The Prodigal Clown
Deep within the bowels of the "Fun" House, you are attacked by another of that place's evil denizens, which leaps at you from the shadows with a blood-curdling shriek of laughter. You dive and roll underneath the apparition, then leap to your feet and, swallowing your fear, reply with an assault of your own.
The creature dodges and deflects every one of your punches, and in wonderment you realize: this is not a clown, but a man, with his face painted in mimicry of a clown's, and a skill in the martial arts on par with your own!
"Who are you?" you ask, as you leap backwards to dodge a flurry of blows. "Are you a student of the Way of the Surprising Fist?"
"Fool!" the strange man laughs chillingly. "I am a practitioner of the Bay Lee School of Clown-Fu, and I shall be your death -- as I have been to countless others of your kind!"
And, well, I won't bore you with a blow-by-blow recap of the ensuing fight, but suffice to say that after a long and tense battle (made all the more difficult by the fact that you cringe every time you get some of that horrible greasepaint on your fist), you manage to send the villain to his grave -- a rather small grave, which he will share with perhaps thirty of his brothers.
As you deal the final blow, the scoundrel drops an ancient scroll, stained with the blood of the warriors that fell to his evil techniques.
 | You acquire an item: Teachings of the Fist |
Occurs at The "Fun" House.
Notes
- This adventure only occurs for players on the Way of the Surprising Fist challenge path.
References
- Bay Lee may refer to James Anthony Bailey, creator of the modern circus, of Barnum & Bailey fame, and to Bruce and Jason Lee, martial artists.
- The kanji on the scroll means "root", "man", and "big". If you reverse the order, it means "big penis" since "man-root"/男根 is "penis".
- The title of this adventure is a play on the 1981 kung fu film The Prodigal Son, starring Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, and Lam Ching-ying.
