Animal Rights Activist
original rules by Morwen
this version by Charis

Class: Any
Tag: ARA

Introduction

Animals are people too!

Rules

If you are prone to bugging the cows by Adria, do NOT with your ARA. If you never go by them, be SURE to go and check on them and pet one in every game with your ARA.

You must never purposely kill an animal. This will be a MAJOR restriction when you start out, in the church, where half the enemies are animals. But it may be the very thing that makes the ARA lots of fun. From the minute you enter a level you will not stop moving, because you will be chased by many animals. Phasing will not only be a spell you learn, but come to love! By the time you reach hell the only animal is the lava maw. Avoid it!

Accidents happen, and sometimes an animal will get killed unintentionally. If it really is unintentional, trying to kill a demon or undead, move on and be careful. If it is intentional or though sloppiness, you must atone by praying a the next goat shrine you see.

Optional: In public games, play your role to the fullest! If you see anyone torturing animals for fun (i.e. stone curse, fire wall, consecutive flame waves, etc.) you must discourage it. If he doesn't listen, give them one last warning that if he doesn't stop, you'll kill him. If he still doesn't listen, you have all the right on the planet to beat the tar out of his walking carcass.

In variants games, don't be disruptive. Let your partners know you are an ARA and ask them (once) to be careful. Leave the area if you know a slaughter is about to occur. Play in Hell and go down stairs rapidly if a Maw level. Uses sad phrases like "Poor doggie! He wasn't trying to hurt you!"

Optional: It is thought that once animals taste human blood they are changed. If you are killed by an animal, consider it rapid, and put it out of its misery (during item recovery, open season on the area).

Consider animal bosses as being supernaturally possessed and unnatural. Slay the leader WITHOUT harming the pack.

Items

No using any item affiliated with an animal (i.e. of the fox, wolf, eagle, tiger, bear, vulture, hyena, jackal, dragon's, mammoth, and especially not of the whale). That includes uniques (Scavengers Carapace, Eaglehorn, Dragon's Breach etc.

Spells

Be careful with area affect spells, especially firewall and chain lightning.
Stone curse, if used to help avoid an animal coming to harm, is a tranquilizer and is acceptable.
Learn phasing and teleport, and use liberally on levels with animals. Stealth may also be good.