Mind flayer
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 You're fighting a mind flayerThis is a mind flayer, not to be confused with a mime fileter. This thing flays minds, and that other thing probably cuts mimes into steaks. Good riddance. Dumb mimes.
Hit Message(s):
He flays your mind for a while. It hurts a lot, and now you can't remember your locker combination. Eek! Ow! Ouch! Oof!
Flay you, flay me. Flay it for always -- that's the way it should be. You're not sure what hurts more - the flaying, or the pop flashback. Ooh! Oof! Eek! Ow!
Critical Hit Message:
He flays your mind, and the rest of you follows. After he's done, you find yourself color blind, and very shallow. Argh! Argh! Ouch!
Miss Message(s):
He starts to flay your mind, but gets distracted by all the weird stuff you remember.
He tries to flay your mind, then realizes minds don't have skin.
Fumble Message:
He tries to flay your mind, but trips over a frayed rug and ends up splayed on the floor.
Occurs in The Dungeons of Doom.
Notes
- A successful attack from this monster has a chance of confusing you:
You are confused by the attack...
- There exists a stuffed version of this monster.
References
- As with everything else in the Dungeons of Doom, this is a reference to the computer game NetHack.
- Mind Flayers are a dark tentacled squid-faced creatures with strong will powers which commonly appear in many games, such as the BioWare products Neverwinter_Nights and the Baldur's Gate Series. Their species is identified as Illithids in DnD, while Mind Flayers are specifically the pure species resulting from implanting their larva in the brains of humans.
- The second attack references Lionel Richie's 1985 song Say You Say Me.
- The confusion status likely references the mental attack of the Mind Flayers in DnD, but it could also reference Cthulhu, who could cause temporary insanity and is close enough in description to be the basis for the DnD Mind Flayers.
- The third attack references the song Free Your Mind by En Vogue.
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