Monster Modifier

A Monster Modifier alters the way a monster looks or behaves. They were introduced with the One Crazy Random Summer path, but can also be encountered outside the path by using items that have the effect of giving +Random Monster Modifiers.

Monsters can have multiple modifiers, for example by being on the One Crazy Random Summer path and having the Curse of Randomness will make every monster have 2 modifiers.

Modifiers

Name prefix	Image variation	Notes
1337	none	Name is spelt in leet speak, e.g. "paper towelgeist" becomes "p4p3r 70w31g3157"
American	American flag overlay	All hit sound effects changed to jingoistic phrases such as "AMERICA!" "LAND OF THE FREE!" "EAGLE!" "HOME OF THE BRAVE!" "INCOME INEQUALITY!" "SYSTEMIC RACISM!" "MOM!" "APPLE PIE!"
Annoying	none	Sometimes prevents you from doing anything: "He makes the most annoying noise you've ever heard, stopping you in your tracks." Sometimes prevents your familiar from acting: "It makes the most annoying noise you've ever heard. %familiarname winces." Block rate starts very high, but decreases as combat continues.
Artisanal	None	None
Askew	Tilted	+10% attack
Australian	Upside down	All hit sound effects replaced with Australian exclamations such as "JUMBUCK!" "G'DAY!" "TUCKERBAG!" "OY!" "CRIKEY!" "BILLABONG!"
Blurry	Blurry	none
Bouncing	Bounces	+50% attack
Broke	none	Sets base meat drop to 8-12. Can apply even if the monster's normal meat drop is 0, so such a monster will actually drop more meat when broke.
Cartwheeling	Image rolls	Sometimes avoids attacks and attack-like skills: "It cartwheels out of the way of your attack."
Clingy	none	After defeating the monster, you will immediately fight it again. Escaping combat by not defeating the monster will prevent you from fighting it a second time. Uncopyable monsters will not receive this modifier. "No! Don't leave me!"
Cloned	Two images (one on top of the other)	Attacks twice. Single monsters are treated as group size 2. All stats are doubled.
Cloud-based		none
Clowning		Drops 2-3 clown-themed items (acid-squirting flower, big red clown nose, bloody clown pants, big bass drum, clown shoes, clown skin, long skinny balloon) with a roughly equal probability of any particular item
Cowardly	Yellow	Never attacks
Cursed	none	Curses you when it attacks: "It drags a finger down your cheek and whispers "randomer..." You acquire an effect: Curse of Randomness (duration: 10 Adventures) This modifier does not occur for monsters with 2 or more modifiers. Does not inflict Curse of Randomness if you already have the effect.
Dancin'	Image skews sideways	+50% defense
Disguised	Replaced by random outfit image	none
Drunk		Drops 2-3 "good" or lower quality drinks with a potency of 3 or less. May rarely drop "awesome" quality drinks (e.g. flask of port) or cocktails with flies in them (gift items).
Electrified		Deals damage equal to 20% of your maximum HP, and returns MP equal to the same amount every round it acts: : "A bolt of lightning arcs from your foe to you." You lose X hit points. You gain X Mana Points.
Filthy		Deals 20% of your maximum HP in stench damage every round it acts: "Ugh. It smells awful."
Floating	Hovers up and down	+50% defense
Foul-mouthed		Deals 20% of your maximum HP in sleaze damage every round it acts: "<He> swears like a sailor."
Fragile	none	Has just 1 HP
Fratty		Drops 2-3 items from the Orcish Frat House (deodorant, frilly skirt, homoerotic frat-paddle, ice-cold fotie, ice-cold Sir Schlitz, Orcish baseball cap, Orcish cargo shorts) with a roughly equal probability of any particular item
Frozen		Cold-aligned, cannot attack. "He is frozen in place, and cannot attack you."
Generous	none	Increased item drop rate (probably +100%)
Ghostly	Faded image	Physical damage reduced by 90%
Haunted		Deals 20% of your maximum HP in spooky damage every round it acts: "<She> looks at you, and your heart seizes up with fear."
