Licorice snake

Licorice snake
Monster ID	1497
Locations	Gumdrop Forest
Hit Points	75% of Monster Defense
Attack	Player's Moxie+1 (min 30, max 600)
Defense	Player's Muscle+1 (min 30, max 600)
Initiative	0
Meat	None
Phylum	beast
Elements	None
Resistance	None
Monster Parts	head, tail
Drops anise-flavored venom, licorice whip
Manuel Entry
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 You're fighting a licorice snake

This snake is made out of black licorice, because that's the only real kind of licorice (the other kind is 'cherry-flavored sugar straw,' and while it's pretty tasty, it ain't licorice). Its body is hollow inside, like an emo teenager, except that cavity is filled with pure venom. Like a really bitter emo teenager.

Hit Message(s):

It whips you in the <skull> with its licorice-whip tail. Ow! Ooh!

It gives you a tongue-lashing, and since it's got a forked tongue, it hurts twice as much. Ouch! Eek!

It whips its tail and whips you in the tail. Eek! Eek!

It wraps around your solar plexus and squeezes until your solar plexus turns purple. Eek! Oof!

It wraps around your neck and squeezes until you black out. Ouch! Argh!

Critical Hit Message:

It offers you a candy apple. You bite into it, and you're suddenly flooded with horrible realizations about the nature of good and evil, your own mortality, and that it's not okay to eat shellfish. Your brain snaps a little under the pressure. Ooh! Ooh! Eek! Eek! Eek!

Miss Message(s):

It tries to bite you, but you dodge the licorice fangs.

It whips you with its tail, but you don't let that licorice whip whip your ass.

It tries to give you a tongue-lashing, but you laugh at its forked-tongue lisp.

It tries to whip you in the giblets, but doesn't whip it good.

Fumble Message:

It offers you a candy apple. You decline to bite into it, and it has to rethink its whole evil strategy. (FUMBLE!)

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After Combat

+X Candy

Or if you overkilled with Stench Damage:

The snake is so grossed out by your foul stenches that it vomits up some additional venom as it croaks.
+1 Poison Jar

Then, regardless of Candy or Poison:

You acquire an item: anise-flavored venom (10% chance)*

You acquire an item: licorice whip (1% chance)*

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Occurs at Gumdrop Forest.

Notes

• This monster cannot be copied.
• A successful hit from this monster has a chance of affecting you:

You are poisoned by the attack...

You acquire an effect: Really Quite Poisoned (duration: 5 Adventures)