Fire Cultist

Fire Cultists are monsters appearing in R'Lyeh and the Temple of Cthulhu. Their main ability is that whenever the player or an ally comes within radius 4, the Fire Cultist will throw fire, burning the player's or ally's cell for 20 turns. After throwing fire, the Fire Cultist becomes a regular Cultist.

Fire Cultists also appear in Crossroads lands after the player collects Hyperstones.

• Fire Cultists will drop an Orb of the Dragon when killed. This is only possible either through killing them from afar, either by using Orb of the Mind or Orb of the Dragon, or stunning them with Orb of Stunning or Orb of Impact so they are incapable of throwing their fire at you, so you can kill them up close, or by using Orb of Teleport to bring yourself directly next to them and kill them before they can throw their fire.
• Note that in order to actually kill a Fire Cultist with Orb of the Dragon, you must completely cut off all cells around it with fire, alongside setting the occupied cell on fire, otherwise the Fire Cultist will move to a safe cell on their next move. Furthermore, you must also be out of their throwing range, otherwise, they will throw their fire at you as a last resort, causing them to turn into a regular Cultist before incinerating, and dropping nothing.
• Using the Orb of the Dragon to kill Fire Cultists is the intended long term strategy of the Temple of Cthulhu, as it provides a semi-reliable means of maintaining your Fire charges indefinitely, and is essential to surviving the deeper layers of the temple.