Lair Larrikin
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New Unique Idea: Vanessa, Tloc Yaktaur Captain
wiki link- https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php? ... ew#vanessa
"A yaktaur captain with dreams of ruling all of her kind. Not content with
merely leading her pack, Vanessa has sought out magics normally outside the
ken of her people. She leads her yaktaur pack through the dungeon, looking for
victims to test out her new found translocational powers. you'll do."
Vanessa is a unique Yaktaur Captain who uses translocation spells to better leverage the strengths of a yaktaur pack. By using spells and items to blink the player away and force them to keep distance, she and her yaktaur charges are more likely to stick with what they are good at: ranged attacking. In theory the appearance of the tile would be a female armored yaktaur captain wearing the horned helmet of a would-be warlord.
With Disjunction and Blink Other Away she will bounce the player away from her (and the pack by extension) allowing them to continue to fire their bolts. Using dispersal bolts (possibly via portal projectile to always ensure clear LOS) will also keep the player off balance, potentially blinking them away (or toward) from escape routes. Disjunction should in theory mean that any blinks closer to Vanessa might end up with the player getting a shove backwards anyway. Repel Missiles on Vanessa is a possibility, but might be a bit much with a tenaciously ranged threat.
"A pack needs a good captain, and I'm the best!"
You might be thinking, "Oh god another yaktaur. I will get you" but hear me out. It adds a bit of color to what are otherwise rote Yaktaur pack encounters, provides plenty of opportunities for tactical planning as you try to deal with an ever shifting battlefield (or wear stasis). In theory she would spawn anywhere a Yaktaur pack could, with perhaps with two(+?) more depth so her pack isn't likely to be the first you find.
"I just need my personal space."
HP 120~ (A fair bit more than a normal captain)
HD 16 ?? (a bit more.)
XP ??
Speed 10
AC 5
EV 5
MR 64 (a bit more)
Attack1 30 (hit: plain) (a bit more)
Max Chunks 8
Type of Meat Clean
Resistances None
Vulnerabilities None
Habitat Land
Intelligence Normal
Uses Weapons & armour
starting equipment
Open doors
Holiness Natural
Size Big
Type yaktaur, yaktaur
Flags Fighter
Speaks
Spellcaster
Warm-blooded
"How about a long-distance relationship?"
Spell set
Slot1 Disjunction
Slot2 Blink Other Away
Slot3 Blink (ideally only when the enemy is in melee)
Slot4 (Portal Projectile? Would this work with a mob?)
Slot5 (Repel Missiles? Might be too much, and out of theme with translocations.)
Slot6
Always comes equipped with a sometimes-branded crossbow, dispersal branded ammo (even though bolts normally cannot be dispersal branded) and a spiked or winged helmet that has a decent chance to be magical. Vanessa is always accompanied by a pack of normal yaktaurs armed like a normal yaktaur pack.
"Personal Space! Personal Space!"
(For the name itself, I picked a V-name because there were no uniques I noticed starting with a V. I went with female because the only male V names I thought of didn't feel like a fit.)