Marilith

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The marilith, &, is a demon in NetHack. They can deal damage extremely quickly due to their possessing six attacks per move.

[edit] Strategy

Mariliths are given two weapon attacks and four 2d4 claw attacks. Mariliths cannot #twoweapon (or #sixweapon), instead this is realized as two attacks with its primary weapon followed by the claw attacks. Since the primary weapon could be highly enchanted or a powerful artifact -- or both -- mariliths are interesting as a pet or even as a self-polymorph target. Mariliths are demons, so a pet marilith will not wield a silver weapon. (You, however, are oddly not seared by wielding a silver weapon as a marilith.) Also, a pet marilith, like other intelligent weapon-using monsters, will not wield a cross-aligned artifact.

Note that polymorphing into a marilith can break worn armor, and that mariliths cannot wear boots, shirts or body armor. Fortunately, mariliths have excellent natural AC, as some compensation.

[edit] Encyclopedia entry

The marilith has a torso shaped like that of a human female,
and the lower body of a great snake. It has multiple arms,
and can freely attack with all of them. Since it is
intelligent enough to use weapons, this means it can cause
great damage

[edit] Quotes

The Marilith has been known to say (here is the complete list):

"Verily thy corpse could not smell worse!"
"Up thy nose with a rubber hose!"
"Go ahead, fetch thy mama! I shall wait."
"This time I shall let thee off with a spanking, but let it not happen again."
"Thinkest thou it shall tickle as I rip out thy lungs?"
"Doth pain excite thee? Wouldst thou prefer the whip?"
"Eat slime and die!"