👉 A deserted shop looks like an ordinary shop, but it has no shopkeeper and some of its wares are mimics.
A deserted shop is a GnollHack special room. It has a parquet or marble floor and is stocked like a randomly chosen kind of shop, but the merchandise includes mimics disguised as items:
- One is a Gargantuan Mimic carrying a wand of identify.
- One is a giant mimic carrying a wand of town portal.
- Each remaining square in the shop has a 1 in 4 chance of an ordinary mimic.
A game has at most one deserted shop, on a level between 10 and 20 of the Dungeons of Doom, and that level gets no ordinary shop. Like a real shop, it is a room with exactly one door and no stairs. It is always unlit.