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Whether it is intended behavior or not, you may be instantly killed by a Galgal's charge attack. It is not recommended to engage one unless you have recently saved your game, or you are prepared to lose your character. Once it has knocked you down with its charge attack, it will rapidly use the attack again and again, dealing intense damage and refreshing the knocked down effect. Even level 40+ characters with Zetachrome armor and 250+ hit points may die without recourse after being hit once by this attack. | Whether it is intended behavior or not, you may be instantly killed by a Galgal's charge attack. It is not recommended to engage one unless you have recently saved your game, or you are prepared to lose your character. Once it has knocked you down with its charge attack, it will rapidly use the attack again and again, dealing intense damage and refreshing the knocked down effect. Even level 40+ characters with Zetachrome armor and 250+ hit points may die without recourse after being hit once by this attack. | ||
==Lore== | |||
The galgallim are referred to in {{favilink|In Maqqom Yd}}. The author suggests that the palladium lattice that lies atop the {{favilink|Palladium Reef}} was once a "gigantic infrastructure network" for [[Eaters|the Eaters]], and that the galgallim helped in the construction of this network. The author also describes a face-to-face encounter with a galgal towards the end of the book: | |||
{{qud quote|... Here I took a moment to squeeze the bright nectar into a phial, and when I once again looked up, I was met with the ageless stare of a galgal. Nothing had prepared me for it. My mind labored to make sense of what it was seeing: gleaming wheels whipped about a hypnotic core, the spokes' prisms pulled apart the light of the High Salt Sun, and across the stretched sheet of iris, many eyes stared.}} | |||
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