Skullbat

Skullbat
Monster ID	45
Locations	Guano Junction
Hit Points	10
Attack	16
Defense	14
No-Hit	26
Initiative	60
Meat	23-33
Phylum	beast
Elements	None
Resistance	None
Monster Parts	head, wing, torso
Drops	broken skull, loose teeth, sonar-in-a-biscuit
Manuel Entry
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 You're fighting a skullbat

This is pretty creepy -- it's a bat with a skull instead of a body. Most bats have skulls in addition to their body, but, y'know.

Hit Message(s):

It gazes a gazely stare deep into your soul with its empty, empty eyes. Ooh! Oof! Argh! (spooky damage)

It headbutts you with its hard, bony skull. Y'know, unlike those soft, fleshy skulls you've heard about. Argh! Argh!

It scratches your <groin> with the pointy ends of its leathery wings. You wish it would have just winged you instead of hitting you dead on. Ooh! Argh!

It chomps on you with its bony teeth. Well, y'know, not really any bonier than normal teeth. Still hurts, though. Ouch! Eek!

Critical Hit Message:

It squeaks a deadly squeak, batters you with its wings, and batters you with its skull. You feel bewitched, bothered, and bewildered.Argh! Ooh!

Miss Message(s):

It gazes deep into your soul, but your soul also gazes back at it. With even more gazely depth.

It tries to headbutt you, but you're just too hard-headed.

It tries to freak you out with its wings, but fortunately you're a wing nut.

It tries to chomp you with its bony teeth, but they fall out since the gums are missing.

Fumble Message:

It starts to butt you with its skull again, but its sonar gets jammed and it ends up ramming itself against a wall. (FUMBLE!)

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After Combat

You gain 25−37 Meat (average: 31.1, stdev: 2.6)*

You acquire an item: broken skull (41.5% chance)*

You acquire an item: loose teeth (20.3% chance)*

You acquire an item: sonar-in-a-biscuit (30.2% chance)*

You gain 4 <substat>.

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Occurs at Guano Junction.

References

• In the first failed attack message, a quote by Friedrich Nietzsche is referred to: "Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the Abyss, the Abyss gazes also into you."
• In the first successful attack message, a quote by David Bowie is referred to: "I gazed a gazely stare at all the millions here / We must have died along, a long long time ago", from The Man Who Sold the World.
• A wingnut is a hardware fastener with a threaded hole with a pair of wings for increasing torque.
• The "Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered" message in the critical hit is the title and in the chorus of a song by Rodgers and Hart