Small barrel mimic
It does a good impression of a monster laying the smack down. Ow! Eek! Ow!
The mimic turns into a reasonable facsimile of your fifth grade teacher, which gives you a stern talking-to. You claw your eyes out in horror. Ow! Ouch! Ouch! Ugh! Ouch! Ugh!
The mimic mimics a rock, and trips you, causing you to fall square on your <face>. Ugh! Argh! Ugh!
The mimic turns into a delicious bag of preztels. You gobble them down, and choke on one. Oof! Ow! Ugh!
Just as you think you're winning the fight, a swarm of miniature barrel-makers jumps out of the barrel and stampede over you! Yup, you've been run over by at least 11 mini coopers. Ow! Ouch! Oof! Ugh! Ouch!
It starts to hit you again, but a miniature barrel-maker jumps out of it and starts pounding on it with a hammer. "Thanks, mini cooper," you say, and sit back to watch the beating.
It does a fairly lousy impression of something that's able to hurt you.
It does an awful impression of a monster hitting you in the <face>.
The mimic turns into a reasonable facsimile of your fifth grade teacher, but her varicose veins form a map that lets you evade her scolding
The mimic mimics a rock and tries to trip you, but you're not trippin'.
The mimic turns into a delicious bag of preztels, but you say "no thanks, I'm trying to cut down."
| You gain 3-7 <substat>. |
Occurs at The Barrel full of Barrels.
Notes
- As of July 5th, 2006, a mimic, if defeated, will drop the item that you would have gotten if you hadn't found a mimic in that barrel.
References
- The "you thought these things could only mimic chests!" is a reference to an RPG cliché where chests are sometimes monsters. Some examples where this is true are: NetHack, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, and Tales of Symphonia.
- The 'bag of pretzels' attack may reference an incident with President George W. Bush, who choked on a pretzel at home while relaxing, causing him to lose consciousness for several minutes.
- "No thanks, I'm trying to cut down" may be a reference to the 1970s children's television show "The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show," in which one recurring element was a young network executive (Fabulous Freddy, Network Vice-President in Charge of Kids' Programming) who would offer the three brothers some sort of candy, such as a cherry-flavored lemon drop or a chocolate-covered ant, and the three would respond in unison, "No thanks -- <finger snap> -- we're tryin' to cut down." However, "No thanks, I'm trying to cut down" is a very common phrase used by nearly everyone who's ever dieted.
- The fifth grade teacher attack is probably a reference to the Nickolodeon show, The Adventures of Pete and Pete. In one episode, a main character's history teacher has varicose veins exactly matching a highway map.
