Ghoul mage

Z ghoul mage File:Ghoul mage.png
Difficulty	14
Attacks	Claw 1d3 paralysis, Claw 1d4, Spell-casting 6d6

Z ghoul mage File:Ghoul mage.png
Difficulty	14
Attacks	Claw 1d3 paralysis, Claw 1d4, Spell-casting 6d6
Base level	10
Base experience	231
Speed	12
Base AC	4
Base MR	10
Alignment	-4
Frequency (by normal mechanisms)	Very rare
Genocidable	Yes
Weight	400
Nutritional value	50
Size	Small
Resistances	cold, sleep, poison, level drain
Resistances conveyed	None
Other attributes	A ghoul mage: can tunnel through walls. needs a pick-axe to tunnel through walls. has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso. is poisonous to eat. eats corpses. is undead. always starts as hostile. wanders randomly. can pick up weapons and food. can pick up magical items. has infravision. is capable of treachery.
Reference	SLASH'EM_0.0.7E7F2/monst.c#line3410

A ghoul mage is a monster in SLASH'EM. It is able to cast spells up to curse items, and occasionally aggravate monster, as well as doing a small amount of physical damage. Note that, unlike most other Z, it is not mindless, and can be detected via telepathy.

Strategy

These are not very dangerous, but they can be a great annoyance, mostly because they are very fond of cursing your items, since they cannot cast that many other spells. If you don't have a convenient way of uncursing or protecting your items (such as Magicbane or a spellbook of remove curse, they should be given a high priority for destruction, and may even be worth a scroll of genocide.

Encyclopedia entry

The forces of the gloom know each other, and are strangely
balanced by each other. Teeth and claws fear what they cannot
grasp. Blood-drinking bestiality, voracious appetites, hunger
in search of prey, the armed instincts of nails and jaws which
have for source and aim the belly, glare and smell out
uneasily the impassive spectral forms straying beneath a
shroud, erect in its vague and shuddering robe, and which seem
to them to live with a dead and terrible life. These
brutalities, which are only matter, entertain a confused fear
of having to deal with the immense obscurity condensed into an
unknown being. A black figure barring the way stops the wild
beast short. That which emerges from the cemetery intimidates
and disconcerts that which emerges from the cave; the
ferocious fear the sinister; wolves recoil when they encounter
a ghoul.

[ Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo ]