasn't quite annoying enough already.
Don't fight from on top of your potions. Not that you needed to drop them.

bogart

All jokes aside, you probably are looking for boggart.

boggart

Very weak by themselves until they start summoning, at which point they can be extremely dangerous. Can instantly summon 8 yaktaurs or slime creatures. They have very low HP and MR, so zapping or casting disintegration, fireball, paralyze, enslave, confusion, and polymorph are all safe options.
They also turn themselves invisible to make things more fun. If a dozen monsters suddenly surround you, better get fleeing.
Probably the best creature to polymorph.
Can also summon more boggarts, which can summon in even more boggarts...
GODDAMMIT WHY ARE THERE SO MANY

bolt

a certain type of projectile property that penetrates through enemies and reduces the remaining range by 1 (unless a lightning bolt); see bolt[2] for the missile type
see crossbow

bolt bouncing

You can find a friendly tutorial here: http://herself.unixstorm.org/bouncing/ or watch an amazing, narrated demonstration on FooTV with the following command: !lg Mayhem 686 -tv:<2 Note: weaker in 0.6.
For a dramatic demonstration: !lg Ahrin KoCK place=zot:1 -tv
see trizap
More bouncing hilarity: !lg nht NaAs 1 place=tomb -tv

bolt of cold

A level 6 conj/ice penetrating beam attack that can hit multiple opponents in a line for pure cold damage. Does six dice with a maximum of (18 + (power * 2) / 3). At power 50 it does 6d8 damage; at power 100 it does 6d14. With sufficent power, produces freezing clouds when passing water squares; always produces steam over lava.

bolt of draining

L6 conj/necro spell in Death, rarely used because conjurers and necromancers both have better options.

bolt of fire

A level 6 conj/fire penetrating beam attack that can hit multiple opponents in a line for pure fire damage. Melts wax. Does six dice with a maximum of (18 + (power * 2) / 3). At power 50 it does 6d8 damage; at power 100 it does 6d14. As with any fire-based beams, produces steam if it passes over water.

bolt of inaccuracy

Deals good damage at Evocations level 10 - 15. You can line up several nasty monsters and blast them down all at once (irresistable damage!). Mid-game it's great against sleeping foes since you can repeat cast without it waking them up, until it hits them of course (and this will usually severely damage them).
Good vs. hydras, stone giants, large zombies, curse skulls, skeletal dragons, fiends(!), statues, most jellies and golden dragon armour-wearing ghosts. Not good vs. anything with noticeable evasion.

bolt of magma

55% resistible conjuration, generally considered underpowered. Multi-target, but shorter range than bolt of fire or cold.

bolt trap

1d(13 + depth) damage.

bone dragon

Undead dragon that is slow and doesn't have a breath weapon but has good AC and resists and hits hard. One of the best gifts Yredelemnul can grant. They were called skeletal dragons before 0.7.

bone dragon armour

Now you're just being silly.
0 ac 0 ev 0 aum, doesn't take an inventory slot. Not cursable.

bone plates

Adds AC and SH; +2 AC, +2 SH at mutation level 1; +3 AC, +3 SH at mutation level 2; +4 AC, +4 SH at mutation level 3.

bone shards

Level 3 pure necromancy spell. Wield a skeleton and cast the spell to shoot bone fragments at your enemies. Note that skeletons count as two handed weapons. The heavier the skeleton, the more damage done. Damage isn't really worthwhile. Gone in 0.8.
bone sharts

bones card

Temporarily summons one skeleton. Will only be hostile if card power is 0 and you roll a 25% chance. At card power 0: random large skeleton. 1: skeletal warrior. 2: bone dragon.

boo

negated by boo resistance

boo resistance

resistance to boo

book

It's a spellbook, tome of destruction, or manual. (r) it to find out what. It doesn't take time, no reason not to do it immediately!

book acquirement

Book gifts are non-deterministic (but weighted by your casting skills). You can get randart spellbooks. Acquirement via scrolls has a chance of producing a manual. That chance is a virtual guarantee if you have no spellcasting skills. Manual type is weighted towards your skills.

book of air

Spells: Shock, Swiftness, Repel Missiles, Flight, Static Discharge, Lightning Bolt. Air Elementalist starting spellbook.
Spells in 0.8 and earlier: Shock, Swiftness, Repel Missiles, Levitation, Mephitic Cloud, Static Discharge.

book of annihilations

One of the three especially difficult books; requires cast 6, conj 10 to read, or Vehumet worship (he gifts it). Spells: orb of destruction, poison arrow, chain lightning, LCS, fire storm, ice storm. Failing to memorize from this book causes conjuration miscast effects.

book of beasts

Summon Butterflies, Sticks to Snakes, Call Canine Familiar, Ice Form, Summon Ice Beast, Summon Hydra. Added in 0.8.

book of burglary

Apportation, Swiftness, Passwall, Control Teleport, Lee's Rapid Deconstruction, Darkness

book of callings

This book contains the following spells: Summon small mammals, Call imp, Call canine familiar, Summon scorpions, Summon Ice beast

book of cantrips

Spells: confusing touch, animate skeleton, summon small mammals, apportation.

book of changes

0.9: fulsome distillation, sticks to snakes, evaporate, spider form, ice form, blade hands. 0.10: same as 0.9, but beastly appendage replaces fulsome distillation and evaporate.

book of chemistry

Fulsome Distillation, Lethal Infusion, Sublimation of Blood, Evaporate, Condensation Shield

book of clouds

Spells: Evaporate, Mephitic Cloud, Conjure Flame, Poisonous Cloud, Freezing Cloud, Tornado

book of conjurations

Magic Dart, Throw Frost, Mephitic Cloud, Lightning Bolt, Bolt of Cold, Freezing Cloud.
Before 0.9, there were two flavours of this book. Fire: Magic Dart, Throw Flame, Stone Arrow, Conjure Flame, Bolt of Magma, Fireball. Ice: Magic Dart, Throw Frost, Mephitic Cloud, Static Discharge, Bolt of Cold, Freezing Cloud (Lightning Bolt instead in 0.8)

book of conjurations fire

Contains Magic Dart, Throw Flame, Stone Arrow, Conjure Flame, Bolt of Magma, Fireball
Doesn't exist.

book of control

Spells: Control Teleport, Enslavement, Mass Confusion, Control Undead, Metabolic Englaciation

book of death

It contains Corpse Rot, Sublimation of Blood, Dispel Undead, Agony, Excruciating Wounds, Bolt of Draining. It is the second gift in the Kikubaaqudgha chain.

book of debilitation

Corona, Slow, Inner Flame, Enslavement and Cause Fear. 0.10 Arcane Marksmen start with this. Also contains Mass Confusion in 0.11.

book of demonology

One of the three specially difficult books; requires cast 6, summon 10 to read, or Vehumet worship (he gifts it). Spells: Abjuration, Recall, Call Imp, Summon Demon, Demonic Horde, Summon Greater Demon. Failing to memorize from this book causes summoning miscast effects, including banishment and Fiends. Renamed to grand_grimoire in 0.8.

book of dreams

Ensorcelled Hibernation, Alistair's Intoxication, Flight, Phase Shift, Shadow Creatures

book of enchantments

Spells: Tukima's Dance, See Invisible, Cause Fear, Silence, Deflect Missiles, Haste.

book of envenomations

Spider form, poison weapon, summon scorpions, resist poison, olgrebs, poison cloud.

book of fire

Fire brand, bolt of fire, ignite poison, fireball, delayed fireball, ring of flames, dragon form.

book of flames

Flame Tongue, Throw Flame, Inner Flame, Sticky Flame, Bolt of Magma, Fireball. Conjure Flame replaces Bolt of Magma in 0.10.

book of frost

Spells: Freeze, Throw Frost, Ozocubu's Armour, Throw Icicle, Summon Ice Beast, Condensation Shield

book of geomancy

Spells: Sandblast, Stoneskin, Passwall, Stone Arrow, Petrify, Lee's Rapid Deconstruction

book of hinderance

Spells: confusing touch, slow, confuse, petrify, leda's liquefaction.

book of ice

Spells: Freezing Aura, Ensorcelled Hibernation, Condensation Shield, Ozocubu's Refrigeration, Bolt of Cold, Simulacrum, Metabolic Englaciation

book of maledictions

Corona, Sure Blade, Ensorcelled Hibernation, Confuse, Enslavement, Invisibility

book of minor magic

Consolidated into a single book in 0.8: Magic Dart, Blink, Call Imp, Repel Missiles, Slow, Conjure Flame, Mephitic Cloud.

book of morphology

Sticks to snakes, petrify, polymorph other, cigotuvi's degeneration, ignite poison in 0.8.

book of necromancy

Spells: pain, lethal infusion, animate skeleton, vampiric draining, regeneration, control undead, animate dead.

book of party tricks

Spells: Summon Butterflies, Apportation, Projected Noise, Blink, Alistair's Intoxication.

book of power

IMB, Venom Bolt, Bolt of Magma, Poisonous Cloud, Iron Shot, Orb of Destruction. Had Mass Confusion until 0.11.

book of spatial translocations

Spells: Apportation, Portal Projectile, Blink, Shroud of Golubria, Teleport Other, Control Teleport, Passage of Golubria

book of stalking

Spells: fulsome distillation, evaporate, passwall, dig, petrify.

book of summonings

Abjuration, Recall, Summon Ugly Thing, Shadow Creatures, Summon Demon, Summon Elemental.

book of the dragon

Flight, Cause Fear, Bolt of Fire, Dragon Form, Summon Dragon

book of the earth

Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Dig, Statue Form, Iron Shot, and Shatter. Also Liquefaction in 0.8 . Maxwell's is gone as a spell in 0.10 and Bolt of Magma is included.

book of the sky

Flight, Insulation, Airstrike, Silence, Deflect Missiles, Conjure Ball Lightning, Tornado

book of the tempests

Spells: Static Discharge, Lightning Bolt, Fireball, Shatter, Tornado

book of the warp

Spells: Phase Shift, Warp Weapon, Dispersal, Passage of Golubria, Controlled Blink

book of transfigurations

Stoneskin, condensation shield, ice form, statue form, dragon form.
Spells: Sandblast, Polymorph Other, Statue Form, Alter Self, Dragon Form in 0.7 and earlier.

book of unlife

Contains Recall, Animate Dead, Twisted Resurrection, Control Undead, Simulacrum, Death Channel.

book of war chants

Freezing Aura, Fire Brand, Repel Missiles, Shroud of Golubria, Poison Weapon, Regeneration. Skalds start with this book.
Used to contain Berserker Rage and some other junk back when crusaders existed.

book of wizardry

Summon Elemental, Agony, Lightning Bolt, Fireball, Haste, Invisibility.

bootknife

As of 0.9, all characters are assumed to be carrying a small knife that is useful only for butchering, being too fragile for combat. Consider them field dressing knives (http://www.id-rather-be-deer-hunting.com/images/field-dressing-a-deer-04.jpg) but for dragons instead of deer.

boots

Armour rating: 1. They go on your feet, if you've got them. Sorry, one size does not fit all. They come in varieties of stealth (+50 stealth), running (faster movement) and levitation (activate for permanent levitation).

boots of levitation

evoke for indefinite levitation. evoke again to stop levitation.
Has a bug (now fixed) where you can equip =lev, evoke for temp lev, wear boots of lev, take off =lev, take off boots of lev and now you have evoked temp lev yet have no evokable lev items on that could sustain it.

boots of running

-2 to movement delay (default is 10 for most races). Makes your movement speed halfway between a giant ant and a snake. Stacks with Swiftness.

boots of the assassin

+3 dex, +80 Stealth, invis, and designed by the Assassins guild. Appears as a pair of soft boots when unidentified.

borgnjors revivification

Level 7 necromancy spell that completely restores hp while permanently reducing maxhp between 2 and 11 percent depending on power. Note that the undead and those who take lichform cannot cast this spell, as they are beyond the realm of normal life and death. Those with 20 max HP or less are too frail to use this spell.
If you intend to use this as an emergency button at some point, be damn sure to have it at Excellent and leave as little margin for miscasting as possible. If you think Great is enough, think again. Ask valrus.
Does NOT cure rotting.
Does *not* ask for confirmation, set it to an uppercase letter unless you want to be very unhappy.

boring

crawl
gods whose names don't start with the letter x
##crawl
see boring_beetle[2]
English

boring beetle

A ravening greensnark-slayer, and the most likely cause of that grinding noise.
Ringo, or at least so my Dad says
Mostly unremarkable beyond drilling holes everywhere and being ridiculously hard to hurt. In worm territory in terms of how laughable dying to one is.
You hear a grinding noise.
You hear a grinding noise.
You hear a grinding noise.

boris

A unique Lich that has an awesome habit of not staying dead. Spells: bolt of cold, invisibility, animate dead, iron shot, iood.
<Jeff_> IRON BOLT DRAIN CRYSTAL SPEAR LOL HI IM BORIS

bot ideas

Add suggestions to improve Henzell/Sequell/Gretell here.
!speak, generates a line of speech for the named creature. With no creature, should default to imp. Or perhaps the command should only generate imp speech.
Something like "!learn info" that tells creation date and last edit date for a learndb entry. If that's tracked anywhere. Maybe number of edits and channel views too.

bots

Bots that can be pm'd: Henzell, Gretell, Varmin, and Sequell

bottled efreet

Summons a permanent efreet. Its chance of being friendly is 50%, plus 5% per 3 levels of Evocations (so 95% at level 27). Always carries a flaming scimitar, making it a reliable source of hydra weaponry.

boulder beetle

Vulnerable to poison! In 0.11, has a fixed chance to starting rolling per move, which pushes it from speed 6 to speed 14 and makes them fire towards you like a non-re-directing iood.

bow

Dam 3 + 1d7 (the 1d7 is from the arrow, and yes this is base damage), Acc -2 (bows get an intrinsic accuracy penalty), Delay 11. Note that the formulas for ranged combat are totally different than for melee.

bows

Bows with enhancement to damage can get a strength bonus. You need 14 strength to take full advantage of a +x+9 bow.

box level

The full-level vault that isn't river_lethe. Try "!vault box_level_dp" to see a map of it.

box of beasts

Your own mobile petting zoo! Evoke to release a beast. If the evocation was unsuccessful, there is a 1 in 6 chance that the box will turn into a simple empty ebony casket. Succeeds (60 + evo)/100. Hostile: 1/(evo+5). Bat, hound, jackal, rat, ice beast, snake, yak, butterfly, water moccasin, crocodile, or hell hound (if not worshipping a good god).

boxlos

jesus

boxx

!tv boxx id=743672

brace

<Brace_> intense feminine itch <Brace_> vagisil

bracers of archery

Glove-slot armour providing +5,+3 slaying missile, -1,-1 melee, applies to all missiles including those simply thrown. 100% of bracers are bracers of archery.

bracers of war

One of the most epic artifacts in adom. Imagine a +8 pair of gloves with +regen MR clarity +5 dmg in crawl and you get somewhere near the bracers of war :P
Except, of course, that bracers and gauntlets are separate slots in ADOM, so you can still wear your favorite gauntlets. No, there are no other artifact bracers. They also grant resistance to death rays.

bradgarrett

< BRADGARRETT> GBS owns,

brain feed

Drains your intelligence by 1 point, maybe. Smite-targeted. Prevented entirely by sustain abilities.

brain worm

Cute little critter with a smite-type intelligence draining attack. Makes a delicious, if poisonous snack.

brainless

kills you eventually

branch

See branch depths for the starting depth of a branch and branch ends for the length of a branch.
Q: Help, how do I find [whatever branch]? A: For each level it can be on (plus down from the one above, and up from the one below), make sure you've tried all 3-per-direction sets of stone stairs. Look all over for secret doors. Read/cast/evoke magic mapping, detect foo, or dig randomly on levels that look smallish. Ask the channel to watch.

branch codes

A:Shoal, B:Blade, C:Crypt, D:Dungeon, E:Elf, G:Gehenna, I:Dis, L:Lair, M:Slime, O:Orc, P:Snake, S:Swamp, T:Temple, U:Hell, V:Vault, W:Tomb, X:Cocytus, Y:Tartarus, Z:Zot

branch depths

Blade=Vault:4-6, Crypt=Vault:2-4, Elf=Orc:3-4, Lair=D:8-13, Orc=D:6-11, Shoals=Lair:3-6, Swamp=Lair2-5, Snake=Lair:3-6, Slime=Lair:5-8, Temple=D:4-7, Tomb=Crypt:2-3, Vault=D:14-19, Zot=D:27
In 0.5, Swamp=Lair:2-7, Snake=Lair:3-8, Slime=Lair:8-10, no Shoals!

branch ends

Blade:1, Coc:7, Crypt:5, D:27, Dis:7, Elf:3-4, Geh:7, Hell:1, Hive:2, Lair:8, Orc:4, Shoal:5, Slime:6, Snake:5, Swamp:5, Tar:7, Temple:1, Tomb:3, Vault:8, Zot:5

branch save letters

a) Dungeon b) Temple c) Orc d) Elf e) Lair f) Swamp g) Shoals h) Slime i) Snake j) Hive k) Vaults l) Blade m) Crypt n) Tomb o) Hell p) Dis q) Geh r) Coc s) Tar t) Zot

branches

Dungeon, Orcish Mines, Elven Halls, Lair of the Beasts, Swamp (2/3 chance), Snake Pits (2/3 chance), Shoals (2/3 chance), Slime, Hive, Vaults, Crypt, Tomb of the Ancients, Hell, Tartarus, Gehenna, Cocytus, Dis, Pandemonium, Abyss, Zot
see order

branchless

A win without entering any side branches that you enter via staircase. This means no Temple, Orc, Lair (or its subbranches), Vaults.
Branchless wins: elliptic,DESu(S) SpEn(L) TeEE(V) | mikee,MfPr(Z1) | hyperbolic,OgHe(E1) | erisdiscordia,SETm(K) | Cybermg,SpAK(L) | MarvinPA,SpEn(E) | 78291,SpNe(L) MfBe(T) | jeanjacques,DrAK(L) DEFi(1) NaWn(1) | pivotal,SpEn(L) | tartakower,HOBe(T) SpPr(Z)

brannock

Loves to play Deep Elf Wizards. He is also pretty awesome.

braverobin

Just play normally and the lua will handle all the annoying fighting for you! You might want to pick a strong melee character, though...

bread ration

see food[1]
<Wensley> what is a ration <Wensley> how size <Wensley> what big

breadbocks

unloved guy

breathe flames

Mutation (or Red Draconian innate abillity) that shoots a powerful fire-bolt, long breath cooldown compared to Spit Poison
max damage: 4 + (XL + mutlevel * 4) / 3 [+4 if dragonformed]

breathe steam

Pale Draconian breath attack. It obscures LoS. Steam clouds disappear very quickly, but the initial beam covers a fairly large area.

brent ross

A member of the Crawl 4.0 development team, and sole maintainer of Crawl circa b20.

brgn

You drew the bargain card.

brilliance

Temporarily increases intelligence, spell power, and provides a wizardry bonus.
Overall wizardry bonus is big enough to make spells success rate go from 'cruddy' to 'very good', and makes memorising spells easier (useful for 3 special books)

brimstone fiend

One of the most dangerous of the greater demons, it can cast irresistible hellfire and torment for cruel brutal damage. A reminder that your high level character is far from invincible. Also a reason deep elf demonologists are so deadly.
see fiend

broad axe

Hand and a Half Axe (Damage 14, Acc -2, Delay 160%).

brogue

https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/ Just look at how colourful it is! https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/home/screenshots
Featuring: Poisonous gas, explosive gas, gas that turns floor into bottomless pit, monkeys and goblin conjurers that you will never catch ever, autoexplore, mouse control, water currents, lava that you can blink into and die, potions that set you on fire... This game is awesome (and hard)
Now has its own wiki: http://brogue.wikia.com/wiki/Brogue_Wiki Featuring more than you ever need to know about Brogue
<minqmay> why is there pee everywhere

brooch of shielding

Unrandart amulet of warding with an addtional +4 AC and +4 EV.

brothers in arms

Trog's **** power. Spends (piety/20 - 1) piety points to /temporarily/ summon an always-friendly, berserk <foo> bear, <foo> ogre, <foo> troll, or hill|stone giant. Higher piety gives nastier friends. Since these are berserk they will move quite fast and deal damage rapidly.
Trog will shield your brothers in arms from abjuration, so they're very good for teaching summoners a lesson.
Hostile deep dwarf berserkers (found in zig) can cast this. So can hostile spriggan berserkers, who are found in the forest and in Sprint IV.

brotip

Worship Trog.

brown ooze

The big sibling of the jelly. By the time you see one, most likely not a threat. Can corrode your items, so kill it from afar if you're not wearing your slime kit.
...but not with your dagger of returning.
Use a spear of returning instead.

brown ugly thing

A new form of ugly thing that engulfs you in acid. If you don't have corrosion resistance, it hurts. A lot.

buckler

Any character who isn't using a 2-handed weapon or transmutations should get one of these. Unless you can't wear them, in which case get a regular shield.

bug

To report bugs, go to: http://crawl.develz.org/mantis/main_page.php
The obligatory link: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html -- a guide to clearly and effectively reporting bugs to maximize the chance they'll be fixed.
To have your found bug exploited, pm casmith789.

bug provocateur

casmith789: 3258: Nethack travel bug!

bullseye

A +15 shield that provides -5 EV. In case you were having trouble getting hit.

bumblebee

A very large and fat hairy bee.
A bee with benefits

burn books

Trog invocation that gives piety (1) and creates a cloud of flame. Piety gain is higher (2) if you haven't read (or identified) a book before burning it. The cloud lasts longer for rarer books. Won't burn manuals or tomes of destruction.
Useful for blocking off corridors (like Conjure Flame), but also for actively hurting monsters while you fight them in melee, as books can be burned even if monsters are standing on them.
Don't forget that you can throw a book then ignite it, not just drop it. Saves precious turns!

burning bush

Bush that throws flame, in zot defence. Sees invisible. Also in sprint IV.

bushes

Can apparently be shot and cast through, only obscure LOS when looking at two in a line. Can not be walked through, and are found around Fedhas's altars.
Take a ridiculously long time to destroy.
<N78291>bushes are twice as tough as iron, apparently
Probably made of concrete

butcher

The following weapons can butcher corpses: All short blades; all long blades; all axes; all polearms except spears; lajatangs. You can also butcher if you have claws mutation; sharp teeth mutation at level 3; or are under the effect of Ice Form, Dragon Form or Blade Hands.
Since 0.9, anyone can butcher if they are able to unwield their weapon, as all characters are assumed to have a bootknife now. Wielding a cursed, non-butchering weapon prevents you from butchering at all, unless you have sharp teeth or a beak and talons.
Even if you aren't able to butcher naturally, certain spells will butcher corpses for you, such as Animate Skeleton or Lee's Rapid Deconstruction. Additionally, using spells that blow up the target will leave chunks instead of a whole corpse behind.

butterfly

A deadly crawl monster only surpassed by the Toenail Golem. FLEE FOR YOUR LIFE IF YOU SEE ONE! Shoots hellfire from its proboscis and has an irresistible paralyze attack. Has been known to dual wield quick blades of distortion. Also reported being smiting!
<Killbot> did my butterflies... just.. kill an orcish knight?
Fun fact; Butterflies roam around while asleep!
Fun fact #2; all monsters roam around if confused and put to sleep!
Butterflies are especially sadistic, and WILL follow you up stairs.
Your butterfly hits the orc wizard. The orc wizard dies! Your butterfly looks stronger.
Autoexplore canceled. The butterfly is too close for your liking.

butthurt

omdra

button mashing

The most sure-fire way to win.
nyaakitty incarnate ;_;

bwpn

This means that you have used your breath weapon, and it is too soon for you to use your breath weapon again. Please wait.
Alternatively, drink a potion of restore abilities. Then you can use your super powerful breath again! Yay!

by

< by> it doesn't count if the trip has a purpose besides drinking

bza

haha
< bza> i could dick a short one :U < bza> er < bza> use a shortsword, dick

cabal

The team with stabwound, cbus, doy, and 78291. Totally blew out the competition in 2008.

cacodemon

Shows up as a 2. They mutate, confuse, slow, and attack with inaccurate, irresistable digging bolts of energy. More dangerous then a green death, at least.
Chaingun tears through them like warm butter.

call canine familiar

Summons various h. Takes out monsters in the early game that spammals can't handle. Always friendly. Types are jackal, hound, war dog, wolf, warg. Wargs replace wolves twice as often if you're a hill orc.

call imp

Level 2 Summoning spell found in the Books of {Callings} and Minor Magic. Temporarily summons a friendly little imp guy. Usually calls a crimson imp, but has a chance of calling a white imp, shadow imp, or iron imp. At higher power has a chance of giving multiple imps in a single cast.

call tide

Raises the water level, turning dry land near the water into shallow water and turning shallow water into deep water.

camouflage

+40 stealth per mutlevel. Octopodes start with level 1. No other effects.

can i inscribe my fists

canada

Really effing cold.

cang

cang
cang

caniforms

canids, bears, pandas, skunks, weasels, racoons, walruses. Currently only the first two apply, but knowing our devs, there's no way we can avoid getting walruses or dire weasels one day.

cannibalism

Beogh, Elyvilon, The Shining One, Zin disapproves.

cantrip

A do-nothing spell, used to water down especially nasty early spellcasters. Note that deep elves and many early uniques use the orc wizard books.
The monster glows brightly for a moment. The monster looks stronger. The monster becomes somewhat translucent. The monster's eyes start to glow.
You feel troubled. You feel a wave of unholy energy pass over you. You resist. You resist (whatever that was supposed to do). The monster shimmers for a moment (replaces the last four if friendly).
Even weaker than melee.

cao

Main Crawl server, located in Boston, MA. USA, http://crawl.akrasiac.org/ or crawl.akrasiac.org ssh port 22 ssh-username:joshua ssh-password: joshua. Runs the latest stable release, trunk, Zot Defense, and robotfindskitten. Further information on the website and ??putty entries for Windows users. Also see http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/howto

cao key

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/cao_key

cap

A cap at +0 does not boost AC, but can be enchanted. Caps can also grant Intelligence, Guardian Spirit, or See Invis. Note that a +0 cap is better than nothing against acid attacks, though the cap is vulnerable to corrosion from that attack. Players with horns can wear caps.

cap of resistance

They exist!

capsrobin

CAPSROBIN: PLAY AN ENTIRE GAME WHILE HOLDING SHIFT. NO REMAPPING OF KEYS ALLOWED!!

captainplatypus

<CaptainPlatypus> how do I zap a wand? <monqy> V <Henzell> captainplatypus the Poker (L3 MfCr), killed themselves with bad targeting on D:2, with 95 points after 1517 turns and 0:16:09.

captains cutlass

An unrandart short blade of speed. In 0.10+, has a custom base weapon: Dam 9, Acc +3, Delay 12. Minimum delay is reached at the same point as a sabre.

caracal

<caracal> haqe17: listen to faze, he's an expert ... i'm just a punk :P

card power

The level of effect of cards is determined by card rarity, Evocations, and Nemelex status. Plain: 0. Ornate: 1 if evo*9 + 150 in 500, else 0. Legendary: (1 if evo*9 + 300 in 500) + (1 if evo*9 + 300 in 700). Here evo is your Evocations skill unless you worship Nemelex, in which case it is modified as described in card power[2].
For Nemelex Xobeh penitents, evo = Evocations - penance/9. For worshippers, evo = Evocations + piety * (Evocations + 25) / 243.

cards

See deck. Full list: Battlelust, Damnation, Dowsing, Experience, Famine, Flame, Focus, Frost, Metamorphosis, Pain, Shuffle, Solitude, Summoning, Swap, Torment, Velocity, Venom, Vitriol, Warpwright, Wild Magic, Wrath, Xom, the Banshee, the Bargain, the Blade (more)
the Curse, the Dance, the Elixir, the Feast, the Genie, the Hammer, the Helix, the Helm, the Herd, the Map, the Mercenary, the Minefield, the Orb, the Pentagram, the Portal, the Potion, the Shadow, the Spade, the Tomb, the Trowel, the Warp, the Wraith.

carnivore

Built-in gourmand (i.e. eat chunks when not hungry) without the sickness protection. Also makes you get less nutrition from non-meat food, and more from meat -- and since almost all you eat is chunks, that's good. Concurrent levels increase the effect. The third level prevents eating non-meat food completely. Mutually exclusive with herbivore.

cashybrid

Bot (running a slightly-modified version of elliptic's autorobin) + casmith789 hybrid, working together to grab the orb! Current record 1:05:11.

casmith789

If you ask a question, his answer is always "go kiku".
4 runer with kiku: dungeons to 10 (or more if necessary) -> lair (all) -> orc 3 -> dungeons to vaults -> vaults until crypt -> crypt -> orc 4 -> snake/swamp 1-4 -> elf 1-4 -> shoals/snake/swamp 5 -> tomb -> vault 7 -> dungeons to 27 -> elf 5 -> vault 8 -> zot. Without kiku don't go into tomb and play a 3 runer.
What is so great about kiku? 1) You get the necromancy book just as your starting spellbook runs out of good spells 2) You get your pain weapon just as you finish lair 3) You destroy the whole midgame easily 4) Great fun tomb; free levels of experience and a rune
Classes: AK DK Hu Sk Su Wn Gods: Beogh Fedhas Xom
First lava orc win. ON THE FIRST DAY OF TESTING. http://eronarn.info/casmith789.txt
Will win a 15 runer DDFi DEVM HECj and NaAE with various levels of zig completion, this is a promise.
Dump while gretell is down: http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/0.8/casmith789/casmith789.txt
<casmith789> so apparently I was wearing a ring of -2 evasion for most of orc:4

cast

If an artefact says -CAST, that means you can't cast any spells with it equipped.

caster

only a couple people actually mean "character that casts spells" when they say this
It is complicated. You have to compare your conjuration-index against your adjusted weapon fighter score (see awefig) to get a approximate caster value.
<mikee_> a caster is.. a fisherman

castle

!vault lemuel_castle

cat

A bane of many characters. Dogs, being too stupid to reach the keyboard, are safer.

cateater

paralyze torment torment smite smite smite
Falsifies his own learndb entry.

catlich

a being of undead purrfection

catoblepas

Like a death yak in stats, but slower (speed 8) and hits harder. Breathes plumes of petrifying dust clouds at you that have a chance to petrify you based on your experience level. Like swamp drake breath, catoblepas breath will not affect you unless you're standing in the cloud at least one turn after it spawns.
Yes, petrifying clouds can petrify plants. Yes, this is intentional. Haven't you people ever heard of petrified forests?
Are themselves immune to petrification, although @?? won't tell you so. Learn from the examples of others: !lg andrewsmash killer=catoblepas 2
Your earth elemental is engulfed in calcifying dust. Your earth elemental turns to stone!
<Elynae> Wensley: i pretended that my partner was a catlobe when waltzing, it really helped
Tha stone giant stops movin' altagethar!

catsmith789

Ask NyaaKitty.

cbus

Made a nemelex spoiler for trunk, its currently out of date but its available at: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~salman/nemelex.txt Also made a title spoiler available at: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~salman/titles-0.3.html theres also a 0.4 titles spoiler at http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~salman/titles-0.4.html
Nemesis of uniques everywhere. Looks them up in the phone book before he kills them, living tissue over metal endoskeleton. Likes shades.
Is a big fan of the xmas-bows aka xbows.
Loves nothing more than having his config changed.
<cbus> napkin, instead of cheibradpit
Walks around with a lochaber axe stuck in his heart.
17:07:29 < Henzell> Mapping zignacio => birdoprey casmith789 elliptic marvinpa valrus cbus

cc

Abbreviated form of Carrying Capacity.

ccrawl

this space not for rent

cdizzle

NyaaKitty's 100th victim (!gkills NyaaKitty!). Death by Sandblast from a MDEE ghost as a MDFi.

cdo

Crawl server (also running development versions), located in Germany, crawl.develz.org, telnet port 345 or ssh port 22, ssh-username: crawl, ssh-key necessary: http://crawl.akrasiac.org/cao_key (openssh) or http://crawl.akrasiac.org/cao_key.ppk (putty)
Dump files and other stuff are available on http://crawl.develz.org.
If you experience lag try this: enable compression in ssh/putty - enable option use_fake_player_cursor = true - for more see http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/howto
wget http://crawl.akrasiac.org/cao_key; chmod 400 cao_key; ssh -Ci cao_key crawl@crawl.develz.org or On a Mac: curl -O http://crawl.akrasiac.org/cao_key; chmod 400 cao_key; ssh -Ci cao_key crawl@crawl.develz.org

ceas

Judging by percentage of games won/played, the strongest currently playable combo in crawl. Currently below MuSk and OgSk counting 0.9 combos, though!

ceiling

it's high enough to fit a tornado in the dungeon
it's strong enough to fit four oceans in the dungeon

cekugob

Amulet of warding with additional rN+ (for rN++, as amulet of warding provides rN+ already), rElec, AC+1, EV+1, rPois, -TELE, Hunger. UnIDed "crystal amulet."

centaur

These enemies are infamous for carrying bows and showing up at the worst times from afar, as well as often carrying ego bows or arrows. Easier to fight in melee, though conjurers can one-shot them fairly reliably at range with bolt of fire/cold. They have low MR and HD, so most disabling tactics work well also.
Half-human, half-horse, all eating machine. Second only to spriggans in speed, and trolls in food consumption. Like Nagas, requires special armour for best performance; a good way to get it is playing any other type of character.
<OG17> playing a centaur is like playing something fun except that you're a centaur
The race with the highest winrate in recent versions. Speedy, good unarmed, high HP... a powergamer's dream.
http://www.wtfcostumes.com/costumes/hunglikea_horse.jpg

centaur reasons

You want permanent swiftness and then some, high HP, ranged weapon aptitudes and the only armour-ignoring unarmed attack available for free.
They're hung like a horse...
Griefing.
Being awesome.
You don't like dying.
You like butchering.

centaur warrior

Like a centaur, but much much tougher. Regularly hits for 30+ damage a shot, and is escorted by regular centaurs. If you see one of these in the open, instantaneous teleportation is a Good Idea.

cerebov

Guards the fiery rune with the Sword of Cerebov and spells of iron shot, haste, fire storm, and summon greater demons. Can defeat nearly anything consistently in !fight. His level is crawling with balrugs.
In order to get loot (in the original map), you need cTele + Tele or powerful LRD/Shatter. Loot is located in small 3x3 towers of Cerebov's castle. Sometimes mobs can spawn inside.
< casmith789> cerebov is basically a buffed imp
see sword_of_cerebov
see cerebov_strategy

cerebov strategy

!lm hangedman trwz uniq=cerebov 1 -tv
!lm minmay mufe uniq=cerebov 1 -tv

chain lightning

Level 8 conj/air in Annihilations that arcs from target to target (including leaving your sight, going around corners, etc) until it grounds out. You do not aim it. Due to its chainy nature, be prepared for it to hit you and your allies, possibly repeatedly. The arcs, including the initial casting, work most reliably on shorter distances.
Even without resistance and with many arcs, you'll likely never take more than 20 damage. Although useful for how it hits a lot of targets, possibly its most powerful use is when you have one single enemy standing adjacent to you. At decent power, it will often arc back and forth between you enough times to get an instant kill on ordinary enemies.

chain mail

7 AC, -4 EV.

challenge

Win with as many runes as possible collected while already carrying the orb.
see ogre challenge
see conjuration_challenge
Branchless ogre. (done by: elliptic)
Win MuCK without ever leaving Xom. (done by: elliptic, mikee_, ragdoll, rwbarton, minmay)
see draconian_challenge
Anti-pacifist zig! Kill every monster in a zig, while worshipping trog. (done by: MarvinPA)
Streak {Ha HE HO Hu} x {He Hu} of Xom. (Take Xom before visiting Orc/Lair or going deeper than D:9 on purpose, no leaving Xom, etc., etc.)
see mummy challenge
Do a pacifist zig. {done by: elliptic}
see trog_challenge
see necro_challenge
Die to murray.
Get all four hell runes without entering orc or any lair subbranch, or descending below D:13.
see ddpr_challenge
Do a zig wearing Maxwell's, the shield of the gong and the obsidian axe.
Do a zig in Misfortune.
see electric_eel_challenge
Win a game with runecount > max xl.
Pacify Ereshkigal.
Kill all 4 of the unique Pan lords on the Orb run.
see bat_challenge
Drown as a merfolk. (completed by: procupine)
Win Zot Defence without ever spending any Zot Points.
Win a game in which all temple gods (including those in overflow altars) are abandoned before XL 10. You must play a version without wrath dilution (i.e. 0.11-a).
Complete the Rings of the Octopus King set as an octopode.
die to a worm in cocytus

change

<tensorpudding> everything was better before they changed it

changelog

http://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/blobs/master/crawl-ref/docs/changelog.txt - probably incomplete and/or out of date, see changelog[3] for an exhaustive list of changes.
http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/ has an overview of most of the important changes
Current trunk: http://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl CDO's trunk: http://crawl.develz.org/trunk/changes.txt

channeling

Converts food into mana. The staff succeeds (evo+11)/40, 50 hunger, 1d3 MP; Wucad Mu (evo+1)/25, 50 hunger, 1/5 div miscast, otherwise 2+d5+evo/3 MP; Sif power 60+INT+inv %, 100-300 hunger, d(2+inv/4) mp. For reference, merely resting will recover 14+maxMP per 600 nutrition, at standard metabolic rates.

chaos brand

Imitates other brands, or can heal, polymorph, berserk, haste, invisify, petrify, paralyse, torment, cause miscasts and probably do a lot more to enemies. Added in 0.5, only gifted by Xom, Xom's vault guards, found on Pan lords, or on the uniques Crazy Yiuf (always) or Psyche (sometimes).
Can very rarely raise hostile corpses, like the sword of Zonguldrok
Wisps of poison gas drift from the rat's front feet.
Gastronok fails to defend himself. You open Gastronok like a pillowcase!!! Gastronok suddenly stops moving! Gastronok is heavily wounded. Gastronok fails to defend himself. You open Gastronok like a pillowcase!!! You kill Gastronok! Gastronok instantly turns into a zombie! Your dagger of chaos parrots the noises around you.
The plant bobs in the air for a moment.
!lg * killer=~pikel, the cyclops 1 -tv:<0.3
Edmund seems to be having trouble coordinating all eight of its legs.
An oklob plant appears out of thin air!
You hit the bush, but do no damage. You are blasted with searing flames!

chaos knight

A worshipper of Xom. Used to have choice of several gods in 0.7

chaos knight reasons

You have to start with Xom!
You want to be a KoCK.

chaos spawn

Weird demon that hits with the chaos brand. Leaves a cloud of seething chaos upon death (wonder what would happen if you stepped in it).
<N78291> Your chaos spawn punches the stone giant. _The stone giant screams as it is devoured by a tear in reality.

chaotic gods

Xom, Jiyva, Makhleb, Lugonu

chapayev

SLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURP
see zot defense
First death of the 2009 tournament!!!!
see dungeon sprint
< Chapayev> but i used a netbsd laptop for a while, of my own choice
< Chapayev> {joke} is the hell of learndb, just like {bad_ideas} is its pan
You hear a distant slurping noise.

char set

To change your character set to IBM, add "char_set = IBM" to your options. Then, if you use putty, you need to go to Window->Translation->Recieved data assumed to be in which character set: "CP437".
For Unicode encoding, use "char_set = unicode", and make sure putty is set to receive data in "UTF-8" or your locale is "en_US.utf8".

character graphics

Using colored letters and punctuation to draw images. This approach was pioneered in the gaming industry by Rogue (only 8 years after Pong), and still the standard in the "rogue-like" genre, although attempts have been made to fix this. Most opinions hold that the fixes are worse than the problems.

charms

Probably want to train this. Contains all the good enchantments, after it was split into Charms and Hexes.
haste, ring of flames, death's door, levitation, ozo's armor, rmsl, regen, swiftness, flight, insulation, ctele, dmsl, sure blade, see invis, and all weapon brands

charred statue

Found in a vehumet overflow altar vault. Infrequently casts low-power throw flame (3d5).

cheating

MfIE
DDEE
MuSu

cheese

1200 nutrition, regardless of herbivore, carnivore, or whatever! Careful if you have the lactose intolerant mutation.

cheesing

wholly legitimate strategy

cheibriados

The Slow God! Gives piety for killing things faster than you, and slows you down as you gain piety.
Chei slightly slows digestion (-1 hunger, half of a ring of sustenance), halves effect of poison and sickness. Abilities: Bend Time -- slows down adjacent monsters. Temporal Distortion -- lets monsters move towards you. Slouch -- damage to fast stuff in LOS. Step from Time -- lets monsters go away.
Chei increases your movement delay by 2+piety/20 (capped at 10) and boosts all your stats by piety/10 - 1 (capped at 15).
<casmith789> at least beogh does nothing
<neongrey> if you didn't have to follow chei to do it <neongrey> following chei would not be so bad
You kill the elephant slug! Cheibriados appreciates the change of pace.
d - a scroll labelled USE NEBAITABRO
http://i.imgur.com/cGO39.png

cheibriados challenge

win in a char with chei with at least 4 piety stars, wearing maxwell's patent armour, and wearing the shield of the gong

cheibriados reasons

You don't care about being slow. You're an unstoppable juggernaut.
<mikee_> in one chei game i moved and a berserk orb guardian got 6 turns
You like being slower than all monsters and not having the ability to run away or use haste.
You would like +15 to each stat.
You want to oneshot several executioners at once.
Cheibriados is the cool god to worship. You can find most of the cool people there. With Che, you can just chill and do whatever and totally relax. "Take it easy" is the Cheibriados motto, for example, that's how laid back he is. Worship him if you want to have a good time. Another good reason to worship him is if you want to hang out with friends.
You want to melee slimes and oklob plants
Vampire mosquitoes.
You like splatting on the orb run.
You want to kill 100 tiamat with 2-3 slouches.
You like dying due to an accidental move.
<Blade-> this naga ghost almost killed me because I couldn't run from it

cheibriados wrath

Your penance counter is set to 25 (moderate) and you suffer sleep effects, haste/swiftness/berserk Dispel, slowing and curses; maybe all of those.
If tension is high (i.e. many enemies nearby, or dangerous ones relative to your level), the wrath is more severe. If there are fewer enemies, it is less severe. This is only checked at the start of the wrath, so you may discover yourself in a bad situation when you awaken.
_You feel the world leave you behind. You fall asleep! An Angel comes into view. Ashenzari warns you: it is wielding a eudemon blade of holy wrath. The Angel hits you with an eudemon blade of holy wrath! You die...
<ebarrett> chei wrath is probably less harmful than following chei

chief of staff

Level 27 staves title. When you reach it, you start looking like this: http://www.alcot.biz/product/osana/character_ra.html

chilling moan

Something woke up, like a curse skull or an insubstantial wisp. If you didnt see it, brace for a shadow wraith or lorocyproca.

chilliwack

Extremely fun to spectate for his breezy playstyle. Fastest pillar-dancer in the universe. Dont believe his sweet, trusting eyes.

chin mail

protects your jaw

choko

Chayote, a green vegetable of the gourd family. 600 nutrition.
Steamed wedges served with a knob of butter and plenty of cracked black pepper is the only way to eat choko.

chokowaru

Okawaru's younger cousin, who is alleged to grant might, haste, and choko acquirements.
Chokowaru dissaproves of the consumption of chokos, but approves of your wielding them, converting them into a weapon that uses your unarmed skill.
Chokowaru Grants the following abilities: Wrath of Choko - using your throwing skill, you hurl a choko at your enemy with javelin-level damage and 100% ammo mulching. Rain of Chokos - a six radius area of affect attack that won't hit every square, but does significant damage when a choko hits an enemy. Occasionally leaves chokos in empty squares.
At max piety, chokowaru grants you the ability to give one weapon the brand of Choko. Killed enemies drop chokos instead of corpses.
Chokowaru dislikes the consumption of other fruits. For his wrath, chokowaru summons hostile 5-15 chokogolems. Base them off the wood golem, but with 20 speed.
wrath part 2: Chokos in your LOS and inventory have a chance of exploding or turning into chokogolems. As well, random food may be converted into chokos.
A new God in 1.0

chokowaru wrath

Giant glowing orb of hellchokos that smites, torments, and paralyzes greensnark.

chris

color samples http://6g6.eu/sih0-mockup1.png http://6g6.eu/sih0-mock-veh-c.png

chuck

A sprint-specific unique stone giant. Collects rocks, comes with a rock of returning.

chuck norris

Plays on CAO under the name Kjoery.
http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?title=Chuck_Norris

chunk

Weighs 10 aum and gives 1000 nutrition. Comes in clean, contaminated, poisonous, rotting, hydrochloric acid or mutagenic varieties, depending on the corpse they came from.

cia

The CIA bots (the number varies), track changes to the crawl source and "inform" (tee hee) the channel. See the crawl project page at http://cia.vc/stats/project/crawl-ref

cigotuvis degeneration

Level 5 Transmutation/Necromancy spell. Requires line of fire, checks magic resistance, only works on natural monsters. Turns enemy into a pulsating lump, which means not only that you don't get the original monster's exp, but that you'll get mutated if it hits you.
Naturally, you SHOULD cast this on every monster worth less than 52 XP, if you have the spell hungerless. Actually, just use Polymorph Other on them.

cigotuvis fleshworks

You part the fleshy orifice. You are engulfed in noxious fumes!
This fleshy orifice is marked as excluded!

cigotuvis monster

A renamed tentacled monstrosity with more health.

circlelos

hitler
see roundlos

cl10283

pretends to be lordsloth and tgw at once

clan firstname

jeff (captain), grivan, heteroy, maddasher, mikee, rob

clan names

sonic yiuf
I've got 99 problems but a lich ain't one
The Artist Formerly Known as Prince Ribbit
Geryon my Wayward Son

clarity

Allows you to resist confusion. Comes in mutation or amulet form, and is granted by Ashenzari. Also prevents unintentional berserking. Doesn't prevent confusion caused by Xom or god wraths.

class

Affects starting skills, equipment, gold, spells, religion, piety, known items and the starting values for HP, MP, Str, Int and Dex and nothing else and nothing afterwards. The win percentages for each class are in class_ratios.

class list

0.10 classes: AE AK AM Ar As Be Cj CK DK EE En FE Fi Gl He Hu IE Mo Ne Pr Sk St Su Tm VM Wn Wr Wz

class ratios

Win ratios by class from Henzell on 20090828, excluding quitters and dungeon leavers: He=1.87% Pr=1.15% Pa=1.10% Gl=1.05% Th=1.03% Be=1.02% IE=0.84% Fi=0.83% VM=0.80% FE=0.77% Ar=0.77% Wr=0.76% Mo=0.59% En=0.59% Cr=0.57% St=0.57% AE=0.55% Ne=0.53% Wn=0.52% Hu=0.51% EE=0.49% DK=0.47% Re=0.43% CK=0.42% Cj=0.42% As=0.42% Wz=0.39% Su=0.39% Tm=0.38%
Win ratios by class, excluding goodplayers, quitters, and dungeon leavers: He=0.51% Pa=0.49% Be=0.39% Fi=0.36% Th=0.35% Wr=0.29% FE=0.24% Gl=0.24% St=0.22% IE=0.20% Cj=0.19% Pr=0.18% Cr=0.18% EE=0.18% En=0.18% DK=0.17% Ar=0.16% As=0.14% Wz=0.14% Mo=0.14% VM=0.13% Ne=0.12% Hu=0.11% Su=0.11% Wn=0.11% Re=0.10% AE=0.10% CK=0.10% Tm=0.08%
Win ratios for goodplayers, excluding quitters and leavers: He=7.79% Be=6.61% VM=5.48% IE=5.26% Pa=5.10% Pr=4.92% Ar=4.92% St=4.87% Th=4.41% Gl=4.37% Fi=4.31% Wz=4.29% FE=3.32% As=3.21% Cr=3.23% En=3.13% Mo=2.99% AE=2.89% Ne=2.86% DK=2.63% Hu=2.55% Cj=2.37% Re=2.34% CK=2.06% EE=2.01% Wn=1.98% Wr=1.96% Tm=1.74% Su=1.52%
For more statistics, see ratios and popularity.

classics

!lm elliptic huen uniq=boris 1 -tv

claws

+2 unarmed damage per level and increases punch damage. They chop off hydra heads. The effects of claws are eliminated if you're wearing gloves, but at claws 3 you can't use the slot anyways. Counts as a butchering tool, even if you are wielding a weapon you can not or do not want to unwield.

clean chunks

Clean chunks include: yaks, sheep; centaurs, yaktaurs; giant newt, giant gecko, giant iguana, giant lizard; giant frog, giant brown frog; snake, small snake, grey snake; giant bat; giant ant; rat, quokka; hound.
As a rule of thumb, if you can ask for it in a restaurant without being arrested, it's safe. (also, assume that the restaurant owner hates centaurs)

cleansing flame

Piety cost 2-3; fires a radius-2 ball of holy energy which does significant damage to undead and demons but does not harm the player or friendly monsters. As of 0.5, it is centered on the player.
Power = 10 + 7 * Invocations / 6. Damage = 2d(power). Does 50% more damage to unholy monsters, 50% less to non-evil monsters. 0 damage to holies.
The toadstool writhes in agony!

clear messages

If you want to get rid of the _ beginning some lines add clear_messages = true

cling

You're stuck to the wall. Works kind of like levitation. Can't cross a channel like this: #~@#
You open the door. You fall off the door.

cloak

+1 AC. Comes in poison resistance, magic resistance, darkness (evoke to turn invis temporarily), and preservation. When you're splashed with acid, the hp damage increases for every equipment slot on which you're not wearing something. A cloak, however, reduces the chance of that happening per slot to 50%.

cloak of darkness

A cloak that seems cooler than it is. Evocable invisibility (which causes a lot of magic contamination), but you need a lot of evo to get it workable. 10+ if you want it at Good.

cloak of flash

Unrandart +3 vibrating cloak {+Lev, EV+4}

cloak of preservation

It gives conservation (does not stack with the amulet) and resist corrosion (does not stack with the amulet for rCorr but does for rAcid).

cloak of starlight

The +0 cloak of Starlight {rElec rC+ EV+4 Stlth--}. Appears as a phosphorescent cloak.

cloak of the thief

A tattered cloak. The +1 cloak of the Thief {+Inv +Lev EV+2 Dex+2 Dam-3 SInv Stlth++}

clock of the thief

Helps your stealth, because the ticking distracts monsters from your footsteps.

cloud

see clouds
A cloud in a tile can't be replaced by a different cloud until its duration expires. So, e.g., prevent recurring freezing vapour tiles by adding meph and walking on that.

cloud mage

A randomly named unique mage residing in the Cloud Mage wizlab. Wears the Robe of Clouds, has an ego dagger/quickblade, blinks, airstrikes, and clouds. No flame clouds though!

cloud of flame

Can hit for 32. Keep your distance.

cloud of gloom

It's a tile of fog

clouds

Flame, freezing vapour, mephitic (mephitic cloud; AKA noxious fumes or stinking), poison, black/grey/purple/blue smoke, steam, foul pestilence (miasma), mist (swamp water), and occasionally bugginess. Of these, the smokes and mist are harmless, and they plus steam can block LOS as per scroll of fog. Also, there's the book of clouds.
see scroll of fog[2]

cloves

Did you mean gloves or hooves?

club

A heavy piece of wood that falls into the Maces & Flails category. Damage: 5. Accuracy: +3. Delay: 130. Can be thrown, usually at you.
Not a terrible weapon forged in the fires of hell -- just a terrible weapon.

club stabbing

sucks slightly less than unarmed stabbing.

coagulated blood

What a potion of blood turns into after a while. Eventually rots and disappears. Provides less nutrition for vampires than the uncoagulated kind. Like the uncoagulated kind, can be wielded instead of a chunk when casting sublimation of blood.

cock worms

cocytus

The frozen Hell. Beware of Ice Fiends. Ruled by Antaeus. Home of the icy rune. You will need levitation for the last level.

coffee

Far and away the most popular drink in ##crawl and ##crawl-offtopic, eclipsing even alcoholic beverages. You smell coffee!

cold blooded

A flag which makes creatures more vulnerable to cold damage. Includes snakes, lizards, and similar. Not to be confused with hot-blooded, which is a condition where you don't have to read my mind to know what I have in mind.
Remember that some cold-blooded creatures, like spiders and insects, don't have this flag.

colorless scales

Could be Molten Scales (rF+), Icy Blue Scales (rC+), Yellow Scales (rAcid), Green Scales (rPois), or Metallic Scales (rElec). You find out which at mutation level 2. The resistance is gained at mutation level 3.

colours

black, blue, green, cyan, red, magenta, brown, lightgrey, darkgrey, lightblue, lightgreen, lightcyan, lightred, lightmagenta, yellow, white

com ideas

xom is amused when you die to a typo

combat

(3:26:11 PM) Cryp71c: Q: "how does combat work?" A: "Who knows, we avoid fight.cc"

combat system overhaul

What happenened to 4.1. Everyone agrees this is necessary, but nobody wants to send DCSS to the same fate.

combat wombat

identify target. chop target to tiny bits. rinse and repeat.

combo

race/class combination

combo popularity

Out of the 1000 games won since 0.7, the most-won combos are 87x SpEn, 41x DDNe, 36x MfCr, 16x KoBe, 13x DSNe, 13x MfIE, 12x FeBe, 12x DEFE, 11x HECr, and 11x DDCK, excluding the tournament Nemelex choices HaTm, GhFE and SeAS. For updated info, type !lg * won cv>=0.7 s=char. For more stats, see popularity and combo ratios.

combo ratios

combo_ratios[2] lists win ratios for the different combos according to Henzell as of 20110508. But only for goodplayers playing version 0.7 or higher, and only considering combos won eight times or more. Excluding quitters, dungeon leavers, {nemelex' choice}s, and those who died before XL 5.
8/14x FeBe [57.14%], 13/48x HaBe [27.08%], 24/104x DDNe [23.08%], 11/49x DDCK [22.45%], 8/52x MfIE [15.38%], 16/149x MfCr [10.74%], 47/565x SpEn [8.32%], 10/136x OgBe [7.35%], 9/131x KoBe [6.87%]
Source: !lg goodplayers ktyp!=quit ktyp!=left char!=GhFE char!=HaNe char!=HaTm char!=KeCK char!=MDEn char!=MfTh char!=NaPr char!=OgFE char!=SEAs char!=TrIE cv>=0.7 xl>=5 s=char/won ?:N>=8
For more stats, see ratios and combo popularity.

commits

common demon

A '3' or '4'. Ranges from sun demon to rotting devil.

compile crawl

[Linux] You'll need git, build-essential, zlib1g-dev, libncurses5-dev, libncursesw5-dev, then "git clone git://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl.git; cd DCSS; git submodule update --init; cd crawl-ref/sources/; make [options]"

concise

<TGWi> learndb is useful and concise
<TGWi> except when it isn't
<TGWi> which is always

condensation shield

Gives a shield with SH 3 + ICE_MAGIC/4 (SH 2 + ICE_MAGIC/6 in 0.5-) stacks with the shield from the helm card.
It gives you the benefits of a (not very good) shield without having to use up a hand to hold a shield. Does nothing if you are wearing a shield. Interestingly, does 2-14 damage to you per round if you have negative cold resistance, so don't do that!
Yes, shield skill improves your handsless condensation shield, although getting it to even a buckler level requires good investment

config

see crawlrc
see rc[2]

confuse

L3 hex in book of Maledictions and book of Hinderance. Causes confusion.

confused

A confused monster moves randomly, attacking other monsters it bumps into, and may even attack itself. A confused player moves randomly when attempting to move, and may fail to climb stairs. Confusion prevents the use of spells, scrolls, and invocations. Potions of curing cure it; amulets of clarity prevent it outright.
Casting a spell while confused causes the same effect as reading a scroll of random uselessness. Confused monsters do not cast spells.
<monqy> you were too confused for the interface to be sensible
You can use Zin's Vitalisation and Elyvilon's Purification invocations while confused.

confusing touch

This spell enchants the caster's hands with magical energy. This energy is released when the caster touches a monster with their hands (bare or gloved), and may induce a state of confusion in the monster. Can be stacked for duration, "extremely bright" red in '@' indicates near-max. A random amount discharges upon hitting.
The save against this spell is based off of HD instead of MR, therefore confusing touch is surprisingly useful late game (if you're an unarmed fighting mage). Having confusing touch readied reduces your unarmed base damage by three, but adds d(your dex) to your to-hit.
Chance of confusing if hit = (30-HD)/30 if monster is natural, (22-HD)/22 otherwise. Does not affect non-living, plant, or magic-immune creatures.

conjugator

An alligator who casts conjurations. Alternatively, a mage who conjures alligators. Dangerous either way. Not to be confused with conjurator.

conjuration

Magic school that blows things up. Combo spells with other schools do the corresponding damage type. Higher level conjurations generally do *much* more damage per spell point, but because of hunger concerns, it may be desirable to keep using lower level conjurations against many foes.
The hunger is significant because you cast them on every monster you see. More conjuration causes your spells to do more damage, which is almost always to the point - but low levels may be enough to cast the useful sticky flame and mephitic cloud reliably. See also conjuration miscast.

conjuration challenge

Win a pure conjurer: magic dart, IMB, IOOD, no other spells, and no damaging or affecting any monsters with anything else.
Won by: jle (3 runes, SpWz, 0.9)

conjuration miscast

1: smoke / 6-12 dmg 2: 9-25 dmg / 3d12 explosion 3: 12-40 dmg / 3d20 explosion

conjurator

Think Judge Dredd in a robe with a wand.

conjure flame

A level 3 spell that creates a wall of fire in the selected space. It is very handy for keeping those pesky gnolls from rushing you, and ogres from getting too close. Do not think you are invincible behind it, though - some monsters will walk right through the flames, taking some damage, and smash your beloved DEFE into oblivion.
If you're strong enough you can easily dispatch melee enemies by standing right next to the conjured flame. Most melee enemies will stand right on top of the fire getting severely damaged. Sticky flame, bolt of fire, win. Fun fact: Hasted enemies get burned twice as much!
Also a good source of fire for creating fire elementals.
Flame clouds can kill trapdoor spiders while those are under the floor.
Flame clouds near water produce a huge amount of steam, which is useful for blocking LOS, doing piddling damage, and interrupting autotravel.

conjurer

Identify target. Blast target to tiny bits. Rinse and repeat. Starts with the book of Conjurations.

conjurer reasons

You like magic dart and mephitic cloud and still having high-level spells in your starting book.

conjurer statue

Hurls orbs of destruction at you. They hurt (up to 88 raw damage)!

conservation

Provides a 90% save for items to resist attacks that would otherwise destroy them. Cold would destroy potions, fire would destroy scrolls, and spores would destroy food. Found on amulets of conservation and cloaks of preservation, which don't stack with each other. If you want acid protection, try resist corrosion or preservation instead.
Also comes in DS mutation form, with individual mutations for protecting scrolls (part of the fire facet) and potions (part of the ice facet). These mutations do stack with the cloak or amulet.

console

Non tiles. The cool way to play.

constriction

Nagas, octopodes (both player and monster), ball pythons, anacondas and tentacled monstrosities get this as an extra attack. Holds the target in place and deals increasing damage over time.
Players and monsters can only constrict things of the same size or smaller. Blinking and teleporting allow you to escape and break constriction.
Chance to constrict depends on the attacker's size and strength/HD versus the defender's size and EV. The chance to escape depends on size and number of escape attempts, versus the constrictor's strength or HD.
Using darts of dispersal on the thing constricting you allows escape (for now). Also: polymorphing it; becoming larger than it; invoking sanctuary; moving it with tornado.
Octopodes can constrict up to eight creatures, depending on what they are wielding; others can constrict only one.

constructive criticism

get rid of the bad entry vaults
And don't make bad entries too.

consulting

We don't.

contam

An artefact property which causes glow over time. Worthless except as a swap, but can be used for short times with no risk.
what is this what is happening to me
see glow

contaminated

Contaminated (brown text description) chunks have a 1/3 chance of making you sick, don't eat them with abandon (some players prefer only to eat them when desperate). This effect is completely negated by gourmand and lower for some races (1/45 kobold, troll; 1/15 hill orc, ogre) due to their levels of saprovore.

contradictory randarts

see {unapropos randarts}

control demons

Awesome. 'nuff said.

control teleport

Spell which gives teleport control for a brief period. L4 charms/tloc, found in Control and Spatial Translocations.

control undead

This spell causes all nearby undead to be affected as if by enslavement. The effect IS temporary. Learn dispel undead instead.
The poor man's abjuration in tomb.

controlled blink

Level 7 Translocation spell that works like a blink scroll and gives contam. However, unlike the blink scroll, it acts like a semicontrolled blink on levels with no teleport control.

controlled flight

Lets you interact with the floor and items on it while levitating
Available as an amulet and a permanent intrinsic of draconians and kenku.

controlled teleport stabbing

You will need a ring of teleport control. Step 1: Take Nemelex Xobeh. Step 2: draw the Dowsing card from a Deck of Dungeons. Step 3: Draw the Warpwright/Minefield card/s. Kill everything in an open level instantly.

conversation

Oh hi, it's been awhile! What's that? Oh, I think you're looking for conservation. Yeah, good seeing you too.

cool

see refrigeration
see wensley
see sakuyaizayoi[2]

cool story bro

<ophanim> mikee_: i once had lasagna mailed to me

cool tourney winners

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cool wands

Hasting, heal wounds, and teleportation.

coolplayers

Players who have won at least one combo that makes a word online in 80x24 console.

coolrobin

a by-invite only roundrobin, if you don't know the password, you aren't invited. Heavy-armour spellcasting preferred. Started by xyblor when he got tired of his roundrobin characters dying.

corner

Watch your step around the corner! http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/Fungee/morgue-Fungee-20100806-153602.txt

corona

Outlines the target in light, making them easier to hit (by boosting your to-hit randomly between 2 and 9). Makes invisible things (temporarily) visible. Delicious with a wedge of lime. Don't leave it in direct sunlight.

corpse

Remains of a slain creature. Can be chopped for meat chunks to eat, blood can be drawn by vampires, can be offered to certain gods as sacrifice, and can also be animated with necromantic magic.

corpse color

white=safe green=poison yellow/brown=contaminated red=rotting purple=mutagenic

corpse rot

Level 2 necromancy in book of Death. Produces a single square of miasma over any nearby corpses (range is something like 6 away from you), turning the corpses into skeletons. If there are multiple corpses on a square, only one of the corpses will be affected. The miasma lasts approximately 12 turns. See corpse slap.
Try it on enslaved enemies!

corpse slap

The act of Portal Projectiling a corpse just before an enemy, then Corpse Rotting it. For bonus points, corpse slapping doesn't wake up sleeping enemies!

corruption

Makes a chunk of the current level more Abyss-like, by shifting walls and summoning a lot of neutral creatures for 600+ turns. Useful to kill everything and to break into certain vaults. May convert altars to Lugonu altars. Usable once per level, not usable in the Abyss. Cannot alter permarock. The amount of neutral demons is based on Invocations.

cracking sound

"You hear a cracking sound!" is when a thrown large rock mulches to stone outside of LOS

cranking of ancient gears

see {ancient gears}

crap

<Nexos> e - the cursed -1 leather armour "Crap" {Acc+2}

crash

If you crash and the state does not seem recoverable, go to Advanced Options in dgl and then Backup Save File and let the developers know you've done so when you file a report in mantis: crawl.develz.org/mantis

crate

<crate> how do i ever win crawl <crate> i cant type
!lm crate uniq=erica 19 -tv
!lm crate vpen orb 1 -tv:<0.5
!lm crate uniq=wiglaf 17 -tv

crate ideas

< minqmay> next time crate has an idea i am going to add it to CRATE_IDEAS

crate reasons

You want to pacify ancient liches.

crawl

hi
The game you are playing right now.
Also the action of dragging yourself forward with your hands, optionally with a little help from your feet.
press "o" to win crawltards
<slyshy> Crawl sort of makes me want to be an art thief or something.
<Noomx> its not nethack :(
<Raycaster> what do you mean it's not nethack
< Tuplanolla> Even the training dummies in the tutorial killed me.
<rawrmage> this is different from nethack, heh
is actually nethack
<chunkles> the game is obviously a metaphor for samsara, the endless cycle of death and rebirth <ebarrett> sisyphus' orb rolls back to zot:5
<HangedMan> ...basically taking advantage of mental illness
ã½(ã¡ËÐË)ã· â¡â¨
[08:49] <stenno> more sexy than nethack!
445658 | D:23 | IM SUPRISED THERE ARE THIS MANY MONSTERS
<eeviac> nobody actually likes this game <eeviac> we just want to look cool
<Tally> I suppose Crawl is one of those games that make you want to fuck centaurs
<DarthCloakedGuy> It seems just like Neverwinter Nights, just with random maps and less graphics
<crate> nice, it can kill me in one turn
<absolutego> that game sucks big time

crawl 41

Brent Ross worked on the successor to Crawl 4.0 and produced the 4.1 alpha, featuring major rewrites of spellcasting, combat, and other systems, massive internal cleanup of the code, etc.
Unfortunately, as a consequence of its alpha nature and the lack of sufficient testing, 4.1 is brutally difficult.

crawl alternative

A very old (pre-Stone-Soup) and apparently abandoned fork of Crawl: http://www.interq.or.jp/libra/oohara/crawl-alternative/

crawl duel

Both players have 30 minutes to play a game, and then their characters fight in an arena.

crawl flowchart

http://chaosforge.org/crawl/images/d/d2/Crawl-flowchart.jpg

crawl insults

hey man, you suck. go to hell with no food. and maybe find an abyssal rune when you get cast there by a hell effect. and then find a scroll of acquirement and use it on food. and then go invisible and spook asmodeus good.
You're so bad at crawl you read the wiki and got better
You don't memorize swiftness.
You get a higher score when you play on quitrobin.
Yo momma so slow that slouch heals her
yo momma so fat she shatters every step
felids
Your momma so fat that she polymorphs into an elephant slug
Talking to you is like talking to Zin.
You're so stupid your int crashed Crawl
your momma so ugly cigotuvi's degeneration has no effect
<mikee_> your ho looks like an ogre
GU

crawl light

A fork of Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup. http://crawl.aerdan.org/ | #CrawlLight | telnet://light.bitprayer.com:23

crawl players

<MarvinPA> <HangedMan> crawl attracts all kinds <Henzell> sexyelfdreams...

crawl reasons

Autoexplore.
see plutonium_sword

crawl wiki

An old and vain project to create a correct repository of all Crawl game mechanics and strategic analyses. If you need help, do not look here (yet?). If you are the sort with free time, do contribute, possibly after contacting fluffymormegil.

crawling music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7dYb27ssuQ

crawlrc

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/docs/options_guide.txt

craymondson

<craymondson> i'll just equip this sword and activate berserk, then switch to my hydra killing flail

crazy

Crazy Yiuf, Agnes, Psyche, SpFi

crazy yiuf

This unique has a quarterstaff of chaos with decent plusses, and lives in a cottage in early dungeon. He's not tainted by a shred of sanity -- unless confused! Always has a cloak.
Try listening to him when you worship Xom!
He spends his time repairing his cottage with a random hammer (or with dozens of random hammers, lying through his forest).
like an ogre, he can deal up to 35 or so damage in one shot. Or even more if he paralyzes you! Tread carefully.
<GuraKKa> "Here: A goliath beetle (lightly wounded, poisoned, berserk, bewildered and confused, paralysed)" LOL, thanks for your staff, Yiuf, this is fun
Can be any color. Including hobgoblin color. Note: is not actually a hobgoblin.
If crazy yiuf hits you, the chaos brand on his weapon can send you to the Abyss. The chance of this is fairly low, unless you've found some uber loot on the dungeon levels before him.
http://i.imgur.com/b23LM.png

crd

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crawl-ref-discuss
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.games.roguelike.crawl.devel

creak

"As you open the door, it creaks loudly!" happens one_chance_in Dex + average of Traps & Doors and Stealth.

creaks

see {creak}

creaks loudly

see {creak}

crimson imp

An annoying bastard that hits you, blinks away, and regens fast enough that even when you do hit them they nearly heal it all back. Hit them hard and fast before they run away, or just take them with you to another level and ditch them once they blink away.
Look out if one picks up a bow. Also, take note that blinking plus archery works both ways.
This is the common "imp". Was just called "imp" before 0.10. There are also shadow imps, iron imps and white imps.
see imp parking
The imp shouts " Slither away, thou beslubbering exsanguinous vassal!"
dedhed81 the Thaumaturge (L10 DEFE), worshipper of Vehumet, slain by a crimson imp (the +6,+0 lajatang "Concordance" vamp) on D:7, with 4362 points after 12173 turns and 0:58:04.
http://www.doomworld.com/10years/doomcomic/comic.php?page=8

crocodile

Formerly giant lizards. They hit hard. Really hard. First crocodile death on CDO goes to Napkin!

cross training

Some weapon skills train twice as fast if you have another skill at higher level. Pairs that allow cross training are Short <-> Long Blades, Maces <-> Axes, Axes <-> Polearms, Polearms <-> Staves, Maces <-> Staves also Slings<->Throwing.

crossbow

You know what it looks like, right? Good. It also has a basic damage rating of 5 and 150% attack speed delay. Fires crossbow bolts.

crown of dyrovepreva

+3 unrandart cap { Int+2 rElec sInv hunger+ }. "jewelled bronze crown". A large crown of dull bronze, set with a dazzling array of gemstones.

crumbling entrance

see spiders nest
see {spiders_nest[2]}

crusade card

If power level >= 1 a check for every monster in range will be made, and if HD*35 < random2(power) you will either charm or enslave the monster. This only works on living monsters which are not uniques, not magic immune and will not be enraged by your god. This card will also give the effect of abjuration (even if the power level has not been met).
If you have something that can drain monsters, you can potentially convert some of the high-HD monsters by draining them to reduce their HD (though this may not always work) before using Crusade. Though risky, a purple draconian annihilator on your side can be well worth the trouble.
It will also make fleeing friendly monsters fight to the death if successful.

crusader

A character build loosely based around melee combat and charms such as silence and haste. Starts with a book of War Chants, a selected weapon, and skill in Charms. Removed in 0.9. "Replaced" by Skald.

cryp71c

according to BirdoPrey, is an obsessive DS player. (note, it doesn't mean he's actually GOOD at DS) :D
has sacrificed more spen's to the careless-death god than you will ever win.

crypt

Accessed from the Vaults somewhere between levels 2 and 4. Five levels deep. No rune, but there is some swag to be found. THANKS BOBBENS FOR CRYPT VAULTS (but screw whoever made the mummy ending). Watch out for curse skulls, and the aforementioned vaults. Also be prepared to deal with an endless supply of skeletal warriors.
Easy way to get TSO piety: if you convert to TSO and head to Crypt, by the time you finish Crypt:5, you will have ***** of TSO piety.
There isn't much to eat down here aside from the occasional necromancer, so make sure to pack a lunch.
For a glimpse of one of the horrible mummy ending vaults, watch !lm hyperbolic br.end=crypt 69 -tv
<tensorpudding> how many lichs does it take to get to the center of the crypt:5 vault

cryptic

see {Cryp71c}

cryptofortress

Widely regarded as the best Crypt:5 vault map.
<Pacra> the best one

crystal ball

Crystal balls come in two varieties: seeing (magic mapping - removed in 0.10), and crystal ball of energy (restores magic). An Evoc skill of >8 is required to use them somewhat reliably. They can cause int drain or confusion.
see stupid death
For an object lesson on why not to use unidentified crystal balls in 0.7 and earlier: !tv shovelmint d:26 decj

crystal golem

More like cake golem. Yum.
Nothing like cake golem.

crystal guardian

crystal golem with bolt of fire and bolt of cold.
A sign of the crown of dyrovepreva

crystal plate armour

14AC, -8EV, 120 aum. The most massive heavy armour. Resists corrosion.

crystal plate mail

cs

See LCS

cso

DCSS for rebels and degenerates (coming soon)

csplat

Crawl's analogue to SplatTV, telnet termcast.develz.org to watch.
Source: http://github.com/greensnark/dcss_tv

cumulogranite

Rock-filled clouds, an actual RL aviation term and the bestest word ever. A mandatory Earth/Air lev9 spell.

curare

A type of poison that will slow you, poison you, and do large impact damage (called asphyxiation). To avoid it you can use stealth and eXamine to avoid being in any blowgun wielding creature's line of fire for too long. Poison resistance prevents the poisoning and asphyxiation, as well as the slowing (being undead will too).
Use scrolls of enchant weapon on curare to make it last longer before disappearing!
According to ogaz, you should carry curare around with you so that you can forget to use it and then feel like an idiot when you die.

cure poison

L2 poison. Cures a few levels of poison, about from deep red to yellow (and yellow to none). That's about it.

current combos

race!=OM race!=GE race!=El race!=Gn race!=HD race!=MD race!=LO class!=Th class!=Re class!=Cr class!=Pa

curse

Cursed items cannot be removed, unless the curse is broken first by enchantment or scroll. Curses have no other effect.
see recurse
see mummy

curse card

Card from deck of punishment. By card power, 0: Curses one or two items. 1: Curse at least one item and a random number more, the average being 4. 2: Curses every item you've got, but may stop after each item if 1:1000 is rolled. Unlike the other levels, will decay your potions.

curse skull

A stationary undead skull that specialises in tormenting you and summoning undead that kill you. Not related to bobbens. As of 0.5, not affected by silence.

curse toe

A rotting toe. Gross! Generally resembles a curse skull, but it moves and likes to summon mushrooms as well as undead. Zot-exclusive, outside of certain vaults. One bad mutha--. Susceptible to silence in pre-0.5 versions. Moves at half its action speed.
The curse toe gives a chilling moan.

cursed ring of teleportation

did you try cutting off your fingers?

cursor

If your cursor is invisible outside of LOS, set "use_fake_cursor = true" in your config.

custom shops

http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git;a=commitdiff;h=04537fedc5f86e8d4a1fac7d8def2a2d2c3373a4

cyan bird

<Cyan`Bird> i'd wear ponies, cause it has +rage

cyan ugly thing

An ugly thing that is resistant to electricity. No biggie, unless you're relying on Static Discharge.
They also possess an electrical attack, which may hurt without requisite resistance.

cyclops

They throw large rocks, then close to melee. Those rocks can hurt, be careful if you're a squishy mage. Slow.
they love sheep. There are no cycsheep though.

cyrus

Known to play hill dwarves exclusively, with much success.

d

D is for Dungeon, which is where you start the game. Twenty-seven levels deep.

daeva

Very rare monster summoned by TSO or Xom as pets or punishers. Spells: Smiting, smiting, smiting.
Can also be seen (rarely) in the Abyss, Pan, Zig holy levels and in one vault.

daftfad

<daftfad> D - an uncursed runed spear of dragon slaying <-- too bad this is a useless brand <daftfad> aight time to test this spear on a steam dragon <Henzell> daftfad the Slasher (L8 HuGl), worshipper of Okawaru, blasted by a steam dragon (ball of steam) on D:5, with 854 points after 6804 turns and 0:48:03. <daftfad> ...
Q: how do I kill X A: wand it

dagger

A long knife or a very short sword, which can be held or thrown. (small Short Blade; Dam 4 Acc +6 Delay 10) Notable for getting an initially larger Stabbing bonus than any other weapon.

dagger of chilly death

+5,+7 dagger of Chilly Death {freeze, rPois rF- rC++ MR}. Seen as a sapphire dagger

dagger of speed

<neongrey> dagger of reminding you why holding down directions will kill you

damage

See weapon damage, unarmed combat
It hurts.

damnation

The Damnation card throws multiple creatures into the Abyss, the number of creatures increasing with power. You are a creature. However, that's not to say you will be thrown into the abyss, just that you might be (and your chance doesn't increase with power). Unless you're the only visible creature, in which case you will be.

dance card

Animates a temporary dancing weapon. Card power 0: weak dagger or club. 1: average long sword or hand axe, sometimes flame/freeze. 2: powerful dire flail or exec axe, always elec/speed. Unlike regular Tukima's dance, the weapon is created from out of nowhere and disappears in smoke. Will only be hostile if card power is 0 and you roll a 25% chance.

dancerobin

You must use automatic training, and never turn off or focus skills.

danceswithwargs

metaphorically dances with wargs
even worse than hyperelynae
current plans: mipr (zin), kesu (sif), ogee (fedhas) speedruns
see uncool[2]

danei

Promised to write Louise/Margery erotic fan-fiction
Danei is also a lich.
An incredibly powerful emperor on the way to godhood.

darayavaush

< Darayavaush> huh, I have no trouble imagining a convulsing plant < Darayavaush> guess I watched too much hentai :(

darkness

L7 Hexes spell that reduces LoS by 25%. Kills your stealth, because a moving cloud of darkness is pretty noticable.

darkrobin

You can't see the floor or walls. Everything else is visible!

darmok

<Sequell> No milestones for darmok (place=tenagra).

dart

Base hit is 2, base damage is 3.
Darts benefit more from high throwing skill than stones.

dart trap

1d(4 + depth/2) damage. Weary NetHack refugees: Never poisonous.

darthcloakedguy

A really epic guy!! Don't troll him, okay?
The replacement for red_bucket

dazed

A status which makes a monster randomly skip 20% of its turns.

dazzle

Really sucks at this game
Really, really sucks at this game

dazzling

You've found a randart!

dchimera

<DChimera> it is my duty <DChimera> to pres the butons
<DChimera> HEY <DChimera> whos good at i-spy <Henzell> DChimera the Fencer (L25 HECr) found an abyssal rune of Zot <DChimera> wait nevermind
likes exclamation points!

dcinrl

Dungeon Crawl Is Not Real Life

dcprob

404 not found. Formerly located at http://members.cox.net/stefanor/dcprob/

dcss

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. The currently developed version of Dungeon Crawl, branched from 4.0 beta 26.

dd guide

Worship Makhleb. Use the wand of heal wounds to heal.

ddck challenge

Win DDCK without abandoning Xom (or cheating and playing an old version).

ddee guide

Worship Makhleb. Use the wand of heal wounds to heal. Cast earth spells.

ddhe strategy

<N78291> you can basically pacify your way to three runes outside of some swamp vaults and a few zot monsters as long as you can keep greater healing piety and not starve

ddne

Pick makhleb. Use the wand of heal wounds and vampiric draining to heal.
Not as good as DDEE.
stat boosts: int | skills: weapon skill, necro, charms, spellcasting, fighting, invo (to 10-12) | spells: good charms, dispel, vamp draining, pain, agony, imb/other generic good spell, maybe some ice/earth if you find it | weapon: pain weapon, any other good weapon you find | armour: mottled dragon armour/robe if you really want/dragon armour

ddpr challenge

Win DDPr without abandoning Zin (or being excommunicated). (Completed by: jeanjacques, hyperbolic)

ddpr guide

why

dead

What you end up being.

dead monster

DEAD MONSTER claws you but does no damage.
You escape DEAD MONSTER's grasp.
While you don't manage to break free from DEAD MONSTER, you feel that another attempt might be more successful.
The ufetubus disappears in a puff of smoke! You hit DEAD MONSTER!

deadrobin

Kill yourself with every corpse in the game. Also, be the second to kill yourself with Bone Shards (finally, the spell has a use)
If the corpse rots mid-air you die instead by bad targeting. This is unconfirmed and a best guess. For the game responsible for this quandary, see !tv deadrobin char=dsne ktyp=~target
Dead as of 0.8 trunk, as Bone Shards was removed.

deal four

You draw four cards from an unmarked deck. It uses up the deck. If there weren't enough cards, you also get to deal a card from the deck of punishment. You get no piety gain from the cards.

death

Your future!
http://flash.grandi.biz/puolipiste_alaviiva_puolipiste.swf
<@dpeg> Dying is awesome. Everytime a player dies, the devteam celebrates.

death channel

Level 7 (6 in 0.11 trunk) necromancy spell in the book of Unlife. Gives you the temporary status of "channeling the dead" (check it in @ or %), during which anything killed by you or in your LOS comes back as a temporary friendly spectral thing (and can still leave a corpse, too).

death cob

You may have already fielded a guess, but it's insane hostile food. It might be corny, but if you put an ear to the ground deep down in Crawl's maize, you may find that you are being stalked; being buttered up for the kill, smooth as silk.
A dreadful undead cob of maize. Look, this one was probably a mistake. We're sorry.
For laughs, watch !tv * killer=death cob 1
Unfortunately don't turn into death popcorn when sticky flamed
The death cob gives a chilling moan!

death curse

see mummy
see necromancy miscast[1]

death drake

Weak in melee, but breathes miasma clouds that slow, poison, and 50% chance to rot HP by 1 per turn. Terminate with extreme prejudice or run like hell. Draconian callers summon them and they appear sometimes in the Abyss. If you see one elsewhere then it is probably a shifter.
Tastes like necrophage!
Can also appear on rare occasions in the new undead swamp:5.

death knight

Replaces priest of Yredelemnul in 0.8, but with a choice of weapons, more melee skill, and less starting piety.

death ooze

An acidic ooze with a rotting attack. It's faster than normal, and eats things like other Js. They are considered undead, and can be killed with Dispel Undead. Good gods enjoy them dying, too.

death yak

One of the toughest enemies you can find in the Lair outside of a vault. Melee is not recommended unless you can fight one-on-one or are very tough yourself! (Or have reasonable stabbing skill and invisibility...even if they wake up, invis stab will take them down quickly)
They have poisonous corpses, if you're the kind of guy who goes after tough monsters for a good meal.
They're death yaks! They come in packs! They have very strong attacks! Watch your backs, don't relax! Beware of the Death Yaks!

deathonastick

Probably casmith789 in disguise
except that casmith789 isn't greensnark

deaths door

Renders the caster invulnerable, but reduces you to necro/2 + kiku piety/15 health (up to 13+13). Cannot be recast until 1d3 turns after expiry. You get an end warning. Healing effects other than Revivification (which will confuse+paralyse you if cast!) do not work (including potions of curing to cure status effects). Duration is ~16-27 turns.
Allegedly overpowered!

debe

Like a kobe, just with crappy apts

decaying rune

The brown rune at the bottom of the Swamp.

deck

A deck of intensely magical cards, in general significantly more powerful than scrolls, spells, or potions. Each deck contains 4-13 cards *independently* (no point counting) chosen according to 99% the deck's flavour, 1% the Deck of Oddities. See {deck of <foo>}, divine gift[2], card power, {<foo> card}.
You may perform the effect of the top card in a deck (which disappears, the deck vanishes when empty) by wielding the deck and then evoking it (with 'v'). Nemelexites also get deck abilities.
Spoilers at http://chaosforge.org/crawl/index.php?title=Decks
You might have meant Deep Elf Chaos Knight, but probably not.

deck of battle

Does not exist as an item. Cards: Elixir, Battlelust, Metamorphosis, Helm, Blade, Shadow.

deck of changes

Randomly per-card deck of battle, deck of dungeons, deck of wonders.

deck of defence

Randomly per-card deck of emergency or deck of battle.

deck of destruction

Cards include: vitriol card, flame card, frost card, venom card, hammer card, spark card, pain card, torment card, orb card. Sacrifice weapons, ammunition, and magical staves and rods.
Its conjurations have full LOS range, even when the corresponding spell does not.

deck of dungeons

Cards include: Map, Dowsing, Spade, Trowel, Minefield, Vitrification, Water. Sacrifice jewellery, books, and miscellaneous items (crystal balls etc, not other decks obviously!). Note that this does NOT include enhancer staves and rods, which go towards destruction decks.
<N78291> I am trying to drown khufu and keep getting bazaars

deck of emergency

Not generated as an item. Cards include: tomb card, banshee card, Damnation card (rare), solitude card, warpwright card, flight card.

deck of enchantments

Not an item. Card: Elixir.

deck of escape

Non-oddity cards from here are 50% from the deck of transport, 50% from the deck of emergency. Sacrifice armour.

deck of oddities

Genie, Bargain, Wrath, Xom, Feast, Famine, Curse

deck of punishment

Cards include: Wraith, Wild Magic, Wrath, Xom, Famine, Curse, Tomb, Damnation, Portal, Minefield, Swine, Torment

deck of summoning

Cards include: Crusade, Herd, Pentagram, Dance, Foxfire, Bones, Repulsiveness. Sacrifice corpses.
Do you like free red wasp swarms on your side? How about multitudes of fiends, bone dragons, very ugly things, and dancing katanas? Sacrifice those corpses.

deck of transport

Not generated as an item. Cards include: portal card, warp card, swap card, velocity card.

deck of war

Randomly per-card deck of destruction, deck of enchantments, deck of battle, deck of summoning, deck of transport, deck of emergency.

deck of winning

See deck of summoning.

deck of wonders

Cards include: Potion, Focus, Shuffle, Experience, Wild Magic, Helix, Sage, Alchemist. To get Nemelex to gift wonders, sacrifice potions, scrolls, wands and permafood.
It's strongly suggested to triple draw this deck to avoid shuffle and wild magic. You can also triple draw a couple of times then stack five to try and maximise the number of cards you get to use.

decr

(6:03:38 PM) casmith789: hey, DECr is a legitimate streak char

deep dwarf

Great apts including armour, dodging, stealth, necromancy, earth magic, and über AC-like damage shaving. They don't heal, at all -- except by an act of god, potions, wands, vampiric weapons or necromancy. They start with one level of passive mapping (and gain another level at xl 9 and xl 18), and gain rN+ at xl 14.
Damage shaved = 1d(1+1d(1+XL/3)). Damage shaving affects just about everything, including poison and torment, and even hellfire!

deep dwarf artificer

Beware! They use rods of striking!

deep dwarf berserker

Can use brothers in arms at low HP. Otherwise, not scary.

deep dwarf necromancer

Tollymain the Skirmisher (L2 LOAK), worshipper of Lugonu, blasted by a deep dwarf necromancer (a deep dwarf necromancer) in the Abyss on 2011-05-08, with 64 points after 192 turns and 0:03:03.
The vapour coalesces into an ice likeness of a deep dwarf necromancer deep dwarf necromancer.

deep dwarf reasons

You want the only hellfire damage reduction in the game.
You feel that resting is boring, unnecessary, and should be removed from the game.

deep elf

Best int, awesome aptitudes "!apt DE" to see those awesome apts. Relative to puny humans, gains 1 less hp per lvl up to level 17, *and* 1 less hp per 3 levels, but 1 extra mp per level. Gains +1 int every 4 levels.

deep elf annihilator

Painful until they cast crystal spear or bankshot you with lightning, then they become deadly.

deep elf blademaster

A deep elf with 27 Short Blades, and (most likely) the ability to outrun you. Has been known to dualwield quickblades. Like all elves, doesn't like curare. Unlike most elves, it has the EV to make curare application difficult.
LordSloth>Buttefry with a blade and haste

deep elf conjurer

Spells: sticky flame, teleport self, {bolt of fire, bolt of cold, cantrip, lightning bolt} OR {iskys, invisibility, stone arrow, bolt of draining}

deep elf death mage

Spams a lot of bolt of draining and raises dead when there are corpses around.

deep elf demonologist

Summons a bunch of demons and then banishes you for the hell of it. Be afraid, be very afraid.
Also chews gum and spits out the side of its mouth.

deep elf fighter

Like a deep_elf_soldier but somewhat tougher.

deep elf high priest

Summon demons (234), raise dead, throws hellfire without care for personal safety.

deep elf mage

Low-level magic user in Elf; not much of a threat in general, but with randomised spells (same as Erolcha, wizard, ogre-mage) can occasionally pull nasty suprises, such as Lehudib's Crystal Spear or banishment. Low MR. See erolcha spells.
Prone to killing themselves with fireball.

deep elf master archer

An average threat in 0.4, but in 0.5 a single master archer won 8 times out of 10 vs. a quicksilver dragon. Nerfed into oblivion in 0.6.
!tv Ivo killer=deep elf master archer cv=0.5
This guy looks like this: http://blogs.venturacountystar.com/dennert/archives/robin_hood_men_in_tights.jpg
!tv jeff place=elf:7 3

deep elf priest

Notable abilities: Can smite, animate dead, die

deep elf reasons

You want great spellcasting aptitudes, even if your hp will take a hit.

deep elf soldier

Weakest of the deep elves by a large margin, but can still slow, confuse, turn invisible, and wreck your scrolls. Like a more annoying orc wizard.

deep elf sorcerer

Spells: Bolt of draining, banishment, haste, summon demon, hellfire, and teleport

deep elf summoner

Blinks around while casting summon demon (234), groups of 5s, or summon rats (Plus orange!). Can quickly flood you with annoying things, and dangerous demons like smoke demons can come. Luckily, they find it sound tactics to engage in melee.

deep elf wizard

Phenomenal cosmic power! Itty-bitty carrying capacity and HP.

deep troll

While weaker than some other Ts, it is the only pack creature among them. Expect to fight a few.

deep water

This most corrosive of solvents will dissolve almost anything that falls in, even artefacts and hapless adventurers. It may be possible to scramble free, however. Also known as blue lava.
Merfolk, octopodes and grey draconians can enter deep water and pick up items. Fedhas worshippers can use sunlight to make deep water shallow. Apportation cannot pull items from deep water.

deflect missiles

A level 6 Charms/Air spell that deflects enemy ranged attacks (by reducing their to-hit roll *to* a random amount between: 0% and 66% for penetrating beams, 0% and 50% for single-target missiles). In the books of Enchantments and Sky.
< [Hanged_Man]> The storm dragon breathes lightning at you! You deflect the bolt of lightning! You deflect the bolt of lightning! You deflect the bolt of lightning! You deflect the bolt of lightning!
The yaktaur shoots a bolt. You deflect the bolt! The bolt hits Xtahua. Xtahua dies!

deformed body

This mutation reduces your AC by half of the body armour base AC. In 0.9- you could get multiple levels which had no effect other than requiring multiple removals.

degeneration

Drains a random attribute (str, int, dex) by 1d4. Will induce stat death if the chosen stat is low enough.

deja vu

<MarvinPA> are we going round in circles here or something

delay message clear

Best option ever, add it to your rcfile. If possible with the comment "# annoy greensnark". Makes it so that messages don't disappear between turns, instead scrolling (in a fashion that many find annoying). To turn it off in trunk, add clear_messages = yes to your rcfile.

delayed fireball

When cast, lets you release a fireball later on (as an 'a'bility) with no cost or delay. Great to have one prepared for emergencies. Only one fireball may be stored at a time. Is level 7, and to know the fireball spell at the same time only uses 7 spell levels total.

demigod

Demigods are like humans, except that their stats are better. To counterbalance this advantage, they are not allowed to worship a god. They also have worse than average aptitudes for everything. They also have more HP and MP.
<eeviac_> demigod: it's a human that trades a god for bad apts

demigod reasons

God of Death.

demolished

You had from -14 to -21 hit points when you died.

