# Fire helmet

[   fire helmet  

Appearance

random

Slot

helm

AC

1

Special

fire resistance

Base price

50 zm

Weight

50

Material

iron

A fire helmet is a type of helm that appears in SlashTHEM. It has a randomized appearance and is made of iron.
The Firefighter quest artifact, the Fire Chief Helmet, is an artifact fire helmet.

Contents

1 Generation
2 Description
3 Strategy
4 History
5 Origin
6 References

Generation
All Firefighters start the game with a +0 fire helmet.[1]

Description
When worn, a fire helmet provides 1 AC and fire resistance.

Strategy
The fire helmet is one of two sources of fire resistance for a starting Firefighter, and offers protection from falling rock traps and piercers. Even after they find a better helm (such as a dwarvish iron helm from the Mines), the fire helmet is worth keeping in inventory for the resistance until you reach experience level 15 and/or obtain the Fire Chief Helmet. Other roles without intrinsic fire resistance will likely want this as a temporary source to tide them over until they can obtain it from a corpse, ring or other source. While intrinsic fire resistance is enough to justify removing the helm, note that it can be lost to gremlins as well as from one of the adverse effects of sitting on a throne.
Players attempting both foodless and crownless conducts might want to hold on to any fire helmets they find if they cannot find and identify a ring - once they have the property, they can replace it with a helm of brilliance, helm of telepathy or other helm at their leisure.
As humanoid pets have very few items they can use that can provide resistances (such as the cornuthaum and zipper boots), they will appreciate being given your spare fire helmet.

History
The fire helmet is derived from a similar item that appears in SLASH 6; its data can still be found in the source code of SLASH'EM.[2]

Origin

Wikipedia has an article about:
Firefighter's helmet

Firefighters have worn helmets for centuries to protect them from heat, cinders and falling objects. While their material composition has evolved from traditional leather to metals (including brass, nickel and aluminum), and then to composite helmets constructed of lightweight polymers and other plastics, their distinctive shape has changed little over the years.

References

↑ SlashTHEM 0.9.7 src/u_init.c, line 210

↑ SLASH'EM 0.0.7E7F2 do_wear.c, line 318 and line 382

SLASH 6 objects.c line 252