Can you name this invisible beast?!

[sffp]

Invisible - but not detectible to telepathy

You shock something. <3x>
You shock something. It was a great hit!
You shock something.
You shock something. It was a great hit!
You shock something. <5x>
You have killed it.

You double moved it as you have 6 hits a round.
Its armor rating clearly isn't that great, because you didn't miss.

But it has a fair number of HP, because you do 112 points per blow against creatures not resistant to lightning

My speed is +18 if that makes a difference.

[Pete Mack]

Possibly a midlevel Q?
Edit: If you enabled verbose messages, it would "squlch" and "quiver in pain", and you'd know for sure. The other possibility is will'o'wisp, but you are unlikely to just run into one like that.

[Estie]

Yes Q is the prime suspect. Will o wisp is electricity resistant (or should be).

[Selkie]

My guess would be a lurker

[Nick]

My guess would be a lurker

I was thinking that too, or trapper.

[Werbaer]

My guess would be a lurker

I was thinking that too, or trapper.

Trapper was my first thought, too. But that beast survived 11 hits for ~112 damage, so it must have twice the hit ponts.

[Sphara]

99,9% certain lurker. You need to have more dmg/turn to two-shot a midgame Q or a trapper.

[Thraalbee]

I doubt Lurker, too few hp. My monster viewer is a hack so cant say for 100% but I'd say it is a Q.
Using this: https://thraalbee.azurewebsites.net/monview/
And this in the filter field:

SQL# flags_effective LIKE "%EMPTY_MIND%" AND flags_effective LIKE "%INVISIBLE%"  and hit_points > 1000 and hit_points < 2000

results in three Q's, all native to dl 71.

Right now only the "Plot" option works, the "Tabulate" is broken (EDIT: fixed)

[Nick]

More evidence: lurkers, and more so trappers, have decent AC, whereas Qs have almost none. So 12 blows in a row connecting favors a Q.

[Grotug]

Aren't Q's detectable by infravision?

[Pete Mack]

@grotug--
The OP did not mention infravision.

[Grotug]

I think it's very rare for a developed character to not have infravision (only two races don't have it natively).

[Voovus]

It sounds like, along with the Competition, we need a regular Angband Puzzle. A few lines of text from the game, and the community has to figure out what was going on.

[sffp]

I think it's very rare for a developed character to not have infravision (only two races don't have it natively).

Human Warrior with literally no infra

All resists including blindness, fear confusion, hold life. No stun though and I swap ESP and See-Invis

[kineahora]

@grotug--
The OP did not mention infravision.

My first thought also was a decent sized Q. you didn't miss once in 12 shots and it took >1000 damage.

And speaking of Q, I have a suggestion for most annoying creature that doesn't add difficulty but clearly detracts from game play experience:

NEXUS Q. I suggest nerf or remove the annoying ability: TO

my current char trying to do stat gain walked into a room 10 times in a row only to get insta-TO to other side of dungeon. I cant even walk into the room to light it up and target the f*cker. This is just irritating AF.