demon blade

A terrible weapon, forged in the fires of Hell. (single-handed Long Blade, Dmg 13, Acc -1, Delay 13)
This one is not really that terrible either.

demon of vagger

Best. Typo. Ever.

demon trident

A roses-sunshine-and-happy-bunnies weapon, molded by fire and brimstone. (Hand-and-a-half medium Polearm; Dam 12 Acc +1 Delay 13). Blessable to trishula.

demon wars

Demonic Guardian Vs Makhleb Wrath

demon weapons

Demon Blades, Demon Tridents, Demon Whips.

demon whip

A terrible weapon, woven in the depths of the inferno. (One-handed medium flail; Dam 11 Acc +1 Delay 11). The best one-handed weapon. 12/0/11 when blessed into a holy scourge by TSO.
It's not that terrible!

demonblade

<jeanjacques> you play as if you are chased by death
Things I like: Mf, AK, Zot:5 ninja, Ash | Things I hate: Felids, Xom, Cheibriados, Swamp, MiFi, Deep Dwarves, paralysis
<Blade-> I hereby declare war on soul <Blade-> I will fight to beat the FE hs <Blade-> until the end of time
gets annoyed when called "bart hater", so don't do it.
bart hater?

demonic crawler

No, it's not a result of playing crawl too much. Anyway, by the time you meet them, a pushover. Unless you see them in an early vault, maybe. Or in Sprint.

demonic guardian

DS mutation in the 0.7 line, summons 5, 3 or 1 class demons temporarily, based on tension. Dismisses demons when tension is low but will continue to summon demons until the tension is closer to equal.
Level 1 Demons: White Imp, Lemure, Ufetubus, Iron Imp, Midge ; Level 2 Demons: Sixfirhy, Sun Demon, Ice Devil, Soul Eater, Smoke Demon ; Level 3 Demons: Executioner, Balrug, Reaper, Cacodemon

demonic horde

Level 6 spell from Demonology. Summons multiple 5's, not all friendly. Notable in that it summons a lot of 5's (8-10 isn't uncommon), which all have demonic resistances, and includes ranged white imps, massive EV tanks, decent damage or shadow imps that raise dead, with a considerable duration.
--more--
Summon demonic butterflies
most colorful spell!

demonic plant

It's a plant with a fancy name, how exciting!
It'll banish you if you look at it the wrong way.

demonology

Abjuration, Recall, Call Imp, Summon Demon, Demonic Horde, Summon Greater Demon. Cannot be read unless you are a level 10 summoner and level 6 spellcaster, or a Vehumite. Cannot be acquired except by "I give up, here's a random book". Vehumet's third gift to summoners and sixth to conjurers. And yet, is still significantly worse than summonings.
see grand grimoire

demonspawn

A race that is pretty average, but gets 5 semi-random good mutations. Has a 1/10 chance of being monstrous. Demonspawn mutations are irrevocable and unalterable, and drawn from a special list.
see ds mutation rules

demonspawn reasons

You think the early game is too easy but need more help playing level 20 characers.
You enjoy adapting to semi-random mutations as you level and you think draconians are boring.
You have reached level 8! Your demonic ancestry asserts itself... A pair of horns grows on your head! The +1 helmet of Unambiguity {rPois rF++} falls away!
Your demonic ancestry asserts itself... Your feet have mutated into hooves. Your +2 pair of boots of levitation falls away! You float gracefully downwards. You fall into the water! You drown... You die...

demorobin

Show people how to start <combo>. Suicide when you reach Lair, but not on D:3. If you die frequently and leave enough flame elementalist ghosts Sorear may spontaneously offer to demo a character for you. For no particular reason of course. See roundrobin for more.
Ignore [1], is actually a robin intended exclusively for playing DEMo

dendrophilia

<TGWi> I fucking love fedhas
(3:00:22 PM) TGWi: minmay: why do you know the word for that (3:00:28 PM) minmay: uhhh (3:00:30 PM) minmay: fuck

depth

Equal to how many staircases you must ascend to get to leave the dungeon.

des

http://crawl-ref.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=crawl-ref/crawl-ref;a=blob;f=crawl-ref/docs/develop/levels/syntax.txt

design philosophy

Kill them all!

desperate

<TGW> potions of poison give you nutrition right?
<casmith789> pillar dancing aizul using agnes as the pillar
<OG17> does this channel really have a no-rape policy
<N78291> if I enter an abyss portal will monsters get to swing at me
<Ragdoll> do monsters follow you into ziggurats?
You throw a dart of flame. The dart of flame misses the hellion.
< rwbarton> if you can reduce your int by a lot you could cast some level 9 spells to get down to very full
The yaktaur captain throws a dart.
<jarijoki> which one has more food pan or abyss?
<troglet> will Mennas' silence protect me from Boris' spells?
<minqmay> can i use imprison on a bush <minqmay> please dont ask why i need to
<minqmay> will a throwing net work against an executioner
<dchimera> odds of finding a quarterstaff in orc?
<monqy> I can't believe I'm grinding orb run spawns for a disto reaper to banish me
<rahulc> can you uncurse a rod with scroll recharging?
<valrus> just used a potion of resistance to eat a kobold
<alefury> can you lrd yourself while petrifying?
<syraine> Kyrris, I used Famine as a Spriggan to stop myself starving.
<rwbarton> once i looted cerebov's castle for a ring of fire resistance

destroy weapons

Converts weapons and ammo at your feet into 0-1 piety with Elyvilon. Cannot be used to destroy trapping nets (yes, this is special-cased). Piety gain is more likely with more valuable items.

detect creatures

Determines the locations of nearby (radius is power-based) creatures, and places their generic genus glyph on your map. The positions may be shifted somewhat from reality, reduced by power. If the monster is a spellcaster of high intelligence (liches, deep elves, demons, draconians, nagas and so on) they will be awakened. Removed in 0.6.

detect secret doors

Tries to reveal (turn into actual doors) any secret doors that are hidden in the walls you can currently see. Chance of successfully revealing each door is based randomly on power.

detect traps

Detects all traps in large radius (think of almost all level area). Very useful!

dev

see devteam
Unhittable, unkillable monster, pulling the strings behind the scenes.

dev wiki

https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=start

devastator

The shillelagh "Devastator". Appears as a loaded stick. It's a +4, +8 shillelagh that casts radius 1 shatter when you hit something with it, centered on the thing you hit.
she-lay-lee
shillelagh: a wooden walking stick, club, or cudgel, associated with Irish folklore. +3 accuracy, 8 dam, 130% delay.

devblog

http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/blog

devs

see devteam
< due> i don't care actually

devteam

https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:admin:devteam
(old devteam entries are at devteam_old)

devteam old

The Stone Soup Team: Name / SF / IRC: Adam Borowski / castamir / kilobyte, Charles Otto / caotto / pointless, David Lawrense Ramsey / dolorous / -, David Ploog / dploog / dpeg, Enne Walker / ennewalker / Enne
Eino Keskitalo / evktalo / Keskitalo, Haran Pilpel / haranp / haranp, Johanna Ploog / j-p-e-g / -, Jude Brown / bookofjude / due, Steven Noonan / mozillagodzilla / neunon, Nat Lanza / nlanza / -, Paul Du Bois / pauldubois / -, Peter Berger / peterb12 / -
Rachel Elizabeth Dillon / raxvulpine / raxvulpine, Robert Vollmert / rvollmert / by, Stefan O'Rear / sorear / sorear, Matthew Cline / zelgadis / Matthew_Cline (-dev only)
Chris Campbell / marvinpa / MarvinPA, RaphaÃ«l Langella / galehar / galehar, Robert Burnham / Cryptic / Cryp71c
Former Soup devs: Erik Piper / - / erisdiscordia. Former maintainers: Linley Henzell, Brent Ross. Never has been: cbus, Eronarn, LordSloth, TGW.
<casmith789> devteam just do whatever they like :(
see {death[4]}

dex

Increases to hit, damage by a bit (more for short blades, less for M&F), chance of stabbing distracted mons and stealth as well. Plays a significent role in EV if you have dodging skill. Before 0.6, the effect was capped. Boosts ability to shield-block, especially for bucklers, less for large shields.
If you are casting spells *at all* int is usually more important than either dex or str.

dgamelaunch

The software used to serve Crawl on both crawl.akrasiac.org and crawl.develz.org. For more information, see http://www.advogato.org/proj/dgamelaunch/ .

dgamelauncher

The open source software that makes the Akrasiac Crawl server possible.

dgbe

2. rob the Ducker (L2 DGBe), killed by the fiery rage of Trog on D:1 on 2008-10-05, with 96 points after 840 turns and 0:03:31.

dgl

https://github.com/greensnark/dgamelaunch-crawl

diamond obelisk

basically a petrified moon troll
<VolteccerJack> i guess i'm not supposed to kill it

did cao just go down

No. If it had, Henzell would be gone too.

did not appreciate that

This means that your god doesn't like what you just did, but fortunately they respect that you didn't know you were doing it. Don't do it again.

die

You lose if you die.

diesel

115/19/53
34/23/28 with a demon blade of freezing and 14 slaying and FDA and Nemelex.
37/20 in IDA with a necromancy title and a lajatang of pain and okawaru and spriggan speed
42/39 in PDA with an antimagic double sword and trog and 6 wands of healing
75 HP with 9/10/21/ defenses and Sting on D:5
35/9/0 with a vampiric lajatang and 9 slaying and 3 wands of healing
60/8/41 in plate with an antimagic double sword and trog and 258 HP with rods and a wand of hasting
16/36/0 with 261 HP and an antimagic bardiche and 10 slaying
36/6/0 and 7 slaying and ****** TSO piety with excellent divine warrior at Lair:6
A mummy who can tab everything on V:8.
Fighting 11.1 Polearms 21.7 Dodging 14.4 by Lair:2, tabbing spiny frogs without even noticing
see mikee[2]
50/20/41 in PDA with Trog, 27 stealth, evocable invisibility, a collection of demon and eudemon blades, and a rod of ice
46/11/40 with a holy scourge, iron shot and cblink
21/28/46 with 15 slaying and a vampiric demon blade and boots of running and Makhleb.
36/19/54 in rC plate with 21 fighting and a +7 vamp demon blade at XL 22
DDBe with AC:80, EV:20, +11 slaying and a vampiric battleaxe.

dieselrobin

Experimental team competition. Teams of players are given characters and team members take turns completing 'missions' with the character (e.g., D to Lair, Lair:1-8).
Sign up by adding yourself to the 'diesel' nick! Also, each player should choose one character to be assigned randomly to one of the teams. Record your choice in the 'dieselchars' nick. The teams are now full (see the 'diesel[1-4]' nicks), but alternates can join the 'dieselalternates' nick.
Rules: Each team is given a list of characters and each player must start one of the characters. Then the players take turns doing missions on each character, using the same cyclic order on each. Each mission completed is worth one point. If a character dies on the first mission, they can restart but lose that point.
To see mission N, look at ??mission[N]. Missions 5-7 can be done in any order and missions 10-15 are optional. Elf, Blade, and Zig can be done at any time, but only completing a Zig is worth bonus points (4). Aside from those, you should stay within your mission's region(s) except to retrieve items or go to altars.
All games will be trunk. Each team should choose a team name and create four accounts on the server of their choice. (Example: ??team_battlemage) Also, each team should choose a cyclic ordering for their four players and stick to it.

dig

Gets rid of a line of rock walls. Does not work on stone, metal, or green crystal walls.

dire elephant

A much stronger elephant, this pachyderm hits harder than a death yak, but not as hard as a hellephant.

dire flail

A flail with spiked lumps on both ends. 13 damage, -3 accuracy, 130 speed, two-handed.

dis

One of the easier hell branches. You can find Dispater with his nice staff at the end. Also home of the Iron Rune. Look out for hellions, fiends, hell sentinels and ice fiends.
http://www.sirgalahad.org/paul/doom/mp3/e3m8.mp3

dis astranagant

z - the +2 cloak "Voemy" (worn) {god gift, +Blink, +Tele, rElec, rPois, rN+, MR}

disarming

No disarming magical traps or while berserk. Otherwise fail if d(traps&doors + 2) <= d(depth + 4). Otherwise succeed. To reach 20% success at depth, you need T&D =~ 1 + (depth / 2.5). Accomplished, of course, by pressing ctrl+direction towards a known trap. Failure triggers the trap.
See !tv MrPeeps ktyp=trap max=sc for an example of how NOT to disarm traps.

disc of storms

Evoke to shoot zaps, lightning bolts, and ball lightning in random directions. Missile deflection is recommended. And don't stand within 3 spaces of a wall. Cannot be used if insulated. The chance of working, number of effects caused, and spell power all correlate to your evocations skill. Also makes rain.
!lg turnerjer place=slime:1 1 -tv

disco

See pan_disco_hall and kobold_disco.

discorobin

Pass is "robin". Fun times to be had by all. Give it a shot! (Just don't remove the first part of the config!) If you are looking for whom to blame for this abomination, the answer is slinkies. See also AcidRobin.
Avoid playing if you might need to use your eyes any time soon.
DiscoRobin: It's better viewed than explained (unless you have epilepsy).
Bonus points for dying in the pan disco vault

disintegration

Wand only. Instant killer of silver and orange crystal statues. Does resistible damage vs other monsters, very effective against low-level enemies. Also effective against rock, translucent rock, and wax walls -- one square at a time.
If you use it on something made of meat and the aforementioned meat-thing dies, chunks of said meat-thing will be scattered about the area. Maybe useful if you can't access a butchering tool for whatever reason?

dispater

Usually escorted by some fiends and ice fiends on Dis:7. Has a nice staff (see staff of dispater) with evokeable hellfire. Casts iron shot, crystal spear, summon greater demon, hellfire, and abjuration.

dispater strategy

!lm logicninja uniq=dispater 1 -tv:<2

dispel undead

Deals very high AC-bypassing damage (up to 87!) to undead. Extremely useful vs. liches, higher mummies, various other things, and player ghosts. Not useful vs. anything not undead. If you are an undead or lich-form player, take care around necromancer ghosts, pan lords, gloorx vloq, unborn DDs, and shadow fiends.
Found in the Book of Death. Was in Book of Necromancy prior to 0.10.
<Trigramatic> I have dispel undead. <Trigramatic> Wight-out, as it were.

dispersal

Spell: All monsters that are adjacent to you will be instantly teleported away if they don't resist (via magic resistance). If a monster does resist, 50% of the time it will be blinked instead (even if it's immune!), otherwise nothing happens to it.
The ammo brand blinks enemies it hits if it does damage. This ignores MR.

disposal

To destroy junk: Feed it to a jelly. Sac evil items to TSO, weapons to Ely, or anything to Nemelex. Throw it into deep water or lava, or onto a plant, fungus, statue, or teleporter. Drop it in a portal vault, Abyss, or Pan. Stash it in Temple, Lair, Hive, or Blades. Draw a Tomb card on it.

dissolution

A sentient, unique jelly who used to be human (a long time ago). Burrows like a boring beetle. If you hear a "sizzling sound", that's him digging through rock. Summons eyes, so treat with great care.
Dissolution says, "There is a problem solver and its name is Dissolver!"

distant

Usually means "out of LOS" in a Crawl context.

distant blaring wail

A monster stumbled into an alarm trap! Oh no! Anyone in range (including you) is probably now awake.

distant slurping noise

A jelly has eaten an item. How rude! This act heals the jelly a bit, and may cause an additional squelching noise, as a second jelly splits off from the original. "You hear a slurping sound" (exactly) is a poison miscast though, not a jelly.

distortion

A powerful and dangerous weapon brand. When it hits, inflicts a random option from "1-7 bonus damage", "3-26 bonus damage", "blink", "teleport", or banish (you gain only partial XP on banish). When you unwield, you suffer wild translocation effects - up to 43 raw damage, banishment, teleport+confusion, hostile malign gateway, or lots of glow.
Just unwield it for Geryon. (If you banish Geryon or the royal jelly, you can banish yourself, then hunt them down in the Abyss and kill them to get the silver horn or unlock the Slime:6 vaults.)
Prior to 0.10, one of the fastest ways to exit Pan. Starting in 0.10, if you're banished in Pan or Zigs, you return to them upon exiting the Abyss.
<MarvinPA> You hit the 700 gold pieces. _The 700 gold pieces is devoured by a tear in reality. <MarvinPA> go autoexplore

distressingly furry

Probably the best thing you can hope to find. Who cares about the stats? It'll keep you distressingly warm! (Not really, just a randart)
see mimic[4]

disturbance

An invisible monster is standing in shallow water, or occupying the same tile as a cloud of smoke or mist. Can also be a submerged fish, alligator, crocodile, or shark.

divination miscast

1: confuse/nothing 2: (1d3 int loss / 3-12 mp loss) and confuse 3: (5-24 mp loss / 3-5 int loss) and confuse

divinations

Old spell school that no longer exists, but you can still get divination miscasts!

divine balms

Your orc probably got cured of poison or sickness.

divine gift

No gifts if penance or gift timeout. Otherwise, if gifting is considered, you may get something according to your god and piety... Gaining piety reduces the gift timeout.
Nemelex gives decks, chance piety/600, if it has been ~400 turns since your last deck modulo sacrifices. Nemelex always gifts pure decks. Types of sacrifices alter the types of gifts given, as described on the god information screen.
Okawaru and Trog give weapon/armour acquirement with chance piety-120 / piety*4 (iff piety >= 130). Okawaru has a 50% chance of substituting armour. 29+2d19/2 timeout, or 48+2d19/2+2d15/2 for armour. They give a second chance at a missile gift if your best missile skill is at least 8 and you are carrying a launcher.
Yred gives undead slaves (piety-80)/(5*piety). Wraith, wight, spectral warrior, rotting hulk, skeletal warrior, vampire, ghoul, mummy, flayed ghost, bone dragon, death cob. Always friendly!
Followers of Xom can get a xom acquirement.
Sif and Vehumet get books, (piety-100/piety), if piety > 160. 39+2d19/2 timeout, or 48+2d19/2+d10 for Vehumet. Sif gives book acquirement.
Vehumet gives [Conjurations, Power, Annihilations, Callings, Summonings, Grand Grimoire]. If your Summonings skill is higher than your Conjurations skill you get the Summoning books first, else you get the Conjuration books first. Vehumet skips books you already have.
Kiku gives Necromancy, Death and Unlife at *, *** and **** piety respectively, and at ****** gives a choice to either pain brand a weapon or receive the Necronomicon (you can only choose once).

divine shield

0.4 TSO ability much like Condensation Shield, but made of piety instead of ice. Unlike condensation shield, it stacks with the shield you are wearing. The piety cost is minor. Duration is based on skill in shields and invocation. Bonus SH is based on shield skill, not piety: 3 + (Shields skill)/5

divine smiting

4+d10+4dXL damage; when smitten by another god (and yours isn't Xom), piety/400 chance of no effect. -1 penance.

diving

Get a Spriggan, get really lucky, dive to the Lair, find a Jiyva altar, get a rune. Now, how are you going to get out? :)

djanatyn

On a scale from zin to cheibriados, somewhere in the middle.
fuck THAT guy

dodging

First, halve the part of your dex over 24, and then halve the part over 34. Then your base EV is 10 + size_factor + (7 + dodging * new_dex) / (20 - size_factor). Apply armor/shield penalties, then halve the part over 30, and then halve the part over 50. Then apply randarts, rings, and merfolk/tengu bonuses. Go stepdowns!
Your dodging bonus is reduced by 30*(EVP - 1)/strength, where EVP is the base penalty of your body armour (does not depend on Armour skill).

dodongo

Link can't wait to bomb some. Dislikes smoke.

dolorous

despite never being on IRC, has an uncanny tendancy to react to things people say in ##crawl-dev

donald

He is a fellow adventurer, just like you. He is between orc knights and warlords in terms of danger, amphibious, and more resistant to magic. Comes always with a shield, which has a chance of being reflection. Also comes with awesome speech. I hate that.
His speech changes to match the level he's on. I hate that.

done before

Yes, it's been done before. And someone probably already won doing it.

dontkilldudes

The strategy where you don't waste life needlessly. Even a monster deserves to live if you can get the rune/orb/loot anyway.

doom

Doom! Doooooooom!
Where do you think we got Cacodemons from?
Cyberdemon vaults are in planning.

doomrl

The game you are playing right now.
No, its not structured to play nicely with dgamelaunch. Sorry.
<mikee_>monqy, i bet you're not giftdropping bellies
<mong> i remember when people used to play crawl instead of doomrl
<Ragdoll> these dots intrigue me

doomrl guide

<mikee_> ffffffffhffffffffhfffff <mikee_> cleared those imps out good

doomrl reasons

no eat command, no traps, no secret doors, no fleeing
no need to wait around to heal! free channeling! (just press r)

door

A thing you can close to break LOS/stop unintelligent monsters from getting past. Doors: Not just for opening!

door dancing

Who needs a pillar when you can close the same door over and over? It works until some other jerk shows up (or until the opening monster gets a double move, opens the door, and moves onto the door tile).

door mimic

You open the door like a pillowcase!!!
!lg sky 5348 -tv:<3

door reasons

You open the door._A fire drake comes into view._You close the door.

door vault

!vault minivault_9
see hilarious_deaths[6]
Run away. Some doors are meant to stay closed.

dorgi

These existed (along with guardian robots in Zot) in pre-3.40 versions of (non-Stone-Soup) Crawl.

doroklohes tomb

<Shovelmint> you wander in it for a bit, then all the creatures break out and mob you
The walls of each chamber are diggable, in case you'd rather stab the monsters in their beds one at a time. The loot is nice, by the way.
It can have an ancient lich or an electric golem. And multiple greater mummies.
<danharaj> d'aww it makes a heart shape when you look outside the initial chamber

double handed

If you use a quarterstaff or a lajatang with a shield, your base damage is halved. Also the usual delay penalty for 1.5-handed weapons applies (if you don't have enough shield skill to negate it). Note that even though dire flails have HANDS_DOUBLE, they are effectively two-handers.

double sword

A magical weapon with two razor-sharp blades. (hand-and-a-half Long Blade; Dam 15, Acc -1, Delay 15). The highest base damage weapon in the game that you can wield with a shield, minimally better than demon blade. (No shield if you're a small race.)
Double swords are better iff enchantment+slaying<AC+X (at 20 str: X=0 at 0 skill, 3.4 at 14 skill, 4.5 at 27 skill).

dowan

Early deep elf unique caster. Casts throw frost, throw flame, haste, corona and minor healing. Shows up with his sister, Duvessa. Will find "hidden reserves of power" when Duvessa dies, be hasted, and replace his conjurations with throw icicle, stone arrow, corona with blink.
Will not follow you up or downstairs unless you kill his twin or she can follow you as well
http://i40.tinypic.com/xpzb46.png

dowsing card

This card will give the effect of detect secret doors/traps/creatures. Higher evocation increases the chances to get all three effects. Instead of actual detect creatures, it gives you a period of "telepathy" during which you are continuously detecting creatures.

doy

Who stashes things? Seriously!
Keeps Henzell clean with the power of Scrubbing Bubbles(tm)
Lord High Cherry-picker!

dpeg

If you can't be bothered to type it into the wiki, we cannot be bothered to flesh it out or code it. Use the wiki!
I am not worried much about balance here.
Glass is amazing. Glassglassglassglassoklobsglass.
<@dpeg> no sex please
see death[3]
<mikee_> minmay complained recently about having to take a hatch into v:8 because there was a constrictor near the stairs <dpeg> mikee_: hm, that sounds good to me

dpegtourney

Count combos not yet won *in the running tournament*. The n-th such win gives n bonus points. (If we want to be nice, give n/2 points for the second win.) As of now, about 230 combos have been won (2009).
You can get the same bonus of the first winner if you win that combo with more runes. Presentation: matrix of species vs classes; show score and number of runes, highlight good combos.

draconian

As a player draconian, you are given a random colour you didn't want upon reaching level 7, usually granting a breath attack and a resistance (sometimes later), and revealing your aptitudes. See "??<color> draconian" for details -- red, white, green, yellow, grey, black, purple, mottled, pale. Enemy draconians are bad news and found mostly in Zot.
Draconians get innate control flight and have their failure rate for the Dragonform spell reduced by 30%.
Notable weaknesses of monster draconians: low magic resistance (particularly on plain coloured ones), don't see invisible. Enemy draconians can be zealots, shifters, knights, annihilators, scorchers, callers, or monks, each with their own set of spells and abilities.
https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:brainstorm:species:draconian&rev=1266115851 (THIS IS AN OLD REVISION)

draconian challenge

Win a draconian without ever getting a color, i.e., stay under level 7 the whole game.

draconian knight

An extremely muscular humanoid dragon with wings. Comes in a range of different colours and knows an impressive array of spells.

draconian reasons

You want to cast dragon form.

dragon

Viciously powerful green D which breathes fire for 3d24 damage. Avoid like the plague if you lack rF. Dragon corpses can be dissected to possibly produce hides, which can be enchanted to produce fire dragon armour.

dragon armour

Dragon armours, are made by enchanting a dragon hide of the corresponding flavour using a scroll of enchant armour. By and large, a dragon armour is less cumbersome to wear than a mundane armour of equivalent AC value, and additionally provides some resistance corresponding to the nature of the dragon it came from.
In 0.9-, without an adjective it meant fire dragon armour. In 0.8-, Dragon King was a "shiny dragon armour" as well.

dragon armour comparison

from lightest, with resistances: Steam dragon: AC4 EV0 Steam immunity 12aum | Mottled dragon: AC5 EV-1 Sticky flame immunity 15aum | Swamp dragon: AC7 EV-2 rPois 20aum
Dragon: AC8 EV-3 rF++ rC- 35aum | Ice dragon: AC9 EV-3 rC++ rF- 35aum | Pearl dragon: AC10 EV-3 rN+ 40aum | Storm dragon: AC10 EV-5 rElec 60aum | Gold dragon: AC11 EV-9 rF+ rC+ rPois 110aum

dragon form

You're a dragon now! RAAAAWR! Breathe fire! Be tough (+60% hp) and strong! Level 7 Transmutations/Fire. Single-school transmutations for draconians.
Base unarmed damage = (20 + str*(2/3) + unarmed_skill), +10 str, flight, rPois+ rFire++ rCold-, regen+, ability to breathe fire, up to +12 AC (is a function of fire magic), huge size (will nuke your EV)
Usually not very useful because by the time you can cast it, you have great armour and don't really want to meld it and simultaneously nerf your dodging. Also good for getting killed by ice fiends.
For draconians, it's Tmut rather than Tmut/Fire and they keep their existing scales AC bonus. The dragon type depends on your colour, breath weapon is augmented by a lot too.

dragon hide

If referring to the actual "dragon hide" item: AC 3, EV -3. Nothing special. Use an enchant armour scroll on it to turn it into a dragon armour. There are also other types of dragon hides with which you can do the same.
steam:2/-0,rSteam mottled:3/-1,rNapalm swamp:3/-2,rPois fire:3/-3,rF++,rC- ice:4/-3,rC++,rF- pearl:3/-3,rN+ storm:4/-3,rElec gold:4/-5,rF+,rC+,rPois

dragon king

Unrandart +9 gold dragon armour with 50 MR.

dragon slaying

Increases damage by 75% against all dragons (by name, not "D"), all drakes, lindwurm and all draconians, excluding komodo dragons. Also reduces accuracy from dragon and draconian breath by 25%. Only available on polearms and artefacts.

dragon storm

Level 9 dragon/conjurations.

dragonskin cloak

Tiamat's new cloak after mean people took away her GDA. When worn, every time your resistances are checked, it has a 50% chance of adding +1 to them.

draining

A weapon brand good early on. Has a 2/3 chance of doing on average 25% extra damage to susceptible monsters, doing 1+1d3 extra damage and removing that much from max HP. It does drop XP, but the drop is not significant. If the 2/3 chance is hit, it has a further 20% chance to drop HD by 1.
Other notes: Reduces the strength of shapeshifter forms, has no effect on undead/demons, is highly disliked by good gods.

drinking games

Drink once for every milestone announced on ##crawl. Every time you get a rune, finish your drink. On the orb run, drink once as you reach each floor on the ascent and once each time a pan lord comes into sight (if it's a named pan lord, finish your drink).

drop

...stop, and roll. If you have a bunch of one item but only want to drop a few, go into the drop screen, then type in the number of items you want to drop, then press the letter of the item you want to drop as usual -- e.g., "d 15 a" drops 15 of whatever is in slot 'a'.
and dropping (scrolls) is in fact a good way to deal with being on fire (usually due to a mottled dragon or smoke demon). You may want to do this one stack at a time, though, to ensure that you drop your most important scrolls first (multidrop would just go from top to bottom, burning after each stack).

drpraetor

When you howl your despair into the deaf and uncaring cosmos, it is he who hears you.
Is now an official perv.
learndb miscreant
< DrPraetor> Inverse victory dancing is where you avoid hitting a confused enemy in order to avoid wasting XP on stabbing.

drtm

Q: If I'm playing a DrTm, how should I-- A: DRAGON FORM

drugrobin

Password: robin, do NOT play on this character unless you are intoxicated. Mild central stimulants such as caffeine do not count.
"WINNERS DON'T USE DRUGS"
William S. Sessions, Director, FBI

drugs

<minqmay> you know what would be awesome <minqmay> if you were like <minqmay> a cheese midas

drunkrobin

Holy Toledo Batman, I can't find my *hic* utility belt..

dry fountain

Decoration. It might flow again if you leave the level for a while.

ds mutation rules

Assuming you aren't monstrous, you get five facets, each consisting of three mutations (which usually just stack together). You will get one scales-type facet, one body-slot facet, two tier 2 facets, and one tier 3 facet. You will never get both an ice facet and a fire facet.
The scales-type facets are icy blue, iridescent, molten, rough black, rugged brown, slimy green, thin metallic, or yellow scales, or alternatively thin skeletal structure, large bone plates, or a distortion field.
Body-slot facets: claws, horns, antennae, hooves, talons. Tier 2 facets: PbD, PbP, MR, demonic guardian, nightstalker, spiny, foul stench, fire (scroll cons, rF+, ignite blood), ice (rC+, potion cons, icemail). Tier 3 facets: +30% HP, rN+++, rTorment, augmentation, ice (rC+, potion cons, passive freeze), fire (scroll cons, rF+, hellfire).
If you are monstrous (1 in 10 chance), then you get 3 body-slot facets but you don't get scales. You still get 2 tier 2 facets and 1 tier 3 facet, for 6 facets total.

dual wield

Deep elf blademasters, ettins, and two-headed ogres can do this. You cannot.

duane

An evil mercenary with unusually large ears. He has magic dart, slow, haste and blink. That is all. Gone in 0.8.
Do not underestimate him. !lm sorear uniq=Duane place=Tomb:1 -tv
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=10212005

dude

Something to be killed.

due

Sigmund is his only true love.
due != dpeg
The ideal death from playing while stoned: bookofjude the Reanimator (L10 SENe), worshipper of Kikubaaqudgha, hit from afar by a cyclops (large rock) on D:11, with 6849 points after 15262 turns and 0:43:02.
Thinks lichform spriggan should be 'l' instead of 'L'. Tiny lich!
Suggested silencing Cerebov.
Has the memory of an hellephant!
Kicker of asses!
[09:25] == mode/##crawl-dev [+q Gretell!*@*] by due

due reasons

Glass, fleshy orifices and black Lua magic aren't enough?
A single scream of a player killed by an early unique: a thousand prayers of adoring followers.

dull robe

Once always the Robe of Folly, now just a randart like any other.

dumb robins

squarerobi, diamondrob, aoeurobin, robinround, hunterobin, deadrobin, noobrobin, koborobin, hammerrobin, muckrobin, apocalypserobin

dump

Press # in game, then type !dump (CAO) or @dump (CDO) in IRC. Macro S to #S to auto-dump when saving.
To share a dump of a local game, press # in game, go to your morgue folder, grab the latest file and put the contents on crawl.pastebin.com

dungeon master

Level 27 Traps and Doors title.
see syllogism
see heteroy
see reskilling

dungeon spring

Spring is a one-level, acceleraged version of Crawl. Coded by Chapayev, now playable on CDO, CAO, and ghe offline builds! Source code ag hggp://siges.google.com/sige/crawlvariagions/dungeon-spring

dungeon sprint

Sprint is a one-level, accelerated version of crawl. Originally coded by Chapayev. Now there are five playable maps!

durably summoned

Permanent, unabjurable, no experience or items dropped. Applies to monsters from miscasts (including Zot traps and wrath miscast effects) and god wrath.

duvessa

Early deep elf unique fighter (no spells), has the same kit as a deep elf fighter. Shows up with her brother, Dowan. Will go berserk if you kill Dowan in her sight, or the next time she sees you otherwise.
Will not follow you up or downstairs without Dowan, unless you've killed him.
Duvessa will only berserk once, so you can just read a scroll of teleportation when she berserks.
http://i40.tinypic.com/xpzb46.png

dwarf fortress

dwarfmountainbat

elynae #2782681

dwarven

see dwarven items
see dwarven_items[2]

dwarven items

Dwarven items are more resistant to corrosion than non-dwarven items. Dwarven body armour has an increased spellcasting penalty (unless you are a dwarf), but also improves your effective Armour skill (it improves it more if you're a dwarf). Dwarves do slightly more damage with dwarven weapons.
A randomly generated dwarven weapon will be +1 to hit, on a coinflip, and +1 to damage, on another coinflip. Dwarven armour gets +1 AC on a coinflip.

dyed items

Skins and leather.

dying

fun

dywypi

"Do You Want Your Possessions Identified?", i.e., you have died. Use of this phrase indicates playing of too much NetHack.

earlygame

sucks
fun fact: 63% of deaths are on D:1-3; for goodplayers, 56% of deaths are on D:1-3; for greatplayers, 54%
if lethality were consistent across levels, only about 20% of games would end on D:1-3
it would still suckle

earth

Mostly harmless.

earth elemental

Slow but heavy-hitting monster created by Summon Elemental spell or the nondescript stone. Not all that tough, but immune to elemental magic and hexes.

earth elementalist

A spellcaster that starts out with some earth magic skill, a book of Geomancy, and some rocks to use with Sandblast.

earth magic

Buffed a lot in 0.8... stone arrow and LRD do actual damage now and most earth/tmut spells were changed to pure earth.
rocks

earth miscast

1: harmless 2: 10-22 AC-blockable dmg 3: 3d15 explosion

eatdudes

Eat all mut-chunks you find, drink all mut-potions you find. You are allowed to quaff cure-mut and to use decks. You can use rMut amulet but not while eatdudes'ing and you're not allowed to worship Jiyva or Zin.

ebarrett

<ebarrett> my wisdom is all over the learndb so it's not as if I need an entry

ecrawl

this space for rent

ecumenical temple

Accessed from the main dungeon somewhere between levels 4 and 7. Is notable mainly for a complete lack of monster spawning as well as potentially containing an altar to almost every deity in the game. Beginners: If the entrance is blocked by translucent rock walls, you have to stand near each wall and search a bit for a door.
dpeg would have none of the complaints. The blamed temple entry now has plenty of secret doors. And I cannot think of a gentler introduction to the 'search' function, honestly.
A temple built by early explorers of the dungeon, dedicated to religious unity (for their gods, at least). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical
If one of the standard altars is missing from the temple, check outside from d:2-d:9. It's guaranteed overflow.
If your temple has a bunch of Lugonu altars, congratulations, you've gotten the corrupted version. That explains all the overflow altars.

edmund

Sigmund's jealous, younger, and less magically talented brother. He has more money and wit, though, and a shiny flail!
Edmund says, "People think my brother is the best. I think he's crazy."
He's also quite good with sums.

eea

!lm hyperbolic ddpr type=orb 1 -tv

effo

For his first win, he went into hells with no food, got abyssed, ignored a gate, found a rune while starving, drank 13 healing potions for nutrition, and then found a scroll for FOOD ACQUIREMENT. Then went invisible and spooked Asmodeus good.
< effo> the only threat of any kind was fiends and starvation
RIP Klelaut, who faithfully followed effo up six levels on the ascent before being murdered in cold blood.
In a later game, did Cerebov's with rF-
fuck an elephant
<mikee_> crystal ball of effo
<Ragdoll> effo the seen horror

efreet

A demon bearing a flaming scimitar and capable of impressive pyrotechnics, most notably fireballs that it uses uncritically on friend and foe alike. Also trails joysome clouds of flame to menace passing pedestrians. Can be found inside of a sealed bronze flask.

egglet

worst name in ##crawl
T_T
pegleglett

eggs

If you carry an egg around with you, it may hatch into an allied creature. This is a moot point, as no creatures in the Crawl setting reproduce by egg.

ego

Weapons and armours with the "+x foo of barring" nature. Term from Angband. E.g. boots of running, war axe of electrocution. Also refers to the 'of running' part, eg "'of running' is an armour ego".

egregious splat

!lg * cv~~0.1. ((tiles || !@hugeterm)) ntv=0 max=dam -tv

eh

see ensorcelled hibernation
see Canada

eidolon

It's like a wraith but more so. Also it's a mega super duper scary spook and gives you the howling fantods. (Has Cause Fear.)

eidolos

Original author of Henzell. His clock speed is approximately 1.3 GHz.

eino

Crawler with a rather long history, made many vaults and maintains trunk binaries. Also known as evktalo and Keskitalo. Web site at http://crawl.develz.org/trunk
Funny abreviations in Finnish: NaPa (belly button), NaSu (Piglet in Winnie the Pooh), HuPa (some jolly fun), KoHu (onomatopoetic reaction to a scandal), MiSu (a hot chick, except feline instead of poultry), KeHu (compliment)

eithelonnen

If you say something, eith will say it at the same time. :(
is appearently exactly like sheldon from big bang theory
Has a bigass name.

ekaterin

TIAMAT AVOIDER

ekim

Dr Gh Ha Ke Ko Na Og SE Sp Tr Vp (11) | AE AK Ar As Cj Cr DK EE Hu St Su Tm VM Wn (14) | Chei Fed Jiy Kik Nem Yre Zin (7)

elbereth

What a good idea!
Inscribe this on a floor tile and all monsters around you will explode into chunks and the orb will be apported to your feet.

eldritch tentacle

Be very afraid! Extends out from its eldritch rift, melees with chaos attacks that can do almost anything (including paralyze). Immune to enchantments/elements except holy. If you're human speed it is faster than you.
!lg n78291 id=855265 -tv
Crazy Yiuf on steroids.

electric eel

A troublesome fellow that likes to zap anyone who comes along, much to the chagrin of anyone lacking electricity resistance. Wise men say poly wands are most useful for this creature, as well as ice - as anyone who has dealt with waterborne creatures should know. Other wise men say to just avoid them.
Bows of flame are highly effective at taking groups of these down as the steam provides very good cover.

electric eel challenge

Die to an undead electric eel. Inner flame is cheating.

electric golem

Nasty golem that can shoot bolts of lightning. They can normally be found in Zot. They are resistant to fire, ice, draining, electricity and magic. They are as fast as killer bees, and they blink all the time. Feature af_elec melee damage.
The early game has Prince Ribbit. You get his cousins, Blink Frogs, on top of Sonja and Nessos after that. Then, just when you think the fun is over, you meet an electric golem and, shocking as it may be, your day gets a lot brighter. /pun

electrocution

Weapon brand that causes your weapon to blast your target with an explosion of sparks on 1 out of every 3 hits, doing 9+d15 additional damage (which ignores AC). Does not work on flying, levitating, or insulated targets. Note that this amount of damage is entirely independent of stats, slaying, enchantment, or base damage.
Also, it makes you look awesome.
For death by electrocution, see !lg turnerjer place=slime:1 1 -tv

electronic eel

A strange creature that leaps out of your computer when youre on teh Interwebs, gets in ur skull and eats your brain. OMGZ I"M ENFECTED!

elemental staff

+3,+1 staff with protection (+5 AC), Hunger, Noises, rF++, rC++, MR. If you're interested in staves of (element), see enhancer or staff damage.

elemental statue

Annoying statues in sprint 3 that spam elemental summons. The air statue has the least HP and the earth statue has the most. They do not see invisible.

elements

Opposite elements (fire-ice, air-earth) antitrain, meaning that it takes twice as much xp to train one if the other is higher.

elephant

Plain elephants are green and (relatively) peace-loving pachyderms. This is not the case for their bigger, scarier cousins: dire elephants and hellephants.

elephant shaped statue

If you kill the anaconda guarding the treasure room, some of these will turn into dire elephants.

elephant slug

A slow, rather hard-hitting slug, often found in the Lair. As with all slugs, worms, and sheep, getting killed by one is hilarious to the audience in general and infuriating to the artiste. Probably the worst monster in the game to polymorph, except for Gastronok.

elf 38

<Sequell> 1. [2008-12-18] evktalo the Shatterer (L17 MiPa) killed Boris on turn 46521. (Elf:38)

elfrobin

A roundrobin where you dive to elf:5 and clear it. It's been done. After a successful elfrobin, you must do every branch when you find it.
Successful elfrobin characters - HOPr x2, MDBe x2, VpMo, SEEE, DsPr, MfCr, LOBe, HOHu, DDBe

eliotn

how do you beat sprint?

elixir card

By card power, 0: 50/50 heal wounds effect / regeneration. 1: If your hp is lower than half, then full heal and full mana drain. Otherwise, do card power 0 instead. 2: Full heal, full mana fill.

ellipsis

isn't elliptic
...

elliptic

lair -> orc -> vaults entrance -> early vaults (including crypt)/snake:1-4/swamp:1-4 -> vaults:7 -> d:27 -> get three runes -> zot
<ophanim> One day we'll discover elliptic is a millionaire recluse who made some technology we all use every day <ophanim> like shoe laces or something

elm

An old race in 0.2, they were slow, but had the ability to evoke an ability for fruit. Removed soon after they were implemented due to balance.
http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?title=Elm
!tv ryak ktyp=targeting max=sc for a hilarious elm death!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tree_with_face.jpg

elrocha

it's erolcha

elven boots

Increases stealth by 20.

elven cloak

Gives a +20 bonus to stealth.

elven gloves

Made of the finest elven fabric, woven for delicate elven fingers. Elven gloves are known for being very comfortable, and are appropriate for both cold and warm weather. They also weigh less than inferior human gloves.

elven halls

Accessed from the Orcish Mines on either the third or fourth level. Five levels deep. There is no rune, but a good amount of loot lies at the bottom. Don't be a jerk and confuse all the elves into lava, as they will probably be wearing much of said loot.
Dangerous for low-level characters. You should have high magic resistance and a source of conservation (sticky flame will ruin your scrolls). Elf:5 blocks teleport control, so don't rely on blink scrolls to get you out of a hairy situation.
Lots of spells are really good here: poisonous cloud, refrigeration, mephitic cloud, alistair's intoxication, and so on.

elven items

Elven body armour impedes spellcasting less than other armour, especially if you are an elf. Elven cloaks and boots also boost stealth. Shields, gloves, robes and helmets merely weigh less.
Elven weapons give a small to-hit bonus to elves. A randomly generated elven weapon will get +0 to +2 to hit.

elynae

fortuna is his bitch
<ZChris13> Elynae: What the heck who are you and what did you do to the RNG
<Blade-> NO NO NO <Blade-> this cannot be <Blade-> you are breaking Crawl
see great near misses[4]
my fingers move at 1.1c, lol physics
<mikee_> elynae with tiamat colors might give me a seizure
d 1-13 > lair 1-8 > orc 1-4 > d 14-20 > v 1-7 > d 21-27 > get three runes > zot
elynae elemental (E) | Speed: 1.1c | HD: 15.5 | Health: 51 | AC/EV: 3/20 | Damage: 50 | Flags: einstein_was_wrong | Res: death | Sp: haste everyone

elynaeandxom

Elynae and Xom, united in common interest and insanity on their quest for the Orb of Zot! Including 1000000-turn-D:1-scumming, and of course randomness! And no self-preservation instinct whatsoever! Fun with/for the Fun God!
rTedium+++

elyvilon

The divinity of healing. Most reliable source of protection from being killed while praying, but will impose penance (i.e. not answer your requests for help) if you kill living creatures while praying. Provides healing invocations, but dislikes cannibalism, the use of necromancy, and allowing allies to die.
see pacification
Divine Vigour restores some HP and MP and temporarily increases max HP and MP.

elyvilon reasons

You like healing. Elyvilon is a one-trick pony in that regard. If you are berserking frequently, Elyvilon's purification ability will remove the slowing (but not the fatigue). Also offers the most reliable source of protection from harm while praying.
see amazing_games[5]
Ugly things.

elyvilon wrath

No effect unless you are worshipping evil. Otherwise, confusion, poison miscasts (0-1), and mass inventory weapon disenchantment. While in penance, Elyvilon will also occasionally block your attacks. This reduces your penance.

emacs

Add this to your .emacs file to get C mode syntactic indentation to obey the rules used in the Crawl source: (setq c-default-style "linux" c-basic-offset 4)
There's nethack-mode, why don't we have crawl-mode :(

embarrassing

deaths Lawman0 the Whirler (L18 HaBe), worshipper of Trog, succumbed to a swamp dragon's blast of poison on Swamp:5, with 151239 points after 41780 turns and 2:57:34.

embarrassing deaths

!tv * killer=death cob 1
!tv stabworth place=hive:2 ktyp=drowning 1
!tv ogaz 1
!tv xyblor ktyp=poison xl=27 1
!lg CatEater place=lab 1 -tv
!tv eternal char=dsdk place=d:10 1
!lg * char=napr place=lab 1 -tv
!tv AuditDaFed HOPr xl=25 2
!tv slickrick killer=yaktaur captain 1
!lg errol1 haas 18 -tv
!lg BrockL MDFi xl=18 3 -tv
!lg Eronarn splat xl=27 turn=150318 1
!tv minmay char=DEFE 3
!tv Elynae char=spar place=abyss 1
!tv snow hive:2 1
!lg ryak seee xl=27 1 -tv
!tv gabriellk drvm 1
!lg evilmike place=tomb:1 1
!lg * trmo 1 xl=25 place=slime:5 -tv
!lg ktgrey char=keae xl=24 ktyp=drowning -tv
!lg * ktyp=wild magic kaux=arcing electricity 1 -tv
!tv luckyned killer=elf zombie 1
!tv soul dgee 69
!lg slitherrr race=te class=fe 2 -tv
!lg mpa place=zig:12 1 -tv
!tv * dswr place=pan 1
!lg zammy migl ktyp=lava -tv

emperor lich

Only in ADOM, not crawl

emperor scorpion

A new scorpion in 0.8. Has decent HP, does a somewhat serious amount of melee damage. Still only average speed and has low MR.
Hits harder than an executioner.

empty arch

May be left behind after timed portals close or the player goes through them. Can also be found as decoration in some floors or in the Abyss to raise, and subsequently crush, the hopes of those trying to escape. This is also what gates to the abyss, pandemonium, and the hells will turn into if you've taken the Orb of Zot.

ench split

Q: Why is X in hexes? A: Witches.
Q: Why is--A: WITCHES

enchancer staff

Enchances on hit with (Evocations+1)/15 success. In 0.10 it's (Enchanchments/2+Evocations+1)/30 instead.

enchant armour

This scroll will enchant body armour in steps of 1 until their base ac, bardings to +4, shields to +3, and hats, gloves, cloaks, and boots to +2. Also can uncurse armours and promote troll and dragon hides into their respective armours.

enchant armour ii

Increases your armour's damage by 1.

enchant weapon

See enchant weapon i, enchant weapon ii, enchant weapon iii. All three types will uncurse a wielded weapon. I and II will try to enchant wielded ammunition by +1, III by up to +2.
Odds of success for enchant weapon i and ii: <+4: 100%; +4: 56%; +5: 44%; +6: 33%; +7: 22%; +8: 11% . The maximum enchantment on a mundane weapon is +9 +9
Generated items have different limits: base max is 8, +3 Oka hit/Trog dam, +4 no brand, 0/+1 orcish +2/+0 elven +1/+1 dwarven. Artefacts: +12 base, +3 Oka hit/Trog dam. the +9,+15 mace of the Countless Stars (weapon) {crush, rF+}

enchant weapon i

Adds to the wielded weapon's accuracy when read. Can go up to +9 (with less chance the more enchanted it is). Never destroys the weapon.
see enchant weapon[2]

enchant weapon ii

Adds to the wielded weapon's damage when read. Can go up to +9 (with less chance the more enchanted it is). Never destroys the weapon. Has no effect on blowguns.
see enchant weapon[2]

enchant weapon iii

Acts like 1d2 scrolls of EW I followed by 1d2 scrolls of EW II. Sorry, this scroll only acts as 1d2 EW I scrolls when used on ammo, not 2d2. (So you should use these scrolls on weapons, not ammo.)

enchanter

A spellcaster that starts with a Book of Maledictions, a short sword (dagger for spriggans), some darts, and some skill in Hexes, Short Blades, and Stabbing. They generally fight by incapacitating their enemies by casting Ensorcelled Hibernation or Confuse and then stabbing them.

enchantment

Powerful support school, governing lingering effects and spells that deal with the mind. Includes both most buff spells, and many spells to weaken foes. Powerful combo spells with most other schools. Among many excellent spells, provides Haste, DMsl, RMsl, swiftness and Regeneration.
see ench split

enchantment miscast

1: levitation / random uselessness 2: curse / slowing / berserk 3: 3x curse / paralysis / confusion / 0-18 glow. Charms and Hexes miscasts still use the old Enchantment miscasts.

encompass

Use after ORIENT: tag. Dimensions are 80x70.

encumbered

Encumbered: Bad. Don't be that ghost. Climbing stairs takes 1 extra turn, +1 to movement delay, +2 hunger, stealth is halved, slows unarmed combat.

encumbrance

see encumbered
see overloaded

energy

randomization see energy_randomisation

energy randomisation

Monster movement speed fluctuates. If you are fleeing a monster that moves at your speed, it will gain and lose steps at random; it may catch up and hit you, or slow down and form a gap. This mechanism does not allow double-attacks, however. Apparently, it prevents some cases of pillar dancing to starvation.

engorged

You cannot eat any more food, but you can drink a potion of porridge if you are not already at 12000 nutrition. Nothing else special about this state.
You can also quaff potions of water for 60 nutrition at engorged, and others for 40.
It can kill you if you were relying on that royal jelly to save your -14(8) int.

enhancer

Enhancers are things which affect spell power, like a ring of ice, staff of conjuration, or a robe of the archmagi (you feel a surge of power). Negative enhancers include opposite-element staves or rings and lantern of shadows (you feel a numb sensation). See spell power for what this means.

enne

Enne is short for awesome.

enormous slime creature

When four slime_creatures love each other very much...

enslavement

Temporarily turns an enemy into an ally. Comes in wand and spell form. Useful on orc warriors and the like with low magic resistance. In both forms, can be very useful to enslave something, go to an old level, tell it to 'wait here' and then deal with it later.
You can't enslave monsters that your god doesn't like.

ensnare

Attack flavour (jumping spiders) or missile spell (Arachne) which puts you in a web and places a web on the floor if possible.

ensorcelled hibernation

Can hibernate various monsters, making them very good targets for stabbing them to your hearts content. Also, it can be resisted several times. After you successfully hibernate a critter, it will resist further hibernation for a long time (might be around 20 turns). Only works on the living, and those who aren't cold-res -- try confuse instead.
Depends on MR. But plenty of late game monsters (say, zot draconians) can be easy to dispatch of, using hibernation. Check it out!
It doesn't work on plants.

entarex

No, there isn't really an Entarex.

enter the abyss

5* Lugonu ability. Pretty much exactly what it says. Really expensive to do (9 MP, hunger, piety, and costs MAX health). Just because you can depart the Abyss nearly at will does not mean you should use this skill on a whim. But if the alternative is death, this is a pretty great escape.

entry vault

You arrive in these. They are interesting and unique and you'll get to know and enjoy every last one! Watch out for the river, it has kobolds and darts.

eos

+11,+11 encrusted unrandart morningstar, {elec, -TELE rElec SInv}

epic bugs

if (you.religion = GOD_XOM)
I think I may have just played one of these (like a gnoll castle, but with draconians). Is it supposed to have 200-300 draconians? Or is there an error with the monster generation? https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=4101

epic fail

An epic fail can be considered any loss by which you failed by epic proportions.

eponysterical

<Erisdiscordia> MuBe is a motorcycle

ereshkigal

She is the ruler of the lowest level of Tartarus and guardian of the bone rune of Zot. Spells: bolt of draining, bolt of cold, summon greater demon, torment, paralyze, healing. Has mad crazy amounts of evasion.

erica

A comely spellweaver. She has Venom Bolt, Mystic Blast, Invisibility, Confuse, Slow, and Teleport Self for emergencies. She always wields a scimitar of flaming.

eringyas formal garden

Centaurs, vine-covered golems, fruit traps, troublesome fungi, and secret doors.

eringyas surprising bouquet

From a very old version of Crawl: "Eringya's Surprising Bouquet: This spell transmutes any wooden items in the caster's grasp into a bouquet of beautiful flowers."
nobody is sure what this means or how it's useful, but it's theorized to be of use on cursed weapons

erisdiscordia

Stone Soups developer-by-proxy, anything that Erik (erisdiscordia) has accomplished in Stone Soups design, he's done so by convincing someone else to do it. Except his vaults. Those are 110% his fault. People keep on obliquely comparing him to Sisyphos for some reason he cant comprehend.
Current characters: EatEverythingOfYou and HorrorMuchShow. Plays on CDO. No point in !whereising "erisdiscordia"; @whereis a character name instead.
<erisdiscordia> Xom > absolutely everything
Dungeon > Play the map > Play the map > Play the map > Play the map > Play the map
trolls casmith789
His jokes are worse than fountain mimics
tempddak

erocrawl

L) EroCrawl (unstable): Lava Orcs, Octopodes, Square LOS
< MarvinPA> octopodes and lava orcs and squarelos are on cao < casmith789> ffffffffff
< Elynae> erocrawl is like the best thing that happened to crawl since I started
Tiles version spash screens: http://i.imgur.com/1yi21.png (minmay), http://i51.tinypic.com/23t3y4y.png (Wensley)

erolcha

A unique ogre magess spawned with a random set of spells, which include friendly things like banishment to the Abyss, paralysis, and LCS. Do not underestimate her. See erolcha spells.
<Danei> erolcha is your "crawl can and will try to kill you" warning

erolcha spells

Select one set from: (magic dart, paralyse, haste, lightning, confuse, teleport self) (venom bolt, mystic blast, invis, confuse, slow, teleport self) (paralyse, crystal spear, blink, fire bolt, cold bolt, healing) (stone arrow, sting, blink, lightning, banish, healing) (paralyse, throw flame, invis, teleport other, fireball)

eronarn

<Vandal> Eronarn you are probably the least mature of all the devs, just fyi
< G-Flex> he's not a dev, he just plays one on IRC
< Daekdroom> Eronarn is not a dev? O.o
< tensorpudding> isn't eronarn a dev, or is that just the lavaorcsfork
Likes to have gay sex with weird people from SA.
< OG17> who would be stupid enough to implement silly hats
a huge jerk
came up with the idea for vampire mosquitos; is literally hitler
<Eronarn> .9 will be squares, octopodes, and witches
< ZChris13> Eronarn has some good ideas. But what it really needs is like some flowcharts or something. < ZChris13> Like an actual roundtable discussion with powerpoints
made octopodes, the dumbest idea
1. Eronarn the Necromancer (L27 DSNe), worshipper of Sif Muna, collapsed under their own weight caused by gaining the bat transformation on Lair:2 on 2008-08-27, with 538692 points after 150318 turns and 17:21:18.
< notthepope> there was something in learndb that got taken sort of serious by one guy

escape hatch

One-way stairs that always take you to the same position on the next level. Yes, monsters can follow you through them as usual.

esplat

!lg * ((tiles || !@hugeterm)) cv~~0.1. ntv=0 ktyp!=quitting|leaving|winning killer!=tentacled monstrosity|greater naga|naga warrior max=xl -tv

essoje

<Henzell> I don't have a page labeled essoje in my learndb. <Essoje> ...
Considers clouded as his personal hero for his DG-related wins.

eternal

Adds, then deletes, his own learndb entry.

ettin

Buffed in 0.8 to do more melee damage in a round potentially than any monster short of Antaeus, the Lernaean hydra, and the like. Fortunately it has poor accuracy and still isn't particularly hard to kill.

eudemon

The word means "good demon". Evil one is "cacodemon" -- but no, others than cacos are usually evil as well.

eudemon blade

Long blade, Dam 14, Acc -2, Delay 120%

eustachio

A summoner. His name is Eustachio. You killed his favorite bat. Prepare to die. In 0.8, now found from D:4 to D:10!
In trunk, you killed his favourite rat instead.
Beware his glorious mustache! Not to be confused with pistachio.

ev

Shorthand for evasion (the stat/skill). It is improved by Dodging skill, equipment with evasion bonuses, the repulsion field mutation, and the Phase Shift spell; it is worsened by equipment with evasion penalties and being under the effect of the Slow spell.
http://imgur.com/0RSGG.png R code: http://pastebin.com/f6eec73ed

evade

Brand on missile weapons giving +5 EV.

evaporate

Converts a potion into a cloud of nastiness. Very useful until late game, especially for miasma (from decay or degeneration). A ghost with evaporate receives meph instead.
* means duration boost, chances even unless noted as #x. - (Strong*) poison: poison. Degeneration(*): poison/miasma. Decay(*): miasma. Paralysis(*)/slowing/confusion: mephitic cloud. Water/porridge: steam. (Coagulated) blood: mephitic/flame/steam. Berserk: flame/steam. Gain X/exp/magic: flame/freezing/poison/miasma/random(2x). Mut.: + mut. fog.
All other potions: flame/mephitic/freezing/poison/random/colored_fog(3x)/steam(5x). "Random" means that each square of the cloud is randomly chosen from all(?) of the game's cloud types.

evasion brand

Gives +5 EV. Only appears on launchers.

eveningstar

The rarest mace, but worse than a demon whip. In 0.6+ it is 14, -1, 150%. It is one-handed. For comparison, demon whips are 11, 1, 110%.

everywhere

Where casmith789 is not.

evil

See evil items or evil gods.
There's an "evil" flag for monsters, too. Presumably it means you earn TSO piety by killing them. What else does it do?

evil gods

Beogh, Lugonu, Kikubaaqudgha, Yredelemnul, Makhleb.

evil items

demon blades/whips/tridents, asmodeus/dispater/cerebov's weapons, weapons of pain, draining and vampirism, wand of draining, scrolls of summoning and torment, potion of (coagulated) blood, necromantic books, staff of death, book or rod of demonology, bottled efreet, lantern of shadows. scythe of curses, sword of zonguldrok, sceptre of torment.

evilduepeg

One of the four possible uniques that can be found guarding the abyssal stair.

evilmike

!lm evilmike noun=cerebov 2 -tv
has made some grate vaults
<mikee_> evilmike is like a less evil version of minmay
kiku -> lair (not subbranches) -> orc -> vaults to crypt entrance -> crypt to tomb entrance -> tomb -> everything else
<evilmike> I actually know a lot about pinball, if you ever need help assembling a pinball machine
You go down through the gate. Welcome to the Realm of Zot! 3 dragons, 5 moths of wrath, an electric golem, 14 draconians, 4 tentacled monstrosities and 3 death cobs come into view.

evilmike ambush

!lg olXor splat natm place=zot:1 -tv

evilyon

The evil sister of Elyvilon.

evilyoshi

<evilyoshi>??evilyoshi <Henzell>I don't have a page labeled evilyoshi in my learndb.

evocations

This skill affects wands, abilities related to decks, and abilities gained from items. Evocation skill adds to wand power, though spell power caps are still respected.

evolution

See evolution[2] for the Fedhas ability or evolution_mutation for the mutation.
For some piety, you get a permanent wandering mushroom with a powerful confusing attack. It will follow you normally outside of combat (they are so friendly), but the moment you encounter a monster it stays still while it is in LOS. However, they eventually kill themselves since they lose HD per attack.
Plants turn into oklobs. The rate of fire of oklobs is increased by invocations. Oklobs that you encounter normally don't care about you and thus won't help you, they are jerks. Oklobs are permanent, do a lot of damage, and draw aggro, but Fedhas gets a bit unhappy if one you create dies.

evolution mutation

Gives you new mutations, either random or random good on a coinflip, as you gain experience (and eventually removes itself).

evp

Body armour evasion penalty. Usually (but not always) modified by your armour skill to become aevp.

excellent

95-99% spell success.

exclusion

eith: x then e or X then e

excruciating wounds

Bestows a temporary, unaffixable pain brand on a weapon. Level 5 nec/charms, in the book of Death. Pain branding is as loud as slamming a door when berserked.
<tensorpudding> excruciating wounds is a pain

exe axe

see {executioner's axe}

exec axe

see {executioner's axe}

executioner

Completely unlike ogres for the end game - cannot be outrun without controlled magical translocations, hits for up to 150 damage per turn of yours, sees invisible, and resists elemental magic. Fortunately it's not too hard to kill and can't fly. And with 9 hits to spread damage over, high-AC chars are in little danger.
It is particularly important to note that it is *naturally* twice as fast as "normal" speed. Furthermore, they generally haste themselves right away. They cannot fly, so will be thwarted by levitation and deep water or lava.

executioners axe

You want axes? You want them big? You want to swing your axe into the guts of demons? Do the demons have HUGE GUTS you want to RIP AND TEAR? Then this axe is for you. (Two-Handed, Damage 20, Acc -6, Delay 200%)
<Mu_> big strong man need big strong axe, mighty axe

exhausted

Status obtained after berserking or using Death's Door. You can't use either one until it wears off.

expect

follow the instructions at http://www.amateurtopologist.com/2010/09/03/logging-in-to-crawl-akrasiac-org-quickly/ to autologin to cao without typing your username/password

expendable

If you lose your character in the first few floors, no big deal. What did you lose? Ten minutes?
q - a +0,+3 ring of slaying (left hand) {unknown} / u - a +0,+4 ring of slaying (right hand) {unknown}

experience

Crawl has two parallel experience systems. One, your character level. When your level goes up you get more spellcasting slots, health, magic, enchantment resistance, etc. Experience is automatically contributed to this upon each kill. You can see your progress to the next level in the status bar.
The second system is dedicated to your skills and does not level up your character's basic traits.

experience card

Acts similarly to a potion of experience, except the experience gained is not always enough to give you a level (based on card power; guaranteed at 2). Also gives you some exp to spend on skills, 20000 XP at card power 2.

experience pool

No longer exists. We will not miss it. But if you want to know what it was like, read [2-3].
OK. Say you kill a creature worth 200XP. 200 XP goes towards increasing your level, and 200 XP goes into your XP pool. XP is used up from the pool when you practice skills. Skills that are highlighted in the skill list ('m') are being fully practiced. Other skills are being practiced 25% of the normal amount.
Different skills are practiced different ways. Stealth, for example, is practiced just by moving -- something like Evocations is only practiced when you successfully evoke something.

experienced

Describes an experience level 7-10 player ghost.

exploding

Explosion effect similar to LRD or Fireball on impact. Allegedly does 2d5 damage regardless of missile.
<Zicher> You throw a runed elven dart. The runed elven dart hits the orc priest. You kill the orc priest! The runed elven dart explodes! The explosion of elven dart fragments engulfs the orc. You kill the orc! The explosion of elven dart fragments engulfs the worm. You kill the worm!
Makes lots of noise (duh).

exploding dart

They go BOOM!

extension

Extends most temporary effects. Adds 0-1 points of contamination and additionally 1 point for the following effects: haste, might, invisibility. Removed in 0.8.
What you'll never get on your student loans.

extra lives

Felids get one every three levels. You can't have more than two at a time. If you didn't gain a life due to this, you can get it later by gaining a non-multiple of 3 level with fewer than two lives remaining.

eye of devastation

A giant eye that shoots irresistible 3d20 bolts of energy. But it's inaccurate and slow. They also disintegrate walls like digging, causing a 'grinding sound'. Fun to use to open slime 6 vaults.

eye of draining

Drains your mana with its gaze, which then heals it. Immune to magic.

eyeballs

2 * mutation level + 1 accuaracy in melee; level 3 grants SInv. When hit in melee, mutation level in 20 chance of attempting a mutation level * 30 power enchantment against the monster's MR. If successful, the monster is confused for 2 + d9 turns.

fabulously ornate robe

Used to always be the Robe of Misfortune. In 0.9+ is just a randart descriptor like any other.

facebook

<mikee_> ugggh <mikee_> this is like the webtiles version of oregon trail

facet

A "family" of Demonspawn mutations that are related and are gained together over time. Added in version 0.7. Check ds mutation rules to see how they work.

faerie dragon

They don't exist!

faerie dragon armour

A randart with fixed appearance, worn by the Enchantress. Good AC for a light armour, sticky flame immunity, and guaranteed not to have some bad properties like MUT, *TELE, etc. Base type is mottled dragon armour.

failbot

<Fail_Bot> ??add FailBot is made of epic fails

fair

No, this game isn't fair (and neither is "fair" success). But it was your fault, anyway. P.S. Casting spells at Fair success means 30-50% chance to fail, which will annoy you at best or get you killed at worst. Frequently. You really want Great or better. Well, you really want excellent or better.
< nrook> that's what's so great about Crawl: every time, you don't even have rage at the chance of the heavens to sustain you; you know, with a cold certainty something like that of a priest who has lost his faith in God, that your death was caused by none other than yourself, and that a better man could have avoided it.
(12:31:49 AM) eith: in general crawl is mostly unavoidable deaths, thats one of the design goals

faith

see amulet of faith
ya got ta have a faith a faith a faith!

faketourney

Faketourney banners include: http://i42.tinypic.com/4ttyx1.png

falchion

One handed long blade, Dam: 8, Acc +2, Delay 13

famine card

Sets you to halfway between starving and dead.

famott

<FaMott> I never realized how stupidly I play <FaMott> GUYS <FaMott> IM RETARDED. <rwbarton> *I'M <FaMott> SHUT UP.

famous last words

according to the wiki
<meowfelid> Ah well. Unwielding Distortion on a Demon Whip shouldn't be too bad, right?
<minmay> am I seriously about to fight an electric golem with 99 hp and no rElec
<tensorpudding> well, rF+ is enough for zot:5 right?
@??Nikola
<TempMfCr> Phew. Survived Vaults1-7. <TempMfCr> Vaults8 should be not much harder
<rwbarton> maybe I should do tomb for the xp
<ZChris13> What is this ancient lich thing
punpun: four orbs of fire says I should probably run, but I am kind of close to the orb
<Ragdoll> surely i can kill antaeus 1v1
<LordSloth> Oooh, rupert has a glowin exec axe
<keszocze> hm, very large slime creatures are not that impressive
< Brickman> But if I blow all my MP on it I'll get him eventually
<N78291> hm, can you passwall through slime walls
<minced> Hmmm, guardian spirit seems REALLY good for SpEn.
<flamoot> KeAE seems a lot easier in 8.0 <Henzell> flamoot the Gusty (L3 KeAE), blasted by Crazy Yiuf (wand of frost) on D:2, with 160 points after 1856 turns and 0:06:11.
<snow_> im going to try to kill this cerebov person
<Elynae> summon ice beast is so damn good <Elynae> i'll kill cerebov with it to prove that <Gretell> Elynae the Summoner (L11 HuSu), worshipper of Ashenzari, killed by miscasting Summon Ice Beast on Lair:1, with 7605 points after 18288 turns and 1:21:04.
someone on tavern suggested
[16:19] <dpeg_> bhaak: I hope someone takes up the nerfing hammer, it is the single most important tool.
<Sorbius> fancy, orc with a distortion brand on D3... good thing I follow lugoni <Henzell> Sorbius the Skirmisher (L3 DsAK), worshipper of Lugonu, slain by an orc (a +1,+2 orcish spiked flail of distortion) on D:3
You are too injured to fight blindly!
<Nomi> i'm with jiyva, so contam doesn't matter

fan mail

<dpeg> We get billions of letters starting with "I want a child from you guys!", I cannot take it anymore.

fanfiction

"Celestial Star-Crossed Lovers Eternal", by Wensley: http://i54.tinypic.com/24qp8vd.png
http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?title=Chuck_Norris
see macbeth
http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?title=Arduos_de_Lorosia
http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?title=Sling_of_flame

faq

Q: I have a question. A: ??topic
Q: Why do orbs of fire have rDrown? A: <N78291> if you happen to enslave a merfolk aquamancer on zot:5, I think the orb of fire's rDrown will reduce the wave spell damage
Q: <Red_Bucket> Can getting hit by an orb of destruction cause you to get str drained A: <N78291> Red_Bucket: under the highly specific situation in which you worship Jiyva with ****** piety, take more than a 1/4 of your max hp in the hit, spawn jellies and hit the very unlikely chance of draining some str, yes
<JoshTriplett> "You feel a slight, muted jump rush through you." <JoshTriplett> Huhwhat? <N78291> apparently you put a ring of teleportation on in sprint
<N78291> does leda's prevent tornado

farj

Online, has entered Elf but not Lair.

farming

In an attempt to further stigmatise this loathesome practice, Henzell prepends Farming to the titles of those who have spent 200,000 turns or more in the Dungeons.
Of course, gamers being gamers, some players have adopted it as a kind of badge of honour. These players, however, are big hairy nerds.
The only real risk of even getting this title comes from clearing all regular branches, plus spending time in three or four (or more) of the special ones (Pan, Hell, Tomb, Slime). Or by always resting to full mana.

fart jokes

!vault lom_lobon_spiral_st

fast metabolism

Mutation that makes you hunger faster by 1 per level of mutation (default rate is 3 for most races).

fastslow

You are both hasted and slowed, which makes you move at normal speed. You still get glow from being hasted.

fat

!learn edit serpentscourge s/An/Ann

faze

pivotal

fazisi

<fazisi> shit, i quoted myself wrong
"fucking elitists"

fear

Status that stops you from moving towards a monster. The opposite of mesmerise. For the spell or scroll see scroll of fear.

feast card

Makes you as engorged as you can possibly be.

feature mimic

Because being chased by a shop is hilarious.
<rwbarton> wouldn't you rather have real features

feature request

Put them on the wiki: https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php
Autoexplore in abyss. No maprot in labs. [or differently coloured maprot in labs, so people know what areas could have changed]
You can't be trampled while flying.
Remove secret doors.
Level 3? Translocation spell, Apport Monster.
Abyssal gates appear more often.
Metabolic englaciation can be repeated as often as you like.
give the elven halls a makeover
force_mores on reading being blocked by blurry
In game, an option to not autopickup a selected item class for the rest of the game using some interface on i. By this, I mean "scrolls of EW II" not "wands" although the latter could be useful also

febe

bot it

febe guide

o, aa, tab, repeat

febe reasons

You don't like things that are fun.

fedhas

Abilities: decomposition - turns corpses in LOS into skeletons, turns zombies into skeletons (or destroys them), destroys ghoul genus monsters for piety gain, causes toadstools to grow; evolution - turn plants or fungi into stronger species. upgrading fungi costs piety, upgrading plants costs fruit
sunlight - illuminates a small aoe inflicting backlit status and evaporating water; growth - creates plants in a circle around you, costs 1 fruit per plant, if a complete circle can't be placed plants are placed on open squares closest to monsters; reproduction - spawn giant spores from corpses in LOS
rain - creates a circle of water around you, the floor becomes shallow water, shallow water becomes deep water, randomly spawns plants and fungus
Fedhas worshipers can walk through plants. Fedhas worshipers may shoot through friendly or neutral plants. Plants and fungi are neutral towards Fedhas worshipers
WOOD FOR THE WOOD GOD!
You can polymorph other giant spores without penance....
oklob-hugger

fedhas madash reasons

<mikee_> it's like plant zin
Reasons: You want to have several final ditch effort for survival options, including: Making water around you, making a plant wall around you, making plants to Oklob plants and having them murder your enemies.
Fedhas' abilities also tend to be a mixed bag of odd abilites that come in use in a variety of ways. For example, sunlight can be used to make a land bridge or drain water and thus take care of those pesky submerging fish.
Fedhadites also don't have to worry about spores. Not to mention, they have a good crowd control ability to throw out lots of spores and kill enemies.
Besides, what else are you going to use all of those fruits for?
You can get the totally awesome wandering mushrooms in under 2000 turns (1 floor from temple!) without even gourmand or amulet of faith
Maurice stole your cool stuff and then drowned.
The kraken flops around on dry land!

fedhas wrath

Summons oklobs and wandering mushrooms in a circle around you. Also, fire/ice/air/earth miscasts.
The oklobs can fire at you -through- the wandering mushrooms. Enjoy!
!lg * killer=~oklob ikiller=~fedhas 1 -tv

fedhate murderdash

Fedhas' evil alter-ego, only worshipable via an altar found at the Abyssal Stair. Responsible for all the withered and demonic plants you see in the dungeon. Powers: decompose living enemies, causing mushrooms to burst from their still-beating hearts; summon death cob

fehe guide

don't play fehe

felid

A cat race that can't use armour, weapons, wands or rods, and can't throw anything. They gain extra lives as they level up. They have claws, fangs, and fur. They cover ground quickly, see invisible, are carnivorous and have slow metabolism.
Apts: +1 summoning, tmut. +2 dodge, stealth, t&d, enchantment, tloc. +3 stab. -1 cj, fire, ice, air, earth, poison, invo. -2 evo. +0 rest. 140 exp aptitude.
NyaaKitty is no longer allowed to play any race but this. Soon to be imposed (with a Dis-imported paw) on all Team Cat members. The punishment is to play a non-Felid.
< elliptic> FR: walk on keyboard ability
http://buttersafe.com/2011/05/19/even-more-robot-cat/
<MarvinPA> not sure how it manages to cast spells with stones in its mouth <MarvinPA> but hey, that's felids
<Kyrris> I just quaffed experience solely to get an extra life, because I am about to die to poison. <Kyrris> From a needle trap.

felid reasons

Extra life! You're a member of team cat. You have trouble deciding on a weapon type. You like it when most items are irrelevant to you.
You like automating half the game then winning in 1:05.
Cat of Death!
You're insane.
You can melee jellies with reckless abandon.

fellow slime

Your jolly fellow slime friends!

fencers gloves

Unrandart +2 gloves {EV+3 Dex+3 Acc+8}

fepr

<Elynae> Welcome, hyperelynae the Felid Priest. <Elynae> Will you prevail where others failed? Will you get the Orb of Zot? <Elynae> no please

fetichist

Google it - go on, I dare you :P

ffun

"fun and only fun"

fiend

One of three fairly nasty tier 1 demons, all of which can cast torment along with assorted other things. See brimstone fiend, ice fiend, shadow fiend.

fiend lich

Affectionate term for a lich that summons multiple 1's which can lead to a fatal summon storm.

fight

the best(/spammiest) invention since ever. telnet termcast.develz.org (FightClub channel) to watch. "!fight cancel" to end a fight that's stalled, or repeat the same command line with "cancel" at the end, e.g. !fight butterfly v butterfly cancel.
Examples: "!fight 20-headed hydra v 10 kobold ; scimitar ego:flaming", "!fight 99 orc v the royal jelly", "!fight electrical eel v 10 rat". Note the syntax for some monsters -- make sure you aren't pluralizing, and spell monster names correctly.
see fight club
PM varmin your !fight requests to reduce channel spam.
Please do not use test spawners with delay:0, kthx.
http://crawl-ref.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/crawl-ref/trunk/crawl-ref/docs/arena.txt for a guide. For the arenas: http://crawl-ref.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/crawl-ref/trunk/crawl-ref/source/dat/arena.des
For most epic fight ever try !fight giant spore v giant spore

fighter

Growing up, this fellow spent all his time on the training field, not in the magic library. Generally starts with: light weapon, scale mail, shield, bonus hp and str.
Optional conduct: you must play while working out in Real Life. GreyKnight's findings: concentration becomes hard, switching hands is hard (do not drop dumbbell on laptop; it won't help)

fighting

The Fighting skill gives you a bonus to accuracy and damage in melee, and improves your hit points by ((1+racial_factor/10) * Fighting * XL) / 8 (see hp).

fighting bonus

Fighting skill bonus to damage is (40 + 1d(fighting + 1))/40 for unarmed combat, or 2.5% per point, and (30 + 1d(fighting +1))/30 for armed, or 3.33% per point.

fine

a randart prefix

finisher

a blackened scythe. The +3,+5 scythe "Finisher" {speed, Str+3}. Sigmund's favourite toy.

finrod

Expert in getting mangled by things with horribly powerful weapons.

fire bat

Need a light?
I'm looking to buy propane accessories.

fire brand

This spell sets a weapon held by the caster ablaze. It will not affect weapons otherwise subject to special enchantments. Using this on a slicing weapon lets it chop off hydra heads instead of making more grow. If you are fighting something cold-blooded, you want freezing aura instead.

fire crab

A red t that breathes flame clouds everywhere. Likes to burn all your scrolls.
< Wensley> the other kind of fire crab is just donald trump

fire dragon armour

A magical armour, made from the scales of a fire-breathing dragon. It provides great protection from the effects of fire, but renders its wearer more susceptible to the effects of cold. (AC 8, EV -3, rF++, -cold, 35 aum). All races but felids, draconians, and octopodes can wear this.

fire drake

One of the most dangerous creatures in Lair. Has fiery breath, deals a lot of damage, and retreats when wounded. One of the few fire creatures in Lair, along with the lindwurm and lava snake/fish/worm.

fire elemental

Fast elemental that trails fire. Doesn't hit very hard, but can destroy your scrolls. Often indicates the presence of Azrael.

fire elementalist

A spellcaster that starts out with some conjurations and fire magic skill and a Book of Flames.

fire elementalist reasons

Sticky flame.

fire giant

Will try to roast you from a distance, which can be very nasty if you don't have fire resistance. Always carries a red-hot great sword.
Confusing it into lava doesn't work. Go figure.

fire magic

Spell school for blowing things up, *with fire*. Overall, this is the best sort of blowing things up, but fire magic is notably short on non-conjurations, although there are a few they generally either support your fire conjurations (ring of flames) or don't benefit from high fire magic (evaporate).
Mostly blows things up directly, but see conjure flame and sticky flame. In the late game, many things are fire immune, and earth conjurations are better, so although more fire magic is always nice, it's generally a good idea to turn it off in the late game.

fire miscast

1: smoke cloud / burn scrolls (2-14 dmg if *vulnerable*); 2: 5-33 fire damage / 3d14 fireball; 3: 9-41 fire dmg / 3d20 fireball / stickyflame

fire storm

The most powerful fire conjuration, dealing 55% resistible fire damage in a large radius and leaving behind fire clouds and fire vortices. Like its frigid counterpart, it makes a godawful racket when cast. Unlike ice storm, is smite-targeted. Don't be tricked -- it CAN reach you 3 squares away!
Be aware - no "OMG you'll kill yourself with it!" warning. For viable example !lg hayenne char=DEFE place=Pan 1 -tv
Player fire storm has a limited range, but monsters can target fire storm on anything they can see. Standing at the edge of LOS will not make you safe from Cerebov.
For a demonstration of how to use fire storm optimally, view this: !lm nfogravity br.end=dis 3 -tv:<-4.5:>6.2
see hilarious_deaths[89]

fire summon

Fiends, hellions, and stuff that doesn't matter.

fire vortex

A byproduct of casting Fire Storm.

fireball

Level 5 Fire/Conjuration spell. Cannot be evaded. Makes noise. Hits a 3x3 area.

firecrab

FIRECRAB's ghost laughs crazily.

firefox

Summons flying webpages, will only be hostile if you don't bother with NoScript and Adblock Plus.

first world problems

<AtT_> oh fuck <AtT_> i just opened a package of the wrong type of crackers <AtT_> that i don't want to eat

fish

FISH!
"The big fish bites you. Ouch! That really hurt! You die..." This is karma.

fizzle

You just cast a spell with no valid target.

flail

Damage 9, Acc +2, delay 15. Not very good.

flame card

{damaging card}: 50% fireball, else {throw flame, sticky flame, bolt of fire} by power.

flame tongue

Spell which throws a low-power, low-accuracy puff of flame two to five spaces. Note that the max range is spell power-dependent - don't expect your fledgeling DEFE to fry anything significantly beyond melee. 1d14 at max power.

flaming

Increases damage by (on average) 25% against non-fire-resistant monsters, 50% on rF-, still 12.5% on rF+, 0 on rF+++. Slicing/chopping flaming weapons will cauterize hydra necks, preventing the heads from regrowing.

flaming corpse

Applies sticky flame on melee hit. Fun!
Confusing one into water puts out its flames and turns it invisible

flayed ghost

The most dangerous non-pghost "p", but by the time you meet it not much of a threat. A staple of Gehenna.

flight

Level 3 Charms/Air. Grants levitation and controlled flight for its duration.

flight card

Card power 0: if you currently can, makes you transform into either spider form or bat form. 1&2: gives you flight and swiftness. 2: if on a shaft-appropriate level, generates a shaft beneath you (which you can then voluntarily dive down with >). May also make you invisible, 1 chance in (4 - card power).

fling icicle

What the hell were they thinking with that name?
see throw_icicle

fliptable

(â¯Â°â¡Â°ï¼â¯ï¸µ â»ââ»

floating monster

Very annoying bug that chases hayenne each time he plays CDO stable. It appears when monster is generated in empty space between walls.

floor

That obstacle which most directly prevents you from reaching the lowest level of the Dungeon.

floor god

The god of the floor and what lies upon it.
Like Xom except nicer. Except when Nessos gets a draining weapon.
This god likes it when you wield- or wear-id picked up weapons. This god dislikes it when you pay no attention to unided artefacts.

floor mimic

kinda like a trapdoor spider that appears in pan and makes you press x a lot

floosh

Floosh!

fluffymormegil

Regards "mormegil" as his canonical netname and uses the fluffy modifier for hysterical raisins.

fly

Indicates you're flying. If it's blue (or dark blue for low duration), means you're a tengu that is <70% encumbrance and thus is receiving a 1 point speed boost. If it's pink (or purple), means you're not. See also flight.

flying skull

Fast, swarming, and utterly harmless undead. Often not worth killing. Annoying when it wakes up the Tomb by shrieking, though.
...so possibly worth killing.

focus

IT DOES NOT INCREASE YOUR TOTAL XP
Have you considered just turning off all your skills except the one you want the most?
You can make this easier by adding "skill_focus = false" to your config file.
<SaintGutFree> Focus is the default skill I use when I want some just training in the background

focus card

This card reduces your lowest stat by 1 and increases your highest stat by 1.

font

http://www.yohng.com/software/terminalvector.html 9 pt

foo

A metamagical syntactificator.
someone to pity

foo trap

a trap for trapping foos

food

Goes in mouth/beak. Without carnivore or herbivore: Royal jelly weighs 5.5, is 5000 nutrition. Meat weighs 8, is 5000 nutrition. Bread weighs 8, is 4400 nutrition. Honeycomb weighs 4, is 2000 nutrition. A chunk weighs 10, is 1000 nutrition. Takes 4 turns to eat rations, 3 for chunks, 2 turns for all other food.
Sultana is 70. Grape is 100. Strawberry is 200. Lychee/choko/rambutan is 600. Apricot/pear/apple is 700. Banana/lemon/orange is 1000. Cheese/sausage is 1200. Beef jerky/pizza/snozzcumber is 1500. Porridge is 6040. Potion of water is 40.
http://corexii.com/crawl/permafood/
Do not eat a ration right before teleporting, or this will happen to you. !lg jeremie opee zot:5 1 -tv:<0.5

food acquirement

If you worship Fedhas, you get fruit! Ghouls get some chunks, vampires get potions of blood, everyone else gets rations or honeycombs or royal jellies.
Do not underestimate it. See effo[1] for a feasible example.

food clock

a clock made out of food

food reform

<ebarrett> it's basically dual wielding except with bread

football

!fight 11 raven v 11 titan

footv

telnet termcast.develz.org (and then select the letter for FooTV). Do not use SSH. Shows games requested using !tv. Request games by adding -tv to !lg, !lm or !hs, cancel games by adding -tv:cancel to the same command-line, clear playlist with !lg * -tv:nuke
Use -tv:<N to start playback approx Nx before the default start (-tv:<3 to start 3x before normal start), and for milestones, -tv:>N to end playback Nx after normal end, -tv:>$ to end playback at end of ttyrec. You can combine both seek options as -tv:<2:>3
For good fooTV, ??embarrassing deaths , ??hilarious deaths, ??amazing games, ??great near misses
If playback looks weird to you in PuTTY, then try setting the translation to UTF-8 under Window->Translation->Received data assumed to be in which character set
<Kyrris> It's how good players laugh at bad ones. <Kyrris> It masquerades as a learning tool for going in the other direction.

for science

<Red_Bucket> 99 exploding firebats can kill antaeus

forbidden combos

DgAK DgBe DgCK DgDK DgHe DgPr DsHe DsPr FeAM FeAr FeAs FeGl FeHu GhHe GhPr GhTm MuHe MuPr MuTm VpHe VpPr

forescry

see phase shift
Level 5 divinations spell, temporary +8 EV. Found in the Book of Divinations and Xom's random spell list. Duration can be extended via recasting to a maximum of 30 turns.

forest

Currently D:19-26 whole level vault mock up of the forest branch. Lots of trees and spriggans. Ruled by the Enchantress. Watch out for druids, berserkers, defenders, and her (the first can use awaken forest, the last two have silly EV and get distortion weapons a lot).
Set the trees on fire to win.

forest fire

When you set fire to trees, it becomes a forest fire! Isn't that nice?

forgiveness

<Henzell> I don't have a page labeled forgiveness in my learndb.
see fair[3]

forgotten

"You seem to have forgotten something": No, you didn't; just a harmless message.

forum

https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/
<nyaakitty> It's worse than the wiki because it's actually active.

forumrobin

Current plan: dive to elf:5 for a quarterstaff, preferably using one of 0.8's new quite powerful Mummies.

foul stench

Tier 2 Demonspawn facet. Level 1: Saprovore 1. Level 2: rRot, sicken monsters and sometimes emit miasma when damaged in melee. Level 3: emit miasma more often.

fountain

Clear blue fountains are decoration. Sparkling fountains, however, sometimes act like random potions. In ancient versions, you got some nutrition (0100qy).
Risk-takers, please note that sparkling fountains can make you rot, and with great regularity. (And mutate, and a bunch of inconsequential things). Also, fountains of blood. Seem to be just like the potion.
Aquatic life can survive in these. Cute, isn't it... that electric eel splashing around in the water. Drink the water, yes.

fountain mimic

One of the main dangers faced on the orb run.

fountain of blood

It's like a fountain of water, but with blood instead.

fountain quaffing

don't
see fountain[2]
see fountain[3]

fov

Field of view. In simplest terms, what's blocking your sight.

fox

A collection of round-robin style accounts. Totally unofficial!
DiamondFox, RubyFox, EmeraldFox, GoldFox, SilverFox, BronzeFox

foxfire card

Summons flying things, will only be hostile if card power is 0 and you roll a 25% chance.
Possible summons are insubstantial wisps, vapours, bumblebees, butterflies, yellow wasps, and red wasps. Do not underestimate red wasps; the ready availability of poison resistance prevents many players from seeing their true power. Won't summon friendly vapours if you can't see invis.

fr

Crawl-speak for Feature Request, a reference to the development page for Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup where players can add input as to what they want to see in the game. http://crawl.develz.org/wiki/ but please check the archives first, as there are a few ideas that have been posted and rejected many many times.
Feature requests and feedback go on the dev wiki, which is set up for discussions. Mantis, the replacement for SourceForge, is for bug reports and patches.
Commonly contains ideas of such well-thought-out nature as two-headed ogre PC races, cooking, and Natasha to go with Boris.
Feature requests on ##crawl are usually pithy one-liners that are not meant to be taken seriously.

frances

The plural form of France, bearing a deep facial scar. She has the same spells as orc high priests, which are pain, summon demon, smite, animate dead, and healing. Dances with Francis.
mid-game eustachio

francis

Removed from the game as of 0.8, formerly had pain, summon demon, smite, animate dead, abjuration, healing.

frederick

A svelte fighter-mage, wearing a gold-rimmed monocle. SPELLS INCLUDE: mystic blast, bolt of cold, invis, animate dead, iron shot. Formerly known as Adolf.
<ktgrey> that was anticlimatic mr. casts spells at the same strength as cerebov

freeze

A level 1 spell found in a book of Frost that never misses its target, but only has a range of one. It ignores the target's AC, bypassing damage reduction. It also can slow cold-blooded enemies, making it useful all the way through Lair. There's some sort of semi-stun that paralyses for a fraction of a turn depending on power. 1d13 at max power.
see badwiki[2]

freezing

Increases damage by (on average) 25% against non-cold-resistant monsters, or 50% on vulnerable monsters. Also slows {cold-blooded} monsters. Still increases damage by 12.5% against monsters with rC+, the same as vorpal does.

freezing aura

Bestows a temporary (freeze) brand on a weapon. Works on the same weapons that fire brand does, and slows cold-blooded enemies like the freeze spell. If you are fighting a hydra with a chopping or slashing weapon, you want fire brand instead. Books: Ice, War Chants

freezing cloud

Fills 8-10 squares (by flood fill from the target point -- this can be manipulated, as it won't fill a square that already has a cloud) with clouds doing cold damage. (Conjurations/Ice/Air 6). You will NOT get a dialog telling you if the cloud will hit you, so be careful where you place it.
it kills things dead, but lasts for a long time after everything dies, so prepare to have a picnic waiting for it to clear

freezing corona

monky is an alcoholic

freezing wraith

Hits you. Freezes you. Doesn't drain you. Slow.

frost card

{damaging card}: {throw frost, ice bolt, bolt of cold} by power.

frost covered statue

A statue that throws frost at you. Guards certain out-of-Temple Vehumet altars.

frost giant

A giant that seems to emit a blue aura of winter frost. Channels frost into bolts and throws them at you, and is armed with a battleaxe with a similar blue glow.

fruity bat

what

fsim

A fight simulator in wizmode, accessible with &f.

