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| Attack Attributes
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| Physical Attacks
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| Bite
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192 AS
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| Claw
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202 AS
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| Special Offensive Abilities
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| Breath attack
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Poison gas
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You have never seen anything quite like a vapor hound, so you are not really sure what to make of it or how dangerous it might be.
- Assess
The vapor hound is medium in size and about three feet high in its current state.
Hunting Strategies
Vapor hounds like night hounds have a breath attack that causes a cloud to form and linger in the air. Breathing the gas will cause damage over time for each round that a character remains in its vicinity. The spell Purify Air (207) will negate the effects of the cloud. Once killed, any active cloud created by a vapor hound will immediately dissipate harmlessly. Note that the Raining Caves area is also
inhabited by wind witches which cast gas clouds.
Combat Messaging
- Claw (attack)
A vapor hound claws at you!
AS: +202 vs DS: +607 with AvD: +38 + d100 roll: +26 = -341
A clean miss.
- Bite (attack)
A vapor hound tries to bite you!
AS: +192 vs DS: +329 with AvD: +35 + d100 roll: +37 = -65
A clean miss.
- Breath attack
A vapor hound opens its mouth with a yawning sigh, letting out a blast of green vapors at you!
You are unaffected.
You notice the vapor hound's breath hangs in the air.
A vapor hound tries to bite you!
You notice the vapor hound breath congeal into a billowing cloud of shadows.
The shadowy cloud seeps languidly in your direction.
CS: +72 - TD: +276 + CvA: +5 + d100: +74 == -125
Warded off!
You breathe in some of the gas...
As your lungs fill with the dark cloudy substance, instantly your nervous system feels as though it was made of oil-soaked rags and touched with a match!
The sensation leaves you quickly, but leaves an aftertaste of pain throughout your nervous system.
... 12 points of damage!
Other Information
- Vapor and night hound target defense (TD) is 25 points higher than their living counterparts (ice, storm and water hounds).
- Vapor hounds can shake off stuns
A Vapor hound howls in rage as it shakes off the stun.
- Each time a vapor hound emits a cloud of green vapors it will be immediately accompanied by a bite or claw physical attack. This dual attack is a characteristic of hounds (night, ice, storm, vapor and water) in general.
A vapor hound opens its mouth with a yawning sigh, letting out a blast of green vapors at you!
You are unaffected.
You notice the vapor hound's breath hangs in the air.
A vapor hound tries to bite you!
- Appearance
You see a fairly typical vapor hound.
It appears to be in good shape.
It has nothing at this time.
- Spawing
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- Entering
A vapor hound pads in, a fog of green vapor puffing from its nostrils.
- Leaving
The vapor hound pads northwest, leaving a trail of chartreuse vapors behind it.
- Death
You hear a sound like a child weeping as a white glow separates itself from the vapor hound's body and rises into the heavens.
The vapor hound lets out one last whimpering sigh of chartreuse vapors and dies.
- Decay
A vapor hound decays into a compost of fur and fangs.
Other Messaging
The vapor hound barks and shuffles backwards on its paws.
The vapor hound sniffs at the air and growls low in the throat.
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