Worm-riding hooks
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worm-riding hooks
Unlike most hooks, these won’t bring you back – on that, you can rely. They’re designed for getting under the thick, segmented skin of a sandworm, thereby enabling you to ride on its back. Just don’t try to “ride the worm” South of the Border. You’ll find that instead of racing across the desert atop a magnificent beastie, you’ll be eating a little worm that’s been soaking in the most potent alcohol known to man, and you’ll wake up three days later missing a kidney.
Type: weapon (2-handed club)
Power: 50
Cannot be traded
Cannot be discarded
Quest Item
( In-game plural not known; currently impossible to determine) Obtained From
- The Arid, Extra-Dry Desert
- The Sleeper Has Awakened
Messages
You hook it for X damage, you hooker you. ZOT! SMACK! BOOF!
Your hook brings it back for X damage. On that you can rely. KAPOW! BONK! ZOT!
You hook it with an engaging, fascinating story, then hook it for X damage with your worm-riding hooks. WHACK! KERBLAM! BOINK!
References
- This weapon is a reference to "Maker Hooks" from Frank Herbert's Dune series, instruments used by the Fremen to ride sandworms.
- "Unlike most hooks, these won't bring you back" is a general reference to the musical term "hook" -- i.e., the catchy part of a song -- and more specifically to the song "Hook" by Blues Traveler, the eponymous and self-referential hook of which states that "the hook brings you back."
- The last line of the description refers to Mezcal, an alcohol which sometimes has a worm in the bottom of the bottle. The worm absorbs alcohol, and when eaten can make one very inebriated very fast. It also refers to stories of people who, waking up after a night of heavy drinking in Mexico, find themselves in a bathtub of ice and missing a kidney.
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