Vicious Easel

Vicious Easel
Monster ID	275
Locations	The Sorceress' Tower (The Stairs)
Hit Points	99999
Attack	99999
Defense	89999
No-Hit	100009
Initiative	0
Meat	None
Phylum	construct
Elements	None
Resistance	None
Monster Parts	arm, head, leg, torso
Drops	None
Manuel Entry
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 You're fighting a Vicious Easel

This is the most vicious, and yet most completely at ease, easel you've ever seen. It practically vibrates with malevolent energy, personal comfort, and the desire to have a canvas propped up on it.

Hit Message(s):

It easily batters you with a set of unfinished canvases. Eek! Ugh! Eek! Ugh! Ugh! Ouch! Ooh! Ooh! Ow! Oof!

It turns around and skewers you with its pointy back leg, then flings you out the window. You feel decidedly not at ease. Ouch! Ooh! Ooh! Eek! Ugh! Eek! Ugh! Oof! Ooh! Ouch!

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After Combat

	You give your opponent the disease, making it nothing more than a Vicious l, or possibly a vicious 'I', it's hard to say. The remaining letter snarls menacingly but can only fall over sideways when it tries to attack.

You gain 40 <substat>.

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Occurs at The Sorceress' Tower (The Stairs).

Notes

• This monster's combat weakness is the disease.
• If you lose, you will receive a hint as to which item to use.
  • First hint: Man, that thing beat you pretty easily.
  • Second hint: Maybe you could beat it if you had some way to make it feel a little more uneasy.
  • Third hint: Basically, you want to remove its sense of easiness.
  • Fourth hint: Perhaps if you had some sort of anti-ease device?
  • Fifth hint: A disease from the "Fun" House ought to do the trick.
• "Dis" is a negative greek prefix. Dis-ease is intended to mean "no ease". Therefore, only L remains.

References

• "Vicious l, or possibly a vicious 'I'" alludes to the similarity between lowercase "L"s and "I"s when viewed in certain fonts, including the Kingdom's own chat pane font. This similarity is frequently used as the basis for creating look-alike accounts, for purposes both malevolent and benign.
• "Giving your opponent the disease" is a reference to The Off Season, a short story from The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. (The "Disease" being chicken pox, which killed the Martians.)