BASIC Elemental

BASIC Elemental
Monster ID	87
Locations	Menagerie Level 1
Hit Points	40
Attack	50
Defense	45
No-Hit	60
Initiative	60
Meat	None
Phylum	elemental
Elements	None
Resistance	None
Monster Parts	head, arm, leg, subroutine, torso
	Drops GOTO
Manuel Entry
	refreshedit data

You're fighting a BASIC Elemental

10 PRINT "YOU'RE GOING TO DIE, PUNY ADVENTURER!"
20 GOTO 10

Hit Message(s):

It GOTOs you in the <face>. Eek! Ow! Ouch!

FOR X = 1 TO 5
PRINT "PUNCH!"
NEXT X Argh! Ouch! Ooh!

Critical Hit Message:

INPUT "What is your name"; UserName$; PRINT "Sizable soupcon of pain"; UserName$ Ooh! Ow! Eek!

Miss Message(s):

It tries to GOTO you in the <bung>, but misses.

The BASIC Elemental tries to punch you in the <solar plexus>, but it gets stuck in an infinite loop and can't proceed.

Fumble Message:

B124 Label "asswhup" has literal subscripts out of range. (FUMBLE!)

After Combat

You acquire an item: GOTO (30% chance)*

You gain 12-13 <substat>.

Notes

Attacks by this monster are rumored to possibly give the Infinite Loop status effect.

The BASIC program in the adventure text produces an infinite loop, printing "YOU'RE GOING TO DIE, PUNY ADVENTURER!" repeatedly.
The basic elements making up the image of the BASIC Elemental are a few lines of a simple but better-behaved BASIC program.

10 CLS

20 PRINT "HELLO WORLD!"

30 FOR X = 1 TO 2

40 NEXT X

60 END

This program, if actually entered into a BASIC compiler or interpreter and run, would clear the screen, print "HELLO WORLD", pause for a brief instant (long enough for the computer to count from 1 to 2), then end. (Note that the "CLS" command will only work in some versions of BASIC. In others, this program will just result in a syntax error on line 10 and immediately stop)
"Hello World!" is traditionally the program used to demonstrate to students the basics of the language and how to use its compiler or interpreter.
One of the attack messages is another small BASIC program:

FOR X = 1 TO 5

PRINT "PUNCH!"

NEXT X

PUNCH!

Note that depending on the BASIC version used, it may need line numbers to run correctly.