Harpy

More than one: Harpys

Floors 6 to 10ThrowsFlingTakes a bribe 40%Pays 550 experience

What is known

A filthy winged thing with just enough face to argue with, and the argument is the weapon. The screech crosses the room and cuts, though less deep than the claws. It still puts somebody down a long way off.

The bestiary's report

HIT POINTS4 TO 24MIDDLING

DAMAGE PER HIT1 TO 6MIDDLING

HOW IT REACHES YOUTHROWN, AT RANGE

SKILL AT HITTING7HIGH

DEFENSE5MIDDLING

ACTIONS PER ROUND3HIGH

CLOSES ON YOUNEVER

TAKES A BRIBE2 TRIES IN 5HIGH

SHRUGS OFF MAGIC1 SPELL IN 10MIDDLING

KILLING ONE PAYS550 EXPERIENCEHIGH

How to read these

HIT POINTS: How much damage it takes to put one down. Each one gets its own number from the range at random, so two of a kind are rarely the same.
DAMAGE PER HIT: How deep a landed blow cuts. Every hit takes a new number at random, from one up to the top of the range.
HOW IT REACHES YOU: Most kinds have to close on you before they can strike. One that throws reaches you from where it stands and hits harder once you close on it. An ethereal one also strikes without closing, and there is nothing you can do about that.
SKILL AT HITTING: How often its blows land. It is weighed against your protection, and this run's setting is already in it.
DEFENSE: How hard it is to hit. Every point takes five percent off your chance, the same five an attack bonus puts back.
ACTIONS PER ROUND: How many times it moves or strikes before the round is over.
CLOSES ON YOU: How often it spends an action coming at you rather than standing where it is.
TAKES A BRIBE: How often gold turns it away. A refused offer costs you the try.
SHRUGS OFF MAGIC: How often a spell aimed at it simply fails.
KILLING ONE PAYS: The experience one death is worth. It climbs with how deep the kind is found and how hard it fights.

Special attack: FLING

One member is picked up and flung clear of the fight, and whoever was behind takes the place at the front. Nothing is wounded. It comes on three attacks in ten. It has to be on you to do it.

Chance: 30% of its attacks
Reach: only when it is on you

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