Skeletal sommelier

Skeletal sommelier
Monster ID	714
Locations	The Haunted Wine Cellar, The Haunted Wine Cellar (Northwest), The Haunted Wine Cellar (Northeast), The Haunted Wine Cellar (Southwest), The Haunted Wine Cellar (Southeast)
Hit Points	162
Attack	168
Defense	142
No-Hit	178
Initiative	65
Meat	80-120
Phylum	undead
Elements	spooky
Resistance	None
Monster Parts	arm, head, leg, torso
Drops	dusty bottle of Marsala, dusty bottle of Merlot, dusty bottle of Muscat, dusty bottle of Pinot Noir, dusty bottle of Port, dusty bottle of Zinfandel, sommelier's towel, tarnished tastevin
Bounty	disintegrating cork
Accordion	ghost accordion
Manuel Entry
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 You're fighting a skeletal sommelier

These are the reanimated skeletal remains of one of Lord Spookyraven's wine stewards. Historians disagree on why he had so many wine stewards, and theorize that perhaps they were simply additional mistresses disguised as wine stewards.

At this point, though, any academic curiosity you might have is overshadowed by your desire not to get hit over the head with a wine bottle. You spring into action.

Hit Message(s):

He cuts you open with a broken wine bottle, then pours wine into the wound. The blood flows like wine, and the wine flows like blood, and both of those things hurt. A lot. Oof! Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Oof! Oof!

He throws a wine bottle at you. The red, red wine goes to your head, literally. Argh! Ow! Eek! Argh! Argh! Eek!

Critical Hit Message:

He stabs a corkscrew into your eye, carefully pops out the eyeball, and offers it to you to sniff. Ow! Ugh! Ugh! Ouch! Ugh!

Miss Message(s):

He lunges at you with a broken wine bottle, but you point out that it's not a suitable vintage for hand-to-hand combat and he gets embarrassed.

He throws a wine bottle at you, but you duck out of the way, shouting "Would you like some cheese with your wine, that you just missed me with?"

Fumble Message:

He attempts to stab you with a corkscrew, but you object to all this screwing around. (FUMBLE!)

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After Combat

You acquire an item: dusty bottle of Muscat (19.3% chance)*

You acquire an item: dusty bottle of Zinfandel (21.1% chance)*

You acquire an item: dusty bottle of Port (19.7% chance)*

You acquire an item: dusty bottle of Merlot (20.6% chance)*

You acquire an item: dusty bottle of Pinot Noir (19.3% chance)*

You acquire an item: dusty bottle of Marsala (20.7% chance)*

• If you are on the appropriate bounty hunt:

You acquire an item: disintegrating cork (100% chance)*

You gain ? <substat>.

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Occurs at Wine Racks.

Notes

• Despite the running joke in the Kingdom of various lines of text forcibly refusing to end in a preposition (to the point of immediately rephrasing them), one of the miss messages does just that (namely, "Would you like some cheese with your wine, that you just missed me with?"). Though of course since this is a sentence shouted by a character in combat, perhaps it can be excused.

References

• The hit message about cheese refers to the classic insult, "Would you like some cheese to go with that *whine*?"
• One of the hit messages refers to the song "Red Red Wine".
• The miss message about a suitable vintage for hand-to-hand combat is a reference to Monty Python's Australian Table Wines sketch. The part about him becoming embarrassed might be further reference to a Monty Python sketch "Are You Embarrassed Easily?."
• The hit message referring to blood flowing like wine is a reference to Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities.