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** "Covetous" monsters can steal certain important items, such as quest artifacts.
* [[Bare-Fisted Monk]]: Despite not being able to effectively use weapons, monk characters can become extremely powerful and deadly. Various other roles can also train their bare-handed fighting skills (or martial arts for monks and samurai), and the weaponless conduct centers around fighting without wielding traditional weapons.
* [[Basilitrice]]: The cockatrice is a class of creatures represented by the <code>
** After the bite attack, the cockatrice will attempt a touch attack; if it lands, there is then a 1 in 3 chance that the cockatrice will hiss at you. Following this, there is a 10% chance that you will begin slowing down and turning to stone, losing any intrinsic speed you have in the process. {{spoiler|(On a new moon, this becomes 100% unless you are carrying a lizard corpse.)}} This is a 'delayed instadeath' that can be cured through a few means, so hopefully you have at least ''one'' of them available.
** Even its corpse has this property - [[Schmuck Bait|touch a corpse without gloves or try to eat one, and unless you're stony or acidic it's game over]]. On top of that, its corpse is also poisonous to eat, and being hit with or eating an egg will similarly induce a slow stoning. {{spoiler|[[Easter Egg|If you're in a form that's immune to stoning ''and'' poison, however, then footrice corpses taste just like chicken!]]}} Grab a corpse ''with'' gloves, however, and you have an [[Improvised Weapon]] that turns non-immune monsters to stone, [[Weaksauce Weakness|even including many later bosses!]] Players tend to call these [[Fan Nickname|"rubber chickens"]], and this can also be done using the eggs as projectiles.
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