Octorok

Octorok
Monster ID	117
Locations	Hero's Field, 8-Bit Realm (Retired)
Hit Points	15
Attack	25
Defense	22
No-Hit	35
Initiative	60
Meat	None
Phylum	beast
Elements	None
Resistance	None
Monster Parts	head, leg
Drops	red pixel, red pixel, red pixel
Manuel Entry
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 You're fighting an Octorok

This is a sort of land-based octopus, which shoots rocks out of its snout (a feature which makes it somewhat less like an octopus.) Er, be careful, I guess...

Hit Message(s):

It octo-rocks you like an octo-hurricane. A hurricane of grievous injury. Eek! Ow!

It shoots a rock at you and beans you in the <solar plexus>. How it beaned you with a rock, you'll never know. Eek! Ow!

It shoots a rock at you, which slams into your throat. Dude, you just got rocked. Ouch! Ouch! Ugh!

It shoots a rock at you. When it hits, you briefly became translucent and hear a series of high-pitched chirps. Maybe that's how pain shows up here. Argh! Eek! Ouch!

Critical Hit Message:

You hear a screech from high in the sky. A giant bird flies down and picks up the octoroc, then squeezes it until it fires a fusillade of rocks at you. Looks like you got roc-octoroc-rocked. Eek! Ooh! Ouch!

Miss Message(s):

It tries to octo-rock you like an octo-hurricane, but remembers it's an octopus, not a scorpion.

It shoots a rock at you, but you roll to the side.

It shoots a rock at you, but you quickly wind a piece of string around it.

Fumble Message:

It shoots a rock at you, but a kid walks up, dressed in a sheet with a bunch of holes in it and holding a paper bag. The rock falls into the kid's bag. "Rats," he says, "not this again." (FUMBLE!)

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After Combat

You acquire an item: red pixel (80% chance)*

You acquire an item: red pixel (70% chance)*

You acquire an item: red pixel (60% chance)*

You gain 6-7 <substat>.

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Occurs at Hero's Field. Occurred at 8-Bit Realm (Retired).

Notes

• This monster was misspelled as Octoroc until June 2, 2006, even though the image name (octorok.gif) was spelled correctly.

References

• Blue and Red Octoroks were common monsters in the overworld of the 1987 NES game, The Legend of Zelda.
• The attack text "it octo-rocks you like an octo-hurricane" and the first miss message are references to the classic song by The Scorpions, Rock You Like a Hurricane.
• The critical hit message is a reference to the roc, a giant bird of Middle-Eastern mythology.
• The 2nd miss text is a pun on the music style "Rock & Roll".
• The 3rd miss text refers to the song We Want A Rock, by They Might Be Giants, which features the lyric "Everybody wants a rock to wind a piece of string around".
• The fumble message refers to the Peanuts Halloween special "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", where Charlie Brown went around in a ghost costume with too many holes, and kept getting rocks when trick-or-treating.