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Clockwork Grapefruit

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Clockwork Grapefruit

Clockwork Grapefruit

Ultraviolent,
this horrorshow familiar
spills red, red kroovy.

Ability: An attack familiar. It 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-Specific Equipment: false eyelashes

The Cake-Shaped Arena: Strength: Ultimate Cage Match, Weakness: Obstacle Course

Combat Messages
  • Regular messages:
    <name> delivers a horrorshow tolchok to your opponent's gulliver, doing X damage.
    <name> repeatedly kicks your opponent in the stomach for X damage, while singing 'Singing in the Rain.'
    <name> produces a real cutthroat britva, slicing your opponent up for X damage before rolling around in the red, red kroovy.
    <name> smecks cruelly and gives your opponent a bit of the old ultraviolence, doing X damage.
    <name> whips out his oozy and chains your opponent right in the glazzies for X 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.

Arena Messages

  • When entered in an Obstacle Course:
    <name> doesn't do very well in the obstacle course, because <name> believes in destroying obstacles, not avoiding them.

Notes

  • The Clockwork Grapefruit begins with its familiar name as 6655321 instead of any of the usual names.
  • Damage (regardless of message) is X/2 rounded up to X+6, where X is the familiar weight.
  • The grapefruit attacks 50% of the time, regardless of weight. Each of its attacks are equally likely.

References

  • The name of this familiar is a pun on the Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange which provided the original story for the Stanley Kubrick cult classic film 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 "Singing in the Rain" line refers to a scene in the movie where Alex terrorizes an old man while singing that song.
  • 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 Alex's prisoner ID number in the novel (in the movie, his number is "655321").
  • 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 X damage.
    • <name> produces a real cutthroat razor, slicing your opponent up for X damage before rolling around in the red, red blood.
    • <name> laughs cruelly and gives your opponent a bit of the old ultraviolence, doing X damage.
    • <name> whips out his chain and chains your opponent right in the eyes for X 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.
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