fsvo

for some value of

fuck eels

seriously

fuck it

fuck it

fuk da sac

_i - 2 scrolls labeled FUK DA SAC
Welcome to Fag Cum's Jewellery Boutique! What would you like to do?
216675 | Pan | Noticed Not Gay the pandemonium lord 216680 | Pan | Defeated Not Gay the pandemonium lord
_l - a scroll labeled DIK LIQEOD
B _ Suck the boulder beetle
x - a scroll labeled VEREIL FUCK
p - +3 buckler "Stripesass" {rF++ rN+}
Your ring "Adick" {Regen MR AC+5} glows black for a moment.
D - the -5,-1 mace "Shit" {flame, MUT+ +Rage rF+ rN+ AC+4}
s - a scroll labeled PEENYS OSAHIBREGEE
Found 9 gold pieces and a scroll labeled DICKOMIXTIO.
Found a scroll labeled MNOSOI SHIT.
There is an entrance to Twat's Magic Scroll Shop here.
There is an entrance to Famoutits' Antique Armor Boutique here.
F - a scroll labeled TIT STROIPE
<N78291> r - the ring of Cunt {Str+1 Acc+2}
w - a scroll labeled GUYL EFAILASS
<Lawman> z - the ring "Wang" (right hand) {+Blink +Inv rF+ MR}
<Pacra> L - the +2 wizard hat "Damn" (worn) {rN+ SInv}
160574 | Pan | Noticed Gaypod the pandemonium lord
the amulet of Fuck {+Rage rF- rN+ Str+2 SInv}
364801 | Pan | Noticed Shitef the pandemonium lord
120666 | Zot:4 | Noticed Xenuol Titz the pandemonium lord
< minqmay> There is an entrance to Smutt's Book Boutique here.
_V - the ring "Dabutt" {+Rage +Lev rElec rN+ SInv}
As you read the scroll labeled UXA GUD FUUKK, it crumbles to dust. This is a scroll of acquirement!
"As you read the scroll labeled MUH PA CLIT, it crumbles to dust. Nothing appears to happen"
<Luterac> f - a scroll labeled DARREA FRAG - is this some form of explosive diarrhea grenade?
_j - a scroll labeled RAEPIE BLEBEV
c - the ring of Fac Keu {Wiz Dex+3 Int+3}
422768 | Zig:23 | Noticed Ucum the pandemonium lord
the cursed -4 leather armor of Shituwn (worn) {+Lev Dex-5}
L - the cursed ring of Clitz {Dex+2 Acc+3 Dam+5 SInv}
<magistern> Y - the ring "Cock" {MUT rN+ Str+1}
64400 | D:1 | Noticed Twat
the ring of Ofuck {+Inv Dex-3 Stlth--}
Zin Efag's Book Shop
g - a scroll labeled GAYLOCK QYAXT
z - a scroll labeled DIXOON EMEMAO
p - a scroll labeled BLIULU FAPLING
i - a scroll labeled SEXAGYGOTE
v - 2 scrolls labeled OFUQ IT OBUNG
_p - a scroll labeled VAGGOU FURIO
Found a scroll labeled CUNTIN NEL SETS.
K - a scroll labeled KISOASS ECKOCK
K - the +1 cloak of Khum (worn) {rF+ rC+ Dex+2}
<Ashannar> _m - the cursed ring "Poopn" {SustAb Dex+1 Dam+5}

fullsome distilation

It's spelled fulsome_distillation.

fulsome distillation

L1 tmut/nec in book of Changes. Turns a corpse into a potion. Contaminated -> confusion; poison -> poison; clean -> water; mutagenic -> mutation; rot -> decay. Enemies with strong poison attacks turn into strong poison, and ogres and giants turn into degeneration. Enemies with paralysis attacks (red/yellow wasps) give paralysis.
Called 'Fulsome' because quaffing potions of water gives you 60 nutrition, and thus only full some. The others give you 40 if you can handle the effects.
Might be useful for Nemelex worshippers wishing to weight his gifts toward decks of wonders, but only with mutation potions; others are irrelevant.
<N78291> looks like degeneration comes from a contaminated corpse that weighs at least 90 aum

fumigation

What Kyrris does to the channel by entering it.

fun

You finish putting on the -5 leather armour of Fun MR.
see death
see death[3]
<+elliptic> mumra: not really interesting unless it kills you immediately (or the turn after you enter the level)
language = dwarven

fun with your own corpse

1. qwqw the Grave Robber (L4 FeNe), slain by a felid zombie (animated by the player character) on D:1 on 2010-10-17, with 99 points after 3994 turns and 0:08:48.
You finish ripping the felid corpse of turnerjer into pieces. You enjoyed that. u - a chunk of felid flesh
see corpse slap

fungee

Good at farming decks, bad at playing cards.
Ñ(_ _)Ñ
<fungee> octopodes in trunk?!!? <MarvinPA> octopodes <MarvinPA> in trunk <Henzell> Fungee the Summoner (L14 OPSu), worshipper of Nemelex Xobeh, quit the game on Lair:6, with 47902 points after 42277 turns and 3:16:12. <MarvinPA> haha i did just say they're not playable online yet <MarvinPA> that might have been a little premature :P
á(à² çà² á
Attacks Titanic Slime Creatures in melee.

fungus

A non-interactive plant in the dungeon. Nothing special about it, except that it can block an oklob plant's LOF.

funny messages

You have gained Spellcasting skill! You're starting to get the hang of this magic thing. The kobold looks frightened! _The kobold blubbers, "Mommeee!"
I'm sorry, level 27 is as high as you can go. With the way you've been playing, I'm surprised you got this far.
You dice the ogre like an onion!!!
You spit the hog like the proverbial pig!!!
Something frightening happens. Nothing appears to happen.
The exploding dart explodes!
You freeze the imp. The imp is frozen!
An unseen horror comes into view.
anything donald says
< Nomi> Your burning bush burns!
f _ wandering mushroom (wandering)
Some lava, spattered with blood.
Your ice beast shivers with cold.
<minqmay> _Death has come for you... <minqmay> _The reaper shouts, "I have come for you, minmay!"
The komodo dragon bites the fungus! The fungus looks sick.
You miscast Ozocubu's Armour. Frost covers your body.
The vault guard hits you but does no damage. You writhe in agony.
An electric eel bursts forth from the water. - electric eel (sleeping)
The orc priest calls down the wrath of Beogh upon the orc warrior. The orc warrior is healed somewhat.

fur

+1/+2/+3 AC, 0/0/+1 rC. Beware of furry conventions, though. Fortunately, tail is not included.

future of crawl

<MarvinPA> mmmm titanic acid blobs should be a thing

gamblers fallacy

Given a long string of independent events, having lots of positive events in a row does not increase the chance that the next event(s) will be negative, and vice versa.

game design

< _Jeff> dpeg: This is why you have to run everything past the powergamers and let them break it first :P

gamefreak264

<gamefreak264> I can get really icky if no one is watching
IS AFRAID.
Is popular!
Is rivals with both monky and casmith789. At the same time!

gameknut

look, I'm making my own entry!

garaithi

As the brain inside gets smarter, the jelly body gets better at flying around and killing shi'nit

gargoyle

A monster that does 10,6,6 damage and has 12-32 health.

gas trap

Cloud traps given specific names (though are still vault-defined); remember the results can be huge but is usually short-lived, and the traps can be disarmed. Varieties, leaning further down the list by depth: mephitic, poisonous, calcifying, flame, freezing, chaos, and miasma.

gastronok

A greedy elephant slug who ate a wizard for lunch and now casts spells! Casts airstrike, spammals, swiftness, slow, and 'slugform'-flavoured cantrip. You feel sluggish! He's even smart enough to open doors!
Gastronok has been unjustly deprived of his 150 damage. Please multiply any damage you take from his melee attacks by 3.75.
HD 20 means he has a 95% chance of just ignoring your mephitic clouds.
< SeashellSalesman> holy shit < SeashellSalesman> i just got killed in one hit by a spell casting slug D:
Will happily stand in flame clouds until red health.
see guru_wisdom[3]
http://i.imgur.com/Vxi0h.png

gauntlets

Pairs of gloves have a 50% chance of being described as pairs of gauntlets.
Jules: how am I able to put on a pair of gauntlets while wielding a cursed weapon?

gauntlets of war

A nice unrandart +3 AC, +5 Acc, +5 Dam gloves. "Thick gauntlets."

gazebo

You can't shoot at gazebos.
You must face the gazebo alone.

gd1

Type this to win after you pick up the orb.

gda

see gold dragon armour
Guideline Daily Amount. Time: 7200 s (25.5%) Fascination: 205 (110.5%) Entertainment 343g (60.0%) Addictiveness 14g (92.6%) Frustration 53g (5.1%)
<nht> stands for goddamn awful now

gdr

Guaranteed damage reduction versus melee attacks, conferred by body armor. Formula is 14 * sqrt(base AC-2)%. This percentage applies to the maximum potential damage for an attack, not the actual damage rolled. However, GDR will prevent at most AC/2 damage.

geck

Garden of Eden Creation Kit. If you see one of these in your game, you are probably not playing Crawl.
Also Grey Elf Chaos Knight.

gecko

A lizard which is just that little bit stronger to make itself a thorn in the side of weak mages. Otherwise rather trivial.

gehenna

The branch of hellfire. Home of Asmodeus and the obsidian rune. Lots of lava to cross, and enough sticky flame and hellfire that you probably shouldnt bother with scrolls. Highest concentration of Fiends in any branch; High HP is recommended here.
Gehenna 7 is a fortress with a moat of lava. Entrance through moat on other side of where you enter the level. Lots of molten gargoyles, lava denizens, and Fiends. Asmodeus hangs out in the fortress, guarding the Obsidian Rune of Zot.
If you can fly and destroy stone, there is translucent stone past the lava lake on either side of the moat providing a possible alternative entry in at least one layout of Geh:7

gelatinous body

It's like scales but not actually scales. Gives +AC.
Strawberry flavour.

gender

Roka, Xtahua, Nikola, and Mara are all guys.
see lugonu[2]
<SpaceT> lugonu can't be female, abyss is so untidy

genie card

50% of the time, acts like a scroll of acquirement. The other 50% of the time acts like either a potion of decay or degeneration.

genus

Monsters are arranged into genera (plural of genus). Monsters in the same genus are represented by the same letter. The main game significance of this is that different monsters in the same genus won't be distinguished by Detect Monsters.

geodew

Almost won his first game ever.

german

http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html

germanyeurope

Where CDO is.

geryon

The guardian of hell, holding the key to enter the four hells. Note that Geryon's musical skills are hindered by silence.

gflex

<G-Flex> Wensley: someone who complains as much as me can't be that resistant to change!
Argues with himself.
<G-Flex> I'm a transhuman so I dont have gender
<G-Flex> Starting an FE can be a little annoying because all you can do is hurt things with fire.

gh guide

Don't wield a weapon.

ghfe

<Elynae> good I died

ghost

Ghosts get damage, hitpoints, resistances, speed, and spells very closely based on the former adventurer. They can be very dangerous in every regard; e.g. fighter ghosts can do 40+ damage in a hit and have more hitpoints than hydras, well-equipped ghosts can resist nearly anything, and well-learned ghosts can summon butterflies or even mutate you.
All player ghosts, much like other undead, resist poison, asphyxiation, torment, and negative energy. Unlike player undead, they do not (automatically) resist cold -- the use of "player undead" referring to ghouls, vampires, and mummies.
Ghosts don't follow you down/upstairs. They are doomed to forever haunt the level. Ghosts don't appear on D:1, D:2, or the Temple.
ghost titles: 1-3 weakling, 4-6 average, 7-10 experienced, 11-15 powerful, 16-21 mighty, 22-25 great, 26 awesomely powerful, 27 legendary
Like all monsters, you don't have to kill them in order to descend.
If you feel you have left an extremely powerful ghost behind, the first enemy it will meet will be some necromancer who will dispel it to death. Always.
!log banei DrNe D:9 1

ghost damage

Take the weapon *base* damage, call it D. Add 4 * weapon skill * D / 100, call it D'. Add D' * fighting / 30, call it D''. Final Damage: figure is D'' + str/4, with a maximum of 50. Note that enchantment is IGNORED.
For unarmed combat, D' is Unarmed skill + 4 + (XL only with claws). For nonweapon, D' = 4.

ghost faced bat

A spectral bat with a different name. Friends with ol' dirty bat.

ghost moth

Fast, invisible, poison-resistant moth which gazes at you to drain mana and attacks you to drain stats and inflict poison. Found in Zot and in spider zig levels. They can also appear in the spider nest (0.10 portal or 0.11 branch).
Does not see invisible, so you can turn invisible to avoid the MP drain.
"My mission is to annoy" - Lemuel
You feel you are being watched by something.

ghostrobin

Griefer account originally created by cbus to persecute the dungeon with powerful ghosts.

ghoul

Player ghouls have claws (see unarmed combat), rN+++, rC+, rPois, and torment immunity. They also rot over time. Eating chunks can cure rot and/or restore HP; these effects occur independently, and are more likely when eating rotten or contaminated chunks. Monster ghouls do quite a lot of damage, have a ton of HP, and rot you.
You can wear gloves as a ghoul now, at the cost of your unarmed bonus.
Spells player ghouls can't use: revivification, death's door, stoneskin, any form-changing spell (including blade hands and necromutation), and spells that would have no useful effect such as cure poison.
You smell decay. Yum-yum.
Please note that enemy ghouls in 0.8 are now rot-machines.

ghoul reasons

Strong unarmed melee, high HP, and undead resists. Also good at eating!
Weapons are for cowards. Real men use their hands.
You can eat shadow dragons!
RIP AND TEAR

giant amoeba

A midgame monster which leaves a poisonous corpse. Not very hard for when you meet it and no special abilities. Notable for being (if you're poison resistant) one of the few things to eat in the Slime Pits.
sorear prefers Polymorph Other. slime creature -> ice dragon is common and produces lots of clean chunks. Also, this way you don't have to fight pan lords.

giant blowfly

A big, fast nuisance. Unlike mosquitos, doesn't cause sickness with its attacks. Swat it.

giant centipede

A pathetic insect that has the potential to poison you and ruin your day with just low enough odds to be YASD.

giant club

A giant lump of wood. (two-handed mace; Dmg 20 Acc -6 Delay 17)

giant cockroach

It's large, it's disgusting, it moves fast, it doesn't hurt much. A good stomp should kill it. And it shields you from trog wrath.

giant eyeball

While these never have and never will kill any adventurers by themselves, their presence increases the danger of the other monsters enormously due to paralysing anyone they stare at. Great players who have been felled by giant eyeballs include Stabwound, Iaido, and Julius Caesar.
Its gaze doesn't need line of effect, just like smiting. Confusion doesn't stop it from gazing at you! Even magic resistance will not save you! If you're really at risk because one of these has showed up, and you can't escape, you could try something with generous targeting, like airstrike or bolts.
!lg Siveran char=KoAr killer=acid blob 1 -tv

giant firefly

<chewymouse> why are there no entries for giant fireflies
Just giant flies, really.

giant flail

A gigantic flail.

giant fly

Just giant fireflies, really.

giant frog

generic melee guy that moves faster than you

giant gecko

Faster than average and can twoshot a level one mage without troubles. An underappreciated threat, especially when low or out of mana.
Surprisingly strong in 4.1 - I'm not joking.

giant goldfish

This fish is what your Goldie looks like after overfeeding. It hurts, and hurts even more if you are in shallow water.

giant leech

A swamp monster with a vampiric attack. Can rot you slightly upon a vampiric hit.

giant lizard

Don't underestimate overly much if potentially fragile. They hit harder then giant iguanas with twice the HP. Mostly in the lair. Now amphibious and known as crocodiles.

giant mite

A creature that's almost dangerous but not quite. Can poison you, though, and hey, 10+ exp!
Mite be dangerous if you're careless.
This creature won't kill you in one turn, but a hill Giant Mite.

giant mosquito

Can make you sick with its attack, only a threat if you're trying to wait out poison.

giant newt

The weakest monster in the game. If you're sufficiently challenged by its presence to consult the bot, you're doing it wrong.
Beware! It swims!

giant orange brain

Summons (shadow creatures), eats your brain, blinks, uses confusion, and teleports itself if wounded. Avoid them like the plague. Also uses Cause Fear occasionally, which scares away you and its own summons.

giant spiked club

It looks *really* painful. Damage rating: 22 Accuracy rating: -7 Base attack delay: 180, (pierce) damage, never generated with an enchantment. Can only be wielded by trolls, giants, and ogres. The best twohander in the game.
You crush Tiamat like a grape!!!

giant spore

Explodes when killed or next to you to do 3d15 damage, confuse you, and destroy your food. Fortunately it has no AC and only 1 HP, but average EV - throw a rock at it if you lack conjurations or wands. The bane of Zin-worshippers and spriggans (except you can outrun them)! Use a polymorph wand on it if you like oklob plants.
Giant spore explosions may cause ballistomycetes to grow.
sorear the Marksminotaur (L13 MiGl), worshipper of Yredelemnul, killed by an exploding giant spore (created by an active ballistomycete (created by a giant spore (created by an active ballistomycete (created by a giant spore)))) on D:11 on 2009-11-23, with 37349 points after 19708 turns and 2:06:31.

gift timeout

Measured in piety. Nemelex 5-14, Zin feeding 30-40, Okawaru 30-49 (weap) 60-94 (armour) 4-12 (msl), Sif 40-59, Vehumet 50-59. These are probably slightly off.

giga bat

As big as 1024 megabats

gila monster

It's a crocodile with a poisonous corpse. Now replaced with basilisk.

giomancer

Proved beyond any reasonable doubt that he is oooold: Did the Pawlowian trigger of "push turtle" --> "Mario!"

git

Readonly: git clone git://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl.git Read/Write: git@gitorious.org:crawl/crawl.git Web interface: http://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl
https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:help:git

gladiator

Mundane class. Generally starts with: light weapon, leather, buckler, helmet, nets.

glaive

Two Handed Polearm. Damage: 15, Accuracy: -3, Speed: 170%

glaive of prune

+4,+12 purple vorpal glaive. Unfortunately will *not* turn you into a prune, even if you are a scummy.
Zin still hates the weapon, though.

glaive of the guard

+5,+8 polished glaive of the guard {elec +5AC SInv +Rage}

glamour

An ability grey elves recieved in old versions of crawl at xl 5, it tried to confuse, paralyze, charm, scare nearby humanoids. Sucked.

glasses

chalk the Slicer (L10 KoBe), worshipper of Trog, forgot to breathe caused by an orange crystal statue on D:8, with 3097 points after 11144 turns and 0:34:15. <chalk> Without my glasses on I mistook it for an orc
<minmay> man I need to get some glasses, I'm playing tiles and I just mistook a blue potion for a naga barding
<bmh> shit. That was a crocodile and not a newt.

gloom

A cloud type that limits LOS to 2 squares.

gloorx vloq

Guardian of the Dark Rune. Arguably the most dangerous pan lord, since he is speed 20 and has a nasty spellset including torment, miasma, and dispel undead. His level also contains lots of executioners, which doesn't help matters.

gloves

Armour for your hands. +1 AC. You can't wear gloves if you have large claws or are too tiny due to being a spriggan. If your gloves are cursed you can't put on or take off rings. Ghouls can wear gloves, but their bonus claw damage is taken away while wearing them. Fun for fighting hydras!

gloves of strength

Gloves of strength add +3 to your strength. Good for you. There's not much else to know about them.

glow

Powerful enchantments have cumulative side effects on the body, represented by a magic contamination stat. When it reaches 6, you start glowing, and you can get mutations. But it decays, 1:40 per turn randomised - unless you are hasted or invisible. The mutations are 1/5 random, otherwise bad with a 50% chance of overriding mutation resistance.
The following effects cause magical contamination: haste, invisibility, extending haste, invis, or might, potion of resistance (1 point), controlled blinking and teleporting, mutagenic artifacts, miscasting spells, some miscast effects (Enchantments, Translocations and Transmutations).
A blue glow means something (such as an enchanter ghost or yourself) has cast corona on you and has no relation to your magical contamination. A grey glow means an insignificant amount of contamination.

glowing shapeshifter

Like a shapeshifter, only even worse - it changes much more often.

glowrobin

Glow as much as possible all the time. pw: robin

glui

unemployed unperson

glyph

https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:brainstorm:interface:glyphs#glyph_list

glyph mode

Press F10 if you want to know what's going on in a webtiles game.

gmork

< Gmork> sandblast won't get me through 3 rune and zot?

gnoll

Present in packs, and predominantly packs punishing polearms of pugnacity. Possess prudence! Possibly provides pnets.
A common cause of death for low-level adventurers, owing to said polearms.

gnoll sergeant

Stronger version of a gnoll. Comes with a "good" spear, armour and shield or buckler.
<Qwertycoatl> Heh. "pulsating lump sergeant"

gnoll shaman

A gnoll that can haste others and heal. Also has petrify in 0.9.

gnome

Woohoo, earth aptitude of 60, but spellcasting of 156. Least played and won race as of 0.4.5. They were cut and replaced by Deep Dwarves.

go ely

Because only mean people go Kiku.

go kiku

go casmith789

go sif

go minmay

goad

An ankus, but without an elephant.

goblin

One of the three main causes of early-game mage death, though melee PCs will practically laugh them to death. Generated very, very occasionally with wands, which make for nasty surprises.
Sometimes goblins get slings, and sometimes they can be surprisingly dangerous with them. Don't laugh at early goblins til you've survived them.

god of doors

Slated to appear in 0.Î©.

god ratios

excluding xl<8, quitters, leavers (GOD:WON%,#GAMES): Lugonu:10.23%,665 The Shining One:6.84%,2018 Beogh:5.69%,738 Elyvilon:5.29%,964 Okawaru:5.22%,9012 Zin:5.13%,663 Makhleb:5.09%,2927 Vehumet:4.01%,3538 Yredelemnul:3.98%,1004 Nemelex Xobeh:3.94%,1725 Trog:3.77%,5143 Sif Muna:3.18%,6506 Xom:2.52%,2337 Kikubaaqudgha:1.87%,1392 No God:1.66%,3737

godlyplayers

Win with every god (including no god)

gods

'?' '/' 'G' for a complete list (in game). Type "??<full god name> reasons" (in IRC) to get a list of reasons which might motivate you to worship that particular god.
Here's a list anyway: Ashenzari, Beogh, Cheibriados, Elyvilon, Fedhas, Jiyva, Kikubaaqudgha, Lugonu, Makhleb, Nemelex Xobeh, Okawaru, Sif Muna, Trog, Vehumet, Xom, Yredelemnul, Zin, the Shining One.

gold

Was meant as a tool to fight inflation, but failed. Money-gold connection removed in 1976.

gold acquirement

Gives 10*(20+1d20+1d8*1d8*1d8) gold. (Min=220, Max=5520, Mean=1218, Median=880, Std=911)
(3:08:51 AM) m0ng: scroll of retirement
<TGWi> I bought a scroll of acquirement for 364 gold <TGWi> and acquired 350 gold

gold dragon armour

12 ac -9 ev rF+ rC+ rPois 110 aum. Along with CPA, one of the heaviest heavy armours around.
The chance of any particular randomly generated armour on D:1 being GDA is about 0.00873%.

gold dragon hide

4 AC, EV -5 rF+, rC+, rPois. Can theoretically drop when you chop up a golden dragon, but you will inevitably accidentally sacrifice the corpse instead. Try enchanting it.
see gold dragon armour

golden bow

the +8,+8 bow of Krishna "Sharnga" {speed, Dex+3 SInv}

golden chain mail

Once upon a time it was always Lear's chain mail. Now just a standard randart.

golden dragon

A dragon that breathes bolts of fire and cold, and big clouds of poison. Less HP than a shadow dragon! Also see gold dragon armour.

golden eye

Come in packs! Confuse(checks MR)! Tiny! Fast! Also, they blink (getit).

golden helmet

New in 0.5. The old "jewelled helmet". "Golden" is cosmetic.

golem

A magically animated servant. Often outlives its master, and can end up in the bottom of the sea, waiting for the proper time to finish its mission. During that time, ship anchors falling through the water are good entertainment and provide excitement.

goliath beetle

A very slow, yet reasonably dangerous creature. Do not stand and fight if you are not prepared for melee. You may want to instead take advantage of its slow speed by stepping back when it moves and striking when it cannot, or take advantage of its low MR with a confusion or paralysis wand.

golms

<golms> I love escalators. But people should realize it's not so you can be lazy, it's so you can get there faster. You can still walk on them people. You don't need to stand still.

goochar

**Pr[Jiyva]

good

70-80% success - not actually good at all.

good air magic spells

All of them.

good charms

charms

good gods

Elyvilon, the Shining One, Zin. Switching between them caps your piety at 45.
They're false gods, as proven by the fact that those who went to the afterlife (ghosts) dump these three but not any other god.

good hexes

confusing touch

good ideas

see bad ideas
I don't have a page labeled good ideas in my learndb.
worshipping Cerebov

good joke entries

there aren't any

good names

the +3 helmet "Brick" {Dex+3}
134438 | D:8 | Noticed Fear the pandemonium lord
Ponce the Spear-Bearer (L16 DGCr) entered The Chambers of Gutaxe the Cloud Mage on turn 50708. (Vault:6)
<TGWi> - a scroll labeled MUUTATATOTOTS
166524 | Zig:25 | Noticed Ogremaet the pandemonium lord
<nht> q - 2 scrolls labeled MOMMYXOMUHU
<MarvinPA> & _ Chunky Nibue (sleeping) <MarvinPA> something about tentacles and it hungering for my soul
Gimp's Weapon Shoppe
the -5 cloak "Crawdadno" {god gift, Str+2 Dex+2}
You see here: Kill the pandemonium lord
<minqmay> t - a scroll labeled UMUTO QUACK
Hero shouts, "Quit, thou corroded moldwarp corpse eater!
Found Riot's General Store. b - a cursed +0,-3 giant spiked club 1 gold c - a book of Control 1235 gold d - 6 +0 darts of dispersal 34 gold
Sif Muna's Arcane Secrets of Secret Knowledge god gift
<instar> _You see here a scroll labeled THE GIAGGOSTUONO.
the ring of Bling {SustAb rF++ MR Dam-4}
Chef moans, "I shall feast on thy spirit!"
t - Smell's Incunabulum of Excruciating Fire

good skill distribution

For 3-runer: Fighting: 14.3, Weapon skill: min. delay Dodging: 13.7 Armour: 9.4 Traps: 5.1 Spellcasting:16.6 One/Two major spell schools: 18.7
Do under no condtions stray from the specified amount of skill level.

goodchar

do not question goodchar
<Henzell> The RNG chooses: OgTh.
<Lawman> !rng @goodchar <Henzell> The RNG chooses: DEEn. <Lawman> !rng @goodchar <Henzell> The RNG chooses: MDSk. <Lawman> !rng @goodchar <Henzell> The RNG chooses: LOSt.
<Henzell> The RNG chooses: TeCr.

goodcrawl

Autoexplore.
Autotravel.
Non-instant teleport.

goodplayers

10 wins. Add yourself to the list with !nick goodplayers yourname. Don't be a monqy and delete the list.
The number of wins required to be a goodplayer increases over time. It is defined to be one more win than monqy currently has, except when it gets fixed at nice numbers like 10 or 27 for a while.
Use '/msg sequell !lg goodplayers s=name' to see the full list.

goodwiki

The dev wiki (to discuss changes and additions): https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=start

goon

A member of the Something Awful forums. See sa.

gourmand

Amulet of the gourmand lets you eat chunks at any satiation level. However, it takes average 400 turns after wearing to fully kick in. As it charges, the nutrition from chunks when not hungry scales from 1/21 to 100% and the contamination resistance scales from 0% to 100%. Saprovores use gourmand to pretend chunks are rotten similarly.
If you see 'tastes great' when eating a chunk, your amulet of the gourmand is fully charged. If you see 'is not very appetising', you only just put it on.
'I - 7 chunks of griffon flesh' 'This raw flesh tastes like chicken!'

grand grimoire

Demonic Horde, Mass Abjuration, Haunt, Summon Greater Demon, Malign Gateway, Summon Horrible Things. Requires 10 summoning and 6 spellcasting or Vehumet worship to read, and causes summoning miscasts on failed memorisation.

granite statue

Indicates the existence of a vault, so beware. By themselves they are harmless.

grape

Smallest snack besides sultanas. Eat in 2 turns to avoid starving in the middle of combat. 100 nutrition. Drop the stack for easy eating. Linley Henzell knows how to crush these.

grate ideas

YOU DROP YOUR RING DOWN THE GRATE

gravestone

It is as big as a statue.

great

90-95% success on spells - good but try and raise it to excellent.
Also describes a experience level 22-25 player ghost.

great far misses

!lm tartakower abyss.enter place=zig:27 1 -tv

great ideas

STOP PLAYING CRAWL

great mace

Largest weapon in the maces & flails category that most races can wield. 18 damage, -4 accuracy, 170% delay (two handed)

great near misses

These idiots should have died.
!lm ocedius rune=magical 2 -tv:<1:>2.5
!lm casmith789 place=zig:13 char=HEWz -tv
!lm elynae ddfi br.end=tomb 1 -tv:<0:>$
!lm ragdoll mube type=orb 1 -tv:<4:>-6
!lm ragdoll id=2369685 place=zig:8 -tv:<2:>2
!lm jeanjacques zig:27 2 -tv:<2
!lm minmay br.end=elf 75 -tv:<-6:>11
!lm hangedman seee rune=golden -tv:<4:>6
!lm tasonir char=nafi br.end=tar 2 -tv:<-1.5:>6

great orb of eyes

Spell casting monster that leaves mutagenic corpses. Will paralyze, confuse, disintegrate, slow, bite, and possibly even teleport you. Is also immune to enchantments.
Don't be this MDGl: !tv ionfrigate splat mdgl 2

great sword

A sword with a very long, heavy blade and a long handle. (two-handed Long Blade; Dam 16 Acc -3 Delay 16)
the sword world continues to overlook in my opinion the efficiency and power and i even say majesty of this great sword

greater healing

At max power, heal by 48 - 148 hp. Single most expensive invocation food wise at 600-1199 sustenance points; the difference between Near Starving and Dead is 1000. (2nd place is Lugonus Corruption at 500-999)

greater mummy

Like a mummy priest, but a lot worse. Has ridiculously large HP.
To give you a general idea of their HP, it can take around six casts (at max power) of Dispel Undead to kill them.

greater naga

These are the guys that are guarding the serpentine rune. They're not to be taken lightly, they can seriously poison you despite your poison resistance, blast you with orbs of energy and in melee they deal very significant damage. And they can haste themselves.
They also resist any resistable spell (magic immune), so don't bother trying to disintegrate them. All elemental attacks work OK, though.

greater servant

Summons a temporary executioner, green death, blizzard demon, balrug, or cacodemon. Hostility chance is reduced (but never to 0) by invocations skill. Hostile if 1d(20 + Invocations * 3) <= 4 (e.g. 1/5 at 0 skill, 1/11 at 8 skill, 1/17 at 16 skill).

greater vault

A type of vault characterized by being filled with extremely out-of-depth random monsters instead of themed ones. Most of them look like they came from Angband; most (except for the secret doors vault) are very big. Many contain loot. Vault:8 is a full level greater vault.

greaterdemons

Players who have won every currently available to play demonspawn. Lifetime membership once you get in!
To see your unwon demonspawn, !lg * won crace=ds class!=Th class!=Re class!=Cr class!=Pa class!=Pr class!=He s=class / @yourname ?:N=0

greaterestplayers

Players who have won every currently available to play combo as well as at least one combo that hasn't yet existed in a stable release.

greatermummies

Players who have won every currently available to play mummy. Lifetime membership once you get in!
To see your unwon mummies, !lg * won crace=mummy class!=Th class!=Re class!=Cr class!=Pa class!=Pr class!=He class!=Tm s=class / @yourname ?:N=0

greaternagas

Players who have won one of every currently available to play naga. Lifetime membership once you get in!

greaterplayers

Players who have won every currently available to play race and class. Lifetime membership once you get in!
!lg * won class!=Th class!=Re class!=Cr class!=Pa s=class / @yourname ?:N=0 (Plus greatplayers)

greatesterplayers

Players who have done all the combos in a streak.

greatestplayers

Players who have won every currently available to play combo. Lifetime membership once you get in!

greatplayers

Players who have won every currently available to play race. Lifetime membership once you get in!
To see your unfinished races, check !lg * won race!=OM race!=GE race!=El race!=Gn race!=HD race!=MD race!=LO race!=Ke s=crace / @yourname ?:N=0
It should be noted that all greatplayers play online.

green crystal wall

Reflects cold and flame the way ordinary walls reflect lightning. Immune to digging, disintegration, and Lugonu's corrupt ability, but even easier to destroy with Lees Rapid Deconstruction than rock walls. Does not appear naturally (except rarely in the deeper Vaults - it is a very bad day if this happens on level 8), so signifies a vault.

green death

Shows up as a 2. A bloated form covered in oozing sores and exhaling clouds of lethal poison. They can cast poison arrow, venom bolt, and poisonous cloud.
< mikee_> it looked like a green death < monqy> meganewt

green draconian

Breathes mephitic clouds at XL 7 and mutates poison stinger at XL 14. +2 Poison Magic apt.

green rat

A significantly tougher inedible rat that appears in bands (poisonous corpse). Does not have a poison attack.

greensnark

Doesn't wear pants.
One of the few people who can spell those unpronounceable demons without a crib sheet.
Thinks ogaz thinks slaying should be nerfed.
Slapper of trouts.
loves giant squid appreciation. and nethack. especially Elbereth, he's a big fan of Elbereth.

greensnark maneuver

A nigh-suicidal berserker-charge into the middle of a dangerous area of the game. Frequently ends badly: see !deathsin Tomb.

gretell

The counterpart to Henzell, for crawl.develz.org. Only accepts @whereis, @?, and @?? from IRC. The evil twin of Henzell. Now accepts inquiries on PM.
Code available at http://git.develz.org/?p=gretell.git or git://git.develz.org/gretell.git

grey draconian

A form of draconian which doesn't breathe (they can swim and are unaffected by mephitic clouds, curare). Also has good stealth and stabbing apts.

grey elf

A race of elves very like deep elves with very good air magic. Removed far back in the mists of time.

grey rat

A much more formidable foe than the plain rats, grey rats can kill in the midgame. If they get lucky.
Q: IS GREY RAT SCARY
A: yes

grey snake

Pre-0.6 name for anacondas.

greyknight

Splatter of minotaur berserkers and centaur paladins. Is becoming quite good at it (the splatting, that is).

griff bloodax

Everyone's favorite undead chaos dwarven berserker.

griffon

Hippogriff's big brother. Lots of attacks and fair HP. Mostly notable for giving 1k experience without being nearly as hard as a hill giant or hydra.

grimm

!lm grimm place=zig:22 2 -tv

grinder

A unique shadow imp who likes to paralyze you and spam pain. Can appear between D:3 and D:6. Has a friendly rivalry going on with Sigmund to see who can get more kills.
More dangerous than Sigmund.
<jeanjacques> grinder is like a potion of exp that randomly kills you

grinding noise

Usually made by a Boring Beetle, which destroys walls of the level. If it's happening rapidly and inexplicably, it's in a vault designed solely to annoy you. Can also come from Cacodemons, and from an eye of devastation's energy bolt. Can also come from the disintegration wand of course.
add the line "runrest_ignore_message = grinding noise" to your rc file if this is interrupting your resting or your running.

grinner

[turn=23342] Grinner the Covert (L12 OpGl) escaped from the Abyss! [turn=23342] Grinner the Covert (L12 OpGl) is cast into the Abyss! (ogre mage) (Orc:4)

grizzly bear

If you have to look at tips to fight a grizzly bear, I'm amazed you've made it this far.
You could try hitting it.

grue

SquashMonster's crazy idea for a new race. Great at melee due to having claws/talons/horns to start, but those also reduce potential armor. Has a shroud of darkness, which reduces vision range to half, but also reduces the range at which monsters can see it. But don't expect to use that to be stealthy, as they have nasty innate shoutitis.
Aptitudes: 80 fighting, 180 short blades, 150 long blades, 160 axes, 160 maces and flails, 150 polearms, 130 staves, 100 unarmed, 150 stabbing, 60 slings, 60 bows, 60 crossbows, 60 darts, 60 throwing, 80 armor, 90 dodging, 90 stealth, 130 shields, 60 traps and doors,
100 spellcasting, 80 conjurations, 110 enchantments, 160 summonings, 120 transmutations, 180 divinations, 80 fire magic, 80 ice magic, 80 air magic, 80 earth magic, 80 poison magic. Invocations and evocations are normal. Experience rate is 130. Strength or Intelligence (randomly) every 4th level.
Patch is available on sourceforge at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2807004&group_id=143991&atid=757515

grum

Unique gnoll. Breeds war dogs. Will eat you! So will dogs! Wears the skin of a deceased war dog. Aw!

gsplat

!lg * ((tiles || !@hugeterm)) cv~~0.1. ntv=0 ckiller=player ghost max=xl -tv

guacamole

Not to be confused with {mole people}, this is a delicious dish made from avocados that goes great with tortilla chips. Unfortunately, avocados were removed from Crawl in 0.9.

guardian mummy

A mummy, like normal ones but bigger, beefier, and with necromancy miscasts for death curses. No spells! If you see one of these in Crypt, Khufu or the Tomb entry is probably onlevel.

guardian serpent

A big snake, usually found in Snake:5 or guarding a vault of treasure (or mimics). Venom bolt, lesser healing, slow, teleport other. Leaves mutalicious corpses. Dangerous if they teleport you in Snake:5 because you might wind up on the wrong end of the greater naga vault. Unlike real nagas, they have no hands. Also, they're twice as fast.
They were called guardian nagas in old versions.

guardian spirit

While wearing this amulet, damage you take is divided proportionately between MP and HP. Reduces magic to 0 on wearing. Note that a Deep Dwarf wearing this does not regain mana naturally.

guide guide

To write a guide for a specific combo, follow these simple steps: 1) Win a game with that combo. 2) Write anything you want.

gungan

Patron deity of mysteriously including offensive, rascist stereotypes as failed comic relief. Periodically sends ridiculous caracatures to kill you, which is annoying, but gives you XP.

guru wisdom

< Rend> crawl is hard
<monky> imo hell is a bad place
<monky> gastronok is like a titan but with less speed and lightning and more spammals
<kats> anyone know what this means? "You hear a thunk." <TGW> kats: it sounds like your character heard something that makes a "thunk" noise
(10:20:46 PM) N78291: having no hp is kind of annoying
monqy: 2751 is a lot of runes
<tensorpudding> sheep lose against tornadoes
<casmith789> bread rations are a lot easier to avoid than executioners
<casmith789> imo don't icestorm yourself
<ktgrey> what happens if you drop the orb <mikee_> it goes on the floor
<monqy> ideally you wouldn't be slowed at 19 hp
<chalk> Note to self: Roxanne is not a goliath beetle.
<minmay> generally speaking, sif muna is better than xom
(4:27:28 PM) OG17: one isn't bigger than twenty
< minmay> you can't spell ogre without ogre
< absolutego> great, i enter a volcano and everything is in flames
< G-Flex> N78291: yeah but things without armor take more damage, don't they?
< [Hanged_Man]> what is this vault guard doing in d:11? < MarvinPA> guarding a vault
<ZRN> what's the best way to take advantage of DS hellfire? <Xiberia> use it on enemies
<djanatyn> wtf is a two headed ogre <G-Flex> an ogre <G-Flex> with two heads
<Ragdoll> plants dont evade much, so it seems
<monqy> ZChris13: if you want to cast, don't use maxwells
<ens> drinking from the fountain in hell is a bad idea
<crate_> banish doesnt heal you
<Poncheis> how can octopodes shout? <BlastHardcheese> not very well
<Chapayev> 1995 is the year when david bowie peaked

gvdm

<gvdm> i must mutate too often <gvdm> for a moment i wondered why i wasn't teleporting around

h

hell hound > war dog > warg > wolf > hound > jackal

haha sigmund

An experimental collaborative Crawl webcomic currently at http://greyfire.no-ip.org/~sigmund -- please contribute your own strips!
Now actually has controls for moving between strips (and more than one strip!) High-tech!

hair stats

extremely bad hair <10, awful hair <30, poor hair <60, choko hair <90, normal hair <120, quite good hair<160, very nice hair<220, extreme hair<300, extraordinary hair <400, incredible hair <520, uncanny hair >=520

hairy devil

Thoroughly unremarkable. So unremarkable, in fact, they were removed from the game in 0.11.
http://i.imgur.com/gkn6S.jpg

halberd

Two Handed Polearm. Damage: 13, Accuracy: -3, Speed: 150%
When you're low level, you do not want to screw with monsters wielding these.

halbred

A polearm with a loaf of bread at the end of it.

halfling

Aptitudes like a kobold (sort of). Halflings have slow metabolism 1, hungering one third slower. Has the HP of a sludge elf since 0.6. Allegedly overpowered!

halfling reasons

Ask slyshy. (They get about 70 total ac/ev/sh by xl10)

hall of blades

Accessed from the Vaults somewhere between levels 4 and 6. Filled with animated weapons which can make your life rough. All of the ones initially spawned have random brands which can include draining or distortion, so be prepared for the Abyss. Airstrike and mystic blast work wonders here.
The following base types are found: battleaxe, broad axe, flail, glaive, great mace, halberd, hand axe, long sword, morningstar, scimitar, short sword, spiked flail, trident, war axe. Brands are as appropriate for the weapon.
In 0.8 there's also a single rare weapon (quick blade/double sword/exec axe/eveningstar/bardiche/lajatang) with a brand (vorpal/flaming/freezing/elec/vamp/drain/venom).
!lm Meow DEPa type=abyss.enter 1 -tv:<0.3:>0.1
everything in here gives between 800 and 1400 experience, making it an Exp hotspot. Of course, everything also hits hard enough to be worth those Exp. Come prepared for a fight.
<rwbarton> the real experience you gain is "don't do blade"

hall of fame

Fastest Win: hyperbolic, 13435 turns. Fastest All-Rune Win: hyperbolic, 35317 turns. Fastest Win (real time): 78291, 1h 11m. Fastest All-Rune Win (real time): Elynae, 3h 3m. Longest Streak: mikee, 22 games. Most wins: 78291, 367 and counting. Least Friends: xyblor, ?.

hall of shame

!lg * killer=death cob s=name
!lg * killer=toenail golem s=name

halo

TSO lights up you and your surroundings like the Olympic Stadium, in a piety-based radius, centered on you. Within the halo's radius, every creature (excluding you) is easier to hit in melee, invisible creatures are revealed, and your stealth is ruined. Evil summons immediately turn hostile with TSO, but this is true of all good gods, not the halo.

hammer

Hammer, Damage Rating: 7, Accuracy Rating: +3, Base Attack Delay: 130%
This mace isn't a warhammer. This is a carpenter's hammer, and isn't much good for doing more than smashing someone's thumb in.

hammer card

Damaging card; by card power 0: stone arrow; 1: iron shot; 2: crystal spear

hammerrobin

hand axe

A small axe designed for either hand combat or throwing. (one-handed axe; Dmg 7 Acc +3 Delay 130%)

hangedman

...
manic depressive terrible reactionary bastard who is about as altogether serious as a wet shoestring and hates everything from upon his throne of hubris within the fortress of regrets built out of the ruins of the citadel of omniscient hindsight
crawl (and zig) checklist: abuse fog, haste in all even remotely dangerous situations, ddoor, rod abjuration, not leaving behind distortion, not forgetting death curses exist, not being a build that can't autofight, not trying to killdudes at 10% of own hp, always quitting when ahead, stairdancing forever, not being a fucking moron
his vaultmaking process: shove in out of depths/place/stupid gimmick into awkward los-tricking layout, talk in ##crawl about wips, edit/test/cut it in half, ask five people for feedback, revamp it over several days, delay submitting it, edit it twice after it gets in
ac7c803 | Michael Gagno | 2012-03-22 00:13:50 -0700 || Aerie drop vault. (HangedMan) || Yes, let's combine Lemuel's two most ridiculous ideas into one. What could possibly go wrong?
<REDACTED> hangedman can be a bit too creative
see great_near_misses[9]

happy

Xom, when you die.

hard book

"This book is beyond your current level of understanding." Annihilations, Grand Grimoire, Necronomicon. All force miscast effects on people who fail to memorize spells, all require Spellcasting 6, <School> 10 to read (or worshipping the god who gifts them), all are very hard to Acquire.

harold

A human bounty hunter. Spells: bolt of fire, blink. Uses throwing nets. Pretty unimpressive otherwise.

harpies

<heteroy> The dev who came up with harpies can go eat a bag of shit

harpy

Very quick monster with no spells; hits hard and comes in packs. They can steal and destroy your food with melee hits. Does the bat AI thing, but slightly slower.
Speed 25, hits for ~17, twice. Comes in packs of up to 8. Basically 3.5 killer bees duct-taped together, and they will wreck your shit.

haste

Reduces delay of all actions by a third, and causes glow over time. Yes, it stacks with Swiftness, boots of running, weapons of speed, etc. Level 6 Charms spell, wand of hasting, or the effect of a potion of speed. Also one effect of berserk. Considered by many to be the best spell in the game.
Was double speed in .7
With haste you become deadly to your enemies.

haste other

Hastes someone else. Have fun with that ogre mage hasting all his ogre chums then paralysing you!

haste reasons

gotta go fast
You didn't go Cheibriados.

hastur

Who-must-not-be-named. Worshippers accrue insanity (piety) by praying (confuses you) over corpses but only with tension high, or by reading scrolls and books (which gives random effects of various kinds.) In exchange, periodically hurls baleful enchantments at enemies, or sends summons.
Not yet implemented.
worshiped by eronarn irl

hat

< TGWi> hatters gonna hat
(9:46:40 PM) OG17: hatters gonna hat get it

hat of pondering

+3 wizard hat with the ponderous brand, 30 MR, +5 int and +10 MP. Sometimes Gastronok is wearing it! Appears unidentified as slimy wizard hat (which is also a randart appearance).

hat of the alchemist

+2 unrandart cap with rF+ rC+ rElec and 30 MR.
<mikee_> don't wear it <mikee_> it's dirty

hat of the bear spirit

Appears as a fur hat before ID. +2 hat with {Spirit +Rage rN+ MR}.

hate

Don't hate. Degenerate.
see swamp

haunt

(L7 summ/necr): Summons 2-6 wraiths and undead "ghost" type monsters around the target. Smite-targetted, but only castable on a monster. Considered to be very powerful. Causes sickness when cast unless you worship Kikubaaqudgha.

hayenne

Likes !mut potions and chunks!
< daftfad> Hi N

hcrawl

the whole point of stone soup is to work together and resolve our differences in opinion you jerks
planned unfeatures: unfeatures

hd

Hitdice. Affects monster's magic resistance, spellpower, experience value, etc. Is essentially the monster's experience level. Affects what a monster polymorphs into, and whether it will be affected by things like mephitic cloud and confusing touch.
Monster melee to hit is 18+HD*(1.5 or 2.5). The former for non-fighters, the latter for fighters. Beam to hit is 12*HD.
Hill dwarves no longer exist. They were a playable race similar to mountain dwarves (which also no longer exist) in earlier versions.

headbutt

An auxiliary unarmed attack you can get if you have horns or unarmed skill. Damage is 5 + (horns mutation level * 3). Add +2 for a hard helmet, or +5 for a spiked or horned helmet.
fun fact: naga headbutt more than any other race, because they headbutt when they would roll a kick
Felids only headbutt if they like you. =^_^=

heal wounds

Restores a moderate amount of HP. Will not cure rotting (but will reverse it), sickness, poisoning, or confusion. Compare with potion of curing.
Heals 10+(3d28/3) hp.

healer

This class starts with some healing potions and a decent standing with Elyvilon. Demonspawn and undead races are prohibited from playing as this class, as they cannot worship a good god.

healer guide

<crate> pacify all the dudes until lair and then do whatever

healing

Heals a low amount of HP, but is still better than no healing at all. Effects that are significantly better than nothing include curing sickness, poison, rotting, and confusion.
see pacification

health

see {hp}

heavy armour

Refers to body armour with a base evasion penalty of at least 2 or at least 4, depending on context. Such armour typically provides high AC and gdr, but reduces your EV and carries spellcasting and melee penalties based on aevp.

hehfiel

Bot for the finnish server rl.heh.fi

helix card

Card power 0 adds random mutation, removes random mutation, or both. Card power 1 adds either a random or good mutation on a coinflip. Card power 2 removes either a bad or a random mutation on a coinflip, and then either deletes a bad mutation and adds a random one, or deletes a random mutation and adds a good one.
Expected values: Card power 0, [no net change]. Card power 1, [(0.5) good mutations]. Card power 2, [(-0.75) bad mutations, (0.5) good mutations]. In other words, they will tend to remove bad mutations and give you good ones, but no guarantees -- you could still get teleportitis and lose regeneration from a power 2 helix card.

hell

A branch with four subbranches; see vestibule and hells.
<monqy> hell isn't very funny <monqy> just kidding it's the funniest

hell beast

Stats are random. Speed: 10-17. AC: 2-6. EV: 7-11. HD: 4-7. Tramples.
An abominable crossbreed of beast and man that makes horrible barking noises. Bark bark bark bark bark.

hell effects

Every ~40 turns in Hell proper, something scary happens. 1-5 random monsters are created. 15/27 chance of a random miscast effect (like Zot traps); else 4/27 chance of an appropriate greater demon.

hell hog

Like twice a hell hound that breathes sticky flame.

hell hound

woof woof, bark! Oh, and fire breath also, swoosh! If you see them in the midgame, it's probably a sign of Azrael.

hell knight

Often signifies the presence of Margery. Tends to be outrageously well equipped (often has a demon weapon). When it's not hitting you with a ridiculous weapon, is either casting a) pain and haste, or b) bolt of fire and (in emergencies) blink.

hell layouts

http://crawl-ref.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=crawl-ref/crawl-ref;a=blob_plain;f=crawl-ref/source/dat/des/branches/hells.des;hb=HEAD

hell lord

There are four: Ereshkigal, Antaeus, Asmodeus, and Dispater, inhabiting the lowest levels of Tartarus, Cocytus, Gehenna and Dis respectively

hell sentinel

Replacement for pit fiends. Lots of AC, omniresistant, speed 10 to pit fiend's speed 8, spiny, casts hellfire and iron shot (but not torment).

hellbinder

Custom wizard in the demon wizlab. Calls demons, throws around flames and hellfire, blinks. Has a randomly generated name.
Has a nicely decorated lab and stock of ?torment

hellephant

A pachyderm born in the fires of Hell; it blinks, breathes fire, and hits really, really hard.
Xtahua with blink, mostly.
< N78291> 78291's illusion evaporates and reforms as a hellephant!

hellfire

Attack used by certain high level demons and priests. Much like smiting, but does about thrice as much damage and destroys your scrolls. Also hurts adjacent monsters. Not affected by rF. No longer affected by AC.
Comes in two flavors. Hellions, deep elf high priests, and draconian zealots use hellfire bursts, which can explode anywhere in LOS and do 3d15 damage. Deep elf sorcerers, (pit) fiends, and draconian scorchers use vanilla hellfire, which is 3d20 but requires a clear path.
Also an unrandart +6, +9 crossbow (flame, rF++, rC-, MR)
Player (demonspawn) hellfire does up to 6d28 damage, depending on level, and costs a quarter of your max health to use. Ignores rF and AC just like monster hellfire. Monsters with rHellfire are completely immune.

hellfire burst

<monqy> hellfire burst is smitey hellfire <raskol> those are two words you don't want to hear describe the same ability

hellfire resistance

Are you a monster? No? Then you don't have this.

hellfrost

Doesn't exist.

hellion

A very dangerous greater demon. Hellfire, hellfire, and more hellfire, and moves enough faster than you that it often double hellfires.

hellion island

A very dangerous pan vault, but it always contains a demonic rune. And hellions.
1970s television show featuring Ricardo Montalban.

hellmouth

A family of three vaults, typically found between D:11 and D:20. Each has a moat of lava, lots of non-flying demons, a good item, and a gate to Hell. Some have hellions.

hells

Four analogous branches, gehenna, cocytus, dis, and tartarus. 7 levels each. Each branch contains appropriate major demons (see fiend); resting is risky due to hell effects (think zot trap); going up any stair takes you to the Vestibule; a demon prince, loot, and a Rune at the end.

hellwing

A type 4 demon; it teleports self, teleports other, animates dead, and doesn't even pose a melee threat except to pre-weakened characters. Used to be a 3 before 0.6.
But note that teleport other can be dangerous in a few places, such as Elf:7.

helm card

Power 0 gives either phase shift or stoneskin, 1 adds the possibility of a magical shield (works like condensation shield, but its blocking ability is based on evocations) in addition to removing the mutual exclusivity constraint, 2 adds the possibility of receiving a random number of resists (poison/electricity/fire/cold).

helmet

+1 AC. Descriptions like golden, horned, visored, and winged are all purely cosmetic.

help

!help (I need somebody) !help (not just anybody)

helsinki

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/kielosto/crawl_spoilers/ss/

henzell

Linley Henzell is the original creator of Crawl. "Henzell" is also the ##crawl bot. If you want the source for *this bot*, go here: http://github.com/greensnark/dcss_henzell
Queries to Henzell using "??" are queries to the learndb.
I am full of lies.

henzell commands

type !cmdinfo

herbivore

You get less nutrition from meat food and chunks, but more from veggie food -- including cheese. At the third level you can't eat meat at all -- if you've played a Spriggan, you're already familiar with how this works. Mutually exclusive with carnivore and generally regarded as less useful, since it makes eating chunks more difficult.

herd card

Temporarily summons between 2 and 8 animals (sometimes varied, sometimes all the same), the number and chance of hostility based on power. Animals are: bumblebee, war dog, sheep, yak, hog, soldier ant, wolf, grizzly bear, polar bear, black bear, giant snail, boring beetle, gila monster, komodo dragon, spiny frog, hound.
Needs a whole lot more Hellephant, because a boatload of better-than-Xtahua-at-being-Xtahua allies is just what every intrepid adventurer needs.

heroic deaths

N78291 the Necromancer (L17 DEDK), worshipper of Sif Muna, slain by a shiny mottled dragon hide on D:17 on 2009-12-26, with 179242 points after 48690 turns and 3:12:57.
autorobin the Gouger (L13 FeBe), worshipper of Trog, slain by autorobin the felid zombie (animated by an orc high priest) on Orc:4 (st orc pillars) on 2011-03-31, with 46034 points after 29477 turns and 0:14:57.
subochre the Stinger (L1 FeVM), slain by a helpless rat on D:1 on 2010-12-03, with 22 points after 481 turns and 0:01:07.
Lexicon the Thaumaturge (L9 SpWz), worshipper of Vehumet, fell down a flight of stairs on Orc:1 on 2011-04-30, with 2666 points after 13475 turns and 1:16:23.

herself

Not a female.
Broken dump handling for tournament games on CDO solution: http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/0.7/herself/herself.txt Obviously you should replace herself with your nick.

heteroy

The cause of greensnarks complaints about the scoreboard.
see stone of earth elementals

hexcrawl

A variant of Crawl on a hexagonal grid, dreamed up by a deranged mind known only as 'zugz'.

hexes

Probably don't need to train this. At all. Unless you're an En. Not even then. Unless you want to stab stuff.

hide

Chance of a monster to leave a corpse is 1/2. Chance of a corpse to leave a hide is 2/3.

high elf

Tolkien elves. That is, they are better than you are. For apts, "!apt HE". Relative to humans, gets 2 less hp per 3lvls, gains 1 more mp per 2lvls. Gets an int or dex increase every third level.
<Elynae> my password is a fair lady from tolkien's legendarium <Wensley> username: elynae password: legolas

high elf reasons

You want to have all of the good characteristics in the game; good casting apts; good fighting apts; the best hybrid class.

high scores

Up-to-the-minute, cutting-edge Crawl high scores are kept here: http://www.elushae.org/~cislyn/misc/crawl/hof.html
http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/overview.html

hilarious bot deaths

!tv phybot ckaux=~arrow trap 1
!lg phybot killer=~eldritch 1 -tv
!tv autorobin place=snake:5 1

hilarious deaths

For funny deaths that don't belong in embarrassing_deaths. Xom thinks this is hilarious! <greensnark> Also, anyone adding bigterm games to hilarious_deaths should be shot
!tv * place=D:7 killer=lich 1
!tv mafalda 290
!lg by char=ddbe kaux=set off by themselves -tv
!tv jeff place=elf:7 char=HOBe
!tv daftfad char=trbe 1
!lg Shaijin SENe D:7 1 -tv:<0.3
!tv jovan place=hell 1
!lg mong char=mfgl place=zot:5 1 -tv
!tv mong 325
!lg pointless killer=~minotaur place=lair:2 -tv
!lg sorear dggl xl=27 1 -tv
!lg daindwarf char=mdfi place=zot:5 1 -tv
!lg tcircuits DGWz Swamp:5 1 -tv
!lg Lemuel DGHu killer=orc wizard 4 -tv
!lg joosa place=hive -tv
!lg Stabwound killer=~scroll 1 -tv
!lg syban 11322 -tv
!tv ronf 863
!lg boxx id=743672 -tv
!lg izverg id=408619 -tv
!lg dtsund char=dewz xl=27 turn=167301 -tv
!lg sly hoas turn=45221 1 -tv:<0.5
!lg * ikiller=kraken simulacrum 1 -tv
!lg nht killer=angel 2 -tv
!tv qui killer=~aizul 1
!lg birdoprey killer=death cob 1 -tv:<0.5
!tv * ktyp=falling down stairs dam=50 1
!tv predelnik place=elf:7 2
!lg zeddicus killer=merfolk place=Shoals:5 1 -tv
!lg sealer place=pan 1 -tv
!tv tartakower killer=angel char=mube
!tv monqy mube ckiller=killer bee 1
!lg arafel char=hane place=coc:7 1 -tv:<0.5
!lg puddinbane char=vpcr killer=prince ribbit -tv:<0.5
!lg Surr vpen xl=26 1 -tv
!tv ponce killer=hellion 3
!tv Butch killer=orc priest min=turns
!tv crawlie killer=duvessa, the rock worm
!tv ragdoll char=hopr 57
!lg ophanim killer=zot trap 1 -tv
!tv lawman0 dsbe xl=27 1
!tv ishanyx map=~lemuel 1
!lg Elynae sprint ktyp=stupidity -tv
!tv jordan7hm shoals:5 1
!tv qui 365
!lg lemuel ktyp=starvation place=dis:7 1 -tv
!lg adamzap hofi xl=21 1 -tv
!lg n78291 drae place=d:15 1 -tv
!tv johnasti tmsg=~annihilations 1
!tv * killer=Neromav
!tv eronarn xl=27 god=sif muna place=lair:2 1
!tv kaibigan mu ikiller=boggart 1
!lg moocowpong1 598 -tv
!lg lawman0 killer=eustachio the fire crab 1 -tv
!tv Mong place=bailey 2
!lg Ragdoll killer=~ball 1 -tv
!lg kantan place=zot:5 1 -tv
!lg turnerjer place=slime:1 1 -tv
!lg kumiokru place=d:19 1 -tv
!lg elynae d:1 killer=pit fiend -tv
!tv soul muar xl=23 1
!tv rkd muck 11
!tv casmith789 killer=shadow dragon 3
!tv minmay muee 1
!tv kumiokru place=bailey 1
!lg naltkor mdfi place=d:9 1 -tv:<2
!lg sky place=pan 3 -tv
!tv ruthinator deae 4
!tv tenaya ktyp=starvation 5
!tv crawlie koen 12
!lg antiskillrobin trmo 1 -tv:<0.3
!lg leafsnail drtm 20 -tv
!tv magistern mist splat 1
!lg * killer=~garbold 2 -tv
!lg elynae trwn xl=26 place=d:6 -tv:<2.5
!tv topbillin place=hell 2
!tv * na place=geh:5 1
!tv * mifi god=jiyva place=dis:7 1
!tv anubisbafoobis splat 1
!tv Brittlesworth splat 10
!tv demonblade ddak 1
!lg sosloow haar place=bailey xl=27 -tv
!tv dustman mifi 2
!lg zebulonius mifi xl>18 1 -tv
!lg laxity defe xl=19 1 -tv
!lg dartonias dewz xl=18 1 -tv
!lg theprince dsmo 3 -tv
!lg araganzar defe place=tomb 1 -tv
!lg nomi splat decj 1 -tv
!lm mikee_ type=death 6 -tv
!tv sgrunt 107
!tv kilobyte place=d:1 killer=shark 1

hill dwarf

An extinct race of dwarves, much lamented by Cyrus.

hill giant

Big orange C with big orange clubs that hit for big orange damage and can be big orange trouble in big orange melee. Sometimes carries a big orange throwing net.
Twice the HP of an ogre, 13 more damage, but worth five times the EXP. Worth killing if you can manage. Just be wary of lucky 50 damage hits.
Big brother to the oompa loompa.

hill orc

Like a mountain dwarf but exists, and has slightly different apts, try "!apt HO". Also, can worship beogh. And they're saprovorous, which is nice.
The Keanu Reeves of orcs
Orcs are good at all professions.
make really good earth and fire elementalists

hill orc reasons

Very good apts for being heavy armor melee fighters. Only race that can worship Beogh. Saprovore Pride!!
You want to complete some arcane challenge involving worshipping every god.
You want to base your character around the invocations skill and you hate deep dwarves and demonspawn.

hillbilly sting

The former practice of throwing poisoned needles at things.

hints mode

##crawl

hippogriff

Delightfully pluralized by the game as "hippogrives" prior to 0.6; no longer, alas. :(

hippyrobin

No kills. No shoes.

history of crawl

hit

You've got mail!
Frustrating, innit?

hitler

see circlelos
see frederick
lawman

hive

<polystyrus> well, Hive was dull
In 0.9-, accessed from the main dungeon somewhere between levels 11 and 16. Two levels deep. Tons of honeycombs and royal jellies can be found in the bee hive on the bottom level. The bottom level has several possible layouts, but each contains a small amount of treasure (in addition to random floor objects), usually in some form of hidden vault.
!lm VicViper char=hupa place=hive:1 turn=30836 -tv:>1000
Removed in 0.10.
Pronounced "Hivvy"

hives

What you get from a bee sting in hive. See a doctor.

hjklyubn

The one true movement system, allowing much comfier keyboard use. Frequently referred to as "vi-keys", whether or not this is correct, as well as "Rogue" keys. If unfamiliar, start up a game and press ?? to see a diagram of how they correspond to directions. These keys facilitate crawl play even without a numeric keypad, or via a faulty terminal.

hobgoblin

Murderous, club-wielding, ruffianly, blackguardly, raffish, and in all other respects untrustworthy killer. Most lethal enemy in the game (other than the legendary quitmonster).

hog

Yeeehaw! This tasty pork roast got lost in the dungeon lookin for them dang Duke Boys. No special attacks to speak of, but it's a pretty rare beast, so be careful that it's not a shapeshifter. Often a sign that kirke may be in the vicinity.
You spit the hog like a pig!!

holiness

Every Crawl monster has a holiness stat, from (holy, plant, natural, undead, nonliving, demonic). This stat reflects the monster's general nature, and many effects only occur to some types; polymorph only affects natural creatures and demons, and torment holy/natural, DU undead, etc.

holy

see holy wrath
Killing celestial creatures is likely to make you get blasted by TSO for 2d(5+ your xl*7/12) hp, *1.5 if you're undead or demonic. At xl 27 that's a max of 58hp damage. In 0.6-, the damage was several times bigger, often one-shotting maxxed characters.

holy armour of zin

Unrand "glowing golden" +6 plate mail. +3 str, ++life, +50 MR.

holy crap

the quarterstaff "Crapp" {holy, rF+ rC+}

holy swine

The holy swine salutes you.

holy wrath

Increases damage by 75% on average against undead and demons. These folks also cannot wield it. Does not hate evil creatures which are not undead or demons. This means that holy wrath is ineffective against hell knights, and some worshippers of evil gods can wield it.

homorobin

All hill orc monks, all the time. Well, unless some guy fancies a MfBe.

honeycomb

2000 nutrition, light (4 aum), quick to eat (2 turns). Can be eaten by everyone, pure carnivores and herbivores included.

hoody

<hoody> i liked the look of the fleshy hole
<hoody> but I always get humped

hoover

Apprentice of Nemelex Xobeh
Also, Apprentices of Jiyva

hooves

Horse feet. Having them allows you to kick in melee, at the cost of footwear. Slot loss happens at hooves 3.
see unarmed_effects

hope

There's none here.
<Kyrris> Hope is toxic, in the dungeon of Zot.

hopr

For people who'd vaguely rather be playing an RTS.

hopr reasons

You like pretending to be Jesus.
You like pretending to be Hitler
you like losing your orcs to an electric golem

horn

see {horn of geryon}

horn of geryon

Evoke it if you want to enter hells. Worthless afterward. You can still evoke it to summon a (hostile) beast, though!
Make absolutely sure you don't kill Geryon while he's hovering over deep water or lava. Geryon no longer flies in 0.10 trunk. He can walk into deep water though!
No longer worth any points (neither are any other items, just runes, gold, and time). Even when it was worth points, it wasn't worth very many.

horns

Could you headbutt before? No. But now you can. Lv 1 allows hats only, Lv 3 blocks all headgear. Also makes your headbutts hurt more. Bigger horns, bigger pain.

hound

A somewhat nasty critter that's surprisingly fast, even if the damage isn't massive. An upgraded jackal that comes alone. Generally an easy 50 exp unless you are a non-casting light user in which case you curse at them.
Gets released.

how

By hitting it a lot.
bladders
<temp_n> how would you go about getting a spriggan nude and still long enough to draw a picture?

how many

how much armour skill

45
see aevp

how not to die

Don't play.
see winning

how to kill hydra

wands

how to lose

Find Sigmund.
Find Grinder.
find Mennas

how to play nemelex xobeh

Have you ever used a vacuum cleaner?
Q: With Nemelex, (some stuff about decks or sacrifices or if the sacrifices go away when you get a new deck or what the symbol means or what happens if you sacrifice a potion of confusion or how can you make sure you get decks of wonder)?? A: NOBODY KNOWS.
Seriously though, sacrifice every corpse you get and then use the summoning decks you get against tough things.

how to win

Learn when to run away, and make a habit of actually using your expendables when you need them.
see advice[2]

hownottousethelearndb

!learn add bad ideas 40+ AC will cause instant death?

hp

Your max hp is (5.5*XL + Fighting*XL/8 + class base HP) * (1 + racial HP modifier/10), where the racial HP modifier is between -4 and +3 (see [2] for values) and class base HP is between 8 and 15.
3: Og Tr | 2: DD Na | 1: Ce Dg Dr Gh HO Mi | 0: Ds Hu Mf Mu Vp | -1: Ha HE Op SE | -2: DE Ko Te | -3: Sp | -4: Fe

hu

Human or hunter.

hubris

No games for * (killer=hubris).
Is, however, the hobgoblin of little minds
<Wensley> did hyperddne die <Elynae> Yes :( it was horrible, kill xtahua, kill mennas, think an alligator snapping turtle skeleton won't do 42 damage

huckleberryfinn

1) make the missisippi river from D:1 to D:27 with fedhas
fedhas zig
the most pointless account ever

hugeterm

Any terminal size greater than 80x24 makes your games harder to watch for people using the standard size, which also means that all future viewings of your recorded games will be harder to watch. With ttyrecs specifically, larger terms mean both a scrambled view and a shorter playback time.
Don't be that guy.
<mikee_> crushed to death by gigantic terminal
In order to watch hugeterm ttyrecs, maximize your own TDO terminal. It'll usually fix itself the first time the screen is totally redrawn

human

The average race. Their strength, dexterity and intelligence bases are all 6. Their natural magic resistance is three times their character level, which is the default. They start out with no racial "mutations". To learn their natural aptitudes, type !apt Hu in this channel. HP gain is normal, gains +1 random stat per five levels.

human reasons

You're boring and like boring things.
<evilmike> human reasons: you haven't won one yet
Awesome slots, apts, and can choose any style of play.

humanoid

All egmnoqutACEKLMORTV12345&8@, draconians, p other than centaur ghosts, naga ghosts, felid ghosts, octopode ghosts, and W other than spectral things

hungary ghost

A ghost hailing from Budapest.

hunger

Obviously, you can't go on without food for too long. In most cases, eating fixes this. Dead: 100. Starving: 101-1000. Near starving: 1001-1533. Very hungry: 1534-2066. Hungry: 2067-2600. Satiated (blank): 2601-7000. Full: 7001-9000. Very full: 9001-11000. Engorged: 11001-12000.
See also: hunger rate and spell hunger

hunger rate

Base hunger rate is 3, always at least 1. Fast metabolism increases hunger by 1 per level of the mutation, slow metabolism 1 or 2 decreases by 1, slow metabolism 3 decreases by 2. Trolls have hunger rate increased by 3 in addition for a base hunger of 9.
Other effects: haste +5, invisibility +5, regen spell +4, regen ring +3, hunger ring +4, sustenance ring -2, troll leather armour +1 or +2 randomly, Cheibriados -1, Hunger+ on an artefact +1.
As of 0.6, regeneration effects and items only increase hunger rate while you are injured.

hungry

You can eat raw meat, and probably should. You're not in immediate danger, but no reason not to - and meat spoils, so hurry up! See hunger.

hungry ghost

A ghost whose primary attack is to decrease your satiation level, by a quarter of your current satiation - it will rapidly reduce you to very hungry or near starving if its attacks connect. If you don't have ranged attacks and can't hit hard and fast, beware. Also eats corpses on the ground.

hungry kobold

It is a kobold in a vault.

hunter

A class whose starting gear and skills focus upon a missile weapon of your choice! Their ammunition is +1. You also get a short sword.

hybrid

You bash things AND cast spells! Wow!
http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/Hybrid/morgue-Hybrid-20101230-055333.txt
see battlemage
(9:00:48 PM) casmith789: which is why hybrids are so good (9:01:04 PM) Eronarn: casmith789 is environmentally conscious :) (9:01:20 PM) casmith789: I try to do my bit

hydra

< flamot> no < flamot> it got bigger
Regenerating monster that attacks once for every head. Slashing attacks will cut off a head, causing two to grow in its place and healing the hydra for 7+d8 HP. Strong characters can ignore this, as they'll outdamage the healing and can tank the attacks. Weak characters can die. Head count doesn't affect experience gained.
Flaming slashing weapons still remove heads but cauterize the wound so the hydra doesn't regrow heads or heal. A headless hydra dies instantly.
If you can butcher with something, it's a slashing weapon. Exceptions are daggers, quick blades, and ice form, none of which remove heads. Claws remove heads if you're not wearing gloves.
Being amphibious, they're faster than you in water even if you're levitating. Hydras are spriggan speed in water.
Undead hydra(e?) will not regenerate their heads when cut, so slice away. You cannot chop off the heads of spectral hydras, however. Note that hydra simulacra have horrifying damage output if you're lacking rC.
The maximum number of heads is 20. Chopping a 20-headed hydra's head off will reduce it to 19 heads, but it'll grow back to 20 again after you chop another off.
Polymorphing one of these will result in a griffon, giant snail, very ugly thing, giant amoeba or something if you're lucky. If you're unlucky it'll transform into a dragon and you'll probably end up running unless you have the appropriate resistance. If the RNG has it out for you it'll transform into a quicksilver dragon.

hydrae

Yes, this is the correct plural form. see hydra

hydrataur

One of four possible unique guardians at lvl 3 of the abyssal stair. Each of his nine necks ends in a javelin throwing humanoid torso, and he also buffs, heals and sprays hellfire. Carries the madness rune.

hydrochloric acid

a.k.a. CE_HCL. The deeper meaning behind the name has been lost to history, but the effect is like a potion of decay. And no nutrition. Saprovorism does not help, but Ghouls can eat it.

hyper

Prepended to the names of accounts which are only allowed to play combos chosen at random, and which must play the first random combo given each time.

hyperactive ballistomycete

What you get when you upgrade a ballistomycete with Fedhas evolution. It explodes.

hyperbole

<someonebyte> hrm, the makefile of 0.4 has 469874698376 hard-coded paths

hyperbolic

My 0.10 SpEn guide: SKILLS: Approximate goals are as follows: 1) 8 Stabbing. 2) Invisibility at 6% fail and 10 Dodging/Stealth. 3) 12 Stabbing, 15 Dodging/Stealth, 6 Fighting, and enough Short Blades for min delay. 4) 27 Stealth, 10 Fighting, and whatever spell skills you want.
STATS: Raise Str to 8, then raise Int. SPELLS: From the starting book: EH, Confuse, Invisibility (and Sure Blade to train Charms or if you want better melee). When you find them: other generally good spells like Haste, Repel Missiles, Regeneration, Dispel Undead, Apportation, Blink, Control Teleport, Phase Shift, Controlled Blink, etc.
GODS: Ash, Jiyva, Kiku, Lugonu, Makhleb, and Nemelex are all great choices. WEAPONS: Any short blade will work for stabbing, but switch to a dagger when possible. For regular melee, early on look for elec and venom weapons. Later look for a quick blade and/or pain brand a weapon with Kiku. Distortion is nice also. Oh, and get a buckler.

hyperelynae

<mikee_> is your strategy just get the character killed off until you roll ddne or spen or something =P

hypothetically

<minqmay> Wensley: if you were a spriggan and some guy was drawing a nude picture of you would you be thrilled about it <minqmay> I would!

i stephen

##crawl's very own blind guy! some day he'll probably be better at crawl than you, too.

iaido

The art of drawing a sword out of its scabbard, as fast and clean as possible, with evident naturalness and fluidity, being the main objective to cut the enemy long before he is able to draw his own sword or use any other type of weapon. The sword is then presumably used as a farm implement.
Is confessedly stubborn as several mules.
Okay, so I lied about the mules.

iankeith

< Ian-Keith> daftfad the Necromancer (L14 MuDK) killed Santa Claus on turn 1225. (NPole)

iba

Ice beast armour, a MuIE's best friend.
Not as good as KZA.

ibm

http://www.yohng.com/software/terminalvector.html fixes IBM breakage on servers
http://telecom.tbi.net/asc-ibm.html

ice beast

They claw you, and they freeze you when they do. Can be dangerous to low-level characters, and can also destroy your potions.

ice cave

a kind of portal vault, a la ossuaries and labyrinth. Expect lots of Ice statues, and ice-related loot (rings of ice, manuals of ice magic etc.) Possible depths for easy ice caves are D:11-14, Lair:1-8, Orc:1-4 and Elf:1-2. Hard ice caves are in D:14-19, Elf:3-4 and Vault:1-7.
13:36 < Daekdroom> ooo I found the entrance to the Ice Caves 13:36 < Daekdroom> Is it timed? 13:36 < Gretell> Daek the Gelid (L12 DEIE), worshipper of Sif Muna, blasted by an ice dragon (blast of cold) on Lair:7, with 25122 points after 19857 turns and 1:21:25.
Known to contain loot impossible elsewhere, like cloaks of resistance (rF+, rC+).

ice devil

Like a sun demon, except for cold instead of fire. And it's slower. And it does less damage. One of the weakest 2s.

ice dragon

like a dragon, except with fire and ice switched!

ice dragon armour

A magical armour, made from the scales of a cold-breathing dragon. It provides great protection from the effects of cold, but renders its wearer more susceptible to the effects of fire and heat. (heavy armour; AC 9, EV -3, ++cold, -fire, 35 aum)

ice dragon hide

Use an enchant armor scroll on it to turn it into the 9AC rC++ rF- Ice dragon armor.

ice elementalist

A spellcaster that starts out with some Ice Magic skill and a Book of Frost.

ice elementalist reasons

You want to do what reavers claim to do, except without being terrible.

ice fiend

A member of the lovable and suave family of Fiends, Ice Fiends share with their winsome relatives the ability to cast torment. They can also sling bolts of cold.
Ice fiend melee attack does up to 108 bonus cold damage which ignores AC. But you don't care because you're an evasion character, right?
<elliptic> in extended endgame in general the main threats are torment, hellfire, and ice fiend

ice form

+20% HP, rF-, rC+++, rPois. Melds all armour except cloaks, but gives 5-12 AC (and has synergy with {ozocubu's armour}). 12+UC base damage with freezing brand. Players in ice form can float through water, but get no aquatic bonuses and can't reach submerged items. Found in Book of Changes, L4 ice/tmut.

ice magic

Elemental spell school. Mainly, kills things by freezing them, but has more support spells than fire. The main limitation of ice magic is that it seldom harms undead, which are common early on.
Obviously, high ice magic is nice for doing more ice damage with ice spells. Also boosts the AC from ozocubus armour, and lets you cast the highest level ice spells. Late game monsters are often immune to elemental damage, though, so you may want to turn it off in the mid game.

ice miscast

Severity 1: nothing / freeze potions (damage if and only if vuln); 2: 5-16 ice dmg / 3d11 cold ball; 3: 9-31 ice dmg / large freezing cloud

ice statue

A frigid statue that isn't vulnerable to disintegrate, but fire. It has a nasty spell set but is easily neutralised with rC. (But mind your potions!)

ice storm

The most powerful ice conjuration, dealing 40%-resistible cold damage in a large radius and leaving behind freezing clouds. Like its incendiary counterpart, it makes a godawful racket when cast.
!lg @78291 killer=Ghib -tv (Hint, Ghib is a random panlord)
Not completely equivalent to fire storm because of no smite targeting and no vortices, but does tend to do more damage than fire storm in extended endgame since demons tend to have a lot of rF.
Be careful not to catch yourself in the blast! If you are (4,0) or (3,2) squares away from the center, then you are safe.

icy envelope

One of the possible 3rd level mutations for the Demonspawn ice facet. You get +10 AC, but it goes away when you are hit by fire or cast fire magic, and then gradually regenerates. Also makes you immune to freezing vapour, even when dissipated.

identifying weapons

When you wield a weapon you'll identify whether it's cursed or not, what brand it has (if any) and if the weapon is an artifact you'll be able to determine its properties. Each hit, you have a skill/100 chance to identify a weapon's pluses.

idopoll

A web poll on "the most popular roguelike", staged by Ido Yehieli during September 2009. Unsurprisingly, Crawl crushed the opposition. See the final results at http://ido-yehieli.blogspot.com/2009/10/most-played-roguelike-poll-results.html

ignacio

Unique executioner found in Pandemonium in 0.9. Comes with executioner's axe of pain, casts agony (basically torment that checks MR). Pandemonium Prince Ribbit.
If you don't kill him, he might show up again in a later Pan level.

ignite blood

Causes all blood spilled in your LOS to burst into flames (and have a flame cloud placed on top of it), makes more blood get spilled in the first place, and also provides immunity to flame clouds. Alternative to Hellfire as the third level of the Demonspawn fire facet, making it tier 2 rather than tier 3.

ignite poison

Damages all (excluding you) in LOS that leave poisonous corpses or are poisoned (+cures it). Turns poison/str.poison/degen potions and poisoned ammo (excluding your inventory) to flame clouds. Ignites poison/noxious clouds. Makes a temporary poison weapon brand into temporary fire brand.
Very effective with poisonous cloud. You can fill up the entire screen with flames to do major damage to most enemies. Poor man's firestorm.
Has no effect on Staff of Poison or Staff of Olgreb.
before 0.8, would ignite you and poisonous potions in your inventory too

iguana

Just because it's an early game 'l' does not mean you shouldn't take it seriously. Hits harder than a worm but is as fast as average.

ijyb

Unique goblin. Level is his! All his! He chop your head off! Especially if he spawns with a wand - he's the only unique with less than 5 HD, and the only unique on D:2, who is allowed to spawn with a high-tier wand (fire, cold, draining, lightning, paralysis).
see 12_club
Level is mine! All mine!

ill

http://www.prohiphop.com/images/graf2/beastie-boys-ill-communication.jpg

ilsuiw

A cunning merfolk water-witch in 0.6+. Summons water elementals. Guaranteed to appear somewhere between Shoals:3-5, but only rarely above Shoals:5.
possible pronunciations: "ILL-soo-yew", "ill-SOOY-ew"

im starving

Eat something NOW! Don't forget your potions of porridge! If your hands are cursed and you can't butcher, try the animate skeleton spell on a corpse or a wand of disintegration on a meaty enemy. If all else fails, hope you were worshiping Zin or Jiyva.

imba

Imbalanced.

immolation

Scroll which creates a 3d10 fireball centered on you and extending two spaces. Not generated shallower than D:5. Does not destroy scrolls.
So you thought you were going to dive an XL 1 character, did you?
Has uses in the Orcish mines, in some sewers, and against early packs of killer bees.

imp

see crimson_imp
<ebarrett> should add some secret entry to imp[2] complaining about the change

imp parking

Get an imp next to you while standing on up-stairs, go up the stairs, wait for the imp to blink away, go back down the stairs, leaving the imp on the level above you. Good for early-game necromancers and other who have trouble with early imps.
Works with phantoms too!
And Sonja!

implemented bad ideas

When you hit an ogre with a long blade, instead of opening it like a pillowcase, you dice the ogre like an onion!!!
A cat race that gets nine lives!
A graphical tile interface, so players don't need to read to play Crawl!
Multiplayer crawl. Adventuring parties! [if multirobin counts] {it doesn't} !what are these weird braces for anyway! |it does count if you're a hopr though|
LCS of returning [the unrandart]
You open the door like a pillowcase!!!
Some uniques are friends with each other and will berserk if you've killed their buddy (or lover).
portal/shop/kitchen sink mimics
Octopodes.
Silly hats.
Scroll of Silence.
gigabats
A +MUT mutation!!!

important choices

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2s7z9pCRm1rsromyo1_1280.jpg

imprison

Puts a tomb of silver walls around a targeted creature. Requires all adjacent squares to be free of monsters and features, and expires quite quickly.

impscumming

1. Get corpses. 2. Call imps and kill them until you get a solitary shadow imp. 3. Make solitary shadow imp hostile, have it animate hostile dead. 4. Get experience from hostile undead raised by a hostile summon. 5. Die of boredom.

in touch with death

Necromancy enhancer, like the staff of death. If you are a vampire or mummy below XL 13 and see this on %, you don't actually have it.

inacc

You probably want {bolt of inaccuarcy}, but maybe amulet of inaccuracy.

inaccuracy

You might be looking for amulet of inaccuracy or bolt of inaccuracy, refine your search!

incursion

Interesting young roguelike that has D&D-style character feats. http://www.incursion-roguelike.net/

inept mimic

Replaces normal mimics from floors 1-6 and occasionally from floors 7-12. Weaker attack, doesn't poison, doesn't resist as much.

init

>+>+++>>+>++>+>+++>>+>++>>>+>+>+>++>+>>>>+++>+>>++>+>+++>>++>++>>+>>+
It's a computer program written in the Brainfuck esoteric programming language. See http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

inner flame

Turns monsters into explosions. Level 3 Fire/Hex. If it's not resisted, the target explodes upon death dealing 3d20 fire damage and leaving flame clouds behind. Tiny monsters deal less damage, giant and huge monsters deal more damage and have a radius 2 explosion. The explosion is as noisy as a mephitic cloud or fireball.
The sheep bleats in terror. The sheep explodes!
Damage depends only on monster size: >= giant-sized 3d25 (radius 2), >= spriggan-sized 3d20, tiny 3d15.

inner flame reasons

skeleton bombs

innuendo

<PsiRedEye22> thats a hell of a shaft
<tensorpudding> how big is too big?
<sky_> i suck at dds <sky_> but use your stones on hard guys
< Pigvomit> st_ lemme see that club of yours
see itsmu[4]
<Ragdoll> i jellied him up <Ragdoll> the results were anything but satisfying
<Tehcarp> there's no real way to get deep extraordinarily fast
k - Grex's Reference Book on Aerial Self-Knowledge
<syraine> Take an Ogre Hunter <syraine> that way you have large rocks
Terence asks, "Do you want it fast or slow?"
see snow[3]
A giant spiked club falls through the shaft.
<k2grey> last night i met saint roka <k2grey> i made him die for my sins
<minqmay> i could write a book about my adventures with duvessa
Something touches your fire vortex!
<mikee_> i hear doing it diagonally takes 1.4 times as long
<brace_> you just have to unload on some dude
<dchimera> Ashenzari's Volume of Rapid Deboning
Maud screams, "I want it!"
<heteroy> You see here a long smoking rod. :p
Agnes barely misses herself.
You squeeze it.
<Nomi> he stopped being helpful at some point <Nomi> then this got hard
<Gilihad> I've done a few draconians <elliptic> draconians are pretty easy
<ebarrett> well I can still beat it sort of comfortably, I guess
You pound Duvessa like an anvil!!!
<Blade-> agnes just spat four acid blobs out of me

inscription

!w to prompt before 'w'ielding/unwielding. Same format for 'a'ttacking, 'd'ropping, 'e'ating, 'q'uaffing, 'r'eading, 'f'iring, 'W'earing/'T'aking off armor, 'P'utting on/'R'emoving jewellery, e'v'oking, 'Q'uivering, 'D'estroying, '*'all.
!p / =p prompts before sacrificing stack / item. =g enables autopickup. =k ignores item on ground. =s creates stack. =f removes item from quiver cycling; \+f includes it.
Shortcut inscriptions look like @w1, with a letter for the command type as in inscription[1] and a number 1-9.
try ?6 ingame.

inspector071

wishes octopodes were in 0.9 so he didn't have to worry with the silly food system and silly traps and other silliness in trunk
is in fact hungry enough to eat another honeycomb
thinks dragon armour should be dragon armour, imps should be imps, fiends should be fiends, and crawl should be crawl without silliness

insubstantial wisp

Not so damn insubstantial. Bloody maddening monster that is nearly immune to everything except physical damage (and they're unpleasantly resistant to that, too!). Comes in packs and is common in swamp. Casters can use Magic Dart, Mystic Blast, Airstrike, Poison Arrow, or damaging Earth spells. Ice users should use Throw Icicle.
<greensnark>Insubstantial wisps are like a screaming monkey on your windshield, It's unlikely to kill you directly But all you can see is the monkey
Not an immediate danger to anything but an ogre.
Whoever created these deserves a swift kick in the face.

insulation

Reduces electrical damage to 1/3rd. It's very hard to win without insulation due to the presence of powerful lightning-shooting monsters late game. Available in spell form (level 4 Charms/Air), from staff of air, storm dragon armour and artefacts. Caps at rElec (although monsters can get up to rElec+++).
Not actually essential to have in object or spell form, since a few potions of resistance will work fine for the electric golems on Zot:5.

int

Affects your spell casting success, your spell power, your spell hunger and how well you can use one or two fixedarts or so. When it reaches 0, you cannot cast spells or read scrolls, and will eventually die -- by far the most common reason to read stat drain.
If you are casting spells *at all* int is almost always more important than either dex or str.

invincible

<N78291> this gas trap prompts me to walk over it and nothing happens when I do <Gretell> 78291 (L20 DsTm) is cast into the Abyss! (a Zot trap) (Crypt:5)

invisibility

If you are invisible, monsters won't shoot ranged attacks at you unless they can see you, or can guess where you are. Monsters with sense invisible still have to guess your location, but will only fire if they guess right; others get a random fuzz to their aiming point, which might be inaccurate in the first place.
Monsters can guess your position when you are invisible if they knew your position before and you are still within two spaces, if you are in water, or if they are adjacent to you and make a roll based on their intelligence (usually 1 chance in 3; slightly higher if they are smarter.)
Beams shot at you by monsters who can't see you (even if they can sense you) have their hit chance cut in half. Monsters trying to melee you without see invisible and who have correctly guessed your location have their hit chance reduced by 35%.
If you are invisible, and don't have see invisible, you receive -5 to hit (same as amulet of inaccuracy). If you are attacking a monster you cannot see, you receive -6 to hit. (These stack, of course.)
Fleeing monsters always know which way is away from you whether they can sense you or not.

invocations

Used by TSO, Beogh, Cheibriados, Elyvilon, Fedhas, Lugonu, Makhleb, Okawaru, Sif Muna, Yredelemnul, Zin. Not used by Nemelex Xobeh, Trog, Vehumet, Xom, Ashenzari, Kikubaaqudgha. Trog and Ashenzari base invoked powers on your piety, Kikubaaqudgha on your Necromancy, Nemelex on your evocations (which they train).

ion

<ion> Is Snorg Irish?

ionfrigate

Poor ionfrigate doesn't have a ?? entry :(
is a pretty cool dude who deserves his own entry
Can play DDBe for about a half hour before suiciding out of disgust.

ipbt

A great ttyrec player.

irc

the c stands for class
the i and r stand for infrared

iridescent scales

Level 1: +4 ac; Level 2: +6 ac; Level 3: +8 ac.

iron devil

Lots of resistances, but slow and doesn't hit as hard as you would expect. Almost completely ignorable 4. Not even worth killing in the Hells, but be careful if it shows up on D:7 or something (and isn't across lava).

iron dragon

Multi-resistant metallic monster that likes to perforate your abdomen. Does massive damage. Avoid it if you can.

iron dragon armour

Essentially ponderous CPM. Added in 0.13.

iron golem

Omni-immune but slow melee monster.
You can't spell boring golem without iron golem.

iron grate

It slams shut! Blocks travel, fire, but not line of sight. Can blink and smite-target through it.
Can be removed with dig or disintegration.

iron imp

A twisted little minor demon. Lots of resists, and slow. Named manes before 0.7.

iron shot

A level 6 conj-earth single target attack spell, formerly known as Bolt of Iron. Has poor accuracy and range, but does a decent amount of irresistable damage; unlike its big brother LCS, Iron Shot is found in a common book (book of Power). It's also found in the book of the Earth. 9d18 at full power.

iron troll

Like a super rock troll with bonus resistances and AC. Not resistant to poison, but don't be fooled; it will still take a couple poison arrows to bring down. Moves slowly.

ironman

In the Ironman challenge you must take downstairs as soon as possible until you reach D:27, and then leave the dungeon alive.
Here is one set of rules: http://ln-s.net/1m:y
The account IronRobin is for ironman games (password IronRobin)
Jeff holds the current record: D21 on the *ascent*. http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/IronRobin/morgue-IronRobin-20080404-084316.txt (OUT OF DATE)
The ironman challenge was apparently completed by nexos: http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/IronRobin/morgue-IronRobin-20090308-224908.txt
Completed by mikee in 0.8: !log tartakower char=febe place=d:$ 1

ironwasp

jarpiains preferred handle for games where he controls characters on both cao and cdo with one set of keystrokes for both.

irony

<TGWi> we shouldn't have an irony entry
Ijyb screams, "Level is mine! All mine!" Ijyb falls through a shaft! The shaft crumbles and collapses.

irssi

http://randart.scienceontheweb.net/crawl/index.html#irssi

iskenderun

The first swimming cat in Britain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Van). Claimed to be the inventor of Mystic Blast and Orb of Destruction.

