Ourang-Outang
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 You're fighting a Ourang-OutangThis large, hairy, slightly deflated-looking*, orange ape is waving a straight-razor at you angrily. Maybe he's upset because he'll never be able to acquire enough shaving cream for all that hair? I mean, if your bikini line covered the entire surface of your body, you'd be unhappy too.
* Not in the sense of being depressed, but of having had some of the air let out of it.
Hit Message(s):
He slashes you with his straight razor. You let out a surprised "Ook," as well as some blood. Ow! Ow! Ouch! Ugh!
He says he wants to be like you-hoo-hoo, and when you point out he can't, he punches you in the knee. Eek! Eek! Ugh! Eek!
He picks you up with his sinewy arms and bodyslams you into the floor.Eek! Ooh! Ugh! Ugh!
He gives you an uncomfortably close shave. Like, uncomfortably close to the bone.Ugh! Oof! Eek! Eek!
Critical Hit Message:
He leaps up onto a chair, jumps up and grabs the ceiling fan, and swings around in circles on it, kicking you with each revolution. You find the whole thing revolting. Argh! Ooh! Ow!
Miss Message(s):
He tries to bodyslam you into the floor, but you grab his arm hair and pull until he lets go.
He tries to give you a shave, but you dodge. Whew, that was a close shave. Or, rather, it wasn't, which is the point.
He tries to slash you with his razor, but hits with the dull side accidentally.
He's too depressed that he'll never be like you-hoo-hoo to attack this round.
Fumble Message:
He raises his fist to smash your head in, then gets distracted and starts grooming you, looking for nits. It's actually the most pleasant nitpicking you've received.
Occurs at The Mouldering Mansion
References
- The Ourang-Outang's use of a straight razor as a weapon refers to the Edgar Allan Poe story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue".
- The monster may also be a reference to the Poe story Hop-Frog, in which a vengeful court jester-midget tricks the king and his followers to dress up like "ourang-outangs" to scare the other people in the court, but then the midget promptly hangs them on a chandelier, sets fire to them, and escapes.
- The footnote in the adventure description and the library card this monster drops are references to the Discworld series of books. The books are noted for their use of comic asides in footnotes, and in the second book, The Light Fantastic, the Librarian of Unseen University was transformed into an orangutan.
- The "you-hoo-hoo" is a reference to a song sung by King Louie, an orangutan, in Disney's animated version of The Jungle Book.
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