Magic dragonfish

This page is about a monster. For the familiar, see Magic Dragonfish.

Magic dragonfish
Monster ID	758
Locations	Madness Reef
Hit Points	750
Attack	500
Defense	360
No-Hit	510
Initiative	50
Meat	160-240
Phylum	fish
Elements	None
Resistance	None
Monster Parts	head, tail, fin
Drops dragonfish caviar, rough fish scale, seaweed
Manuel Entry
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 You're fighting a magic dragonfish

This is one of those really fancy fish, with all the colors and the long fin bits and whatnot. Somebody who spends a lot of money maintaining an aquarium would probably know what those fin bits are called.

It swims toward you menacingly, reminding you why you've always preferred the honesty and simplicity of a goldfish.

Hit Message(s):

It belches at you, buffeting you with bubbles filled with the stench of soggy, partially-digested potato chips. Ow! Eek! Ugh! Ouch! Ouch! Argh! Argh! Ouch! Ugh! (stench damage)

It taps you on the tongue with one of its long fin bits. You have a very short, very introspective, very frightening series of hallucinations. Ow! Eek! Ugh! Ooh! Ow! Argh! Ouch! Argh! Oof! Ow! (spooky damage)

It expels a blast of particularly cold water. It's like that time you took a cold shower while you were in a public pool. Brrrrrrrrrrr. (cold damage)

It hugs you with its fin bits in a way that makes you pretty uncomfortable. Ugh! Eek! Ouch! Ouch! Ugh! Argh! Ugh! Ow! Ouch! (sleaze damage)

I^[sic] breathes a gout of flame at you. The fire hurts you almost as much as the idea of underwater fire. Eek! Argh! Ow! Ouch! Argh! Oof! Ugh! Ow! Eek! (hot damage)

Critical Hit Message:

It bites you on the neck while slapping your elbow and your head with two different fin bits. You've been bitten and fin-bitten! Eek! Ow!

Miss Message(s):

It belches and stares as you, as if waiting for you to react. You don't.

It gets tangled up in its own fin bits and has to spend a few moments composing itself. And a jingle for a tuna commercial.

It starts to hit you with one of its fin bits, but changes its mind and hits itself with it, instead. It grins as its pupiles^[sic] dilate.

It tires to give you an inappropriate fin hug, but you manage to maintain your personal space.

It expels a blast of cold water at you, but you use one of your own special talents to warm up the water in your immediate vicinity.

Instead of attacking you, it frolics in some autumn mists. Autumn mists that only it can see.

Special Move(s):

The dragonfish taps you on the tongue with one of its long, brightly-colored fin thingies. Your pupils dilate to twice the size of your eyes. Somehow.

You acquire an effect: The Colors... (duration: 5 Adventures)

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After Combat

You gain 160-240 Meat (average: 200, stdev: 16.73)*

You acquire an item: dragonfish caviar (5% chance)*

You acquire an item: rough fish scale (4% chance)*

You acquire an item: seaweed (5% chance)*

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Occurs at Madness Reef.

Notes

• The magic dragonfish can hit with any of its elemental attacks, regardless of your Moxie.

References

• The second miss message is a play on the different meanings of the word "compose"; the first meaning "to calm oneself down", the second meaning "to to produce or create a literary or musical work."
• The "frolics in some autumn mists" message is a reference to the song "Puff, the Magic Dragon" written by Leonard Lipton and Peter Yarrow, and popularized by folk group Peter, Paul and Mary. It is widely believed to refer to marijuana, although the song's authors have repeatedly denied this.