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| creature_limb=2 wings - 26 HP<br/>8 legs - 26 HP
| creature_extr=8 talons - 19 HP
| creature_wp=2 eyes, Beak (Head)
| creature_bones=[[File:Has bones.png|25px]]
| creature_gear=[[File:No box.png|25px]]
! Damage type !! Range !! <span style="color:#274e13">MAPT</span> !! <span style="color:#0c53a6">IS</span> !! <span style="color:#980000">LDV</span> !! Pain (C1) !! Pain (C2) !! Pain (A1) !! Pain (A2) !! Pain (A3) !! Pain (A4) !! Pain (A5)
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| Piercing || Melee || '''<span style="color:#274e13">24</span>''' || '''<span style="color:#0c53a6">9</span>''' || '''<span style="color:#980000">+2</span>''' || 39% || 35% || 31% || 25% || 20% || 10% || 2%
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! Damage type !! Range !! <span style="color:#274e13">MAPT</span> !! <span style="color:#0c53a6">IS</span> !! <span style="color:#980000">LDV</span> !! Pain (All ACs)
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| '''Special''' || Ranged || '''<span style="color:#274e13">13</span>''' || '''<span style="color:#0c53a6">9</span>''' || '''<span style="color:#980000">N</span>''' || N/A
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* Inflicts no [[Pain]] or [[Limb damage]].
* On a successful hit, inflicts [[Venom]] +3.
= Other information =
Creature traits:
*'''Yields extra items when butchered''': If [[Hunting|butchered]], this creature will produce extra items:
** If the head had at least 1 HP remaining on death: 1 [[Meds|Large poison gland]].
** Otherwise: Nothing
{{Lore}}
A legendary eight-legged creature, part bird and part dragon. The basilisk is a creature of legend, already known to the Mazes during the [[History of the Mazes|medieval era]]. Referred to as the '''''lanlaken''''' in the [[Languages|Old Tongue]], a compound of the words for "[[chicken]]" (''lanlan'') and "[[dragon]]" (''ken''), the name therefore transliterating to "chicken dragon'". As the etymology suggests, the basilisk is a part-bird, part-dragon beast, possessing the head, wings, and feathered tail of a bird - specifically, a chicken, and a draconic body with eight legs and armor scales. It is roughly 5 feet tall, and its adult weight ranges between 80 and 130 pounds.
Somewhat like a dragon, the basilisk is very tough, bullet-resistant, and has a very low [[pain sensitivity]]. Despite the chicken head, the basilisk does not make clucking sounds nor is it capable of a cock-a-doodle-do. Instead, the basilisk famously ''hisses'', very loudly, especially when it detects a threat.