Steampunk Giant

Steampunk Giant
Monster ID	1337
Locations	Top Floor
Hit Points	150
Attack	145
Defense	135
No-Hit	155
Initiative	40
Meat	80-120
Phylum	humanoid
Elements	None
Resistance	None
Monster Parts	head, arm, leg, torso
Drops	brown felt tophat, brass gear
Accordion	autocalliope
Manuel	steampunk potion
Manuel Entry
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 You're fighting a Steampunk Giant

This giant is wearing a corset and a long, flowing skirt bedecked with gears and copper tubing. She's got a parasol in one hand and some elaborate ray-gun contraption made out of wood, copper, and glowy bits in the other. She also has a top hat with goggles perched on top of them, and she's got a monocle tucked over one eye. She's clearly a girl genius; she looks like the shared fever dream of Charlotte Bronte and Robert Heinlein.

Hit Message(s):

She pulls the trigger on her ornate ray-gun. It lights up and makes noise, but nothing happens to you, so then she kicks you in the <solar plexus>. Ugh! Oof! Ouch!

She loosens her corset and bodyslams you with a huge mound of giant gut. Argh! Ow! Ouch! (sleaze damage)

She pulls a gear off of her skirt and throws it at you, grinding you in the <solar plexus>. Eek! Eek! Argh!

She focuses sunlight through her goggles to sear your <solar plexus>. Huh. The goggles do do something, after all. Oof! Ooh! Oof! (hot damage)

She swats you with her parasol, hitting you where the sun don't shine. Ugh! Ow! Ouch!

Critical Hit Message:

She calls in a zeppelin strike to bombard you with ornate copper, wood, and steam-powered bombs. They're stylish and effective. Ow! Eek! Ugh!

Miss Message(s):

She pulls the trigger on her ornate ray-gun, but it just lights up and makes noise.

She stops to loosen her corset and pat her brow with a handkerchief.

She throws a gear off of you, but it's the wrong gear for how fast you're moving.

She tries to attack you with the goggles, but they do nothing, predictably.

She tries to swat you with her parasol, but she can't get it closed.

Fumble Message:

She tosses a wood, copper, and clockwork grenade at you, but it doesn't explode because she forgot to wind it. (FUMBLE!)

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After Combat

You gain ?80−117? Meat

You acquire an item: brass gear (25% chance)*

You acquire an item: brown felt tophat (10% chance)*

You acquire an item: steampunk potion (15% chance)*

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Occurs at the Top Floor.

Notes

• If you are an Accordion Thief and haven't stolen an accordion from this monster today, this text is added to the introduction:

  Atop one of the giant's workbenches, you see a complicated-looking accordion.

• If you then cast Steal Accordion:

  You tip over a stack of machinery on the opposite side of the room, and while she rushes to deal with it, you snag the accordion.

  You acquire an item: autocalliope

References

• The last bit of the description is a nod towards the steampunk-themed webcomic Girl Genius.
• The "Goggles... do nothing" miss message is an allusion to this quote from Radioactive Man in T.V. show The Simpsons.