# Acolyte

@ acolyte 

Difficulty

8

Attacks

Weapon 1d6, Spellcasting (clerical)

@ acolyte 

Difficulty

8

Attacks

Weapon 1d6, Spellcasting (clerical)

Base level

5

Base experience

71

Speed

12

Base AC

10

Base MR

20

Alignment

0 (neutral)

Frequency (by normal means)

0 (Not randomly generated)

Genocidable

No

Weight

1450

Nutritional value

400

Size

Medium

Resistances

None

Resistances conveyed

None

An acolyte:

 has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso.

 is omnivorous.

 is not a valid polymorphable form.

 is a human.

 is normally generated peaceful.

 is strong.

 can pick up weapons and food.

 can be seen through infravision.

Reference

monst.c#line3158

The acolyte, @, is a Priest quest guardian. They are capable of clerical spell-casting similar to the player priest and other aligned priests.
Acolytes can grow up to become player monster priests.[1]

Encyclopedia entry

[...]  For the two priests were talking exactly like priests,
piously, with learning and leisure, about the most aerial
enigmas of theology.  The little Essex priest spoke the more
simply, with his round face turned to the strengthening stars;
the other talked with his head bowed, as if he were not even
worthy to look at them.  But no more innocently clerical
conversation could have been heard in any white Italian cloister
or black Spanish cathedral.  The first he heard was the tail of
one of Father Brown's sentences, which ended:  "... what they
really meant in the Middle Ages by the heavens being
incorruptible."  The taller priest nodded his bowed head and
said:  "Ah, yes, these modern infidels appeal to their reason;
but who can look at those millions of worlds and not feel that
there may well be wonderful universes above us where reason is
utterly unreasonable?"
	[ The Innocence of Father Brown, by G.K. Chesterton ]

 

References

↑ src/mondata.c in NetHack 3.6.0, line 966

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