Bug: player jabberwock can hit monsters with a cockatrice but won't stone them

[TJR]

A player polymorphed into any jabberwock, adult dragon, or (if they
can wield things) a raven or a crocodile can hit monsters with a
wielded crocodile corpse, but monsters will not turn to stone despite
a message about scoring a hit.

Thanks to ais523 for figuring out the exact conditions.

[Banana Jones]

You must be an avenging evangelists You can wield a cockatrice corpse
to good effect, but it has its thrilling double-edged sword. Nice

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[Banana Jones]

On Jul 24, 10:20 am, TJR <tilmina...@googlemail.com> wrote:

I nevah heard of wielding crocodile corpses. Do you think they are
better than scimitars?

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[TJR]

Err, cockatrice corpse. This bug also applies to wielding the bell of
opening for silver damage.

[Pat Rankin]

A claw attack will be converted into a weapon attack for poly'd
player character, but only when it is the monster form's first attack.
Those monsters start with bite attacks; their claw attacks come later
so don't use any wielded weapon. However, of the monsters you listed,
only jabberwock can actually wield anything; the others are
irrelevant.
Allowing jabberwocks to wear gloves and wield weapons (or corpses)
seems like a bigger bug than the purely hypothetical one that dragons
who hit with cockatrice corpses won't petrify their targets.

[TJR]

On 26 Jul., 02:47, Pat Rankin <r.pat.ran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Allowing jabberwocks to wear gloves and wield weapons (or corpses)
> seems like a bigger bug than the purely hypothetical one that dragons
> who hit with cockatrice corpses won't petrify their targets.

In that sense the bug is partially "fixed" because those objects will
never do their specials.

I haven't checked how wepaon enchantment enters damage when
polymorphed, but I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be weird.