Strangler strangling

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Strangler strangling
Monster ID 649
Locations A Sinister Dodecahedron
Hit Points Scales with player stats
Attack Scales with player stats
Defense Scales with player stats
Initiative 0
Meat None
Phylum construct
Elements None
Resistance None
Monster Parts arm, head, leg, torso
Drops immense cyborg hand
Manuel Entry
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strangler strangling You're fighting a strangler strangling

This is a biomechanical cyborg (wait, is that redundant?) with gigantic hands, all the better to place around your neck and throttle you with. Er, all the better with which to place around your neck and throttle you. Or something.

Hit Message(s):

It puts its huge hand around your entire head and squeezes. Now you know what a lemon feels like. Ouch! Eek! Argh! Argh!

It latches onto your arm instead of your windpipe, and squeezes hard enough to leave a bruise. Ugh! Ouch! Ouch! Ow!

It smacks you across the face with one giant hand. Well, you shouldn't have tried to get fresh. Eek! Ouch! Ooh! Oof!

It latches its gigantic hands around your windpipe and squeezes. You get all choked up. Ooh! Argh! Ow! Oof!

Critical Hit Message:

It claps its hands around your neck and commences to strangling, completely unmoved by your strangled cries for help. When it's done, you're no stranger to strangling. Oof! Ow! Argh! Oof!

Miss Message(s):

It tries to squeeze your head like a lemon, but you distract it with a box of lemonheads.

It tries to choke you, but chokes.

You distract it with a quick giant-palm reading.

Fumble Message:

You try to distract the strangler by doing a little dance. It's so delighted that it gives you a round of applause, which, given its hand size, completely wears it out for a while. (FUMBLE!)


After Combat
You acquire an item: immense cyborg hand (10% chance)*

Occurred in A Sinister Dodecahedron.

References

  • "All the better to place around your neck and throttle you with" is a reference to the fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood; in which Little Red Riding Hood would say to the wolf "what big ears/eyes/teeth you have", and the wolf would reply "All the better to hear/see/eat you with."
  • "Er, all the better with which to place around your neck and throttle you. Or something" is a reference to the fact that grammar dictates a sentence should not end with a preposition, in this case "with," even though doing so is sometimes the clearest way to structure a statement.