Question

In Nethack, a blue lowercase “q” represents this rare monster, which crosses water by walking on the ceiling using its “sucker feet”. In the classic Danielle Berry-designed strategy game M.U.L.E., a creature named for this monster randomly appears on mountain tiles and can be caught for extra money. This creature partially names the only game published by Gregory Yob, in which it is usually asleep, but can be woken up by the sound of a “crooked arrow”. Two caves that contain bottomless pits and (-5[1])two with “super bats” are among the twenty numbered caves connected in a (*) dodecahedral shape navigated by the player searching for this creature. (-5[1])The pig-like mascot (10[1])of the chat app Discord, which appears when certain pages are empty or can’t be loaded, is named for this creature. For 10 points, name this beast introduced in a 1972 text adventure titled Hunt the [this creature]. ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

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