Dead/Immortal Slime

[Questioner]

Right outside the starting village there are a whole bunch of slime and Mushrooms which can't be attacked, ostensibly because their HP are already 0 (at least that's what the game engine reports). Since nobody can kill these already dead monsters, they just stand around in clumps and clutter up the landscape.

I don't know if it's any help, but I've also seen these form. As far as I could tell, it happened in the middle of an attack. The life total spontaneously dropped the rest of the way to 0 and the attack was canceled. But this happened fast enough I'm not sure I saw it right.

I hope this helps.

[ASCIIrider]

This only happens if you're ushing shift-Z to hide characters. And the latter part happened because someone else may have been attacking too, but being in hide characters mode, you can't see that.

[Questioner]

Um, no, that isn't it at all. If that was what had happened then the creature would die -- I understand that. The point is that the creature does not die. It sits there, alive and well, with no hit points! Further, my character refuses to actually attack the thing (and it stops attacking me). That is not at all what happens when a creature is killed by a hidden player.