Skleleton
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 You're fighting a skleleton
This is a scary skleleton. I mean, it's a normal skleleton, but scary in that it's walking toward you clenching its bony fists. Even though it moves in cheap stop-motion, it's menacing.
Hit Message(s):
It detaches a femur and pounds you in the <kidney> with it. Ow! Ugh! Oof! Oof! (spooky damage)
It detaches one of its ribs and throws it at you, hitting you square in the <kidney>. Eek! Ow! (spooky damage)
It chomps on your leg with its skeletal teeth. Which, y'know, are pretty much the same as all other teeth. Still hurts, though. Ugh! Eek! (spooky damage)
It pounds you with its arm bones. You don't find it particularly humerus. Eek! Argh! (spooky damage)
Critical Hit Message:
The fearsome fiend reaches into his ribcage, pulls out a rusty sword and proceeds to duel you ten ways to Tuesday. Whatever that means. Oof! Oof! (spooky damage)
Miss Message(s):
It detaches a femur to pound you with, but loses its balance and falls to the ground.
It throws one of its ribs at you, but some sort of spectral dog catches it before it hits you.
It tries to chomp you with its skeletal teeth, but they start falling out now that the gums are gone.
It pounds you with its arm bones, but you just think that's humerus.
Fumble Message:
He pulls off his head and throws it at you. It bounces harmlessly off of you and rolls away. The skleleton wanders off on all fours searching for it.
Occurs at The Misspelled Cemetary (Pre-Cyrpt).
References
- The "cheap stop-motion" probably refers to the famous stop-motion-animated skeletons created by Ray Harryhausen for the movie Jason and the Argonauts, which was enormously advanced at the time but looks shabby in comparison to modern CGI effects.
- The last line of this enemy's description, "Even though it moves in cheap stop-motion", may also allude to the animated skeleton lead named Jack Skellington, from Tim Burton's 1993 movie The Nightmare Before Christmas. The spectral dog refers to the character's ghostly pet dog Zero.
- The humerus is the long bone in the arm of humans and other things. It is a paronomasia on humerus and humorous, or as the people say, a pun.
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