it

Fall off the wall.
A nearby it withers and dies.
< Henzell> snow the Brawler (L17 TrBe) is cast into the Abyss! (it) (D:20)
Napkin the Spry (L19 SpFi), worshipper of Makhleb, slain by an Executioner (summoned by the player character (woven by it)) on Vault:6 on 2011-01-20, with 210498 points after 86779 turns and 13:51:43.
murphyslaw the Protected (L12 MDFi), succumbed to its poison gas in Abyss, with 14674 points after 18550 turns and 1:26:51.
It vanishes!
The portal to somewhere protects it from harm.
Monster it failed to pathfind!
Ashenzari warns you: It is.
Hit by a dart thrown by it (4 damage) ...summoned by Xom
30938 | Snake:4 | Paralysed by it for 6 turns
<Gretell> ZChris13 the Earth Mage (L9 SEEE), worshipper of Sif Muna, succumbed to its dark miasma in D (Sprint), with 3282 points after 1053 turns and 0:04:59.
An aura of fear fills the air! You are terrified of it!
The queen bee calls on it to defend her!
The ball python releases its hold on the plant. It constricts you.
It constricts it!
1. heteroy the Skirmisher (L5 OpCK), worshipper of Xom, killed by an exploding it (buggy) set off by their pet on D:5 on 2011-09-12, with 467 points after 4092 turns and 0:09:29.
It loses its grip on you. You lose your grip on it.
It is struck by it (buggy) spines.
The yaktaur, it and the yaktaur captain shudder.

it creaks loudly

see {creak}

it wiggles slightly

Something just wielded a weapon of returning.

item enchantment

Adds 1 to an items plus if <4 or <1d9. Comes in four flavours: EW I for +hit, EW II for +dam, EW III for both (d2 times each, also makes temporary brands permanent), and EA for armour.

itsmu

You tickle the shadow dragon! You relax the shadow dragon!! You caress the shadow dragon like a lover!!!
"[Mu is] the Grand Moff of Zot Defense." - greensnark
<+Mu_> making fleshy orifices squelch loudly when you shut them during berserk, however, is appropriate behaviour and shouldn't be looked down upon
(3:29:00 PM) Mu_: what's wrong with my coc (3:29:07 PM) elliptic: it is too large :P
Malign gateway was his idea
<Mu_> i wish i were gloorx vloq irl

ivan

Features detachable body parts - you can beat monsters to death with your severed arm!
There's now an experimental curses port by jarpiain at http://orthanc.fixme.fi/ivan/. ssh ivan@orthanc.fixme.fi to play (password "ivan").

jackal

Leading cause of early magedeath, as it is too fast to flee from and tends to swarm. Think of this as an excuse to learn travel exclusions, if you see it sleeping. The average fighter will have few problems surviving to a choke point, after which they are trivial.

jade ring

While this *may* be the blink-frog-colored, +8 EV jade ring of Shaolin, it is far more likely to be the regular-frog-colored, generic-jade-non-artifact-jewellery ring of whatever.

jarpiain

see wasp
!lm wasp spwr rune=fiery 2 -tv:>$

javelin

After a kinetic force is applied, a brief period occurs during which the javelin travels aerodynamically towards its target coordinates, after which the pointy end goes into the other man. Base damage is 10. Weight is 8 aum.

jeanjacques

<jeanjacques> i always train slings as much as I can with an amulet of faith
A +13/+14 purple glaive. It missiles the wielder.
a - +7,+9 demon blade (chaos) - Xom swap ruined my VpFi.

jeff

<Jeff> If I ever start talking about playing an ogre, I want someone to intervene.
Jeff's suggested play order: Dungeon->Pan->Call me after you get here.

jelly

This monster has laid many an adventurer to an early rest with its ability to corrode weapons and armor. The beginner uses darts, the experienced use resistant weapons, the wise use stones, and the cornered use wands. They are slightly slower than normal characters, use this to your advantage.
If you hear a distant slurping noise, an item you could have gotten has just been digested; if a squelching noise, a new jelly has been born into the world, all the worse for you.
If you hear a bunch of slurping and squelching and then it stops, there's probably a hidden Jiyva altar vault on the level.
Jellies can also eat doors and nets you try to hold them with. Also, they heal when they eat things. They can't eat artifacts or stones.

jelly vault

Run, Forrest, run! Has been known to appear in D, Elf, Lair, Snake, Cocytus (except for the last one in trunk, r.i.p. jellyhell).
Brown ooze, Acid blobs, Death ooze, Azure Jelly, Jelly, and Ooze are known to spawn here.

jellyfish

wobble... wobble... sting, wobble... You die...
Hits for 1 damage. Actually quite dangerous if your AC is 0.
see killstealing

jenius

Likes to do Tomb naked.

jeremie

<rwbarton> so you are saying that 100% of your extended game splats so far are OpEE <jeremie> yes

jessica

Early unique human wizard who is very easy to kill, but between haste, slow, pain, blink, and possibly a wand you might not get a chance. Either a pushover or worse than Sigmund, depending on the will of the RNG.

jewelery

Crawl spells it with two "l"s, if you want to do a ctrl-f search

jewellery acquirement

Grabs a jewellery base type, this has a 1 in 3 chance of being a amulet and a 2 in 3 chance of being a ring. If you've already identified that base type it will try again. It will continue this until it hits a type you have not yet identified or until it has tried 10 times.
Rings of hunger and amulets of inaccuracy have a 92.09% chance of being randarts. Other jewellery has a 28.85% chance of being a randart. This is independent from the base type calculation, otherwise.

jivya

jiyva not jivya!

jiyva

Jiyva's altar appears in the center of Slime:6 and in jelly vaults. Jiyva will give you mutations, jelly and slime allies, and the ability to pare down your bad mutations. Piety is gained by letting jellies eat all that useless loot lying around the dungeon.
*: request jelly invocation; **: gain nutrition on slurps; ***: prayer effect that paralyses slimes in LOS for 5 piety per slime, mutation gifts; ****: slimify, mp on slurps; *****: cure bad mutation invocation, hp on slurps; ******: possible friendly temporary slime if hit for > 25% maxhp, slime:6 walls removed
Other powers: Piety / 200 chance of conservation or resist corrosion per item check, slime walls do not damage unless in penance, J and G turn neutral on sight, stats are rearranged based on your armour, burden carried, and skills.
Insane in zigsprint. Full healing/magic/nutrition and 20 mutation changes every 1-2 turns, while jellies eat through the stacks of 1000 +5 ammunition.

jiyva reasons

You want a non-Nemelex solution to all that dungeon clutter.
You don't like items or XP.
A lot of good mutations, although they will come and go as Jiyva pleases. Worshiping Jiyva will also allow you to "clear" the Slime Pits without having to fight anything and get the loot. Good if you don't want to fight the Royal Jelly.
You want to test the stat death code.
You want to OHKO Tiamat.

jiyva wrath

ABANDONMENT: 30 penance, all slimes abandon you RETRIBUTION: 1/7 1-3 bad mutations, 3/7 slimify a hostile monster in view if possible, 2/7 glow with 50% chance of uncancelable bat, spider or statue form, 1/7 create 1 + xl / 10 + random2(3) J or G
If you abandon Jiyva and kill the royal jelly, all of Jiyva's altars will vanish once your penance is over.

jmr

Does everyone need their own damn learndb entry?! GOD
Kids these days!
Walked uphill to school through the snow. Both ways.
Appears to be from Yorkshire.

johan

Terrible.

joke

How many Ogre-Mages does it take to change a light bulb?
None, there are no more ogre mages as of 0.5.
Three--one to cast Haste, one to cast Apportation on the old light bulb, and one to nghrun urhguhn rguhgrugn please stop forcing my face and head into the toilet bowl
thanks i'll be here all week, try the chunk of young calf flesh
[Mu_] Q: What is a centaur's favourite version? A: Stable.
Q: Why do the developers prefer Fedhas? A: He helps them control their branches.
A yak and a giant frog come into view. A yak, a giant cockroach and a hill giant come into view. 3 yaks and an orc warrior come into view. An orc and a big fish come into view. An orc and a big fish come into view.
<casmith789> why was six scared of seven? <mikee_> because seven ate 291
<evilmike> new learndb rule: from now on entries have to make the learndb better rather than worse
<Blade-> um...I just saw a mimic on top of another mimic <mikee_> were they door mimics? <mikee_> they could have been engaging in doorplay
< Cerebov> THIS ONE TIME LOM LOBON CASTED ALISTAIR'S INTOXICATION AT APARTY AND GLOORX GOT SO CONFUSED HE DROPPED HIS RUNE IN SHALLOW WATER
< Cerebov> IT'S THE DARK RUNE SO NOBODY COULD SEE IT SO WE HAD TO LOOK FOR IT BY THE LIGHT OF LOM'S CELL PHONE
see spriggan baker joke

jokeserver

lair, hive, swamp/snake/shoals/orc, vault 1-7, blade, crypt, elf1-4, vestibule, dis, geh/tar/coc, pan, abyss.
You die...Xom finds this hilarious!
You blow up the rat! ... Q - a chunk of rat flesh

jory

Unique vampire who comes in two big vaults and has brain feed. And mesmerise. And crystal spear. And his main big vault has silent spectres so he never gets to use any of them, while his other vault is silly

joseph

Looks like a mercenary. Amusing when found with Josephine. Since 0.7, he is generated with a quarterstaff and a sling.

josephine

A *really* ugly necromancer. Spells: Bolt of Draining, Bolt of Cold, Animate Dead, Teleport Self

joshrl

Likes to stalk Taco_Princess all over Freenode

jozef

A tall bounty hunter. Spells: teleport other, heal, venom bolt and slow. Wants to collect the bounty on Joseph. Also uses nets, that deal 1d12 damage. Watch out!

jpeg

Image format or crawl developer? You be the judge.

jumping spider

A spider found in the spider's nest portal that can blink! A bit slower than normal spiders.

junk food

Fruit, when it's taking up eight inventory slots.

jutes

<Jutes> "you have picked up a scroll labeled FUCK DA SAC"
JutesThere is an entrance to Phucs' Book Emporium here.
Jutes: There is an entrance to Faoghout's Jewellery Shoppe here.

kaduria

A game being developed by a gentleman named Krice (aka Paul Pekkarinen) on r.g.r.d. According to Krice, it is written in C++, the only language a sane man would use, is way better than NetHack and all the other roguelikes in existence, and will be personally advertised by the Riders of the Apocalypse.
However, all other roguelikes have one critical advantage over Kaduria: They are available.
Krice/Pinkbeast OTP!! http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.development/msg/cc9d2972d920bde1

kalir

"I cast Decapitate!" "That's not a spell, you just cut his head off with an axe!"

katana

A single-edged sword with a curved blade of ~70-90cm length. It is a very dangerous weapon usually known to be utilized by the samurai. Doesn't exist. (hand-and-a-half Long Blade; Dam 14 Acc +3 Delay 12)
see autumn katana
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KatanasAreJustBetter

kats

Plural of kat.
Bowdlerkats
< ksta> One does not simply autoexplore for 90 minutes into Mordor.
Disapproves of defining oneself.
Plays offline, plays poorly, also plays kazoo

kawakimi

ZONGULDROK CALLS YOU BACK
Zonguldrok does not kill. It unlives.

kayohs

OH GOD BLADE HANDS FAP FAP

kcrawl

no labs, queen bees do not cause killer bees to berserk, nerfed shadow creatures, nerfed fireball, no enemy sticky flame; removal of fire crabs, monsters do not zap poly other wand; tengu renamed to kenku; no submerged creatures
antaeus valid target for enslave soul

kenku

see tengu
Very low hitpoints on level up. Notoriously fragile. Gets 20% less HP than a human.
< tensorpudding> they're like hipster deep elves
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fu-Xmq0DHE

kenku reasons

You can't count higher than 100 and want to be able to keep track of your HP.
Awesome fighting and weapon apts. You might be able to get a weapon to level 8 before you get one-shotted by a worm.

keraal

Xabrados the Thaumaturge (level 15, -1/111 HPs). Began as a Demonspawn Assassin on May 21, 2010. Was the Champion of Nemelex Xobeh. Killed by nerve-wracking pain ... invoked by an Executioner ... created by the power of Zot ... on Level 14 of the Dungeon on May 23, 2010.

keskitalo

see eino
<+Keskitalo> Enchanted rods recharge at a really fast pace..
Doubled GDR from body armour.

kevm

streakbreaker combo

khufu

A terrifying, mummified Emperor. Summons demons, undead, smites, torments, and when low on HP, blinks away and casts tomb of doroklohe. When healed, removes the tomb and comes after you.
Use silence, it works wonders.
That's a nasty cough you have there.
<O91> Who's this "Khufu" person and where did half my HP go?

kick

An auxiliary unarmed attack you can get if you have hooves, talons, or unarmed skill. Naga cannot kick. Damage is 5. Add +3 for talons or +5 for hooves.
You can't sit, kick, or engrave. You'll have to piss off your god some other way, sorry.

kickbutt

Each # represents one kickbutt of power.

kicks

they just keep getting harder to find

kikiorie

May one day become great. Doubling is their first goal!

kiku ratio

Your kiku:other gods win ratio. The higher this is, the more casmith789 likes you. Only counts people with >5 wins to stop outliers.

kiku reasons

Gifts the first book earlier than any other god, which is good if you want to take up casting. Pain-brands your weapon, which is awesome but especially so for fast weapons. Gives corpses on demand, which is good for sublimation and eating and many other things. Makes Tomb easy by giving rTorment and curse protection.
You can torment Mennas (and anyone else you want to torment, but especially Mennas).
see casmith789[3]

kikubaaqudgha

God of necromantic awesomeness. Grants books of Necromancy/Death/Unlife at 1/3/4 stars, and at 6 stars, will either pain-brand a weapon or grant you the Necronomicon (only one) at his altar.
At 1*, grants an ability that gives you corpses of level-appropriate monsters -- freshness, power, number of corpses depending on necromancy skill. Gives 1-4 branch-appropriate corpses.
From 2*, protects from necromancy miscasts and mummy death curses. This helps in Tomb and the branches of Hell. From 4*, grants torment resistance that blocks 60% of torment damage, on average at 200 piety. At 5*, can invoke torment by sacrificing a corpse for 8-12 piety.
not really for necromancers
Also known as the god of copy/paste.

kikubaaqudgha acquirement

acquires kikubaaqudgha

kikubaaqudgha reasons

see kiku reasons
< Blade-> ooh < Blade-> champion < Blade-> I can have pain now < Blade-> ... < Blade-> maybe I should train necro

kikubaaqudgha wrath

Abandonment: 30 penance. Penance: random2(your xl) > 4 summons corpses with 50% of corpse rot and 50% chance of necro miscast with 20% of another or 10% of torment or 3 necro miscasts if you are undead. no matter what happened, animate dead is cast. 1/20 chance of a necro miscast if you cast a necromancy spell under penance.
<N78291> oh no, he summoned a killer bee larva zombie and a quokka zombie

kikubaaqugha

So close.

kikubaaquudgha

Try again.

kikubah

Bah.

kikubaqudgha

Nope.

kill

Something to do to dudes.

kill everything

Don't do this. Eventually you will find something that will make your life miserable and not worth the price (loss of consumables, hunger, xp, your life).

killdudes

the lost art of "killing" the "dudes" in a vault to get at the loot (e.g. the orb or a rune)
<mikee_> you kill all the dudes and leave a mighty hero
<snow_> i have to kill everything tho
<GameKnut> killdudes is the zot strategy where you kill dudes

killedby

your future

killer bee

If you have poison resistance and decent AC, a nuisance. If only poison resistance, a real bugger once they start swarming you. If neither, leave the level as soon as you spot one, or else you will die.
<myuzinn> in roguelikes, they actively hunt for adventurer flesh and can sting infinitely
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES
https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=3931 BEES

killer bee larva

Slower than you and posesses no special attack, though it leaves a poisonous corpse. If you see these larva, expect to see killer bees nearby.

killer klown

Not a truly unique monster, but emotes like a unique and is very powerful. Causes rotting, is very resistant to magic, and is as fast as a centaur. Fortunately, it has no elemental resistances.
Also has one of the highest HP pools in the game, alongside tentacled monstrosities and elephant slugs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Klowns_from_Outer_Space
http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/framed_clown.jpg
Can do 148 damage in a hit if you have rC-. Otherwise, not all that dangerous. See: !lg doy DDBe place=zot:5 1 -tv, !lg Tenaya DDBe place=zot:5 1 -tv, !lg coyo7e HuWz place=zot:4 1 -tv

killstealing

!lg shiori kevm 1 -tv:<0.5
!lg nexos killer=michael 1 -tv
!lg * ckiller=bumblebee skeleton 1 -tv
!lg Mong killer=sheep 1 -tv
!tv hyperelynae mdfi killer=giant newt 1

kilobyte

<KiloByte> death to useless lines!
Plays tile Crawl running on his phone using X forwarding.

kirke

A unique who can make you pink and rooting for truffles. Comes with a pack of hogs and can summon (very) ugly things.
< Chapayev`> captain kirke like to make you an entry in her captain's hog
see porkalator

kite

fire, run, fire, run, fire, run until they die
!lm trucutru uniq=Cerebov 3 -tv

kiting

The act of hitting a slower monster during free turns with spells or melee and never taking damage.

kittenfindsrobot

Nothing to see here, move along

kitty

A cute PuTTY fork. http://kitty.9bis.com/

kjoery

Chuck Norris's crawl nickname. Tests the way unknown items work on ice fiends.Made an impressive debut on CAO, winning an all-runer DGTm by killing almost everything in dragon form, thus getting the demigod high score, then getting the gnome high score on the next game.
Also doesn't wear pants. You may be starting to notice a theme.
< Kjoery5> Elyvilon is actually a pretty cool god

klandenstein

< Klandenstein> +11, +10 battleaxe of Ambiguity {speed, rPois, +4 AC}

klelaut

He just wanted a hug.

klown

Special damage type used by Killer Klowns. Per attack randomly: nasty poison (spiny frog), rot (necrophage), drain (wraith), fire (lava fish), cold (ice beast), blink (phantom). Has antimagic (lorocyproca) in 0.10.

knife

A one-handed short blade. Damage 3, Accuracy +5, Delay 100%

knife of accuracy

+27,-1 thin dagger. Yes, it's a dagger not a knife - stab away. Note that weapon to-hit enchantments don't affect stabbing.
Possibly useful if you have +0,+30 slaying.
Note that everything is useful if you have +0,+30 slaying.

knoll

Very dangerous early monster that wields halberds, throws nets, and is covered in grass.

kobald

murphy_slaw> kobalds are less hairy than their kobold brethren

kobe

Acceptable names for Kobold Berserkers: Bryant, Tai, Beef, and... Masahiko
Hybrid's guide is terrible. Everyone knows to ditch Trog on turn 1 and take Zin!

kobe guide

No, this isn't a guide to becoming the next Lakers star. The one on the wiki is terrible. Do this: Get a short blade. Get short blades to 1. Turn off Short Blades. Win the game. That easy, I swear!

kobold

Another one of the three main causes of early-game mage death, thanks to spawning fairly often with either darts, stones, or a blowgun+poisoned needles. Melee characters should not need to worry too much unless the kobold is using curare-tipped needles.
Agents of the Distortion, Venom, Draining, Electrocution, Holy Wrath, and Curare Delivery Service.
Also a player race, noted for their piddly health, carnivorous tendencies and general excellence.
#1 killer of players.
They eat everyone.
Will kill you from the edge of LOS in one hit: !lg * killer=kobold dam=37 -tv:<0.1 !lg * killer=kobold dam=32 -tv:<0.1
https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/download/file.php?id=524

kobold demonologist

A kobold (haha) that - wait for this, summons demons! HAHAHA! (His only non-cantrip spells are to summon common demons [3, 4] and to call imps. If he gets lucky, he could get a sixfirhy or sun demon.)

kobold disco

A disco for kobolds. Has an altar to Lugonu or Xom in the back room.

kobold reasons

Just Do It!
Bark like an Egyptian.

koborobin

Kobold! Can it get any better?

komodo dragon

Can be a nasty first-time surprise for a melee character, as their bite will result in you being instantly diseased, which in combination with bites that hurt make your health drop fast. Blowguns are recommended, though not strictly necessary.

komodo dragon armour

Now you're just being silly.

kozaczu

Banished The Royal Jelly, as a felid, with Jiyva, out of LOS, with a Zot trap.

kraken

A powerful sea monster found in the Shoals. It keeps its main body out of reach and uses powerful tentacles (represented as seperate monsters with special AI) to attack you. The tentacles will advance when you are inside the main body's LoS, and retreat when you are outside it. Killing its tentacles hurts the kraken.
<+evilmike> the kraken acts like a multi-tile monster
If you have a wall to hide behind it's not too bad. If you get caught out in the open water you are in serious trouble. A scroll of fog or another source of clouds can break the kraken's LoS. Both the kraken and the tentacles are cold-blooded, so they can be slowed by a freezing weapon.
So amazingly awesome it isn't *funny*.

ktgrey

<ktgrey> incest is best <ktgrey> put your sister to the test
died to drowning as a lv24 kenku
<ktgrey> saving the world through adolescent sex
< ktgrey> i wonder if there is satyr porn

kumelbut

<Henzell> (1/1) nht said (16s ago): /msg Henzell ??foo <Kumelbut> ??foo

kyrris

23:14 < Kyrris> OHMYGODDRUNK || 23:18 < Kyrris> something's wrong with my shift key. 23:19 < Kyrris> Why can't I aim shock?
Aims shock with shift key as of 0.6.
Accidentally turned the +3,+11 quarterstaff of Jeunonim {crush, rC+ Dex+4} into a snake on D:7.
19:50 < Kyrris> "Kyrris: Cheers, Kyrris,"
Suggested play order: Lair 1-6 > get bored and clear Orc 1-4 > D to Vaults > Vaults until Roka shows up > Shoals 1-5 > Snake 1-3 > get Abyssed in the least likely way possible > Pan > Abyss for the rune > Hive > accidental suicide, preferably in Crypt
Cleared Tomb with ORefrig and Icicle.
Doesn't like humor
Kyrris (L1 MiFE) became a worshipper of Cheibriados.
Kyrris the Grave Robber (L2 SpNe), starved to death on D:2, with 119 points after 18315 turns and 0:28:57
Has killed Louise thrice and Frances, Francis, and Rupert twice in the same game. Later abyssed by a deck of escape. Escaped... into Pan. Escaped Pan. Killed by a rat.
<Kyrris> This has been a GREAT discussion to read while stoned.
Note to self: Rewatch Arachne.

kza

!lm hjklyubn deas type=orb 1 -tv

laboratory rat

Have taken the Orange Rat's crown as the toughest rat in game. Still not very tough. Spawn with a random set of special abilities.
They're laboratory mice / Their genes have been spliced.

labyrinth

Look for a cyan \ (or arch depending on your character set) on a level where you hear an "ancient clock" or "distant snort". (1-in-15 chance per level, once per game). Hurry, it times out after a while (you get urgent-sounding messages). Note that magic mapping is likely to show where the lab entrance is; however, it may appear to be a shop.
"You enter a dark and foreboding labyrinth." You are now in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. The labyrinth shifts and deforms out of sight. From rock, head for stone, and then metal to find the exit vault (a minotaur, loot, and escape hatch). The labyrinth is mapped, but rots at a swift rate.
No monster generation (you might find a few hungry ghosts, though); the major dangers are starvation (expect to use a ration or two) and the minotaur (hits for 35+20, so have awesome AC|offense or a powerful ranged attack). If you have a decent amount of food, and don't have teleportitis it's usually safe to explore.
There can be multiple metal-walled areas in a labyrinth, so if you find one that's not the exit, keep looking elsewhere.
http://oglaf.com/skein/

lag

see cdo[3]
Yes, Henzell lags sometimes. Just wait a little

lagus

Actually a person, no matter what Henzell tries to tell you. He loves deep elves. In leather armour. With elven whips. And high boots. We're not sure if these elves are male or female. Doesn't ever joke. Nevermind. Will have a 350-character learndb entry soon.
Is only killing the wussy ones.

lair

Accessed from the main dungeon somewhere between levels 8 and 13. Eight levels deep. The lair is full of "natural" critters such as rats, snakes, and yaks. Two of the Swamp, Shoals and Snake Pit appear there, as well as Slime, and there is a relatively hard vault on Lair:8. The petting zoo of Crawl, if petting zoos had hydras.
<sorear> you don't need resists in lair, people. it's just 8 levels of xp and items. and hydras
Go to Orc second. Seriously.

lajatang

Big brother to the quarterstaff. 16 damage, -3 accuracy, 140 speed, double handed. Slashing. Double-handed means halved base damage for using with shields!

lajatang reasons

You found a lajatang of speed.

lamp

Evoke to summon fire elementals. Use lava (or, much more availably: conjured flame) as a source. Will be friendly if you pass a (fire magic skill - 3*number already summoned) in 10 check and also a 96% check.

language

Feel free to swear, yell, and generally curse out the game in this channel. However, there are limits. The game isn't 'gay'. Sigmund isn't a 'faggot'. Your character didn't get 'raped'. Language like that is not okay, not even if you are referring to a character rather than a person.
While occasional frustrated outburst of swearing is ok, language rot 3 is not.

lantern of shadows

While wielded, periodically summons friendly shadows (which counts as necromancy to the good gods), reduces LOS by 2, makes everything appear dark, and acts as negative two spell enhancers ("extremely numb sensation" if unenhanced). Possibly useful for abyss escape, and attacking from out of LOS. Sets stealth to 0.

large abomination

Pretty basic melee monster. Hits relatively hard, but doesn't have much HP or resists except the demonic ones. It has terrible defenses.

large race

If you're large, that means several things, from dodging penalties to stealth penalties to tons of other stuff.
Shields. Large races can't use bucklers, but have a much easier time negating the various weapon/casting penalties. That is, they would if they had the aptitudes for it. A large race can completely eliminate shield penalty at 10 skill (instead of 16 human), a large shield at 16 skill.

large rock

The deadliest projectile available in Crawl. Ogre and troll hunters start with them, and some giants throw them. Low mulch rate, but also very rare. You may have been looking for rock wall.
Base damage is 20. Weight is 60 aum.
Ranged broad axe.

large shield

Like a shield, but bigger. SH 13, EV -5. Takes a long time to take off, beware!

large slime creature

When two slime_creatures love each other very much...

lastplaneout

http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/0.9/lastplaneout/morgue-lastplaneout-20110901-215140.txt

late game

<ebarrett> late game is when you should be sleeping but you're playing crawl instead

launcher damage

Average damage = (B/2 + L/8 + A/16 + min((str - 10)*(2B+A)*C, (L+1)/4))*(1+skill/D)*(brand multiplier) + slaying/4 + A/2 + {L/2 if using xbow}. Here A is the ammo enchantment, L is the launcher enchantment, and B, C, and D are constants depending on what type of launcher you are using (see [2]).
B = 4 for sling+stone, 6 for sling+bullet, 6.5 for bow+arrow, 9.5 for longbow+arrow or xbow+bolt. C = 1/72 for slings, 1/32 for bows, and 0 for xbows. D = 28 for slings, 34 for bows, and 44 for xbows.

launcher delay

Base delay is reduced by (weapon skill) * (weighted combination of str and dex) / 62.5. Strength weights are sling: 1, bow: 2, longbow: 3, xbow: 8.

lava

Fall in it and you'll become a well-done marshmellow. You will also get many guffaws from the audience (if you don't scramble free, that is).

lava fish

A fish that lives in lava.

lava orc

Similar to orc warriors, but they tend to have flaming weapons. Watch out for their throw flame attack! See also lava orc test.
"Apparently they already exist, so maybe they should appear."
LAVA ORC http://i51.tinypic.com/348k9hv.png
see casmith789[6]
<Eronarn> but i want them to be better than MD
< rwbarton> LO is basically HO with better geometry apt

lava orc names

Ignatius
Grant
Cliff
Flint
Rock
Jasper

lava orc test

Lava orc testing is no longer live on CAO. See https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:brainstorm:species:lava_orc#testing for the todo list, or to provide feedback on lava orcs. See lava_orc_test[4] to play or lava_orc_test[5] to spectate.
Note that the server doesn't run DGL, so the only thing preventing someone from playing your game is you being logged in to it. Bother Eronarn if the build is annoyingly out of date.
All races other than lava orcs are disabled on the server. Octopodes may be added if there's public demand. Other experimental patches will be considered.
Key setup on Linux: wget http://eronarn.info/multirobin_key ; ssh -i multirobin_key lavaorc@eronarn.info (you may need to change the key's permissions). For PuTTY, see the wiki link in lava_orc_test[1].
Lava orc games are automatically streamed to termcast.org under the username 'lavaorc'. Look at them until you find the one you want.

lava snake

A snake that lives in lava and breathes gobs of lava at you. Bolts of cold will usually miss them, so go for a wand of para or something.

lava worm

Like normal worms, but in lava. About as threatening, too.

lawful gods

Zin. And bless his heart.

lawman

TABSPAM
<lawman> how babby are formed :(
MOAR TABSPAM
!tv lawman0 dsbe xl=27 1
oh I killed a ghost lol
< Lawman> I have a boner < Lawman> a crawl boner
<Lawman> punch snakes in the face everyday
pasta eating apt +5
drunk[2/2]: crawl something lawman likes to do

layout

For some beautiful islands, see http://www.nolithius.com/images/dod-worldgen.png

layouts

There are several different patterns for crawl levels, from the standard room and corridor layout to a single pair of wide corridors forming a cross.
See dat/des/builder/layout.des and check the comments + the "DEPTH: <list of branches>" fields.

lazydudes

When you are too lazy to kill all the dudes.

lcrawl

planned features: trog rewards tabspam, doom monsters and doomguy + cyberdemon uniques, being awesome

lcs

AKA: Lehudib's Crystal Spear or just crystal spear. Level 8 Conjurations/Earth spell, found only in Book of Annihilations and randart Sif gifts. 10d22 at max power, theoretically, and unresistable. The strongest single target conjuration, but its range is one square less than that of Iron Shot.
Also an unrandart +6 spear of returning that gives +3 int.

learndb

A html page of learndb entries is at http://crawl.akrasiac.org/learndb.html. You can also access the learndb at http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/bots.
The five main commands for the learndb are add, query, edit, swap, and delete. See [3] for add, [4] and [5] for edit, [6] for query, [7] for swap. You can read entries in private queries to Henzell. You cannot change it in private, however.
"!learn add article_name article text" adds an article to the learndb.
"!learn edit name[index] s/REGEX/REPLACE/opts" allows you to edit entries in the learndb. Regex refers to the portion of text you are editing, and replace refers to the text you are replacing the edited material with. Continued in learndb[5].
Special characters such as /, (, [ must be escaped in the regex, as in the form "s/text\)/text]", otherwise the utility will add a character. If you need to use edit to insert the / character, you'll have to use an alternate pattern delimiter, e.g. !learn edit math[1] s_divided by_/_ And ^ is the start of an entry, $ is the end.
"!learn query term" is equivalent to ??term.
There's also !learn swap entry1 entry2 for swapping two entries' order numbers.
<OG17> the entire learndb should be like ring of charms[2]
<Mu_> the learndb is so full of shit
Crawl meets Wikipedia meets Twitter.

leather armour

+3 AC, -1 EV, 15 AUM

leda

see {leda's liquefaction}

ledas liquefaction

Level 4 earth/tmut spell, found in the book of the Earth. Generates a halo of "liquefied" ground around the caster. Moving on liquefied ground has a -3 player movement malus (slightly more than one item of ponderousness). Applies slow effect to monsters. Doesn't affect flying, clinging, insubstantials; cannot be cast by these.
You will see a lot of "Your unstable footing causes you to fumble your attack."
<elliptic> it's really a very similar spell to haste, except that it messes up your melee and doesn't speed up your movement

leech

+13,+4 "runed demon blade" (Vampiric). Grants rN+ and -1 to AC, EV, Str, Int, and Dex. Also recurses itself 25% of the time on wield.

legendary

Either the highest card rarity (see legendary deck for more), or the description of an experience level 27 player ghost.

legendary deck

A deck that can get cards of any power level. See card power for more details.
19:32:06 < Kyrris> What sort of world has legends about decks of cards? 19:32:18 < TGWi> have you ever watched yu-gi-oh
XL27 Deep Elf Chaos Knight

legonu

Caretaker of lost lego blocks. No, you'll never find them again.

lehudibs crystal spear

see lcs
see lcs[2]

leissi

the one who's always a bit odd

lemon

When crawl gives you lemons...

lemuel

Lemuel Vaults, Inc, supplying your evil vault needs for over 200 years. When it's time for you to stop playing and go to bed, Lemuel Vaults, Inc. is there to end your game "The Lemuel Way"(TM).
Inventor of the greedy-explore concept.
"My mission is to annoy."
Agrees that Iron Trolls don't belong in the Troll Bridge vault.

lemure

Not the weakest of the 5s. Faster than the average player and cannot fly.
It moans.

lernaean hydra

A nasty unique in the official release since 0.6.0, but hidden in the source long before that. Rumours say it's a yellow D with 27 heads. Appears in one of the Swamp endings. Thanks, due. First person to kill Lernaean hydra, moq! Congratulations!
Simulacra do four thousand damage with rC-.
If you don't have very high AC/HP, don't use autoexplore around its Swamp:5 vault. !tv minmay killer=~lernaean 1

lernean hydra

Lernaean, since it's a hydra from Lerna

lesser demon

A '5'. Ta-da!

lesser servant

Summons a temporary orange demon, ynoxinul, neqoxec, hellwing, or smoke demon. Hostility chance is reduced (but never to 0) by invocations skill. Do be warned a neqoxec will cast polymorph, so they can make a dangerous situation a lot worse..
The check for hostility looks like this: 1d(20+(your_invocations*3)) > 4. If this is false, the demon will be hostile. The same check applies to greater servant.

lethal infusion

Places the "of draining" brand on a weapon temporarily. (Necromancy/Enchantment 2)

level annotation

press ! to leave a note you can view later with ctrl-o. Also, if you leave a ! in the annotation, it will prompt you when entering that floor.
If you press ! while standing on a staircase, you will be prompted to annotate the level on the other end.

levitation

Comes in ring/randart (1mp, food) and potion forms. You float, and are unable to reach items or down-stairs, but cross water/lava and mechanical traps. Will wear off after a while, with a short warning. Available on boots or bardings of levitation, which lasts until stopped or removed. See also controlled flight.
While levitating, you also gain a bonus to stealth and carrying capacity.
Keep in mind: if you received the warning and don't feel like you'll be able to get to land - you still have enough time to teleport!

liar

You are lying about the spelling of the word lair.

library of many secrets

A vault found at D11 and below. Houses many powerful spellcasters (vampire mages, naga mages, orc sorcerers, etc) and magical loot.

lice form

Delousing is now instant death; also, ew!

licence

http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git;a=blob;f=crawl-ref/licence.txt

lich

A powerful late game undead magic user that commonly summons very powerful demons. While a lich may be dangerous, an ancient lich is much more so.

lich spells

One set from: (cold, paralyse, greater demon, animate dead, iron, [emergency] teleport self) (fire, confuse, haste, draining, greater demon, [emergency] banishment) (draining, animate dead, summon undead, throw frost, crystal spear) (mystic blast, cold, invis, animate dead, iood, iron). Both liches use these sets. Boris uses the last one.

liches behind glass

It's a trap!

lies

Eustachio says, "Summoning is fun!"
<ktgrey> a rod of striking isnt made out of shit
< monqy> item destruction is fun and it makes crawl a better game
<smeej[droid]> tiles rule
<Pacra> it's fun! which is what crawl is supposed to be
<MarvinPA> killdudesing: not the answer
(1:52:52 AM) jeremie: stepdowns make sense
(9:35:38 PM) minqmay: it's more like i've stopped wearing condoms (9:35:45 PM) minqmay: actually, no, there has to be a better analogy than that

life

Your past!
The original roguelike.
rwbarton> welcome to crawl where living is not the opposite of nonliving

life protection

Resistance to draining attacks, shown on artifact inscriptions as rN+. Three levels makes you completely immune. As in, it turns shadow dragons into mostly harmless kittens. Also gives partial resistance to torment (5% per level, so at life+++, torment will make you lose 35% hp, instead of 50%).

life saving

The good and priestly gods will occasionally negate any single occurance of HP loss that would otherwise be fatal. In extremely old (<= 0.2) versions, Xom would also. Odds are pretty good, but without healing they don't matter much.

lightning bolt

Level 5 conjurations/air spell, found in Book of the Sky. Very loud, but follows the same bolt bouncing rules as Shock.

lightning scales

A +3 naga barding of running (or speedy slithering) with rElec. Appears as a metallic naga barding.

lightning spire

!lg xnavy mimo 5 -tv:<0.5

lilli

<Henzell> Lilli the Gusty (L4 KeAE) killed Grinder on turn 3108. (D:3) <Henzell> Lilli the Gusty (L6 KeAE), killed themselves with a bounced bolt of lightning on D:3, with 404 points after 3108 turns and 0:07:39.

lindwurm

Nasty little wurm that breathes fire for 3d18 damage. Avoid if you can (and don't have fire resistance)

linley

Linley Henzell is the original creator of Crawl and numerous shoot 'em ups, most recently http://tinyurl.com/afll4h

linley henzell

see linley
Only won his version of the game 3 times, once on a grossly imbalanced non-public debug build.

list of mutations

Spoiler of possible mutations here - http://chaosforge.org/crawl/index.php?title=List_of_mutations

listgame

!lg command displays info about past games. The manual is available here: http://github.com/greensnark/dcss_henzell/raw/master/docs/listgame.txt
For commonly used listgame commands see listgame commands.
Cheatsheet: http://www.chaosforge.org/crawl/index.php?title=Lg Operators: =, !=, <, >, <=, >=, =~, !~. E.g. !lg ktyp=winning, !lg * start>=20080801, !lg * kaux=~reaching. Use x=<field> to show the value of the named field: !lg * max=dam x=dam
* lists all players. usually !lg uses the first argument as a player name or the nick requesting it as the name, if there is no player name as the first. Can sort with max=<field> or min=<field> (eg: max=sc). Can summarise with s=<field> (ex: s=name)
listgame will expand some common searches: !lg place=XX => !lg place=~XX:* (apart from branches with depth 1), killer=uniq => killer!= killer!~~^an_?|^the_ killer!~ghost (kills by uniques), race=Ke => race=Kenku, cls=Gl => cls=Gladiator, killer=hobgoblin => killer=a hobgoblin. These fudges apply to all commands that use listgame selectors.
Fields: src (cao/cdo), v (game version), sc, name, race, cls, char, xl, sk (skill), sklev, title, ktyp, killer, kaux, place, br, lvl (br depth), ltyp (D, Abyss, ...), hp, mhp, mmhp, dam, str, int, dex, god, piety, pen (penance), start, end, dur (game time), turn, urune, nrune, tmsg, vmsg, alpha, splat. See listgame examples.

listgame commands

Sort games by version, in order: !lg * s=cv x=max(cv) o=-max(cv)

listgame examples

Your last completed game: "!lg". foo's last complete game: "!lg foo". Most recent game by anyone: "!lg *". Your second-last game: "!lg -2". First game on server: "!lg * 1". Game with highest score: "!lg * max=sc". Fastest turncount win: "!lg * ktyp=winning min=turn". Your last Xom game: "!lg god=Xom". Last game with strength > 40: "!lg * str>40".
Last death on Lair:5: "!lg * place=Lair:5". Last death in 2007 on Tomb:3: "!lg * place=Tomb:3 end<2008". Fastest kenku win: "!lg * race=Ke min=turn". Summarise places of death for 78291: "!lg !78291 s=place". Summarise causes of death for all: "!lg * s=ckiller" (or use !deathsby). Summarise gods of players who died in Zot: "!lg * place=Zot s=god".
If you use no sort (max or min), the last game will be shown (default is "max=end"). You can use indices with any sort (third fastest win: "!lg * ktyp=winning min=turn -3"). The default index is -1. With the default index, the number to the left is the number of matching games (!lg * => "209949. foo the bar ..." => 209949 games).
!lg normally shows games from both cao and cdo, but you can restrict the search to one server as "!lg * src=cdo". Note that Henzell only sees cdo games at 5-minute intervals, so if Gretell has just reported a death, Henzell may not know about it until 5 minutes have elapsed.
Whose ghosts did I kill? "!lm s=ghost" Whose ghosts killed me? "!lg ckiller=player_ghost s=killer" Who killed my ghosts? "!lm * ghost=yourname s=name" Who did my ghosts kill? "!gkills" or "!lg * killer=~yourname'*ghost s=name"
a measure of successfulness per race/class might be found in a query like the following (replace xl>10 with your general sense of what lvl you start to not win so often): !lg xl>1 s=char / xl>10 o=N,% ?: N>0

literally

(7:12:27 PM) Wensley: guys we have literally filled three fifths of my irc log with bacon
<rwbarton> that has been around literally forever
<Lawman> i'm literally zeus
<ontoclasm> bumblebees are literally just two killer bees taped together
<Ripplez> yak herds literally kill me
the "nigh unstoppable spriggan with a rod of destruction" bit puzzled me for over a year. it's literally burned somewhere in my brain.

loakrobin

robin account for lava-kiting abyss. see who can last the longest without leaving abyss!

lof

Line Of Fire. Means something is within Line Of Sight, with no monsters in the way. If you could throw a spear and hit it, it's within LOF.

log

A section of a tree trunk. Good for clubbing enemies with.
trunk commit log: http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl-ref.git;a=log

logicninja

!lg logicninja slime 1 -tv !lg logicninja slime 2 -tv
Want more? !lg logicninja opfe xl=27 1 -tv

loguno

Drunk of godeness. You're probably looking for Lugonu.

lom lobon

Guards the magical pandemonium rune. Has some dangerous spells: ice storm, conjure ball lightning, major healing, blink, teleport. But is not particularly robust, and is rather easy to steal from.

long blades

acc,dam,delay[hands]: falchion 2,8,13; long sword 1,10,14; scimitar -2,12,14; demon blade -1,13,13; double sword -1,15,15[1.5]; great sword -3,16,16[2]; triple sword -4,19,19[2]

long sword

One-handed long blade (Dam: 10, Acc: +1, Delay: 14)

longbow

A long, strong bow made of yew. Dam 6, Acc 0, Delay 12. You get it from centaur warriors (1/3 chance), non-specialist elves (5%), master archers (100%), Nessos (100%, flame).

longest randart

L - the hammer "Trouvu" (weapon) {crush, Noisy +Blink +Rage +Inv +Lev rPois rC+ rN+ Dex+2}
F - the ring of Serendipity (on tentacle) {Hunger +Blink +Rage +Lev rElec rF+ rC+ Str+2 Dex-2 Stlth++}

lord of darkness

Win without entering Lair.

lordsloth

10,000th person to die to Sigmund!
Thinks elves taste like chicken!
Climbs ogres.
<nrook> LordSloth: in fairness, you are easily the best player who loses all the time I've ever seen
Devwiki Petrification stabbing jellies, disint jellies
Saprovores with rotten chunks and contaminated non-rotten chunks prefer to eat the rotten chunks first, even with prefer safe chunks = true

lorimer

That SporkHack guy, incarnate
The Prince of Pants

lorimer card

Summons the player's ghost 'lorimer', who will follow you around the dungeon and mock you.

lorocyproca

Congratulations on typing that. It's invisible. That's basically the only interesting thing about it. Has antimagic-branded melee in 0.10.
rgould likes them! <3

los

Line of Sight, five to eight steps, depending on direction. Levels 2 and 3 of nightstalker demonspawn mutation reduce this.

losing

Losing is fun!

louise

She banishes regularly, stings, blinks, stone arrows, lightning bolts and heals herself. She comes equipped with heavy armour and usually a shield.
<Henzell> Sky the Eclecticist (L16 SpWz) is cast into the Abyss! (Louise) (Snake:3) <Sky> MOTHER FUCKER

love

You miss Sonja. You feel sick. You die...
!lg Elynae sprint ktyp=stupidity 2 -tv

lrc

Large rock cannon. Better known under the name Lee's rapid deconstruction, or lrD

lrd

Lee's Rapid Deconstruction: Turns walls into explosions. Useful for removing inconvenient stone or green crystal walls, though one needs fairly high power to pierce stone, and even higher to pierce metal (see lrd[4]). Causes lots of undodgeable damage to anything foolish enough to be near the wall (but AC is applied thrice).
LRD also works on enemies with varying effectiveness. Regular enemies are barely hurt, but statues, most golems, and anything petrified or made of metal, rock, or ice will be damaged and spray fragments of varying range/damage. Skeletal enemies are particularly damaged and have a good, power-based chance to instantly die (including bone dragons!)
Furthermore, it can be used to explode mechanical traps, works (without destroying) on stone arches, and can majorly piss Beogh off when used on an orcish idol. It does nothing when the floor is targeted (unless a mechanical trap was hidden there). Works on doors (open or closed), making it one of the more effective ways to open one from afar.
You need the following amount of spell power to have a shot at destroying a wall: rock: 40, stone: 60, metal: 80. Green crystal has a 50% chance to be shattered regardless of spell power.

lst

When a character dump (#, !dump) or a !log is generated, it has an accompanying lst file that contains all known info about items and shops you've seen. Change the txt in the address to lst to view it. When you die, the lst file is fully identified, revealing e.g. the slimy gold dragon armor you couldn't afford, or the potions you left in temple.

lua

Best scripting language evar!

luck

Does not exist in Crawl. I repeat, does not exist.

lugonu

Lugonu grants the ability to leave the abyss, bend space, banish monsters to the abyss, invoke corruption, and teleport freely within the abyss. You can banish yourself instantly at a permanent maxhp cost, and permanently distortion-brand a weapon once at an altar of Lugonu, which can be easily made by using corruption in the Temple.
Lugonu was originally named Lucy, so it is traditional to consider this god female. The gods intentionally have no gender mentioned in-game though, and it would be considered a bug if they were to.

lugonu reasons

The ability to save yourself by immediately exiting the abyss and the ability to save yourself by immediately entering the abyss. Permanent distortion brand. Corruption greatly disrupts (adding or removing walls) pre-defined levels like branch ends. On-demand banishment for troublesome monsters.

lugonu wrath

ABANDONMENT: 50 penance. RETRIBUTION: 50% tloc miscast (and keep going), else 16% teleport, 8% blink. Even if a preceding effect occurred, continue to: (4/5)*((XL-7)/XL) chance of (green death, blizzard demon, balrug); else 1+XL/7 demons from hellwing, neqoxec, orange demon, smoke demon, ynoxinul.
Will also take the house, kids, cars, etc.
(9:42pm) timecircuits: I have a feeling I'm going to be in the abyss a lot this game (9:42pm) Henzell: tcircuits the Alchemist (L13 MfTm) is cast into the Abyss! (Lugonu's touch) (Orc:2)

luncheon

thy head
thy sanity
inner light

luterac

learndb vandalizer

luxury items

i - the +6,+6 katana of the Eternal Void {vamp, Int+1} 16398 gold

lychee

The lychee (Litchi chinensis, and commonly called litchi, laichi, lichu) is the sole member of the genus Litchi in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. It is a tropical and subtropical fruit tree native to China, and now cultivated in many parts of the world.

m0ng

see mong
<m0ng> i don't remember anything that happened last night. i came back to my character this morning and i'd switched from trog to jiyva, and had a qblade of distortion
m0ng

macbeth

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/whog/morgue-whog-20100813-185722.txt

mace

A long handle with a heavy lump on the end. (one-handed mace; Dmg 8 Acc +3 Delay 14)

mace of brilliance

the +5,+5 mace of Brilliance {holy, rN+ AC+5 Int+5 SInv Stlth-}. Free halo on equip!

mace of variability

A great mace with the chaos brand. While wielded, each of its pluses independently has a 40% chance per turn to shift either +1 or -1. If this would make the plus go under -4 or over +16, it's ignored (causing it to often linger near the extremes). Also, uncurses itself every turn!
<Fin> I just found what appears to be a gay shovel. <Fin> Oh. A shimmering mace. Tiles is funny

maces and flails

Things which thump or lash. They don't cut hydra heads off.
acc,dam,delay[hands]: whip 2,6,11; club 3,5,13; hammer 3,7,13; mace 3,8,14; flail 2,9,15; ankus 2,9,14; morningstar -1,10,15; demon whip 1,12,11; holy scourge 0,13,11; s. flail -2,12,16; eveningstar -1,14,15; dire flail -3,13,13[2]; g. mace -4,18,17[2]; g. club -6,20,17[2.5]; g. s. club -7,22,18[2.5]

maces and flails reasons

You are an ogre.

macos

Install iTerm, do not use Terminal.app. If you like X, any sane X terminal emulator will work (xterm, urxvt).

macro

http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git;a=blob_plain;f=crawl-ref/docs/macros_guide.txt;hb=HEAD
<Ragdoll> anyway i used macros on the F keys <Ragdoll> instead of summoning more dragons it made me walk into hellion island

mad acolyte of lugonu

A renamed wizard with a guaranteed distortion weapon. Shows up in an Abyss rune vault.

magic dart

Level 1 conjuration spell that always hits if successfully cast. Does 1d8 damage at max power.

magic mapping

Reveals the dungeon map layout around you (but not items or enemies). Doesn't reveal areas on the other side of secret doors, but does reveal the doors.

magic number

It's always 3^n. No exceptions.
Except when it's n^3.

magic resistance

Magic resistance is your or a monster's ability to ignore hostile enchantments or some other magic. Player MR comes from XL, Trog's Hand, and items. The most important hostile monster enchantments are confuse, slow, deep elf sorcerer|ogre mage|Erolcha|Louise banishment, lich|orc sorcerer|great orb of eyes|sphinx paralysis.
Chances of anything resisting a spell are calculated like this: (magic resistance + 100 - the spells power) is compared to ( random2(100) + random2(101) ) and if the random numbers are less the spell is negated.
Monster MR is a fixed property of the monster, ask Gretell (@? deep elf mage). Player MR is XL * racial-multiplier + randart MR + 30 for armor _of_ MR + 40 per ring _of_ MR + 3*(max {Charms skill, Hexes skill} + 3) for staff of ench + 30 * level of MR mutation + 50 if lichform.
Racial factor is 7 for spriggans, 6 for purple dracs, felids and deep dwarves, 5 for nagas and mummies, 4 for elves, demigods, vampires and ogres, and 3 for everyone else.
@ values for 0.6 are: not < 10, slightly < 30, somewhat < 60, quite < 90, very < 120, extremely < 150, extraordinarily < 190, incredibly < 240, uncannily < 300, almost entirely >= 300
<ionfrigate> blue deaths have tele other? <ionfrigate> things you learn when you do pan with shit magic resistance
<minqmay> what "hostile enchantments" really means is "effects that can be resisted by "resistance to hostile enchantments""

magical trap

A purple ^ which does nasty non-damage things. Cannot be disarmed. You cannot bypass them by levitating/flying over them; they will still go off. Sorry. Comes in zot trap, teleportation trap, and alarm trap varieties.

mahkleb

it's makhleb

major destruction

Power is based on invocations. Randomly fires one of: bolt of fire|lightning|draining|iron, fireball, ranged sticky flame, or an orb of electricity that wil explode with radius 2 and make you wish you hadn't fired at something so close to you.
Costs 0-1 piety, with power equal to [ (Invo * 3) + 2d(1 + Invo) ], or more simply put, between 3x and 5x your Invocation skill, tending toward 4x.
be very careful how you use it !tv cykosys killer=hill giant 1

make altar

Makes a random altar.

make grenades

An ability in Zot Defense, awarded when you reach level 6. Creates friendly giant spores to explode on your enemies. Costs 2 zot points.

make ponderous

Gives a piece of body armour (including robes) the ponderousness brand. It slows you down -- that's bad, but it greatly increases the rate of gaining Cheibriados' piety.
Turns your equipment into artefact gear in the same way that it is immune to corrosion and you can't further enchant it. So use those enchant armour scrolls before making ponderous! Also keep in mind that you can't use make ponderous on artefacts!

makhleb

Makhleb wants kills and sacrifices, and provides hp-for-kills, two conjuration invocations, and two summoning invocations. Note that Minor Destruction has no piety cost, so you can use it freely (though it is hungering); servants are not 100% friendly; and greater demons are effective against essentially everything.
See minor destruction, lesser servant, major destruction, or greater servant for details on the invocations.
A hostile executioner is the #1 killer of Makhleb worshippers who have reached orc:4, so be very careful about how you use greater servant!
In 0.10 mp-for-kills is gone. The hp gain is HD - 1 + 1d(HD) and the chance of being healed is (piety-30)/piety.
BLOOD AND SOULS

makhleb reasons

Reasons to worship Makhleb: healing-for-kills is fantastic in general but especially for races that have healing problems, e.g. vampires, ghouls, and deep dwarves.
You're a heavy armor melee fighter (so spellcasting isn't feasible) but you want decent ranged attacks and summons.
Blood and souls for Makhleb!
BLOOD AND SOULS FOR MAKHLEB!
Resting is for the weak, you want to killdudes in every turn!

makhleb wrath

25 penance. RETRIBUTION: (4/5) * ((XL-7)/XL) chance of a greater servant (hostile, no abjuration timeout); otherwise 1 + XL/7 lesser servants.

malarious mermaid

Renamed mermaid with less health.

malign gateway

Summons a portal through which an eldritch tentacle emerges. Depending on spell power, it will be friendly for a number of turns, before turning hostile, or the portal closes and it is severed, whichever happens first (either way, it will turn hostile). Level 7 Summ/Tloc found in the Grand Grimoire. 1/3 chance of draining a point of int.
Entering the malign gateway portal hurts you a bit and blinks you.
!lg minmay char=muwn turn=236662 1 -tv

mangled

You had less than -5 hp when you died.

manjusri

totally playing oggls of oka from now on though

manticore

Throws spikes at you for a not insignificant amount of damage. Note that it has finite ammo, at most 16 volleys. Also moves pretty slowly, which combined with it stopping to flick at you means that you can probably outrun it easily. Won't stop firing spikes at melee range, for what it's worth.
<minmay> it occurs to me that manticores are basically just low-level iron dragons

mantis

The replacement for our sourceforge issue trackers, mantis can be found at http://crawl.develz.org/mantis

manual

Manuals let you train a skill more efficiently. Read a manual to activate it. While you carry it you gain twice as many skill points as normal until the manual is used up. Dropping the manual or reading it again deactivates it. The amount of skill points you gain is fixed; you can not waste a manual's benefits.
Manuals are generated with 2000-3000 charges, which correspond to skill points that the manual puts into the skill.
For 0.8 and older versions: Uses all your free experience to train the relevant skill. It will crumble to dust after 2 + 1d15 reads determined at creation (older versions had a flat 10% chance).
To view the DCSS manual online: http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git;a=blob;f=crawl-ref/docs/crawl_manual.reST

manual training

default_manual_training=true

map card

Magic mapping! If the map was blank, the mapping didn't do anything for whatever reason.

maprot

A term for the behaviour of Labyrinths and the Abyss where you forget bits of the map as they go out of LOS. Used to be a mutation, divination miscast effect, and trap effect.

mara

Lord of Illusions! Mara creates two identical (stats, spells, weapon, armour) clones of himself, summons a hostile illusion (based on you), casts bolt of fire, blinks, and casts Mislead.
_Mara seems to draw the phantom out of itself!
Remember to forget big spells, sticky flame, airstrike, AND ABOVE ALL, SPUTTERFLIES, before engaging.
Your illusion can follow you up stairs, unlike ghosts, so keep that in mind as well whenever fighting Mara

margery

A lithe spellcaster escorted by hell knights. Spells: bolt of fire, fireball.

mark deck

Marks four cards, then shuffles them back into the deck. Next time a marked card is on top, you will know what it is. May cause one or more cards to disappear from the deck.
In 0.4.5, if you Draw Three from a marked deck, you may get a bug which can cause unexpected results... so don't do it.

mark four

no-one uses this

marsupial

A member of a family distinguished from rodents by its snobbishness.

marvinpa

Isn't marvin from NetHack. Also not from Pennsylvania.
Dungeon (27/27) Temple (0/1) D:5 Orc (0/4) D:11 Lair (0/8) D:9 Hive (0/2) D:11 Vault (0/8) D:18 Zot (5/5) D:27
On his way to an all-ruin win of Crawl. (The thing he is ruining is fun).
On his way to an all-ruin win of ##crawl. (The thing he is ruining is the learndb).

marvinpa rc

http://crawl.develz.org/configs/trunk/MarvinPA.rc

marvinpaws

Ask NyaaKitty.

mask of the dragon

+0 cap with SInv MR(40) Acc+3 Dam+3, looks like "blue mask" when unIDed.

mass abjuration

Attempts to abjure everything in LOS (like pre-0.10 Abjuration). Level 6, found in the Grand Grimoire.

mass confusion

Tries to confuse all monsters in LOS. Unlike Alistairs, it works on the undead, poison resistant, and pretty much everyone else - but checks MR.

master elementalist

A wizard type creature that commonly spawns with some form of elemental-resistant robe. Spells: iron shot, summon air elemental, sticky flame, summon water elemental, haste, blink.

math

fuck it
Your Head Asplode
<Blade-> there are not 300 hours in a week <kats> there are 240, you're splitting hairs <Blade-> there are 160

matrix challenge

If your crawl character dies, you must kill yourself in real life.

mattydub

(7:20:40 PM) MattyDub: I'm so glad that's my first entry in the learndb :/
< MattyDub> I see, I;m just blind

maud

No spells. The two most notable things about Maud are that she looks inexplicably like a rodent and that she (like hell knights, frederick, and margery) has a chance of coming with a kick-ass weapon. Associated with forgetfulness in NetHack, reference from Alfred Tennyson's poem, Maud.
see entarex

maurice

A unique thief! He's that green @ that just stole something out of your inventory, and then teleported away. Has a cloak.
Don't mess around with him too much. He'll eventually steal a wand, turn invisible, then zap you a lot, or quaff all your precious potions.
Some people call him maurice.
See mauricescumming

mauricescumming

maurice´s cumming
http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/0.9/xomscumming/morgue-xomscumming-20110905-165025.txt
3 Maurice comes into view.
Maurice blinks!
some people call it mauricescumming
<Ragdoll> pretty much every maurice is worth 395055 points
worst part: acquiring all that gold.
<mikee_> it's like being john malkovich but with maurice

maurog

A diligent CrawlWiki contributor.
Punched Sigmund to death at XL:1

maxrunes

78291 the Farming Infernalist (L27 NaFE), worshipper of Zin, escaped with the Orb and 267 runes on 2010-05-18, with 6222453 points after 841428 turns and 79:07:56.

maxwells patent armour

+15 plate armour with -TELE, -CAST, MR, and preservation. No longer called Edison's. Before 0.8, it was +10 and had no MR or preservation.

maxwells silver hammer

Temporarily vorpalizes a crushing weapon. Crushing weapons are quarterstaves, clubs, hammers, maces, flails, great maces, and giant clubs. Also a Beatles song. About as lethal.
You could be casting Blade Hands instead of reading this entry. Get to it.
Except not any more because maxwell's silver hammer was removed!

mcrawl

planned unfeatures: randomized energy, ranged AI, monster fleeing, water, aquatic creatures, lava, lava creatures, sickness, piles of throwing weapons for orcs, traps, secret doors, t&d skill, nightstalker, mephitic cloud, evaporate, ID mini-game, butterflies, mimics, ignacio, vorpal weapon brand, butchering
planned unfeatures: teleport other, labyrinths, noisy attribute, MUT attribute, slay dragon, slay orc, steam, sultanas, memorization failure, vault monsters, stat drain
planned features: squarelos, dooroklohe, game ends upon picking up the orb, ALLY BANK, xom overhaul, venom cocktail, quasi-militaristic band leader speech, slime knights, interruptible rests, autojuggle
<Wensley> magistern MakMorn marcmagus medgno Melum_ Miron moerkoe Moredrea1 MPR| mumblerit myp: first person to come up with a slogan, any slogan at all, for this m-themed branch of crawl will receive fervent accolades <medgno> m-themed?

mcrawl changelog

https://gitorious.org/~rwbarton/crawl/mcrawl/blobs/mcrawl/crawl-ref/docs/changelog.txt

mdae

<minmay> I am casting static discharge at terrible specifically to kill stuff with the explosions

mdcrawl

Planned features: mountain dwarves. Planned unfeatures: all other races, especially Tengu.

meatstabbing

!lm elynae kown uniq=frederick 1 -tv

mechanical trap

A cyan ^ which causes serious pain when you step on it. Don't walk around injured, especially with low Traps & Doors. Can be disarmed, but if you fail you can take as much damage disarming as you would just walking through. Disarming them provides +0 ammo and can protect your pets.
List of mechanical traps - dart, arrow, bolt, needle, axe, blade, spear

megabat

It is as big as a bat.
It is smaller than a microbat (sometimes).
The leader of the baticons.
It is as big as one trillion microbats (sometimes).
http://twitter.com/flappitybat
Not quite a macrobat.
a +11 club sometimes used by ijyb or jessica
<TGWi> everyone knows megabats are twice as bat <TGWi> bad*
We can't stop here. ... You know damn well why.

meld

Caused by Changing forms. Melded equipment temporarily goes away and you lose the bonuses from it, but it will still be equipped once the transformation ends.

melee

not a very good spell

melee damage

Too complicated to realistically explain. Try it and see for yourself how well it works.
see weapon_damage

memphitic cloud

see mephitic cloud
Confuses monsters and causes them to fall into the Mississippi River

menkaure

A unique, early mummy, also found in Ossuary. Knows pain, torment, and haste. Orc-wizard magenta! Gives normal mummy death curses.
Don't leave him for the endgame: !lm ionfrigate hofi uniq=menkaure 1 -tv

mennas

A unique angel who casts silence, new in 0.8 and Sprint III. Has a holy long blade (sometimes a eudemon blade), hits really hard, is fast, has huge EV and a large shield, and killing him can trigger The Shining One's wrath. Have fun!
The size of his field of silence is not particularly large, but he's fast enough to keep you in it if you don't have a movement bonus on top of being hasted!
[Wherever he spawns] Sigmund.
8-2 vs. Gloorx Vloq, 7-3 vs Mnoleg, 10-0 vs. Lom Lobon
<m0ng> so the secret to killing him is to reduce his health
Here: Mennas, wielding a glowing eudemon blade and wearing a dull large shield

mennas strategy

!lm xomscumming uniq=mennas 1 -tv:<3
!lm snow de place=vault:6 uniq=mennas 1 -tv:<2

meow

Legendary startscummer. Has been known to quit 24 int deep elf wizards without making a move.
One of only two people who is BANNED FROM C-SPLAT.

meowfelid

Is most assuredly not related to nyaakitty in any capacity.

meph reasons

"no"
You want to "trivialize" your opponents.
You like it when confusion "procs".
You need a good "bread and butter" spell.
You want to send early orc wizards "to oblivion".
It's a "no brainer".
You're a "caster".
You need more to-hit for your "nuke".
You want to be a "gatling gun" later on.
You want a form of "crowd control".
You want to turn extremely dangerous monsters into "popcorn".
You are having trouble dealing with "mobs".
You can't "tank" for very long.
You lack a good "panic button".
You need a good spell for "nasties".
You are going to "pump" Air Magic anyway.
It's "king".
HELPs you "into" the game.
It's "imba".
You want to "gank" monsters.

mephitic cloud

Fills the target square and some of the adjacent squares with clouds of noxious fumes. Any creature breathing these fumes may become confused unless resistant to poison and/or confusion. Conjurations/Poison/Air 3. Loud.
Will not expand diagonally if the vertical and horizontal are blocked by walls.
You will only be confused on a given turn if a random number from 1 to 27 is greater than or equal to your experience level.
As loud as Fireball, which means loud enough to wake up off-screen monsters.
"augh so mephitic"
The formula for determining whether a monster will resist the effect of a mephitic cloud is HD/22, with a flat 98% chance to resist at or above HD 22.
IT REACTS WITH THE AMBIENT RADIATION FROM THE ORB OF ZOT TO CREATE A UNEARTHLY CACOPHONY RESULTING IN NAUSEA AND HALLUCINATIONS.

mercenary card

Summons a mercenary who demands money (roughly the same amount of gold as its XP value). If you pay, you get a permanent friendly ally. If you don't or can't, you get a permanent enemy (and no XP or items from it). Found in decks of changes, war and defence.
Possible mercenaries are: big kobold, merfolk, tengu, deep dwarf scion, orc knight, centaur warrior, spriggan rider, ogre mage, minotaur, random coloured (classless) draconian, deep elf blademaster. Higher card power level makes more of them available, and starts you higher up the list.
!lg mindlar drfe ikiller=~player char 1 -tv:<4

merfolk

Player merfolk in water get spriggan speed, +50 stealth, a 25% EV bonus (guaranteed +2, capped at +9), a tailslap attack, and (cursed) boots are melded. NPC merfolk are boring; nothing to see here.
Player merfolk get a better chance of producing friendly water elementals using summon elemental (ice_skill/5 as opposed to ice_skill/15). I'm sure you'll find this information to be very useful.

merfolk aquamancer

sorear named these. Water mage in 0.6 shoals.

merfolk reasons

Excellent melee/caster hybrids: amazing polearms and dodging, good at enchantments and ice. Alternatively, good transmuters. Swimming makes Swamp and Coc:7 less painful!
Make the best light-armoured crusaders in the game.

mermaid

Inhabits the shoals and sewers. Sings a song that can mesmerise you.
see mesmerise

merry

Bow mastery title.

mesmerise

Being mesmerised means you can't move away from the mermaid\/siren and cannot go berserk. You can still cast spells. Mesmerisation can be broken by breaking LOS with the mermaid\/siren; killing or confusing it; reading a scroll of noise, silence, or vulnerability; or zapping a wand of lightning. Clarity doesn't prevent it.
When mesmerised, you cannot blink away from the mermaid/siren - you can only make uncontrolled teleports away it (if you have cTele, try selecting an area with walls or deep water).
Some ways to break LOS: moving behind a corner, closing a door, wielding a lantern of shadows, creating a cloud of fog or steam with a scroll of fog (unreliable), evaporation or shooting fire or flame over water.
If you are mesmerised by the obsidian axe, you can go berserk but cannot cure it with noise.

mesmerised

See {mesmerise}

mesmerized

see {mesmerised}

message

Press 'm' to send a message to a player you're watching. To reply to a player watching you, press ':'.

metabolic englaciation

Level 6 Ice/Hex. Attempts to slow all non-rC+ monsters in sight. The duration of the slowing is based on power and reduced by monster HD (and unaffected by MR). Cold-blooded monsters are slowed for twice as long.

metabolism

Normal characters consume 3 units of food per turn (for comparison, a chunk of meat is worth 1000 units of food). This metabolic rate can be modified by the fast metabolism and slow metabolism mutations, or by being under the effect of certain spells such as regeneration.

metal wall

A wall of metal, presumably conductive, and immune to most magical effects. It absorbs lightning (including Shock), and is extremely hard to destroy with Lee's Rapid Deconstruction.

metamorphosis card

Transforms you based on card power. Power 0 gives spider form, ice form, or bat form. Power 1 gives statue form or blade hands. Power 2 gives lichform or dragon form. Note that lichform from this source will not anger the good gods, but you must still watch out for the unarmed brands of spider (poison) and lich (draining).

metarobin

Metarobin can't be played unless another robin account is being played. Metarobin must follow the rules of all active robin accounts.

metroids

Like jellyfish, but they fly through the air and have life draining attacks which also magically contaminate you. Really, more like vampire mosquitos only with tons of hit points. Endemic in the abyssal stair, otherwise found only in a few Lugonu themed vaults.
Vulnerable to cold, and have a special vulnerability to explosions (missiles with the brand, being next to an LRD, and so forth.)

mf guide

Pick up a polearm, hit things with it.

mfcr

what's that
<Sealer> you're a mfcr that's like cheating

mfie

Better than MfSk.
Not as good as SpEn.

mfsk

Not as good as MfIE.

miasma

Miasma now checks rotting resistance, rather than negative energy resistance. Sucks to be a TSO worshipper! Poisons, slows and gives a 50% chance of rotting per turn.

mibe

Press aa to win.

microbat

Bigger than a nanobat
Not to be confused with an acrobat.

midgame

suckls

midgame sigmund

A whole bunch of Uniques. If you see any of them, run away!
For a guideline on who to avoid: !lg * cv>=0.6 killer=uniq xl>10 s=killer
Nessos and Roka and Aizul and Rupert. Boris and Frederick and Agnes and Mennas. Margery sans your resist fire rings. These are a few of your least favorite things.

midge

Parrot man master race!

mifi challenge

Streak every MiFi. See "!streak elynae mifi" for the current champion.

might

+1d10 to damage and also +5 strength.

mighty

Describes a experience level 17-21 player ghost.

mikee

Used to be a good player, nerfed in 0.6. Now is a greatplayer!
is a hideously deformed monstrosity, adept at licking elbows with the tongue on the end of its other elbow
pretty diesel
everyone has to do the same as him, sorry guys
(1:48:00 AM) mikee_: You finish putting on the +3 shield "Struimostri" {rElec rF+ rC+} (1:48:02 AM) mikee_: sigh
he will play your account in exchange for playing any of vaults:1-7 on his own
<mikee_> i like to think of myself as a fist of iron inside a velvet glove
is a meanie
Is officially awesome. (mikee the Conjurer (L16 MuVM) killed Xtahua on turn 104484. (Snake:4) without rF or haste)
<casmith789> I hate mikee
<mikee_> i want to turn the whole world black and green.
lair -> orc -> hive (not anymore) -> lair branches: 1-4 -> elf -> get bored and stop playing
<mikee_> it is hard to have nicknames in irc
<mikee_> spiders have lots of time
slayer of quokkas

mikee reasons

You enjoy being amazing at everything (and very slow) ((better take chei))

mikee guide

It's 1996 and you drop your magic cards deck while trying to ollie off the railing next to the football field, scuffing your vans and dropping your discman and scratching your copy of "Portrait of an American Family."
Your friend Tyler comes up to you and helps you dust the dirt off your NOFX hoodie. "Hey we're doing a MI tonight." An MI ("Mission Impossible") is when you and Tyler shoplift wine from the grocery store by putting bottles of it in the deep side pockets of your trench coats. "You want to come?"
"Yeah I got a bag," you whine, fishing a film canister out of your hoodie pocket and showing Tyler the crumbs of pot stowed inside it. "Alright!!" Tyler exclaims, already digging around in the junk at the bottom of his Jansport for an apple or an empty soda can to make a makeshift pipe with.

mikee reasons

Finds enough slaying to one-shot greater mummies.

mikeereasons

who needs reasons, when you have mikee_.

milestone

Milestone fields: v, cv, name, race, cls, char, xl, sk, sklev, title, place, br, lvl, ltyp, hp, mhp, mmhp, str, int, dex, god, dur, turn, nrune, urune, time, type, noun, milestone, game_id. game_id points at the game owning the milestone, to see the corresponding game use !lg * id=<1245>. game_id may be null.
type = type of milestone (see !lm * s=type for all types), noun = the thing that the milestone refers to. noun may be Sigmund if type=uniq, for instance.
As an alternative to saying !lm type=X noun=Y, you can use !lm X=Y, for instance !lm uniq=Sigmund. As an alternative to !lm type=X s=noun, you can say !lm s=X, for instance !lm s=ghost.
Examples: !lm * (most recent milestone of any player), !lm s=ghost (summarise ghosts killed by you), !lm * s=uniq (summarise uniques killed by anybody), !lm s=abyss.enter (summarise causes of banishment).

mimic

They imitate items and features, and chase you when you come within a square of them. Their bites are poisonous. Now they can have constriction too! Enjoy!
<effo> who could have guessed that this distressingly furry ice dragon armour was a mimic
<pointless_> oh good a blade trap killed the door
<Stoats> mimics are the worst monster because they hit you for emotional damage :(

min delay

Min delay for a melee weapon is min(7, floor(base delay / 2)), or 5 for a sabre. To achieve min delay, you need your weapon skill to be at least max(base delay, 2*base delay - 14), plus 1 if odd, or 14 skill for a sabre.

minced

!lm m1nced type=zig.exit -tv

mindless

A tag on slimes, some undead, and some bugs that causes them to step into various clouds when they cannot step around them, without regard for their HP. They also cannot be pacified with Elyvilon, and they cannot use stairs.

minecraft

see dwarf fortress
Because legos are not nerdy enough
like dwarf fortress but playable but without dwarves or fortresses but with fortresses

minefield card

Makes lots of traps near you. Radius is based on card power. Makes deep water/lava instead in the Abyss.

minitomb

see ossuary
see ossuary[2]

minmay

<minmay> MuIE seems better than SpEn
see oklob temple
<TGWi> why the fuck is there an eye of devastation in lair
!lm minmay uniq=boris 98 -tv
<minmay> I had cock worms a few weeks ago
<minmay> i wonder why vaginas are so popular lately
<evilmike> minmay just says things like that because he wants his learndb entry to be even longer
[Mu_] i do not actually possess a ring of farts, minmay.
<inspector071> who is this minmay person and why are his sadistic creations in this game!?
(7:18:23 PM) minqmay: there's already a wang in there and this isn't wangy enough to justify more wangs
(6:44:12 PM) minqmay: !learn del minmay[18] (6:44:13 PM) Henzell: Deleted minmay[18/18]: Deletes his own entries
<minqmay> i like to lick elves
would you like to hear about a dream
<minqmay> irl i always wanted to replace my hands and feet with beehives

minmay reasons

you want to have sexy elf dreams

minmay river

a river of minmays

minor destruction

Power is based on invocations. Randomly fires one of: puff of flame, pain, stone arrow, shock (zap), acid. There is no piety cost, so it's an excellent way to train invocations. Costs 1mp and hunger of between 4 and 31, somewhere between 'Minor' and 'Moderate' hunger on the spell hunger scale.
Very useful for softening up enemies or finishing them off when they're fleeing.

minor healing

A monster-only spell, usally used as a 'last resort' or 'escape' spell. Orc priests have this spell, which makes them all the more infuriating. Unrelated to Ely's ability, though possibly using the same code.

minotaur

Horns, axe, all that sort of thing. Nasty things that gore you, and are chosen to be guardians for Labyrinths. If you see one not in a labyrinth, it's probably a shapeshifter.
Also a bashy player race.
http://www.gunnerkrigg.com//comics/00000030.jpg

minotaur reasons

You want to hit things.

misc acquirement

Equal chance of: elemental items, disc of storms, crystal balls, bottled efreet, box of beasts, lantern of shadows and the various decks (except for punishment).

miscast

Failure to cast spells causes various generally nasty things to occur, becoming nastier with spell level and spell failure. Miscasts come in severity 0,1,2,3; 0 is always harmless. See {<school> miscast}.

misinformation

Monsters never spawn in Vestibule. (Spawning actually never stops there, though it is slow.)
Base damage is king. (Early game it is basically the same as weapon enchantment, and it only becomes twice as good as weapon enchantment with maxed skills.)
Ely piety from weapons stops at **. (It actually stops at ***.)
Hive is/will be a portal vault. (It might at some point, but that's far from certain.)

mislead

While affected by this status, monsters will appear to be other monsters in glyph, name and tile. It is temporary and purely cosmetic. It is blocked by clarity, removed by rain and potions of curing.
<Patashu> sphinx golden dragon ice devil deep elf conjurer <Patashu> THEY WERE JUST BUTTERFLIES

misled

see mislead
The pulsating lump chants a haunting song. You are mesmerised by the pulsating lump!

misnomer

Magic resistance: though this sounds as if it means to resist any damage caused by magic (such as bolts of fire or magic darts), all it means is your ability to resist hostile magical nonsense such as paralysis, confusion, teleportation, banishment, etc. Conjurations, as in spells that hit you in the face, are resisted physically and elementally.

mission

Enter Lair.
Do Lair.
Do Orc and find the V entrance.
Get a Lair rune.
Do early V + Crypt. (Missions 5, 6, and 7 can be done in any order.)
Get another Lair rune. (Missions 5, 6, and 7 can be done in any order.)
Finish D. (Missions 5, 6, and 7 can be done in any order.)
Get the silver or golden rune.
Win (worth 5 extra points). (You can do any of the later missions first for more points.)
Get the third Lair rune. (Missions 10-15 are optional and can be done in any order.)
Get the golden (or silver if golden was done earlier) rune. (Missions 10-15 are optional and can be done in any order.)
Get three Pan runes. (Missions 10-15 are optional and can be done in any order.)
Get two more Pan runes and then exit Pan. (Missions 10-15 are optional and can be done in any order.)
Get two Hell runes. (Missions 10-15 are optional and can be done in any order.)
Get two more Hell runes. (Missions 10-15 are optional and can be done in any order.)

mkaibigan

<M-Kaibigan> Cast sticky flame on yourself.
you could make this spell blow the balls wherever.
Now you can Golubria the balls wherever!
I FUCKING LOVE AIR ELEMENTALISTS
!lm vicht rstart=20100709110637S uniq=~royal -tv
Nikola says, "Vicht, I like you."
!lm Vicht rstart=20100728220719S uniq=~royal jelly -tv:<3
(Arguably) Most crazily creative player.
!lm vicht turn=265790 -tv:<5
Perma-dragon, raised from birth: !lm Vicht vptm place=shoals rstart=20100731235236S type=br.enter -tv
< M-Kaibigan> I like sphinxes

mnoleg

Guardian of the Glowing Rune. Comes with hordes of neqoxecs. If you die to him in hive, you get a prize!
Sort of telefragged by syllogism once! See !lm syllogism place=pan type=br.enter 3 -tv

mnolegrobin

Multi-purpose robin! Play as mnoleg and die to everything, or dive to and kill mnoleg as early as possible! Dying to mnoleg accepted and encouraged! Name: Mnoleg; Pass: robin
Mnoleg the Imperceptible (L14 SpEn), worshipper of Ashenzari, slain by Mnoleg in Pandemonium (mnoleg), with 89421 points after 16802 turns and 1:14:26.
Mnoleg the Jinx (L13 SpEn), worshipper of Zin, mangled by Mnoleg in Pandemonium, with 52535 points after 17560 turns and 1:31:07.

mob

Mobile OBject: A term used to refer to Creatures and NPCs, stems from the MUD days of yore.

modified stealth

/2 when encumbered, /5 when overloaded, /3 when confused; +20 elven cloak, +20 elven boots, +50 boots of stealth, +80 shadow card effect, +-artifact modifiers, -6*EVP^2 for armour with an EVP, +10 when in air, +50 if you swim, /2 if you can't, -10 hooves, -50 silence.

mollify

Said god is not angry with you anymore. Stop using firestorm on Elyvilon :)

molten gargoyle

Flying monster whose bite engulfs you in flames (and can destroy your scrolls).

momentarily disoriented

see magic_mapping
You just used a scroll of magic mapping on a level you already explored. Great work!

mong

<mong> I've always wanted my own learndb entry, but it seems vainglorious to make one for myself.
!lg * id=405169
m0ng
<minmay> do deep dwarf ghosts get damage shaving? <m0ng> only if they nick themselves with the razor, minmay
<mong> I am preparing for a marathon crawling session this evening, to include bagel bites and box wine.

monk

A badass melee fighter who couldn't afford weapons or armour. Starts with a robe, unarmed combat skill, stealth and dodging. Also gets ** piety upon first following a god in 0.10+. For a martial artist type with powers, try a Transmuter.
Sabaki: well im playing a monk, so all my offense is punch-related at the moment

monk reasons

When you're satisfied with punching your enemies in the face until they die

monkey

Shakespeare, given time.
elephants are everywhere

monky

see monqy
Resembles Gary Oak!

monqy

killed good players, is a horrible person
this space for rent
<monqy> abuse every bug/major design flaw, don't scum, don't cast meph
killed goodplayers. locked the general god mechanics page then unlocked it. rather likes white butterfly
the artist formally know as squarelos
<monqy> Your giant spiked club {WASHINGTON} is devoured by a tear in reality.
sucks
see salamander[2]
what
squarelos, orb run hells, buff mnoleg
Note to self: outrun wolf spiders
Note to monqy: You are a cool dude.
<monqy> roguelikes suck
<monqy> volcanoes <monqy> take a peek

monqy clouds

cset = cloud:xa4

monqyscrawl

work in progress
work in progress
monqy scrawl
http://gitorious.org/~monqy/crawl/monqys-crawl
<Nomi> thanks a lot <Nomi> it was awesome

monster damage

1d(monster damage rating) + [random2(weapon base damage) + random2(weapon damage ench) - 1d3]. Multiply by 3/2 for might and 5/2 for stab.
Damage reduction is max(random2(AC), gdr_percent*[monster damage + weapon base damage]). For example, a player with 50% gdr always gets at least 15 damage reduction against an anaconda and 22 against a stone giant.
weapon brands work the same as for the player. Elemental attacks are different, however. See af_cold, af_elec.

monster flight

Is not displayed by @?monster_name. Instead, consult http://chaosforge.org/crawl/index.php?title=Monster

monster generation

Every 5 full turns there is a 5 in rate chance of something spawning. Rate starts at 240 in each dungeon level and 50 in pan. From 3K until 15K turns on a level, it lineally increases to 6 times its value. All generation stops after 15K turns.
In the abyss, generation happens every 5 turns. In hell, the rate starts at 240 and goes up (less spawning) after 500 turns. If you're running home with the orb, the rate is set to always be 8.

monster hunter

One of the best simulators of hitting things until they die, without getting hit yourself.

monster speed

A number from 3 (boulder beetle) to 30 (unseen horror, giant bat) representing the movement and attack rate of a monster. speed = 100/delay.
If your delay is X, and the monster has speed Y, then in 10 moves of yours the monster will make floor(X * Y / 10) moves.

monster stats

@??creature name

monsters

Type @?monstername in this channel (or in a PM to Gretell), or @?? instead for stats of the monster in trunk.
Dirty cheaters.
<minqmay> in general 50% of crawl monsters are designed to be annoying

monstrous

Pseudo-predefined mutation set guaranteeing 3 body slot facets and 3 other regular ds mutations ; 1 / 10 chance; gives "You feel monstrous as your demonic heritage exerts itself." message when you gain your first body slot facet.
see ds mutation rules[4]

moon

A low gravity portal vault! Expect to have 1/5 the hp and twice the EV. Contains moon trolls, lunar crabs, eidolons, and a vault with a large amount of cheese.

moon troll

Invisible troll with the tornado effect (like a twister). Very nasty! Currently found only in the moon portal vault in trunk.
!tv predelnik place=elf:7 char=spen for a hilarious moon troll death!
moon troll (T) | Speed: 7 | HD: 16 | Health: 68-116 | AC/EV: 20/4 | Damage: 35, 25, 25 | Flags: regen, !sil | Res: magic(106), fire, cold | Chunks: clean/none/unknown | XP: 1314 | Sp: airstrike (0-42), invisibility, tornado.

morality

<LordSloth> Don't be afraid to abuse heroism <LordSloth> it's much more important than a gift

morg

Many years ago it was the property of a powerful mage called Boris. He got lost in the Dungeon while seeking the Orb. {-1,+4 dagger; Pain Brand; Magic Resistance; +5 Intelligence}

moriasc

Oh wow, I haven't looked at those little guys in a long time. How powerfully can they shoot that stuff?
Behold, greatest spectacle in all the land, it's Morri the teleporting headless freak! part 1: [!lg Morri char=NaSt place=Zot:5 -tv] part 2: [!lm Morri char=DEFE place=Wizlab -tv:<-2:>7]

mormegil

a nonexistent trueart that adds rSleep
Sindarin for Blacksword

morningstar

A mace-group weapon. Not nearly as good as its big sister, the eveningstar. Damage: 10. Accuracy: -1. Delay: 150%.

mossforestblossombat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bats
must... 5... streak...

most won

SpEn, MDFi, MfCr, DDNe, MiBe, HOPr, DEFE, DSBe, HEWz, TrBe, SETm, KoBe, GhFE, HaTm, MuNe, NaWz, DrMo, HuPa, CeFi, OgFE, KeFE, FeBe, DGCj, VpNe (for each race). Note that HaTm, GhFE and OgFE were nemelex choices in 2009 or 2010. See also combo ratios.

moth of suppression

Think silent spectre, but with an aura of suppression rather than silence.

moth of wrath

Monster which has a surgically implanted larynx to scare off adventurers. Terminate with extreme prejudice post-haste; they send other monsters (and you!) berserk. Seen only in Zot, Ziggurats and in a trog altar vault, so if you see it anywhere else it's a shapeshifter.

mottled draconian

A form of draconians that can spit sticky flame (range 1, can splash onto adjacent monsters). Player character gets +1 aptitude in Fire Magic. Also has sticky flame resistance at xl 7, but this doesn't stop the impact of sticky flame from doing scroll damage.

mottled dragon

A dragon that breathes sticky flame, but is otherwise unremarkable. Kill it fast if you value your scrolls. Its hide, when enchanted into armour (6AC, -1EV), provides immunity to all sources of sticky flame.

mottled dragon armour

A magical armour made from the scales of a mottled dragon. Although unlike the armour made from the scales of some larger dragons it does not provide its wearer with much in the way of special magical protection, it is as light and relatively uncumbersome as leather armour. (light armour; AC 6, EV -1, napalm immunity)

mountain bat

http://i.imgur.com/b23R8.jpg

mountain dwarf

Removed in 0.10. Try playing a hill orc instead.

mountain dwarf reasons

Ridiculously good as heavy armor melee fighters. Best apts for melee combat in the game, also gets a lot of HP. Robust enough to allow you to experiment with weird god choices, etc.

mouse

The most powerful control scheme for Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup.

move delay

10 by default. Boots of running lower this by 2. The quickness mutations lower this; level 1 by 2, level 2 by 3, and level 3 by 4. Centaurs start with the second level, Spriggans with the third, Felids start with the first. The minimum is 6. delay = 100/speed.
8 delay (such as with swiftness or boots of running) moves at 12.5 (between an ant and a snake). 7 delay (such as a player centaur) moves around 14.3 (between a jackal and an actual centaur). 6 delay (such as a spriggan) moves at 16 and 2/3 (just less than a war dog).

mp

Cast spells with this. Max of 50mp without bonuses; any bonuses over 50 are halved (staff of power, ring of magical power).

mpr

<MPR|> efreet in a bottle <MPR|> do I open it? <Elynae> probably not [...] <MPR|> hmm I shouldn't've opened it

mprcrawl

Perpetual lab with wizlabs that are also normal labs. The anti-kcrawl.

msh

see {maxwell's silver hammer}

mtputty

A wrapper for PuTTY/KiTTY that allows you create connections in tabs rather than separate windows. http://www.ttyplus.com/multi-tabbed-putty/

muak

The best r/c. Banish things! Never hunger.

muak guide

orb run tomb

muck

Win this (without abandoning Xom) and you can win any argument before it starts.

muck guide

1. Find a sabre of speed (preferably the black cutlass). 2. Find a book with sticky flame and bolt of fire. 3. Avoid dying to Xom confusion. 4. Win!
This guide has a 100% success rate.

muckrobin

Pass: robin. You must not leave D:1 until you have been banished at least once. No restrictions after that!
!tv muckrobin 2

muen guide

<N78291> go upstairs -> hit 5 until they fall asleep -> stab
< heteroy> did you know that MuEn is not a very good combo?

muhe

If you win this, you can win any argument.

muie

Better than MuSk.

muie guide

Freeze is amazing. Get Ozocubu's Armour when you can, and use it against heavy threats. Train conjurations for Throw Icicle, and use it to take out difficult enemies from afar; worship Sif Muna for free MP, and hope for Ozocubu's Refrigeration.

mulching

The base chance of breakage is 1/X. X is: 3 for curare, darts. 4 for sling bullets, stones, arrows, bolts. 6 for non-curare needles. 10 for javelins. 25 for large rocks. Throwing nets only take damage when struggled against and are destroyed at -8. Other thrown things such as hand axes aren't technically missiles, and won't break.
Enchanted projectiles get an extra shot at avoiding destruction: ench / (3+ench) chance of survival. Flame- or frost-branded missiles (not from the launcher!) have twice the chance of breakage.
German for "destruction of missiles on use".

multi kill

https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=4091

multirobin

Like other *robin accounts, you share it with other players. Unlike other *robin accounts, they're logged in at the same time you are. In fact, all keypresses are shared! See multirobin[2] for setup/login details. See multirobin[3] for something awesome.
On Linux: wget http://eronarn.info/multirobin_key ; ssh -i multirobin_key multirobin@eronarn.info (you may need to change the key's permissions). There's a shared account at multirobin/2ghouls1zot, but you could use your own, too.
Holy shit, you can play multirobin in your browser! http://eronarn.info/multirobin/ ha ha ha just kidding you can't
If you get display errors, try hitting ctrl+r to force redraw the screen. If you get latency issues, not much that can be done about that. Sorry!

multizap

Hitting a single foe several times with the rebound of a lightning spell, like Shock or Lightning Bolt
In modern versions you can only hit a given monster twice with a single lightning bolt.
see trizap
see quadzap
quintizap: !lg ionfrigate killer=deep elf annihilator 2 -tv

mummy

When destroyed, all mummies cast a death curse. For normal mummies (i.e. 'a mummy'), this could curse items. For other mummies (e.g. 'guardian mummy'), it will be a random necromancy miscast effect. Mummies are vulnerable to fire damage.
Try a wand of enslavement or summons to handle the regular sort. It'll let you avoid the death curse.
Mummy PCs do not need to eat food to survive. They also resist necromantic and cold attacks, are immune to poison, but vulnerable to fire. Also, they get permanent necro magic enhancers at xl13 and 26. Lastly, they cannot drink potions, change form or go berserk. According to syrion, PC mummies use bladders for blowing.
Spells player mummies can't use: regeneration, revivification, symbol of torment, death's door, stoneskin, alistair's intoxication, any form-changing spell (including blade hands and necromutation), and spells that would have no useful effect such as cure poison.
Take your gear off, drop it all, including your weapon, and challenge a mummy to a good old fashioned round of fisticuffs. Not only does this avoid the death curse, it is also extremely gentlemanly.
Zetwiuwo moans, "Get thee gone, thou cockered inflammable dustbag!"

mummy challenge

Win a mummy who stays at rF- all game. Alternatively, streak every mummy. Bonus points for combining the two challenges!

mummy priest

Like a curse skull on legs. And it smites. And it curses you with necro miscasts when it dies. And it melees.

mummy reasons

The Mummy's Bargain: You have terrible skills, stats, HP, MP, rF-, can't drink potions.
You hate hungering, like me.
You want to die quickly. Or, slowly and in a way that you can't prevent.
Trying to set the record for "most damage taken by {monster with fire attack}."
You find labyrinths too hard.
You draw a card... It is Famine. You feel rather smug.
You love golden eyes and want to hang around them a lot.
Harpies.
Grinder is much less dangerous.
This trove needs 20 potions of curing to function. Give it the items?
Herpes.

mummy warrior

A guardian mummy that wears armour

mummyrobin

In this robin challenge you have to wait for monster generation to stop (takes 20k turns) on every level before you can move on to the next. Backtracking to earlier levels is only allowed if you have stopped monster generation in the entire branch. If you are shafted, use your conscience as a guide for what to do. Password: robin

mumo

Because you never thought you'd wish you were playing MuBe

mune

sume ma sa, is the ruut uf all evil tuda

murderers

!lm * noun=~helpless s=name

murphy slaw

figured out how to kill 30 ice beasts on d:1
thesaurus trickster
synonym sleuth
thesaurus technician
< murphy_slaw> you see here a +3 condom of penetration

murphys law

https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=4783

murphyslaw

<effo> like cole slaw's brother

murray

a mighty demonic skull rolling along the dungeon floor. Summons undead and torments. Only found in 1 in 8 Vestibules.
See the curse of Monkey Island for more info.
How appropriate. You fight like a CAO.
hell eustachio
worth less xp than a curse skull!

