Ruling combat involving Wandering Monster with Wannabe Vampire against a Cleric

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Originally Posted by LordSnah42

I wanted to visit this question again with a question. If the monsters in combat gain the positives and the negatives of other monsters in combat, cant she just have said oggada boogada boo and both run away? She should get the levels and treasures of both then, correct?

I think you are confusing something, probably related to this FAQ question:

Originally Posted by FAQ

Q. What about during the combat? You said they fight side by side. Does that mean if one monster is affected (positively or negatively) by fire/flame weapons that all of them are?
A. Exactly. A monster's immunity (or weakness) is given to all others in the fight.

That doesn't mean that the monsters have the same abilities. It just means that if one of the monsters is immune to fire, then your fire abilities don't count, even if there are some monsters present that wouldn't normally be immune. However, if the weakness of one monster is, say, a -5 when fighting elves, it doesn't mean that the other monsters are all at -5 against an elf too, but that the whole set of monsters is at a -5.

The 'booga booga' keyword only scares away the Wannabe Vampire. It's only weaknesses that last while the monster is still around to fight that affect the entire group of monsters.