Octorok

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It octo-rocks you like an octo-hurricane. A hurricane of grevious injury. Ow! Ouch!

It shoots a rock at you and beans you in the <eye>. How it beaned you with a rock, you'll never know. Ouch! Ouch!

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.

You acquire 80% chance red pixels

You acquire 70% chance red pixels

You acquire 60% chance red pixels

You gain 5 <substat>.

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Occurs at The Inexplicable Door.

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" is a reference to the classic song by The Scorpions, Rock You Like a Hurricane.
• 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".