mushroom circle

spawns a ring of fungus around the target square for 10ZP

musical chairs

<ontoclasm> play music, when the music stops, everyone fights until someone dies <ontoclasm> music starts again

musk

<Sequell> * (char=musk) has won once in 1 games (100.00%): 1xMuSk

musu

Most exciting race/class combination ever! Wait 300k turns, go to next Dlvl, repeat. If you have a boring beetle zombie pet, you should name it "MuSu".

musu guide

Worship Sif. Train only three skills: spellcasting, summoning, and invocations. Spam summons. Anything will die if you toss enough dragons at it.

mutagenic

Attempts to give a single random mutation. Gives no nutrition.

mutagenic fog

Shimmering purple, deliciously mutagenic! Will polymorph monsters and give you bad mutations! Remember to wear your resmut amulet.

mutagenic fog abyss

Blame evilmike.

mutarobin

Quaff all mutation potions, eat all mutagenic corpses, throw all cure mutation potions and amulets of resist mutation into lava. Worshipping Xom or Jiyva is encouraged. Password is robin.

mutation

A semi-permanent change in your body. You can cure it with potion of cure mutation though; can be good or bad. Check list of mutations for spoiler.
When being mutated (not by a god), you have a (current mutations)/15 chance of: (2/3 of the time): cancel the mutation, (1/3 of the time): remove a random mutation.
(8:26:52 PM) eternaljwh: Can you get your pre-existing conditions mutated or are mutagens like bad health insurance?

mutation resistance

For adding a mutation: 1 or 2 = 66%, 3 = 100%; Deleting a mutation: 2 = 50%, 3 = 100%. Amulet = 90%. Zin: (piety/200)%

mute

If you want to make summoning more tolerable you can edit your config (init.txt) to include these lines (without quotes): "message_colour = mute:misses your" "message_colour = mute:[yY]our.*but (do no|doesn't do any) damage" "message_colour = mute:Your.*disappears in a puff of smoke" "message_colour = mute:Your.*miss(es)? (the|it)"

myothehedgefox

A flooder somewhere from Russia. Loves stalking Webtiles games and asking weird questions.
Is occasionally useful, might provide a bonus to Attention. When evoked, might give a hint. Don't use him with any demon weapon
Plays as Hedgefox in Webtiles.
<MyO> How does one make a "hard redirect"

mystic blast

The big brother of magic dart, for spellcasters ready to deal some half-serious damage. The effect is described as an "orb of energy". Okay damage, very high accuracy, simply irresistible. Level 4 conjuration spell found in the Book of Power. Deals 2d28 at max power.
In 0.11, does a maximum of 2d22 damage but explodes with a 3/(2 + 2*distance) chance; also has range 7 instead of 5.

naga

The player race has see invis, poison res, and a poisonous spit attack. They also have a delightful level of natural stealth, with amazing aptitude for the skill. In return, they have a penalty to movement speed, get reduced effectiveness from normal body armour, and cannot wear boots (although a naga barding is 4 AC and can be enchanted to +4).
The monsters vary in threat. If you have poison resistance then nagas and naga warriors pose no special threat, but naga mages and greater nagas can still potentially do terrifying amounts of damage.
< tensorpudding> this is less fun than felid and centaur put together

naga mage

They cast venom bolt, mystic blast, haste, poison arrow, and teleport (both you and themselves). Take them out before warriors and regular nagas.

naga reasons

Poison resistance, spitting venom, automatic AC gain through leveling up, decent weapon skills, nifty message for kneeling at altars
You get lots of tail.
You don't like having the ability to run from things.
http://www.elfwood.com/~dreamstone/Naga-on-Tree.2696286.html

naga warrior

A tough naga who spent a lot of free time at the gym. Usually comes armored and armed.

nailbunny

Love of my life

naked monks

not as bad an idea as you'd think

nanobat

Smaller than a microbat

nao

nethack.alt.org, go and visit #nethack

napping turtle

Don't wake them up.

natural trap

A brown ^ indicating a trap that has managed to manifest via completely natural means! Types: shaft.

nausea

New status effect in 0.10, replaces sickness from contaminated chunks (but not sickness from other sources). While it is active, you can't eat unless you are starving or near starving (and you only get half nutrition then).
<minqmay> iirc, sartre suggested it was a feeling that something is and isn't there at the same time <minqmay> but it turns out this was a symptom of existential angst, the need to define a meaning for one's own life

nda

Non-disclosed dragon armour: We can't tell you if it exists or not. We're not allowed.

necklace of bloodlust

Cursed amulet of rage. +2 str, -2 int, +5 dam, 30 MR, -20 stealth, makes you angry, and recurses 1 in 3 times when worn.

necro challenge

Win a pure necromancer with no allies: pain, corpse rot, sublimation of blood, vampiric draining, dispel undead, agony, borgnjor's revivification, no other spells, and no damaging or affecting any monsters with anything else.

necromancer

1. Class starting with a Book of Necromancy. 2. Brightwhite human @ that casts Bolt of Draining (also cold, animate dead). Notable as one of very few edibles in Crypt.

necromancer reasons

You want to do what skalds claim to do, except without being terrible.
You hate Kikubaaqudgha.
Zombie Bears

necromancy

Branch of Crawl magic concerned with undeath, unlife, and unholy modification of life.
Also a book with the following spells: Pain, Animate Skeleton, Vampiric Draining, Dispel Undead, Animate Dead
Governs spells that make undead things, or suck life force out of your enemies. Casting them pisses "good" gods off. Has a number of excellent combo spells. Many necromantic spells require corpses, which are not available in all parts of the dungeon.
Really high necromancy lets you cast necromutation, and also raises the power of a few great spells like dispel undead. It also increases damage dealt by the pain brand.

necromancy miscast

By severity: 1: Slowing, (living) 5-19 dmg, rotting. 2: 1-3 shadows, (living) draining, 15-37 damage. 3: Reaper, soul eater, 1-7 statloss, draining, (living) severe rot, or torment.

necromutation

Level 8. Induces lichform for 18 + 2d(power) turns,+3 str, small unarmed bonus (drain) and AC, MR, +cold, +pois, death enhancer, and undead for all game purposes (no food/potion use, negative energy immunity, mutation immunity, torment immunity, prevents transformations, dispel undead vulnerability, no berserk).

necronomicon

One of the three specially difficult books; requires spellcasting 6, necro 10 to read, or Kikubaaqudgha worship (he gifts it). Spells: Borgnjor's Revivification, Haunt, Death's Door, Necromutation. Failing to memorize from this book causes necromantic miscast effects.

necrophage

This undead can cause sickness and rotting and may eat corpses it walks across. Will also pick up stuff and throw it. And you can't animate its remains.

necrophilia

Psyche says, "Once you're dead we can play together!"
Followers [of Makhleb] are expected to cleanse others by inflicting suffering and death on them in Makhleb's name, and can gain further favour by ravaging the freshly dead.

necrotelicomnicon

And the people said: "That looks like my uncle Osbert."

necrusader

Boost charms and necro, get a weapon of pain, and before you know it you'll be xl27 and on Zot:5
The best thing.

needle of frenzy

Causes berserk and neutrality.

needle of paralysis

You can paralyse anything with this given enough throwing skill and blowgun enchantment, even an orb of fire.
see blowgun[2]

needle of sickness

Like poisoned needles except they are useless.

needle trap

No damage, but seriously poisonous. Works out to around 40 damage.

needles

Needles come in a variety of flavours, each with an individual status effect. They do not cause direct damage (except for curare).
Needle brands are: poison, curare, paralysis, sleep, confusion, slow, sickness and frenzy. Currently only poison and curare do not use the checks described at blowgun[2].

needlestab

Step 1) Worship Trog. Step 2) Get 27 Throwing. Step 3) Needles of Paralysis/Sleeping/Confusion, in order of preference. Step 4) Fire at Cerebov. Step 5) Kill anything (including Orbs of Fire, Ancient Liches, and the aformentioned Cerebov with impunity!). Step 6) Get it nerfed.
Step 6 has been accomplished! (needles no longer work on non-living and undead)

negaspells

Antifire Storm and Uncorona

negative energy

Name for the bolts fired by wands of draining, the Bolt of Draining spell, and certain extremely pesky monsters. Can arise from wands of random effects. Also used to mean draining generally, as in tartarus[1].

nellie

http://crawl.develz.org/info/tile.php?q=nellie
The Birdo of Crawl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eti21PVHXrg
Shatter trivializes her

nemelex

The gambling god. By sacrificing anything and everything, he gives you decks of cards, as well as abilities that let you manipulate the decks in your favor.
Abilities: Draw lets you draw a card without wielding the deck. Peek at two shows you two cards and identifies the deck. Triple draw draws three cards and gives you the choice of which to take. Mark four marks four cards and tells you when they're next. Stack Deck chooses 5 cards for you to reorder, discarding the rest.
Information for most cards can be found in Henzell, under ??<card name> card. A fairly complete but very out-of-date spoiler for 0.3 Nemelex can be obtained from cbus[1]
see divine gift[2]
(0.5) Corpses,chunks,blood count for half as much weight as other items. Also, their value is proportional to mass. Whenever you receive a deck, your sacrifice weights that went towards that deck type decrease by 20%.
Deck weighting is based on the gold value of sacrifices, or the mass for chunks/corpses. So using fulsome distillation and sacrificing potions of confusion won't help you get decks of wonder, however mutation potions do have some value.
"A symbol of foo" usually means that your leading deck sacrifice category just changed. It can also show up with 2% chance after any sacrifice.

nemelex choice

The Nemelex' Choice banner was first introduced to the tournament in 2009. Here's the complete list of choices made from 2009 through to 2010: GhFE HaNe HaTm KeCK MDEn MfTh NaPr OgFE SEAs TrIE.

nemelex reasons

see nemelex xobeh reasons
see nemelex xobeh reasons[2]
see nemelex xobeh reasons[3]
You like summoning multiple hostile wasps
You draw a card... It is Wild Magic. Something terrible reaches out for your soul!" "You draw a card... It is Damnation. The soul eater is devoured by a tear in reality. The Blue Death screams as it is devoured by a tear in reality."
<Red_Bucket> Minefield is kinda good for deploying a tele trap to make a stash

nemelex secret tech

< rwbarton> Soyweiser: press ^! and then look at the screen very carefully

nemelex xobeh reasons

Reasons to worship Nemelex: Nemelex is very useful for all characters; a collection of decks of summoning, good Evo skill, and Nemelex's abilities are enough to win the game with.
(Decks of summoning are probably the most life-saving deck for a Nemelexite, but summoned creatures aren't always stealthy, so stealth-based characters may find Nemelex less useful.)
An old dream, successfully realized by syllogism in 0.3.3, is to play a Troll, let its strength grow to a huge number (as Trolls' strength does), and then draw a Shuffle card to get huge Int, so you can (later, after training Necromancy) cast Necromutation. (This isn't easy.)
Your body glows slightly and disappears.

nemelex xobeh wrath

Two stages. You are forced to draw from the deck of punishment; and any cards which you have stacked are randomly shuffled. Drawing from decks at any point could also mean you have to draw from the deck of punishment. Marked cards are 3 times more likely to be swapped for punishment cards.

neqoxec

Probably the third most dangerous of the common demons, neqoxecs summon imps, mutate you, drain Int, and generally make your life miserable. These mutations are overwhelmingly bad and cannot be resisted with Magic Resistance (teleportitis anyone?), and that INT smashing (max 1, bring your sust abil!) does not require LOF.
rMut helps, but even with resist mutation try to kill them as soon as possible.
The name "neqoxec" was created using a highly advanced, finely tuned cryptonomenclaturic Demon Name Generator involving the use of physical force applied to a keyboard.
< lampshayde> FUCK NEQOXECS x2
< jeanjacques> The neqoxec gestures at you. You feel robust.

nerf

Increase in squishyness

nergalle

Summons spectral orcs (like haunt but with orcs), then casts haste other on them and bolts of draining through them. Also has Death's Door.

nessos

A unique centaur, generated with a longbow of flame, poisoned arrows, a centaur barding, haste and animate dead. Also blinks away from you. Fires bolts of poison flame. No, you can't. His magic resistance is considerably low, so he's susceptible to slowness, paralyzing, etc.
Nessos, the merfolk. Nessos shouts, "I'm half man! Half horse! And all stone-cold KILLER!"

net split

Not something Henzell can tell you about when he's not on the same side of it you are.

net trap

Does no damage, but holds you immobile for a few turns. You can still cast spells, but no melee or movement.
Be warned! While it sounds harmless, getting stuck in one of these while atttempting to run away from an enemy (take your pick from: Sigmund, an Ogre, a gnoll pack, or perhaps a jelly) will most likely kill you very quickly.
see hilarious_deaths[41]

nethack

That other game.
Used as a semi-epithet by some ##crawl members, as in "that sounds nethackish", since said Crawl players got tired of Nethack before trying and liking Crawl.
Design principle 1: If in doubt, do it unlike Nethack and D&D.

nethack4

Self-claimed successor to NetHack. Shares channel with AceHack, #acehack

nethack did it first

KILL YOURSELF.

nethack mode

If you're using putty and having trouble getting the numpad to work with modifier keys, go to Options > Terminal > Keyboard and set 'Initial State of Numeric Keypad' to NetHack. See also ?? putty

nethack reasons

29-win streaks

nethackism

That is a potion bottle, not a Klein bottle!

netsplit

Half of the Freenode network lost connection to the other half. To each person in each half, each person in the other half will quit with reason "*.net *.split". This usually fixes itself soon enough.
< pigvomit> this whole place blown up themself

nettiles

NetTiles is outdated. Use webtiles instead.
http://www.mediafire.com/?zmyzge3o2wd
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=q2rff13bc9a1005080027n8ce47dfdw1b532430464ccbfe@mail.gmail.com&forum_name=crawl-ref-discuss
see webtiles

new abyss

Features: 1) Abyss is now an infinite plane 2) Abyss shifts around every few steps, changing its layout 3) When banished, the abyss takes on the shape of your LOS when banished. ssh into crawl@ch4n.org, password crawl.

new skill system

<ZChris13> I just gained 3 levels in fighting with a single casting of Bolt of cold

new xp system

Most awesome addition to crawl since hellephants.

newbie

You are one!

nexos

seems to have completed the ironman challenge.

next branch

What branch do you do next? See {tetha}.

nht

leaves terrifying speedrun ghosts everywhere. watch out or it might apport you!
Negative MP DD with ash

nice fiend

Sp: b. rainbows (3d27), torment symbol, puppy pile.

nick

!nick <ircname> <crawlname> to add; remember to include !nick <ircname> <ircname> as this isn't included by default! !nick <ircname> -rm to remove all nick mappings. !nick <ircname> -rm <name> to remove <name> from the <ircname> nick mapping.

niftytesting

Nifty mostly-UI features on CDO: Level browsing (X? for help), disintegration bloodspatter effects,

nightstalker

+40/80/120 stealth -1/-2/-3 LOS. Remember, LOS is reciprocal, so when your LOS is reduced, so is the LOS of everything else in the dungeon.

nikola

Midgame Sigmund! If you don't have rElec, go away. If you do have rElec, go away. In either case, just use curare. Kill him for his cloak and gloves and sabre of elec!
Nikola yells, "Danger! Danger! High voltage!"
Spamming butterflies is an easy way to (mostly) nullify his chain lightning, if you can use them.
see famous_last_words[5]

nimbler

Increases EV

ninja

The act of grabbing a rune or orb without killing its guardian or guardians. Most common in Zot, Hell and Pandemonium.
<danharaj> I remember your last one it looked like you were walking into your house and picking up your car keys.

ninja reasons

You find clearing Zot:5 stressful and want to get the orb in under a minute and leave.
You don't feel like learning shadow creatures.

nisse

A heavily armoured K that casts invis and carries porridge. A controversial monster, tentatively in trunk from blue_anna's Dwarf Hall patch set, but disliked by most devs. Comes from Norwegian folk tales generally unknown in the rest of world.
see {pajama_gnome}

nitrohack

Nethack variant with an improved interface and other good stuff. http://nitrohack.org/

no

it doesn't
you don't

noisy

This weapon makes noises.
It's an ego weapon... with personality!

nomi

Nomi the Sorcerer (L12 FeBe)
<Henzell> Nomi the Grappler (L15 TrBe), worshipper of Trog, demolished by an anaconda skeleton (animated by a shadow imp (summoned by a neqoxec (summoned by a deep elf summoner))) on D:1 (zotvault4), with 79863 points after 8176 turns and 2:55:37.
http://pastebin.com/1NSSZXUf
http://pastebin.com/RnGX6NsA
Thinks bolt of inaccuracy is the best spell in the game
<[Hanged_Man]> 0.9 statue form gsc of holy wrath > dragon form > troll uc > op uc > enhancer staff > uc > quickblade of pain > everything else
See !lm Nomi place=v:7 uniq=Jessica -tv for an out of depth Jessica
!fight 3 stone giant;large rock ego:steel, 3 stone giant;large rock ego:returning, 3 stone giant;large rock ego:chaos, 3 stone giant;large rock ego:exploding, 3 stone giant;large rock ego:penetration v 2 chuck, 2 chuck;large rock ego:penetration, 3 the iron giant;large rock ego:steel spells:cantrip
K - tha +16 plate armour "Cauwn" {+Inv Dam+4}
<Nomi> i almost never cast charms

non weapon

Attacking with a non-weapon does no damage unless you have slaying, might, or berserk. To-hit is determined by fighting skill. Damaging something with a non-weapon trains fighting. The attack delay seems to be very low (3).

nonspriggan races

they're like spriggans that are slower and bad at things

noobrobin

A roundrobin for anyone who's pretty sure they'll screw up and die in the next 10 turns. noobrobin gets as far as he does, and no one cares when he dies, so have at it. MiBe is recommended, but not required. Login: noobrobin Password: robin

nooodl

Probably above D:10.

norbert

Removed in 0.8, Norbert was a skilled warrior with no spells and not much skill.

norris

A tan, fit and thoroughly evil ex-surfer. Feeds on your intelligence, smites, paralyzes, confuses, turns invisible, heals himself, and smokes Cuban cigars.
< petato> I see Norris lost his board. poor guy :( <+sorear> anachro police got it < petato> timecops go home

not desperate enough

<valrus_> how am I supposed to train charms with brands when I have three different elec weapons
[21:20] <Ragdoll> darn wand of healing #5
<mikee_> damn, i'm having trouble training melee skills <mikee_> because i kill everything in 1-2 hits
<minqmay> identifying weapon enchantment is such a pain when you one-shot all the plants
<scummos> hmm, Lair:8 is difficult if you firestorm everything <scummos> because it's loud

not gay

!lm ebarrett defe place=pan 6 -tv:<2:>-1

not innuendo

<minqmay> "stone giant" is a good euphemism for penis

not that difficult

No more than 7.0234375% chance of failure.

nothing appears to happen

You didn't see anything. I was never here. You will not speak of this to anyone.

notthepope

Likes to streak wins on AcidRobin.
Likes to vandalise the learndb.
<notthepope> when i grow up i'm going to be a fireman <notthepope> on the space shuttle

ntraff

<NTRAFF_> That's crazy Ragdoll and I respect that.

nuderobin

Wear nothing but your socks. Dance. Fight. Die.
(ingame.)
Dying is optional.

numbers

The enemy.
Your friends.
The thing that taught you how to strap a sock to your tush.
<Chapayev> elliott: look if you're going to talk about numbers not divisible by 3 then take it to ##crawl-offtopic

numlock

An abomination. Can be worked around with lots of keydefs (like http://angband.pl/crawl/keycodes.txt) but that's only a bandaid solution. Not an issue in SS 0.5 anymore.

numpad reasons

There are no letter keys on your keyboard.

nyaakitty

Likes cats. A lot. Preferably the Dis versions.
Holder of the Book of Nekomancy. Create Hairball (L1), Summon Dead Rodent (L2), Cat Missile (L4), Meow Kapow (L6), Catastrophe (L9). Me-OW!
Shamelessly will play your games for you to desired points like a cat walking over your keyboard. Discreet with passwords and has a splat rate of 0% with other people's accounts right now!
zotwaltzes and doesn't afraid of anything
Pre-nyaakitty greatplayers win percentage: 5.58%. Post-nyaakitty greatplayers win percentage: 4.75%. Effective April 24th, Sunday, 2011.
knows what is what
<meowfelid>N-Nemelex-chan, don't leave me like it's some cheap eroge, stay with me forever like it's an expensive eroge that I want to have dirty sex with pleasseesee

o

This is the second-best button in Crawl. See tab for the best one.
Saint Roka is the best o in Crawl.

oblivion

The fifth branch of hell, where all of your abilities are as overpowered as they have been in any version of Crawl.

oblivionrobin

only uses features that are in oblivion (a place where nerfed things go)

obsidian axe

A +12, +15 broad axe of chopping that mesmerises you whenever a monster is in sight. +3 Str, SInv, +Lev, always recurses, sometimes summons a friendly demon (2, 3 or 4) when you kill stuff. Also cures confusion when you're mesmerised.
Visions of slaying the oklob plant flood into your mind. You cannot move away from the oklob plant!

ocs

see orange_crystal_statue
see orange_crystal_statue[2]

octagon level

Has orthogonal and diagonal sides, a ring of pillars or stone arches around the center, and probably a bunch of stairs grouped together. It's designed to make you die.

october

Month named after octopodes. Try to win 8 of them during it.

octoplayers

Players who have done a streak of 8 or more octopodes.
see october

octopode

New race in 0.10. 8 ring slots, amulet, and a hat (but no helmets). Wields items normally, but also has tentacle attacks. Further information available at: https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:brainstorm:species:octopus
Ho, the octopode!
Octopodes can wear a hat, like so: http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh0375wSwU1qdby1ho1_500.jpg
This is how they get around on land: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljpws7SGf21qbnemgo1_500.gif
How octopodes use shields: http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=1DoWdHOtlrk&gl=US
Octopus on land: http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr35mlO6gd1qiamsto1_500.jpg
http://nsfw-comix.com/nsfw353.htm
Yes, they eat fruit. http://www.etsy.com/listing/73961114/tentacles-and-fruit-pear

octopode reasons

You like being killed by bats.
<mikee_> like mummy but better
You *love* tentacles.

octopus king

+10,+4 trident of the Octopus King {venom, rElec rPois MR}

oddtwang

Recently discovered his first ever rune was a complete fluke :(

offhand punch

Does 5 + (unarmed skill / 3) damage. Gets +5 bonus for blade hands. Gets a +1d3 bonus for claws (if you're not using bladehands).

offline

Doesn't count.
savescumming

offline reasons

uhm

og17

HERE LIES ARDUOS THE GUSTY OF LOROSIA, THE SECOND LEVEL DRACONIAN. DEATH BY QUOKKA.
lacks fantasy
Is terrible, doesn't charm shit.
can't spell extroidinare

ogam reasons

Oldwon. Or Nemelex choice

ogaz

<Henzell>Unemployed Ogre
Master of dumping ghouls into lava while hunting for the Abyssal rune.
If you don't ask a question, his answer is always "go kiku".
Also known as 'Captain Obvious'
Said to be personally responsible for the death of rupert.
Thinks greensnark thinks ogaz thinks slaying should be nerfed.
ogaz: also what is disarmer a title for

ogbe

Wait for Trog to gift you a giant spiked club of speed; win

ogen

club stabbing!!!

ogen guide

don't do it

ogre

Ogres have low accuracy and health, but can deal a lot of damage when they hit. It is a good idea to pick them off from a distance, using poisoned projectiles. Are notable for their slow attacks with giant (spiked) clubs. If you step away after it swings, you might create a gap.
Also a player race. Excellent HP, and great aptitudes in levelling (110) fighting (+3), maces (+3), and spellcasting (+2), pretty bad aptitudes at everything else. Unfitting armour like Spriggans and Trolls, fast metabolism 1, saprovore 1, tough skin 1 (AC+1).
<ogaz> in shocking news ogres are bad at things
<MarvinPA> that is not a very good apt
Welcome to the dungeon. The ogre shouts!

ogre challenge

Streak every ogre. clouded is the current leader with a streak of four (OgCj, OgPr, OgMo, OgVM).
Streak one ogre.

ogre guide

Don't. You'll regret it, you can't handle the unbridled awesomeness

ogre mage

Like Erolcha, but with more HD, haste other, random generation, a band, and a delicious magenta flavour. All the same warnings apply. See erolcha spells.
Playable race in Crawl versions before 0.5, removed due to being extremely overpowered.
(for very small values of "overpowered")
<minqmay> ogre magi are terrifying <minqmay> they're like wizards except they actually appear

ogre reasons

Ogres in spider form are murder on eight legs.
You want to play a troll, but don't like regeneration or good unarmed damage.
You don't like winning.
When Hill Orcs just aren't WAAAAAAGH enough.
<mikee> my ogre has 11/15 with ring of shaolin on :(
<daftfad> ogfe - the Glass Pistol
<mikee_> think of them as big hungry mummies
<ebarrett> ogre is p. much the best race these days
You like +3 to both fighting and M&F, and the ability to wield giant clubs/giant spiked clubs.
<N78291> ogen has deceptively high hp that might make you think it can melee an unarmed gnoll

ogrerobin

Another roundrobin, the goal is to play an...you guessed it - an Ogre. Ogaz the OgAs is the key to victory.

ohloh

Code/contribution metrics gleaned from the git history: https://www.ohloh.net/p/stonesoup

oka

A common nickname for the god Okawaru. See also Chokowaru.

okawaru

Heroism (*) temporarily gives +5 to all non-magic skills except Invocations and Evocations, although Fighting skill from it gives no extra HP. Finesse (*****) halves attack delay but does not stack with haste or berserk and is blocked by stasis. Also gifts weapons, ammo, and armour; see divine_gift[3].
Be aware - stasis blocks finesse
<G-Flex> I picture oka as this old guy going through his attic and just discarding old junk as gifts
< valrus> I AM OKAWARU, GOD OF COMBAT AND FIVE DOLLARS FOR THE OSCILLATING FAN IS MY FINAL OFFER
Likes bears.
You finish putting on the -5 robe of Misfortune {god gift, -Cast Contam+ *Tele EV-4 Str-2 Dex-2 Int-2 Stlth-- Curse}.

okawaru acquirement

You finish putting on your -2 helmet god gift.

okawaru reasons

Reasons to worship Okawaru: armour and weapon gifts, especially if you are a centaur or naga so you need specialized armour or have very limited armour slots, or you want a specialized weapon such as a quick blade; heroism and finesse are somewhat useful.
You enjoy being gifted +0 animal skins.

okawaru wrath

ABANDONMENT: 25 penance. RETRIBUTION: 1+XL/5 punishers, chosen from (orc warrior, orc knight, naga warrior, centaur warrior, stone giant, fire giant, frost giant, cyclops, hill giant, titan). Abjurable summons in 0.7, permanent summons in 0.8 (no xp or items).

okie

A common nickname for the god Okawaru

oklob plan

Run.

oklob plant

Will wreck all your armour and maybe even kill you. Fortunately, it does not move. Probably a good time to learn how to use travel exclusions. If you become invisible before approaching, it won't spit acid at you. If you become invisible in sight of one, it will spit hilariously near you but miss, mostly.
Invariably polymorphs into a wandering mushroom when Polymorph Other is used.
Jellies resist acid. Gaining a friendly jelly such that it is in line of sight when acquired near an oklob plant will cause it to attack the plant. In addition, oklob plants are difficult to wake, and are vulnerable to enchantments, much more so than monsters of a similar HD.

oklob sapling

Created by the level 2 ability in zotdef for 60 xp. A weaker version of an oklob plant with lower HD, health and MR.

oklob sapling temple

blame marvinpa

oklob temple

Blame minmay.

old dk

<wreck> so what's playing a DK like..I have no idea <N78291> walk along, miscast your 1 pain spell, die to a hobgoblin

old score

[your gold + ((your experience * 7) / 10) + value of inventory, only if you won + (number of different runes^2 * 1000, only if you won)] or 99,999,999, whatever is less (THIS ONLY APPLIES <= 0.3.4)

oldwon

CeAr CeAs CeIE CeSt CeTm(Pac) CeWn CeWr DDCj DDMo DDTm DEAK DEAr DEEn(magistern) DEPr DgEn DgSu FeDK FeFi FeNe(mikee) FePr FeWr GhAK GhVM GhWr HaAM HaSu HESt HuAs KoCK KoEn KoFi KoWz MfAE(hyperpivotal) MfAM MfPr MfSu MiSu(coolrobin) SEAM(coolrobin) SEFi SEPr SpAE SpGl VpAs VpEE VpFE VpTm
Currently oldwons are defined as combos not won in v>=0.9. To get a list of recently won oldwons, use the query "!lg * won ((cv>=0.9 || cv~~0.1.)) s=char / end>=20110901 ?:%=1" (with 20110901 replaced by the appropriate date).

olgrebs toxic radiance

Poisons everything in sight (including you). Does not work on things that are resistant to poison or are invisible (including you), or enemies that are submerged. Inflicts stronger poison half of the time (not including you). Level 4 Poison spell, not very good. Stacks now! Still not very good!

oncewon

CeSk DDSk DEAK DESk FeDK FeEn FeFi FeNe FePr FeWn GhAK GhSk MiAK MiSk OgSk OpAK OpAM OpAs OpCK OpDK OpEn OpFi OpHe OpHu OpMo OpNe OpPr OpSu OpWr SEAK SEAM SESk TeAK TeAM TeAr TeAs TeBe TeCj TeCK TeDK TeFi TeGl TeHe TeHu TeIE TeMo TeNe TePr TeSk TeSt TeTm TeWn TeWr TeWz VpSk

one

won (won) has won once in 1 games (100.00%): 1xMDFi

one and a half handed

1.5-handed gets significant penalties if you have a shield (and if you don't, why don't you use 2-handed?) and insufficient shield skill. The penalty with 0 shield skill is 1..1/3/5 to to-hit, damage and speed for bucklers/normal/large shields, respectively.
1.5 handed penalty to accuracy, damage and speed is based on -EV_penalty - (shield_skill / (5 + size_factor)). Source is player.cc line 2285; and fight.cc lines 3763, 3799, 4043, 6292.
crawl-speak for "one-handed but we like to confuse people"

one handed

One handed weapons behave how you'd expect a weapon to behave. No penalty for using these with a shield. If you use a one handed weapon without a shield you get an off hand punch.

one true language

language=dwarven
language=jager
language=jerry

onia

not a square

onion

Linley Henzell knows how to dice these.

oniyuri

Sounds Japanese.

ood

Crawl sometimes generates unusally hard monsters to keep you on your toes. The maximum possible is a 9 level difference, or 5 on D:1; add 12 as a special farmer penalty which only triggers after ~1k turns and is quite rare even then. Other times when something seems overly powerful, it's just a vault -- e.g. death yak guarding the lair.
see orb of destruction
Sealer the Chiller (L2 MuIE), slain by a centaur on D:1, with 34 points after 971 turns and 0:02:00.

ood interesting

This option is set to 8 by default. This makes Crawl automatically note monsters which are eight or more levels out-of-depth which you meet in the Dungeon branch. To check if the game noted of the monster you're fighting as ood_interesting, press the '?' key then the ':' key to see your game's notes.

oots

The Order of the Stick, an outstanding D&D webcomic: http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0001.html

ooze

The slow, dull, and ultimately wimpier cousin of the jelly. It doesn't dissolve anything, but it can beat you to death if you're dumb enough to stand next to it and don't like, run away or something. Note that oozes are still faster than nagas.
You ooze, you lose.

op

Overpowered, or the abbreviation for octopodes.
<Alexor> I don't think that octopodes will ever really be successful in crawl. I don't think that ASCII and tile graphics can ever really capture the true essence of having a giant octopus, covered in bling, latched onto your head and beating you to death with its tentacles, like some sort of maelevolent dreadlock wig.

ophan

Casts bolt of fire and creates holy flame clouds around you (but not under you).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophan

ophanim

01!lm ophanim uniq=duvessa gid=750475 -tv

ophe

http://paranatural.net/comics/2012-04-22-chapter-2-page-28.png

optimal

what do you even mean, turn optimal? time optimal? resource optimal? safety optimal? you probably shouldn't bring this up

optimal crawl playing age

optimism

<Wensley> elynae: eventually they will run out of arrows
<nht> ideally one would just go xom, drop on 3 pan runes and get rotated to an exit <nht> then fall down shafts to zot:5 and get rotated to the < stairs on the way up

options

http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git;a=blob_plain;f=crawl-ref/docs/options_guide.txt;hb=HEAD

orange crystal statue

Most monsters in this game attempt to kill you by slowly draining your hitpoints. The orange crystal statue attacks your intelligence score instead. Getting to 0 intelligence won't kill you instantly, but if you can't restore it you'll die soon after. Also confuses and drains mana, but can be instakilled with a wand of disintegration.
OCS attacks are actually just divination miscasts--in fact they are implemented in the source code by calling the code for a divinations miscast.

orange demon

Orange, poisonous, fairly hard hitting. Unlike most demons, not resistant to poison.

orange rat

Best known as the most powerful thing that vampire summon can summon, it drains, it bites, it's fast, and it will kill you quick from up close. Unless you meet a vampire, or find a rat vault, though, they usually only show up when you're plenty buff enough to take them. Roars on awakening and moves faster than normal.
http://www.dapper.com.au/whatrat.htm#argente

orb

orb card

Power 0: IMB, power 1: IOOD, power 2: multiple IOODs in a burst around you. Found in decks of destruction in 0.9 trunk.
!lm crate hoar bazaar 1 -tv

orb destroy

Don't do it.

orb glow

Causes -cTele, hurts stealth and slows down dissipation of magical contamination. Does not block invis, change to-hit/EV or cause contamination on its own. You can drop the orb and walk a few steps if you need cTele to run away.

orb guardian

Beasts that guard the Orb, only found in the Zot:5 vault. Hits like a stone giant, moves faster than you, and no longer flees when wounded. Not generally a threat, unless it gets berserked by one of the moths of wrath that invariably spawns in the vault.

orb of destruction

Iskenderun's Orb of Destruction - level 7 pure conjuration homing missile spell in 0.6+. Moves at speed 30 with inertia - if something casts this at you, sidestep, but watch out behind you! It does less damage at short range; at melee range it only does about half damage.
Unfortunately, any monster with a shield may be able to block the orb (and take zero damage). Monsters such as these (Daevas in particular) should be blasted a different way. Another thing to watch out for is an orb hitting another orb. In short, they'll explode with a small radius (so don't cast them very close to each other).
Does 9d(pow / 4) damage, but power gets an extra stepdown and will never exceed 87. Power is further reduced by 50/30/10 percent if the orb has only traveled 1/2/3 spaces.
Can be retargeted with ta, just like proper allies! Or atleast until it was fixed in 0.9, because the devs ruin everything.
<bza> i removed chunks from autpickup solely because of ood

orb of electrocution

Epic electrical storm. Was Annihilations-exclusive in pre-SS versions of Crawl; now Makhleb and Nemelex exclusive. Very deadly to anyone within 3 squares; 150+ damage has occured.

orb of fire

Lots of health, immune to elemental (except for cold, which it only resists) and necromantic attacks, lots of damage and a mutating attack. Never underestimate their power, lest you snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Silence no longer works on them.
The orb of fire glows yellow. Strange energies course through your body. A pair of horns grows on your head! _The +2 helmet of Saih {+Rage rF++} falls away!

orb of zot

Goal of the game; get it and return to the surface. Found on level 5 of the Realm of Zot. Picking it up seals portal entrances dungeon-wide, bestows the -cTele status in a radius of 2, and causes all monster generation to become extremely rapid and to consist solely of abyss- and pan-type nasties, including pandemonium lords. Weighs 60 aum.

orb spider

Moderately uncommon spider mostly in the Spider's Nest that tries to maintain its range and shoot orbs of destruction to try and make you side-step into webs, continues the fine tradition of new monsters being puns as an orb-weaving orb weaver spider.

orc

By itself, a pushover; but usually accompanied by lots of friends. Has 1d6 + 4 hp.
see orcish mines[1]

orc high priest

It's a priestly orc. Spells: pain, 2x summon common demon (234), smite, animate dead, healing.
Sees invisible!

orc kitten

What orc knights become when they are drunk and sleepy (according to Suga_H).

orc knight

The second most powerful melee orc you can find in the Orcish Mines. Confusion is a good plan, but you can kill them without it... it will just hurt more. If you see one of these plus a few warriors, or more than one of them, running might not be a bad idea.
Their warcries will wake and strengthen nearby orcs, so if at all convenient, kill knights first.

orc of electricity

An orc who ensures there is always enough light in dungeon.

orc priest

Generally the nastiest of the orc family in the early game, and a delightful green colour. Can smite with Beogh's power, and also melees. Regularly comes in a pack of normal orcs, generally with a orc wizard, and maybe even a orc warrior.
Luckily, orc priests do not always try to cast a spell, and smite is watered down with cantrips, so even if they do, it might not be a smite. Also, if they are in melee range, they are rather more likely to swing then cast (which STILL might not be smite). Most dangerous when far away and closing/behind orcs.
You are probably more likely to die from smite trying to run away without any nearby LOS breaks then trying to run up and just kill it, unless you only have a crappy dagger, or there's more then one/also a wizard.

orc slaying

Increases damage by 75% against orcs. It can only be found on artifacts. If a Beoghite, orcs will have a lowered chance of converting to friendly if you are wielding a weapon with this brand.

orc sorcerer

Probably the greatest purely magical threat in the Orcish Mines, they are fire resistant, can drain your life, paralyze you, and summon a lot of demons (which will also fight you, drain your stats and mutate you.) You'll probably want to kill them fast, or failing this possibility get out of their sight as fast as you can.
see hilarious_deaths[38]

orc warlord

If you meet this guy, you're in trouble. Most likely the greatest threat of all monsters that spawn in the Orcish Mines, and certainly the greatest threat in melee combat. Very strong, very tough. Can have a crossbow.
Note that they will pick up random thrown weapons like hand axes and clubs and throw them at you for 35+ damage.

orc warrior

Very much more of a melee threat than a regular orc, especially when first encountered. Tends to spawn with a good weapon and good armor and a good ability to use both, potentially beyond one's own when first met. However, junk wands like paralyze and especially enslave work fine.
<Tally> Jesus! That orc warrior cleaved down more than half my health in one swipe. x_x

orc wizard

Annoying by their lonesome as they will happily destroy your scrolls and pots in the early game, though very susceptible to poison and melee damage. Group it with a bunch of orc meatshields and an orc priest and you may well have a recipe for trouble.
Spells: { 2x magic dart, 2x blink, slow, haste } OR { magic dart, throw flame, invisibility, 2x confuse } OR { magic dart, throw frost, throw flame, invisibility, haste, cantrip }.
If slow has the potential to kill you, step carefully around these guys until you're very resistant to magic.

orcish fort

Mid game vault you can find from dungeon 7 and higher. It's a fort with 4 towers surrounded by water. Contains lots of orcs, wargs, orcish warriors and sometimes Orc Knights and Orc Warlords. There may be some loot inside, but nothing spectacular. Due to orc knights and warlords it might be dangerous for low level characters.

orcish idol

Silly statue that indicates presence of orcs usually. Use disintegrate on it for fun!

orcish items

If you are an orc, orcish armour impedes spellcasting less than other armours and improves your effective Armour skill. Orcs do slightly more damage with orcish weapons. The Armour and damage bonuses are larger if you are also a follower of Beogh, growing with piety.
A randomly generated orcish weapon will be -1 to hit, on a coinflip, and +1 to damage, on another coinflip.

orcish mines

Found in the main dungeon, between D:6 and D:11. Four levels deep.
The only loot you will find (besides the occasional shop or three) is a substantial amount of gold and a huge amount of orcish equipment. You will need to be able to handle multiple orc warrior packs simultaneously; watch out for knights, warlords, sorcerers, high priests, Saint Roka, and elves.
The stairs in the bottom level are guaranteed to be connected, so the risk of being stuck in a pocket is low.
Go to Lair first. Seriously.
Still can't find the Orcish Mines? Look for a funnel-shaped vault with a metal wall.

orcish rune

You can see these on robes and short swords that orcs are using.
Donald says, "I asked for directions to the rune, but they belched at me."
Donald says, "These orcs are so stupid, they must've eaten the rune."

order

Suggestions for the order in which you may want to play Crawl's branches: elliptic

ornate deck

A Deck with power level 1 or 0 cards. See card power for more details.

orthorobin

No diagonal movement! Password robin.
Except when autoexploring. Because CTS is for other roguelikes.

ortoslon

plays Windows Tiles trunk. maintains a selection of bad_ideas at https://sites.google.com/site/cherrypickedbadideas/
ortoslon's suggested play order: Rogue > DoomRL > Crawl > Spelunky

ossuary

An early game portal to a miniature tomb, stuffed with mummies and zombies and traps and things. The portal is timed and will eventually close on its own.
If you get the vault with guardian mummy, just run around in circles and get out of Mummys LOS. Then you can get into the vault for all the loot.

ouch

Ouch! That Really Hurt! This message means something just blasted you for half (or more) of your hit points.
This means Run.

overconfidence

Avoid, or meet your future.

overflow

An altar bumped out of the temple. Each temple god not in the temple proper is guaranteed between D:2-9.

overloaded

worse than encumbered. cannot move up stairs. +3 movement delay and hunger. 1/3 stealth.

oxymoron

monqy: that was such a good ogen too

ozocubu

Probably some ice mage who came up with some badass spells.
A magical serial murderer infamous for stuffing the corpses into his fridge.

ozocubus armour

Extra 4 + ice/3 (5 + ice*7/12 if in ice form) AC lasting for 18 + 2d(power) turns. Incompatible with Stoneskin and armour with EVP >= 2, but DOES work on the undead and bodily transformed.
Partially melts if you cast, are hit by, or think about anything warmer than room temperature.

ozocubus refrigeration

A fun and powerful L6 Ice spell that hits everything in LOS (including invisible/submerged things. and YOU, so have cold res) with AC-bypassing cold damage. 50% chance to slow cold-blooded monsters. This can shatter your potions if damage is >0, so drop them or at least wear conservation. Works nicely in many places, e.g. Slime, Snake, Elf, Zig.
Taking damage from this spell does not wake sleeping monsters.
You kill the orc! x3 You kill the orc priest! You kill the orc! You kill the orc! You kill the orc! You kill the orc! x11
Does not pass through trees.

ozymandias

The guy who died to a death cob.
The guy who control-teleported into a closed box without anything to get out. Got stomped by crystal golems.

pacification

Followers of Elyvilon can pacify monsters with healing abilities and wands of healing. Success rate depends on invocations skill and the strength of the healing ability in comparison to the monster's maxhp, modified mostly by holiness. Piety is not involved. Pacifying a monster gives half the normal xp and has a chance of raising piety.
Strength of the god-given healing abilities depends on invocations skill. Strength of the wand of healing depends on evocations skill (for pacification calculations only). At high evocations, the wand is stronger than high-invo greater healing.
Monster's maxhp is multiplied by 1 (animals), 1.5 (your species), 2 (holy), 3 (other), 4 (undead), 5 (demonic) for the check. The check is whether 1d((invo+1)*healed) > modified_maxhp. Healed is strength of healing (average 5+invo/3 for lesser, 19+2*invo/3 for greater, 22+5*evo/6 for wand).
(not lesser) the god power has about 25% chance of pacifying a hydra with 5 invo. With 10 invo, 69%. See http://www.niestu.com/caracal/pacify.html for a table of approximate probabilities.

pacify immunes

Pacification immunity is confirmed to be due to I_PLANT intelligence. List of confirmed immunes on [2].
List of confirmed immunes so far: All J*, all G*, Swamp and Spiny Worms,(* denotes an exception explained in [3])
Notable creatures not immune to pacification: Dissolution, Giant Orange Brain, Great Orb of Eyes, all tier 1-5 demons
Pacification always fails if the monster is of I_PLANT intelligence or less, of type MH_NONLIVING or MH_PLANT, asleep, or stationary.

pacifydudes

The strategy where you pacify everything. Except when you are hungry.

packrat

If you're getting encumbered or running out of slots, drop your excess stuff! Use d#. Start a dedicated stash, or just drop it wherever on levels you've cleared. Identify your stuff! Use show_inventory_weights. Don't carry valuable enchants/cure mutation. Ctrl-f is great for finding things you dropped, so you don't need to carry it with you.
You don't need to carry every weapon you find. One of each wand you're *going to use* is fine. When was the last time you needed to eat 10 rations at once? If you actually need more than like 2-5 of any given scroll or potion all at once, you're doing something very wrong. Go back and get that spellbook in 5 levels when you'll actually use it.
I will give you 5 dollars if you actually ever wear that amulet of clarity. If you're never going to drink the potions of invisibility, why carry them? I bet you really need all those detect curses too, as well as the 5 you'll find on the next level. You're not going to swap armors for resistances, don't even pretend you are.
Note: the above is the opinion of slinkies/Mayhem, and his opinions do not reflect those of the channel as a whole.

packs

Various creatures come in groups of 4 or more: gnolls, orcs (several orcs plus a priest, wizard, and sometimes an orc warrior), ugly things, slime creatures, yaks, death yaks, sheep, jackals, war dogs, wolves, bees, boggarts, deep trolls, insubstantial wisps, yaktaurs (lower levels, with a captain), centaurs (lower levels, with a centaur warrior).
Also, kobolds (with a single big kobold, large amounts of either is a kobold room), ogres (lower levels, plain and two-headed, wiht a mage), blink frogs, green and grey rats, skeletal warriors, giant mosquitoes.

pacra

Likes his ogre wanderers.
Mnoleg the Jinx (L13 SpEn), worshipper of Zin, mangled by Mnoleg in Pandemonium, with 52535 points after 17560 turns and 1:31:07.

pain

L1 necro spell, exclusive to the Book of Necromancy. Inflicts 1hp non-fatal damage on the caster. Does 1d(4 + pow/5) damage, with a limit of 25 power, and bypasses AC - but checks MR and only affects those without life protection.
see pain brand
Linley Henzell knows how to cause great amounts of this.

pain brand

Brand which inflicts 1d(necromancy skill) extra damage on necro+1 out of 8 successful hits. Does not affect those with rneg (demons, undead, unliving, shadow dragons, death drakes, holies). (For the record, a monster's necromancy skill is HD/2, HD if undead or demonic).
Available as a temp brand (Excruciating Wounds - L5 charms/necro; Unlife), only affixable via a one-time gift from Kiku.

pain card

A so-called {damaging card}; by card power, 0: pain 1: bolt of draining 2: torment symbol

painbow

all the different flavours of PAIN.

paladin

A holy warrior, starting with a long blade and a place with TSO. Unfortunately he doesn't have any combat tricks usable in the early game. Removed in 0.8.
No stabbing or other sneakiness, so Stealth doesn't help much except to escape or avoid, and if you keep TSO then the halo will make even that much useless. http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0214.html

pale draconian

A form of draconians that is able to breathe steam. Player character gets +1 aptitude in Air and Fire magic, +1 aptitude in evocations, and steam resistance (at xl 6, oddly).

palyth

hugeterm alert

pan

An infinite dungeon branch, Pandemonium consists of an infinite number of equally nasty dungeon-type levels. Pan levels are populated with demons instead of dungeon monsters.
Almost all Pan levels contain a vault, containing a demon lord (&), maybe some loot, and maybe a Rune. There are four unique demon lords; other demon lords are randomly generated based on a variant of the player-ghost code.
Unique demon lords are: Mnoleg (glowing rune; yellow floor; dark red walls), Lom Lobon (magical; grey floor; white walls), Cerebov (fiery; dark red floor; dark red walls) and Gloorx Vloq (dark; dark grey floor; dark grey walls). Only Cerebov has loot. If you worship TSO your halo can hide the floor color except at the edges of LOS.
Random lords have random wall colors and demonic runes, if they have a rune at all. The Cerebov vaults require controlled teleport. Random demon lord vaults with Runes are sometimes sealed, bring a dig wand.
Checklist: mutation resistance, rElec (if you plan on fighting Lom), cold resistance (for ice fiends), teleport control (to get the loot on Cerebov's level), and a character that's generally powerful enough to win with
Beware, if you leave a level (including getting banished (including by the wizards in lom lobon's vault (including high MR in your pan checklist is a good idea))), it won't be generated again -- making you miss the rune.
Pandemonium is probably the least inhabited of all the Outer Planes. It is arguably the least hospitable, even though there are hotter planes, colder ones, and planes with crueler denizens. But no plane is more mindnumbingly exhausting.
<evilmike> minqmay: pan is like when you go on a long road trip, you always forget something

pan disco hall

One-occurrence-only vault in pan containing color-changing walls and floor and three distortion weapons (demon blade, demon trident, lajatang). No pan lord or rune on this level!

pan lord

There are four fixed ones, see pan[3]. Others are random: HD 12-30, hp 103-250, speed 10-19, random resistances, random melee brand (possibly distortion), random spells (including hellfire).
Possible spells include fire storm (at HD 30 with 1.5x damage of Cerebov's!), ice storm, summon eyes, torment, greater demon, haste, and most others.
see fuk_da_sac[3]

pandamonium

A frightening dungeon branch filled with bamboo forests and adorably vicious members of the family Ursidae.

pants

You're not wearing any, and neither is your character. Try to only get hit above the waist.

paralyse

A monster spell, wand effect, and needle brand that deprives the victim of action for a few turns. Performed by wizard, giant eyeball, great orb of eyes, sphinx, lich, ancient lich, ogre-mage, vampire knight, deep elf mage, orc sorcerer, Rupert, Ereshkigal, Norris, Erolcha, and anyone who picks up the wand.

paralysis

Death (maybe).
see wand of paralysis
Needles of Paralysis with 27 Throwing allow you to kill just about anything in a few stabs - including Cerebov! Don't listen to curare [2].
<daftfad> I died to a paralyzing zot trap once (invoked by a monster) - made me want to burn crawl to disc so I could throw it into an IRL volcano
gg

pariah

<Pariah> pizza counts as a mace, right? :p

parking

Specifically with imps: have one follow you up the stairs, wait until it blinks away, and then go back down the stairs.
"I've never sat in a parked car with an imp before..."

passage of golubria

A spell in 0.8 that lets you set up controlled teleport traps on the floor. Acts like the portal gun in Portal, but without the fancy physics. Something walks in one end and appears out the other, player and monsters included. Level 4 Tloc, in books of Warp and Burglary.
There is no limit on how many passages may be open at one time (but if more than two are open, a random exit will be chosen for you). After 40-50 turns, the passage will disappear (with an expiry message) so be careful if you were relying on it for escape.
Note: the entrance closes behind you, but the exit remains open. Placement is not precise. You can't cast it on -cTele levels.
Before 0.10 only allowed two passages at a time.

passive freeze

One of the possible 3rd level mutations for the Demonspawn ice facet. You freeze things that attack you, with the same effects as the spell (slowing cold-blooded creatures). Works even if the attack is blocked/misses.

passwall

Allows passing through diggable wall/statues with a free turn (useful for guaranteed stabbing) on the other side. Delay before passing is 2+distance turns and is not stopped if attacked. Range is 1-13 based on earth/spell power; guaranteed minimum is 1+earth/8 tiles (max of 4, at skill 24).
You begin to meditate on the wall. You continue meditating on the rock. (x3) You finish merging with the rock. You fall into the water! You drown... Your meditation is interrupted.
In 0.8 or later passwall fails if you would end up in lava or deep water (unless you can survive in these enviroments).
see wensley[10]

patashu

******* 7 orbs of fire (!lm patashu abyss.enter id=3417885 -tv:<0.5:>0.2)
Doesn't know how to deal with silent spectres (!lg patashu id=1548052 -tv)

paw claws

Claws level 1, +2 damage

paws

Fluffy Death.

paxed

Hacks NetHack, hosts a site that includes "bilious" in its name, is the Emperor of Peru, and operates solely on electricity. Pick any two.
Also demonstrates some of the behavioural anomalies of electric golems.
Is awesome. <3

pbaoe

Point Blank Area of Effect, describes spells that affect entities in more than one square but focus around the user (like scroll of immolation).

pcrawl

<Poncheis> there should be a pcrawl too
unfeatures: existing
<Poncheis> what about poison storm?

pcre

Perl-compatible regular expressions: http://www.pcre.org/pcre.txt

pear dragon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitaya

pearl dragon

A holy monster! It breathes holy flames (3d36) that cause extra damage for evil beings. Its claws are holy-wrath branded.
Up to 162 per breath plus 48 per turn in clouds. Cerebov's firestorm is up to 136 (76 with rF+++) + resistable clouds. "Caution advised" is an understatement.

pearl dragon armour

Magical armour made from the scales of a pearl dragon. (AC 10, EV -3, rN+, 40aum). All races but felids, draconians, and octopodes can wear this. In 0.9 it resisted curses.
Everyone will find this but you.

pearl dragon hide

Enchant it to get pearl dragon armour.

pedantry

<phyphor> surely whipping flame clouds is the antithesis of "cool"

pedjt

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9163D30ECE5BA2F9 http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=09913DB36548A7D6
https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=user:pedjt
Loves: Crusaders, draconians, TSO, and ice cream. Hates: Cats, the abyss, cats, felids, cats, mummy aptitudes, and cats.
DG Ce HO Ke Na Og Mi
<Pedjt> You finish putting on the -1 large shield of Limited Liability {rElec Dex+2}. <Pedjt> _You feel more at ease with your business ventures.

peek at two

Discards a card from your deck, draws two other cards and shows you their names. Deck is re-shuffled with two shown cards and inscribed for future reference.

peering into the shadows

The monster can see or sense invisible, but is running from you or does not have a target.

peltast

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peltast

penance

With every god (not just yours), you have a penance number, which can be increased for long-term punishment. Every 20 turns, you have a 1/100 chance of taking retribution from a random god for which you are in penance; you then lose 1d3 points of penance for that god.
Except for Elyvilon, there is a chance you will be confused or slowed when this happens. ??<full god name> wrath for a description of other effects.
Penance also denies the use of most (active or passive) abilities.

penetration

Missiles fired from a launcher of penetration act like bolt spells and can hit several targets. Not unique to crossbows anymore, as javelins may have this brand as well.

penguin

see b0rsuk[6]
< Omnijim> The +7 +5 executioner's axe of the Penguin (Speed, +Inv, rElec, MR)
<st_> G - the -2,+0 executioner's axe of the Penguin (weapon) {speed, Str+3}

penis

Penis the Stickfighter (L15 HOMo) reached level 5 of the Snake Pit on turn 38147.

pentagram card

Summons a demon, greater common or lesser by power rank. Always friendly. Found in decks of summoning (and indirectly, war)

people

Always wrong.

percolator

Kirke wakes up grumpy, grunting and squealing. You hear a grinding noise. You smell coffee!

permafood

Unlike chunks, permafood does not rot away. Types of permafood include bread and meat rations, royal jellies, fruit, etc. The only rotting food are chunks and blood potions.

perryman

<Sequell> Perryman has 13 consecutive wins (DEFE, DEFE, DEFE, DEFE, DEFE, DEFE, DEFE, DEFE, DEFE, DEFE, DEFE, DEFE, DEFE).

petard

an explosive device formerly used in warfare to blow in a door or gate, form a breach in a wall, etc. If you are not careful when using your petard you may find yourself hoisted on it

petato

Big fan of reading the changelog and Surfing Norris. Last seen on irc December 2009. :(

petrify

Level 4 transmutation/earth spell found in the book of hinderance and stalking. Useful for annoying monsters with low MR. Works nicely with LRD and stabbing.
Petrification works in two stages. First the monster is slowed down in all of its actions and cannot move away (petrifying), and when that times out it remains properly petrified (no movement or actions). The second part is similar to paralysis, except that insubstantial monsters can't be affected and that all damage is reduced by a third.

pfehhh

The sound of extreme disapproval.

phantasmal warrior

phantasmal warriors don't bear mentioning

phantom

A ghost that is the same sort of bastard blinker as an imp. Has more AC and hits harder, but doesn't regen like an imp and can't use weapons or armour.
Their regeneration rate is quite low so its possible to damage them, get away, rest and they won't have full hp (while you hopefully will)

phase bat

see spam
Travels through all of the dimensions. All of them.

phase shift

Level 5 translocation spell, temporary +8 EV. Found in the Book of the Warp, the Book of Dreams, and Xom's random spell list. Duration can be extended via recasting to a maximum of 30 turns. Replaced forescry (div 5) in 0.6.

philosophy

phoenix

Holy flier. Revives, unless you destroy the corpse.
!lg mpa place=zig:12 1 -tv

physics

<instar> how can swamp have shafts. all the water would drain out

piercer

+2 +10 longbow of velocity, -2 EV

piercing whistle

You are wearing amulet of stasis and drinking potion of slow/speed

piety

With your current god, you have a piety number nominally from 1-200. If your piety reaches 0, you are excommunicated. piety[2] describes piety and penance. piety[3] describes piety growth in general. piety[4] describes piety growth for each god. piety[5] describes uses of piety. piety[6] tells you how you can determine your piety.
When you gain piety, first try to deduct as many points of penance. Failing that, deduct that many points from the gift timeout. Failing that, or 1/4 chance if gift timeout was reduced, you either get a divine gift or piety, depending on randomness, your god, and your current piety.
Piety growth slows at high levels; 0% at 200, 44% at >=151, 66% at >=101. Sif Muna's taper is slower - 0% at 200, 80% at >=151.
Piety for most gods decays over time: 1/14 turns for Trog, Oka; 1/16 for Makhleb, Lugonu, Beogh; 1/17 for Yred, Kiku, Vehumet, Zin; 1/20 for Jiyva; 1/25 for Ash; 1/35 for Nemelex, The Shining One; 1/50 for Elyvilon; 1/100 for Sif. Xom has his own system. Chei and Fedhas piety does not decay.
Piety controls what abilities you can use, chance of miraculous salvation by good gods, and ability power with Trog; gaining it is the way to get divine gifts.
Piety display: 0-5 Sinner, displeased; 6-20 Believer, noncommittal; 21-29 Believer, pleased; 30-40 *, pleased; 41-49 *, most; 50-70 **, most; 71-74 **, greatly; 75-99 ***, greatly; 100 ****, greatly; 101-119 ****, extremely; 120-130 *****, extremely; 131-160 *****, exalted; 161-200 ******, exalted

pig

Linley Henzell knows how to spit these.

pikel

A (big) kobold slaver, on his way to the Orcish Mines to sell his wares. Comes with a band of 4 humans, which will be pacified when you kill Pikel. Has a whip of either flaming or electrocution.

pilcrow

a pilcrow is the 'backwards p' editing mark, used to indicate a paragraph

pillar dancing

Common tactic for regenerating health while running from an enemy. Find a pillar and keep making circles.
Kills Gastronok.

pillar of salt

<Gretell> pillar of salt shaped pillar of salt (8) ...

pillowcase

Linley Henzell doesn't know how to open these.

pillowcases

Apparently, easily opened, though not in my experience.

pingas

<Pingas> I will not stab your penis

pirahna

Don't fall in! See giant goldfish!

pistachio

Delicious when salted 'n roasted! Not to be confused with Eustachio.

pit fiend

has hellfire, torment, and is resistant to hellfire, cold, poison, and electricity. It's also slower than a normal speed player. Replaced with hell sentinels in 0.11.

pivotal

faze

pizza

If it tastes good, it's not New York style.

pizza slapping

Pizza-slapping is what you do when you need to kill hydras, you have a ring of slaying, and your best blunt weapon is a slice of pizza. sorear said it works surprisingly well!

plain deck

a deck with only power level 0 cards. See card power for more details.

plans

If you are interested in some potential plans for further development (or interested in patch ideas), !tell dpeg your email address and the topics you are interested in. See plans[2] for a list of available texts.
Player gods. Sif Muna and artefact books. Okawaru. Demonspawn. Ranged attacks god. Slime god. Thief god. Miscellaneous items. Deep Dwarves (no innate healing).

plant

The punching bags of Crawl. Useful for training your melee skills to level 1, but note that getting beyond level 1 requires active participation by your opponent. Also useful in identifying the enchantment of weapons that you're skilled in. How do they get the light to grow in the dungeon? It is a mystery.
Kobolds love sneaking up on people killing plants.

plate armour

+10 ac -6 ev. Weighs 65.0 aum.

player only spells

passage of golubria, shroud of golubria, portal projectile, dispersal, see invisible, repel missiles, metabolic englaciation, inner flame, darkness, leda's liquefaction, shatter, tornado, conjure flame, delayed fireball, ozocubu's refrigeration, olgreb's toxic radiance, recall, death channel, borg's, all brands, all forms

player status

http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/player-status

playing while tired

Great way to die!
4DONT
!lg WYA turn=70345 killer=rupert -tv
!tv myuzinn xl=27 place=abyss ktyp=lava
!tv IonFrigate place = D:19 killer = smoke demon (note the +6 mace in inventory)
Summoner of Okawaru

playtesting

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bugs

plinker

Cryptic <3s it.

plog

When Crawl's name generator generates a name too short, it returns "Plog" instead of rerolling. That's why this name appears relatively often.
No relation to Trog, apparently.
Misspelling of ploog.

ploog

Misspelling of plog.
Also the last name of several developers.

plutonium sword

A triple sword made out of plutonium. Yes, this is as awesome as it sounds, if you don't mind growing another head out of your butt. The +12,+16 plutonium sword {Contam+ Stlth- Curse} Was a long sword before 0.8. Still probably not worth using. Found in a shop for 6916 gold.
However, Nemelex doesn't know that it's awful, and will love you for saccing it.

poetry

<Danei> My character's skills run the gamut / but not Traps and Doors; I just spam it / Now on hive level 4 / I shall search for the door / search, search, search, search, search, search, search, splash, damn it.
<punpun> what is grum? baby don't hurt me.
An elf corpse falls through the shaft / Damn centaur drowns with all his arrows / ITEM: nothing, nothing, nothing
GDA! / DAMN! / mimic
< CatEater> is this the nature of crawl? a pack of yaktaurs, about to kill a player, forever?
Ignite it and kite it. Sticky flame for the fame.
see trizap
Grum is engulfed in a mutagenic fog! Grum evaporates and reforms as a warg!
<[Hanged_Man]> this dgsk's ghost tile has a spear and a knife <[Hanged_Man]> for some reason I don't think that was what he had in life
<mong> five oklobs stand guard / over the entrance to slime / one ice storm is cast
<kats> People try to put us down (javelins of penetration) Just cause we're too heavy to carry around (javelins of penetration) Without throwing skill I'm badly missed (javelins of penetration) Hope I die before I get abyssed (javelins of penetration)

pointless

Why would you read a pointless learndb entry?
The player with the most necromancer wins (including Og and Mi). Also died to the most damaging death blow (Tiamat with holy wrath), and the most damaging mummy death curse.

poison

A condition that reduces HP every few rounds. Comes in a few different flavors corresponding to severity and duration of the poisoning. Yellow is minor to moderate, whereas red is severe.
Monster's level of poisonedness = P. [If 50% chance: dam = 1d(P+1)]. [If P>=4: dam += 1]. [If vuln poison: dam += 2dP -1]. So on average: Dam = (P+1)/4. If vuln: (P+1)/4 + P-1.
Monsters with ordinary poison attacks have a 1/4 (1/20 if you took no damage) chance of inflicting 1 level of poisoning; medium poison, 1/3 (1/15 with no damage) chance of 1d3 levels; nasty poison, 100% chance of 2 levels; strong poison, 1/3 (1/5 with no damage) chance of 2d5+1 levels, or the effects of medium poison if you are poison-resistant.

poison arrow

Level 6, range 7 conj/poison spell (Annihilations exclusive), inflicts incredible damage, deals 30% irresistable damage and poisons poison-resistant natural creatures, the undead cannot be poisoned but still take some damage. Used by naga casters and draconian/deep elf annihilators, as well as Green Deaths and Gloorx Vloq.

poison bolt

You probably meant one of venom bolt and poison arrow but we can't tell which one.

poison magic

Let me blow your mind: this skill lets you cast spells which poison people. Poison is absolutely fabulous against anything which isn't immune to poison, since it confuses things and kills them while you wander off and do more important things. Unfortunately, the scariest baddies are immune to poison.
There are a lot of great poison spells, but few of them are high level. High poison magic isn't useless, but you can almost always get away with just turning poison magic off. There are poison-vulnerable enemies everywhere except Pan - they can be dispatched with the 3rd level spell meph. cloud with poison magic 0.
The primary gem of the poison school is poison arrow, which is arguably the best single-target damage spell - even against poison-immune enemies - in the game.

poison miscast

1: 2-4 poison / meph cloud self 2: 3-11 poison / large meph cloud / 1 stat loss if not PR 3: 10-28 poison / poisonous cloud / 1-5 statloss

poison needles

These handy items come in two major flavors: poisoned needles and curare-tipped needles. The latter are far more potent than the former due to their ability to slow down enemies as well as inflict damage over time. Both require a blowgun for best effect.

poison resistance

Makes you immune to normal poison (this includes chunks!), damage from normal poison attacks, and confusion from mephitic clouds. Halves damage and poison from Poison Arrow. Recommended for Swamp and Snake, of rather little use elsewhere. Only 90% effective against poisonous attacks in 0.10.
Warning, many poison spells still have impact damage even if you can't be poisoned.

poison weapon

This spell will temporarily bestow the venom brand.

poisonous cloud

Level 6 poison/air/conjurations. Very strong if you get it castable early. Smite targetted. Destroys Elf and other places. Use in conjunction with ignite poison to create lingering clouds of flame.
<odiv> Why do they keep walking into it? <Grisamentum> well cmon it's a shiny green cloud! looks like fun!

polar bear

Resistant to cold, as you would expect. As, er, you may or may not expect, they are amphibious as well. In 0.6, bears go berserk when afraid (due to Fear or low HP).

polearms

[hands](Dam,Acc,Delay): Spear[1.5] (6,4,11); Trident[1.5] (9,3,13); Demon trident[1.5] (12,1,13); Trishula[1.5] (13,0,13); Halberd[2] (13,-3,15); Scythe[2] (14,-4,20); Glaive[2] (15,-3,17); Bardiche[2] (18,-6,20)

polearms reasons

You are a merfolk.
You are not a merfolk.
You found penguin[1].

polite monsters

some monsters inquire first whether you can survive indeep water before trampling you into it

politician

Title you get for mastering stabbing.

poll

1.Age 2.Country 3.Local/server/both? 4.Tiles/ASCII/both? 5.OS(es) at home? 6.Roguelikes played before? (Nethack, ADOM etc.) 7.Learned about Crawl where? 8.And when? 9.How many Crawl wins? 10.Heard about tournament where? 11.Ever recommended Crawl? 12.Which computer game played most in the last month?
Read about the poll results at http://crawl.akrasiac.org/poll_results.txt. Feel free to contact us about the evaluation or ideas for the next poll (think 2011) at crawlpoll@gmail.com.

polymorph other

Changes monsters into other monsters, likely to be harder, but without equipment. When used on players by monsters, it causes bad mutations 9 times out of 10, or otherwise a random mutation, which can still be bad. You can't use it on yourself.
Monsters turn into monsters of the same holiness and with similar HD, but undead and nonliving monsters cannot be polymorphed.
Good targets for polymorph wand: killer bees, jellies, boggarts, harpies, electric eels, wasps, brown ugly things, and well-equipped monsters (e.g. orc knights).
See !lg MadDasher place=D:2 ckiller=Dragon -tv for what can go wrong.
6733 | D:5 | Grinder changed into Grinder the hellephant

polyphemus

A cyclops. Throws large rocks. Comes with death yaks and the like. About as strong as your average Death Yak and slower to boot.
Really boring.
Polyphemus says, "@Foe_genus@ for dinner? Sounds delicious!"

ponderous

Adds 2 to your move delay per item with ponderous. Not a good thing.

ponderousness

Armour brand that adds +2 to movement delay. Usually accompanied by a high armour ac bonus.
<phyphor> +8 platemail! <phyphor> of ... <phyphor> oh, suck

poop

A player shrouded in mystery who does not have the goal of placing a player ghost on every possible level of the dungeon, even though it may appear that way. A hero to all.
Tremble, mortals, and despair - poop has come to this world!
<Pooooop> When I play priests of Beogh, all the orcs are like "Beogh is great, and so is poop!" It confused me at first.

poor

so bad it doesn't even get an entry

popcorn

rats, grey rats, bats, goblins, kobolds, quokkas,

popularity

Statistics on the popularity of certain things. So far there's combo_popularity, spell_popularity, starting_god_popularity, and armour_popularity. For more stats, see ratios.

porcupine

Polearms 27 title. Also a new monster in 0.8.

porkalator

A unique spell of Kirke that transforms you (or anything else she sees) into a hog. You get faster movement (unless you're already moving quickly), but no equipment. Just run away and wait it out.
<minmay> (pig form is basically paralysis except you can move)
Was the reason demon polymorphing was added. No, really.

portal

L7 Tloc; book of the warp. Takes you from your current level; places you on up-stairs at the level of your choosing, up to 9 levels up or down. Enemies don't follow or attack, but those at your destination get a turn. Works in the main dungeon only, and not when on stairs, altars, traps, shops, etc. Skipped levels are not generated. Gone in 0.8.

portal card

Teleports you. power_level/2 chance each of being controlled and of randomly blinking you.
The teleport control lasts for several turns, not just the teleport from this card.

portal distance

Portal distance by adjective: a long way away, >30; distant, >15; nearby, >7.

portal mimic

It is as big as a portal.

portal projectile

Teleports a fired (wield launcher) or thrown missile directly to its target, greatly increasing its accuracy (but not damage). Has many interesting tactical uses, e.g. hitting the orc priest hanging out behind the pack. Does not pass (transparent) walls. It is the rough opposite of apportation, in that it can also fire whatever wherever whyever.
Projectiles of returning do not return when Portal'd.

portal to somewhere

Beware eldritch tentacles, may be summoned by a zot trap.

portal vault

A vault on its own separate map/maps, entered through a portal (same symbol as e.g. the Hell entrance). Portal vaults include labyrinths, bazaars, treasure troves, ziggurats, sewers, ossuaries, baileys, ice caves, volcanoes, spider's nests, and wizlabs.
see portal_distance[1]

positive energy

Armour brand that gives resistance to draining.

potion acquirement

BEER RUN!

potion card

Gives the effect of a random potion from agility (2/11), brilliance (2/11), might (2/11), curing (2/11), confusion (1/11), slowing (1/11), paralysis (1/11). 50% chance of replacing it with with magic/invisibility at power 1, or speed/resistance with another coinflip at power 2.

potion of blood

Vampire food. Decays, but quicker to eat than sucking a corpse. And weighs less. Other species get only a very small amount of nutrition, and often get sick if they do not have gourmand or carnivore. Can also be wielded for sublimation of blood.
Blood decays 10 time slower in the bottle than in the body, so extract them fast if you want them to last.
<Pariah> WHY COULDN'T IT HAVE BEEN BLOOD?

potion of coagulated blood

A potion of blood that is about to completely rot away soon.

potion of cure mutation

Removes 1 to 7 randomly chosen mutations. Don't forget that a potion of gain $STAT works by causing a precisely defined mutation.
When you've got crippling mutations, the Random Number God will make sure you won't find one for 20 levels. Enjoy your crippling mutations.

potion of curing

Common potion that restores a small amount of health and cures sickness, poison, confusion, and rotting. Compare with potion of heal wounds.

potion of decay

Gives you rot.

potion of experience

Gives you a bunch of experience. The amount of XP you get is enough to take you the same proportion of the way between the next two levels as you currently are between your level and the next one. You gain 750 * (your new XL) experience to spend on skills.

potion of gain dexterity

Causes you to gain a mutation that increases your Dex by 1.
Can be undone (accidentally or by purpose) with a potion of cure mutation.

potion of gain intelligence

You permanently gain a point of intelligence. Bypasses amulet of rMut, but not the mutation.
Can be undone (accidentally or by purpose) with a potion of cure mutation.

potion of gain strength

Gives you a good mutation - You are strong (Str+1). Go into baileys for a chance to get about 9 of these!
Can be undone (on purpose or by accident) by a potion of cure mutation.

potion of magic

Is just like a potion of heal wounds except for MP.

potion of mutation

Attempts to give you three random mutations. Also, outputs the message "you feel extremely strange" whether it succeeds or not -- if you're looking here to see what that message means, you probably quaffed this while resistant to mutations.

potion of poison

One of the more useful potions to evaporate, it creates a 3x3 squares poisonous cloud. Also, don't drink the potion, it's not good for you.

potion of porridge

A special treat for Oliver Twist! 6040 nutrition. Gluggy white or gluggy brown potion.
Unless you are at 12000 nutrition, you can drink this even if you are engorged, if for some reason you want to. Note that gluttony is a sin.

potion of resistance

Gives temporary resistance to fire, cold, electricity, and poison, and 1 point of magic contamination. Duration is between 10 and 29 turns (randomly; per resistance). Nice against Nikola and on Zot:5.

potion of water

60 nutrition when quaffed (and nothing else), or a cloud of steam that blocks LOS and does minor damage when evaporated. Appears as "a clear potion" until identified.

potions

agility, berserk rage, blood, brilliance, coagulated blood, confusion, cure mutation, decay, degeneration, experience, gain dexterity, gain intelligence, gain strength, healing, heal wounds, invisibility, levitation, magic, might, mutation, paralysis, poison, porridge, resistance, restore abilities, slowing, speed, strong poison, water
Certain potions have fixed unidentified appearance descriptions, or are limited to a few; porridge can only be gluggy brown or gluggy white, blood is always red, coagulated blood is always sedimented red, and water is always clear.
See quaff_id for advice on when to identify potions by quaffing them (as opposed to using scroll of identify).

powered by death

For each corpse in mutation_level * 3 radius when you kill an enemy (and get the Regen+ status), your regeneration rate is boosted by 100 (max of 700). Duration of the status is mutation_level * 8 + 2d8 (maximum of 40 turns).
For each corpse affected by PBD, the corpse rots faster, chance of rotting is a factor of duration left on PBD. Additional decay is fairly insignificant.

powered by pain

Taking damage sometimes restores MP. Tier 2 DS mutation.
If d(damage) > 2 + 3*mutlevel (or dam >= hp/2), you regain 3d(2 + 3*mutlevel) MP. Likely to be tweaked in the future, feedback appreciated.

powerful

Describes a experience level 11-15 player ghost.

powergamer

POWERGAMER
see dpeg
<N78291> will anything bad happen if I run out of bazaar maps
<Heteroy> i starved a kobold of nemelex. i had some decks of dungeons stored and i kept getting bazaars but none of them had any food

pr

Crawl-speak for Poison Resistance; part of your daily balanced breakfast. But call it rPois instead as the autoinscriptions do.

praise

Cloud wizlab is cool :)
thanks for the message on entering labs with teleportitis
<3 new uniques except menkaure
Through all the complaining, we're still here. <3
<sluggo> Hey everyone.. I just wanna say profs off to all the devs.. I am really digging v7+ . I just had my first good game and had a blast.
greensnark is awesome, see listgame[1]
Thanks for improving sequell to count sprint trunk! <3
tornado looks amazing in shoals
Praise be to dpeg!
zonguldrok is awesome
You are under the weather. You are standing in the rain.
whoever added the description for normal spiders: I like it
Crawl inspires great passions in its players. Forgive us.

pray

This means that you are currently praying (because you pressed p). View the ^ screen to see what this means for your god.

preservation

see cloak_of_preservation
It's rCorr that (partially) protects equipment from acid damage, not Preserve; so an amulet of resist corrosion is at least as good as a cloak of preservation in Slime.

pressure plate

A mystery trap whose function is defined in lua

priest

A class that starts out with a quarterstaff, a robe, some Invocations skill, and piety with a god. Priests of most non-evil races start with Zin (they get some healing potions), and Hill Orcs start with Beogh (they get a hand axe instead of a quarterstaff).

primal wave

A merfolk aquamancer spell that does a lot of damage, creates water, and knocks you back. No longer able to hurl the PC into deep water. :(

prince ribbit

Blink frog unique. Found in the main dungeon. Nearly the same as a regular blink frog, except that he's light blue, has a human (contaminated) corpse, talks, doesn't come with 3 more blink frogs, and knows teleport self for when in trouble. Found as early as D:4.
He's a prince who got turned into a frog, in case your parents never read you fairy tales when you were a kid.
No, you can't polymorph him into a human.

pristine statue

A silver archer statue, armed with a crossbow and silver bolts. Watch out, as their damage is relatively high. Found only in Sprint III.

private messages

If you need to read all of a topic, use these (/msg henzell ?? foo) instead, so you don't choke up discussion on the whole channel. Henzell will respond in private. Henzell will also respond to some ! (foo) commands in private, Gretell will respond to @ commands in private, and Sequell will respond to !lg, !lm, and even !tv.

proc

When the thingy does its thingy thing.

procodile

<mikee_> i just wanted to play a dsmo with a dumb name

profane servitor

A terrible undead angel, with both vampiric and draining attacks, and sometimes a demon whip. Resistant to holy attacks because of its blasphemous nature! Surrounded by an unholy umbra, which cancels out halos and causes accuracy penalties (but undead/demons/**+ Yred worshipers are immune)

projected noise

Wakes up monsters in some part of the level. The monsters start to travel towards the noise.
If you are under the mesmerised status, casting this spell is loud enough to break you out of the effect. When cast at a wall, you'll hear a dull thud. This can be useful for figuring out where unexplored areas remain.
<elliptic> then you cast projected noise on each level until you hear dissolution eating walls <elliptic> rwbarton deserves the credit
see protip
It trivializes zigs. And Tomb:3 also!
In trunk, is a level 2 hex found in the Book of Party Tricks.

protection

Bonus AC. On rings, anywhere from -6 to +6. On weapons, +5 AC. On shields, +3 AC. You could also have learned any of this by viewing the in-game item description.

protip

<elliptic> it seems like projected noise could be potentially useful on late zig levels
(5:57:02 PM) casmith789: I attack orbs of fire with sbl all the time
<elliptic> should have worn the gloves <elliptic> unless you did, in which case you shouldn't have
<elliptic> hatm is nearly as good as spen
<BirdoPrey> lkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkiu <BirdoPrey> switch from crawl window to irc window before cat steps on keyboard
For the record, Sure Blade is far from useless both early and late in the game. If anything, the spell is closer to being overpowered than underpowered. --rwbarton
<fazisi> all weapons are crap <fasizi> be a troll, use your claws
<N78291> 3d30 really means "tickles a bit" if you have any AC at all
<rwbarton> yeah, attacking with exec axe is a good way to rest faster
(12:15:52 PM) casmith789: at the moment meph is probably underpowered
< TGWi> ice cave strategy: teleport to the end, put on all the rC gear, then clear it backwards
<neongrey> cast shatter to clear up some space so you can cast tornado better
<ebarrett> just don't land in sight of hellion island but with it out of tornado range with your back to a wall and forget to dig
Your two-headed ogre shouts, "Beware of monsters!"
<rwbarton> xom is possibly more useful than TSO for much of the game
<minqmay> paralysis is not very harmful in the early game
<monqy> HangedMan: keep a moth around so it will zerk the priests/sorcs so they won't summon neqoxecs
<N78291> Did you know you can cancel olgreb's from venom card if you have allies that lack rPois?
<Blade-> the cool thing about spiders is that they can't open doors
<monqy> elliott: you might want to find a better position

prussian

<prussian> im a ddne irl

pseudonut

Plays a lotta unwons.
Favorite achievement: Pseudonut the Merry Mummy (L27 MuBe), worshipper of Trog, escaped with the Orb and 3 runes

psyche

A purple unique magess that is generally unremarkable in both dungeon spawn location and ability, but can still be quite dangerous when she hastes herself and unloads a wand or chaos dagger on you. Or in the 25% of the time that her dagger is distortion.
YOU ARE VIOLATING AREA SECURITY!!!

psymar

Is still not sure how the hell he killed Gastronok.
Trolls ##crawl more than actually playing crawl.
responsible for much of the cruft in the learndb.
KILL _ALL_ THE THINGS!!!

puberty

"Strange energies run through your body." This message, by itself, is meaningless.

pulsating lump

Has a mutating melee attack, but if you let it catch up to you then you deserve it.

punch

An auxiliary unarmed attack you can get if you have claws or unarmed skill and you're not using a shield or two-handed weapon. Damage is 5 + (unarmed skill / 5). Add +1d3 with claws (any level), or +6 with blade hands.

punk

A +9, +12 sling of frost. Gives rC+. Shows up as "a blue sling."

puns

<Henzell> I don't know about !learn add puns.
<larasium> menkaure is a pain
<Raycaster> what if power ranger was a character class <Xiberia> ??arcane marksman
see slouch[4]
<ontoclasm> is the lungs-and-circle setup for the orb room set in stone

pure caster

!tv elynae killer=eidolon 1

purgy

An unusually thin and nervous troll. Sad, really. :(
True professionals that play trolls will religiously kill and wear Purgy to prove they are the mightiest troll bully of them all. What a bunch of trolls. :(
Do it. Be the troll troll.

purification

Removes negative conditions (Rot, Poison, Slow, Sick, ...)

purple draconian

A form of draconians that has an affinity for spellcasting. Player character gets +2 aptitude in Spellcasting, +1 in Charms/Hexes/Evocations, and higher magic resistance than other draconians. Breath weapon is a bolt that dispels buffs.
<rwbarton> they lose the ability to quit at xl 7

purple draconian monk

Fear them.

purple glaive

see glaive_of_prune
see glaive_of_prune[2]

purple smoke

Blinking will leave behind a single cloud of purple smoke at the place the blinker blinked from.

putty

Can be found at: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html There is also a newer improved version of PuTTY called PuTTY tray that can be found at http://haanstra.eu/putty/
If you need help connecting with PuTTY, check this link out: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.misc/msg/895edd287e71faa2
Before SS 0.5, numpad doesn't seem to work on connections from Windows users using both teraterm and PuTTY. As a workaround in PuTTY, you can go to Settings->Terminal->Keyboard and set your numpad type to NetHack (there's a little radio button for this). This changes so that instead of outputing arrow movements from the numpad it outputs vi-keys.
If even these settings are insufficient for your preferred numeric-keypadding ways, under Terminal -> Features, try checking the box for "Disable application keypad mode". This will cause +-/*enter on the keypad to behave as expected, and possibly other things. Der slinkmeister knows no fix for making shift-keypad5 do a long rest as per local mode.
Control+Numpad does not work in 0.58 release, upgrading to 0.60 fixes this, and keeps all your old config.
If you are tired of right-clicks entering everything in your clipboard as input, you can disable this feature in Window->Selection->Control uses of mouse. Set action of mouse buttons to Windows. You can also Ctrl-right-click to bring up the normal context menu if you don't want to disable this feature.
see char_set
If you don't like having Putty clutter your taskbar when not playing (for there are *no* other reasons imaginable for wanting minimize-to-tray), you might appreciate PuTTYtray: http://haanstra.eu/putty/
see terminal_size
You may also want to use KiTTY. KiTTY is only designed for the Microsoft Windows platform.

pvp

Nonexistent.

pwn

The deep elf annihilator casts a spell. Your buckler of reflection reflects the crystal spear. The deep elf annihilator dies!

pwnies

Like ponies, but more awesome.

pwnmonkey

what's a mennas

qcrawl

this space for rent
misspelling of qrawl

qiglaf

see wiglaf
<Qiglaf> hey hydra buddy what chu doin baby

quad damage

QUAD DAMAGE! (as in proper Quakes, ie, any but Q3 and QLive)
!lm syllogism sprint uniq=antaeus turn=30902 -tv
THE RAT TWITCHES ITS WHISKERS.
Due to reckless vandalism by last year's graduating class, the quad will remain closed until further notice.
< Chapayev> quad damage (lowercase) divides your damage by 4 instead of multiplying it by 4

quadruple sword

Pull your head out of your ass. That's never happening.

quadzap

!lg * id=826169 -tv

quaff id

don't
Okay, well, only if you're going to die otherwise.
do you like random mutations? wasting your first speed/heal wounds/resistance/cure mutation potion? dying to early strong poison? seriously, it's a fine use for identify.

quaffid

see quaff id
a shy creature related to the triffid

quarterstaff

A fast and accurate stick that you hit things with. Damage: 10. Accuracy: 3. Delay: 130. Double handed. If you use a quarterstaff with a shield, the base damage is halved. Though anyone with a hand-and-a-half weapon, no shield, and unarmed skill can still punch, quarterstaves allow it even if you're a spriggan (for whom QS are two-handed).

quasit

A weakish demon which moves very quickly, has high evasion, and resists all elements except lightning. Drains dexterity in melee, but does little damage and can be killed easily enough despite the resists. Also rather low MR.
They don't fly

queen

We will rock you!

queen ant

Queen of the ants.

queen bee

Alias for rapper Lil' Kim.
Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.
Will berserk killer bees!

quelles

This is elliptic's Sequell clone. He usually only runs it when Sequell is down. It currently doesn't have most older games in its database, but it should be up to date with newer games. Currently it doesn't do FooTV, sorry. It also doesn't know about existing !nicks.
The name was suggested by valrus.

quick blade

The only weapon that can never get a speed brand. Damage: 5. Accuracy: 6. Delay: 70%, with the minimum delay being 30%(20% with haste). Doesn't chop off hydra heads, if you were wondering. Is classified as a short blade, longer than a dagger, but shorter than a short sword.
Because of insanely fast attack speed, you may add pain and electrocution brands to your wishlist.
It can't get a speed brand because it wouldn't actually do anything, it's too fast already.

quicksilver dragon

Extremely dangerous monster that moves 50% faster than you and breathes irresistible 3d20 status-dispelling energy bolts. Fortunately it is very rare, so rare that if you find one (outside Vault:8) it's probably a shapeshifter.
If you find a real one, good ideas include meeting it around a corner while at full health, berserking while adjacent to it and at full health, haste, mephitic cloud and deflect missiles.
Or max out your stealth and stab it.
Or, if you're a Cheibriados worshipper... well, by now you should know what to do.
This is a good target for that curare you've been forgetting to use.
This is a good time to die and then look silly because you had a ton of curare in your inventory.

quicksilver dragon armour

No such thing, unfortunately!

quiet

Targeted silence in {4.1}.

quintuple sword

We can extrapolate that its stats are 27, -10, 27. It's not anywhere near as good as the giant spiked demon blade.

quit

Quitters never win or escape or die.
, thou bumbling whey-faced bounder!

quite difficult

Somewhat hard, at least 51.875% chance of failure and at most 83.34375% chance of failure.

quite powerful

0.8 mummy
<evilmike> net stabbing is theoretically quite powerful
< minmay> this spear of reaching is actually quite powerful
Stashing items under bushes
Using maurice as a stash
< evilmike> the | command is quite powerful
<[Hanged_Man]> throwing skill is quite powerful in 0.10 with the javelin gifting
https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2543

quitrobin

Incorrect example: http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/QuitRobin/morgue-QuitRobin-20080514-063933.txt

quokka

Some Australian cat or something?
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w316/smary1965/animals/Quokka.jpg
http://quokkagirl.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/beach-quokka1.jpg
BLOOD AND SOULS FOR QUOKKA
Your quokka bites the death yak. The death yak dies! Your quokka looks stronger.
http://i.imgur.com/UvFTC.jpg http://i.imgur.com/NJDsz.jpg

quuuuuuux

The tenth metasyntactic variable.

qwarf

< Pseudonut> because they drink a lot

qwin

see {cang}

race list

0.10 races: Ce DD DE Dg Dr Ds Fe Gh Ha HE HO Hu Ko Mf Mi Mu Na Og Op SE Sp Te Tr Vp

racial items

Racial items can be elven, dwarven, or orcish. Additionally, if you are a demonspawn, you get racial-weapon-style bonuses for using demon weapons (note that demon weapons are distinct base items, whereas elven/dwarven/orcish are modifiers to a base item).

racism

<tensorpudding> god, i hate wights
< mikee_> the orc jeers, as orcs often do
The Shining One does not accept worship from those such as you!
<Stathol> The grey draconian zealot mumbles some strange prayers to its god against the black draconian.
You cannot memorise any of the available spells because you are a mummy.
<HangedMan> if only I could get white
<eeviac> dealing 110 damage is not white
<eeviac> humans are the worst race
<Patushu> she's a kobold <Patushu> she's not allowed to be notable
<eeviac_> there's a handful of races that I wonder if anyone actually likes

ragdoll

You feel energised by your suffering.
!lm Ragdoll vpbe rune=golden -tv:<23:>3

ragdoll reasons

You want to make hundreds of maurice to steal any high score you want.

rage

Are you interested in the amulet of rage, the berserker rage spell, or just being berserk in general? +Rage is evocable. *Rage activates randomly on attack.

rain cloud

makes water

rakshasa

This spellcaster likes to make clones of itself and then turn invisible. The clones only have 1hp, but can be maddeningly difficult to kill due to their Evasion. The clones can, however, be Abjured quite effectively. Turning invisible allows you to easily distinguish the clones as well. Magic dart kills the clones!
Their clones deal no damage by having 0 damage attacks: this means that if you let a rakshasa pick up certain branded weapons (antimagic, distortion [!!!], elec, etc.) or wands, or if some bastard of a vault-maker gives them it, all of the clones can matter beyond regular obfuscation.

rambutan

The rambutan, Nephelium lappaceum) is a medium-sized tropical tree in the family Sapindaceae, and the fruit of this tree.

randart

A randomly generated artefact; its appearance and name have no special significance. Keep in mind that artefact status by itself does not dictate worthiness. A +8 randart hand axe (with +3 str) is still not a broad axe, and a +5 ring mail (with +rage) is still not a plate mail. Anything with mutagenic radiation is worthless except as a swap.
Randarts can be generated as early as D:3 but are not generated on D:1 or D:2 except possibly in vaults.

randgod

!rng trog makh oka tso sif veh lucy kiku nemelex Ñom yred ash ely beogh chei zin fedhas jiyva none
xom

random2

1dN - 1

random2avg

"random2avg() returns same mean value as random2() but with a lower variance" [decreasing with increasing second argument].

randomwords

<randomwords> Elf 7 really doesn't seem so hard <randomwords> This situation got really bad, really quickly

ranged combat

Nobody understands ranged combat.
see launcher damage
(Acc,Dam,Delay,StrWeight)[Hands]: Blowgun[1.5H] (2,0,10,0), Sling (2,0,11,1), Crossbow[2H] (4,5,15,8), Bow[2H] (1,3,11,2), Longbow[2H] (0,6,12,3). Where base dmg is used for bonus str dam

rare rings

Rings of invisibility, regeneration, teleport control, and slaying are about 1/3 as likely to be generated as any other non-artifact ring types.

