Crypt Mimic

A crypt chest that bites. It looks exactly like the chest it replaced until someone opens or hits it.

• Where: in crypts generated after the mod is installed, each listed chest has a 15% chance to be a mimic. By default: Black Forest burial chambers and Swamp sunken crypts. Hildir's crypt chest and the chest also found in Ashlands fortresses (TreasureChest_fCrypt) are never mimics.
• Disguised: same model, name and "[E] Open" as the chest; no name plate, health bar or (with Elite Creatures Reborn) stars until it wakes. Only opening or hitting it wakes it.
• Ambush: open it and the lid snaps on you for 20 slash that cannot be dodged or blocked. Tip: hit a chest you distrust before opening it, which wakes a mimic without the free bite.
• Lunge, its only attack: the lid gapes, it leaps about 2.5 m and snaps. Roll to make it miss; a shield does not stop it. It bites at most every 3 seconds and bounds after you a little faster than a skeleton runs.
• Weak spot: after each snap it hangs open for a moment. Hit it then.
• Stats: 40 health; weak to blunt and fire; resists pierce and frost; immune to poison. Undead: crypt skeletons and draugr leave it alone.
• Loot: a fresh roll of the replaced chest's loot. Epic Loot needs an ECP_CryptMimic entry to give it magic items. With EliteCrafting it drops runes and magic gear at a crypt chest's odds (30% and 10% in a burial chamber).

Settings: 2 - Crypt Mimic

Greydwarf Slinger

A greydwarf with a slingshot. It stands and shoots like a skeleton archer and never claws.

• Where: 10% of Greydwarfs spawning in the Black Forest, in the wild and from greydwarf nests. Greydwarf camps keep their greydwarfs.
• The fight: it walks into range (22 m) and sight, then stands and shoots a stone every 3.5 seconds at most, down to point blank: 12 blunt on a low arc at where you stood. It never melees.
• Beating it: it does not lead a moving target. Run across its line, roll or block. Up close it still shoots but has no claws.
• Stats: a Greydwarf's (40 health, same resistances).
• Loot: a Greydwarf's drops plus 2-3 Stone. With EliteCrafting, runes and magic gear as from any Black Forest creature.

Settings: 3 - Greydwarf Slinger