However, if you do not have a lizard corpse with you, you may quaff a potion of acid. See eat.c, line 490 and eat.c, line 510 for further information. Since they never rot, you should always carry one along. The standard method is to eat a lizard corpse. The monster corpses that can stop stiffening are as follows: Eating a lizard or certain monsters stops the process. If you hear the hissing of a cockatrice and start turning to stone – stiffening – you still have several ways, albeit not several turns, to save yourself. You will also lose any intrinsic speed when you start "slowing down," which may give you even fewer actions to save yourself if you are burdened or worse, you might not be able to save yourself at all! The process technically takes 5 turns, but after 2, your limbs turn to stone and you can't do anything else but proceed to die. Throwing a cockatrice egg up ( ) and being hit by it is an instadeath, but being hit by one thrown by a monster starts the stiffening process, as does eating the egg, or hearing the cockatrice's hissing attack. Attacking barehanded or barefooted, picking up the corpse barehanded, and kicking barefooted are considered ways of touching among many, many others. The gaze of Medusa, and touching a cockatrice or chickatrice is instantly fatal for a character without stoning resistance. If you try to petrify golems (other than stone golems), they turn to stone golems instead. Skeletons (presumably fossilization doesn't slow them down much).Lizards (logically enough, since they cure stoning when eaten).Important enemies: Death, Famine, Pestilence, and all quest nemeses.Immaterial creatures: air elementals, djinn, sandestins, mail daemons, fire elementals, ghosts, shades, water elementals, wraiths, all v, all y.Creatures that are acidic: acid blobs, black naga hatchlings, black nagas, gelatinous cubes, green molds, Juiblex, ochre jellies, spotted jellies, baby yellow dragons, yellow dragons, all P.Creatures already made of stone or earth: gargoyles, winged gargoyles, stone golems, earth elementals, xorns.Creatures that can petrify others: chickatrices, cockatrices, and Medusa (but Medusa can be stoned by her own reflection).A variety of monsters are stoning-resistant, typically for fairly straightforward reasons:
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