rat

The same speed as you, almost no magic resistance, killable in one hit, but high EV.
These also come in green rat, grey rat and orange rat flavors. The first does three times the damage of a normal rat, the second is 20% faster and does 40% more damage, and the third does 20 damage, drains you and has several times the HP.

rat vault

RAT VAULT. Contains CHEESE

rather difficult

A bit hard, at least 25.171875% and at most 50.0%.

ratios

For win/lose ratios for characters sorted by combo, species, class, god, or skill, see combo_ratios, species_ratios, class_ratios, god_ratios, or skill_ratios. For more stats, see popularity.

ratskin cloak

A funny-looking unrandart cloak, that shows up as a "motley cloak" and has rPois rN+ Dex-1 Int-1.

raven

"Never more."

ravenous mimic

In 0.11, the name for a dangerously high-level mimic.

rax

Barracks, cmon, do I have to tell you guys everything?
LOL.

raxohol

Intoxicated ponies!
all the cat sluts in the club lappin' up raxohol

raxvulpine

Hosts CAO!
Is as awesome today as the day they were born!
Ponies!
is the recognized expert on doing Zot with teleportitis.

raycaster

??pimp

rc

rC means "resist cold", with rC+ and rC- representing positive and negative levels. Can also refer to crawl.rc, the configuration file. ?rc means "scroll of remove curse".
Accessible via www: CAO: http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rcfiles/crawl-{0.7|0.8|0.9|0.10|git|lorcs}/$name.rc CDO: http://crawl.develz.org/configs/{ancient|0.6|0.7|0.8|0.9|0.10|trunk}/$name.rc

rcrawl

<Red_Bucket> Maybe I should have one of those entries
Boggarts riding ghost moths; ogres riding elephants

rcrobin

Paste your rcfile into it and see if it works. If your game is in limbo, but you can't stop improving your rcfile, this account is for you.

reaching

Weapons of reaching can be e(v)oked to attack something up to two squares away. The attack will pass monsters 50% of the time and the other 50% of the time hit the monster in the way (if hostile) instead of the target.
See http://crawl.pastebin.com/f7eb52a9 for some ugly diagrams. Note that "You could not reach far enough!" is the message when a monster blocks the way and you fail a random dice roll. "Your weapon cannot reach that far!" means there's no way to do it.
Weapons of reaching have another unique property that you may have overlooked: if you set a macro to send "v." this becomes your "hit a nearby monster" key, something no other weapon can do, meaning you no longer have to think about which direction to attack next if your foe is close enough.
Like Freeze and vampiric draining, can be used to kill submerged fish in deep water and lava. It can also be used to target monsters easily while you are confused.
Reaching does not train Evocations.
Reaching does not suck.
Major reaching cheese: merfolk/octopode+water, kenku+water/lava, spriggan/centaur/swiftness (tiresome), sputterflies.
In 0.10, all polearms have reaching, but not as a brand, so a spear of venom is a spear "of reaching" of venom. Yes, that includes those gnolls.

read id

real men

Play deep elves without training fighting. HP counts over 100 are for wimps.
Play mummy berserkers.
Even realer men play MuMo.

realism of crawl

whacking KILLER FUCKING BEES with a halberd and throwing javelins at them
Bananas and strawberries that last forever.
There are no ninjas or pirates.
Death by lack of intelligence.
You can't bleed to death.
Resting to recover from a venomous snakebite.
circular los
can't fire arrows over a rat at an elephant
<dchimera> a snapping turtle just invoked a zot trap against me

reaper

A type 2 demon with no spells, but has high damage and HP and comes with a branded scythe. If the RNG hates you this will be distortion.
!lg Iaido killer=reaper -tv

reaping

A weapon brand that turns everything you kill into friendly zombies if a corpse is generated. Can appear on launchers, scythes, and unrandarts. Considered evil by the good gods.

reasons reasons

You like bad advice but are too lazy to look at the wiki.
You like bad jokes but are too lazy to...oh, wait.

reasons reasons reasons

You think there are too many reasons entries.

reaver

Reavers are warriors who learn the magics of destruction in order to complement their deadliness in melee combat. Starts like a conjurer, plus a choice of weapons and skill in melee fighting, but it has less MP and Int. Removed, but not from our hearts, in 0.8.
You can play a new reaver in crawl light! (with improved spellbook)

reaver petition

Add your nick to the !nick wewantreavers to bring back reavers!

reaver reasons

You want to be a bad conjurer with a (bad) starting weapon.

recall

Warps all friendly creatures on the current level next to you, very powerful. Level 3 summoning/translocations spell in the books of summonings, unlife, and the warp, and the rod of summoning. Yred and Beogh grant recall ability for the followers they grant.

recharging

see scroll of recharging
see scroll of recharging[2]

recipes

Allow a chunk of flesh to marinate in a potion of curing for two to three thousand turns in order to craft beef jerky

recite

Causes various effects to chaotic, unclean, evil or heretical creatures in view. Multi-turn action, with strength depending on piety and invocations. Effects scale from things like confusion and fear on humanoids, to smiting and instakilling chaotic creatures, to permanently blinding or paralysing heretic priests.
Abominations (chaotic, differently insane): damage, Ablutions (impure): damage, Apostates (intelligent): fear/confusion, god worshippers: blind/anti-caster, Anathema (unholy): fear/confusion/damage
0.7 demonstration: !lm xyblor kopr vault:8 1 -tv This is impossible in 0.7 current versions, and is using a bugged version of the game where it was much easier to convert than now. Do not expect the same results!
< WasJordan> ha, eat Abominations 20:64, Crazy Yuif ... WasJordan the Apologist (L2 SEPr), worshipper of Zin, slain by Crazy Yiuf (a +4,+3 quarterstaff of chaos) on D:2, with 106 points after 724 turns and 0:05:56.
!lg goetter killer=vault guard god=zin 1 -tv
Most orcs worship Beogh so they get hurt extra.
< N78291> I am beginning to think reciting to tormentors isn't a good idea
"The law of Zin demands thee..." _Cerebov stumbles about in disarray.

recuperating

This is what you are doing when you simultaneously have the Sick and Regen statuses. Your HP won't regenerate, but the disease goes away more quickly.

recurse

Property on some artifacts. The item will sometimes (1 chance in 3) recurse itself upon equipping.

red bucket

The replacement for bad_ideas.
WE ARE A MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY FIRM WITH GLOBAL CLIENTS. WE HELP OUR CLIENTS WIN BIG WHEN IT MATTERS MOST.
"Our mission: [...] restore their trust in humankind"

red devil

Polearm toting demons that tend to reside in gehenna and pan. A good source of demon tridents.

red draconian

A form of draconians with a fiery breath that leaves a flame cloud. Player character gets +2! aptitude in Fire magic, and -2 in Ice magic. Resists fire at xl 7. In dragon form they get rF++, rC-.

red jelly

Best fought with an enhancer staff.
Slouch is the next best way.

red sonja

Sprint I.

red wasp

Hits like a freight train, and if you don't have PR paralyzes. One of the few ways left to die in one move, and certainly easier than getting double bolted by an ancient lich or mauled by a hydra.

redback

The main feature of this deep arachnid is its ability to take an otherwise healthy player to dark red poison in one hit. In 0.11, the poisoning is only reduced, not prevented, by rPois.

reddit run

A weekly Crawl contest on the /roguelikes/ group at the news aggregator Reddit. See http://www.reddit.com/r/roguelikes/.
a way a lone a last a loved a long the / redditrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

redundancy

ring of hunger on a Ce[Zin]

redundant

see redundancy
see redundancy

reflection

A shield brand. The shield will reflect blocked things back the way they came from. Decent against spellcasters with LCS, poison arrow, iron shot, or other nasty spells that can be blocked. A shield of any resistance or protection is better.
The deep elf annihilator casts a spell. Your buckler of reflection reflects the crystal spear. The deep elf annihilator dies!
Donald reflects the poison arrow off his shield of reflection! Your +2 dwarven buckler of reflection reflects the poison arrow! Donald reflects the poison arrow off his shield of reflection! Your +2 dwarven buckler of reflection reflects the poison arrow! Donald reflects the poison arrow off his shield of reflection! The poison arrow misses you.
Your +0 orcish shield of reflection reflects the poison arrow! The poison arrow hits Aizul. Aizul partially resists. Aizul is poisoned. You feel very guilty. "You will pay for your transgression, mortal!"
<Nomi> Your +1 buckler of reflection reflects the large rock!

refridgeration

see {ozocubu's refrigeration}

regeneration

Increases the rate at which you regain HP per turn, at the expense of more nutrition. Different sources stack and vary in effectiveness. The default hunger rate for most races is 3 nutrition per turn. A ring of regeneration takes that to 6 per turn. Regeneration doesn't work when you're sick; instead it makes Sickness disappear faster.
The base regeneration rate is your maximum hitpoints / 3. If this number is over 20, then divide the result by two and add ten. For example, 100 max health results in a regen rate of 26. RR accumulates every turn and for every 100 RR you gain, you regenerate 1 hp. For 1 hp per turn, 540 health is needed. For 1 hp per 2 turns, 240.
A ring adds 40 to your rr, troll leather armour 30, player mutation 20 per level, and the status effect (spell) 100. What this means is that a single ring of regen or piece of troll leather armour effectively doubles your healing rate (or better) for most characters.
The regeneration mutations conflict with slow metabolism, but do not otherwise affect your nutrition.
If a character cannot regenerate passively (this means DD or bloodless Vp or any character with slow healing 3), items or spells that increase regeneration rate won't help. Trog's Hand will though!
Only increases hunger if you have HP to regenerate; you don't need to switch out the ring when not regenerating.

regret

<ophanim> I shouldn't have started drinking

religion

Religion is a condition that causes the 'p' key to actually do something. Watch out for that key!

remorse

<minqmay> i wish i could live my dreams

renounce religion

Voluntarily cease your worship of a god, usually resulting in horrible things. See wrath. If you don't know what you're doing, don't try this unless you are a follower of Xom or a "good" god like Elyvilon or The Shining One.

repel missile

A level 2 Charm/Air spell that repels enemy ranged attack (by reducing its to-hit roll *to* a random amount between: 50% and 100% for penetrating beam, 0% and 100% for single-target missile).

repel missiles

A level 2 Charms/Air spell that repels enemy ranged attacks (by reducing their to-hit roll *to* a random amount between: 50% and 100% for penetrating beams, 0% and 100% for single-target missiles).

repel stairs

Xom effect. Good chance of moving stairs around when you really need to use them. Lasts for a while.

reproduction

Bow chicka bow wow
Creates giant spores anywhere there's a corpse and no monster. Hilarious if you can kill one monster in a pack and use that corpse as a bomb. Gives full XP!
Fedhas protects your food from exploding spores, but not you! Fancy that.

repulsed

You just tried to enslave a monster, but your god disapproved (e.g. you're trog and you tried to enslave an orc wizard)
All ways to get 'is repulsed': 1) good god, monster is unholy/evil 2) fedhas, monster is corporal undead 3) evil god, monster is holy 4) zin, monster is unclean or chaotic 5) trog, monster is a spellcaster

repulsion field

Gives some (2/3/5) extra EV. Gives rMsl at level 3. Permanently.

repulsiveness card

summons ugly things or very ugly things, dependent on power

resist corrosion

Provides a 90% save against equipment damage from acid, and halves damage (rA+). Available as an amulet or in cloaks of preservation. This is not enough to save your equipment in Slime, but you'll want it anyway for your HP. To protect your HP, a cloak helps a lot, even if it sucks.
Yellow draconians(rA++) and others mutated with yellow scales >1 (-/rA+/rA++) also resist acid *HP* damage: 50% at rA+, 34% at rA++, 27% at rA+++.

resist mutation

Comes in amulet form, mutation itself (3 levels) and Zin. Provides at most 90% protection from mutations except Zin, who provides mutation immunity at max piety.

resist poison

Level 4 poison/enchantment, formerly found in the book of Envenomations. Grants poison resistance for a few turns, then expires without warning. No longer exists.
schuay the Frost Mage (L10 MfIE), worshipper of Sif Muna, succumbed to miscasting Resist Poison's residual poison on D:9, with 4346 points after 7920 turns and 1:15:37.

resist slowing

This doesn't exist, unless you think stasis is a substitute.
A guaranteed rslow amulet can be found in the lava orc vault.

resistable

Is spelled "resistible." No kidding.

resistance

Fire and cold deal 50%, 33%, 20% with positive resistance or 150% at any level of negative resistance. Negative energy deals 66%, 33%, 0% with positive resistance. Acid deals 50% with rCorr.
Monster resistances. Fire and cold: negative: 1.5x melee, 2.0x ranged; +: 1/2x; ++: 1/5x; +++ or hellfire: 0x. Elec and poison: +: 1/3x, ++: 1/6x, +++: 0x.

resists

<elliptic> you don't need more than one + in anything except rF <elliptic> and that's only for zot:5 <elliptic> resists after the first + are generally overvalued

reskilling

Ashenzari's 5* ability. Pick a source and destination skill and exp will move from one to the other as you earn exp, at the cost of lots of piety and 10% of the exp being transferred.

restoration

Fully restores your Strength, Dexterity and Intelligence, and heals a large amount of rotted hit points.

restore abilities

Does what it says on the tin! Restores abilities to their correct state: drained stats (INT, DEX, and STR) which show yellow are restored. Also removes breath timer!

retaliation

In 0.10, minotaurs get a chance at a free headbutt whenever an enemy misses them in melee.

return alive

A pretty interesting wordless, numberless puzzle roguelike made in a month, heavily inspired by Cave Noire. http://l.j-factor.com/gmhtml5/Return_Alive/

returning

A brand that makes the weapon return to its owner's hand when thrown. It is not guaranteed to work, and requires some Throwing skill to work at all; 3 levels gives a failure chance of 14%, while 27 gives 3%. When thrown by an enemy, fails to return something like 1 time in (HD+3). Based on some quick testing, Portaled Projectiles will not return.
Please refrain from throwing your weapons of returning at enemies in deep water or lava. You'll regret it.

rfarmrobin

round robin for rupert_farming

rgould

s/armor/armour/

rgrm

rec.games.roguelike.misc, Usenet newsgroup with occasional mention of how much Crawl sucks. Can be viewed using Goo Groups at http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.misc

rhf

Used to be a Finnish server. Now dead. ssh rl@rl.heh.fi.

ring

see rings
A piece of jewellery. A powerful demon, Ring has a sickeningly deformed body with fleshy wings. It moves with an unearthly grace.

ring hunger

Doesn't exist, except for ring_of_hunger and regeneration.

ring mail

+5 ac -2 ev.

ring of charms

Made things with your race friendly. Decent things to charm included vampire knights, mummy priests, merfolk javelineers, deep elf demonologists, deep elf sorcerers, and ogre mages.
Was terrible, didn't charm shit.

ring of evasion

A ring that affects your EV by a nonzero amount between -6 and 6. Negative value rings are usually cursed.

ring of fire

A ring of fire (jewellery) amplifies fire magic, dampens ice magic, and gives fire resistance and cold vulnerability. Not to be confused with ring of flames, a spell.
Hi, I'm Johnny Cash. If you have a burning ring of fire, try Preparation H.

ring of flames

Level 7 charms/fire. A third ring of fire, because two rings of fire aren't enough for some people. Surrounds each square around you with a cloud of flame and leaves clouds of flame in your wake. Confers rF++ and rC--, and makes you immune to clouds of flame.
You make more flames if you're hasted or moving quickly!
Burns scrolls on the ground(!)
Does not protect you from clouds materializing on your current square.

ring of ice

fire vuln, +1 cold res, +50% to pre-stepdown ice magic spell power
Wear one and pain mirror against Orbs of Fire!

ring of invisibility

Evoking this (or any other Evoke Invisibility) is one of the biggest single-turn sources of magic contamination available, although not enough to be a threat by itself. Note that if you wear a ring of invisibility you can "turn visible" regardless of the source, which can be helpful if, say, you're glowing.
Need about 10 Evocations to activate it reliably. Failure costs nothing though, so just stand round a corner and evoke it until it works, regardless of skill.

ring of magical power

+9 max mp. Remember that mana regen is proportional to max mp, so if your max mana is 3, this ring quadruples the gains! If you would end up with over 50 mp, you get diminishing returns.

ring of regeneration

Regenerate 0.4 HP per turn at the cost of 3 hunger. Stacks with other forms of regeneration, and doesn't cause hunger when your HP is full.

ring of robustness

Fixedart "steel ring"; +8 AC.

ring of see invisible

Adds 10,000 HP. No, really.

ring of shadows

Unrandart black ring of invisibility with +4 ev, -3 acc, rN+, sInv, stealth++

ring of teleportation

Evocable teleport and teleportitis.
A speedrunner's best friend.
A non-speedrunner's best friend.

ring of the mage

A nice little unrandart, it gives wizardry, 50 MR and +3 int.

ring of the octopus king

Crawl's first set item. Each ring gives +1 to AC, EV, Str, Int, and Dex. There are eight of them - and eight can spawn per game - with each providing an additional power unique to that ring (one property out of Regen, rF+, rC+, SustAb, Hunger-, Wizardry, MP+, rN+).

ring of vitality

A ring of regeneration that gives +15 hp. Appears as an amethyst ring with an ankh.

rings

dexterity, evasion, fire, hunger, ice, intelligence, invisibility, levitation, life protection, magical power, poison resistance, protection, protection from cold, protection from fire, protection from magic, regeneration, see invisible, slaying, strength, sustain abilities, sustenance, teleport control, teleportation, wizardry, 24 in total.
Rings of invisibility, regeneration, teleport control, and slaying are rarer than the others; approximately 2/3 of them are replaced by one of the other ring types.
Alternately, ?/i=

rip and tear

trog likes this

rip henzell

It's monqy's fault.

river lethe

Big predefined level, with water, 2 orange crystal statues "placed for maximum pain", Maud, and probably a lich in the back. As usual, blame Lemuel.

rkd

Also takamura and rickah and probably something more on CAO. slickrick, slickrkd and rickah on CDO and again probably something more :D

rlhehfi

See rhf.

rn reasons

rng

The RNG giveth, and the RNG taketh away. Most of the time, it just taketh.
Xom is an avatar of the RNG. !rng dont choose xom you stupid rng dice rolling machine -> The RNG chooses: xom.
More properly a *pseudo*-random number generator. Unlike true random numbers, pseudo-random numbers are generated out of spite, in order to make you cry.
The RNG has it out for you. Really.
Technically speaking, it's the Mersenne Twister God.
<Schwern> The RNG giveth, the RNG chokes you with it.
!rng @badchar -> The RNG chooses: MfIE
No, it doesn't stand for "really nice guy".
As Monster Hunter veterans will tell you, all RNGs have a desire sensor that explicitly lowers the drop rate of anything you'd actually want or need, and the only way to improve one's chances is to not actually want or need it. No, reverse psychology won't help.
For a period of almost nine months, Sif Muna and Ashenzari were very rarely found in Temple. Really.

rng wrath

Punishment for hubris. Usually fatal.

rob

A player who got the high score on CAO by a large margin by escaping with all 15 runes in 43k turns. Also has the win with the lowest turncount since Atomjack.

robe

+2 ac 0 ev light armour

robe of augmentation

+4 silk robe that gives +4 to all stats. Whoopee.

robe of boo resistance

Provides one level of boo_resistance.

robe of clouds

A +3 robe with +Lev and rElec. It trails fog behind you as you walk. This may leave puddles. They may deepen.
underrated. try one on a merfolk!

robe of folly

-1 unrandart robe that prevents spellcasting, gives -5 int, and recurses itself. Has a random appearance.

robe of misfortune

Don't wear it.
Just kidding, wear it.
Misfortune is an anagram of "it's more fun." So wear it!
A fabulously ornate robe. the cursed -5 robe of Misfortune {-CAST MUT+ *TELE EV-4 Str-2 Dex-2 Int-2 Stlth-- Curse}

robe of night

the +4 robe of Night {+Inv MR SInv Stlth++} 30 MR and 50 stealth. Appears as a black robe.

robe of resistance

AC: 2, EV: +0, rF+, rC+. Arguably the best non-artefact light armour around. Abbreviated RoR or [oResistance.

robe of the archmagi

Acts as one enhancer for all spells.

robin

Account for round-robin games (one player plays the character, then another, etc.). Login: roundrobin, demorobin, ghostrobin, quitrobin, noobrobin, zigrobin, bashrobin, ironrobin, mutarobin, elfrobin, slimerobin, hippyrobin, acidrobin, drugrobin, blindrobin, discorobin, blinkrobin, mummyrobin; Password: robin

robot2600

<Robot2600> whats the safe way to rest up HP? <Robot2600> other than holding down s
<Robot2600> yea im just going to play mummies until the end of time

robotfindskitten

For when Crawl has got you down.
After abyss scumming, the second most popular source of useless ttyrecs.
<myuzinn> robotfindskitten is a tale of love, tragedy, and the question of human existance

robust

10% more max HP per level of this mutation. (Tier3 DS Mutation)

robustness

Unrand ring of +8 AC, counterpart to the ring of Shaolin.

rock bottom

<crate> i might actually learn bolt of draining

rock golem

<varkarrus> KILLS you by ROCKING OUT. Bring EARPLUGS

rock staircase

Very old name for escape hatches. What on earth are you playing?

rock stairs

These staircases may send you to a random flight of stairs on the level above or below. These were replaced by escape hatch.

rock troll

A tough, slow-moving troll, usually easy to avoid. Try not to get squinched between it and something else in a corridor.

rock wall

The basic fabric of ordinary dungeon levels and functionally equivalent to the walls of pandemonium. Unlike other kinds of wall, it can be removed by wand of digging, wand of disintegration, Lee's Rapid Deconstruction, Shatter, Corruption, Summon Elemental, stone of earth elementals, boring beetles, Dissolution, IOOD and eyes of devastation.

rock worm

A worm that burrows into walls (does not dig, just enters them), and is there protected from harm. Suggestions: fight far away from walls, blast as they run off. Disintegration (only when in rock), freeze, vampiric draining, smiting, torment/agony, and shatter are the only ways to hurt them when in walls.
The undead variant of this monster can move into walls as well.

rod

Contains a few spells. Wield and Evoke to cast them. Uses an internal mana pool which recharges gradually over time, even if not wielded. A scroll of recharging increases a rod's limit and enchantment by 1d2 (up to a max of 17 and +9 respectively), and (always) recharges its mp to full. See rods for a list of types.
Evoking rods causes hunger in the same way casting spells does; see spell hunger for specific numbers.
Evocations skill and rod enchantment increases its recharge rate. A +0 rod with no skill gets 1 mana per 25 typical turns. Taking that same rod to +4 will double the recharge rate, 8 triple. Having 7 evocations skill will double the recharge rate. Having 14 evocations will triple the recharge rate.
So, to sum up, just increasing the rod enchant to +9 can cut the time from 25 turns to 7.69. Increasing your skill from 0 to 27 can cut the time to 6.25 turns. Having the rod and skill at max pretty guarantee a small bit over one point of magic every two turns.

rod of demonology

A rod with Abjuration, Call Imp, and Summon Demon. (Good gods don't mind if you use abjuration from this rod, even though the rod is purple in your inventory.)

rod of destruction

Comes in 4 varieties. [fire] contains throw flame, bolt of fire, fireball. [ice] contains throw frost, throw icicle, freezing cloud. [iron,fireball,lightning] and [inacc,magma,cold] are self-explanatory.

rod of smiting

A rod which allows you to smite. Any questions?

rod of striking

Shoots 1d8 force bolts. Misses.
mikee: you know it does more damage to throw it at stuff than to evoke it

rod of summoning

Contains Recall (L3), Call Canine Familiar (L3), Summon Swarm (L5).

rod of venom

Spells: Cure Poison, Venom Bolt, Poison Arrow, Poisonous Cloud.

rod of warding

Spells: Abjuration, condensation shield, cause fear, deflect missiles. Hint: v

rod power

5 + 3 * Evocations

rodney

That other game's IRC bot.

rods

striking, smiting, destruction (4 types), summoning, demonology, warding, venom

roguelike

Utter rubbish, and a waste of time.

roguelikes

Fighting letters to collect punctuation.

roque

<Roque> !learn add lyingtoyourchildrentopreserveyourmarriagerobin
<Roque> now this is just childabandonmentrobin

rot

A temporary condition much like poison but attacking max HP instead of current HP. The condition can be cured with a potion of curing. The damage, once done, can be fixed (very expensively) with curing or heal wounds at full health, or with Ely's restoration.
Sources of rot: necrophage and ghoul melee attack; necromancy miscasts, which may come from Zot traps, {Hell effect}s, or mummy curses; miasma, including death drake breath, unless you have rotting resistance. Player ghouls rot gradually over time.
Ghouls can restore hit points by eating chunks. Mummies have to rely on wands of healing or their Self-Restoration ability (gained at level 13, costs 1 permanent MP).
Wands of random effect can occasionally act as wands of healing, so they can be used to heal rot. Just make sure you can survive the harmful effect and no monster can take advantage of a temporary paralysis or confusion. Drop your potions and scrolls, too. And have rN+++, ideally.

rotten

Chunks and corpses with this descriptor either sat out too long or come from undead corpses and cannot be eaten unless your race has saprovore - for sap1: 1/3 chance of sickness, sap2: 1/5. Ghouls with sap3 can eat rotten meat with impunity.

rotting devil

Found mostly in Tartarus and Pan. Has a rotting attack and trails miasma efreet-style.

rotting hulk

The only n that doesn't rot you. It just makes you sick instead. Still hits surprisingly hard, though.
WHAT'RE YA GONNA DO WHEN HULKAMANIA RUNS WILD ON YOU, BROTHER?

rotting resistance

Protects you from miasma; for the most part only undead, demons, and non-living creatures have this. Zin provides it with increasing chances at high piety.

rough black scales

Level 1: +4 ac, -1 dex; Level 2: +7 ac, -2 dex; Level 3: +10 ac, -3 dex

roulette of golubria

New 0.11 wizlab. Abyss-themed, contains a nasty teleporter roulette, lots of mean monster decision/placement, tloc-themed/abyss-escape loot, and pretty good cloaks (shrouds). Give feedback to HangedMan if you get the map!
The teleporters work out so that if you want to go through every section you should exclude each teleporter after using it. Also, invis is a pretty good way to deal with the nasty statue/tentacle room, and LRD devastates it.

round robin

Akrasiacs account for round-robin games (one player plays the character, then another, tc.). Login: roundrobin, squarerobi, diamondrob, ghostrobin, aoeurobin, robinround; Password: robin. Login: IronRobin Password: IronRobin for Ironman games.

roundlos

satan
see circlelos

roxanne

A unique earth mage who was fortunately turned into an immobile statue. Knows powerful earth conjurations and can blink you closer to her so that she can use them.
Roxanne isn't especially affected by a wand of disintegration. She is, however, affected by silence. She also cannot see invisible! Like all statues, she also doesn't regenerate.
You don't have to put on the red light.

royal jelly

A 5000 nutrition food that also restores abilities. For the boss of the Slime Pits, see the royal jelly.

rtfm

Read the f-f-fine manual! http://crawl.akrasiac.org/docs/crawl_manual.txt
read the fabulous messages!

rtfs

read the fscking source

rugged brown scales

+2 AC, +3%/5%/7% HP. Possible demonspawn mutation.

rules

Remove a monster for every monster you add.
If it's not dead for 300 years at least, we cannot add it. Sorry.
Remove two gods for every god you add.
Switch out a branch for every branch you add.
When in doubt, nerf tornado.
RULE # 182: TEMPERATURE & HUMIDITY & LENGTH OF THE NIB & NIB SIZE CAN AFFECT WRITING WIDTH OF THE INKED LETTERS.
<Wensley> (fuck rules)

rune

Mystic keys (and status symbols) - you need at least three to enter Zot. They can be found at the end of some (but not all) dungeon branches, randomly lying around in the Abyss, or in certain levels in Pandemonium. Runes are permanent, weightless, and tracked outside of inventory.
Dungeon: Snake (serpentine), Slime (slimy), Swamp (decaying), Shoals (barnacled), Vaults (silver), Tomb (golden). Abyss: (abyssal). Hells: Gehenna (obsidian), Cocytus (icy), Dis (iron), Tartarus (bone). Pandemonium, by guardian: Cerebov (fiery), Mnoleg (glowing), Lom Lobon (magical), Gloorx Vloq (dark), or randomly (demonic).
The generic demonic runes can be found occasionally on non-unique Pan levels. Once you pick one up, you won't get any more. See also: abyssal rune for tips/info, pan[3] for how to recognize each unique Pandemonium guardian's level, and pan[6] for a quite serious warning. The entries on each area (or guardian) have more info.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MacGuffin

rune lock

an idea to lock d:14 unless you have a rune
Don't worry, the devs tested this out a little and found out the interest of getting an early rune is made worse by an even more boring mid-game, so branches are being shortened/revamped/whatevered first instead

runed

Congratulations, you've found a magic item!
That does not mean it has positive bonuses or an ego; however, items with an ego will always be glowing, runed, shiny, dyed, or embroidered.

rupert

An evil crusader. Will "look more energetic" 2 turns after his berserk wears off (and promptly zerk again). Spells: paralyse, confuse, berserker rage. Is generated with a good two-handed weapon. For laughs, watch: "!lg * mfre killer=rupert 1 -tv:<0.5" or "!lg * kewn killer=rupert 1 -tv:<0.5".
Lair Grinder.
Watch out, demonspawn, mummies, vampires, and ghouls - he has an uncomfortable trend to spawn with weapons of holy wrath.

rupert farming

The practice of turning a single powerful unique into a friendly army.
Turn Rupert into a jelly, feed him items until he splits a bunch, polymorph the jellies into animals, use tame beasts on them, and then polymorph them into cool things. Ruined by devs; rest in peace.
Instead of polymorphing to animals and taming beasts, try a high-powered crusade card.
Drag uniques into abyss and out again; they will be cloned, with a clone coming with you, and a clone staying in the abyss. Also ruined.
Foolproof!
< slyshy> Rupert farming, oh god, this is straight out of nethack
< BirdoPrey> rupert farming is the awesomest thing ive heardof
<rwbarton> imagine a paralyzing, berserking golden dragon, and then imagine you have a dozen of them

ruski

<Ruski> nice bootz faze... NOW GIVE ME SEX

s

Eww, a bug!
Eww, a snake!

sa

0.8 Thread "Mennas II Society" http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3407877
http://www.somethingawful.com/
0.3 Thread:http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2671349
Would you like some cheese with your Whine, monsieur?
0.5 Thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3155652&pagenumber=1#lastpost
0.6 thread "Slouching towards the Abyss" http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3285755
0.7 thread "The Dying Game" http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3332877

sabre

Base damage:7, To-hit:+4, attack delay:120% short blade. Best common short blade in the game, though daggers are better for stabbing. Quick blades deal damage faster, their relative effectiveness increasing with slaying and decreasing with AC.
It's special-cased to have minimal delay of 50%, instead of 60% as in the normal formula.

sacred scourge

A demon whip blessed by TSO. 0,12,11.

sacrifice

Pray on a square with items to attempt to sacrifice them to your god. To avoid sacrificing items you might want to keep they can be inscribed with !p or !*. One inscribed item will protect all the items on that square.
Trog's burn books is invoked as an 'a'bility.

sad

your playstyle

sadism

Two very quiet zot traps located at choke points on D:11. See also Sigmund with a wand of draining and crawl .3
<Wensley> "Don't morph the abyssal rune nor the exit." <--- WHATDFLJSDAFSHSJHDISSATISFACTION <Wensley> the rune I can understand <Wensley> but the exits <Wensley> must morph

safezerk

The art of luring an enemy to an already explored area to berserk and beat the crap out of them. Works best with enemies that don't have ranged attacks, like Ogres. Most effectively utilized by combinations that have very few hunger issues, i.e Kobold Berserker.
The idea is to make the risk of an enemy appearing in the middle or at the end of your berserk minimal.

sage card

Gives you the "Sage" status, which lasts randomly 200-2000 turns, and causes 50% of all incoming XP to be multiplied a bit (1 + .5*card power) and put towards one skill (same the whole time). The skill is selected randomly, weighted towards those you know better (the weight is based on card power, and at 0 is completely random).
Drawing an Experience card while Sage is in effect will *not* send that exp towards the Sage skill.
Combine with the swine card for a delicious meal.
Note that drawing a second Sage card will overwrite any existing Sage effect you have active.
http://pastebin.com/qSQXdmhd

saint roka

Unique orc who comes with a pack of more orcs, often including knights and sorcerers. Has the spell set of a Daeva (smite, smite, smite). Sometimes has a crossbow.
While not guaranteed, Saint Roka often comes with heavily enchanted plate mail that has a useful ego. Worth checking out if you use heavy armour!

sakuyaizayoi

see sakuyaizayoi[2]
<Danei>A perfect and elegant maid. <SakuyaIzayoi> ...Yes.

salamander

Strong fire creature. Can be rarely found in lava lakes anywhere. Generated with a flaming weapon or bow. Hits for 50 or so damage in melee. Very dangerous for people without ranged attacks. Due to its fire attack property and flaming weapon, you get burned twice.
Don't go near them if you are worshipping Xom and wielding a weapon you care about, unless you want this to happen: A salamander, wielding the +1,+11 sabre "Centaur's Doom" {pain, +Lev rElec rC+ Str+1} (lava).

salamander hide armour

A +3 leather armour, rf++, evocable berserk. Red leather armour.

sanctuary

Creates a divine refuge (5 square radius; full size for inv/2 turns, then gradually shrinks over next 7 until gone). Enemies within range retreat and can't attack, blood and harmful clouds are erased, a holy word is recited, your pets rush to your side, and all traps are revealed. The sanctuary ends (and Zin gets mad) if you attack. Looks AWESOME.

sandblast

Wield stones to do more damage and increase range from 2 to 3 with this spell. Sandblast with stones maxes out at 2d20 damage, which is really good for a level 1 spell, although damage reduction from enemy AC is applied three times instead of once. Ogres and Trolls can use large rocks, with damage maxing out at 3d20.

saprovore

Reduces chance of sickness from bad meat. Level 0 (most races) has a 1/3 chance of becoming sick from eating contaminated (brown text) meat, and can't eat rotten meat. Level 1 has a 1/15 chance from contam meat and a 1/5 chance from rotten meat. Level 2 has a 1/45 chance from contam meat and a 1/15 chance from rotten meat. Level 3 is a ghoul.

sarcasm detector

What a useful invention.

sartak

Better known as Eidolos, or the Mouth of Sauron.

sausage

An elongated lump of low-grade gristle, entrails and cereal products encased in an intestine. Yum!

save

do not ruin great footv by doing this

savecompatrobin

You are only allowed to advance 3XL per public crawl release.

sawtooth

The ghost in the machine.

scale mail

6 AC, -3 EV.

scale male

An unfortunate stricken with an odd genetic mutation as a child, causing it to grow scales. Reportedly looks like the Mosnter of the Black Lagoon.

scales

Different colors have different levels of AC, but they also have different effects. For example, fur gives rC+ with three levels of scales; thick black scales are more AC, but are -Dex.

sceptre of asmodeus

+7,+7 ruby quarterstaff. E(v)oke for 200 hunger; randomly nothing, summon hostile Fiend/common demon, bolt of fire, bolt of lightning, bolt of draining, hellfire

sceptre of torment

+7,+6 (jewelled golden) mace which invokes the Symbol of Torment on 50% of attacks and 1/200 on just being wielded for a given turn. Useful if you have torment immunity. Counts as necromancy for the good gods, but if you worship a good god, you are susceptible to torment, so this is going to cause you far worse problems than penance.

schadenfreud

When Sigmund kills that guy whose skill you envy.

schadenfreude

see greensnark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9B-ZoS0wvU
see rng[5]

scimitar

A long sword with a curved blade. One-handed Long Blade; Dam 12 Acc -2 Delay 140.

scimitar of flaming death

unrandart smoking scimitar: the +7,+5 scimitar of Flaming Death {flame, rPois rF++ rC- MR}

scintillating colors

If an enemy's weapon has just been surounded with scintillating colors, that means that xom just enchanted it with the chaos brand. Run away fast!

scooby doo

A touching love story about a man and his talking Great Dane.

scorch marked granite statue

It's a robotic flamethrower in disguise. Stay away.
Except it might be the Temple entry vault.

scorchmarked statue

An otherwise-normal statue which warns of a dangerous vault. Watch out for flaming clouds and so on.

score

[modified xp + 250000 (winners only) + 1000*(different runes + 2)^2 (winners only) + 6,250,000,000*(different runes^2)/turns (winners only)]
Modified xp = 0.7 * xp up to 250,000 + 0.4 * xp between 250,000 and 1M + 0.2 * xp between 1M and 3M + 0.1 * xp above 3M. For an XL27 character, this works out to roughly 0.5M + XP/10. Note that there is an XP cap of 9M.
As of 0.9, inventory value no longer contributes towards your score.

scoreboard

{cf. http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/overview.html}

scoring

http://crawl-ref.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/crawl-ref/trunk/crawl-ref/source/hiscores.cc?view=markup#l_954
See the CAO scoring code at http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/code or git clone http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/code/.git cao-scoring

scorpion

Pain by poison. Lots of both.

scorpion teleport

Teleport behind someone and punch them! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhK0mEQWEqI Also, a spell (not in crawl)
http://nrook.com/scorpion%20teleport.tar.gz
http://screencast.com/t/S54OlUWcZAOR

scorpion vault

Early dungeon vault containing a lot of scorpions, some giant mites and a few random critters. You can often find an executioner's axe or eveningstar there. Don't ask why. If you do, it will have negative enchantment to start with (but can be enchanted up as usual).

scorpions

Here I am! Dunt dunt dunt dunt dunt, rock you like a hurricane!
Still lovin' yooooouuuuuuuuu! *BITE* *STING*

scramble

Upon falling into deep water, if not in statue form, you will scramble free if you're adjacent to land or shallow water and you're carrying less than a random amount of your capacity between 50% and 100%. The same goes for lava, but you need at least rF+, and you will take massive hp damage (10+(2d50) / rF), not to mention your poor scrolls!
Note that this means that as long as you are carrying less than 50% of your maximum capacity, it is impossible to drown by falling into water that is adjacent to land. Need to cross a one-tile-wide channel? Lighten your load, confuse yourself, and scramble across.
Bonus points for doing that with lava.

scrawl

Not actually a crawl variant, but a good word for scrabble

screaming

Tourette's syndrome, in mutation form. Not that bad, maybe a bit annoying for an assassin (but stealth is unreliable to begin with)

scroll of amnesia

Added in 0.8 along with the removal of the selective amnesia spell. Same rarity as enchant armour so expect around a dozen at zot.

scroll of blinking

Gives you a controlled blink. It doesn't qualify as high-powered (unlike the spell), and so degrades to completely random instead of semi-controlled in areas that prevent cTele.

scroll of detect curse

<crate> it detects curses <crate> does that really need an entry?

scroll of fear

Scares monsters away from your current position, with a chance to save based on MR. Only affects living, non-berserk monsters. Also a level 4 hexes spell "Cause Fear" with similar effect (but based on spell power).
Enemies with reaching weapons will take a stab at you while running away. Take note when using this on orcs/gnolls/etc!

scroll of fog

For the "oh shit there's an oklob plant/pack of yaktaurs/etc and the nearest cover is 5 squares away" moments. Creates 8-15 tiles of fog centered on you - may be black smoke (25%) which spreads further on successive turns. 2 tiles of fog will block LOS mutually. This is a very valuable emergency-prevention scroll!
Any beam will have its to-hit reduced by 2 if it targets something in a cloud.
Don't forget that an invisible creature becomes a "disturbance" when in a smoke cloud. Could be handy against unseen horrors.

scroll of holy word

Deals damage to all demons/undead in LOS and stuns them for 2 turns. If you are undead or demonspawn, it halves your current hp as well.
Rare. By the time you get one you have better things with which to kill undead.

scroll of identify

Tells you everything about one object. Most useful for jewelry and potions, as all other objects can be easily IDed with use. Some jewelry, though, can be IDed through use of other items (e.g. eating chunks when not hungry will ID gourmand). IDs one item, but 1 in 5 times will ID 2 or 3 items (equal chance).

scroll of noise

Makes a lot of noise. There is generally little use for these, but they are louder than a shout, and they can break the hold that a mermaid has on you.

scroll of old paper

When scrolls of paper were removed, these were added to avoid breaking saves.

scroll of paper

An innocent-looking scroll that had no writing inside. Utterly useless.
There are no magic markers. You will have to take quills from ink harpies to write on them.

scroll of random uselessness

This entry reassembles itself in your head!
This scroll actually can be quite useful for learning how scrolls work.
Grants a random artefact when thrown on D:26.

scroll of recharging

When used on a wand, refills a varying number of charges. When used on a rod, will increase the rod's enchantment by 1d2, restore the rod's power, and add 1d2 magic points to its limit, up to 17.
Wand limits: invis, heal, haste, fireball, tele: 9; lightning, drain: 12; fire, cold: 15; other: 24. Note that these limits apply to recharging only, not starting values. One scroll will add to # of charges between 1 and two less than the maximum number of charges, weighted to the middle of the distribution.

scroll of silence

A scroll. It casts silence.

scroll of summoning

Creates a permanent friendly small abomination. If you are worshipping a good god, it will be hostile instead.

scroll of vorpalise weapon

Converts a single wielded weapon (which must be non-artifact, non-ego, and not a blowgun) into an equivalent weapon with a vorpal brand (+12.5% damage). Will make temporary freezing, flaming, electrocution, draining, or venom brands permanent. Sometimes makes temporary chaos brand permanent.

scroll of vulnerability

Halves the MR of everything in LOS, including you. Also removes _all_ enchantments, whether helpful or harmful. Use it on tough enemies with high MR, that can't cast any status effect magics themselves - don't use on sphinxes! Also removes 1 to 5 points of magic contamination.
Will remove post-berserk slow (but not in 0.8). Worth noting that it will not remove the Tele status.
Cerebov screams as he is devoured by a tear in reality.
Also removes a large chunk of glow. Neat!

scrolls

To read-ID nearly any scroll: wield an uncursed enchantable weapon, an uncursed armor, and at least one cursed item. Stand near some unexplored area, and have an undead (living, if you're undead) enemy nearby. Don't be silenced. If it asks for a target, an unIDed enchantable armor provides 2/3 chance.
acquirement, amnesia, blinking, curse armour, curse jewelry, curse weapon, detect curse, enchant armour, enchant weapon I, enchant weapon II, enchant weapon III, fear, fog, holy word, identify, immolation, magic mapping, noise, random uselessness, recharging, remove curse, silence, summoning, teleportation, torment, vorpalise weapon, vulnerability.

scrying

Lets you see through walls.

scumming

The strategy of collecting easy rewards in unchallenging areas, e.g. when a high-level character visits levels suitable for low-level characters. Has a number of derived terms, eg. stair scumming, save scumming.
see impscumming
see mauricescumming

scummy

Term used to describe Sif Munite mummies abusing channel energy and conjuration as well as those who abused cards and ToD before the former were changed and before the latter was removed from all books.

scwizard

When you see a giant eyeball and monsters that can kill you fast in the same room you have two options, blink/teleport and killing the eye in one hit.
The shrieking winds of pandemonium may cause insanity.

scythe

polearm, 14 damage, -4 accuracy, 200% delay, 91% junk.
It's Sigmund's favorite crappy weapon. It's not worth picking up.
Edmund says, "A flail is better than a scythe, any day of the week!"

scythe of curses

+13,+13 scythe of draining which curses your equipment and inflicts necromancy miscasts on living targets it hits. Appears as a warped scythe when unidentified, but warped scythes could also be randarts.
Death has come for the toadstool...

sda

see storm dragon armour
See either steam dragon armour, storm dragon armour, or swamp dragon armour.

sea snake

A snake, commonly found in the Shoals, that is quick and carries a -hefty- poisonous bite that in 0.11 works (at reduced severity) through poison resistance. Carry a way to counteract poisoning, or your game might end in a pyrrhic victory.

sealer

bully
clubbed baby seal skin fixedart
Managed to die to a draconian on Zot:3 at xlvl 27, after completing Slime and Dis
<Sealer> !lg * splat=sealer

sealer excuses

<Sealer> that was a badass goblin
****cking ghost just won't die

sebi

Legendary start scummer who has dethroned Meow in terms of quitting|leaving. Personally responsible for over half of all games ended by leaving the dungeon.
Responsible for 7.33% of all online Crawl games.
Responsible for 48.56% of all wanderers played online.

secret doors

If you're looking for secret doors, the best place to search is at the dead end of narrow corridors. You may also want to check the walls of any large rectangular rooms. If an area has any walls that are of an unusual shape or composition, there could be a secret door. They can be anywhere! With practice, you can almost "feel" where they'll be.

secret entries

see nothing appears to happen
Entries that aren't seen outside of prior knowledge or trawling the source/full dump, because the first entry is a re-direct.

secret tech

ogee
potion of slowing
see slowimp
exec axe melee on plants
hitting plants while berserk

secrets

https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:brainstorm:vault:secrets

see invisible

Self-explanatory. No combat penalties, can aim at invisible things correctly, etc. -- everything in invisibility. Contrast with the creature flag sense invisible. The ability for PCs comes in ring, spell, helmet or cap ego, and mutation form.
<N78291> Memorise See Invisible? It hits you but doesn't do any damage. Your memorisation is interrupted.
N78291: here is a quick reference guide on monster see invisible: yes

selective amnesia

This coveted scroll/invocation allows the caster to dememorise one spell of his choosing; contrast unselective amnesia, which can be obtained from divination miscasts, now only from orange crystal statues, the staff of wucad mu, and zot traps. See also spell levels. Spell is removed since 0.8. Sif ability is 5 MP, 8-~13 piety.
When you forget a spell, your MP is also restored by the level of the forgotten spell (reduced by the cost of casting/invoking SA). Let's say you desperately wish you had 7 MP to cast controlled blink... but all you have is 4 MP, a turn to spare, and Fire Storm. You could forget Fire Storm, and your current MP will jump to 9.
see scroll_of_amnesia

semi controlled blink

When you blink under the effect of cTele. It moves you in a direction you choose but not to the square you choose. Less reliable than a controlled blink, but good for getting out of tight spots.

send

<mumra> wow there better not be any more uniques around here ! <Wensley> !send mumra uniques <mumra> oh, hello mara

sense invisible

Monsters which "sense invisible" can see invisible opponents if they are distance 4 or less away, and have bonuses to perception in other cases.
Since circlelos is awful and 3*sqrt(2) > 4, a monster with sense invisible can't see you if you are 3 squares away diagonally and invisible.

sequell

A bot for game statistics. Operated by greensnark. See http://github.com/greensnark/dcss_henzell/raw/master/docs/listgame.txt
<Sequell> Malformed argument: herpes

sequell spam

monqy craves it

seraph

You are in holy pan. The other monsters here are more dangerous.

serpent of hell

A proper unique in 0.8. It will randomly appear in one of the branches of hell and have suitable abilities to match. Hellfire and flame breath in Geh, freezing cloud and cold breath in Coc, miasma and bolt of draining in Tar and metal splinters and quicksilver breath in Dis.
Use soh_flavour: along with @?? to get the appropriate stats for each version. Example: @??serpent of hell soh_flavour:geh

servitor

<mong>:profane butler

set off by their pet

crate the Ruffian (L7 TrNe), worshipper of Xom, blasted by quasit (set off by their pet) on D:5 on 2012-04-15, with 855 points after 4089 turns and 0:12:20.
SilentWolf the Vandal (L8 KoAM), worshipper of Ashenzari, killed by set off by their pet on D:6 on 2012-04-17, with 1070 points after 6104 turns and 2:42:42.
heteroy the Skirmisher (L5 OpCK), worshipper of Xom, killed by an exploding it (buggy) set off by their pet on D:5 on 2011-09-12, with 467 points after 4092 turns and 0:09:29.

setm guide

<mikee_> punch stuff; cast tm spells; don't go sif or kiku

sewer

The Sewers, initially conceived by Eino Keskitalo, who apparently had some to spare. They are timed and will disappear eventually if you do not enter them. Contains fish and rats, at the least. "Rats" includes up to orange, and some vaults have giant frogs.
< LordSlothN> Why ist here an altar to zin in the sewers? < pointless> Zin purifies the waste that flows through the sewers
<ogaz> is an altar to a good god guaranteed in sewers? <FreekillB> ogaz: no, sometimes you get zin (zing)

sex

<TGWi> sex = stealth<TGWi> for me

sexism

Dowan "seems overcome with grief" but Duvessa "weeps"

sexyelfdreams

324435 | Pan | evilmike: because you have sexy elf dreams

sf

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soups Sourceforge page is http://sourceforge.net/projects/crawl-ref/.

sfogarty

The command is @?kobold. "!wtf" is just for character combos. WD and MT are not races.
MDFi|HOBe|??Pa DEFE|HEAE|??NE [Sp|Se][Ar|En|Tm] [Gh|Tr|DS|DD][CK|DK]
Master of avoidable deaths. Or just quitting accidentally if things are going too well. See !hs sfogarty ktyp=quitting
"vorp it if it isn't egoed"

sh

see shield
Taking escape hatches to the orb since 2010. !lm sh 970 -tv

shadow

A relatively unremarkable undead creature, but it drains STR, so watch out if you have little.

shadow card

Turns you invisible. If card power >=1, increases your stealth (by 80, so quite significant) for a duration based on the power level.

shadow creatures

L5 summoning, Book of Summonings and Dreams. When you cast it, summons one always-friendly level appropriate monster (some will come with an appropriate pack). When monsters cast it, summons up to 8. Good to use in places where normal monsters are nasty, like Zot.
Brokenly good in Zot, even if you barely can cast it, you can get multiple orbs of fire or golden dragons.

shadow demon

<MarvinPA> did i just kill an invisible frog in the abyss
lost invisibility in 0.10, became a speed 11 shadow creatures and summon demon spamming jerk

shadow dragon

A dark dragon, emitting an unholy aura, and it sees YOU as its next snack. Breathes bolts of draining, so prepare for it. While it has rN, it is not undead, so you can still torment it!
Does leave a corpse (tastes like necrophage!), but doesn't leave a hide. There is no shadow dragon armour. Sorry.
http://pounced.org/personals/viewad.php?hpad=24157&hcenc=1

shadow dragon armour

It doesn't exist. Begone!

shadow fiend

Type 1 demon that uses torment, bolt of draining, bolt of cold and dispel undead.
If you want to avoid dispel undead (and you should - it'll kill you), keep the fiend beyond 6 squares and blast from afar.

shadow imp

A small and shadowy minor demon. Enjoys reanimating your lunch. Also casts pain.

shadow wraith

Invisible. Otherwise unremarkable.

shaft

A trap that drops you one, two, or three levels. Is currently the only trap of the natural variety (as opposed to mechanical or magical). A cool escape route if you're desperate. Try not to fall down one and land directly in a jelly pit. Disappears when used.
What's the annoying trap / that's a frustration to all the @s? / ... / you're damn right
What is the trap / that would take your @ to another lvl / ... / Can ya dig it?
What's the trap that won't drop out / when there's danger all about / ... / right on!
One bad mofo.
Be thankful you're not playing Moraff's world.
see Mace Windu

shallow water

Waist-deep pools of water. Moving through this stuff is gonna be really slow! Non-Ogre, Troll, Merfolk, or Octopode players in shallow water will fumble their attack 4-out-of-DEX times, and 20% of the time regardless as well. Monsters will fumble 1 in 4 times.
Moving through shallow water is randomly between 30% and 100% slower. That means hydras are faster than hasted players.

shandreya

<Shandreya> Chei is pretty overpowered in general as a god

shaolin

Unrand ring of +8 EV, counterpart to the ring of Robustness.

shapeshifter

Nasty creature which tends to turn in to whatever creature you are least equipped to handle. Kill quickly, or drain to death, as polymorphing heals. If you see a missile-loving monster that doesn't shoot you, it's probably a shapeshifter.
There are always a few in Vault:8. Specifically, next to loot. And, given time they WILL turn into azure jellies and eat your precious loot.
If you use a wand of poly or cast the poly other spell on a shapeshifter, it will eventually lose its ability and turn into a harmless glowing shapeshifter!
Beware bear-shaped shifters preserving berserk statuses as they shift into a dire elephant to squish you

shark

It is as fast as a shark.

sharp teeth

Grants an auxiliary unarmed biting attack, increasing in damage with the level of the mutation. If you have 3 levels of sharp teeth (and aren't a vampire), you can butcher with your mouth. Vampires start with 3 levels of sharp teeth. Bite attacks are blocked by visored helmets in 0.5.1.
see bite

shatter

Level 9 earth spell. Extremely powerful attack which does damage comparable to LCS to all non-flying non-amorphous monsters near you, ignoring walls in the way. Also breaks walls and potions (on the ground). Doesn't ignore walls in 0.10.
Still damages flying or amorphous monsters, just a lot less. Note that it doesn't damage insubstantial monsters at all! Radius is 3 + Earth/5.

shatterstorm

You smash the ogre like a melon! You see here a chunk of ogre flesh, a rat corpse and *a banana*.

shedu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamassu
<FaMott> The shedu screeches! <FaMott> The shedu salutes you. <FaMott> _The shedu beseeches The Shining One to heal its mate! <FaMott> _The shedu kicks the shedu! x2
<FaMott> I think they're mating

sheep

Not even sorear has died to this one yet. These crafty beasts have managed to outwit lemuel 2 times!
The sheep is almost dead. It is moving slowly, bewildered and confused, poisoned and covered in liquid flames.
Flammable! Try sticky flame on a pack of them

shield

You need 5/15/25 skill to eliminate evasion, melee speed, damage, and casting penalties for bucklers/shields/large shields for normal races, 7/21/- for kobolds and halflings, 9/-/- for spriggans, 3/9/15 for nagas and centaurs, -/9/15 for trolls and ogres.
In crawl, shields don't affect your ac, they impair your ev by a bit and give you blocking. Blocking allows you to block all damage from some attacks, including some spells, arrows, and melee. Shields also prevent you from using your off hand for auxiliary unarmed attacks and slow your attack speed without enough skill (see shield[1]).
Shields can be enchanted to +3. Each enchantment increases the shielding by 1. Bucklers (5 SH, -1 EV); Shields (8 SH, -3 EV); Large Shield (13 SH, -5 EV). Every level of shield skill increases the shielding by 1/20 of the base shield value. You also get an effective SH bonus based on your str, str/dex avg, or dex (for large, regular, buckler).
You will block a missile if a random number up to 130% of the missile to-hit is less than a random number (on 2 dice) up to 2/3 of your SH; a melee instead uses a random number up to 15 + to-hit / 2. Both to-pass-shield values are inflated by 5 * (previous blocks this turn)^2.
see shield_formulas

shield formulas

Adjusted shield evasion penalty = base penalty - (shield skill / (5 + size factor))
Extra one and a half handed delay = 1d(adjusted shield evasion penalty)
Extra one handed delay = min(1d(adjusted shield evasion penalty), 1d(adjusted shield evasion penalty))

shield of ignorance

It's a +8 dull large shield with: AC+2, EV+2, Int-6, rN+, may recurse itself (one chance in 3). Note that those who will find this most useful are the ones most likely to suffer a stat death. Otherwise, nice stuff.

shield of resistance

Either the unrandart +5 shield that gives rF+, rC+ and MR (seen as a bronze shield) or an ordinary shield (or buckler or large shield) with the resistance (rF+ rC+) brand.

shield of the gong

+6 shield {Spirit, rElec rN+ MR} This shield surely will be heard!
<inspector071> HI GUYS IM HERE, just wanted to let you know im here with a gong!

shield penalty

(1/3/5 for bucklers/shields/large shields) minus shield skill divided by 3/5/7/9 (ogres/humans/kobolds/spriggans).

shields

see shield
see shield[2]
see shield[3]
see shield[4]
see shield[5]
see {shield[6]}

shining

If it's armour, see runed. If not, see randart.
Warning: Knights in shining armour are rarely there to save you from dragons.

shining eye

will mutate you. Joyfully. Don't have an amulet of resist mutation? How about some nice butterflies? In any case, hit it with something (horrible AC/EV), and/or get out of its line of fire.

shiny

If on an Armour made of metal, or in jewellery, similar to glowing/runed: possibly branded/ego, but no guarantees. Can be a randart too, though (also indicated by a fancy color), and on a robe or other things made of cloth, or on a weapon, it definitely is. On a dragon Armour, it might be the Armour of the Dragon King, and on wands means nothing.

shiren

The roguelike PMD was based on, except unlike PMD actually challenging. You'll want this patch if you can't read japanese: http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=shiren
Don't play the psp/wii ones. Even as non-console quasi-roguelikes, they're *really* good; very compressed, like Brogue.

shit

see fuk_da_sac[9]
see learndb[9]

shitplayers

Pedjt, effo

shoals

Lair branch that can replace Swamp or Snake (in 0.11 it can replace Swamp). It has tides, merfolk (including javelineers and aquamancers), kraken, sharks, snapping turtles, sea snakes, cyclopses, and harpies :(. It is 5 levels deep and has the barnacled rune at the end. Generally considered harder than Spider, Snake, or Swamp.
The water level in the Shoals rises and falls over time. This can make fully exploring this branch take a while if you don't have levitation! On the other hand, you can use it to your advantage by waiting to go by a kraken or other dangerous water monster until low tide. You cannot drown just by standing near deep water.
Almost nothing in here sees invisible, so have fun if you are a stabber with invis and levitation/flight.
Gear checklist: levitation/flight.
<Rewans> The only thing I like about Shoals is that it is not Swamp

shock

Level 1 conjuration/air spell which fires a weak bolt of lightning. It's still lightning though - prepare for bolt bouncing (and exploit it, if possible)
Like whipping a monster with perfumed shoestrings.

shockwave

see stalker
Don't clear the area around the vault, even if Eith says so.
Hydras. Put away your stupid sword you half-wit. yours sincerely, "1179089".
Don't do branch endings. See 1180193.
Have a means of escape before summoning greater servants of makhleb. ((1349113))
Actually be able to kill the minotaur before going in the lab. 1343444.
Don't read un-id scrolls (immolation) around greater servants. 1350455.

shop

A vending machine. Insert coins, receive item. Does not restock. Does not buy items -- if you're wondering why not, read section N of the manual (?N in-game).

shop generation

No shops: 76.8%, One shop: 19.2%, Multiple Shops: 4%. Cannot appear before D:3. Can appear in D, Orcish Mines, Elven Halls, Shoals, Snake Pits, and Vaults.

shop mimic

Yes...it moves.

shopping list

thing that tells you when you have money to buy a thing. Press $ to review yours. In a shop, select items and then press $ to add them to your list.

short blades

Crosstrains with Long Blades (good for HE fighters etc). Highly specialised for stabbing, does poor damage in normal combat. Easy to find good ones very early, due to monsters. Sabre is best common.
(Dam,Acc,Delay/Min): Knife (3,5,10/5); Dagger (4,6,10/5); Quick blade (5,6,7/3); Short sword (6,4,11/5); Sabre (7,4,12/5)

short sword

A sword with a short, slashing blade. (Short Blade; Dam 6 Acc +4 Delay 11)

should i do lair

yes

shout

Shouting is a simple attention-grabber. It wakes up sleeping monsters and tells distracted monsters where you are. Nobody seems to know the range, but it is a little bigger than LOS. Certain monsters may also shout when they see you. The effects are probably similar.
If you have the shouting mutation, you will sometimes shout. The more intense the mutation, the more often you shout. Some smartalecks call this Tourette's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54IN3URGuM8

shovelmint

Ce, Hu - Wr,Wn, St, Pa, Mo, He, DK, Cr, Ar, AM, AK, AE

show gold turns

Add "show_gold_turns = true" to your config, and get a neat little section in your info area like "Gold: 7673 Turn: 102387".

show inventory weights

In your config, "show_inventory_weights = true". This will make it show the weights of everything when you're viewing your inventory, which is very, very useful. If you play without it, you're nuts.

shrek

You dice the ogre like an onion!!!
Or, alternatively, Ogres can be fried like onions with a suitable range of fire based spells.

shroud of golubria

L2 Charms/Tloc spell, added in 0.9. Found in War Chants and Spatial Translocations. While in effect, the shroud protects you from some melee attacks, but the shroud is fragile and might fall apart. More damaging melee attacks have a higher chance of breaking the shroud.
It has a 2/3rds chance of attempting to block melee damage. That attempt has a dmg/(dmg+10) chance of breaking the shroud, otherwise the attack is negated. This is after AC damage reduction is applied.

shuffle card

Permutes your (naked) stats (str, int, dex) randomly. Ignores power level. Found in Changes and Wonders. Can be a blessing, an annoyance, a game-breaker, or a radically game-altering moment. It can help your Trolls with spellcasting.

shuffle troll

A troll that uses the Shuffle card to swap its insane strength stat with its meager intelligence stat, creating a caster with the second-highest amount of HP, an insanely high amount of Int that's normally unseen outside of Deep Elves and Chei worshippers, and inherent gourmand. And crappy MP, EV, AC, and aptitudes.

sick

When you are sick, your hit points do not regenerate, and you may occasionally suffer one-point stat drains. The stat drains can be avoided with a ring of sustain abilities, and the sickness can be removed most commonly with time or with a potion of curing. When food makes you sick, it gives you no nutrition. Sickness heals slower if hungry.

sickly siren

Basically a Siren, but with less health. Can be seen in the sewers.

sif muna

Provides very powerful channeling, starting at **** provides a chance (piety+1-in-150; 100% a little below ******) of negating side effects of a miscast (including magic contamination), and offers a selective amnesia invocation at a high piety cost. Gifts book acquirement at high piety, eventually giving you every spell in the game.

sif muna reasons

You are looking to use multiple branches of magic, but want a more reliable way of finding spells than floor-generated books or acquirement. Especially popular among the races with good aptitudes in more than one magic school, such as Deep Elves.
You are a saprovore, mummy, or have gourmand and you want awesome mp generation with little to no drawback.
You want a specific rare spell like Ozocubu's refrigeration that is not gifted by either Vehumet or Kiku.
Her selective amnesia invocation allows casters to forget spells as they please.
<tensorpudding> man, decj runs out of gas really quickly <Wensley> decj of sif is like a solar-powered car

sif muna wrath

ABANDONMENT: 50 penance. RETRIBUTION: -1 extra penance. 20% INT drain, 30% confusion, 20% divination miscast, 20% mana drain (100 points), 10% cancellation of all temporary magic (including levitation!) OTHER: While in penance, all spell casts have a 5% chance of terrible failure (guaranteed miscast, increased severity).

sif wrath

see sif muna wrath
see {sif_muna_wrath[2]}

sigil

If you have sigils on your chest or body, you have been marked by your god and a good god will never accept you as a worshiper. This feature has not yet been implemented.

sigmund

A yellow @ with a shiny scythe, a magic wand, and a necklace of player skulls. A notoriously lethal early-game unique human wizard. Typically generated with a wand of lightning, draining, or paralysis when you get a really good character started. Spells: throw flame, confuse, invisibility, magic dart.
sigmund haters: whoever buffed grinder
You never know where you can meet him... !lm * id=1794297 -tv
It's not a good idea to polymorph Sigmund: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3285755&pagenumber=18#post375152116
Sigmund fan club: ##crawl
Proof that Crawl hates you and wants you to die.

signy

Sigmund's sister.

sigurd

Posthumous son of Sigmund.

silence

Kills all sound in an area up to 6 spaces, mostly this means no spellcasting and invocations. All Gw*8&12345R are unaffected, as are spit and breath spells. In the books of Enchantments and Sky. The radius gradually decreases and for the last few turns only you will be silenced!
Coincidentally, a wielded bone lantern reduces line of sight to 6 spaces.
Hurts your stealth (it is suspicious for monsters when they cannot hear their own breathing (even the sleeping ones and those with extremely loud breath like the undead!)).

silence scummer

ie, you, the player.

silent spectre

A weak ghost added in 0.8 that spawns in Crypt. It radiates silence over a huge area (bigger than LOS). Will happily follow you around and trivialise all spellcasting enemies, if you're a fighter.
Happy fun times over - they nerfed it already :<
<minmay> I love hauling silent spectres into that lich vault <minmay> wait, shit

silver

+5% damage per mutation (up to *1.75), 1.75x vs chaotic things (marked as such in their description). This means shapechangers, mutaters, ugly things, abominations, Tiamat, Killer Klowns, chaos spawns.

silver horn

see {horn of geryon}

silver star

Orb of Zin.

silver statue

Summons the weaker demons (5, 4, and 3). Can be destroyed in a hit by a wand of disintegration, otherwise it is very hard to kill. Note that it can't see invisible.
Enjoy your sixfirhies.

simulacrum

Powerful but easy-to-kill temporary ice copies of monsters. These can inflict massive amounts of damage if the player lacks cold resistance. They also leave a cloud of freezing vapor when killed.
It's also a level 6 ice/necromancy spell. Take a lump of a creature for instant simulacrum: just add magic!
If you kill one with a cloud of flame they won't have any place to leave their cloud of freezing vapor in their death throes.
!lg N78291 xl=17 ckiller=golden dragon simulacrum -tv for why to not underestimate them.
< Sequell> 3742. [dam=56] NyaaKitty the Aerator (L16 HEAE), worshipper of Vehumet, mangled by a golden dragon simulacrum in IceCv (ice cave tombish) on 2010-11-07, with 125289 points after 43024 turns

singing

It's just like talking, except louder, and longer, and you move your voice up and down.

singing sword

unbranded +7 golden long sword that makes noises. In 0.9 makes more noise and becomes "screaming sword" at high tension, dealing "sonic" (irresistable) damage to everything in los.

sinvis

See {See Invisible]

siren

Kind of like a mermaid but can bring you closer to itself. Can't drown you, but can bring you into shallow water that you'll flounder in.
see mesmerise

siveran

Crawl tries to compile. You resist!

sixfirhy

An extremely fast 4-class demon with an elec melee attack and lots of EV. They move in an uneven way, falling behind then catching up. Don't underestimate them.
Unlike neqoxecs, Ilsuiw, ynoxinuls and Kikubaaqudgha which are merely suspected of being named by a cat (http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/06/06/funny-pictures-was-really-invented/), this one is known to be.
01:27 < timecircuits> sxFR:?)hyyyyyyyy-\-
Occurs halfway between 6:00 and 7:00

sixfirhy players

elynae

size factor

For evasion purposes: spider form and bat form are tiny (factor 6), spriggans are little (factor 4), halflings and kobolds are small (factor 2), trolls ogres centaurs and nagas are large (factor -2), and dragonform is huge (factor -8).

skald

New class in 0.9, replacing crusader. Starts with a Book of War Chants and a selected weapon.
Was actually judged a better name than the alternatives. Think of some more alternatives, please. Bring back the reaver!
for those doubting the warriorness of skalds: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/265

skeletal warrior

Lots of MR and AC, generated with good weapons, hit very hard, and animate dead against you. Fun all round. And they come in value packs of several at a time.
Experience piÃ±atas if you have Dispel Undead.
Crypt elephants.

skeleton

A zombie who misplaced his flesh. Not robust enough to pose a threat under normal circumstances. There are, however, abnormal circumstances such as anaconda skeletons in the Abyss.

skill bonus

Weapon skill bonus to damage is (24 + 1d(skill + 1))/25, Fighting skill bonus is (29 + 1d(skill + 1))/30.

skill points

no one but galehar should know or care what these are

skill ratios

skill_ratios[2] and [3] give the win/lose ratio for characters with the given skill as their highest skill, excluding xl<8, quitters and dungeon leavers. The format is SKILL:WIN%,NUMBER_OF_GAMES. Stats are from Henzell on 2009-08-28.
Div:16.67%,6 Evo:9.95%,201 Staves:8.72%,688 Shields:8.66%,485 Traps:7.69%,13 Long:7.30%,2122 Fighting:7.05%,1857 Stabbing:6.40%,422 Polearms:5.80%,2017 Armour:5.47%,128 Axes:5.21%,5990 Tloc:5.88%,119 Earth:5.11%,470 Spell:4.52%,1481 Stealth:4.40%,545 Dodging:3.92%,3007 Unarmed:3.89%,4576 Enchant:3.39%,973 Summon:3.38%,533 Conj:3.05%,4720
Throwing:3.03%,66 Ice:2.94%,884 Maces:2.88%,2429 Fire:2.76%,434 Necro:2.23%,2469 Bows:2.19%,456 Air:2.16%,603 Inv:1.97%,913 Short:1.91%,2098 Slings:1.85%,108 Tmut:1.75%,399 Crossbows:1.61%,124 Poison:0.89%,673 Darts:0.38%,261

skillrobin

Originally was a challenge game stolen (by mikee) from Eris Discordia. Maximum range of highest and lowest skill must be 5. This challenge was largely abandoned after the 0.9 skill changes, however.

skin of zhor

+4 unrandart animal skin with {rC++} . Appears as a smelly skin.

skullcrusher

A +0, +5 giant club with speed and +5 Str. Appears as a brutal giant club.

sky

see snow
<Henzell> I last saw sky______ at Mon Oct 10 17:00:50 2011 UTC

sky beast

Similar to an ice beast, only it flies, is made of clouds and tortured flesh, leaves a mutagenic corpse and fades in and out of visibility at random. Appears at the same depths as ice beasts, but has less AC and is not immune to poison.
http://www.creaturespot.com/main/2010/11/12/cephalophant-monster.html

slang guide

a guide to slang

slapstick

An eight-headed hydra comes into view. The eight-headed hydra falls through a shaft! _The shaft crumbles and collapses.
<Wensley> !lg won <Sequell> 367. won the Slasher (L4 HEGl), mangled by an ogre (a +0,+0 giant club) on D:3 on 2011-10-15, with 248 points after 2659 turns and 0:09:32. <Wensley> fff

slashem

Nethack variant with class feats, gypsies, and lightsabers, among other additions. http://slashem.sourceforge.net/

slave

A few will be accompanying Pikel, a dark blue big kobold unique. They are humans. Gives no experience and becomes neutral on Pikel's death.

slaying

A slaying bonus is stated in the same format as weapon enchantments: bonus to accuracy, then bonus to damage. Only affects melee and ranged combat; magic will not become more powerful nor more accurate from any kind of slaying bonus. Now works like weapon enchantment.
A ring of slaying cannot boost accuracy more than +7, and it cannot boost damage more than +7 unless the accuracy boost is +0. Thus the best possible rings of slaying are (+0, +9) and (+7,+7).

sleep

Aizul and the Enchantress use it. Berserk makes you immune. Taking damage wakes you up, and melee attacks against you do 2.5x damage.
You need more sleep. No exceptions.

sleepwalking

What confused sleeping monsters do. Not a bug.
Awesome!
Here: A ball lightning (bewildered and confused, sleepwalking, mindless)

slime

See Slime Pits
see slime_pits[2]

slime creature

An annoying resource drain; they hit hard enough that light-armour users have to worry about them, have reasonably high HP, never leave corpses, come in packs, regenerate, and flee at the slightest provocation.
Can merge together in 0.6 to form bigger slime creatures. Try not to let them merge more than once, because the damage only keeps increasing, from 44 for two slimes up to 110 for five slimes. Will split again if you keep them in the open.
!lm birdoprey rune=demonic 1 -tv:<8:>-3
worth (slightly) more experience to kill separately

slime pets

Not just for Christmas. Possibly you meant slime pits.

slime pits

Accessed from the Lair somewhere between levels 6 and 8. Six levels deep, with a rune in the loot vault at the bottom. Killing the royal jelly turns the walls around the loot transparent, makes them diggable, and allows teleport control.
Gear checklist: Amulets of resist corrosion and (for shining eyes) resist mutation, resist cold. Magic mapping is highly recommended. Digging or controlled teleport to get at the loot. If you have any slots bare, acid damage hurts more (50% chance if wearing a cloak), so cover up!

slime wall

The damage is cumulative, so standing next to more than one wall will quickly ruin your day.

slimerobin

A new roundrobin due to Kyrris. You can't pick up any items except stones, large rocks, artefacts, and the orb. Eating from the ground is fine.
Apparently it's the same as playing Jiyva.

slimify

Jiyva ability that coats your wielded weapon or fists with slime. Hitting a living or undead monster will turn it into a neutral slime of similar HD with no resistance checks.

slimy green scales

Poison resistance at level 3.

sling

Damage rating: 0 Accuracy rating: +2 Base attack delay: 110%. Better than throwing rocks at a jelly, but only until you wield a cursed one. Can launch stones and sling bullets. The only one-handed ranged weapon - useful with shields.
To be, or not to be: That is the question: | Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer | The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, | Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, | And by opposing end them?

sling bullets

More effective than stones when launched from a sling. Roughly +5 accuracy over using a stone.
Can be eaten by jellies, unlike stones.

slinkies

Anything he says or does is implicitly, if not even explicity, accompanied by a disclaimer that he has no idea what he is talking about and takes no responsibility if you believe him and/or die.
Since it is apparently important to note this in one's learndb entry: is capable of spelling everything except lorocyproca. Also: has a major assertiveness problem; holds the record for the fastest real-time death to a monster (less than a second); only person to ever die to Wayne!
Maintains a .crawlrc file full of fun and useful scripts and tweaks, such as: add lines temporarily to your config during gameplay, prevent "ee"/"ey" from consuming permanent food, no autoexplore when starving, list the possible traps and their potential damage for your current depth.
see adjectives
<+SamB> slinkies would only appear on upstairs < bmh> ... <+SamB> bmh: you know, they would come down the stairs

slouch

Does damage to everything in sight that's faster than you. More damage with higher speed difference. Insanely good against everything really fast, executioners get blown into separate molecules.
It's been nerfed and now does (speed difference)*4 d3 /2 damage. Naga versus hasted Executioner gets 132 damage on average.
Does not wake up/attract monsters to you, just like refrigeration. Doesn't damage sleeping enemies, though.
Like ozocubu's refrigeration, but resistances don't apply and it doesn't hurt you. However, it isn't quite as cool.

slouch reasons

You are facing enemies in combat (0.6)

slow

A status effect that makes you take 50% (100% prior to 0.8) more time to take any action.
L2 hex in Book of Minor Magic and Book of Hinderance. Causes target to slow down. Same effect as potion of slowing, wand of slowing, and curare-tipped needles.
Being slow does not affect your standing with Chei whatsoever.

slow healing

Each level reduces natural regeneration by one third. Applied after everything except {Trog's Hand}.

slow metabolism

A mutation which reduces food use. Level 1/2 have the same effect, 3 is better. -1/-1/-2.

slowimp

1: Summon an imp. 2: Slow the imp. 3: Clear zig with the imp.

slowrun

The art of taking the longest time to win. Current realtime record, Cuckatoo: 224:36:31. Current gametime record, Stabwound: 92568259 turns.

sludge elf

Apparently, elves that live in the jungle. With Kung Fu. "!apt SE" and see for yourself. Relative to humans, sludge elves gain 2 fewer hp per 3 levels and 1 extra mp per 3 levels. Sludge elves gain a random int or dex every four levels. Good at fighting, unarmed combat and all elements (+1), spellcasting (+2), and great transmutation (+3).

sludge elf reasons

Best apts for being a transmuter.
probably the best all around earth elementalists in the game. except DD exists.

slug

Stuff that kills cbus.
Aquatic for some reason. Don't ask.

slugnado

!fight elephant slug hp:10000 perm_ench:tornado v elephant slug hp:10000 perm_ench:tornado delay:0

slyshy

Is really a Crawl HaBe who plays Crawl HaBe
Plan... SEAs, SpEn, DDNe, MfIE, HaBe, HEFE, KoCr, DSVM, MuSu
!lm slyshy id=1178559 -tv
Plays under two accounts. Sly normally, Shy for tournament play.
Retarded easy Snake:5 grab: !lm jaeger rune=serpentine game_id=784653 -tv
Remaining: , Gh,

smeagolrobin

Play a halfling with mutarobin conduct, dive into lava with the Orb of Zot. Scrambling free of the lava is cheating.

smeej

<smeej> I'm just glad to be in an entry.

smiles

Cousins from the slime family of monsters. Have you ever played Dragon Quest and saw those slimes? Yup, it's them.

smilodon

Sabre-toothed cats, now extinct. Sorry, the card didn't do anything.

smite

Enemy priests do this to you, including those irritating early orc priests. Base damage is minor (7-17 points), but nearly impossible to avoid, as the attack ignores statues, friendly (to the priest) monsters, all player resistances, EV, and AC.
Player-usable smiting becomes more powerful with invocations if using Beogh. Approximately 40 max damage with 27 invocations.
List of smiters. ';' groups same spellbook, smiting is 1 of 6 slots unless noted: orc priest; orc high priest, Francis, Frances; smoke demon; Balrug; deep elf priest; deep elf high priest, draconian zealot; Daeva, Saint Roka (3 slots); sphinx; greater mummy, mummy priest; Norris; Mnoleg.
For player spells that are smite targeted see smite targeting

smite targeting

Spells that can be placed anywhere in your line of sight. Player spells that have smite targeting include: fire storm, airstrike, haunt, poisonous cloud and freezing cloud. Of course there's also the smite ability (see beogh) and rod of smiting.

smiterobin

Find an orc priest, then pillar dance until you die. Smites from other monsters are, of course, welcome.
SmiteRobin is therapy for players sad about dying to orc priests. By making them a goal, I hope to reduce the sudden fear when they show up for real. Leading a priest away from the group and dancing with it lets you become familiar with their behavior. You may discover that they don't smite as often as you think.
Smiterobin or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Divine Providence

smoke

Two tiles of smoke on the same line will block LOS mutually (like trees). Certain kinds of smoke (like black smoke) spread to adjacent tiles, others just stay put.
Ways to get lots of smoke: Abjure a lot of summons at once (lasts one turn only), shoot a fire ammo/spell/breath weapon over water (or get it shot at you), read a scroll of fog, hang out in the abyss/swamp, get a smoke demon/steam dragon? to breathe at you, banish a monster, evaporate water...

smoke demon

The most dangerous common 3 because of smite. Do not underestimate them. "Napalm demon" would be a more accurate description; they cast sticky flame and smite.

smoking

It's bad for you, but it's also a randart prefix. Which can be good for you.

snailplayers

If your sum(dur) / sum(turn), a.k.a. your seconds per turn, is 0.5 or higher.

snake

A fast, poisonous creature that might even appear on D:1. Only a spriggan can outrun one. Very dangerous for the first level or two, but a nice chunk of experience after that. Snake meat is clean. For the dungeon branch, see snake pit. Called adder in 0.10.
Power: grey (anaconda) > black (mamba) > yellow (viper) > brown (water mocassin) > snake > small snake. Use ranged attacks to soften up an approaching snake and help prevent an annoying early death to poison.

snake 5

Teleport control is allowed and encouraged, as it will stop guardian/greater nagas from teleporting you into a death trap. If you have the version with the bubble in the back of the wide open circle separated by a door, be prepared to fight a larger number of greater nagas than usual.

snake pit

Accessed from the Lair somewhere between levels 3 and 6. Five levels deep. A serpentine rune lies at the bottom, and the greater nagas are renowned for their charm and hospitality.
In crawl, there are 3 sets of stone stairs per level. If you descend stone stairs into Snake: 5 and end up in the circular vault, look around: there will be 2 other stairs. If 1 or 0 are stone, that means that there is at least 1 stone staircase somewhere else not in the vault. If you take the other stone stairs back up, finding the third is easy.
sorear longs for the good old days when all three stairs went into the vault, virtually every time.

snakebite

This is an unrandart +5, +10 whip of venom with poison resistance. Not bad for poisoning. Not good otherwise.

snapping turtle

Frequently found in any level of the Shoals, snapping turtles hit hard, and their bite has reaching characteristics - it can hit you two squares away. Your summons won't shield you from this!
They snap hard - just because it looks like a crocodile, doesn't mean it's as easy to kill. If they're sitting in water (or you) then you really *really* need to get the hell away.

sniper

the +10,+0 crossbow "Sniper" {venom, SInv}
<elliptic> basically it is a bit better than a blowgun <elliptic> that can't use curare

snorg

A hairy troll. He hits hard in melee, but by the time you run into him, he will probably feel more like Sno- (author probably had 0.3.4 expectations, and was eaten alive during one of Snorg's berserk fits). For the record, his berserk will outlast yours by far, so if you plan to run, you'll want to haste.
(v.) 1. To cuddle as a Troll Berserker. 2. The act of assault cuddling.

snow

<snow__> omg this game i haven't victory danced fighting OR cast stone arrow
Has been seen using Lehudib's Crystal Spear on toadstools
<Sky_> fuck deep dwarves <Sky_> they're the hardest thing ever
<sky__> i usually do just hold down tab all game >_>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzhFTAWcIgk VMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
<Blade-> The eye of devastation gazes at you. The bolt of energy hits you! The bolt of energy hits the toadstool. The toadstool is blown up! <minqmay> snow got polymorphed into an eye of devastation
!lg sky hewz ckiller=boris 1 -tv:<5

snozzcumber

The Snozzcumber resembles a cucumber but differs in various respects. The snozzcumber varies from nine to twelve feet long. It is striped lengthwise black and white, with wart-like growths all over its surface. It has a repulsive flavor.
A reference to the novel "The BFG" by Roald Dahl.

soadreqm

12:28 < Soadreqm> Enough demons works on anything.
abandoned Xom. (D:1)

sob

Sublimation of Blood! A great spell!
Also the sound you make when you splat to a rat.
no one actually calls it that

soft click

The sound of a trap which has run out of ammunition being triggered.

sojiko

Just can't stay away from the abyss. Give Louise a hug.

soldier ant

The nightmare monster from nethack is nowhere near as deadly in crawl. Generally a pushover by the time they start appearing, though you might get poisoned a bit.

solitas

Lurks like an unseen horror, minus the killing people bit. Is one of only three unnatural phenomena that can spell "ynoxinul".
aka the Jolly Rotter. Ask him about the time he drank potions of decay for nutrition.
Jolly Rotter: !log solitas min=mhp race=merfolk urune>1
Is rumoured to own a bear suit.
Might even be a druid.
Or some kind of steam-powered robot.
d - the +3,+10 executioner's axe of Desertification (weapon) {god gift, speed, rElec, Dex+4}

solvent

<codrus>solvent is having a tough night <MrPeeps>he's close to a solution though

something

More dangerous than lava.

somewhat difficult

A joke. At least 7.75% chance of failure and at most 23.625% chance of failure.

sonja

Curarier, drainier, dodgier, venomier and more distortious kobold. Guaranteed to be electrocution-free as the DuraCell rabbit got tapped out. Also, knows the spells blink and teleport self. Curare is now guaranteed, and distortion is more likely.
She likes to eat wands, so feel free to give her some tasty paralyze when you see her.
see love[1]

soon

Thats when.
Before the apocalypse
So stop asking
Soon Kim, the founder of the Sapphire Guard.
When the sheep come home.

sorchado

Jan 04 14:50:05 <caracal> i fell prey to the common newbie wizard mistake: burn two slots learning call imp, cast it, get one crimson imp who blinks around and laughs as i get killed, think pffff, this spell *sucks*! but no, some here in the channel, and more extensive experience, have convinced me otherwise

sorear

Compulsive abbreviator
Has been known to attempt to kill liches with a butchering tool
Used to not be one, but after years of pretending to be, even dpeg is now fooled and "accidentally" gave him a commit bit.
Is apparently a god, judging from the existance of sorear_wrath
Mortally afraid of killer bees
Do the closest level that you can handle. Use your brain.
Considers himself the last person alive to properly value to-hit.

sorear reasons

sorear doesn't need a reason
But in a pinch, schadenfreude and misanthropy get most things done.

sorear wrath

ABANDONMENT: doesn't care. MISREADING SOMETHING: 500 penance. RETRIBUTION: (severity/2)% chance of cruel, derisive mockery.

soul eater

It's a strong, but melee-only demon. It drains. Can be summoned by high-level necromancy miscasts.

sound

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jkorg2xnYI
http://myweb.cableone.net/rayblack/
http://raydarken.blogspot.com/
You can do it yourself, with your own effects! Read the options guide provided with your copy of the game!
Why god, why?!

source

Browse the Git repository at http://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl
For bleeding edge, it's on the "master" branch in git. For the stable branch, check out "stone_soup-0.8"
Finally, if you want the source for *this bot*, go here: http://github.com/greensnark/dcss_henzell or git clone git://github.com/greensnark/dcss_henzell.git
Read this _before_ editing spoilers
For Ashenzari the bug-reporting bot, http://github.com/doy/crawlbot

sourceforge

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soups Sourceforge page is http://sourceforge.net/projects/crawl-ref/.

soyweiser

< Soyweiser> I'm feeding the lava god today!

space warps around you

Flavour summoning or translocation miscast.

spacet

Spacet the Cudgeler (L4 KoBe), worshipper of Trog, fell down a flight of stairs on D:3, with 203 points after 2318 turns and 0:11:46.
*giggle*
needs to design and submit a sewer vault with snapping turtles and pizzas
<SpaceT> i can't drink potions right <SpaceT> buuut <SpaceT> what about an enema
< SpaceT> my uncle used confusing touch once

spade card

Casts Dig.

spam

see private messages
Spriggan Arcane Marksman

spark card

By card power, 0: shock 1: lightning bolt 2: orb of electrocution
!lg heteroy place=orc max=dam -tv

sparkling fountain

Pretty freaking kickass spoiler at http://web.archive.org/web/20080123071740/http://www.eleves.ens.fr/home/grasland/crawl/spoilers/crawl_fountains_010.txt -- to summarize, grants one of many potion effects randomly each time you drink (see [2] for the odds), with a chance of it drying up.
Possible effects (with weights): water (467), decay (48), mutation, healing, heal wounds, speed, might (all 40), degen (32), levitate, poison, slow, paralyse, confuse, invis (27), magic, restore abil, resistance, strong pois, berserk (20), gain str/int/dex (4 each)

spatial vortex

The fabric of the space-time continuum has folded upon itself and is flailing around wildly! Can be caused by Xom, and miscast effects. They also have a distortion effect on attack.

spck

<tensorpudding> don't even spck of it

spear

Hand and a half polearm; can be thrown. Dam 6 Acc +4 Delay 11

spear of the botono

The +2,+10 spear of the Botono {reap, Noisy rPois rN+ HP-3}. In 0.10, appears as an ebony spear; in earlier versions, had vampiric and Stlth-- rather than reaping and HP-3.

spear trap

1d(10 + depth) damage.

special room

A rectangular room full of monsters and/or items. Unlike vaults they can appear in almost every branch, even the Hells and Zot.
The possible special rooms are kobold room, orc room, killer bee room, jelly room, guardian naga room (the version with real items -- the other is actually a vault), and morgue (all sorts of undead).
Often referred to as pits, especially by people with Angband backgrounds. Distinguished from vaults by having variable sizes and being mostly homogenous.

specialcharediting

To edit special characters out of an entry, you will have to escape them first. For example, to edit ( out of an entry you would type "s/$//", and to edit the ) out of an entry you would probably type "s/text$/text/".

species difficulty

Type !lg * won s=race to see!

species ratios

race=WON%,#GAMES DD=3.19%,1287 HO=1.28%,10479 Ce=1.23%,3832 MD=1.16%,21189 Mf=1.00%,10808 Na=1.00%,5914 Mi=0.87%,12236 Tr=0.70%,7711 DG=0.69%,6836 Dr=0.61%,9757 HE=0.60%,11873 Gh=0.56%,7374 Ha=0.56%,4986 Ko=0.56%,8799 Sp=0.55%,19929 Og=0.54%,5909 DS=0.51%,28151 Hu=0.48%,12794 Ke=0.48%,8349 SE=0.47%,11765 Vp=0.34%,7426 DE=0.31%,26830 Mu=0.23%,12134
species_ratios[1] reflects henzell stats as of 2009-08-28 and does not include quitters or dungeon leavers. For more statistics, see popularity.
minus goodplayers:DD=1.31%,1143 MD=0.56%,19242 HO=0.42%,8766 Mf=0.33%,9579 Mi=0.30%,11119 Sp=0.24%,16358 Na=0.20%,4986 DS=0.19%,23999 SE=0.19%,9960 DG=0.19%,5820 HE=0.15%,10384 Ko=0.13%,7550 Gh=0.13%,6159 Ce=0.13%,3036 Hu=0.12%,11645 Tr=0.12%,6434 Ha=0.12%,4283 Og=0.11%,4566 DE=0.10%,24285 Ke=0.09%,6697 Mu=0.07%,10683 Vp=0.06%,6638 Dr=0.05%,7868
only goodplayers:DD=12.60%,254 MD=6.53%,2206 Mf=6.27%,1292 Mi=6.04%,1242 Ce=5.81%,757 HO=5.55%,1765 Na=5.14%,953 Tr=4.34%,1082 Hu=3.72%,1262 HE=3.36%,1666 DG=3.30%,1122 Ha=3.26%,736 Ko=3.25%,1229 Dr=2.93%,1943 Gh=2.88%,1182 Vp=2.49%,885 Sp=2.36%,3099 DS=2.34%,4238 DE=2.04%,2749 Ke=1.97%,1774 Og=1.96%,1430 SE=1.88%,1972 Mu=1.40%,1504
For more statistics, see ratios and popularity.

species reasons

Please fill in <species/background/god> reasons entries for the benefit of Crawl players who cannot play the game themselves to figure out what's fun!

spectral hydra

It mutated to drain with each head but lost ability to regenerate heads.
This isn't really a problem for it though, seeing as it can't lose them.

speed

A prized (except on short blades where it's crap) brand for weapons that causes users to be able to hit enemies twice where they would otherwise only hit once, but reduces pre-AC damage by 10%. Yes, it stacks with haste/berserk/etc; see attack speed.
Weapons that can have speed brand: short blades (other than quick blade), quarterstaff, lajatang, artefacts.
see you cover ground quickly
As of 0.8, reduces pre-AC damage by 10%.
see what speed

speed 11

The easiest solution to kiting. Also the worst solution to kiting.

speed demon

!lm * br.end=D dur<1620 s=char

speedrobin

Go go go! Speedrobin is for playing for shortest realtime. Preferably to victory. Pass is the same as almost all other robins: "robin".
Is it related to http://alt.org/nethack/player-all.php?player=WowDeath ?

speedrun

In most games: a game finished in exceptionally little clock time. In roguelikes typically: a game finished in exceptionally few turns. The average win takes about 144k turns in 15h26min. (3-rune wins average 121k turns in 12h).
Current record is 13435 turns (DDBe, hyperbolic, AKA elliptic). The best turncount in 0.1 was 21070 (Atomjack, DESu); 0.3 was 66283; the best for 0.4 is 26284 rob (MDFi).

