Hex Imp

More than one: Hex Imps

Floors 1 to 5EtherealCurseTakes a bribe 70%Pays 180 experience

What is known

A small spiteful thing that deals in bad luck rather than in wounds. It is hard to corner and hard to hit, and it will take gold and go.

The bestiary's report

HIT POINTS1 TO 6ONE OF THE LOWEST

DAMAGE PER HIT1 TO 3LOW

HOW IT REACHES YOUETHEREAL, AT RANGE

SKILL AT HITTING3LOW

DEFENSE4MIDDLING

ACTIONS PER ROUND2ONE OF THE LOWEST

CLOSES ON YOU3 ACTIONS IN 4LOW

TAKES A BRIBE7 TRIES IN 10HIGH

SHRUGS OFF MAGIC1 SPELL IN 5MIDDLING

KILLING ONE PAYS180 EXPERIENCELOW

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: CURSE

It lays a curse on one member, who loses up to ten percent off the chance to hit, and every blow aimed that way gains the same. It comes on one attack in five. It has to be on you to do it.

Chance: 20% of its attacks
Reach: only when it is on you

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