Lowercase B
| Lowercase B | |
|---|---|
| Monster ID | 934 |
| Locations | The Enormous Greater-Than Sign |
| Hit Points | 70 |
| Attack | 58 |
| Defense | 52 |
| Initiative | 40 |
| Meat | None |
| Phylum | slime |
| Elements | None |
| Resistance | None |
| Monster Parts | ascender, bowl, counter |
| Manuel Entry | |
| refreshedit data | |
You're fighting a lowercase BYou descend the slant of the greater-than sign and encounter a lower-case b. It advances on you, making a strange sizzling noise.
Hit Message(s):
It bumps into you with the tall part on top of it. Ooh! Ow! Argh! Ouch!
It bashes, bludgeons, and belligerently berates you. Ooh! Eek! Oof! Argh!
It hits you with the edge of its bottom loop. Oof! Oof! Ooh! Ooh!
It wraps its bottom loop around your neck and gives you a serious case of bruise-around-the-collar. Ow! Ouch! Ooh!
It tries to bump into you, but you duck behind a giant apostrophe.
It moves toward you to attack, but gets distracted by a nearby floating lower-case E.
It tries to crush your foot, but you quickly protect your foot with a nearby left bracket.
It slides toward you, but accidentally steps on a caret and gets frozen in place for a while. (FUMBLE!)
 | You acquire an item: left parenthesis |
| You gain 14.5 <substat>. |
Occurs in The Enormous Greater-Than Sign
Notes
- This monster appears statistically equivalent to the acid blob.
- The fumble message refers to the fact that in Nethack, carets represent traps, such as beartraps or sleeping gas traps.
References
- The "bruise-around-the-collar" attack refers to the "ring around the collar" laundry problem made famous in Wisk cleaner ads.
- The message about a floating lowercase e refers to the floating eye monster from Nethack, which is represented by a lowercase e.