speedrun reasons

<ncampion> gotta love a game where you invest 4.5 hours, make it to D:20 (previous best being D:12 or so) and get gibbed in one round. I love it. <Elynae> solution: play faster, die after 1 hour instead

spell accuracy

Determined by spell power, just like damage. Not affected by randarts with Acc+N or Acc-N, but affected by amulet of inaccuracy.

spell damage

Ask eith.
? + ?d(?*pow + ?)

spell hunger

Casting a spell lowers your nutrition by an amount varying with the spell's level: (1) 50, (2) 95, (3) 160, (4) 250, (5) 350, (6) 550, (7) 700, (8) 860, (9) 1000. This amount is lowered by the product of your Intelligence and Spellcasting. (For rods, your Evocation skill * 10, with a minimum of 5.)
Display messages: Sultana is >= 1. Strawberry is >= 15, Choko is >= 41, Honeycomb is >= 121, Ration is >= 401.
In trunk: n hashes means that a spell costs more than 10*n*(n-1) nutrition to cast.

spell levels

You get one spell level for each experience level (except the first), and two spell levels for each level of Spellcasting skill. You need spare spell levels to memorize a new spell. Losing experience levels from draining won't cause you to forget spells or anything like that.
You cannot memorize spells with a level higher than your experience level, so even if you have spare spell levels, you can't memorize Throw Flame at experience level 1.
The maximum number of simultaneously known spells is 21. If you somehow know 21 but still have 4 spell levels remaining, you may still also learn selective amnesia (before 0.8, when it was removed), but bear in mind that you are insane.

spell popularity

Spells memorised by 0.7 winners (674 games total): http://pastebin.com/GeGU9jFf ; spells memorised by 0.8 winners (371 games total): http://pastebin.com/3mHEbgby. These statistics are as of June 11th 2011.
For a list of spell popularity among winners, see http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?title=Table_of_spell_popularity_among_winners . Statistics compiled by xyblor. See also popularity and ratios.

spell power

(Spellcasting/2 + 2*avg school skill) * INT/10 * (1.5 ^ enhancer count). Now halve the part over 50, halve the part over 100, halve the part over 150, and plain cap at 200. Negative enhancers use 0.5, not 0.66.
...and the significance of this? It's linearly related to conjuration damage and self-enchantment duration, and controls the probability of a resistable spell succeeding in a less-simple fashion. And other appropriate things, like getting two summons from spammals.
Note that the power of some spells is capped, most notably conjurations. This is indicated by having a short bar on the second I screen. (the # represent power, btw)
Got bars (#)? You have at least 0, 5, 10, 15, 25, 35, 50, 75, 100, 150 power.
A ruby script for calculating spellpower: http://pastebin.com/f114699d1 Another for calculating enchantment success vs monster MR: http://pastebin.com/f70a79d8e

spellbooks

Air, Alchemy, Annihilations, Beasts, Burglary, Callings, Cantrips, Changes, Clouds, Conjurations, Control, Death, Dreams, Enchantments, Envenomations, Fire, Flames, Frost, Geomancy, Grand Grimoire, Hinderance, Ice, Maledictions, ...
Minor Magic, Morphology, Necromancy, Necronomicon, Party Tricks, Power, Spatial Translocations, Stalking, Summonings, Transfigurations, Unlife, War Chants, Wizardry, the Dragon, the Earth, the Sky, the Tempests, the Warp, Young Poisoner's

spellcasting

Gives you an extra 2 spell slots per level in spellcasting. Raising your spellcasting also gives you more MP, lowers spell hunger, and slightly boosts spell success and spell power for all spells.

spellf ailure

You failed at spelling.

spells that do not exist

air walk, portal, maxwell's silver hammer, eringya's surprising bouquet, twist, symbol of torment, all divinations spells, banishment, teleport self, bolt of iron, ice shard, fling icicle, tomb of doroklohe, levitation, extension, bone shards, berserk, resist poison, tame beasts, alter self, orb of electrocution, tukima's vorpal blade, create noise
http://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/blobs/master/crawl-ref/docs/obsolete/cut_spells.txt

spelunky

http://www.spelunkyworld.com/

spen guide

See hyperbolic for hyperbolic's opinion, or http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?title=Spriggan_Enchanter_guide&oldid=17301 for casmith's opinion.

sphinx

Sphinx spells: confuse, paralysis, heal, smite, slow. If you have low magic resistance (and *especially* so if you have no AC), you should plan your moves very carefully if a sphinx has you in its sights. One turn is all it needs to kill you.

spider form

No weapons or armour, but you get swiftness, a venomous bite, and a huge EV bonus (better than sprigganness!). You hit somewhat harder too, but the real draw is you don't get hit back. You also gain five dexterity, which is nice. Spider form has 2 AC.

spider nest

New branch in 0.11 that will alternate with Snake Pit (but is temporarily guaranteed, for testing purposes). Five levels deep. Formerly a portal in 0.10. Spiders of many sorts. Expect them to hit hard and move much faster than you; running is not an option if you're normal speed.
Gear checklist: most importantly: rPois and or potions of curing; clarity is a big help against tarantellas; some ranged attack is a big help against orb spiders; escape items of course; with rPois there are plenty of corpses to eat, else bring food.
What happens if you go in without rPois or curing (note this is from when spider was a portal): !lg BirdoPrey trpr place=~spider -tv
Expect a small number of ghost moths and moths of wrath on level 5. Both can also appear earlier in vaults.
https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:brainstorm:dungeon:branch:spider

spie

SPAH 'ROUND HERE

spiked flail

12, -2, 160%. The best common 1-handed mace, but still rather worse than a broad axe.

spiny

Mutation, has a chance of doing (xd6 (where x is mutation level) - enemy AC - player EVP) damage to enemies in melee combat when their attack is not blocked by the player. Subject to monster EV.

spiny frog

The far nastier brother of the blink frog, it rightfully earns its title as one of the toughest enemies in the Lair by having hard-hitting poisonous attacks and by being fairly tough itself. Kill or weaken it from afar if possible.
They succumb to hibernation very well, use it freely.

spiny worm

A giant worm, hard to kill, with bites that do considerable damage while at the same time strongly poisoning you and corroding your armour. Good times.
Fortunately, like almost any worm, you can run away from it (unless you're a naga).
Be careful, as it can poison you so badly that you may not be able to recover at all.

spit

Yes, it is spit. Not split. You spit a pig. Stop claiming it is a typo.

spit poison

You spit poison from your mouth, does extra damage when done by a naga, scales with XL and mutation level. Relatively short breath cooldown vs breathe flames. Does 1d(4 + (XL + mutlevel * 5 [+10 if Naga]) / 2) damage [ 1d7 minimum ; 1d30 maximum]

splat

An interesting death. These ttyrecs are broadcast continuously on {C-Splat} (telnet termcast.develz.org to watch), and you can search Henzell for splats using "!lg * splat=y". A splat usually involves high experience level, a branch end or other interesting place, or being killed by a player ghost or certain uniques.
Henzell defines splat as follows (see _interesting_game): http://crawl.akrasiac.org/henzell/src/csplatco/CSplat/Select.pm
The sound of broken dreams and failure. Also, the sound you make when you try to fight a pack of orcs with a warrior, two wizards, and a priest while you're only XL3.
Also 78291's other account.

splateaued

Splateaued (root plateau) the point which all your characters of die.

splatguard

pronounced "splaggard"
DChimera, BirdoPrey, TGWi, Kyrris, monky, Cryp71c

splattv

Plays ttyrecs of players who died (in)gloriously in NetHack's endgame.
see csplat

splint mail

+8 ac -5 ev.

splitting stacks

If you want to drop 2 of item e, just press d2e.

spoilers

no spoilers 4 j00
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/kielosto/crawl_spoilers/ss/

spooky statue

Casts haunt. Despite the name, doesn't have boo. Unaffected by disintegration.

spoondrift

Spoondrift did the patch enabling all combos and implementing restrictions. If you must know who he is.
And you must know who he is.
But you *can't* know who he really is. It's beyond your tragically limited capacities. This is why you are a failure.

sporediving

[n.] The process of descending Dungeon levels to search for giant spores, thence to destroy active ballistomycetes for 500 (!!!) EXP/colony.

sporkhack

http://sporkhack.com/design_concept.html

spotty levels

The version of the level generator used in Orc and Slime, and (to a lesser extent) D and Lair. You'd have to see one to understand, I'm afraid.

spriggan

Spriggans move two-thirds faster than most and have seven magic resistance per level (not three), but can't wear most armour and have the second-lowest natural HP of any race. They have bad aptitudes for melee skills (except short blades), but have enormous EV and are good at stealth, stabbing and related magics.
They cannot eat meat in any form (thus, no chunks), but they have a very slow metabolism. Their extreme herbivorousness helps in that it boosts the food value they get from their veggies. They also do not benefit from gourmand effects, and only from a ring of sustenance if their metabolism has been increased, such as by a source of regeneration.
All hand-and-a-half and most single handed weapons are two-handed for spriggans, except: short blades, whips, club, hammer, mace, flail, hand axe, falchion, rods.
would have wings if they could stop fucking badgers for like one minute

spriggan baker

one who bakes spriggans

spriggan baker joke

three spriggan bakers walk under a bar
(spriggans are short)

spriggan challenge

Like the ogre challenge but possible. And involving spriggans.

spriggan defender

<mikee_> they're more like spriggan offenders am i right

spriggan druid

Blasts you with sunrays (3d19, more for vampires), summons a bunch of bears, and uses awaken_forest. Also has great EV and speed. Do not stand next to trees with a spriggan druid in LOS.

spriggan reasons

You can run away from almost anything... better not get hit though!
You want to be a little fairy.
Lame power gamer who hates fun.
Spriggan of Death. Removed. Now even betterer.
The kings of pillar dancing
Highest MR of any species.

spriggan rider

Uses blowguns, but has mediocre melee. On "death," will turn into either a spriggan or a giant firefly.
Spriggans ride giant fireflies because said fireflies are an extra half-hand, allowing them to somehow use spears with bucklers or longbows when player spriggans can't.
One who rides spriggans

sprint ideas

Make Portal spell into an uncontrolled teleport.
Keep teleportation and shaft traps from ever generating.
Prevent scrolls of magic mapping and scrolls of noise and scrolls of teleportation from generating.
Set initial piety of a new Lugonu convert manually rather than running it through the piety multiplier.
Underused monsters that deserve a spot in Sprint: red wasps, redbacks, wolf spiders, necrophages, hairy devils, sun demons, orange crystal statues, silver statues, quicksilver dragons, spriggans
Disable ALL teleports, but leave teleport control enabled.
Make the abyss no-xp and no-items, and mention this in the Sprint help screen.
Use restricted_doors to control monster flow.
Disable all long range player teleportation.
You start in a room with 27 potions of experience and the orb of zot. Run.

sprint iii

<rwbarton> it's like a headlong sprint into a wall
You hear a distant "Zot"!

spvm

better than mfcr
better than mfsk

square los

On cdo for testing. Feedback welcome at https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:brainstorm:square_los

squarelos

Branch of crawl where LOS is square rather than circular. This is more realistic.
Robin account for people who mourn the absence of square LOS.
(2:01:23 AM) OG17: long live errors
< rwbarton> squarelos fixes a lot of gameplay oddities caused by the fact that circles are not squares

squelching noise

A jelly has spawned another jelly. Hope you brought a lot of toast!

ssh

Modern protocol, which through the magic of compression uses less bandwidth and with typical internet:cpu ratios winds up faster overall. Supported by CAO and CDO.
Are you on *NIX and tired of entering passwords for the main SSH login? Copy sorear's $HOME/.ssh/config http://angband.pl/crawl/config The ssh_key that might be needed is available at http://crawl.akrasiac.org/cao_key
see terminal_size

ssh guide

http://crawl-ref.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/crawl-ref/trunk/crawl-ref/docs/ssh_guide.txt

st

after r and before u
see stalker

stab

see stabbing
see vorpal

stab bonus

(lower is better): sleeping/paralysed = 1, netted/webbed/petrifying/petrified = 2, invisible/confused/fleeing/ally = 4, distracted = 6

stabbing

A successful stab with a short blade increases your damage from dam to (dam+bonus)*mult, where bonus depends on your dex and stab skill and is capped at 30, and mult depends on your stab skill and the type of stab (sleep/paralysis is best). Non-short blades don't get a bonus and have lower mult. Daggers get bonus doubled, so use one of those.
If you are using short blades, stab damage bonus is (DEX * (stabbing skill + 1)) / 5, halved if you are not wielding a dagger, and then put through a stepdown function (halve the part over 10, then halve the part over 20, then cap at 30).
For short and long blades, stab damage gets a bonus multiplier of (10 + (stabbing skill) / (stab bonus + (2 if using a short blade, 0 else))) / 10
Finally, stab damage gets an additional bonus multiplier of (12 + (stabbing skill) / (stab bonus)) / 12 for all weapons, including short and long blades.

stabworth

Apparently not stabwound.

stabwound

Frequent streaker. Regarded by many as the best crawl player, with over a hundred wins, the second longest winning streak (19 games), a great win ratio (15%), and a staggering ratio since v0.4 (67%).

stack five

Shows you the first five cards of the selected deck and lets you re-order them. The rest of the deck is discarded.

staff

A piece of wood with a random appearance. There are five kinds - energy (eliminates spell hunger while wielded), wizardry (reduces spell failure chances), power (grants 13 extra MP), channeling (Evoke to convert food into mana), and enhancer (makes a specific school of magic more powerful, often granting thematic melee powers and resistances)
Also usable as a melee weapon. A one-handed +0 quarterstaff with a special thematic attack bonus based on the elemental and evocations skill. Since it is not subject to enchantment, it cannot be corroded by acids. See staff damage.
A new type of weapon in 0.10: 5/5/120. These stats are also used for base melee with enhancer staves.

staff acquirement

You'll get either a rod, the enhancer staff corresponding to your best magic skill, or wizardry/energy/channeling/power.
Trog worshippers always get a random rod. Warning: this includes rod of striking.

staff damage

Enhancer staves (fire, cold, air, earth, death) have (2*evoc + magic skill)/30 chance of getting random2(1.25*(magic skill + evoc/2)) extra damage that ignores AC (except earth), but checks the appropriate resistance. Air also needs to pass a (damage dealt + air + 1)/20 chance, and death a (necro + 1)/8 chance.
see staff of poison

staff monk

see gladiator
h - a scroll labeled STOUFFMUONK

staff monk reasons

You don't want to risk the chance of never finding a quarterstaff and you hate Zin.
This is of course, completely unrealistic. Everyone loves Zin.
see tavern

staff of conjuration

Increases your Conjurations power by 50% (before the stepdown function is applied) when wielded.

staff of death

Enhances necromancy, and provides rN+ (in 0.8). See staff damage for details on the extra melee damage it can inflict.

staff of dispater

+4,+4 golden quarterstaff. E(v)oke for 100 hunger, -23 hp, -6 mp, Hellfire (power = 8 * Evo)
Anagram of Steadfast Ripoff

staff of enchantment

Acts as an enhancer for charms and hexes, and gives 9 + 3*max(charms, hexes) additional magic resistance.

staff of energy

Eliminates half the additional hunger from spellcasting when wielded. Quite useful!

staff of olgreb

Evokes for 4mp and 50 hunger, toxic radiance, *and* an evoc+1 in 10 chance of venom bolt. Succeeds evoc+1 in 6 times. Confers poison resistance and enhances poison magic, like a staff of poison. A quarterstaff (and Trog will gift it!); both to-hit and to-dam are your poison magic skill/3. Poisons in melee just like a weapon of venom.

staff of poison

Grants rPois; boosts poison magic; in melee, if you pass a (Evoc*2+Poison Magic)/30 check, it inflicts poison on a coinflip or (poison skill / 8) times, and bypasses poison resistance like poison arrow (poison skill / 16) times.

staff of power

+13 MP. The staff has its own supply of MP, which depletes rapidly when not wielded. So you can switch weapons for butchering without losing MP, but leave it in your backpack too long, and you'll find it empty again.

staff of summoning

Enhances Summoning spells. Also provides a level of warding and can abjure on-hit with evocation skill in 0.8. Same evocations check as other staves (death, fire, cold etc). Abjures with spellpower based on evoc+summoning skill.

staff of wucad mu

see wucad_mu
see {wucad mu[2]}

stair dancing

The process of dragging enemies up stairs so as to kill them in smaller groups.

stair mimic

A stair mimic comes down the stairs.

stairs

Monsters can spawn from the stairs, even when you're standing there. Watch out!
After you manage to escape danger using the stairs, those dangerous monsters will instantly surround the stairs if you go back there and get 1.3-1.4 free turns to attack you.
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/?cid=001.jpg

stalker

An assassin who got tired of misplacing his blowgun, so decided to replace it with transmutations. Starts with a dagger, a cloak and a book of Stalking.

stalker guide

Go Trog, find a ring of invisibility, stab everything.

stang

Like sting but misspelled.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Stang

staplegun

<staplegun> well i guess i'm giving up on this crypt rune on account of not being able to find the damn thing :[

start scumming

Back in the days when Str/Int/Dex were randomly assigned, people would start games and quit them on turn 1 until they found the ideal mixture. Now this tactic is less prevalent, but still kept alive by Sebi and his disgustingly high count of Wanderers.

starting a character

Disable the majority of the skills that are colored dark grey with plus signs in the skills screen (lowercase 'm'), and enable your weapon or spell school. Pick up stones or darts. Keep these until D:4, unless you are ranged, in which case keep them until you have your damage spell at max power. If you find an amazing artefact, change it.

starting god popularity

Number of games per starting god from cv 0.3 to 0.6, excluding quitters and dungeon leavers. 24536x Trog, 12928x Makhleb, 12419x Paladin, 8987x Xom, 7477x Lugonu, 5405x Beogh, 4832x Yredelemnul (DK), 4002x Healer, 2182x Yredelemnul (Pr), 1809x Zin

starting hp and mp

AK13,1 | AM 12,1 | As 12,0 | Be 15,0 | CK 13,1 | Cr 13,1 | DK 13,1 | Fi 15,0 | Gl 14,0 | He 13,2 | Hu 13,0 | Mo 13,0 | Pr 12,1 | St 12,1 | Tm 12,1 | Wr 12,1 | Wz 8,5 | Cj, En, FE, IE, AE, EE, Su, VM, Ne 10,3

starting stats

A character's starting stats are equal to 2 + species contribution + job contribution. See starting stats[2] for the species contributions and starting stats[3] for the job contributions.
Ce 8,5,2 | DD 9,6,6 | DE 3,10,8 | Dg 9,10,9 | Dr 8,6,4 | Ds 6,7,6 | Fe 2,7,9 | Gh 9,1,2 | Ha 3,6,9 | HE 5,9,8 | HO 9,3,4 | Hu 6,6,6 | Ko 5,4,8 | Mf 6,5,7 | Mi 10,3,3 | Mu 9,5,5 | Na 8,6,4 | Og 10,5,3 | Op 5,8,5 | SE 6,7,7 | Sp 2,7,9 | Te 6,6,7 | Tr 13,2,3 | Vp 5,8,7
AK 4,4,4 | Ar 3,4,5 | As 3,3,6 | Be 9,-1,4 | CK 4,4,4 | DK 5,3,4 | Fi 8,0,4 | Gl 7,0,5 | He 5,5,2 | Hu 4,3,5 | Mo 3,2,7 | Pr 5,4,3 | Sk 4,4,4 | St 2,4,6 | Tm 2,5,5 | Wn random | Wr 3,5,4 | Wz -1,10,3 | AE,Cj,EE,En,FE,IE,Ne,Su,VM 0,7,5

startscumming

!lg sebi s=ktyp

starving

A condition where you can't cast, get a -3 to hit and -(0 to 5) to dam modifier for melee, and have a chance to faint. If you remain starving for too long, it will kill you directly even if you don't ever faint (from starvation, of course). Cure: Eat something! Quickly! See hunger.

stash

Good locations are Temple, Lair:2, and Lair:1. Another popular location is just on the floor wherever. In order to keep track of stashes, set waypoints at each with ^w. You can now travel here via ^g.
The logic is, you don't want monsters using your items or jellies eating them. Particularly bad locations for stashes include the Abyss, Pan, and Slime.
Reports of OOD (sometimes in-depth) monsters stealing items at the usual stash locations are rising! The Goblin picks up the scroll of acquirement! Something appears at the Goblin's feet! The Goblin picks up the banana.
There's no partictular reason why you can't just put all your loot in a single tile. That's boring, though. Spread it out and show off all your cool unrands and god gifts that you've gotten!
Bonus points for going back to previous levels just for the sake of picking up cool-yet-useless shit that you dropped earlier: Your Museum of Magickal Ringes will be incomplete without that fine specimen of Hunger you found earlier.
Merfolk, octopodes and grey draconians could just make their stash in some deep water somewhere temporarily in a pinch.

stat drain

Maximum drain from one source: 7 (necromancy miscasts, including mummy death curses, Zot traps, and Hell effects), 6 (divination miscasts, including OCS and Sif Muna wrath), 6 (cursed rings and randarts), 4 (degeneration)
If a stat reaches 0 and you do not fix the problem within 90 turns, you die.

stat gain

Each third level always gives you your choice of stats. In addition, stats increase at a rate depending on your race. See stat gain[2] for a list sorted by race (id/4 means one intellect or dexterity per four levels, randomly).
Ce sd/4 | DD si/4 | DE i/4 | Dg sid/2 | Dr sid/4 | Ds sid/4 | Fe id/5 | Gh s/5 | Ha d/5 | HE id/3 | HO s/5 | Hu sid/4 | Ko sd/5 | Mf sid/5 | Mi sd/4 | Mu none | Na sid/4 | Og s/3 | Op sid/5 | SE id/4 | Sp id/5 | Te sid/4 | Tr s/3 | Vp none

statdeath

see stat drain
Statdeath is no longer instant, but that doesn't mean getting a 0 stat is a happy thing (and it will kill you in ~100 turns).

stathol

e - a scroll labeled DIK LIQEOD

static discharge

Hits between 1 and 8 adjacent enemies, based on power; if an enemy is rElec or flying, skip them. For each target hit, if power remains, recursively arc out to another adjacent target (includes you, but for low damage), reducing power to 1/2 or 1/3. Halved damage to you if flying, and checks rElec.

statrot

Deterioration, a mutation that causes you to actively lose stats; colloquially known as "statrot". Generally not a big deal unless you get level 2 or 3 of it, or you're a Deep Dwarf. Neutralized by a ring of sustain abilities.

statue

Dangerous statues are archer statue, orange crystal statue, ice statue, and silver statue. There are also some dangerous vault-defined statues. Others are just decoration, but generally indicate something of mild or more interest. Reperesented by an 8, as golems are, except statues don't move.
If a statue is just called "statue" then it probably (definitely?) has IOOD.

statue form

Grants great AC (17 + earth/2), a 30% HP boost, and +2 Str, but makes the base cost of an action 15 instead of 10, similar to the slow spell. Available slots: weapon, cloak, helmet, shield. Provides rPois, rElec, rN+. 3+str/3 bonus unarmed damage, and 50% damage bonus to all melee. In statue form, stoneskin adds more AC than normal.
Gives 40% GDR, halves damage from torment and gives rotting resistance.
The nine-headed hydra bites you but does no damage. x16 The nine-headed hydra misses you. The nine headed hydra bites you but does no damage.

statue of wucad mu

A big, strong orange crystal statue, found in the Wucad Mu wizlab.

staves

Okay damage, good accuracy; quarterstaves are the best early weapons. But they are early weapons - if you want to win, you'll need to find a lajatang, and they are quite rare. For magical staves, see staff. Non-magic staves have base damage halved with shields.
[hands] (Dam,Acc,Delay): Staff[Dbl] (5,5,12) Quarterstaff[Dbl] (10,3,13); Lajatang[Dbl] (16,-3,14)

stealth

Your character's ability to sneak around undetected. Base stealth is 3*dex + spf*SK_STEALTH, then modified as in modified_stealth. spf is based on the species, ranging from 9 to 21. See [2] to determine stealth values; [3] for the @ adverbs; and [4] for what the numbers mean.
Base stealth is 3*dex + stealth*spf. spf is: Troll, Ogre, Centaur: 9; Minotaur: 12; Halfling, Kobold, Spriggan, Felid, Grey Draconian, Naga: 18; Vampire: 18-21; All others: 15.
@ values are: Extremely unstealthy <10, Very unstealthy <30, unstealthy <60, fairly <90, normal <120, quite <160, very <220, extremely <300, extraordinarily <400, incredibly <520, uncannily >=520
Expectation of available time (in your actions, so no penalty for naganess) is stealth / perc, where perc = 22 + HD ... +4 for smart, -4/-8/-12 for animal/insect/plant, +5 for sense invis, +50 for Glow, +10 for unnatural sleeping, -75 if you are invisible and the monster can't see you.
see modified stealth

stealth god

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2792538&group_id=143991&atid=757516 and http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2796410&group_id=143991&atid=757516

steam

Does 3-16 damage and (more importantly) obscures LOS. Used by smoke demons, steam dragons and pale draconians, and can be created by evaporating water. Damage is completely negated by rF++, steam dragon armours, or being a pale draconian.

steam dragon

The first (and weakest) dragon with a breath weapon. While not strong, steam dragons still do 3-30 damage with their steam breath. If you're lucky and don't wish to fight it, the steam cloud might obscure LOS, aiding escape.
see badforum[11]

steam dragon armour

A magical armour, made from the scales of a steam-breathing dragon. Although unlike the armour made from the scales of some larger dragons it does not provide its wearer with much in the way of special magical protection, it is extremely light and as supple as cloth. (light armour; AC 5, EV -0, steam immunity)

steaming

A method of cooking, involving boiling water to produce steam, and then using this steam to cook your desired foodstuff. In crawl, when an item is being cooked in such a manner, this indicates that it is a randomly-generated artifact.

steel

Ammo brand that does 30% more damage, is destroyed at one tenth the normal rate upon impact, and weighs three times as much as normal. Sorry, no steel arrows.

steel ring

Either a random non-artefact ring, or the ring of robustness.

stelpa

@??death yak name:stelpa
Stelpa is a unique Death Yak, ridden by Sigmund.
Likes quokkas.

step from time

The big get-out-of-jail card. Moves you to nowhere and lets time pass. During that time, monsters wander away and (with high Invo) can even go to sleep. It needs a lot of Invocations to be reliable, 10 or so should be enough.

stepdown

Like a logarithm with extra pain. A piecewise linear mapping from input to output, where the slope of the steps decreases by half, and most but not all steps are evenly spaced. Crawl uses it all over the place. Extra pain removed in 0.11.
Sucks.
At least it's not NetHack's rnz().

sticking

Sticking the Cruncher (L15 NaSt), worshipper of Sif Muna, succumbed to poison on Snake:5 on 2009-01-27, with 82147 points after 36293 turns and 4:30:51.

sticks to snakes

Turns wielded arrows (multiple snakes) and other wooden weapons (one snake) into various snakes. Higher spell power gives nastier snakes: arrows give up to water moccasins, poisoned ones have better odds; with sufficient power, other weapons can go up to anacondas. Cursed weapons yield hostile snakes.
The following weapons are sticks: All clubs, all bows, ankuses, quarterstaves, all polearms except bardiche and trident (until 0.10), blowgun, arrows.
Makes you look like Moses.
Ammo can get you Water Moccasins, adders, and ball pythons based on power/poison brand. High transmutation skill can allow you to summon 9 snakes from 8 sticks. Weapons can produce adders, water moccasin, black mambas, or anacondas. Really big sticks get a free upgrade to water moccasins, no power check required. One max.

sticky flame

Causes constant fire damage (2d4 - 1 per turn) to an adjacent target. Can also burn carried scrolls. When your character is covered in sticky flame, it shows as "Fire" on your HUD. Takes a number of turns to extinguish, during which your scrolls are in peril.
Hitting something with sticky flame again when it's still burning does trivial damage and restarts the duration. Mottled dragons, shadows, shadow wraiths, smoke demons, and all 'p' except phantoms and flayed ghosts, aren't adsorbent enough for sticky flame to take hold.
Hitting an invisible enemy with sticky flame will make it visible.
Note that stepping into shallow (or deep, if you're a Merfolk, Grey Draconian, or Octopode) water will extinguish the "Fire" effect, protecting your valuable scrolls. This applies to enemies, too.
Sheep have a 50% chance to spread sticky flame to other sheep with duration dur/2 + 1d(dur). Xom finds this hilarious.

sting

Poisons things (tip: try running away when this happens). Also damages them. 1 mp!

stinger

A mutation exclusive to draconians and nagas. Gives an extra, poisonous auxiliary unarmed attack on top of tailslaps.
TSO nulls the extra attack, since your character voluntarily refuses to do poison attacks.

stone

A tiny bit of mineral which can annoy monsters without seriously injuring them. Expect to throw many dozens if you want something dead. Does double damage with a sling, but still not enough. See also rock.
Their base damage is 4, but they are hardcoded to do half base damage on average.

stone arrow

A level 3 earth/conjuration spell. Found in the book of Geomancy, starting book for EEs. Does 3d11 dmg at max power. Does massive damage from ghosts for some reason.

stone giant

Like a cyclops, but considerably tougher.
Like a cyclops if it's WIELDING a cyclops, maybe. A cyclops with a giant spiked club.

stone golem

omni resistant and has a decent chunk of hp

stone of earth elementals

Evoke to summon earth elementals from nearby rock walls. This also doubles as a (slow) method of digging. (Evocations out of 30) chance of success. Earth magic 5 or better gives the best chance of friendlies (96%).
Any extant friendly elemental decreases your effective Earth skill by 5 for the purposes of summoning new ones.

stone soup

It's a story about a community being brought together. See Wikipedia.
Fairly deliciously stony soup. A favorite of trolls!

stone wall

Tougher than rock wall. Lee's Rapid Deconstruction, Corruption, and Shatter can destroy it; or just teleport around.

stonemail

Like stoneskin, but removed.

stoneskin

8+2d(power) (more) turns of +2 + earth/5 AC. Incompatible with Ozos, all transforms except Statue Form and Blade Hands, and being undead. Sorry, Crawl doesn't want you to have much AC. However, unlike Ozocubu's Armour, Stoneskin will work with heavy armour. In statue form, stoneskin also adds 1 + earth/4 AC.

storm bow

+8,+8 longbow of electrocution, a new unrandart in 0.6.
This bow has the color of dark rain clouds, and the smell of wet ozone.
Generates rainclouds occasionally, when wielded

storm dragon

A faster than normal dragon that breathes lightning. Typically one of the most dangerous opponents in a 3 rune game.

storm dragon armour

A magical armour made from the scales of a lightning-breathing dragon. It is heavier than most dragon scale armours, but gives its wearer great resistance to electrical discharges. (heavy armour; AC 10, EV -5, insulation, 60.0 aum.)

str

High strength effectively boosts the weapon *base* damage by 100*(str-11)/78 % (when str >= 11). Thus, each point of strength boosts damage by ~1.28%. For example, giant club (damage 20) has effective base damage 30 for a character with 50 str.
The strength stat used here is actually somewhere between str and (str+dex)/2, depending on the weapon's strength weighting.
Strength also boosts your carrying capacity.
If you are casting spells *at all* int is usually more important than either dex or str.
Has some sort of effect on launcher damage

str weight

Weapons are controlled by a weighted average of STR and STR+DEX for damage and STR+DEX and DEX for accuracy. The effect is pretty small though, you're better off chosing based on STR (to wear that gold dragon armor), DEX (to have good EV), or INT (to cast Haste), not weapon.

strange disturbance

There is an underwater monster nearby that hasn't surfaced.
They make autoexploring in swamp tedious as hell

strange machine

Found in Tukima's Studio. Some of them cast blink on you.

strangely unrewarding

You just killed an ally (likely a zombie, using a scroll of immolation). Congratulations!
Or you just killed the offspring of the Royal Jelly. Either way, no XP for you.

strategy

see how[1]
see killdudes

streak

Winning multiple games in succession. Not what you thought it meant, perv. Don't play Mu xor CK.

strong poison

Red poison. Heal with a potion of curing, the spell cure poison, etc., or die a very annoying death.
This can be protected against with a source of poison resistance, unlike the added poison on poison arrow.

stubborn

<Nomi> !learn add bad_ideas shattering sprint III's crypt <Nomi> this looks like i'm screwed <Nomi> or i could shatter again

stupid

<minqmay> maybe i'm weird but if i could have either all the money in the world or all the cheese in the world, i'd take the cheese <minqmay> even if i could use the money to buy the cheese

stupid death

<Henzell> LordSloth the Executioner (L26 HOBe), worshipper of Trog, forgot to breathe caused by using a ball of seeing on Vault:8, with 394734 points after 124848 turns and 21:49:57. || Don't let this happen to you
http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/Voiks/morgue-Voiks-20090417-162817.txt <== This is the perfect example of "The RNG giveth, and the RNG taketh away"
nil the Executioner (L21 MDBe), worshipper of Trog, forgot to breathe caused by wearing the shield of Ignorance on Vault:8, with 285561 points after 71561 turns and 11:19:06.

subgenius

The belief that some cosmic grinning salesman can make you happy if you symbolically smoke his pipe and give him \$30, so he can spend the night with a cheap floozie.

sublimation of blood

Converts HP, wielded chunks, or wielded potions of blood into MP. Each chunk or potion of blood is worth 6+1d7 MP. When used with HP, it restores pow/6 mean (exp. distributed) MP, each MP point costing up to 4 (avg. 1 + 18/pow) HP. Never directly fatal.

subtractor

An attack flavour, specific to {subtractor snakes}, that is randomly one of: nasty poison, rot, drain xp, antimagic, drain stat, and poison stat.

subtractor snake

Zot-exclusive snake that resembles a speed 18 lower-hp klown without blinking. An endangered species.

success rate

Spell success rates are colored according to miscast severity. Red means pretty bad things will probably happen to you!
These entries describe the required skills to get a spell's success rate up to 55%. Try ??success_rate_N to get information on success rate of level N spells. Skill_rate is 3*Spellcasting + 2*Intelligence + 12*(Average of skills in spell schools used by that spell).
All success_rate_N entries assume: no worn armor with EV penalty, no elven or orcish body armor worn, not wearing a shield, not in bat form, spider form, or with blade hands.
Note that Intelligence stat affects spell success 1/6 as much as average spell skill, and Spellcasting skill affects spell success 1/4 as much as average spell skill.
Older versions used a different way of showing spell success. Success rate adjectives: useless 0%, terrible 0-5%, very poor 5-30%, poor 30-50%, fair 50-70%, good 70-80%, very good 80-90%, great 90-95%, excellent 95-99%, perfect 100%.

success rate 3

Without wizardry bonus: skills_rate = 35. With ring of wizardry: skills_rate = 20. With staff of wizardry: skills_rate = 17. With ring and staff of wiz: skills_rate = 14.

success rate 4

Without wizardry bonus: skills_rate = 70. With ring of wizardry: skills_rate = 55. With staff of wizardry: skills_rate = 52. With ring and staff of wiz: skills_rate = 49.

success rate 5

Without wizardry bonus: skills_rate = 100. With ring of wizardry: skills_rate = 85. With staff of wizardry: skills_rate = 82. With ring and staff of wiz: skills_rate = 79.

success rate 6

Without wizardry bonus: skills_rate = 150. With ring of wizardry: skills_rate = 135. With staff of wizardry: skills_rate = 132. With ring and staff of wiz: skills_rate = 129.

success rate 7

Without wizardry bonus: skills_rate = 200. With ring of wizardry: skills_rate = 185. With staff of wizardry: skills_rate = 182. With ring and staff of wiz: skills_rate = 179.

success rate 8

Without wizardry bonus: skills_rate = 260. With ring of wizardry: skills_rate = 245. With staff of wizardry: skills_rate = 242. With ring and staff of wiz: skills_rate = 239.

success rate 9

Without wizardry bonus: skills_rate = 330. With ring of wizardry: skills_rate = 315. With staff of wizardry: skills_rate = 312. With ring and staff of wiz: skills_rate = 309.

suck

She's gone from Suck to Blow!

sugah

<Suga_H> i ship felid/octopode

suicide

tab+o

summon butterflies

Summons 3+1d3+1d(POW/10) (max 15) butterfly meatshields. Very useful. As with any summons, they will only appear in visible squares no more than 2 away from you and not blocked by a (translucent) wall. If your god is Okawaru, forget about this spell. To be known as sputterflies.
Has endless uses, such as: Blocking centaurs from shooting you, stalling melee bruisers, pinning down the location of unseen horrors, giving you a cloud of meatshields to retreat into from a tough fight.
Found in the Books of Party Tricks and Beasts.
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Especially hilarious when ghosts get to use it; see !lm SGrunt 260 -tv:<9.5:>1.0

summon corner

L5 Summ/Tmut spell that changes the dungeon around you to create a corner in the direction you specify. Only works on rock walls, and requires at least one adjacent wall.
There's a 1 in Summoning chance that the corner will be hostile. Be warned that corners can be incredibly dangerous, so use this spell with caution.
Seriously, "summon corner" just means ducking around a corner to break LoS and then waiting for the monster(s) to come around the corner.

summon demon

Summons one common demon, which may or may not be friendly. The monster spell usually produces several, the player spell always makes exactly one. L5, found in the Book of Summonings.

summon demonic popcorn

A deadly spell used by the revered Ice Fiend. Best enjoyed on a couch, with a Q. Tarantino movie.

summon dragon

A level 9 summoning spell. Summons: fire, ice, storm, shadow, iron, quicksilver and golden dragons. Found in the book of the dragon. Can summon two fire/ice dragons at high power. The dragons are always friendly.
Is really good.
If summon horrible things is the Crystal Spear of summonings, and haunt is the poison arrow of summonings, then Summon Dragon is the tornado of summonings.

summon elemental

An elemental's friendliness depends on the elemental magic skill pertinent to its type, with water elementals using ice magic. Very dangerous at low levels if hostile. Friendliness rate is skill level in fire:10, ice:15 (5 for merfolk), air:15, earth:5. Earth: rock wall. Fire: lava, flame cloud. Water: water or fountain. Air: cloudless floor.
Will get you killed.

summon greater demon

Summons a 1 or 2, the mightiest classes of demonry. Chance of summoning a hostile demon is slightly higher than for summon demon, and decreases with higher spell power. Even if originally friendly, a 1 summoned by this spell will turn hostile shortly before timing out. Level 7.
They will turn hostile after a while but are easily abjured. Sometimes they will hurt you with area attacks, even when friendly. Maybe you shouldn't haste them.
In 0.10, it summons a 1 or a 2 (both of which are categorised as greater demons). Only the 1s will eventually go hostile.

summon horrible things

Level 8 summoning spell, produces large abominations and tentacled monstrosities and (1/3) drains INT (like being sick would). Regarded by one of the few people who has the patience to play summoners as the crystal spear of summonings. Affectionately known as XXX.
Even now that they are not permanent.
Described by the fluffy as the Hentai Horde.

summon hydra

Summons a hydra. Level 7 in the book of Beasts. Duration 1 (very short), 4-12 heads, dependent on power.

summon ice beast

L4 summon/ice spell, summons a single ice beast with quite high duration.
<TGWi> A chill wind blows around you. <TGWi> this wind is pretty chill <Mu_> it fuckin blows
see famous last words[18]

summon scorpions

Summons some number of scorpions. Can summon a half dozen easily with some investment. Will stack up enough poison to kill a Death Yak in only one or two casts. Chance to come hostile, but if mixed with small animals, not a deterrent. Superior to sticks to snakes for raw poison stacking.
With enough power, you can even mob a hydra to death.

summon small mammals

Summons one (two at max power) rats, giant bats, quokkas or grey rats. Monsters that cast this spell can additionally summon green and orange rats.
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict

summon swarm

Level 5 rod spell. Summons all sorts of wild beasts ranging from butterflies and goliath beetles to wolf spiders and yellow wasps. Always friendly (before 0.8 they were often hostile).

summon ugly thing

Long lasting summons, at max power you get a very ugly thing 1/3rd of the time.

summon undead

Monster spell that summons undead. Lots of undead.

summoner

A background that starts with a book of callings and some summoning skill.
Tired of message spam? Add this line to your options: "message_colour = mute:Your.*(bites|misses|hits|stings)". For more information see the bottom of http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?title=Configuration
AKA: Reverse killdudes.

summoner reasons

You hate gaining full XP for kills. You love sickness, int drain and hostile demons.
You can't stand the sight of blood so you want to kill everything off-screen.

summoning card

Summons one completely random monster, but it can't be a unique. At card powers 1 and 2, gives you the highest HD monster it gets from a number of attempts (4 and 18, respectively). Will only be hostile if card power is 0 and you roll a 25% chance. Due to its "any monster" nature, will give rock worms if the random position selected is a wall.

summoning miscast

1: 5-13 dmg / sp. vortex / imp 2: 2-4 sp. vorts / common demon / 2-3 lesser 3: abomination / greater demon / 2-3 common / banish / hostile malign gateway

sun demon

Made of suns. Hits very hard with fire damage, vulnerable to cold, speed 13!
So called because it is more than 4 billion meters in circumference.

sunlight

Like Corona, but hits a cross-shaped area and is unresistable. Can be used to evaporate water, additionally. May create a plant in its effect area at a very low chance.

sunray

A spell of spriggan druids, 3d19 damage at their unmodified HD. Vampires take *1.5 damage, invisibility makes you immune. Neither RMsl nor DMsl helps.

superking

<Superking> The two-headed ogre hits you! You die... "That's my toy, go get your own one!" Xom revives you! The two-headed ogre hits you. You die...

supernaturally acute eyesight

Mutation granting see invisible, with the message "Your vision sharpens."

suppression

While under this effect, all of your magical items are reduced to their mundane counterparts. Magical staves act as nonmagical lengths of wood; magical swords act as nonmagical (but sharp!) hunks of metal; magical armors act as nonmagical strips of leather and hide.
Suppression blocks all worn and wielded magical item properties (resists, brands, etc.), as well as the evocation of magical items. The base properties of weapons and armor (dam, AC, etc.) are unaffected. Effects that occur when items are equipped/unequipped (vampirism, distortion) happen as usual.
TODO: suppress\/defer equip messages; handle fixedarts; needs to affect monsters too; whether or not enchant pluses are affected; art-func.h
Done: OLGREB, TROG, DEMON_AXE
Not done: mace of var, scythe of curses, sing sword, sword of power, zonguldruk, wyrmbane, brilliance, robe of clouds, lantern of shadows

sure blade

Level 2 Hexes/Charms spell that gives much higher to-hit but only works with short blades. Very useful, provided you're using short blades.
+5 to accuracy, and then an additional bonus of +dur/2 or something close to +5 again, depending. Pretty close to +10 usually. Note, if you ever get it to light blue (long duration), then it is _more_ powerful.
see protip[6]

surr

the ring "Surr" {Wiz +Blink MR Str+1 Dam+5}

survey

http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/survey

sustain abilities

Cuts all statloss (from sources other than Xom draining) in half, rounding down. Cumulative effect for wearing two rings. Note that most sources are 1-point, so it completely negates e.g. sickness and deterioration.

sustenance

Reduces hunger by 2 points per turn to a minimum of 1 (default is 3 for most races). No effect on spriggans, unless they're extra hungry for some reason. Works for vampires.

sv dvorak

http://lundqvist.dyndns.org/sv_dvorak/sv_dvorak.gif

svn

For up-to-date source, you want git instead

swamp

Accessed from the Lair somewhere between levels 2 and 5. Five levels deep. Expect watery terrain and hydras throughout. A decaying rune lies at the bottom, usually guarded by swamp dragons and hydras. As swamp drakes emit mephitic clouds, be sure to have poison resistance or enhanced mental clarity, unless you like embarassing drowning deaths.
2 out of 3 of Swamp, Shoals and Snake are generated, meaning Swamp is not guaranteed.
Almost nothing in here sees invisible, so have fun if you are a stabber with invis and levitation/flight.

swamp dragon

Fires large blasts of poisonous clouds. Can be dissected for a hide that grants rP when enchanted into swamp dragon armour.

swamp dragon armour

A magical armour made from the scales of a swamp dragon. It confers resistance to poison on its wearer. (AC 7, EV -2, rPois, 20 aum)

swamp dragon hide

Enchants into swamp dragon armour

swamp drake

Breathes mephitic clouds. If you have poison resistance or clarity, they're no great threat.

swamp worm

A brown aquatic w found mainly in the swamp (elsewhere only in vaults). Can do up to 26 damage per bite, but incapable of crossing land, and thus easy to get away from.
They are not rPois, so weapons of venom work surprisingly well against them!

swap card

Swap positions with a random nearby monster.

swap slot

Press = (equals key), and use it to re-letter two of your weapons to "a" and "b". Then press ' (apostrophe key) to swap between them! This is excellent for secondary things like missile weapons, magical staves, rods, and hydra weapons. If slot b is a non-wield item, the toggle will be between slot 'a' and unarmed.

swearing

In moderation, swearing is ok on ##crawl and ##crawl-offtopic, unlike most of Freenode.

swiftness

Level 2 Charms/Air. Swiftness reduces your movement delay by 2. Stacks with boots of running, haste. Spriggans are unaffected by swiftness unless not at their base speed for whatever reason. Centaurs only benefit from 1 of the 2 point boost. There was a bonus for swift+fly, but it was removed in 0.10.
Also halves your stealth and makes you much more likely to stumble into traps.
Note that if you are standing in shallow water, casting Swiftness is wasted - it will make the water foam, but not grant you any beneficial status.

swine card

If you're undead other than a full vampire, no effect. Otherwise, you get turned into a pig for d(card power) turns. The pig can't cast, can read scrolls, runs very fast and fights using unarmed skill.

sword in stone

That one vault guarded by nasty humanoids, possibly with some uniques. It has a strong sword inside transparent wall. Oh, and be warned that said sword is on a teleport trap, so if you want to get it you need either LRD or shatter to break the walls and an amulet of stasis or apportation or cTele to get it. Have fun!

sword of cerebov

cursed +6,+6 flaming great serpentine sword. Fire resistance is reduced by 1 point for damage calculation with this blade.

sword of jihad

+12,+10 eudemon blade of holy wrath, berserkitis, rN+, MR, EV+3, and stealth-. Before being identified, it will appear as a crystal sword.
Seen in a shop for 40202 gold.

sword of power

This chunky great sword's plusses depend on your current hitpoints. Starting at -4,-4 it gets +1,+1 for every five HP up to +4,+4 at 40 HP, then +1,+1 for every ten HP up to +20,+20 at 200 HP.
Notorious for losing all its enchantment in a torment storm.

sword of the doom knight

Unholy gods. +13,+13 great sword. Pain, -CAST, MR. Perfect switch for a Necromancer. Ayep.

sword of zonguldrok

+9,+9 double sword of reaping (kills with the sword reanimate as friendly undead). All corpses not killed by this sword will immediately reanimate as hostile undead that do not provide XP. Hope you have some permafood (or IOOD or disintegrate)! Even wielding this is bad if you worship one of the good gods.

swords

Pommel, hilt and blade. They're supposed to be sharp so as to use them as weapons would be useful. See short blades or long blades for a more accurate description.

syllogism

Leads two lives. In one, he is syllogism, masochistic Okawaru farmer extraordinaire. In the other, he is meneril, legendary Okawaru farmer, worshipper of pain. On the rare occasions that he manages to tear himself away from Okawaru agriculture, he usually dairy-farms Nemelex.
Favours mummy paladins. syllogism the Farming Worldly Agent (L20 MuPa), worshipper of The Shining One, forgot to exist on Tar:2, with 334260 points after 918861 turns and 5:58:16.
Tomb Raider.
Only known sentient thing to have won 4.1.2.
Spells his name "syllogism-". Notorious for getting two-shotted by an ancient lich that moved into sight and iron-bolted him twice before he got to move.

symmetry

<Henzell> That's easy, symmetry doesn't even exist!

syraine

Plays as Xenene on CAO.
Gives the most reliable advice.
Engorged Slime Pig
<syraine> Del_, I am a furry octopus at the moment
<Karahaut_> There is a cloud of flame here. Do I man up and walk into it? <syraine> Yes. <Henzell> Karahaut the Shield-Bearer (L2 HuFi), engulfed by a cloud of flame on D:1 (lemuel_flame_loot_1), with 36 points after 912 turns and 0:08:22.
cat: cast dig 10 times ionfrigate: it's not going to mutate me? cat: nop. 21865 | Lair:2 | Gained mutation: Your magical capacity is low (-10% MP).
did a bailey, killing ten orc warriors and an orc knight using only recite and a wand of invisibility {charges:1}
<minqmay> syraine is like wensley except she puts up a fight
<[Hanged_Man]> what kind of insane madman are you <xenene> A very effective one.
managed to convince someone to quaff-id a potion of Decay in Cerebov's castle
<Syraine> I am a troll
<Syraine> I'm easily as good a player as Elliptic
regularly abysses for !restore abilities
<syraine> Therefore I am incapable of constructing guides for any combo
<jeanjacques> i have learned a lot from syraine
<syraine> I actually killed myself so as to restore my Int

syraine guide

Syraine can be extremely frustrating due to its extremely high speed. In order to hit one extremely effectively, you have two options. Either lure it into a 2x2 room with a door and close it, or step back one space, such that when it hits you, it has an extremely lower chance of withdrawing, as its movement is extremely random after it hits.

syraine reasons

You're an Octopode Wizard and you don't feel that being an octopus with a wizard hat is weird or disturbing.

syraines tepr guide

You're a Tengu. It's like a Kenku. It's like a Kenku, but different. You're a tengu.
You're a priest. You've got a robe and a staff. Put on that robe. Put it on.
Hold that staff. Hold it in your hand. Will you hit something with it? Maybe. Sure. Yes.
Look around. Look for monsters. Look for a newt. A big newt, a giant newt. See one?
Looks like a newt. Hit the newt. Hit it with the staff. Hit it. Hit it again. Hit the newt.
Is the newt dead? Keep hitting it. Use the staff, hit the newt with it. Is the newt dead?
Sure, the newt's dead. Look at it. It's dead. Look at that dead newt. Cut it up.
Eat the body. Cut it into pieces and eat its muscles. Don't eat the bones. Leave the bones.
Leave the bones and the skin and the other crap. Just leave it there on the floor.
Just eat the muscles. Is it good? Does it taste good? Sure, it tastes okay.
It doesn't taste good but you don't care. You're tough. You're in a dungeon.
You went in the dungeon on purpose. You're tough. You'll eat a dead newt. You won't mind.
You're a Tengu Priest. You're a Tengu Priest. That newt feels good in your belly. Tengu Priest.

system shock

In my talons I shape clay, making life forms as I please.
Look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone..

szanth

<Szanth> Your dagger of Impatience swears loudly.

t splat

!lg * tiles 0.10 ntv=0 ktyp!=quitting|leaving|winning killer!=tentacled monstrosity|greater naga|naga warrior max=xl -tv

tab

This is the second-best button in Crawl. See o for the best one.
http://images.wikia.com/mspaintadventures/images/9/99/00710.gif

tabrobin

kill cerebov by holding down tab. you may use buffs but you may only press tab once you enter iron shot range.

tactical boots

the best

tactics

<Elynae> i think learning about bismarck will help me with crawl tactics
<rwbarton> how are people so bad at tactics

taeb

The Tactical Amulet Extraction Bot, a NetHack bot written by an unholy cabal of demons and cephalopods.

tail slap

An auxiliary unarmed attack you can get if you are a draconian or a merfolk in water. Damage is 6 + (stinger mutation level * 3). Add +6 for being a grey draconian.

tally

< Tally> Hence why I think one of the best ways of disposing of orc priests is to give them a hug. <3
I want to give you a hug. <3
<Tally>Siiigh <Tally>Why does the game ALWAYS give me the fucking goat when I play a rogue?

talons

Sort of like claws, but for your feet. Gives you an auxiliary unarmed kick attack that does 6/7/8 (depending on mutation level) damage. Tengu start with these. Talons 1-2 does not prevent wearing boots, but wearing boots prevents the kick attack. You cannot wear boots with talons 3.

tame beasts

L5 ench which undead can't use, in book of control and monster manual. Hits every visible "domesticated" [2] enemy; 50% power boost on hounds, war dogs, and if orcish on wargs; checks MR for each, and charms it if it passes -- temporarily ("thrall") unless you pass a d100 < d(power/10), in which case it's permanent ("friendly"). Gone in 0.8.
Things it works on: Giant bat, hound, jackal, rat, yak, wyvern, hippogriff, griffon, death yak, war dog, grey rat, green rat, orange rat, sheep, hog, giant frog, giant toad, spiny frog, blink frog, wolf, warg, bear, grizzly/polar/black bear. If something doesn't seem to be working, maybe your god doesn't like it.

tap ambient fields

Straight from the tap.

tarantella

A nasty spider with a nasty venom. Confuses you when it bites you, which isn't resisted by rPois.
Not to be confused with a movie director.
Also not to be confused with the song whose tune is used for the Animaniacs song about "The Senses".

targetable scrolls

identify, enchant armour, recharging

tartakower

My 0.8 mdfi guide: SKILLS: 1) Turn off everything except fighting, axes, and armour. For the whole game. Drop your starting shield.
STATS: Raise Int to 8, then raise Str. SPELLS: Don't cast these.
GODS: Okawaru is best (in that order). WEAPONS: Stick with a hand axe until around 10 skill, depending on how comfortable you are with slow attacks. Upgrade to a broad or war axe, then a battleaxe, then an exec axe, as soon as your delay is about 12 or better.

tartar sauce

goes nicely with fish. not to be confused with Tartarus.

tartarus

The "negative energy" branch of hell. Home of Shadow Fiends, Ereshkigal, and the bone Rune. Hell effects here are mostly necromancy, so be extra paranoid about stat death. Be very careful about stat death in all hells anyway, though.
If you're undead, be very wary of shadow fiends. The effects of hell can regularly spawn them next to you where you'll immediately suffer a dispel storm... and probably almost get destroyed (you're already dead).

tasonir

Plays almost only nagas of chei. Loves chei. Hates haste.
more of a direct formula than a spreadsheet kind of guy
see great_near_misses[10]

tautology

<Henzell> That's easy, thing_that_does_not_exist doesn't even exist!

tc

see teleport control
see teleport_control[2]

tcrawl

planned unfeatures: kobold, halfling, naga, felid, wights, shafts, slaying, nemelex, ogres, ijyb, lajatangs, vamp, pain, speed, elec, disto weapons, non-sour grapes, ghoul, trampling, haunt, amazing weapons
Planned unfeatures: Winning in less than 100k turns

team battlemage

Account names: SOOTHSLAYER HEXECUTIONER TRANSMUTILATOR TRAUMATURGE. Turn order is Blade -> ebarrett -> elliptic -> minqmay -> Blade -> ...
SOOTHSLAYER (HuNe) waiting for ebarrett to do leg 2; HEXECUTIONER (GhWr) waiting for elliptic to do leg 2; TRANSMUTILATOR (DrTm) waiting for minqmay to do leg 2; TRAUMATURGE (OgVM) waiting for minqmay to do leg 1

team cat

A mighty team of heroes including NyaaKitty, ellipticat, MarvinPAWS, catsmith789, nyaa (conscripted unwillingly), Verily (NyaaKitty's feline SO), and N78291cat (because we couldn't think of anything special for him). Soft-banned from tournaments due to being too much awesome (and too much cat) on one team.
Now contains even more members for even more cat-lovin' goodness, including ct (monky), hayenne (no cat name as of now), meownced (m1nced), deafcat (leetdood), felidae (rkd), NyaaFelid (NyaaKitty loves cats so much that she/he/it had to join twice), and Supreme Cat Which Knows All (yes, we forcibly recruited Henzell).
Because there's actually no such thing as too much awesome (or too much cat), the Team Cat family has extended a paw to many a player by now, such as kittyroy (heteroy), Raven (undercover agent lampshayde performing recon on the bird population), mongcat (m0ng), and Alarawr (Aladar, Director of Offline Public Relations).
As though a litter of cats simply tumbled out of the sky, the ranks of team cat grow and do nothing, much like a great deal of modern day society! See? We're up to date with nht (stolen), Pseudonut (creatively borrowed), Miaoriasc (swayed over a cup of tea and two chewy mice), and Splorsh (buh). Still soft-banned (and awesome).

team centaur

2011 DCSS Tourney #?! Go Centaur!
A team that, surprisingly, only contains a few wins that were actually centaurs.

team centaur of kiku

Even better than team centaur, of course.

team firstname

jeff (captain), grivan, heteroy, maddasher, mikee, rob

team kiku

2010 DCSS Tourney #1! Go Kiku!

team killdudes

A team that, surprisingly, only contains a few people that actually kill dudes.
Currently: mikee, xyblor, Jaeger, reid, ebarrett, and minmay.

team mnoleg

Accounts: NEQOXEC, TENTMONS, GIANTEYEBALL, ELDRITCHTENTACLE. Ask faze_ for the password. Character info goes in [2], chars. Team order is crate->faze->pacra->nfogravity->crate. Games should be played on cao trunk.
HaWr started by faze on ELDRITCHTENTACLE; DsWn saved on lair 1 on GIANTEYEBALL (waiting for faze); OpPr saved on lair 1 on TENTMONS (waiting for nfogravity); HOAs unstarted on NEQOXEC (waiting for nfogravity).

team ogre

Need to play at least a few ogres seriously to join, needn't play only ogres. Try and ascend one ogre during the tournament! Only one 0.5.0 win so far for the race. Note: this applies to the 2009 tournament.
List of members: pointless, LordSloth, ZaurenTour, eternal, CatEater, trucutru
My RC has been set up, all you need to do now is put the teamcaptain line in your options file # TEAMCAPTAIN LordSlothline in\/line in the first line of your options file, hash mark included (see !rc LordSloth for an example)

team oldmen

Accounts: TUMS, CENTRUM, ENSURE, DEPEND.

team wanted

Sealer, myuzinn, KiT

teambuilding

no trolling in ##crawl, please

teams

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/tourney10/teams.html

teamwork

the whole point of stone soup is to work together and resolve our differences in opinion you jerks

tear

<Sequell> * (char=tear) has won once in 1 games (100.00%): 1xTeAr

tear in reality

Effect of a weapon of chaos or distortion, which banishes the enemy you just hit to the Abyss. You get partial XP for banishing.

teddy bear

One of the rewards you can choose in the annihilator quest.

tedk

<Sequell> * (tedk) has won once in 1 games (100.00%): 1xTeDK

tele

* is teleportitis (and evocable if it is a randart ring of teleportation), - is no teleport (handy occasionally), and cTele is control teleport.

telekinesis

see apportation
Raises hell for dying to a dragon. Because Crawl cheated. Really, it did!

telenado

The zot strategy of randomly teleporting into the vault and then casting tornado. Demonstration: !lm hyperbolic dehe type=orb 1 -tv

teleport

The best strategy.

teleport control

"You may choose your destination (press . or delete to select). Expect minor deviation." You get to PICK where teleports go, within a small random fudge. You can also choose to cancel the teleport, leaving you where you are.
Disallowed in Abyss and Lab; All three levels of Tomb and proper Hell endings unless you have the appropriate Rune; Slime 6 with the Royal Jelly alive; Elf 5; Zot 5 ; some zig levels. Allowed everywhere else. Except some baileys for some reason! Also, the 0.9+ orb run.
Note that if your teleport happens to run into a wall or reach outside of the bounds of the current map, your teleport will be changed to random instead. Aim a tile or two away from walls to avoid this. If the teleport does end up random, you don't recieve any magic contamination.

teleport other

With a delay, teleports a single entity other than yourself. Checks MR. Level 3 translocation, found in book of Spatial Translocations and book of Power.

teleport self

Teleports yourself. Level 5 tloc. Gone in 0.9

teleport trap

A {magic trap} that teleports you. No save. Due to the malice of the Crawl RNG, teleport traps almost invariably deposit you in the middle of a horde of monsters you probably could not handle individually in melee. The only way of instantaneously teleporting other than the portal card and the (very rare) tele-at-will 3 mutation.
The only magical trap that affects monsters in the same way it affects players. {zot traps} and {alarm traps} can be triggered by monsters as well, but they work against the player, not the monster. "$foo appears out of thin air!" Vault designers have been known to exploit this.
Can be bypassed via having teleportation prevented, such as by an artifact like cekugob.
Your surroundings suddenly seem different. The jelly quivers. The jelly hits you. You are splashed with acid! The acid burns! Ouch! That really hurt! You die...
Can appear in labyrinths, in case you wanted a reason to hate them.

teleportation

Teleport effects in Crawl put you a random location on the level (not over water/lava, nor coincident with a wall or monster). Most of them are delayed by a couple turns and can be cancelled by re-issuing. teleport control allows some choice of destination.
In order to teleport this guy, we have to put him in a chamber and induce high voltage into him. Inducing high voltage into him can raise his frequency up! Not high amperage but only high voltage. High voltage is safe, and high amperage is deadly. High voltage alone is a form of a high frequency.

teleporter

Rare vault feature defined in lua, most prominent over in zigsprint. Instantly teleports the player over to a pre-defined square when stepped on, usually to move to purposefully isolated spots.

teleportitis

A colloquial term borrowed from NetHack for a mutation that occasionally teleports you to a random location on the level. Could also be used to refer to the (always cursed) ring which does the same thing, as in "ring of teleportitis".

teleroulette

Repeatedly doing random teleports on Zot:5 in the hopes of landing near the Orb. Surprisingly effective!

telezerk

teleport near the orb, then zerk to kill dudes. DISCLAIMER: Not as good as just teleporting. Or killdudesing. Or zotwaltzing. Or telenadoing. Or casting sticky flame on yourself.
thanks wiki

temoid

<Temoid> where's my entry as having played a gazillion games and having nothing to show for it
i found a secret xom altar in lair and 8 and i drew a puppy in crawl with my wand of digging with xom altar as its nose

tempmfcr

< Henzell> TempMfCr the Impaler (L20 MfCr) entered The Hall of Woapnodd the Hellbinder on turn 64726. (Vault:7) < TempMfCr> the hall of who? < TempMfCr> Oh fuck, this isn't a bazaar!
<Henzell> TempMfCr the Impaler (L19 MfCr) entered Cigotuvi's Fleshworks on turn 64011. (Vault:2) __ <TempMfCr> Aw for fuck's sake this isn't a bazaar __ <mikee_> it's better than a bazaar __ <mikee_> it's bizarre
orc -> lair -> Shoals -> Swamp -> Snake (skip snake until later if no rPois) -> Hive -> Elf -> Vaults -> ???
<TempMfCr> !learn add orc_sorceror Linley doesn't know how to spell 'sorceror'. Try orc_sorcerer
Likes to vandalise the learndb.
butts
<TempMfCr> ARE YOU A BAD ENOUGH DUDE TO TELEPORT AWAY FROM THE PRESIDENT

temporal distortion

3* Cheibriados ability added in 0.10. Acts like a very low-duration (3-5 turns) instant step from time, the result of which is that monsters will approach you while you're safe from their ranged attacks.

tenaya

Likes doing weird things. Plays a lot. Likes speedrunning.

tenebrys

<Tenebrys> I dreamed that I summoned an executioner. <Tenebrys> And then it killed my dog.

tengu

Basically humanoid with bird-like heads and clawed feet, the Tengu can wear all types of armour except helmets and boots. Gets temporary flight (with refractory period) at XL5, perm flight at XL15. While flying from any source, has +20% evasion (caps at +9 ev); additional -1 to move cost if < 70% encumberance.
Formerly Kenku, renamed to Tengu in 0.10.
http://yonasu.com/wp-content/uploads/P1030528-5.jpg

tengu reasons

tension

dangerousness of everything in LOS, checks # of monsters, monster experience value, monster hp (almost-dead monsters are of little threat), monster enchantments (confusion, haste, berserk, might, etc.), player current hp, whether you're in the abyss (*3/2 tension)
also checks player enchantments, including slow, confusion, paralyze, nets, and haste. total tension cannot be < 0 (individual monster tension can be negative if it's friendly).

tensorpudding

temple -> ice fiend -> lair
<tensorpudding> oh damn <tensorpudding> i was wielding a bardiche?
<tensorpudding> ugh <tensorpudding> found slaying
see racism
<tensorpudding> ie is bad <tensorpudding> freeze isn't as good at magic dart
<tensorpudding> now that dwhip was nerfed, i always do longblades <tensorpudding> or polearms
<tensorpudding> why is ice magic so devoid of good spells

tentacle

Congratulations, you've spotted the long appendage of a kraken. Not to be confused with eldritch tentacle.

tentacled monstrosity

Resistant to basically everything and lots of HP. Also now as fast as an unhasted human, and has constriction! Can be summoned from Summon Horrible Things and is one of few summons that can see invisible. This monster is demonic, so adjust your tactics accordingly. Don't let it constrict you.
So, elliptic, you show your true form.

terence

A blue, lightly armoured unique human fighter generally regarded as a pushover, though occasionally spawns with a wand in which case he can be fairly dangerous.

term

TEXT

termcast

telnet termcast.develz.org -- do not SSH. Public termcast server: telnet termcast.org. The software needed to stream to the termcast server can be installed by "cpan -i App::Termcast"
script -f >( cat ~/.ratry_login - | nc -q5 noway.ratry.ru 31337 > /dev/null ) "$@" # if you have reasonably modern versions of script, netcat, and bash, this shell 1-liner will start a program and stream output to termcast. The 300-line C program which does the same thing while consuming system resources forever is unforgivable bloatware.
.ratry_login is one line, hello name password
If you want a more polished tool, try cpan -i App::Termcast # This one is from doy, the hackish 1-liner is from sorear

terminal size

The standard terminal size is 80 columns and 24 rows. Using a different terminal size will make it difficult for others to watch your game online and will incur the wrath of greensnark. For puTTY, just set the terminal size option. For xterm, use 'xterm -geometry 80x24'. To reset the size of an existing terminal, use 'stty cols 80 rows 24'.

test

my new info
<b>did you guys <script></script> do this right?</b>
see {nowhere}
see {test [29]}
like this!
like A-b c
Its difficult to make an editing entry if I cant type / whichcan be represented by \\\/ the dollar sign represents the end. You can just use \@ instead.

test2

see {test[40]}
see test[1]
see {test[38]}

test spawner

After greensnark implemented !fight, dolorous saw the potential for use in stress-testing the AI. So he made an unkillable monster with 1M hp, 127 ac/ev, and immunity to everything, which casts shadow creatures constantly.
"Unkillable" is relative. sorear killed one once with 99 Daevas - surrounded to radius 2 it can't summon, and smite ignores def stats.

tgw

(3:22:37 AM) Aladar: he's doing it out of spite (3:22:38 AM) Aladar: basically (3:23:07 AM) Aladar: i think that might be all tgw ever does.
< TGW> ero: they're too big to effectively use sbl < TGW> spriggans are even smaller < TGW> and they can't effectively use sbl
(12:02:40 AM) G-Flex: this is the best spam
(4:23:44 PM) elliptic: tgwi is the king of nice
Henzell: (1/1) due said (12h 38m 2s ago): diaf.
Sixth-worst winner!
<minmay> these are awful entries> <TGWq> minmay: so are your entry vaults
(10:59:22 AM) Stelpa: TGWi: your options... they are amazing â¥ (10:59:35 AM) Stelpa: they make crawl hawt

tgw reasons

You want to play an ogre, but they win too often for you.

tgwiglaf

My HaCr guide: SKILLS: 1) 27 invocations
STATS: int SPELLS: freezing aura on an orc scimitar until you can make it permanent
GODS: atheist WEAPONS: the aforementioned orc scimitar

that finnish spoiler page

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/kielosto/crawl_spoilers/ss/

that other game

Nethack, you doof.
ADOM, you chowderhead.
Spelunky, you unenlightened.
Sorear -- another roguelike, like NetHack but better, like Crawl but deader. You infidel.
Incursion, you nimrod.
Dwarf Fortress, you tool.
Cave Noire, you dilettante.
IVAN, you imbecile.

thc

Never play SS without it. NEVER.

the bible

<ktgrey> when did moses fire lasers <Croases> kt, when he ascended to heaven

the enchantress

A unique spriggan witch who will put you to sleep and kill/banish you. Found in some forest vault and in sprint 4. Comes with a demon whip and faerie dragon armour. Has about as much EV as HP, so use clouds, explosions, etc.

the floor vibrates beneath you

Signifies that areas out of LOS in the Labyrinth have changed!

the giaggostuono

http://www.cowmuffins.net/stuff/THEGIAGGOSTUONO.png

the iron giant

A unique stone giant, only made of iron. Summons a posse of iron elementals, hits hard and shoots iron shot.

the last mountain dwarf

!lg nomi mdfi cv=~0.11

the past

Everything was better then
Now get off my lawn!

the problem

<crate> the problem is i am with chei

the royal jelly

Boss of the Slime Pits. Does not regenerate. Damage causes the creation of high-level Js such as acid blobs and azure jellies, which will never be on the other side of a wall. When killed, the level allows teleport control, and the loot chamber walls become transparent and diggable.
Use of a narrow corridor will be very helpful for a melee player. Spellcasters may prefer using Haste and ranged attacks; as the royal jelly is fastest, the spawns can be left behind by running.
Archers should note that His Majesty will slurp up your arrows, thus healing Himself.
One of few monsters not being trivially trounced by Cerebov on the arena; even if it still loses on a good margin.
// Treat whatever the Royal Jelly polymorphed into as if it were still the Royal Jelly (but if a player chooses the character name "shaped Royal Jelly" don't unlock the vaults when the player's ghost is killed).
Don't banish it, as you will have to hunt it down in the abyss to get the loot and the rune normally. Well, of course, you could just learn LRD instead.
Tip: Ammunitions of disperse and explode works effectively against him!

the saddest thing

Killer bee larvae
archer statues that have run out of ammo
pan lords with only sting
The shark flops around on dry land!
electric eel zombies
The jackal gazes forward, looking utterly alone.
t _ snapping turtle (withdrawn)
Rock worms on levels that are entirely metal
Purgy

the scent of sulphur

An eruption is about to occur, which will spawn fire clouds in map-dependent locations, usually near lava.

the shindig one

Likes a knees-up.

the shining one

One of three 'good gods'. Provides a number of passive favors as well as active abilities later. Enjoys killing of evil creatures, and forbids use of poison, evil magic, attacking fleeing or sleeping intelligent creatures, or cannibalism.
Passive abilities include occasionally intervening to save your life, gradual increase of natural rN+, and healing and MP recovery sometimes on kills of evil, demonic, or undead beings. You will also gain a "halo" within which all other beings are easier to hit (and rendered uninvisible); it gradually increases in range with your piety.
Active abilities include strengthening your shield, blasting the surrounding area with cleansing flame, and summoning friendly Angels or Daevas to fight with you. All these abilities cost piety, however, and the better ones depend heavily on your Invocations skill to work properly.
The final ability TSO gives (at ****** piety) is the opportunity to have a single weapon blessed. Blessing a weapon replaces its brand with holy wrath, and enchant weapon iiis it. If the weapon is a long blade, a demon trident, or a demon whip, its base stats will be enhanced as well: see blessed blade, trishula, sacred scourge.

the shining one reasons

Reasons to worship TSO: you aren't undead or demonspawn and you want to go for all 15 runes. Eleven of the runes are in undead- or demon-heavy branches, where TSO's rN+++, healing and piety on undead/demon kills, Cleansing Flame, Summon Daeva, and holy wrath brand all are extremely, extremely useful.
You enjoy having your god bitch at you for random things.

the shining one wrath

ABANDONMENT: 50 penance. RETRIBUTION: None, unless you are worshipping an evil god. Otherwise, 3/7 d(XL/5) + d3 - 1 permanent daevas and angels, 2/7 a blast of cleansing flame, 1/7 noise, 1/7 silence.

the spriggans knife

This knife was made by Spriggans, or for Spriggans, or possibly from Spriggans. Anyway, it's in some way associated with those fey folk. +4EV, +4Dex, It increases your resistance to enchantments. It makes you much more stealthy.

the storm bow

+8,+8 elec longbow that generates occasional rain clouds

theoverlord

Thinks an IRC-built learndb is cool.
Is a HUGE liar.
HUGE being somewhere between cbus and slinkies on the epic untruthiness scale.

there

there[1/1]: are 631 race/class combinations in v0.7, and

there there

there[1/1]: there[1/1]: are 631 race/class combinations in v0.7, and

these items seem quite similar

An unid stack of items was added to an identified stack.

theta

tetha, like tetherball, not like the greek letter

thief

An assassin who accidentally left his blowgun at home, but at least was smart enough to bring a hand crossbow.(except not anymore because hand crossbows were removed!)
Except not anymore because thieves were removed!

thin skeletal structure

Dex +2/4/6 Str -1/2/3 Stealth + 25/50/75

things that do not exist

demons
fire storm and ice storm
rods

things that exist

hobgoblins
cang

this rock feels extremely deep

You can't pass this wall with your current power no matter how well you roll, but there _is_ something on the other side (possibly stone/metal, though).

throw flame

Level 2 fire/conjuration spell, identical (with only difference being range) to throw frost. Does 2d9 damage at max power.

throw frost

Level 2 ice/conjuration spell, identical to throw flame, only cold. Does 2d9 damage at max power. In the Book of Frost.

throw icicle

A 4th level Ice/Conjuration spell. Throw Icicle casts a single-target projectile of high-velocity ice, doing mixed cold and physical damage. 40% of the damage can be mitigated by cold resistance. 3d20 at max power. In the Book of Frost.

throwing

Javelins and large rocks are good. Darts and stones are useless past the early game, except for darts of dispersal; don't train the skill just for those. See blowgun[2] for the skill's effect on needles.

throwing net

The single most deadly weapon in existence. Yes, it's even more deadly than a sceptre of torment as a ghoul fighter. One hit could kill a well to do character. Ask Nexos. In addition to the utter annihilation of its target, it may (depending on a few factors) also cause them to become immobilized for a little while.
Warning, nets will not trap monsters who are "big" or larger, flying, or insubstantial. This includes ghosts and all types of giants, so don't count on nets to save you from them.
Throwing nets can't be used by "small" player races: halflings, kobolds, and spriggans.
!lg * kaux=~throwing net max=dam x=dam
TSO won't be mad if you use them, but if you hit a monster immobilized he'll get very upset.
<minmay> "the giant spore struggles against the net"

tiamat

A unique draconian, found in Zot. Tread carefully. Always has a dragonskin cloak, which you should note will grant her various resistances. Enjoys randomly changing her color (and her breath weapon to match). Comes with a band of draconian pals, and can be tricky to spot among them.

tickle

Try killing an Angel or Daeva if you want one.
see protip[10]

tilecrawl

Crawl with graphical tiles.
If you can read this you should probably play online instead.

tiles

Blasphemy! Tiles do not exist!
see glasses[2]
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1895
it had a [+] thing
<N78291> the monster list is everyone playing on it
loves: shields of reflection, chei, food, hand axes, mifi, necromutation, rN, random blinking, finesse followed by berserk, maces, capitalized names, carrying scrolls of acquirement; hates: haste, flight, regeneration, and the r, q, V, W and P commands
<wanka> i clicked on it <wanka> it became blue <wanka> wtf
<rwbarton> so tiles ghosts cast haste at least

tiles reasons

see glasses
http://crawl.develz.org/info/tile.php?q=margery
You want to equip your Kenku with a gobbler.
You have a mouse
<minqmay> tiles reasons: when tiles change it is generally for the better

tiles unreasons

<greatzebu> the bone rune tile looks uncomfortably close to a dildo, imo
http://crawl.develz.org/info/tile.php?q=orb+guardian
<Leafsnail> Ugh misclick

time

Not on your side.

timecircuits

Hey, that worked.
The branches are listed in {tetha}.
the +6 leather armour "Buckiaji" (worn) {rF++ rC++ Curse}
the amulet "Romiok" (around neck) {Gourm +Blink +Rage MR EV+6 Dam+1}
2 torment scrolls MiFi in elf:7: !hs mifi -tv:<11

timed portal

Timed portal vaults: bailey, bazaar, ice_cave, labyrinth, ossuary, sewer, spider, volcano, wizlab. Do what they say on the tin. Basically, a single-level branch (can be large or small) which you can only enter once, and which will eventually disappear. See relevant page for each portal.
see portal_distance

timpakay

Managed to die to a lich pack on d:6 in trunk.

titan

Big purple C. Spellcasters that can heal, with their primary form of attack being lightning bolts. Like a stone giant with laser vision, infinite ammo, and better fashion sense.
Has Airstrike, which means that you'll want to be out of its line of sight while fighting other monsters!

titanic slime creature

Easily capable of cruising across deep water, but try an Ice Bolt.
Deal up to 110 damage a swing in melee. You will die.

title

In the phrase "Yourname the (something)" at the top right of the Crawl screen, "(something)" is your title
see titles

titles

For always up-to-date master branch titles: http://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/blobs/master/crawl-ref/source/skills2.cc#line58
Religious titles: http://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/blobs/master/crawl-ref/source/describe.cc#line4034

tmyk

http://i56.tinypic.com/8wgls4.jpg

to hit

For monster to hit see: http://chaosforge.org/crawl/index.php?title=Evasion#Monster_to-hit_.28melee.29

toadstool

A toadstool grows from a nearby corpse.
A nearby toadstool withers and dies.

toastyp

< ToastyP> Apparently healing items are completely superfluous < ToastyP> who knew?

todo monsters

sloths, cassowaries, moas, hoatzin, octopus, locusts, paper wasps, bullet ants, mantis shrimp
anglerfish chameleons pistol shrimp anomalacaris trilobytes skunk coconut crab drop bears guard llamas
decorator crabs, velvet worms, osedax worms (bone-worms), tardigrades, shrikes, bladderworts, sundews, rocket hawks, aerial jellyfish
giant isopods, lampreys, hagfish, psychic dolphins
parasitic wasps
zombies that throw parts of themselves, or other zombies, or maybe parts of other zombies
chameleons, assassin bugs, transdimensional hellspiders, hypnotoads, time flies, helllions
hippos
gharials
vampire squid
sponges

todo moths

carousel, vuln, miscast, recall, golubria, gypsy, amnesia, night terror

todo roguelikes

see return alive
see brogue
see doomrl

toenail golem

You know all those nailclippings you lose when you're cutting your nails? Now you know where they go. Watch out.

tomb

Accessed from the Crypt on either the second or third level. Three levels deep, with a golden rune at the bottom. A grand place to die, lots of good company (including Jovan's ghosts), and so very appropriate. Screw not with the sphinxes, for they will SLAY you.
Finding the staircase can be tricky. Magic mapping is recommended. On rare occasions it might not be possible to finish the tomb without any means of preventing teleportation. One of the chokepoints that lead to the stairs down might be blocked by a teleport trap. Patience and a means of blinking can help here.
Using the Lugonu ability Corruption on the north-east or north-west corner of Tomb 1 may break down the walls, allowing you to bypass most of Tomb 2.
<jericho89> It's a cake-walk. But the cake is evil, and the filling is hydrochloric acid. And whoever blows out the candles WILL DIE IN SEVEN DAYS.
Need to go up to go down. You can avoid this by random teleporting around on Tomb:2 until you land in the correct region.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yiqGtZXCmQ
RotRotRotRotTormentTormentRotTormentTormentSmiteTormentSmiteSmite You die...
Croases: admittedly i should've done swamp first

tomb3 guide

!lm hyperbolic br.end=tomb 41 -tv:<0:>$
see projected noise

tomb checklist

Kiku.

tomb of doroklohe

Creates rock walls in one or more adjacent squares, destroying traps and displacing items (but not monsters) in the process; now only seen as the effect of the Tomb card and may be cast by Khufu.

tombrobin

Dive to Tomb and clear it. Nobody cares what you do after that. Pass: robin.

tome of destruction

Casts random conjurations when read. Power depends on evocation skill. Also explodes on occasion. You might also (un)luckily get a random freezing/poisonous cloud, or a hostile small abomination. The page's writing has no bearing on the spell produced. No one uses it outside of Sprint.

tomenet

The most popular MMO roguelike in existence. Its nothing too special.

too close for your liking

Interface feature. The <foo> that is now too close for your liking is potentially dangerous.

topazshot

Ceiling Topazshot is watching you play.

torment

Effectively halves the current hit points of all living creatures in sight of the caster. Most undead have torment immunity (player vampires might not have it). Demonspawns might get torment resistance as a mutation when levelling up.
List of tormentors. ';' groups same spellbook, Symbol of Torment is 1 of 6 slots unless noted: Fiend; Pit Fiend; Ice Fiend; Shadow Fiend; tormentor; curse skull, Murray; greater mummy, mummy priest; curse toe (2 slots); Ereshkigal; Gloorx Vloq.
Also known as Swamp.
Negative energy resistance reduces the damage percentage by 5% per level, so at rNeg+++ torment only takes 35% of your health.

torment card

Casts symbol of torment!

torment immunity

Mummies, ghouls, bloodless vampires, lichformers, and petrified players have this. Other people have to settle for torment resistance.
Death's Door
1 HP.
2 HP.
3 HP.
DD with 5 HP.
DD with rN+++ and 8 HP.
Statue form DD with rN+++ and 14 HP.

torment resistance

Each level of rN reduces torment's damage by 10%, so at rN+++ you'll only lose 35% of your HP. In addition, demonspawn can get a torment resistance mutation (60% chance of 0 damage), Kiku gives torment resistance (average protection 60%) at high piety, and Statue Form reduces torment damage by half.

tormenter

It's tormentor.

tormentor

Dangerous demon who is faster than you are unhasted and likes to torment you. Kill as quickly as possible if you don't have torment immunity!
The tormentor says, "I know a thousand and one ways to kill you."

tornado

0.10: Level 9 Air spell. Creates a tornado which follows your movement and lifts you and monsters into the air (flight). Its radius starts at 1 and increases by 1 every turn until it reaches 6, at which point the tornado stops. Almost nothing resists it (just air elementals and the like), but it decreases in power in enclosed spaces.
Moves monsters counterclockwise around you, sometimes through walls.

tortoise

Tortoises live in the sewers. Four of them are generated, and there's also a rat, and a mutagenic randart.
They drop a turt.. tortoise shell, which is useful as a crushing throwing weapon. Also enchantable to a shield with ?ea.
You can also ride around on tortoise shells, especially over deep water!

totalg33k

a.k.a. gslarmour. usually plays SpEn. dies, a lot.

touch

You either casted confusing touch, or Xom casted it on you.

touchay

to touch Ay

touche

to acknowlege a blow

tournament

The 0.10 tournament was Feb 25-Mar 12: http://seleniac.org/crawl/tourney/12a/
http://crawl.akrasiac.org/tourney11/index.html
Tourney scoring scripts: http://github.com/elliptic/dcss_tourney .

tournament 08

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/tournament-scoring.txt Looks like this will be August barring serious problems. More information will appear when it is available. We pray for 0.4, but will go with whatever is out.
If you are interested in working on the tournament scripts, see http://crawl.akrasiac.org/tourney.py and talk to Rachel.
Announcement at http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.misc/browse_thread/thread/5f0735989669871e

tourney code

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/tourney09/code/

tr guide

Don't wield a weapon.

tracer

A dry-run of a monster spell, used by the monster AI to figure out whether the spell causes more collateral damage than damage to the monster's target.

training dummy

A weak statue which gives advices and throws stones at you

training pet

A training pet is a creature you let live when you come to it on the level. Gather XP in the Exp pool as you clear the level, then go back to the creature to train.
As soon as you can readily kill them, monsters that always take more than one hit to kill and are slow are good to keep as training pets.

trample

it's knockback, and the monster gets a step to fill the gap
You cannot be trampled into deep water or lava unless you can swim in them. You can be trampled into traps.
Your fire vortex stumbles backwards!
things that trample: (dire) elephants, large dragons (normal/ice/iron/quicksilver/golden/bone/storm), hell beasts
You can get trampled while trying to climb stairs, and you'll get pushed away from the stairs.

transcendent

Helix tried to remove a bad mutation, and you don't have any.

transdimensional hellspider

Some sort of unique for the Spider's Nest, not beyond idea-planning stage. Developers agree on multiple fights where it gains resistances to what you hit it with; developers argue for days on how it effects branch exploration/descent.

transifex

https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/dcss/

translocation

Spell school governing teleportations, that is, moving yourself (or sometimes other things) a distance in 1 turn. Combines with Enchantment, sometimes Summoning. Notable spells include blink and control teleport.
Low and medium level translocations are very powerful, but the high level spells tend to be risky, of limited use, or to substitute for commonly available items, so high levels of translocation are generally not desirable. See also translocation miscast.

translocation miscast

By severity: 1: 4-12dmg / 4-10&blink / spatial vortex 2: 9-31 / 5-13&confuse&(blink or teleport) / 2-4 sp. vorts / banish 3: 15-43 / 9-25&tele&conf / banish / hostile malign gateway / 0-18 glow

translocations

The art of moving things without physically doing so.

translucent

Translucent walls are exactly like walls of their base type, except you can see through them. In other words, you can dig translucent rock and can't dig translucent stone.
As an item descriptor, indicates a randart.
Also see translucent skin mutation.

translucent rock wall

Exactly what it says on the tin - a translucent, rock wall.

translucent skin

Level 1: cosmetic; Level 2: +20 stealth; Level 3: +40 stealth, monster melee to-hit is reduced by 5

transmutations

Ostensibly includes spells that manipulate the material world. In-game, is a catch-all with many different spells in it. Notably gives you spells to change shape (any spell ending in "form") so pairs well with unarmed combat. Other notable spells include alistairs intoxication and evaporate.

transmutations miscast

By severity: 1: 1-11 damage or random uselessness. 2: 3-25 damage, 0-18 contam, petrification, or confusion. 3: 3-20 dmg AND 0-34 contam, 5-27 dmg AND delete mutation, 5-27 dmg AND 1-2 bad mutations.

transmuter

Transmuters can cause strange changes in themselves, others, and things. Starts with the Book of Changes and some skill in unarmed combat and transmutations.

transmuter gods

ones that aren't chei
Honestly? Makhleb and Nemelex.

transmuter reasons

When you're not only satisfied with punching your enemies in the face until they die, but want to poison, confuse and drown them as well.

transparent

The same as nontransparent walls of the same type, except they're see-through.
see randart

trap

Hidden thing that causes great aggravation. Train Traps & Doors to get an (increasingly more likely) warning, or don't, but expect embarrasing deaths either way. See mechanical trap, magical trap, natural trap, disarming, {trap generation}, {<foo> trap}.

trap depths

Arrow:3, Amnesia:1, Blade:13, Bolt:9, Axe:7, Dart:1, Needle:3, Net:1, Spear:5, Teleport:1, Zot:16. All bets are off with vaults, and this is absolute depth.

trap mimic

Axe trap mimics.

trapdoor spider

Identical in stat to a wolf spider, except runs away and somehow "hides under the floor" (disappears into the floor to recover HP). Cannot be damaged with melee attacks while under floor. Currently, your zombie allies can kill it while it is under the floor. This is possibly a bug.
You can kill it while it hides under the floor if you cast with Z and target your spell using . onto the square in which it is hiding. You can do the same with weapons of reaching.
Don't try to put them to sleep; they immediately hide underground.
see {conjure flame [4]}

traps and doors

Will try to automatically detect traps and secret doors during actions or while deliberately searching (you can spot them up to 5 squares away at ~10(?) skill). Definitely beats blundering into a Zot trap.
Your chance of being warned about an unknown trap you're about to step onto is 1 - 7/(4 + T&D + (levels of acute eyesight) - 2*(levels of blurry vision)).
Helps reduces the chance of a door creaking. See {creak}.

travel exclusion

Use 'e' on the level map to mark dangerous areas. Autoexplore and travel won't enter the marked squares. 'e' again changes the radius of the marked area.

travel stoppers

If you get an error about a missing file named travel_stoppers edit your RC and change the line 'include = travel_stoppers.txt' to 'include = runrest_messages.txt'. cf. this commit http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl-ref.git;a=commitdiff;h=29fc31328c662ed220622b8d742162115dfb8b6d

travel stops

Add expressions that auto travel should stop for here:
god:.* (all god effects)
Your icy armour evaporates (Ozocubus Armour expired)
Your repel missiles spell is about to expire (Rmsl about to expire)
Oh no! (Zot trap)
Wait a moment (Alerted of trap (maybe not shown))
flesh start (rotting)
You feel less protected from missiles (Rmsl/Dmsl expires)
falls from the air (tukimas dance expired)
found a trap (You found a trap)
You feel conductive. (Insultation expired)

trbe

macro otab to , - ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

trcj guide

Your doctor told you you have fat deposits on your pancreas. You shoot up insulin six times daily. If you keep eating like this you'll lose a foot, maybe both feet.
Still you keep at it. You swallow a hard-boiled egg whole, then another, then you nail your 40 of Olde English, you nail it hard. You've been double-fisting Olde English and instant coffee since 6 AM.
It doesn't matter. Wearily you flip through the pages of your spellbook. Learn magic dart again? You forgot it years ago to learn all your medications but you don't take them anyway.
You throw away a box of heart pills and memorize magic dart instead. Your slur your words as you cast the spell. The magic dart misses Winslem, your malnourished pet quokka, and slams into the wall, breaking a hole in the drywall.
Your landlord already thinks you're a deadbeat and now you're blasting holes in the walls. You shout in anger and frustration and hurl your spellbook into the kitchen sink in a fit of adolescent rage, then you dump your coffee over its pages.

treasure torve

A torve of terasuer on the terasuer ilsand.

treasure trove

For a price, you get some loot! Usually you get 16 items, some of which will be created using the acquirement code.
If the trove asks for a +4,+4 demon whip, it will accept the +5,+6 demon whip of Fun {drain, rF- Str+3}.
a - [D:9] the +12,+10 sword of Jihad {holy, *Rage rN+ MR EV+3 Stlth--} (30630 gold) Trove: D:27 (give sword of Jihad)

trees

A new type of feature, represented by a 7. A single tree does not block LOS, though two do. Conjure flame, fireballs, and bolts of magma/fire/lightning all will set them ablaze, causing flame clouds that wander a bit. Don't get too close! Disintegration also works.
Fireball cast at a tree will center on it, unlike when cast at a wall, and will hit enemies on the other side. Use to your advantage!
troll earth elementalists

trident

A shafted weapon with three points at one end. (Hand-and-a-half medium Polearm; Dam 9 Acc +3 Delay 13)

tried

Auto-inscribed on rings, amulets, and wands when they are worn but not auto-identified.
Scrolls that don't have obvious effects because of improper use or lack of appropriate items. Possible candidates include: enchant weapon/armour, curse weapon/armour, recharging, fear, detect curse, remove curse, vorpalise, holy word

tried on item

Enchant armour, identify, or recharging

trig

Lighthearted and fun-loving god of mathematicians. Is the Aleph-null and the Omega.

