You enter the clearing and find it empty. Nothing but trees, darkness, and stars, in every direction.
But after a moment, some of the darkness begins to move. A bugbear-shaped portion of it, in which distant-but-close stars glare like malevolent eyes.
This explains so much. Why the bugbears around here are so weird. Why the darkness of the woods is so complete, even with the moon out. Why you're almost certainly about to get killed by a horror from beyond space.
Falls-From-Sky smells the blood kiwi on your breath and the air grows cold. How he longs to feast on that which his countless young take for granted. His resentment grows, and with it, his size.
Hit Message(s):
Falls-From-Sky glares at you with a fiery eye. You get an instant sunburn. Ooh! Ouch! Oof! Argh! Argh! Oof! Ouch! (hot damage)
Falls-From-Sky tilts his head backwards and emits a mournful, howling noise -- the sound of an entire galaxy being sucked into a black hole. It hits you with the force of a trillion dying stars. Ow! Oof! Ugh! Argh! Ouch! Ow! Ugh! (spooky damage)
Critical Hit Message:
not known
Miss Message(s):
not known
Fumble Message:
not known
Special Move(s):
Falls-From-Sky fills your field of view so fully that you cannot see anything but the space behind him, and the terrible secrets it contains. Your mind collapses in on itself, and your body collapses in on your mind. (autokill on first round)
To fight Falls-From-Sky in hard mode, you need to drink a bloody kiwitini, and enter the fight with the First Blood Kiwi effect it gives. Winning the fight will result in loss of this effect.
Because you cannot see him, you have to follow auditory cues instead, which are less reliable. The three cues correspond to the three actions you can take, and the cue-action pairing is randomized per combat round (this may not be as harsh on lower-kiss runs needs spading).
At low-kiss runs the following might be true needs spading: "Twig snap" will never correspond to hiding behind a rock, nor "shuffling sound" to the puddle, nor "crunching leaves" to the tree.
One effective, but probably unintended, way to defeat this boss is to drink white lightning to acquire blindness, then remove it after combat begins with a seal clubbing Mini-Adventurer or Vermincelli or a Bandersnatch using sauce salve or lasagna bandages.
Stats at 2 kisses: 900 attack, 900 defense, 2000 HP, 60 initiative, hard damage cap 236.