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{{battle
|text=Now that you have successfully snuck up and surprised the wumpus, it doesn't seem to really know how to react.

Oh, it looks like it's decided to just slash your guts open with its razor-sharp fangs and claws. That sounds like a pretty good strategy.
|hit=The monster slashed at Krakrox's chest with its long claws. The barbarian grunted with the force of the blow. {{ouch|4}}

The monster hisses at you and slashes you with its claws. Man, that is one catty wumpus. {{ouch|4}}

You offer it a handful of shiny beads not to attack you. It seems more interested in your shiny interior organs. {{ouch|4}}

The wumpus howled with fury, charging at Krakrox and slamming him to the ground, momentarily knocking the wind out of him. {{ouch|4}}

|miss=The monster slashed at Krakrox's chest with its long claws, but the barbarian jumped and rolled out of the way just in time.

It tries to attack you, but gets its feet all cattywumpus and trips.

You offer it a handful of shiny beads not to attack you. It stops and considers the proposal, but ultimately turns you down.

The wumpus howled with fury and charged at Krakrox, who nimbly leapt out of the way.

|critical=The wumpus slashes your guts open with its razor-sharp claws and fangs. Yeah, turns out that works pretty good. {{ouch|3}}

|fumble=The wumpus angrily stomps its weird little feet and roars at you.}}

{{acquire|item=memory of a glowing crystal|chance=?}}
{{acquire|item=wumpus hair|num=some}}
{{stat|16.25}}

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Occurs if you successfully [[Hunt the Wumpus]] from the [[Cavern Entrance]].

==Notes==
*The number of wumpus hairs the creature drops scales with [[Monster Level|+ML]] effects. It appears to drop 1+floor(ML/50) hairs, capped at 5 hairs and floored at 1 hair. [[Monster Level|+ML]] from [[Detuned radio]], [[The Super-Secret Canadian Mind-Control Device]] or [[The Annoy-o-Tron 5000]] are not included.
*This monster cannot be [[CLEESH]]ed.
*{{Uncopyable}}
*The [[memory of a glowing crystal]] is a one-time drop.

==References==
*This is a reference to the classic game "[[wikipedia:Hunt the Wumpus|Hunt the Wumpus]]".
*"Man, that is one catty wumpus" is a pun on [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cattywampus "cattywampus"].
*"...a handful of shiny beads" probably refers to [[wikipedia:Wampum|wampum]].