triple draw

Nemelex's third granted power, which allows you to draw the top three cards from a deck in your inventory, discard two and use the third. Costs 2 MP, food, and piety. Very useful for avoiding Shuffle and Wild Magic from decks of wonder.

triple sword

A magical weapon with three great razor-sharp blades. (two-handed Long Blade; Dam 19, Acc -4, Delay 190%) Great for shaving!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OU96za6czU

trishula

A blessed demon trident! Acc +0, Dam 13, Delay 13, Hands 1.5. A trishula is a stylized Indian trident, prominent in Hindu mythology.

trisk

< Trisk> Oh wow! +2 Banded Mail

trivia

Ball lightnings have the lightning bolt spell, but start out confused, so unless their confusion duration runs out before their summon duration (rare), they won't actually cast it.
see blink frog[2]
see faq[3]
since monsters that live in liquids don't actually care about which liquid, just that they have rDrown to survive deep water or rF+++ to survive lava, it's possible to make enemy merfolk stand around in lava if they can get rF+++
see merfolk[2]
From (pre-Stone-Soup) version 2.10 to version 2.83, the dungeon (D) was 36 levels deep.
Before (pre-SS) version 3.40, there was a Great Swords skill separate from Long Blades. Also "amulet of resist slowing" was called "amulet of maintain speed".
14:06:37 <Eronarn> ...heh, ravens eat corpses
The documentation on the KPROP no_rtele_into lists an example vault to avoid not-randomly-teleporting-into as lemuel's hellion isle, and of course said vault doesn't have it.

trizap

<nixor> aye, you gotta bounce those bolts, trizap the fool, or you end up dead like a dolt, with your blood in a pool
see {multizap}
Except not anymore because trizap was removed!

trog

God of war and bloodlust. Expects followers to kill constantly in his name; hates magic and all who practice it.
Is very easy to please, if you don't plan on spellcasting. Grants weapons constantly, with a strong -hit/+dam bias, some of which will even be ones you can use. See weapon acquirement. Loves antimagic.
Gives abilities to go berserk, gain temporary regeneration and mr, turn books on the floor into flame clouds, and summon berserk allies.
http://i.imgur.com/PmRSz.png

trog challenge

Win a berserker after abandoning Trog on turn 0 and without rejoining (done by: elliptic and nago)

trog reasons

Reasons to worship Trog: weapon gifts, especially if you are looking for a rare weapon such as a katana, double sword, eveningstar, quick blade, etc., Trog is more likely to gift it than Oka; berserk and regen are both life-savers and you get them very early with Trog.
Trog's summoning ability can be very useful; like any summons they can kill things you don't want to: curse skulls, oklob plants, jelly rooms -- probably a waste of piety on mummies though. Also can be useful if you're expecting to get paralyzed or teleported away soon. Due to their huge damage and speed, are a big damage boost in normal fights.
Trog's Brothers in Arms always start out berserk, and one or two of them can take out an eight-headed hydra. They're usually something like an ogre with a giant club or a troll that chops off hydra heads, but sometimes Trog gives you a berserk bear! Also, they stop berserking shortly before disappearing, so you get a nice warning.

trog wrath

ABANDONMENT: 50 penance RETRIBUTION: 50% summoning abjurable, but berserking hostiles from (iron troll, deep troll, rock troll, troll, black bear, grizzly bear, stone giant, hill giant, ogre, two-headed ogre); 33% weakening effect (decay, STR loss, paralysis, slowing); 16% fire miscast.
!hs LordSloth char=HOBe place=Crypt:1 -tv
Not to be confused with the Wrath of Trog, which is a fixedart battleaxe.
"Trog retribution" is an anagram of "bring torture to I."

troglodyte

One who worships Trog

trogonometry

The science and mathematics behind how many times it is required to hit any given thing to turn it into a plane.

trogs hand

Trog power which grants regeneration at the same rate as the spell as well as 70 mr, for a duration heavily dependent on piety. Works even on deep dwarves, mummies, and bloodless vampires.

trogs vigour

You just ceased your berserk rage, and Trog filled your veins with Vigour, thus making sure you don't faint.
Note: if you have hardened arteries or a problem with cholesterol, berserk rage may cause you to have a heart attack. Please do not berserk if you have one of these conditions, or are pregnant.

troll

Abysmally stupid, constantly hungry, and incredibly strong, this player race is best suited to melee combat. Learns Unarmed Combat at the fastest rate out of all skills a troll can learn, and is well suited to it thanks to having a +6 bonus to unarmed combat base damage.
Much like the player race, these enemies will beat the crap out of you (and if you have any, your friends) in melee. If you're going to kill one, don't divert your attention or else it just might regen the lost HP while you're busy killing something else. Can provide a hide if dissected, and very occasionally spawns in the Orc Mines.
Sometimes inhabits ##crawl and advises people on the most efficient way to splat.

troll caster

ionfrigate: troll caster is fine as long as you don't plan on casting that much
go ash, nemelex, (see shuffle) or chei (don't), use statue form, grab usual buffs/useful low-level spells, use large rocks and you're a awesome hybrid with penalties in nearly everything, just don't try blasting much
Actually, Vehumet is fine too.

troll guide

Claw. Win.

troll hide

The skin of a troll, even more repugnantly smelly than most hides. Putting it on you just makes you smell like a troll. If only it were magical... (then it would be troll leather armour).

troll leather amour

Mmmm, I just adore that leathery troll smell on you

troll leather armour

Speeds your regeneration (by 0.3 HP per turn), but also makes you hungry while doing so. All races but felids and octopodes can wear this. 4AC, -1EV. Does not work on trolls or deep dwarves.
Stacks with other sources of regeneration. Increases hunger rate by 1.5 while you are injured.

troll reasons

Regen and big bonus to unarmed combat means an easy early game. Best unarmed fighters in the game. Best Xom worshippers in the game.
You want to play an ogre, but like regeneration and good unarmed damage.

trollkonor

"Troll-wives", spellcasting humans with a troll nearby. Spawn in the Dwarven Hall, although they may not make it as they are questioned by some.

trolls

Please do not feed.

trollzerker

A common name for Troll Berserkers. Well known for their strength, regeneration, and unarmed combat prowess. Also well known for their stupidity and weakness to pretty much everything, including magic. Make sure your gear is good if you take this character.

trombone

BWAAA BWAAAA BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

trowel card

Fails if you're standing on an important dungeon feature. Power 0: Make a random altar (even Lugonu, Beogh, Jiyva, sometimes no altar) under your feet. 1: Make a random statue near you - could be harmless, but if it's the hostile variety you also get a temporary friendly golem to fight it. 2: Make a portal to a portal vault (e.g. a bazaar).
Won't create portals if you're in pan, the abyss, or another portal vault such as a ziggurat, labyrinth, bazaar, bailey, wizlab, ice cave, volcano, spider's nest or sewer.

trucutru

(12:26:17 AM) TGW: why is this granite statue smoking? (12:26:36 AM) Trucutru: cigarretes are addictive

trumpeting

ELEPHANTS WOOHOO.
see elephant shaped statue

trunk

The latest (unreleased) development code of Stone Soup is often referred to as trunk.
Trunk tile+command-line windows binaries are available from http://crawl.develz.org/trunk/
Your stomach is not as upset anymore. x96
<NyaaKitty> Also, why does it seem people like me more now that I play trunk? :(
learndb jargon for "that version that's trunk when I wrote this two years ago, naturally you automatically know which one that is. Duh."
<CIA-90> 03elliptic * rbfa6a02d32fe 10/crawl-ref/source/main.cc: Fix all characters being forced to worship Xom every turn.

trunk reasons

Guaranteed ambrosia!

trvm

Troll with meph. It works really well. Because it is a troll. A great choice for anyone who hates fun.
what more could you want

tryi

Hugs were not given.

ttybin

A pastebin for ttyrec[1]-format casts! http://ttybin.ldlework.com

ttyrec

Specialized format used to record Crawl (among other) games. Google to find a player for your favorite platform. CAO ttyrecs all games in http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/<user>/.
Since it's been asked before: a usable Windows tty player is termplay: http://angband.pl/termrec.html
Use !ttyrec to list ttyrecs for specific games.
ipbt is a nice viewer for Unix (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/ipbt/)

tukimas dance

A level 3 hex that turns your wielded (non-fixedart melee) weapon into a pet temporarily. It will be hostile if cursed (and will remain cursed). The weapon can be recovered after the spell ends. Is essentially a [@?dancing weapon] wielding the chosen weapon. Does not bypass distortion unwield effects.
Note that Okawaru doesn't mind friendly dancing weapon dying, although he does not give you piety for their kills.

tumbleweed

cdo account, password robin. Die at opportune times during ##crawl conversations

turnerjer

A lesson we should all appreciate: don't drop your runes in Zot, and then leave without them.
<turnerjer> i may have just metaphorically locked my keys in my car.
Apparently this can no longer happen. turnerjer likes to think that his stupidity contributed in some small way to making crawl a better game.
Banished dpeg to the abyss by casting Ignorant Oversimplification
Once had a dream about how awesome apportation is.
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/browse_thread/thread/464e7a1557668b51/ccc7d389eaf1285?hl=en&q=rec.games.roguelike.nethack+jeremy+turner#0ccc7d389eaf1285
once killed by 49 electrical explosions

twanging sound

An invisible archer is shooting at something. Probably you.

twinge

Number fiddling expert.

twist

This offensive Translocation spell is no longer part of Crawl.

twisted resurrection

Converts all piles of corpses in LOS into crawling corpses or macabre masses, very weak attackless creatures that can merge to form abominations. Creates 1HD worth of creatures per 60 to 20 aum, depending on spell power (and with half efficiency past 15 HD). Small aboms require 6HD and two corpses, large 11HD and three corpses.
Crawling corpses/macabre masses can upgrade small abominations to large (making them undead if they weren't already); large abominations cannot be upgraded. Cast by deep elf priests, high priests, and death mages, as well as draconian zealots.
In versions up to 0.9, converts a pile of corpses at your feet into a friendly permanent abomination. You need 1+d2 corpses and 40+2d50 aum to succeed; 50+3d100 aum gives X. HP and AC based on amount of flesh and rottedness. Corpse Stacking - The Game
Small undead abominations have 6-15 HD; large ones have 11-30 HD. AC is 2/3 of HD; EV and speed are random. Unlike normal abominations, they are undead, not demonic, and either pink (11+ HD for small, 21+ for large) or red (fewer HD).

twister

Free-flying tornado, fortunately confused and low power. Has 10000 HP, but you'll only ever encounter summoned twisters so you can just abjure it or run away and wait for it to time out.

two handed

Two handed weapons are like one handed weapons except you can't use them with a shield and you get no off hand punch. They're really powerful though.

two headed ogre

not dangerous by the time you meet them
http://i.somethingawful.com/u/garbageday/2012/comedy_goldmine/strangest_fanart_part3/Mywhatacleanturtle_01.jpg

two headed ogre zombie

It's the zombie of a two-headed ogre.

uber naga

Naga Elementalists which were played around the start of May 2010. N78291 (NaFE), elliptic (NaIE), casmith789 (NaAE) and nht (NaEE) aimed to beat stabwound's earlier record of 111 runes, made possible by strength changes in 0.6. elliptic has since won with 114 runes and 12 ziggurats, and every skill at 27.
casmith789 died to a tomb level followed by an angel level in a ziggurat, after clearing 4 zigs, maxing 14 skills and gathering 59 runes, including 45 demonic runes.
nht reached level 27 in earth and unarmed, grabbed 10 demonic runes and the rest, and got out while the going was good.
On May 18, 2010, the incomparable 78291 scored a victory for the people of ##crawl by savagely beating the game for a 267 rune win. All skills were maxed, 15 ziggurats finished, your best run shamed.
A latecomer to the uber naga party, MarvinPA won with 42 demonic runes (+ the rest) after clearing 16 ziggurats to show they should be buffed. They were!

uber randarts

<nmf> O - the +3 naga barding of Wafau {rF++ rC++ Acc+1 Dam+3} <nmf> (p.s. i am a merfolk)
see penguin
see solitas[7]
the +0 shield of Townfolk {EV+7 rElec rPois rC+ rN+ MR +Map}
j - the amulet "Udwauro" {Clar rF+ rC++ AC+6 Str+2}
<mikee> W - the amulet of Joy {rSlow +Rage +Inv +Lev rElec Int+2}
i - the ring of Qaet {+Rage +Lev rElec AC+6 EV+6 Int+1 MP+9} 1274 gold
[itsmu] h - the ring of Caosm {rElec rPois rF++ rC+ AC+3 Int+2} 1328 gold
henryci: M - the +2 pair of boots "Bot Utza" (worn) {rF++ rC++ Dam+3}
TGW: d - the ring "Molon" {Wiz rElec rF+ rC+ MR AC+7} 1543 gold
< Xiberia> P - the cursed ring "Xeil" {rF+ rN+ EV+7 Acc+4 Dam+4 Stlth}
Lactose's OgHu: G - the +1 cloak "Prynuc" (worn) {rF+ rC+ MR Dam+4}
K - the amulet "Cref" {rMut +Blink rC+ AC+5 Acc+4 Dam+3}
k - the +3 troll leather armour of Limited Liability (worn) {rElec rF++ rC++}
n - the +6,+11 triple sword "Ogreslayer" (weapon) {speed, rElec rPois}
j - the ring "Grah Equu" {rF++ rC++ rN+ Dam+4}
the ring "Mnapnas" (right hand) {Hunger- rElec rF++ rC++ EV+3}
n - the ring of Eternity {rElec rPois rF++ rC+ rN+ Dam+3}
the +3 wizard hat "Roediume" {rElec rF+ rC+ Dam+4}
the ring of Tiwkynui {AC+7 EV+4 Dam+7}
the +2,+5 quick blade "Igeaklie" (weapon) {elec, AC+7 Str+4}
the +0,+7 quick blade "Weitemou" (weapon) {god gift, elec, +Blink rF++ rC+ rN+ AC+3}
< dingir> the +1 shield of the Moon {rF++ rC++ MR Int+3 Dam+3} (bought in a shop on D:11 for 266 $)
The ring of the Shining Light {SustAb rPois rF++ rC++ AC+5}
airman -> the cursed +2 helmet of the Garden (worn) {rElec rF++ rC++}
<Chapayev> b - the ring "Teujets" {cTele rF+ AC+2 EV+5 Acc+4 Dam+4 SInv} (900 gold)
o - the ring "Pniog" {Wiz +Blink rF++ rC++ rN+ MR Dex-1}
< beuhler> T - the ring "Klux" (left hand) {rElec rF++ rC+ rN+ Acc+3 Dam+3 SInv}
the +4 cap of Ittakh {god gift, rF++ rC++ Int+4}
e - the +4 pair of gloves of the Dragon (worn) {rF++ rC++}
the amulet of Pestreng {rMut +Inv +Map rElec rPois rC++ Dam+2}
<kilobyte> the +2,+11 katana of Abomination {speed, rC+ MR}
f - the +0 large shield of Claustrophobia (worn) {rElec rPois rF+ rC+ rN+ Dam+4}
the ring of Eternal Harmony (left hand) {+Inv rPois rF++ Str+4 Dam+8}
the ring of Shuoxeh {SustAb rF++ rC++ Acc+2 Dam+2} 1064 gold
e - the +18 crystal plate mail "Schuept" (worn) {+Blink +Rage rElec rC- Int+2 Dam+2}
<elliptic> G - the +16 gold dragon armour of Joipt (worn) {+Blink +Rage rElec rPois rF+ rC+ rN+ MR}
l - the cursed +1 wizard hat "Pemaerr" (worn) {+Lev rElec rPois rF++ rC++ Dam+2}
see bailey[3]
<Surr> {Faith rElec rF++ rC++ MR} <Surr> amulet, too bad I've got veh with max piety already
the +22 crystal plate armour of Sionem {rElec rPois rN+ Curse}

uberogre

The masochists' ubernaga, they actually get good around the 6th zig. Example !log nht OgTm won 1

ubuntu

Ubuntu 10.04 has an outdated copy of Crawl (v 0.5.2); play online instead. Older versions don't have crawl at all. Maverick currently ships with version 0.6.0, however.
"Cross this game with Wesnoth and you'ld have a world-beater."

ufetubus

An unremarkable minor demon. Hits harder than an imp, but doesn't regenerate as quickly and doesn't blink, so much less annoying. Getting mobbed by these can cause a fatal lack of mobility if there are smiters nearby, but otherwise harmless.
Vulnerable to fire, but so weak it hardly matters.
Your best friends in the Abyss

ugly thing

Ugly things are found in a variety of colours. Their colour indicates what kind of damage they do, and resist; red is fire, white is cold, brown is acid, green is poison, cyan is electricity, and purple is sickness. They can change their colour by being in proximity of their siblings or a glowing PC.
Polymorph other changes their colour, so it can be useful to get rid of brown ones.

uglylos

see circlelos[1]
see roundlos

uh

see unseen horror
see unseen horror[2]

umber hulk

Don't worry! the brown U is just a bear
see bear

umbra

An unholy aura which, opposite to Halo, causes accuracy penalties while also cancels haloes. Undead/Demons/**+ Yredelemnul worshippers are immune.

umrain

holds the record for fastest game of crawl completed while playing entirely on a phone
uses a hugeterm on his phone

unannounced uniques

Jessica Ijyb Blork Terence Edmund Psyche Joseph Josephine Harold Jozef Maud Grum Gastronok Dowan Duvessa Pikel Menkaure Purgy Maurice Yiuf Urug Snorg Eustachio Ribbit Nergalle. Deaths are not announced in ##crawl. This doesn't mean they are harmless, just that we don't want to be spammed by everyone killing them.

unapropos panlords

<minqmay> & _ Gray <rwbarton> is it gray <minqmay> it's green

unapropos randarts

Randarts with contradictory flavour.
the amulet of Pantheism (around neck) {Faith rPois rF+ SInv}
the hand axe "Hydraslayer" (weapon) {chop, +Inv rElec rF- Dex+3}
P - the +0 scale mail of Submission {+Rage}
n - the +2 leather armour of Hide-and-Seek {Acc+1 Dam+3 Stlth--}
slyshy: k - the +3 cap of Brilliance {rElec rC+ Int-5 Sinv}
the cursed -5 cloak of the Armoured One {+Inv}
the +0,+0 halberd "Hydra's Nightmare" {chop, rF+ EV-3 Str-2 Int+1}
<N78291> the +2 robe of Least Resistance {+Blink rPois rF+ rC+}
You finish putting on the +1 robe "Wiek" {Str+4 Int+3}
the +4 cap of Imperfection {+Inv rPois rC+ Dam+4}
the +5 leather armour of Surprise {Stlth--}
_L - the giant club of Peace (weapon) {god gift, vamp, *Rage Dex+2}
d - the +3 leather armour of Dyspraxia (worn) {Dex+4}
the cursed +5 chain mail of Sorcery {Int-3}
<Kyrris>You are wielding the +0,+4 dagger of Integrity {stab, rPois}.
You finish putting on the +0 leather armour of Mental Paralysis {Int+3}.
the +0 ring mail of Inaction (worn) {+Blink +Inv}
the +1,+4 morningstar "Dragonslayer" {slay orc, rC+}
the +1,+0 long sword of Cocytus {speed, rF++ Dex+2}
the +2 pearl dragon armour of the Devil
<SirVaulterScoff> the short sword "Dragonbane" (weapon) {slay orc, rF+}
The cursed -5 leather armour of Death Resistance {Str+1 Dex+1} 120 gold
y - the cursed -5 animal skin of the Lobster {Dex+5}
the cursed -2 pair of gloves of Impermeability {Str+1 Dam+3}
the amulet of Happiness {Inacc rF-}
the +4,+10 spear of Pain {freeze, -CAST AC+3 Int-1 Dex+3}
J - the amulet of Stasis (around neck) {rMut +Tele Int+1 Acc+3}
Found the cursed -4 leather armour of Supple Strength {Str-2 Stlth--}.
e - the +2 helmet of Liberty {Str-5 Curse}
W - the -1 blowgun of Hacking and Slashing {speed, +Blink +Inv rPois rN+}
_d - the great sword of Order {god gift, chaos, -TELE rElec MR SInv}
r + the -3,-5 scimitar of Offence (weapon) {freeze, rPois}
a - the mace of the Inferno {freeze, rN+ Int+3}
I - the ring of the Sun {Ice Str+5}
the -6 pair of boots of the Elephant {Dex+3 Dam+3 Stlth++}
l - the amulet of Ashenzari's Wrath {+Rage Dex+2}

unarmed combat

Fighting without a weapon. 3+UC base damage (+2 per claws level (so +6 Tr, +2 Gh), +X for forms); delay 10 - UC/5.4; +2 to hit (+4 Tr/Gh). If you have an EV penalty (such as by wearing a shield, or armour (reduced somewhat by armour skill)), attack delay is slowed to max(10, 1d10+2dAEVP) - UC/5.4.
base for forms: Normal 3, Spider 5 (venom), Bat 1, Vampire bat 2, Ice beast 12 (ice), Blade hands 12 + str/4 + dex/4, Statue 6 + str/3 and multiplies by 1.5, Dragon 12 + str*2/3, Lich 5 (drain) Form base damage scales with skill, just like normal punches. This means forms (except bats) always deal more than regular attacks.
see auxiliary unarmed

unarmed effects

Unarmed attacks have additional effects, if conditions are met: Headbutt - Ministun ; Claw - Bleed effect ; Hooves - Ignore AC on kicks ; More to come in the future

unarmed stabbing

sucks.
<m0ng> it's good for waking monsters up
It isn't that bad on Vp, though, since it means more healing from the bite.
still sucks on vp, technically

unarmed to hit

When unarmed your to hit is equal to 13 + (dex/2) + (unarmed ranks/2) + (fighting ranks/5)

unborn deep dwarf

A nasty monster in 0.8 who likes to spam haunt and sneak injury mirror on when you aren't watching.

uncool

Winning.
A termsize other than 80x24.
Stable versions.
Tiles.
Not using IRC.
Needlessly spreading information across multiple learndb entries when it could easily fit in a single entry, which would save everyone a lot of querying and in many cases reduce channel spam.
Excessively long learndb entries.
Caring about your win rate.
"succumbed to poop's ghost's sting"
Reading all these entries in ##crawl rather than PM.
Flushing channel with Henzell queries.
A lack of redundancy.
see lava
shop mimics
(Hit _)
The "uncool" LearnDB entry.
see tgw
Local crawl.
A character set other than ASCII.
adding your own entries
creating new accounts to improve your winrate

uncursed

The object is not cursed! Yay!

undead

There are undead player races and undead monsters. The undead player races are Ghoul, Vampire, and Mummy. Monsters with the undead flag are vulnerable to holy wrath weapons, recite, and the Dispel Undead spell. They resist poison, negative energy, rotting, torment, and (monsters only) drowning.
Undead cannot go berserk, except for player vampires when Full or more. They also cannot worship good gods or Fedhas.

undead swamp

All the hydras and dragons and drakes are zombies, skeletons, or spectral. Be careful of the miasma generator(s)! And the Death drake! and the oklob plant!

undeadhunter

A +7, +7 "great steel mace" (base type great mace) with rN+. Has its own effect similar to the old disruption brand instead of holy wrath: a 2/3 chance of up to quadruple damage, with an average of 2.5x damage, but only against undead.

undermind

Wins at a ridiculous win percentage very slowly. Doesn't use autoexplore.
Nobody knows anything about undermind.

underscore

Precedes message spam for actions that take time.

unemployed unperson

WTF was that? Unthing!

unfitting armour

This means you're a troll, ogre, or spriggan. You can't wear gloves, boots, or helmets, but caps and wizard hats are fine. Maybe you were thinking of deformed body instead.

unholy energy

Part of various messages generated when spells are cast [on you], see unholy energy fills the air and cantrip.

unholy energy fills the air

An invisible monster just cast vampiric draining.

unicode

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~tomw/java/unicode.html

unicode6 0

A boatload of glyphs for you to abuse. A font with all symbol blocks: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/Symbola600.zip Test: ð©

unique

An important monster, with a name and a different colour. They often have good equipment, powerful spells, unusual abilities, or so on. See uniques for a list of them.

uniques

List of uniques = Agnes, Aizul, Antaeus, Asmodeus, Azrael, Blork the orc, Boris, Cerebov, Crazy Yiuf, Dispater, Dissolution, Donald, Dowan, Duvessa, Edmund, the Enchantress, Ereshkigal, Erica, Erolcha, Eustachio, Frances, Frederick, Gastronok, Geryon, Gloorx Vloq, Grinder, Grum, Harold, Ignacio, Ijyb, Ilsuiw, Jessica, Jory, Joseph...
Josephine, Jozef, Khufu, Kirke, the Lernaean hydra, Lom Lobon, Louise, Mara, Margery, Maud, Maurice, Menkaure, Mennas, Mnoleg, Murray, Nergalle, Nessos, Nikola, Norris, Pikel, Polyphemus, Prince Ribbit, Psyche, Purgy, Roxanne, the royal jelly, Rupert, Saint Roka, the Serpent of Hell, Sigmund, Snorg, Sonja, Terence, Tiamat, Urug, Wiglaf, Xtahua

uniques tourney

http://nethack.eu/dcss.uniques.tourney.round.2.html

unnethack

dpeg: "If you're curious how a Nethack with some thoughts spent on balance could look like, give it a try: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/unnethack/"
Developed by bhaak. See bhaak.

unpopular combo

GhPa

unrandart

An artifact of fixed appearance and properties - sometimes unique ones that are unavailable anywhere else. Spoiler at: http://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/blobs/master/crawl-ref/source/art-data.txt

unseen horror

"These creatures are usually unseen by the eyes of most, and those few who have seen them would rather not have." Moves like a bat, invisible, and flees when wounded. A purple x if you can see invisible. The bane of mages and EV fighters everywhere.
Good strategies include mephitic cloud, hallways, and teleporting. Bad strategies include running (unless a hasted spriggan) and fighting in the open. Poison and sticky flame can be useful if you can hit it at least once. Refrigeration works, toxic radiance doesn't. Corona works, too, if you have it. Also try Summon Butterflies.
Taking them through clouds will let you see where they are.
It hits you. Helpless, you fail to dodge its attack! It hits you.

unseen surprise

A vault so harrowing, so peerlessly distressing, that to enter sight of it is to have any sense of hope or optimism utterly obliterated. Players in its vicinity have been known to simply drop to their knees and wait for death, or otherwise bring to an end their own pathetically futile lives.

unusually strong

This monster is under the might effect and does 50% more damage.

unwon

There are 629 race/class combinations in v0.8, and they have all been won (in some version) on CAO, CDO, or RHF. To see which 0.11 combos haven't won since v0.9 or earlier, see oldwon. For sprint, see unwon sprint.
Please be aware that unwon lists are updated via regular expressions; not everybody is equally careful while doing so. If you really want to try something unwon (or oldwon) doublecheck first! e.g. !won * MuFi ((cv~~0.1. || cv>=0.6))

unwon sprint

All races have been won in sprint. UNWON CLASSES IN SPRINT: AM,Ne,Wn.
Unwon races in Sprint I: Ce,Dr,Mi,Vp. Unwon classes in Sprint I: AE,AM,Ar,Gl,He,Ne,Re,Su,Wn,Wr,Wz.
Unwon races in Sprint II: DG,DS,Gh,Ha,HE,HO,Hu,Ko,MD,Mu,Na,Vp. Unwon classes in Sprint II: AE,AM,Ar,Cj,EE,Fi,Gl,Ne,Pa,Pr,Su,VM,Wn,Wr,Wz.
Unwon races in Sprint III: Ce,Dg, Dr,Gh,Ha,HO,Hu,Ke,Ko,MD,Mi,Mu,Na,Og,SE. Unwon classes in Sprint III: AE,AM,Ar,As,Cj,CK,EE,Gl,He,Mo,Ne,Pa,Pr,Re,VM,Wn,Wr.

unworthy

Really walk into a travel-excluded area? There is a radiant altar of Vehumet here.You kneel at the altar of Vehumet. Vehumet welcomes you! You are engulfed in roaring flames. Ouch! That really hurt! You die...

upgrade

Yes, the server will be upgraded soon. No, asking me wont make it faster. :)

upsy

(2:40:45 PM) gutt: i don't know what is 'small more', but i would like 'no more' fo sure (2:41:57 PM) upsy: never --more--

uru

Owns much farmland. In Pandemonium.
Has many aliases. Confirmed: Dingir, Ivo.

urug

A unique orc fighter. Throws javelins.
That was a unique?

usht 54

I made an entry for myself just because.
A lonely, lonely soul.

valrus

d:3=
<valrus> I don't want a rune of Zot, I want a barding
his terminal is unwatchable because he is a communist
An altogether decent and helpful cove.
!lg valrus Pan 1 -tv
Wants dracoliches in Crawl.
<valrus> how about a script that adds anything I say to bad_ideas
The worst greaterplayer.
<valrus> _Found Catan's Magical Wand Shop. <valrus> looks like catan finally settled down
http://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=user:valrus

vampire

Annoying undead that turns invisible and mobs you with drain-happy orange rats. Weaker than knight and mage versions. For the player race, see vp

vampire bat

Basically a wimpy vampire mosquito.
see bat_form

vampire knight

A dangerous undead - hastes, paralyses, and hits hard. Sort of like an undead Rupert.
Also a shoujo manga. Think of it as the Twilight of Japan.

vampire mage

Spells: bolt of draining, summon undead, invis, animate dead, teleport.

vampire mosquito

undead, evil, fly
Vampire mosquitoes suck.

vampire reasons

Stealth, stabbing, necromancy. Stay alive for excellent regen in early game, go bloodless for excellent resists in late game.
Because you've always wanted to roleplay a flywheel.

vampire summon

Summon small mammals that doesn't worry about being overpowered.

vampires tooth

More vampiric than any other weapon, it heals you for the full damage. Good for stabbing. A fixed artifact; it will always be an "ivory dagger". Like all vampiric weapons, it takes you from full to hungry when you wield it. +3, +4.

vampiric

You must be full to wield a vampiric weapon unless you are undead, and doing so will reduce your satiation. On 4 of 5 hits against a drainable target, you heal a random amount between 1 and the damage dealt. Good gods don't like it.
good

vampiric draining

L3 necro melee spell; does 2 + 2d9/2 + (d(pow)-1) / 7 damage. Will not deal more damage than the hp you're missing. Heals you for half dealt damage. It never misses. Cannot be cast on monsters with rN, unless they're invisible to you, in which case casting on them will do nothing (nonliving) or do a bunch of damage to YOU (undead/demonic).

vandal

<Vandal> is Xom good for extended?

vandalism

wensley craves it

vapour

Invisible cloud of roiling death. And lightning. They wander around randomly, but eventually you will be on the business end of a thunderbolt. Top Tip: avoid.
<ThaGuy> Well, they just demolished most of the vault and then fucked off somewhere, I'll take that as a victory

variants

Hexcrawl http://mbays.freeshell.org/hexcrawl
Sourceforge patch page: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=143991&atid=757515

varkarrus

Craziest Hamster

varmin

Varmin is the bot that reads !fight commands from the irc channel, see {!fight}
Ownership: Unknown

vault

A small pre-designed section of the dungeon. Most of the evil ones can be blamed on dpeg or Lemuel or minmay or evilmike or a demonic alliance of some subset of the four. The guards around branch entrances and special branch ends are examples. See also the Vaults. See special room for the rectangular rooms with orcs, bees, etc.
How to identify vault designers: oklobs=dpeg, fleshy orifices=Mu, elephants=due, things with too many tentacles=Lemuel, glass=everyone, excessive lua black magic=due
[Mu_] the most crucial part of making a large map is ensuring that no section of it either looks like a swastika or a smiley face

vault 8

You start off surrounded by a ring of many vault guards (think orc knights or so) a couple of spaces away. Also scattered throughout the level (and often, the entrance too) are many of the game's tougher enemies (be prepared for all sorts of nasty D, C, and c). Teleport control is allowed and very useful.
If you're unfamiliar, and opposed to magic mapping: in the cardinal directions are hallways that lead to the level's square perimeter; diagonally from the start, there are 4 vaults of varying (per character build and play styles) difficulty, one of which contains the silver rune, and all of which contain nasty bad guys and probably-decent loot.
A great place to spot creatures of crawl myth, such as iron/quicksilver dragons, titans. Expect to fight a multitude of shadow dragons, stone giants and glowing shapeshifters

vault guard

They're not generated with wands. They usually hang out in Vault:8, but if you see one somewhere else, they're probably guarding the stairs leading into the Vaults branch itself or a treasure trove. As an opponent, not incredibly different from an orc knight.

vaults

Accessed from the main dungeon somewhere between levels 14 and 19. Eight levels deep. A large group of guards await on the bottom floor (see vault 8), where you can find several item vaults and a silver rune. There are also ordinary vaults.
see famous_last_words[6]

vehumet

The god of conjurers and summoners, and the most reliable way to get their higher books. Gifts divine gift[7] at high piety. Provides mana on kills after * piety (including collateral kills), wizardry bonus for destructive spells and summonings spells, and extra range and reduced MP cost for destructive spells.
Vehumet's wrath can be mildly nasty, scaling up to greater demon summons and banishment. This is presumably to stop people from leaving after the Book of Annihilations|Grand Grimoire.
Vehumet's wizardry effect kicks in at piety 50. Reduces spell failure chance by 1/3 for the following spells: any Conjuration, any Summoning, Airstrike, Ignite Poison, Ozocubu's Refrigeration, Sandblast, LRD, and Shatter. Also Tornado and Freeze in 0.8.
see unworthy

vehumet reasons

You plan to cast a lot of Conjuration and/or Summonings spells. You want mana back on kills. You want to get on the fast track to receiving and being able to use the book of Annihilations or the Grand Grimoire. You want wiz bonus because your aptitudes suck or you're a heavy armour user. You want a caster god and hate Sif Muna for some reason.
You want increased range on your conjurations, poison arrow and lcs especially.
You like waiting for 84k turns before getting your first gift.

vehumet spells

Vehumet favors Shatter, Lee's Rapid Deconstruction, Sandblast, and all Conjuration and Summoning spells.

vehumet wrath

ABANDONMENT: 25 penance. RETRIBUTION: conj/summ miscast. (Note that summoning miscasts include summon 1, summon several 3s, banishment)

vehumpet

The dromedary god. Will spit spellbooks at you.

velocity card

By power: Swift, Swift&Fly, Haste.

venom

This brand will poison monsters 50% of the time on a successful hit. While poisoned, monsters will take a few (2-ish, for only one level) points of damage every turn until they recover; multiple levels of poison will increase this linearly.

venom bolt

A level 5 conjuration/poison spell - it is a penetrating punch of pure poisonous power. Please perceive that pests partially protected from poison (as opposed to extremely resistant; includes most living, undead and demonic creatures) will still take piddling punishment.
Piss-poor, prefer Poison Arrow.

venom botl

You skweez your snayk into the botl and DO NOT DRNK.

venom card

{damaging card}: 50% Olgrebs Toxic Radiance, else {sting, venom bolt, poison arrow} by power.

venom cocktail

L7 poison spell in brainstorming stage. Gives a green halo and severe, incurable poison in exchange for all monsters in LOS losing 1 level of rpois (so vuln poison for a regular monster)
<ZChris13> It's like olgreb's but worse
<MarvinPA> it's sort of like ring of flames if ring of flames immolated you every turn instead of making you rF++

venom mage

A stalker who got frustrated over always forgetting things, and went straight for poison magic. Starts with a {Young Poisoner's Handbook}.
Except not any more because new stalker is a weird stabbing transmuter!

venom mage reasons

Sting and *especially* Mephitic Cloud will be of great help against most monsters in the early game.

version

Henzell is eternal.

very difficult

Hard, at least 84.5625% fail and at most 98.21875% fail.

very good

80-90% success - not actually very good.

very large slime creature

When three slime_creatures love each other very much...

very ugly thing

mid-game monster that comes in groups, often reigning over ugly things. Produces mutagenic corpses.

vestibule

The entry of Hell. A single open level filled with monsters from the various hells (no fiends), and the unique demon prince Geryon. Geryon is a wimp (sorear's L13 spvm killed him easily). Contains portals to the hells, opened by blowing Geryon's horn.
The monster set contains 2s, 3s, 4s, hell knights, the rare hellephant, necromancers, hell hogs, hell hounds, and other monsters from each of the hells.

vibrate strangely

A portal vault just timed out. Don't worry, you'd die there anyway.

victory

Become Xom's teddy bear to win the game.
Just kidding, you really need to get a bunch of runes, the orb of zot then go upstairs on D:1.
Make sure you collect your complimentary photo on your way out!

victory dance

In 0.8 and earlier, "senselessly" repeating an action when your XP pool has XP in it, in order to spend XP on the skill associated with that action.
For example, casting magic dart at the wall, evoking blink off an artifact, hitting a plant (up to skill level 1), dodging shadow dragon breath with rN+++, letting a mimic hit you, or invoking god abilities. Use 0 to repeat an action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7movKfyTBII
<mikee_> i died with tornado once because i held down . while letting a hobgoblin hit me <mikee_> to train shields

vikeys

see hjklyubn
<Stelpa> shit... i have been using Vi-keys for 5 minutes now and i can already say it's much more comfortable 0_0

vimpulse

hi all. i just found my second bazaar (aptitude 70) on dungeon level 15 (skill 3).
see vimpulse_explanation
< vimpulse> hi all. I'm a L3 sludge elf monk playing Crawl 0.4.4. Should I use the uncursed glowing dagger of protection I found (aptitude 110) or go unarmed (aptitude 80)?
<vimpulse> hi all. Is it OK for my Hill Orc Healer to wear heavy armour (armour apt 90%) instead of light (dodging 140% stealth 150%)?
< vimpulse> hi all. I'm running 0.8.0-a0-4718-gb44c10a (downloaded a few hours ago), Windows console version, on Wine on Linux.
killed cang

vimpulse explanation

vimpulse is actually slinkies' parody of vimpulse's writing. http://crawl.pastebin.com/DVmN728f/
Here's what vimpulse's writing actually looks like:
<vimpulse> hi all. I'm a level 4 mountain dwarf chaos knight. I have a +0,+2 dagger of speed (short blades aptitude 80) and a runed quarterstaff of protection (staves aptitude 120). Which do you recommend I use?

violet keep of menkaure

Sprint II.

viper

A bigger problem than the water moccasin, though still not a big deal if you have PR. If you have no PR the encounter may require a curing potion, but these are quite rare outside of the Snake Pits. Generates poisonous chunks much like the weaker water moccasin. Known as yellow snake before 0.6.

virus

Another option for editing your rc. While in it, ":%d" can delete your entire file. ":wq" writes and quits. ":q!" quits without saving.
It is based on the linux editor "vi". You can google "using vi" for various guides.
If you don't want to learn how to use virus, just use it for wiping your file. It can do more complicated things, but there is a learning curve. The other option will work for editing.
<MarvinPA> it infects your computer "with virus" obviously

vitalisation

Protects you from sickness, nausea, poison, confusion, petrification, rot and stat drain while active, and boosts your stats (up to +9 each, depending on Invoc skill). Gives a small amount of nutrition, but won't go past Full.

vitrification card

Turns the dungeon walls transparent. Range is either random and relatively small, or the entire level at card power 2.

vitriol card

1/3 Cigotuvi's Degeneration, 2/3 acid breath.

vmsg

A field in !lg queries that reflects hitpoints at death. 0 to -5: slain, -6 to -13: mangled, -14 to -21: demolished, -22 or less: annihilated. e.g. !lg * vmsg=~annihilated

vnapkin

hosts CDO
Is responsible for 99% of the berserker ghosts on cdo.
The "V" presumably stands for "vorpal".
The napking!
Is a sysadmin, not a necromancer.

voiks

That's fantastically redundant. I just fought a skeletal dragon, followed up by a dragon skeleton.

volcano

A timed portal vault ("a dark tunnel") that shows up in early mid-game (Lair, Orc and Hive). Contains fire-themed monsters, fire-themed loot, and a great big whopping Volcano that explodes in flame clouds every now and then. Enjoy your stay, don't forget your cremation urn!
< Henzell> 1. TGW the Destroyer (L13 HECj), worshipper of Vehumet, engulfed by a cloud of freezing vapour in Volcano on 2009-12-28, with 50092 points after 33400 turns and 2:08:21.
!lm minmay char=tree br.enter=volcano 1 -tv:<0.3:>0.04
There are red things included; but you needn't stand on ceremony...
There are variations that swap the fire spewing volcano with collapsing tunnels or flooding lava. QUICK GRAB ALL THE LOOT

volteccerjack

< VolteccerJack> wtf is this "cloud of raging winds" thing?

vorpal

A relatively weak melee brand, increases melee weapon damage by 12.5% on average. Strong on launchers though (20% extra damage). Can be placed on any weapon but you probably should affix freezing or flaming to a melee weapon instead if you can.
Vorpal brands are: stabbing (knives, daggers, quick blades), slicing (swords, lajatangs, scythes), chopping (axes, other bladed polearms), crushing (quarterstaves, maces, flails), slashing (whips), piercing (spears, tridents), velocity (missile launchers)
<FaMott> WHY IS EVERYTHING VORPAL.<rwbarton> you're vorpal <FaMott> I'm going to cut all of you :(

vorpalise

Game spells it this way, players don't. See vorpal

vp

Vampires can't starve to death (or eat!), they gradually change, depending on blood level: see vp[2]. They can turn into vampire bats after xl3, bottle blood from normal/contaminated corpses after xl6, meld cursed equipment for batform at xl10. Vp start with SInv and sharp teeth 3, so they can randomly drink blood from living foes in melee.
Alive: fast metabolism, fast regeneration, able to berserk/transform(except vampire bat form). Bloodless: no metabolism, no regeneration, Stlth++, no spell hunger, rPois, rCold++, rN+++, rTorm, halved potion effects, unable to berserk/transform(except vampire bat form), no non-physical mutation effects, no new mutations - rot hp instead.
!oBlood no longer heal in 0.5, but draining corpses still does. Elven blood restores mp. See 'A!' in game for details of blood-related state.
When a Thirsty vampire drinks from a poisonous corpse, they do not get poisoned. They drink right up until the point where it tastes bad and then stop. The next turn they're back to thirsty.
Vampires cannot cast Borgnjor's Revivification, Death's Door, or Necromutation. Some other spells have restrictions based on satiation level.
Try adding 'autoinscribe = blood:@*1' to your config file for quick and easy quaffing (or wielding, for sublimation of blood).
Vampires suck.
<Xiberia> well, vampires are rarely blamed for being overly fun

vpbe

so fun it defies the laws of physics

vpee

<M-Kaibigan> Why do VPEE's die much

wall

The things in the dungeon that you can't walk through, unless you are using passwall.
The wall is your most reliable friend in the Dungeon. Keep as much Wall around you as possible.
If it should prove necessary to bypass a wall, rock walls can be removed with wands of digging, the Dig spell, or (1 square at a time) wands of disintegration. Green crystal, stone, metal require Lee's Rapid Deconstruction in that order of increasing skill. Permanent rock walls are permanent. All walls can be teleported past.

waltz

Listening music for tombwaltzing or zotwaltzing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4XUye-F_Rg
<crate> well when you waltz you don't usually kill your partner <crate> unless you're really bad

wand acquirement

Gives you a wand. Certain wands have much higher weights, including heal wounds and hasting. Wands you haven't seen yet have double weight.
Chance of getting healing with all others identified is 30%. (Same for hasting.)

wand identification

Flame, frost, magic darts, fire, cold, fireball, lightning, draining: ID on zap. Healing, hasting, invis: ID on enemy/you. Digging/disintegration: ID on wall. Slowing, paralysis, confusion, teleportation (self-zap, guaranteed), disintegration, and enslavement: ID on enemy/you, if not resisted. Random effects IDs per type. Polymorph IDs on enemy.
The most common strategy to identify wands is to zap a weak, low-MR natural monster with a wall behind it. If it resists, try again.

wand of cold

Shoots a bolt of cold, which serves all of the same purposes, such as killing metroids.

wand of confusion

Too many men_/_There's too many people_/_Making too many problems_/_And not much love to go round_/_Can't you see_/_This is a wand of confusion

wand of fire

Shoots a bolt of fire, which serves all of the same purposes, such as killing enemies and melting wax.

wand of fireball

Shoots fireballs. Don't use point blank.

wand of flame

Like wand of frost, except throw flame instead of throw frost. Not to be confused with the wand of fire, which is much more powerful.

wand of frost

Like wand of flame, except throw frost instead of throw flame. Not to be confused with the wand of cold, which is much more powerful.

wand of heal wounds

Exactly like a potion of heal wounds, except you can recharge it, it's lightweight and it won't be destroyed by cold attacks. Its healing is not based at all on evocation skill. Deep Dwarves start with one that has five charges. It's cool!

wand of inivisibility

s/.*/see invisibility

wand of lightning

Be careful, it bounces. And can one-shot a hydra if aimed just right. See bolt bouncing.

wand of magic darts

A wand that shoots magic darts. Never misses. Good for killing giant spores.

wand of paralysis

A wand that paralyses the target. Makes early monsters much more dangerous; less of a threat later on, because your MR increases. Paralysed monsters can be stabbed like they're asleep.

wand of random effects

An unreliable wand which acts like a random wand. You might cook Sigmund, or haste him. Doesn't include disintegration. Does include draining -- the good gods won't like it if that happens. Includes fire, so can be zapped at wax walls in hive (stand so fireballs and lightning won't hit you). Also good for digging.

wand of wishing

You wish.

wand power

15 + 2.5 * Evocations

wanderer

Random skills, equipment, and items to start.

wanderer reasons

You're really into roleplay

wandering mushroom

Every time it hits, it loses 1 HD (and dies when it loses all 8). Hard-hitting, its attacks release venomous spores to confuse breathing enemies, which destroy food.
If you walk away from one, once it's out of your line of sight it will follow you. It will never step into your line of sight, but it will do its best to remain just outside of it, stalking you. Thus, if you turn back in the direction where you know one is or was, expect it there. If you need to turn a blind corner in that direction, watch out!
This monster invariably polymorphs into the much more horrifying oklob plant when Polymorph Other is used. Don't be that ghost.

wands

Yay for wands. Wands use evocations. Higher evocation skill allows you to identify remaining charges and increases wand power. See also wand_identification. Can be recharged with scrolls of recharging.
Wand list: cold, confusion, digging, disintegration, draining, enslavement, fire, fireball, flame, frost, hasting, healing, invisibility, lightning, magic darts, paralysis, polymorph other, random effects, slowing, teleportation (20 in all).

war axe

A one-handed axe. Acc: 0, Damage: 11, Delay: 150%.

war dog

The toughest of the natural canines, which isn't saying much if you are prepared for melee but will be a problem if you are soft or if there's friends nearby to swarm. They are pack monsters and their natural habitats are open spaces, so that's a likely possibility. If you can dig a tunnel, you can fight them one by one.
Crying havoc lets these slip.

warding

Confers protection from some fraction of melee attacks (depends on MR, so most useful against orange rats and similar) by summoned creatures. Will not prevent them from spellcasting or using torment or hellfire. Can be obtained by wielding a staff of summoning or wearing the eponymous amulet. The amulet also provides rN+.

warg

Like to mephitic cloud your (h)ound type monsters? Too bad, this sucker has rPois to keep wizards like you from confusing all of the orcish mines.
Also, "warg" is the sound that you emit whilst being mangled by a warg.

warhammer

Sorry, you'll have to wait for the grim darkness of the far future.

warp ammunition

Brands wielded ammo with the dispersal[2] brand.

warp card

Blink - uncontrolled, semi-controlled, or controlled by power.

warp weapon

This level 5 Charms/Translocation spell applies a temporary distortion brand to a wielded weapon. Presumably this is one way to safely wield the distortion brand.

warped

An adjective. Could be anything. If it's a scythe, say so.

warper

A hybrid class focused around translocations. Starts with a choice of weapons, some darts (darts of dispersal in 0.7), skill in fighting, a scroll of blinking, and a book of Spatial Translocations.

warper reasons

Scroll of blinking, darts of dispersal, good starting book

warpwright card

Makes a teleport trap next to you. 1+ power will pre-detect it. Does not work in Abyss.

wasp

see jarpiain
see jarpiain[2]

water

dihydrogen monoxide. This is delicious H2O, you must drink it. See deep water, shallow water or potion of water.

water card

Places a lot of water around you. At card power 0, radius is 4 and is always shallow. At card power 1 or 2, radius is 6 or LOS respectively, and makes deep water 50% of the time. Won't affect trapped squares unless card power is 2.
Be careful of any monsters and items you don't want to drown. Be careful using it near stashes, you will lose them.
The water comes factory-equipped with eels and fish at no additional cost to you, the consumer.
!lm clouded uniq=the royal jelly 74 -tv

water elemental

The boring elemental. Hits somewhat hard, but is vulnerable to fire and normal speed on land.

water moccasin

More troublesome than the normal snake, though not by much. Usually, if you avoid the Snake Pit, this will be the worst you get; though black mambas *may* be seen in the Lair. Generates poisonous chunks, unlike its weaker cousin. Used to be named "brown snake".

wax

Immune to digging (but not disintegration!). Melt it with a bolt of fire, bolt of magma, fireball, or hellfire. Also, despite the misleading message, puffs of flame and sticky flame will never melt it. If you are on Hive:2, be advised that the side vault has a secret door and you don't need to use any charges (unless you don't want to drown).

waypoint

Make these on your stash(es) with ^W.

wcrawl

Planned features: awesome slots for all races; nomes; mega-zig; contra-rot; nega-spells; luck feature; permabuffs; elms; bookstorm; QUAD-MANA; all classes start in the abyss; all classes start with controlled blink castable; omni-trample; playable someonePA; book elementals; no solid floor tiles, all liquids 24/7; uberwights; anti-starvation
willpower clock; permanent rock wall mimics; every class starts the game with two potions of experience; crafting; ash dragons (with curse breath); all classes start with fire storm castable; mega-shafts; hypercubes of fire; triple-worship; catoblepas -> catlobe; !crackpipe bot command; minitorment; not dooroklohe
permanent, universal detect monsters; insubstantial kraken; buffstorm; all classes start with berserk; berserk kills you gradually as you use it; ultimate rotting; deep lavapodes; kudzucubi; curse heart (perm invis, perm bleeding); mana form; flaming corpse simulacra; reverse-zigs; miscast moth; killer bee priests
s/$/; the royal blessed vampire giant unborn iron ogre centaur hydra sergeant berserker-mage fiends of fire; felidracopodes; consumables explode in your inventory if you don't use them within 2,000 turns of finding them; anti-banners; wand of secret doors; mana fiend; aformulae; secret door mimics; lumpy terence; segfault mimics; chapyev
magenta orb guardian yolk; god names are five letters long, max; executioner form; basic blobs; summon door mimic; gardening; nothing that minqmay likes; procs; permaberserk
PLAYER TESTIMONIALS: <G-Flex> wcrawl sounds distressing / <elliptic> wcrawl has many exciting and innovative features, for sure
Level 4 summ/tloc spell: Summon Hostile Centaur With Arrows Of Dispersal (replacement for the blink spell)
The diametric opposite to every aspect of mcrawl

weakling

Describes an experience level 1-3 player ghost.

weapon acquirement

For each weapon skill (out of SBl, LBl, Axs, M&F, Pla, Stv, Slg, Bws, Crb), chance to get a weapon of that skill: approximately (1 + that weapon skill level) divided by (9 + sum of all weapon skill levels). Chance to get an artefact weapon: approximately 21%.

weapon bonuses

the first number is accuracy, the second number is damage.

weapon brands

See any of vorpal, flaming, freezing, holy_wrath, draining, electrocution, pain, distortion, vampiric, orc_slaying, dragon_slaying, speed, venom, antimagic, chaos
Vorpal, flaming, freezing, holy wrath, orc slaying, and dragon slaying affect damage by multiplying the base damage. Draining does too, along with a flat amount of experience. This means that your randart +9, +6 hammer with a holy wrath brand is still awful, even against demons.
Clubs and knives are too pathetic to be generated with a brand, stones are also never branded.

weapon damage

Approximately: 1d(base*strength_bonus)*skill_bonus + 1d(to_dam + slaying) + various bonuses. Weapon brand is applied after monster AC reduction.
Strength bonus is usually < 1.5 (see str), skill bonus (both from weapon and Fighting skills) is randomized, averaging about 2.0 at max skill
Damage bonuses include +1d10 for might, -1dasp for 1.5-handed weapons with shield, -1d5 when Starving, and racial weapon bonus ( +1d3-1 for dwarves and demonspawn, +1 for orcs (more with Beogh)).

weapon list

See the crawl wiki: http://www.chaosforge.org/crawl/index.php?title=Weapon

weapon skill

Affects attack delay, {weapon accuracy}, and weapon damage. It is rarely worth it to train weapon skill beyond what is needed to maximize your attack speed.
see cross training

weapon swap trick

The Weapon Swap Trick a.k.a OMGWTF there's an ogre next to me! The (un)wielding of weapons is the fastest action possible. When faced by an enemy with a big, slow weapon, you can swap weapons until just after it swings at you, then pull away while it's recovering.

weapon swapping

Put your weapons to slots a and b with the =i command. Then use ' to swap between them.

weapons

Pointy side outwards.
Ego weapons are identified on equip. For every attack you make with an unidentified weapon, you have a weapon skill over 100 chance of identifying its enchantment levels.
Weapons can have brands. These are autoidentified on wielding. Many branding spells exist, but you will need a scroll of vorpalise weapon to affix the brand permanently.

web immune

Spiders, jellies, demonic crawlers, insubstantial creatures, and Arachne are all immune to webs.

web sense

Creatures with this flag (most spiders and Arachne) are alerted when something is caught in a web within 10 squares.

webtiles

Play with tiles on cdo: http://tiles.crawl.develz.org. Use Chrome 6+, Firefox 6+ or Safari 5 for easiest access. Also works in Firefox 4/5 and Opera 11, but you have to change the browser's settings.
Firefox: http://techdows.com/2010/12/turn-on-websockets-in-firefox-4.html Opera: http://techdows.com/2010/12/enable-websockets-in-opera-11.html
<casmith789> I went on webtiles once and 20 people were watching a spriggan do hive

weed

< kats> !rng if there's no weed at the bar then why should i bring money? < Henzell> The RNG chooses: weed.
see high elf
see purple smoke
< ktgrey> when does zin smite anyone < temoid> when you do marijuana he smites you

weird colours

you sacrificed a valuable item, and earned a lot of piety.

weird ideas

mcrawl

weirdly glowing ball

It's time to make PARTY!!

weirdterm

Messages on top?

welcome

see ogre[5]
Welcome to the Lair of Beasts! A crocodile, a hydra, 4 blink frogs, a player ghost and a bat come into view.
welcome the Necromancer (L14 DDNe) abandoned Makhleb on turn 27405. (Temple) welcome the Necromancer (L14 DDNe) became a worshipper of Kikubaaqudgha on turn 27405. (Temple)
<Patashu> You climb downwards. Welcome to the Crypt! Marking area around the curse skull as unsafe for travelling.
see evilmike[6]

wensley

Thoroughly approves of Mu's Crypt finales.
"... I played around with them last night and they make me very excited" "I'm just saying, I couldn't have done it without you :P"
<mikee_> wensley has the best bad ideas
Responsible for catoblepae. Will give you a dollar to let him watch you fight them. Two dollars if you die hilariously.
<Gmork> thanks wensley <Gmork> you always have the best advice
<Wensley> every move is meticulously planned <Wensley> I have flowcharts <Wensley> risk analyses <Wensley> I have hired an actuary to sit behind me and watch
<minqmay> huak is so bad it makes me want to huak
see bleeding[3]
HangedMan said (6d 20h 48m 24s ago): have you touched that thing I gave you yet?
!lm wensley id=2933514 -tv:<-12:>$
<mikee_> because wensley is the worst dev <mikee_> even worse than eronarn
make moths mesmerized if the player is glowing
<scummos> wtf Wensley

wensley reasons

You like adding learndb entries.

wet wool

If you smell this, nothing happened.

what

monqy's absolute favorite word.

what books is this spell in

?/s

what char

??cheating[!rng 1 2 3]

what is that can i kill it

No.

what is that will it kill me

Yes.

what speed

Movement delays are: naga 14, swiftnaga 11, human 10, flying tengu 9, swift or spider or felid or running 8, centaur or flying swifttengu 7, swiftrunning or swiftspider or swiftfelid or spriggan or swiftcentaur or bat 6. Chei ******: add 10 to non-naga, 14 to naga. Slow or Statue Form: multiply by 3/2. Haste or Berserk: multiply by 2/3.

what stat

learn grammar, dude

when

the correct time to do that ziggurat is now
trunk

when do i stop raising str

When it reaches 3 times the evasion penalty of the heaviest armour you'll ever wear.

where is my exit

Look for a secret door.

where is my loot

Look for a secret door.

where is my starting vault

see where is my loot
see victory dance

where is the iwin button

whereis lordsloth

LordSloth is but an illusion.

which background

which branch

lair

which combo

opck

which element

ice
earth
air
fire

which god

go okatrogmakhsifkikunemashveh
Following said god choice pleases xom.
see advice[3]
(8:42:26 PM) minqmay: Broctopus: makhleb, kiku, sif, maybe okawaru. NOT CHEI, this is very important

which stat

int

which weapon

You can download the "Weapon Lab" weapon-comparison spreadsheet at http://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=359 .

whip

Dam:6, Acc:+2, Delay:11

white draconian

A form of draconians with a frost breath that ignores AC and knocks back the target. Player character gets +2! aptitude in Ice magic, and -2 in Fire magic. Resists cold at xl 7. In dragon form they get rC++, rF-.

white imp

A nasty little type 5 demon from Heck. Resists cold, throws frost at you so keep those potions under a blanket!

white ugly thing

An ugly thing with cold resistance that can freeze you on attack.

who is that

some guy on tavern

why

Because Crawl hates you, that's why.
<Nomi> because the devs love you

why is sequell not working

Because he hates you.

wide open level

Some levels don't have those choke points we love so very much. If the level you're on is one of those levels ask yourself the following: Can I defeat every monster in this level at once? If the answer is no, then lure enemies up the stairs one by one if you can, or pack by pack if you can't.

wight

Early monster with a draining attack. Generated in packs in 0.8. Often gets a cursed weapon.
Two wongs do not combine to make this monster.
But three wefts did!

wiglaf

http://crawl.develz.org/info/tile.php?q=wiglaf
A fat, evil qwarf in a stupid looking hat. The number one killer of players who have completed lair in 0.7 so be careful! Reflavored as a priest of Okawaru (with a good weapon, and might/haste invocations) in 0.7 and capable of dishing out some major damage, comparable to a very large slime creature with haste.
sombrero priest
< murphy_slaw> he's the rootenest tootenest priest of okawaru weeeeest of the Pecos

wiki

The development wiki (which is open to non-developers!) is located at https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=DCSS:start . For more information about the "other" wiki, on Chaosforge, see badwiki
<NyaaKitty> The wiki sucks.
STOP USING THE FUCKING WIKI.
<Guy_Incognito> i also enjoy how it (crawl) actually tells you things instead of every other roguelike's "welp hope you got a wiki bookmarked" <monky> crawl is more like "don't bookmark the wiki it will kill you :("
Wiki pro/con list: Gives easy access to tons of useful, relevant information and advice / None of that advice is even remotely accurate.

wikipedia

[citation needed]

wikirobin

You have to follow badwiki's advice.
Current goal: Fencing enemies in with Azrael.
all things of natural holiness are susceptible to enchantments and poison
quicksilver dragons have -7 MR

wild magic

see wild magic card or wild magic mutation

wild magic card

Causes a miscast effect, higher power will yield nastier miscasts.

wild magic mutation

Reduces spell success by 10% per level (7% in 0.11) but increases spell power by 50% per level (pre-stepdown, stacks with enhancer staves).

will i win today

lol no

wimpyranger

Your +1 shield of reflection reflects the puff of frost! The puff of frost hits the ancient lich. The ancient lich resists. You kill the ancient lich!
http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/0.9/WimpyRanger/morgue-WimpyRanger-20110927-195744.txt

win rate

Win rate per version, in descending order, excluding quitters and leavers: 0.8-a [0.87%], 0.3 [0.81%], 0.4 [0.67%], 0.4-a [0.63%], 0.5 [0.62%], 0.7 [0.56%], 0.6-a [0.53%], 0.7-a [0.46%], 0.2 [0.43%], 0.6 [0.41%], 0.1 [0.38%], 0.5-a [0.36%]

windows telnet

doesn't work

wings

Tengu don't have them. Draconians do.

winning

The 27th leading killer.
Official Crawl theme song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QS0q3mGPGg

witches

see witch
The Dutch word for 'witch' is 'heks'.
see {tornado[3]}

withered plant

A plant that's had a hard time in life sitting next to that Yredelemnul altar. Poor thing :(

wizard

Purple @ (red if it's crazed) with the same spells as Erolcha, ie banishment, LCS, fun stuff like that. If you see one before D:15 or so, there is probably a roomful of abominations nearby. See erolcha spells.
Class of nonspecialist magic users. Starts with the book of Minor Magic. Known for summoning hordes of imps and then mephing them.
<Ruski> i just think wizards are bad ass to ice mofos like that <Ruski> they shoot like 10 magic darts

wizard hat

A fairly common piece of headgear; wizard class starts with one. +0 AC unless enchanted. Comes in regular, magic resistance, and +3 intelligence ego.
See http://bash.org/?104383 for more details about its uses.

wizard statue

Throws crystal spears, mystic blasts, and freezing clouds at you. Unaffected by disintegration.

wizardry

Makes spellcasting less likely to fail. Comes in staff and ring form. Stacks, but not very well. Vehumet grants a similar boost to destructive spells, which stacks well with regular wizardry.

wizards without wizlabs

Spell namesakes: Lehudib, Leda, Lee, Alistair, Ozocubu, Borgnjor, Maxwell, Olgreb. Artifact smiths: Ukta, Doom Knight, Octopus King, The Captain, The Alchemist, Zhor, Cekugob, Botono.
see vampire mosquito

wizlab

Timed, unannounced portal vault in 0.6+, with enemies and loot themed after a named wizard (Tukima, Wucad Mu etc.) Vault:2-7, Crypt, D:22-27, Elf:3-5.

wizmode

Press & to enter wizmode (if your compile supports it). Once you're in wizmode press & to enter a wizmode command or &? for the documentation.
Debug binaries always start in wizmode

wolf

A lightning-fast wolf, ready to rip and tear your organs with multiple attacks. You can't run and you can't hide.
Weak, but very fast pure melee monster. Senses invisible.
They're... they're coming. The pack, hunting. Your pulse beats a tribal rhythm as you attempt to flee, but they set upon you and devour you whole. Om nom nom.
Like 9 rats duct-taped together that got a new icon.
Why the fangs envelop the tongue
Midgame Sigmund without a scythe or spells or a robe and faster.
Has more kills than Cerebov! Beware!

wolf spider

A rather fast, poisonous, hard-hitting arachnid found in the dungeon. Hisses on sight.

won

won (won) has won once in 1 games (100.00%): 1xMDFi

wonderscumming

1) get wonders decks 2) draw them out for experience cards and hope you don't die. 100% success guaranteed!
wonder´s cumming. The best experience.

wood golem

Like a scarecrow it's made of wood. Like a scarecrow it won't hit you hard. Unlike a scarecrow it can move at the same speed as you. Burns like a scarecrow.

wordpress

http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/

words

dear deck demo desk dram fear fest gear gene gest ghee gnar hack haen hare hast hath hear heck hehe here hest heth hewn hoar hock homo hone host Hoth husk keen Kobe Mick mien mine mire mist muck musk must Ogam ogre Omar omen open seam sear seas seen sere Seth sewn spam spar spas teak team tear teas teen test tram tree
From all of the German spellchecker dictionaries sorear could find: deck demo elbe elfe gebe geck gehe gene haar habe haie hast hebe heck hefe hofe hohe hufe hure keck kost mick mine mist nahe omas omen seen sehe spam spie
Rarer words that are in at least one online dictionary: cest dree drie feck haak haar hask huck keas ogee seak seck spae trie

worker ant

Like a snake but slightly worse. A tad slower but still faster than average. They have less EV and arrive after a few levels of HP are under one's belt, but light armor wearers like assassins and casters shouldn't underestimate them.

worm

A slow-moving monster easy to avoid and outrun. Being killed by it is the definition of ignominy.
Worms have high HP and hit hard, but (besides their slowness) they dodge poorly and their AC is not too high either.
Don't underestimate them just because you're faster. They will hurt you early on.
Made a good training pet.

worst ideas

0.7 Acid walls, buffing MR, feature mimics, silent spectres in crypt
circular los, maprot
ghost moths in spider's nests, hell effect banishment

wounded

100% not (green); 99-76 lightly (green); 75-34 moderately (brown); 33-26 heavily (magenta); 25-16 severely (red); 16-1 almost dead (red).

wraith

Wight's big sister.

wraith card

Card from deck of Punishment. Hits you with a typical draining effect, and then on top of that (even if you already lost one level, or are undead or otherwise immune to draining) makes you lose an experience level.

wrath

Angry gods have ways of punishing you. Actions which are not appreciated may cause piety loss or penance; every god also has a specific action taken on abandonment (Renounce Religion or converting), and on penance retribution. ??<full god name> wrath to see your gods torture of choice.
Very roughly: Elyvilon wrath < Okawaru wrath < Makhleb wrath < Trog wrath

wrath card

Selects a random god and causes you to feel their wrath, not based on card power. Note that this behaves identically (or close) to as if you had abandoned the random god chosen, and as such if the random god chosen is good-aligned, nothing will happen unless you currently worship evil (or chaos in the case of Zin).

wrath of trog

fixedart +3, +11 battleaxe, makes you rage (50% of the time!) when you attack. Not to be confused with trog wrath, a far more terrifying phenomenon. Shows up as a red "bloodstained battleaxe", but bloodstained battleaxes can also be randarts. Possibly even red ones. Also, Trog won't ever gift it. Antimagic in 0.8.

wucad mu

Unrandart ephemeral staff which has large INT-sensitive plusses and restores lots of mana on evocation, but often gives div miscasts when doing so. Think of it as a much better crystal ball of energy that you have to wield. See channeling and divinations miscast for the details of its evocation effects.

wucad mus monastery

Hell-effect-like spawning of rock troll monks, iron troll monks and human monks frequently, and a OCS called Wucad Mu in the middle. Loot: Staff of Wucad Mu, manuals.

wussy players

Players who get killed in two turns by wussy uniques. See !lg wreck killer=psyche 1 -tv.

wwtg

What Would Trog Do?

wya

13cool guy extraordinare
0,0Wants spoilers you need a spoiler to find.
!lg wya killer=rupert -tv
Likes to enter ziggurats.
Likes to brag about his cloak of Truth.
didn't add wya[1]
totally did

wymyn

More terrifying than wyvern, especially when... berserk.

wyrmbane

A scale-covered lance +9,+6 Wyrmbane {slay drac, +Rage rPois rF+ AC+5}. Base type is lance (8 dam, +4 acc, 11 delay). Gains +1,+1 enchantment every time it lands the finishing blow against a dragon (up to the lower of +18 or the dragon's HD).

wyvern

Moves pretty fast, but is commonly underwhelming by the time you reach it. Flees. Is annoying. Zombie flavor comes with twice as many kills.

wyvern zombie

The most dangerous zombie in the early game. Faster than you, can appear around D:4 and wrecks your hp. The worst part is that it's a lowercase z so if you're not paying attention you'll be locked in a fatal melee with one before you realize your mistake.

wz reasons

cool hat

x

Lowercase x is an unseen horror or a small abomination. Uppercase X is tentacled monstrosity or large abomination.
o - the longbow "X" (weapon) {flame, rF+}
v - the spear "X" (weapon) {speed, rF+}

x or chei

xchat

If you use the xchat IRC client, and want to mute the automatic bot messages (print them in dark grey) load this plugin: http://www.niestu.com/software/colorize_bots.py The xchat FAQ page at http://xchat.org/faq/ has info about doing this, especially #16 and #18

xcrawl

Chapayev's new Crawl variant project. Until the first release, finished stuff will go in this learndb entry.
Some of the new monsters implemented so far: giant spore demonologist, greater giant eyeball, orb of ice, unique deep elf master archer, unique ball lightning, unique titan, orb of distortion, Ozocubu, unique hairy demon, warp moth, radioactive moth, moth of starvation, hydrataur
Finished branches: D with new generation routines, Ruins, Titan branch, Tower, Lake Lerna, Insect Colonies, Hall of Doors, Mines

xdy

Common shorthand for rolling x y-sided dice and adding up the values.

xenene

Worships Xom.
Is the embodiment, manifestation, representative, and main player of insanedecisionsrobin

xl

Affects hp, mp, mr, stats, spell levels, and the highest level of spells you can cast. And chance to resist various effects such as mephitic cloud confusion.

xom

thinks this is hilarious!
Xom cannot be prayed to, has no conducts, and accepts no sacrifices. He is not so much worshipped as he is experienced.
Xom does not use piety or gift timeouts like other gods. Instead, Xom has an attitude and an interest level. See http://chaosforge.org/crawl/index.php?title=Xom and please proofread it.
When Xom is in a bad mood he gives you random mutations and when he's in a good mood he gives you good mutations. As a result Xom worshippers will typically have good mutation sets or be dead.
Yes, his mutations override an amulet of resist mutation (but not the mutation resistance *mutation* or Zin). Sometimes his potion effect will give you a potion of mutation, and you can resist THAT, but you won't resist the direct hand of Xom changing you. (Except by being undead.)
0.5: You hear Xom's avuncular chuckle. Erolcha evaporates and reforms as a giant lizard!
see rec.games.roguelike.misc usenet post: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.misc/browse_thread/thread/da06166064699cf0
Q: What's the difference between Xom and teleportitis? A: Teleportitis doesn't make your weapon attack you.
<Ragdoll> why am i death channeling
* orb of fire (inner flame)

xom acquirement

Small chance of being a regular acquirement of a random type, else a item chosen for maximum annoyance. Unlike Okawaru and Trog, Xom has no qualms about causing statdeath.

xom acts

Every 20 turns, Xom has a 5% chance of doing something bad or good; this can also happen with other causes each with their own way of choosing severity and badness.
For timed actions, Bad if 20% OR (50% AND (negative attitude OR zero interest)); severity = abs(attitude).
Good things: Random beneficial potion; cast a random spell; demonic pets; long-lived demonic pet; polymorph nearby monster; xom acquirement; 1d4 good mutations; high level demon; lightning (you may or may not get divine resistance!)
Bad things: level 0 miscast; level 0-1 miscast; d3 stat loss; level 0-2 miscast; d4 bad mutations (but not carni, herbi, fastmeta, teleitis); polymoprh nearby monster; drain/agony; Tukimas Dance; hostile demon (not hellion, those are just too nasty); 0-3 miscast; banishment.

xom attitude

Xoms attitude toward you is a number between -100 and +100 (stored +100, for sourcefolk). Every 20 turns, your piety gets absolutely bigger (51.1%), else smaller; smaller than 0 is -1.
Attitude sign is randomised each time Xom acts. You can't control attitude.
Displays in ^: toy:+ plaything:- 0: no adj 16: special 31: very special 46: favourite 61: beloved

xom card

Causes Xom to do something Xom-like.
<N78291> xom and nemelex gave me a gift on the same turn

xom gifts altar

They're all mimics.
heteroy the Magician (L8 OpWn), worshipper of Nemelex Xobeh, slain by a pile of gold mimic on D:4 (xom_gifts_altar), with 1056 points after 7734 turns and 0:27:23.

xom guide

Play normally, enjoy the items Xom sends you, die when he abysses you or surrounds you with demons.
If xom gets bored just zap yourself with enslavement. Good as new!

xom ideas

xom randomly does random random to your random
â¦and then you die.

xom interest

When you do an X-interesting thing, roll a number between 0 and X-1; this becomes Xom's interest level, if and only if it is greater than the old value. Xom interest decays at avg 0.5 / 20 turns.
Extreme(255): exploding Tomes, summoning from Tomes, random effects in dangerous combat, unknown items in combat, random tele into bad place, banishment (to abyss or pan), being hit by a vuln element (200), losing a level
High(128): !strong poison, !paralysis, cursed jewelry, mutagenic food (100), bad mutagenic food (0-200), cursed armour, mutating (depends on mutation; also undead rotting)
Medium(64): !slowing, !confusion, !degeneration, !decay, !berserk rage, freezing/poison from a Tome, cursed weapon, sparkling fountain use, dungeon level creation (49), rotten/contaminated/rotgenic food (0-100), poison food (0-128), brain eating (50), object damage
Low(16): smoke from a Tome, reading a manual (14), successful box of beasts (14), enchanting objects, gaining levels, anyone in sight fumbling in shallow water (14), fighting without weapon skill, object destruction, being drained (20)
Small: miscasts (the level), becoming confused (duration), serious injury (varies)

xom reasons

Reasons to worship Xom: you are an unarmed fighter (when Xom gives you horns/hooves/teeth/claws, they will be very useful to you; and when Xom tries to turn your weapon into a hostile dancing blade, it won't do anything to you, making Xom much safer to worship)
Who needs reasons when you've got Xom?
After following xom for a while you'll tend to collect a variety of mutations and they will lean towards beneficial. While still random, you can often get several nice effects over time.
Zin pushed you down on the playground.
"Time to have some fun!" Mennas' eudemon blade of holy wrath dances into the air!
!lg * ckiller=butterfly -tv 1

xom wrath

Abandonment: 50 penance, Xom acts. Retribution: Xom acts. (On average, this is worse than just worshipping Xom; but the worst case is the same, so if you are prepared to deal with Happy Xom you should be fine with Mad Xom)

xomja

!lm splat rune=serpentine 49 -tv:<0.5

xomrobin

pass: robin. Start as a CK. Hold 5.

xomscumming

xom's cumming
getting lots and lots of gifts from xom by being a dirty cheater
no pain lots of gain
a quad damage god gift
XomRobin for those wimps who don't want to smudge their winrate with this
the best idea

xp

You get this by killing monsters. It adds to your score and helps you train skills. See manual section E (?E ingame).
Experience gain is halved for things killed by your allies (summons, slaves, and charmed monsters).

xtahua

A powerful unique dragon, usually found in the midgame. Breathes painful (3d38) fire, but vulnerable to cold. His melee damage potential is nothing to sneeze at, either. At some point during his years as an ancient and mighty dragon, he learned how to open doors.
Likes to lurk near ice caves and do 151 damage in one breath.
A hellephant without blink, mostly.
TALKS LIKE THIS!
As long as he doesn't figure out how to open doors, weEEEAAARRRRRGGH

xtahua hide

Congratulations! You can now wear Xtahua! You'll look wonderful. (PS: It's just a normal dragon hide.)

xuaxua

Beogh is a GAAAAHHHHD.
can't tell the difference between an alligator and an alligator snapping turtle

xv

"x-v", it means to examine a monster. Use it to see how quickly a ghost is going to kill you.

xw

d->lair->lair:8->d:20->orc->vaults

xyblor

A jerk who wins too much. Has a hobby of compiling statistics about various crawl things: see ratios, popularity, speedrun and hall of fame.
xyblor: why must people treat learndb like a garbage pile?!
Has an unhealthy fetish for UC + Shields, culminating in therapy for attempting to rut against the inside of a Large Shield. Troll logic (literally)!

yak

These creatures also love centaurs. See yaktaur
The rarest playable character race. Try !lg * race=yak

yakbox

1) find a nice box with only one entrance 2) place yourself inside the box 3) cover the box with a yak

yaktaur

Like a centaur, but half yak. Hits hard and appears in groups, but isn't faster than you. Mostly found in the Vaults, lower D, and Hell.
Not as fast as you'd expect, unless you would expect speed 10.

yaktaur captain

The bigger brother of the yaktaur and fairly common in the Vaults and later levels of the dungeon. They like to pick up powerful weapons from the floor they're on and deal significant damage with their crossbows no matter what.
Squishier characters beware! Seeing a yaktaur is often a sign that a yaktaur captain and the rest of the pack are around.

yaoi

< danharaj> is there any snorg x purgy shipping fanfic

yasd

Yet another stupid death.
!lg * max=xl killer=megabat

ycrawl

Planned un-features, partial list: ench split; AM removal; felids; tornado; ash (partly); silent spectres in crypt; berserk when hungry; vampire mosquitoes; feature mimics; clinging; noise changes; speed nerf; corner nerf; unicode by default; gloom.

yellow draconian

A form of draconians that can spit acid (which corrodes armour or causes bleeding). Player character gets no unique aptitudes. Resists acid HP damage at xl 7 -- to a greater degree than (but stacking with!) resist corrosion. Gets an acidic bite at XL 14.

yellow draconian shifter

Blink Oklob.

yellow scales

Acid resistance.

yellow wasp

Terrifying monster that poisons, slows, and paralyzes you. Rendered mostly impotent by poison resistance, otherwise quite deadly. A good target for wands of polymorph, if you lack rPois.

yes

<N78291> should I recite to antaeus

ynoxinul

Probably the third most dangerous of the common demons; casts painful iron bolts, and if you try to run away summons ufetubi (which move faster than you and are hard to kill - rapid immobilization)
The reason why the devteam are no longer allowed to name monsters by mashing their fists into the keyboard. otoh, sixfirhy
The new approved way to name demons is to open the monster definitions file and lure a cat over the keyboard. Sixfirhies were named this way.

you

die...

you can breathe power

You're a purple draconian, and can breathe magic at your enemies. If only you could breathe damage ...
Now removes buffs from the targets!

you cant drink

This is one of the best lines on CSplat.

you die

Game over, Would you like to have your possessions identified?
This is not a drill.
Save macros?

you escape

Congrats!
Now go back and get the orb.

you feel gritty

Harmless message (severity 0 earth miscast)

you feel guilty

You just lost some piety for doing something that your god dislikes.

you feel healthy

No vile poisons shall contaminate your body. (rPois+)

you feel jittery for a moment

You blinked to where you already are.

you feel nature experimenting

evolution_mutation

you feel negative

rN+ mutation

you feel nervous for a moment

You just apparently killed a mummy, and were targeted by their curse.

you feel odd for a moment

Something/someone tried to mutate you, but you're resistant to mutations for whatever reason.

you feel refreshed

Congrats, you just quaffed restore abilities!

you feel strangely frustrated

You wasted a scroll of vorpalise weapon on a branded weapon.

you feel strangely unstable

You are about to teleport. You can cancel it with another teleport if you're quick enough. You'll feel stable.

you feel terrible

You resisted rotting.
You killed a kitten.

you feel uncertain

Your temporary teleport control just timed out.

you feel weakened for a moment

Your sickness would have make you lose abilities, but that was prevented by a ring of sustain abilities

you feel you are being watched

It's a ghost moth

you focus

You just gained a little MP from powered by pain.

you have a vision of a gate

Ashenzari detected a portal for you and marked it on the map.

you hear a crashing sound

Somewhere on your floor, a tree was just murdered by the Lernaean hydra.

young poisoners handbook

Spells: Sting, Cure Poison, Mephitic Cloud, Poison Weapon, Venom Bolt. Olgreb's Toxic Radiance replaces Poison Weapon in 0.10 trunk.

your future

Death!

your mom

does not make things automatically funny.

your throat feels hot

You can now breathe fire

yredelemnul

God of the death knights and Necromancy counterpart to Makhleb. Grants the following invocations: reanimate monsters as zombies (single and multi-target versions), recall friendly undead, area of effect vampiric draining, and enslave soul (see next entry). Yred will reflect damage you take while praying at the cost of piety. Also gifts undead pets.
Use enslave soul on a natural, zombifiable monster with intelligence >= I_NORMAL and with no less than 3/4 of its HP remaining and you have SK_INVOCATIONS * 3/4 +2 turns to kill it. Doing so will yield a spectral, stair- and spell-using version of the monster. You may only have 1 enslaved soul at a time.
Injury mirror (active during prayer) causes monsters to suffer the damage they deal to you. Piety cost is the square root of damage done per hit.
Will put you under penance if you use a holy wrath branded weapon or read a scroll of holy word; or excommunicate you if you cast Statue Form.

yredelemnul reasons

Zauren's #1 reason: Level 10 bone dragon gifts. Get enough bone dragons, and you can clear all 4 dungeon runes!
Strong early game potential with decent undead gifts and zombie armies for soaking up the damage
Drain Life damages everything on screen and gives their HP to you. Pain Mirror damages things when they hurt you. Guess which god gives you both?
ghouls with crossbows!
You enjoy boredom.

yredelemnul wrath

ABANDONMENT: 30 penance, necro miscast. Any current zombie allies you have will forsake you. RETRIBUTION: (XL-4)/XL chance of hostile undead servants, else necro miscast.
The summoned "hostile undead servants" are created monsters and not summons, so they will give xp when killed and can't be abjured. This is probably a bug.
A bat zombie comes into view. Yredelemnul sends a servant to punish you.

yredemnul

It's Yredelemnul.

zaba

Plays with his master, locally.
Plays with his ascii, locally.
No relation to a frog.
Is much given to single word IRC messages such as "hmm", "damn", etc.

zammy

Abandons okawaru for chei as a mifi because his str wasn't above 50
AC: 55 Str: 55 EV: 15 Int: 16 SH: 76 Dex: 26
(was/is/still is wearing a ring of +4 str)
Hits like a ton of bricks!
does not use autoexplore, walks everywhere (and gets mutated three times in a row)

zannick

Edits his own learndb entry.

zap id

do
For best results, aim at a weak, living, damaged monster with a wall behind it.

zapm

a SF roguelike in the vein of nethack, horribly unbalanced, with humor sometimes bordering on awfulness, but rather fun and not more than an hour of playtime. http://zapm.org/

zauren

<Zauren> I love trying to imagine this shining platemail clad warrior with a battleaxe cleaving a yak mostly in twain then in a frantic manner digs out stones and starts hurling them at the fleeing monster as if this was a natural thing to do
Zauren's most hated snake, by far, is the black snake.
<Zauren> and I found a fun mermaid tactic... I went into shallow water, lured an orc warrior there, and raped it lol
A proud pantsless player.
Found the first banana in the 2009 Tournament!
Note to self: Do not try to stab two eels with 40 hp in a square room

zchris13

a real pain in the rear. Should probably go die. Often does.
BY THE ORC JESUS!
I'm Hitler, so no worries
<valrus> ooh ZChris13 is doing science

zcrawl

planned features: no dire flails, no labyrinths, retargetable IOOD, hopr[zin], hellfire checks ac, player moon trolls, refrigeration works through glass, GDR applies to ranged attacks, no item destruction, all mummy death curses are slowing and torment, ghouls can't cast regeneration, being able to train any skill no matter what
planned features, continued: enchantment is like base damage instead of slaying being like enchantment, exact value of to-hit is disclosed, no monster consumable usage, no monster invisibility, constriction is ranged, monster invisibility replaced with phase shift

zebub

Late botfly infected ghoul unique in 0.13. Has debilitation and infection brand attacks, is speed 9, inflicts sickness when in LOS, and casts Swiftness, Cause Fear, and a specially buffed Shroud of Botflies. Comes with a band of botflies and explodes on death with a large burst of infection and botflies.
Debilitation brand is klown brand, but randomly inflicts/acts like confuse, slow, all stats drain, mp drain, vampire, deep red sickness/poison, or draining brand. Infection stops all sickness recovery, and intermittently inflicts damage and spawns a botfly. Botflies are fast and also have debilitation and infection brands attacks.
Naturally, experience is only given when the colony is destroyed. Melee Mennas, or vampire mosquitos times a million.

zeddicus

Is secretly Elbereth.

zen of crawl

see it[9]
<ionfrigate> 5 oklob plants guarding the entrance to slime <ionfrigate> one ice storm
<HangedMan> there is no enlightenment acquirement

zerkwaltz

Inspired by the zotwaltz and telezerk, the latest in Orb retrieval strategies. Demonstration: !lm nht orb MiBe 1 -tv

zero

<Nomi> it's not 1, but at least it's not negative

zerome

<zerome> Whats the command to put text to your name?
<aabb> you might be the only char that has used "hide behind the pan lord" as a defense strategy though

zig

see ziggurat
take off every zig

zig protip

<N78291> zig tip: if you cast control undead after some monster reanimates half the level, the weak ones die and makhleb gives you healing

ziggurat

A one-entry-only portal vault in which the player must pay admission of around 4500 gold for the privilege of battling their way through a series of (up to 27; leave any time) rooms for loot. The size of each room, difficulty of the randomly-selected monster set, and size of the loot pile increases with each level.
They also appear in Pan. Entering Pan to try out this new "ziggurat" thing is not recommended and will lead to tears and gnashing of teeth. Also, don't expect to finish a ziggurat. You might encounter Pan lords or get firestormed three times in a row as early as Zig:2. Don't get overconfident, see !lm casmith789 char=HEWz place=zig:13 -tv
The entry fee for ziggurats ranges from 2100 to 14000 gold, while the average (mean) is around 4668.75
All races and gods have beaten a zig. Classes yet to beat a zig: Gl AM Pr.
Zig raiders: !lm * type=zig.exit place=zig:27 s=name
Banishment from distortion unwield is a good way to escape a Zig if you reach a level that's too hard to escape via stairs; use an amulet of stasis to avoid the random teleport + confusion effect you might get from the unwield.

zigrobin

A roundrobin who tries to complete zigs.

zigsprint

An entire ziggurat in one sprint map.

zin

Zin gives mutation resistance (growing to immunity at maximum piety), feeding if you pray when starving, recite (enchantment-type effects on humanoids), vitalization ('healing' of all sorts / stat boosts), imprison (tomb other), sanctuary (creates a temporary attack-free zone), and ("sometimes watches over you") life saving.
Zin protects from sickness, rotting, mutation and hell effects with chance based on piety, and at max piety grants the ability to cure all of your mutations at once (but only once).
Switch to Zin if: (a) you come from another 'good' god and ran out of piety; (b) you have plenty of money and want to get Sanctuary or feeding quickly.
< DrPraetor> Catholicism has been cool with shapechanging since Vatican II.
<Perryman> i forget what god it was but i read scripture to a bunch of goblins and got my face ripped off

zin reasons

You want to cure all your mutations. You want a source of mutation resistance that surpasses the amulet, or you want a life-saving sanctuary invocation that protects against almost all sources of damage (provided you stay in it and don't attack). Challenge game.
You're playing Sprint 1.

zin wrath

Recite (either sleep, confusion or paralysis), removes a good mutation, makes you hungry or makes noise.

zinja

A portmanteau of "Zin" and "ninja". To Zinja is to get the orb by rushing at it or teleporting randomly until within reach or nearly dead, and then using sanctuary for complete safety while apporting/escaping.
http://crawl11.dyndns.org/clans/casmith789.html

zinrobin

A public round robin account for priests of zin who must recite to every sentient monster as soon as they have enough mana. Races that haven't won with Zin: DD,Na,Ko,Ke,DE. password: robin

zombie

There are two kinds of zombies, small and large. All zombies are created from a base monster type. Zombies are slightly slower, slightly clumsier, have no special attacks, and take damage to maxHP instead of HP. It is very important to note that the zombie form of a normal speed monster is *slower* than normal speed!
All derived undead are -2 speed (min 3). Zombies are AC/EV -2/-5, d5+5 hit die; skeletons -6/-7, d4+4; simulacra -2/-5, d4, AF_COLD; spectral things +2/-5, d4+3, AF_DRAIN.

zombie fish

Revenge of sushi. An altar to one of the necromantic gods, not worth the effort.

zombomb

Animate dead, inner flame, thundercatsho!

zonguldroks shrine

Boring zombies and skeletons slowly replace all of the gravestones over time: once they're all gone, pass through the new door and a few skeletal warriors to find Zonguldrok's tombstone, which then is replaced with an ancient lich when you go for the loot.

zorsploink

The only good thing that ever came from the forums.

zot

The final area of the game, although not necessarily the very last realm any player ever goes to. Filled with draconians, dragons, and all sorts of nasty types out to obliterate you. Found on level 27, and you can only unlock it with with 3 runes (found in dungeon branches). Five levels deep.
Mind the gaps in your resistances while you are down here, especially fire and electricity- electric golems and orbs of fire in particular are infamously strong. Use potions of resistance, seriously.
http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question43380.html
Before DCSS 0.1.3, the main enemies in Zot were deep elves instead of draconians.
You could see an orb of fire, a Killer Klown, a green draconian knight, a shadow dragon, a Pit Fiend, 4 ancient liches, a storm dragon, 2 draconians, a grey draconian, an Ice Fiend, an Orb Guardian, a balrug and a blizzard demon. http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/Poncheis/morgue-Poncheis-20111204-235439.txt

zot defense

http://sites.google.com/site/crawlvariations/ Turns Crawl into a tower defense game; coded by Chapayev. Play at akrasiac and have fun! Now play at develz instead for an updated version!
78291 (L25 DDSu) killed Cerebov. (D:1 (ZotDef)) 78291 (L26 DDSu) killed Grinder. (D:1 (ZotDef))

zot points

Currency in the latest versions of zot defense. Spent with your zot abilities, gained as you level up, to build traps and perform other useful tasks in order to defend the orb. You gain it along with experience points when you or your allies or traps make kills.
Previously, these abilities drained your XP pool. The latest versions of Crawl no longer have an experience pool, so there is no longer any tension between building traps and skilling up in Zot Defense.
There was an intermediate version of Zot Defense that had both an experience point pool, AND a Zot point pool.

zot trap

Traps that can curse inventory, cause severe poisoning, banishment, rot, mutations, and summon powerful demons...you get the picture. When a monster steps on a zot trap, you will hear a distant zot if the trap is in the distance, or a loud zot if the trap is very very close...
Monsters can invoke the powers of these traps against you by stepping on them. Beware the Zot Dance!
<Pujal> zot trap turned one of my orc knights into a slug
<Nomi> Oh no! You have blundered into a Zot trap! The vortex of raging winds lifts you up. You gently float away from the floor. A huge vortex of air appears! You are engulfed in raging winds. You float gracefully downwards. Oh no! You have blundered into a Zot trap!

zotscumming

The act of quitting a game repeatedly until the desired Zot:5 vault is generated.

zotwaltz

The only strategy more likely to get you killed than killdudes.
see amazing games[3]
!lm nyaakitty kobe type=orb 2 -tv:<0.5:>0.5
Tombwaltz: !lm jeanjacques ddhu rune=golden 1 -tv

zrn

not epic enough for a condescending learndb entry

zugz

The twisted mind responsible for HexCrawl.

zzz

Zot's Zones of Zaniness. They make you sleep...a lot.
Not to be confused with Xom's Xantrum Xylophones.