Underworld Tree
| Underworld Tree | |
|---|---|
| Monster ID | 866 |
| Locations | The Shivering Timbers |
| Hit Points | Scales with player stats |
| Attack | Scales with player stats |
| Defense | Scales with player stats |
| Initiative | Indeterminate |
| Meat | None |
| Phylum | Indeterminate |
| Elements | None |
| Resistance | None |
| Monster Parts | Indeterminate |
| Drops | Underworld trunk, Underworld acorn |
| Manuel Entry | |
| refreshedit data | |
You're fighting the Underworld TreeThe roaring, splintering noises you've been hearing reach a deafening crescendo as a massive tree trunk drops from the sky, slamming into the earth to your left, extruding roots to stand firmly. Then another, equally enormous trunk slams into the earth to your right. Shaken, you look up, and up, and up . . .
Many ancient cultures have the legend of a World Tree, a tree so huge it supports the entire heavens. It's the benign uniter of the cosmos, supporter of all life on earth.
This thing is the opposite of that. Its bark is stained red with the blood of other unfortunate adventurers, and now it's cast its baleful gaze upon you. Let's hope you're way more than an okay lumberjack, or you're going to be pulp, and that's no fiction.
Hit Message(s):
It branches out in its attacks by impaling you on a branch. Argh! Ugh! Argh! Ouch! Oof! Ooh!
It stomps on you with one massive trunk. You wish it'd make like a tree and leave. Ooh! Ugh! Ouch! Argh! Oof! Ugh!
It pelts you with dire pinecones. You pine for a time when you weren't in this much pain. Eek! Ugh! Eek! Oof! Ow! Ugh!
It smashes your <eye> with one leafy fist. You can't see the forest for the pain. Oof! Argh! Ugh! Ouch! Eek! Oof!
It roars a mighty "TIIIMBEEEEEER!" and falls backward, body-slamming you (and a few hundred yards of forest on either side of you). The parts of you that aren't a wet, sticky paste right now will take a while to heal the parts that are. Ugh! Oof! Ugh! Oof! Argh! Argh!
It tries to impale you on a branch, but you're a branch manager.
It tries to stomp on you with one of its trunks, but you carve your initials in it instead.
It tries to pelt you with pinecones, but misses, and pines for the missing cones.
It tries to punch you with a leafy fist, but you tell it to leaf you alone.
It stops attacking to go look for its wife, who vanished some time ago. Since it can't remember what she looked like, it takes a while. (FUMBLE!)
Defeat Message:
A cold Petember rain begins to fall, but you don't cry; you use a little patience and hack away with the Ax of L'rose until the Underworld Tree falls. I wouldn't say it was so easy, but you did it! Now all you have to do is clear out the remaining undead trees, and everything can go back to as normal as everything gets around here.
 | You acquire an item: Underworld trunk |
 | You acquire an item: Underworld acorn |
| You gain ? <substat>. |
Occurs at The Shivering Timbers.
Notes
- This monster becomes available with the Ax of L'rose equipped, after having defeated 20 other trees in The Shivering Timbers with the Ax equipped.
- You do not have to wear the Vestments of the Treeslayer to get the chance of fighting and/or defeating it.
References
- The line about being "more than an okay lumberjack" references Monty Python's Lumberjack Song.
- "...you're going to be pulp, and that's no fiction" is an unabashedly blatant reference to Pulp Fiction.
- The most famous world tree is probably the Norse Yggdrasil but there are indeed world trees in different mythologies
- The fumble message is a reference to the Ents in Lord of the Rings, who had lost their wives, but couldn't remember what they look like.
- "A cold November rain" and "a little patience" are lyrics from the Guns and Roses songs November Rain and Patience, respectively.
