Gremlin
by LemmingofGlory

Class: Any
Tag: None. Just have a simple name like "Stripe" and call yourself "StripetheGremlin"

Introduction

The Gremlin is a mischievous green imp. This particular version of the Gremlin is based upon the Gremlin movies.

Rules

Gremlin characters start out as Moguai (spelling?). To become Gremlins they must find something to eat, but it must be past midnight. To invoke midnight, find two -Light Radius items and after that find a +Life (not +Vit. Must be +Life) item.

You cannot reverse the Gremlin transformation. As a Gremlin, You must use a +Life item whenever you're not doing an item recovery.

You must play non-passworded games.

Because your purpose is to be kind of irritating, having customized hotkeys for your Gremlin would be great.

Suggestions for Hotkeys
*Insane laughter or giggling
*Unintelligible gibbering
*"Brightlight!brightlight! EEEEE!"
*False messages such as "Help!"
*Messages pertaining to wanting food or water

Items

Gremlins do not like bright light, nor do Moguai. +Light items (including uniques) may never be used. If a +Light item is dropped on the screen of a Gremlin or Moguai, it will flee. This even applies to unid'd uniques (if the player knows the item has +LR%).

Gremlins will not use Medium or Heavy armor, other than Breast Plates, because they're too noisy.

Gremlin weapon usage is rather limited.

Swords | Clubs | Staves | Axes | Bows | Shields
Dagger | Club | Short Staff | Small Axe | Short Bow | Buckler
Short Sword | Spiked Club | Composite Staff | Battle Axe | Short Battle Bow | Small Shield
Scimitar | Maul | Quarter Staff | Great Axe | Short War Bow | Large Shield

Gremlin helm usage may be anything, but Great Helms may not be used until you've slain someone.

Spells

Fire and Lightning create a lot of light, which bothers Gremlins (and Moguai). They will flee screaming "Bright light! Bright light!" if they're around when a Fire spell, a Lightning spell, Holy Bolt, or Flash is used. This can be counteracted, however, they're wearing -Light Radius items. (Note: -Light does not protect them from fleeing from +Light items.) Different levels of light permit you to ignore different levels of spell power.

List

- -20%: Don't flee from page 1 spells
- -30%: Don't flee from page 2 spells
- -40%: Don't flee from page 3 spells
- -50%: Don't flee from page 4 spells

Because the light spells bother Gremlins, their spell choices are fairly limited.

Spells
Skill, Healing, Heal Other, Town Portal, Telekinesis, Stone Curse, Phasing, Bone Spirit, Golem, Blood Star, Teleport, Identify, Infravision, Fire Wall
(Hellfire)
Berserk, Search, Warp, Mana, Magi

Mana Shield and Reflect are not used because they'd draw attention to the Gremlin, who prefers to skulk around.

Town Portal, while certainly a source of light, is a tunnel to Gremlins. They use ventilation shafts to move about quickly.

Fire Wall may be learned, but its use is restricted to mischief. See below.

Mischief

Harmless Mischief
These are some generally harmless things that a Gremlin might do to show how mischievous it is. While some of these activities may be annoying, they should cause no permanent harm to any character. When in doubt, add smiley faces to the end of your comments so that people will know you (the player) are being silly.

- Use Telekinesis on things that people Stone Curse
- Make unintelligible comments and/or giggle
- Play cooperatively, but every so often take a pot shot (i.e. use a non-lethal attack) at your partner and giggle
- Exaggerate item drops as good/useful when they're really very terrible
- Hide things (in plain sight) around town that are left in town
- Block access to the Dungeon, Adria, Wirt, or other areas. Then say you're a Troll and request a silly toll. "Grar! I'm a nasty bridge Troll! Give me some rags and I'll let ye pass!... Eh? No rags? Arr! 1 gold then! And no, you can't pay half now and half later!" Or, instead of requesting a toll, make them take an item off of your hands. "Arr! Take this wretched Bow of the Dead outta my sight and ye can go."
- When someone dies and they drop hacks, steal & sell the hacks and replace them with basic items. (Ditch any remaining gold obtained from the hacked items.) When they notice their items have, ah, "changed" tell 'em that happens with hacks sometimes.
- Cast a Golem ("Gremlin Shadow") near someone and order it to attack. "Golem, kill kill kill! Eheheheh!!... Eh!? Golem?! Argh, not another defective one!"
- Talk to everyone separately by using the Mute feature. This way people will see responses but not know why others are talking or what they're talking about.
- Act totally repulsed by killing monsters and ask that someone kill you to put you out of your misery.

Mayhem
These things might get people pissed at you, so ONLY use these on someone if they have provoked you, and even then it's not required. Also be careful that you don't end up harming someone who DIDN'T deserve it.

- Unleash the Butcher/Diablo/Leoric/monster mob/etc. upon them
- Entrap people in various areas of town
- Run on screen, take a swing, and run away giggling
- Make a large stack of Fire Walls to disable spells on the current dlvl, then attack!
- Set a Fire Wall(s) under a cheater/god moder. This can stunlock them at low levels if they've no fire resistance.