Gigantic lightning whelk

Gigantic lightning whelk Level 107 Family Whelk family creatures Body Type [[]] Area(s) Found Sailor's Grief BCS HP Speed

Attack Attributes Combat Maneuvers Headbutt Bull Rush Special Offensive Abilities Shock Beam Snailguard

Defense Attributes Armor None ASG 1 Defensive Strength (DS) Melee Ranged Bolt Unarmed Defense Factor UDF Target Defense (TD) Bard Base Cleric Base Empath Base Paladin Base Ranger Base Sorcerer Base 464 Wizard Base Minor Elemental 489 Major Elemental Minor Spiritual 437 Major Spiritual Minor Mental

Other Unique Abilities

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Out of Shell

The lightning whelk's spiraled shell is a marvel of natural artistry.  Each ridge and every curve shimmers with iridescent hues like a storm of empyrean color captured in glass.   Beneath its luminous armor, the mollusk's incandescent flesh pulses with electrical charges that awaken stunning colors beneath its semitranslucent skin.  In a striking contrast to its natural beauty, the whelk's underbelly emits a constant froth of bubbling mucus to facilitate its locomotion.

In Shell

The lightning whelk's spiraled shell is a marvel of natural artistry.  Each ridge and every curve shimmers with iridescent hues like a storm of empyrean color captured in glass.  Most of the whelk's body is coiled into its shell for protection, though its visible flesh is slightly incandescent and pulses with electrical charges that awaken stunning colors beneath its semitranslucent skin.  In a striking contrast to its natural beauty, the whelk's underbelly emits a constant froth of bubbling mucus to facilitate its locomotion.

Hunting Strategies

General Advice

Other Information

Arrival messaging

Day:

Colored incandescence precedes the slowly swaying shell of a gigantic lightning whelk as it glides forward on a trail of frothing mucus, antennae unfurling.

Night:

Brilliant incandescence throws back the darkness, preceding the slowly swaying shell of a gigantic lightning whelk as it glides forward on a trail of frothing mucus.

Spell prep messaging

Doesn't Cast

Unstun messaging

Unstunable

Death messaging

Chaotic pulses of color explode through a gigantic lightning whelk's flesh like fireworks as it collapses, letting out a pained rumble as it dies in a froth of bubbling mucus.

Search messaging

A gigantic lightning whelk shrivels, its fleshy head retreating toward its shell as it shrivels and blackens.  Cracks spread across the spiraled shell, which fragments into opalescent dust.

Combat messaging

Charge

Mucus froths and pops along a gigantic lightning whelk's flanks as it surges into a charge toward you!
  AS: +576 vs DS: +404 with AvD: +31 + d100 roll: +28 = +231
   ... and hits for 16 points of damage!
   Your right leg jerks momentarily but snaps right back.

Ensnare

Gliding on a trail of shimmering mucus, a gigantic lightning whelk throbs forward and tries to engulf you!
  AS: +576 vs DS: +396 with AvD: +32 + d100 roll: +11 = +223
   ... and hits for 10 points of damage!
   Attempt to snare hips shaken loose.

Bite

A gigantic lightning whelk extends its neck and tries to rasp your flesh with its radula!
A suit of stygian rusalkoren platemail suffused with erratic caligninous whorls of azure partially deflects the onslaught of the puncture attack.
  AS: +576 vs DS: +392 with AvD: +2 + d100 roll: +16 = +202
   ... and hits for 1 point of damage!
   Tap to the arm pricks some interest but not much else.

Major Shock

Electricity arcs between a gigantic lightning whelk's antennae before lashing out at you!
  AS: +417 vs DS: +449 with AvD: +33 + d100 roll: +10 = +11
   A clean miss.

Bull Rush

A gigantic lightning whelk dips its shoulder and rushes towards you!
[SMR result: 59 (Open d100: 10, Penalty: 4)]
You harmlessly deflect the charge!

Headbutt

A gigantic lightning whelk charges towards you and attempts a headbutt!
[SMR result: 130 (Open d100: 69, Bonus: 9)]
Your size considerably hinders your defense!
A gigantic lightning whelk slams its head into you!
   ... 1 point of damage!
   You hear a buzzing in your ears from that blow!

Frothy Discharge

Warning hues flush through a gigantic lightning whelk's semitranslucent flesh as its head retreats into the safety of its opalescent shell.
A gigantic lightning whelk rears back, emitting an awful gurgle.  It opens its mouth and spews a stream of clumpy white froth at you!
[SMR result: 70 (Open d100: 34, Bonus: 5)]
Bubbling slime sprays past you and steams caustically on the ground!

Lightning Vulnerability

Warning hues flush down the length of a gigantic lightning whelk and its shell begins to pulse with light.  Power crackles outward from the whelk in a dazzling halo!
[MDR result: 130 (Open d100: 86, Penalty: 3)]
Electricity tingles painfully over your skin, lingering in a buzzing aura.
The electrical essence is drawn toward your widowwood anklet, where it is consumed with an abrupt burst of light!
Sky blue filaments of energy bleed from your aura as your resistance against electrical damage lessens.

Inflicts electric resistance debuff.

Shock Beam

Your attack rebounds off of the whelk's shell.  Arcing electricity cascades over the opalescent surface as the whelk grows agitated!
Enraged, the whelk peeks from its shell, lightning streaking up its antennae to form a beam of pure electricity!
[SMR result: 70 (Open d100: 34, Bonus: 5)]
The beam veers wide, but sears a violet afterimage into your vision!
Fragments and cracks spread through a gigantic lightning whelk's shell.  It emerges from the ruined husk, enraged.

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