Scavenger troll
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Description
The scavenger troll closely resembles its cousin, the wood troll in appearance and ugliness. Hulking and heavily muscled with rough bark-like skin, it stares down at you with scrutinizing eyes as if wondering whether you have anything worthwhile. Bits of tattered cloth and leather cling to its grotesque form in a haphazard parody of clothing, souvenirs scavenged from the bodies of many a luckless adventurer.
In Depth
Scavenger trolls used to steal weapons (snatch em right outta your hand!), collect items from the ground, and reportedly, GASP! loot corpses and grave-rob. If a scavenger troll despawned or its corpse decayed with your items in its possession, those items would be lost forever. Tuesday Tidings 98, released in January 2022, removed their weapon stealing special attack and revamed their scavenging mechanics.
Now, scavenger trolls will absolutely take (destroy) any coins, gems or treasure boxes they find left lying about -- if you care about loot, don't leave it on the ground!
- The scavenger troll exclaims, "I dinks I like dis treasure! You no take!" He quickly snatches up a sturdy oaken box and a medium grey kunzite.
- The scavenger troll exclaims, "I dinks I like dis treasure! You no take!" She quickly snatches up a silver coin, some bronze coins and some copper coins.
Scavanged treasure is not recoverable. It is immediately destroyed. However, the trolls now ignore other items, such as equipment and random creature drops.
- The scavenger troll grunts and asks, "You no drop things for me?"
- The scavenger troll scoffs and asks, "Nuttin else for picking up?"
Area Information
- The hunting area is labeled: A dangling wooden sign reads: "DanJuR: SkAVjnUr TRulLz"
- The Gorbesh Fortress interior (Mess Hall, Meeting Room, Officers' Quarters, Barracks, Storage, and Stable) environments prevent Anther's Call from working (The wood underfoot creaks slightly, but nothing else happens.) on the scavenger trolls found there. The spell functions normally in the exterior (Firepit, Practice Yard) environments.
Skill Caps
(P), (S), (T) & (U) indicate the character's skillset placement for the account marked; (P)rimary, (S)econdary, (T)ertiary and (U)nknown respectively.
- Weapons: (S) skills at 158 rarely miss (05/31/2017). (U) Offensive quickly locked starting at 175, continue to lock quickly at 205 (07/01/2021). (S) Learning slows significantly at 200. (U) Skills move past dabbling at 220; however, the trolls die quickly (6/19/2020).
- Defenses: (T) skills at 200 mindlock and allow for safe fighting when engaged with four in melee (05/31/2017). (U) Defensive skills lock quickly through 205 when dancing with 3, pool slows significantly thereafter (07/01/2021). (T) Learning slows significantly by 220. (T) Only after about 30 minutes of melee engagement with four high-attribute (see below) trolls will skills at 230 mindlock and skills at 240 get to about (17/34) learning rate (10/23/2020).
- Debilitation: (P) Mindlocks at 255 (10/29/2020).
- Tactics: (S) Hard cap at 288 with no soft cap - (34/34) at 287; (0/34) at 288 (10/29/2020).
- Locksmithing: (U) Required skill to DISARM / PICK CAREFUL 140 (value pulled from creatures with boxes table). (T) Skill at 200 safely opens boxes and mindlocks using mainly CAREFUL. (T) Required skill to DISARM / PICK BLIND 280, based on "you could do it blindfolded!" DISARM / PICK IDENTIFY result at same skill (04/25/2021). (T) Easily mindlocks using mainly QUICK at 280 thru 300 (05/04/2021). (T) Continues to mindlock thru 350 (06/05/2025). See Equipment/Loot section below for further details.
- Skinning: (T) Consistent perfect parts and quick locking with ARRANGE ALL at 285 (05/31/2017). (T) Continues to mindlock through 336 (11/05/2020).
Special Attacks
NONE.
Special Defenses
- APPRAISE CAREFUL info: The troll appears immune to normal poisons.
- Scavenger trolls are immune to stuns, both physical and magical (such as Arc Light).
- See also, area info.
Attributes
- Strength - is about/not quite 30
- Agility - is about/not quite 30
- Discipline - is about/not quite 30
- Reflex - is about/not quite 30
- Stamina - is about/not quite 30
Some appraise at about in all stats and others at not quite. This can affect skill learning. For example:
The ones with higher attributes train tactics higher. The lesser ones hard cap around 255, vice 288.
Equipment/Loot
- it is wearing some reinforced greaves, [either] a battered cuirbouilli coat, [or] a battered leather coat, [and] a frayed knapsack.
- it is carrying [either] nothing. [or] a scimitar.
- [Equipment needs updating. Scavenger trolls now carry a greater variety of equipment than documented above.]
Possible LOOT: coins, gems, boxes and random creature drops.
Box Values - Common: 1-3 gold / Uncommon: 4-7 gold / Rare: 1-3 plat (10/21/2020).
- Common (94/100) boxes contain 0-9 copper, 0-9 bronze, 0-9 silver and 0-3 gold coins and/or 0-2 gems (valued at 0.5 to 3 gold each) along with occasional miscellaneous items.
- Uncommon (5/100) boxes contain 4-6 gold coins plus change and/or 0-2 gems (valued at 1.4 to 4 gold each).
- Rare (1/100) boxes contain 1-3 platinum coins plus change and/or a gem valued at 1 to 3 plat.
DISARM / PICK IDENTIFY difficulty ranges:
Locksmithing | Perception | Agility | Min | Max |
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200 | 305 | 30 | (5) should not take long | (9) odds against you |
220-230 | 325-330 | 30 | (3) trivially constructed | (8) has edge on you |
240-250 | 340-360 | 30 | (3) trivially constructed | (7) precisely at skill |
260-270 | 370-385 | 40 | (3) trivially constructed | (6) minor troubles |
280-290 | 395-400 | 40 | (2) laughable matter | (5) should not take long |
300 | 405 | 40 | (2) laughable matter | (4) simple matter |
350 | 465 | 40 | (2) laughable matter | (3) trivially constructed |
Body Parts
Messaging
- Spawn: A scavenger troll arrives, scouring the area.
- Entrance: A scavenger troll strolls in, looking attentively at the ground.
- Exit: A scavenger troll kicks at the ground and strolls <direction>.
- Death1: The scavenger troll falls to the ground and lies still.
- Death2: The scavenger troll screams one last time and lies still.
- Decay: The body of the scavenger troll dissolves, leaving behind the few possessions it was able to accumulate.
Recall Knowledge
You recall everything noteworthy about a scavenger troll... which is apparently nothing.
They are not known to cast any recognized spells.
They are known to carry loot in locked boxes.
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