Clockwork Grapefruit
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Ultraviolent,
this horrorshow familiar
spills red, red kroovy.
An attack familiar. A 10 pound clockwork grapefruit does around 9-17 damage each turn. It also causes all the fill-in-the-blank body part references (i.e. "You drop your kentucky-fried meat sword on your <body part>") to change to Nadsat slang from A Clockwork Orange.
Hatchling: unwound clockwork grapefruit
Familiar equipment: false eyelashes
The Cake-Shaped Arena weakness: Obstacle Course
Combat Messages
- Regular messages:
- <name> delivers a horrorshow tolchok to your opponent's gulliver, doing N damage.
- <name> repeatedly kicks your opponent in the stomach for N damage, while singing 'Singing in the Rain.'
- <name> produces a real cutthroat britva, slicing your opponent up for N damage before rolling around in the red, red kroovy.
- <name> smecks cruelly and gives your opponent a bit of the old ultraviolence, doing N damage.
- <name> whips out his oozy and chains your opponent right in the glazzies for N damage.
- With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:
- <name> delivers one last powerful kick, and grabs a little more cutter, O my brothers.
- With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:
- O, my brothers, <name> fillies around the maypole like a real grazhny malchikiwik.
- With wax lips equipped:
- O, my droogies, <name> grins a real horrorshow grin with his wax goobers.
References
- The name of this familiar is a pun on the Stanley Kubrick cult classic film A Clockwork Orange which is based on the Anthony Burgess book of the same name.
- This familiar's haiku also alludes to Alex, the main character of A Clockwork Orange, who found pleasure in acts of extreme violence (among other things), which he called ultraviolence.
- The last line of the haiku refers to a song by Rob Zombie, called Never Gonna Stop (Red Red Kroovy), which was also used by the WWE as the entrance music for pro-wrestler Edge.
- The word "kroovy" is similar to "krovvy," which means "blood" in the Nadsat slang used by the characters in A Clockwork Orange Also in the haiku, "horrorshow" simply means "good".
- The default name for this familiar (unlike "Tort" or another similar name) is "6655321", which is how Alex, the protagonist of that book/movie, is called as, while he's in prison.
- The combat messages generated by this familiar also contain Nadsat slang. Here are their translations:
- <name> delivers a good hit to your opponent's head, doing N damage.
- <name> produces a real cutthroat razor, slicing your opponent up for N damage before rolling around in the red, red blood.
- <name> laughs cruelly and gives your opponent a bit of the old ultraviolence, doing N damage.
- <name> whips out his chain and chains your opponent right in the eyes for N damage.
- <name> delivers one last powerful kick, and grabs a little more money, O my brothers.
- O, my brothers, <name> fools/plays around the maypole like a real dirty boy.
- O, my friends, <name> grins a real good grin with his wax lips.
