Albatross

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Albatross
ASCIIA A
MovementFlying
Native LandsOcean
Brown Island
Increases Treasure SpawnAmber

These large seabirds attack you for some reason. At least they're not as fast as Eagles...

Albatrosses are basic monsters found in the Ocean and Brown Island.

Generation[edit]

In the Ocean, Albatrosses start out spawning only on the coasts. At high enough Amber counts, they will start spawning on the open sea as well. Albatrosses can always spawn in Brown Islands.

Properties[edit]

Albatrosses act just as other basic flying monsters do. However, killing an Albatross will cut the current number of the player's Orb of Luck charges in half, if the player has any.

Trivia[edit]

  • Albatrosses are not actually shown in the list of monsters native to the Brown Islands at all. Nevertheless, they can still appear there even if not enough Ambers have been collected to allow them to spawn over the open sea.
  • The Albatross-Luck interaction is a reference to the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In the poem, a sailor kills an albatross, and therefore suffers through bad luck as a punishment.