Perseus

Perseus was the hero of greek legend who killed Medusa. He appears in NetHack in statue-form on the down stair of Medusa's lair. Either he failed to kill her this time, or Medusa keeps a statue of him to remind her of past failures.

In the first variation of Medusa's lair, there is a 75% chance of his statue containing a cursed +0 shield of reflection, a 25% chance of +0 levitation boots, a 50% chance of a blessed +2 scimitar, and a 50% chance of a sack.

In the second variation of the level, there is a 25% chance of his statue containing a cursed +0 shield of reflection, a 75% chance of +0 levitation boots, a 50% chance of a blessed +2 scimitar, and a 50% chance of a sack.

All these chances are independent.

Perseus is not a monster. If you cast stone to flesh on his statue, you create "a knight named Perseus", not a unique monster called Perseus.

External link

 * Perseus on Wikipedia