crawlSS_052_pan.txt: Pandemonium properties Based on Crawl Stone Soup 0.5.2 Last change: 2010-01-10 by E. Grasland (use a fixed-width font like Courier to display the tables correctly) Generic properties ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pandemonium is a special area filled with demons and abominations. It virtually has an infinite number of levels connected together with portals. Once you leave a level, you won't be able to come back there. It can be entered through portals located between Dungeon level 20 and 27. Each of these levels has a 25% chance to generate a portal to Pandemonium; a portal is guaranteed at level 23. Each Pandemonium level contains 3 or 4 portals (displayed in green) which are leading to another Pandemonium level. There's about 5% chance that a portal leading out of Pandemonium will be generated, and 4% chance that a pair of portal leading to the Abyss wil be generated. As it can be tricky to get out of Pandemonium directly, banishing yourself to the Abyss (through Banishment spell or a weapon of distortion) may be a faster way. Pandemonium is not magic-mappable, except with the "Sense Surroundings" mutation at level 3. Pandemonium lairs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lairs properties ================ Each level contains a small lair with a random named demon, possibly with a demonic rune. Sometimes, one of four unique demon are generated: Mnoleg, Lom Lobon, Cerebov and Gloorx Vloq. Their lairs are special: much larger, harder to beat, and each containing a unique rune. Pandemonium levels containing one of their lairs will always have specific wall and floor colours. +-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Unique demon |Rune |Walls colour |Floor colour |Type of demons generated on the level | +-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Mnoleg |Glowing rune |Red |Yellow |Abomination, Midge, Lemure, Neqoxec, Blue Death, Balrug | |Lom Lobon |Magical rune |White |Lightgrey |White Imp, Smoke Demon, Ynoxinul, Hellwing, Green Death, Blue Death | |Cerebov |Fiery rune |Red |Red |Small Abomination, Lemure, Orange Demon, Neqoxec, Ynoxinul, Balrug, Efreet | |Gloorx Vloq |Dark rune |Lightgrey |Lightgrey |Skeleton, White Imp, Smoke Demon, Hellwing, Cacodemon, Executioner | +-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Unique lairs generation ======================= If none of the unique demon lairs have been generated yet, there's a 19% chance that one of them will be generated each time you enter a new Pandemonium level (after entering about 5 portals on average). If one has already been generated, there's 17% that another one will be generated each time you enter a new Pandemonium level (after entering about 6 more portals on average). If two have already been generated, there's 13% that another one will be generated each time you enter a new Pandemonium level (after entering about 8 more portals on average). If three have already been generated, there's 8% that the last one will be generated each time you enter a new Pandemonium level (after entering about 13 more portals on average). Once a unique demon's lair has been generated, it can never be generated again (along with its rune, which is forever lost for you). Here are the probabilities of having found unique demon lairs according to the number of Pandemonium levels visited: +--------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ |Portals |No special | 1 special | 2 special | 3 special | 4 special | |entered | lair | lair | lairs | lairs | lairs | +--------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ | 1 | 81% | 19% | 0% | 0% | 0% | | 2 | 66% | 31% | 3% | 0% | 0% | | 3 | 54% | 38% | 8% | 0% | 0% | | 4 | 44% | 42% | 13% | 1% | 0% | | 5 | 35% | 43% | 18% | 3% | 0% | | 6 | 29% | 42% | 23% | 5% | 0% | | 7 | 23% | 41% | 27% | 8% | 1% | | 8 | 19% | 38% | 30% | 11% | 2% | | 9 | 15% | 35% | 33% | 14% | 2% | +--------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ | 10 | 13% | 32% | 34% | 17% | 4% | | 11 | 10% | 29% | 35% | 21% | 5% | | 12 | 8% | 26% | 35% | 24% | 7% | | 13 | 7% | 23% | 35% | 26% | 9% | | 14 | 5% | 21% | 34% | 29% | 11% | | 15 | 4% | 18% | 33% | 31% | 13% | | 16 | 4% | 16% | 32% | 33% | 16% | | 17 | 3% | 14% | 30% | 34% | 18% | | 18 | 2% | 12% | 28% | 36% | 21% | | 19 | 2% | 11% | 27% | 37% | 24% | +--------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ | 20 | 2% | 9% | 25% | 37% | 27% | | 25 | 1% | 4% | 16% | 36% | 43% | +--------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ | 30 | 0% | 2% | 10% | 31% | 57% | | 35 | 0% | 1% | 6% | 25% | 68% | +--------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ | 40 | 0% | 0% | 3% | 19% | 78% | | 45 | 0% | 0% | 2% | 14% | 85% | +--------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ | 50 | 0% | 0% | 1% | 10% | 89% | +--------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ | 60 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 5% | 95% | +--------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ | 70 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 2% | 98% | +--------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ | 80 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 1% | 99% | +--------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ Acknowledgments ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks to garron for his corrections.