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Gadrongo

Gadrongo · no. 268 in the monster list
Everything is read from the game's code, unless stated otherwise

A stalwart soul sealed in a statue and bunged into the Bowhole to test contenders in combat when the time came.

Wormwood Creekers once thought the wyrmlight bow and Gadrongo were guises of a spirit who watched over the Wyrmward.

The essentials

  • Earliest in the story: The Bowhole, Wormwood Creek: Gadrongo (once)
  • Gives: 12,500 EXP, 3,050 G, Ethereal stone (100%)
  • Weak to: wind ×1.5
  • Has no effect on it: dazzle, sleep, whack, confusion, fizzle, poison, paralysis, blunt

Family: beast — weapons dealing ×1.1: spears

Stats

HPMPAtt.Def.Agi.EXPGoldEvas.
2,00025520621413812,5003,0500 %

HP from the game's record: in battle, each monster gets a roll between 80 and 100% of it (rounded); MP is full.

Resistances and actions

  • Elements (damage taken): wind ×1.5; darkness ×1.25; fire ×0.75; earth ×0.5
  • Effects (success rate): 75%: Divine Intervention; 50%: Sap, Decelerate; 25%: stun; 10%: Charm; immune: Dazzle, sleep, Whack, confusion, Fizzle, poison, paralysis, Blunt
  • Actions: Heart Breaker 27%, Attack 23%, “pounds ferociously on the ground!” 19%, Blockenspiel 15%, Burning Breath 11%, critical hit 6.6%. Only once per turn for its whole group: Heart Breaker, “pounds ferociously on the ground!”, Blockenspiel, Burning Breath, critical hit

Items

Ethereal stone 100%

Story and quests

  • The Bowhole, Wormwood Creek: Gadrongo (once)

Habitat (in-game monster list)

The Bowhole

In the game, a defeated monster's entry names one of these places as soon as you have visited it, even if you never defeated that monster there; otherwise “?????????” (checked in game). The first two are named, “Etc.” for the third.

Under the hood

Internal numbers (game records, one per variant): 311.

Drop codes (prm/mon_btldata, bytes +2 and +3; 0 = 100%, otherwise 1/2^(code + 2), 7 = none): Ethereal stone : 0.

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