Pit Fiend

More than one: Pit Fiends

Floors 9 to 10EtherealTongue of FlameTakes a bribe 50%Pays 910 experience

What is known

A pit fiend is a demon that has been given a job. It burns at range, it shrugs off more spells than it takes, and it hits like a collapsing wall.

The bestiary's report

HIT POINTS10 TO 60HIGH

DAMAGE PER HIT1 TO 10HIGH

HOW IT REACHES YOUETHEREAL, AT RANGE

SKILL AT HITTING6MIDDLING

DEFENSE9HIGH

ACTIONS PER ROUND2ONE OF THE LOWEST

CLOSES ON YOUEVERY ACTIONONE OF THE HIGHEST

TAKES A BRIBE1 TRY IN 2HIGH

SHRUGS OFF MAGIC3 SPELLS IN 5HIGH

KILLING ONE PAYS910 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: TONGUE OF FLAME

It spits a tongue of flame for up to twelve wounds. No armor turns it and there is no missing. It comes on one attack in five. It does not have to reach you first.

Chance: 20% of its attacks
Reach: from across the room

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