Ghost miner
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 You're fighting a ghost minerApparently this mine is haunted, because as you near the shaft, you're attacked by what appears to be a ghost miner.
He's unaccompanied by a ghost parent or a ghost guardian, and he's swinging his ghost mattock around in a decidedly dangerous fashion.
Hit Message(s):
The miner coughs up a disgusting cloud of ghost dust and blows it in your direction. Ugh! Argh! (spooky damage)
The miner swings his ghost mattock at you. You sustain a miner injury. Ha ha. Argh! Ouch! (spooky damage)
The miner pulls a ghost canary out of his pocket and throws it at you. You get pecked in the groin. Ouch! Ooh! (spooky damage)
Critical Hit Message:
The miner pulls his mattock back to swing at you, but instead hits the ceiling of the shaft and causes a cave in. Rocks hit you in your <ear> and your <nipple>. Ugh! Ow! Argh! (spooky damage)
Miss Message(s):
The miner charges at you, but, being incorporeal, passes through you without harm.
The miner swings his ghost mattock at you, but you jump behind a mine cart.
The miner pulls a ghost canary out of his pocket and throws it at you, but poisonous ghost gas knocks it out before it can get to you.
Fumble Message:
The miner pulls his mattock back to swing at you, but instead hits the ceiling of the shaft and causes a cave in. Perhaps remembering the cave in that turned him into a ghost, he cowers in fear.
Occurs at The Knob Shaft.
- The ghost miner has Physical Resistance. Physical and spooky attacks will inflict only 1 damage, even with a critical hit. The only expeditious way to defeat this monster is to use non-spooky elemental damage attacks or spells.
- Any non-elemental familiar attacks and combat items count as physical damage.
- If you are attacking with non-spooky physical damage, you will not be able to defeat this monster unless you are attacking with dual-wielding or Ambidextrous Funkslinging, or have brought along an attack familiar. The reason is that this monster has 31 HP, so, if you only do 1 damage per round, you will almost, but not quite, beat the monster before the 30 round limit is over.
[edit] References
- The description of this monster (He's unaccompanied by a ghost parent or a ghost guardian) is a play on the term "miner". A homonym for the word "miner" is "minor", a "minor" being an underaged person that rarely ventures into the world without a family member nearby.
- The third missed attack text refers to the old coal miners' practice of taking a caged canary down into the mine with them as an early warning system against build-ups of methane or carbon monoxide gas. If the bird stopped singing, dangerous levels of gas were amounting and the miners knew to evacuate.
- The third attack message references black lung disease. Miners got this from breathing coal dust.
- The description of this monster and the monster himself may also be a reference to a villain from Scooby Doo named "Miner Forty-niner"
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