Hilarious	Image replaced with image of salad	Combat messages replace "salad" for other words. Anatomical Injuries will refer to salad-themed 'organs' like "garlic crouton".
Hopping-mad	Hops from side to side	Always hits no matter how high your Moxie is, like a Gremlin
Hot	None	Deals 20% of your maximum HP in hot damage every round it acts: "Waves of unbearable heat radiate from <it>, roasting you where you stand."
Huge	Image is twice as big	All stats doubled
Ice-cold	Image is blue	Monster is cold-aligned
Invisible	No image	None
Jittery	Jiggles	Always wins initiative
Lazy	Sideways	Sometimes doesn't attack: "He is too lazy to attack you."
Left-handed	Flipped horizontally	Attack and defense swapped
Narcissistic	none	Occasionally skips attack with message "It pulls out a mirror and admires its reflection for a while."
Negaverse	Black and white reversed in picture block or outline thicker and gray depending on browser.	This modifier does not occur for monsters with 2 or more modifiers.
Obscene		None
Optimal	None	Combat does not take an adventure. Only occurs while in HC/Ronin while on the One Crazy Random Summer challenge path.
Phase-shifting	Transparency fades in and out	Blocks skills sometimes: "<He> blinks out of existence before you can use that skill." Blocks attacks sometimes: "<He> blinks out of existence before your attack can connect." Does not block combat items.
Pixellated	Pixellated	Drops 3-5 pixels (40% white, 15% red, 15% blue, 15% green, 15% black) Hit sound effects replaced with BLEEP!, BEEP!, or BOOP!.
Quacking		All hit sound effects replaced with QUACK!, all monster messages replaced with Quack!
Red-hot	Red	Monster is hot-aligned
Restless	Moves all over the page	Sometimes dodges attacks: "<He> quickly moves out of the way of your attack." Sometimes blocks skills: "<He> moves out of the way before you can use that skill." Sometimes blocks items: "<He> will have moved by the time you can finish using that item." If using 2 combat items via Ambidextrous Funkslinging, both combat item block chances are rolled separately.
Shaky	Image shakes rapidly	Attacks 3 times every round
Short	Image is half as tall	Attack halved, Defense doubled
Skinny	Image is half as wide	Attack and Defense are both halved
Shy	Briefly pops up from the bottom of the screen	None
Sleazy	Pink-ish purple-ish	Monster is sleaze-aligned
Solid gold		Sets base meat drop to 800-1200, overrides Broke
Spooky	Gray	Monster is spooky-aligned
Stingy	none	Reduced item drop rate (probably -50%)
Stinky	Green	Monster is stench-aligned
Throbbing	Pulsates (small to big)	Double HP
Ticking	none	Counts down to an explosion which will deal 1 million damage. If you somehow manage to survive this, you will still lose. If you return to combat after losing, you will then instantly win. (Stupid complicated game.) Does not count down while stunned. You hear a faint ticking sound coming from inside of <its> stomach. The ticking sound seems louder now, and more urgent... <It> explodes. You lose 1,000,000 hit points.
Tie-dyed	Has color gradient	Drops 2-3 hippy items (beach glass bead, carob chunks, clay peace-sign bead, filthy knitted dread sack, filthy corduroys, hemp string, herbs, patchouli incense stick, phat turquoise bead, reodorant, tambourine bells, Uncle Jick's Brownie Mix, wad of tofu) with a roughly equal probability of any particular item.
Tiny	A little dot	All stats set at 10% of normal before applying bonus Monster Level
Turgid	None	HP is multiplied by 5
Twirling	Image spins	Monster randomly misses with the message "He is too dizzy to successfully attack you."
Unlucky	None	Attack, Defense, and HP set to 13. Overrides all other stat modifying modifiers.
Unstoppable	None	Immune to stuns and staggers
Untouchable	None	Damage from all sources is capped at 5.
Wet		Deals 20% of your maximum HP in cold damage every round it acts: "He splashes you with water. It's cold!"
Yuletide	Green and red	Drops 3-5 Crimbo consumables (candy cane, eggnog, fruitcake, gingerbread bugbear) with a roughly equal probability of any particular item

Sources

Source	Type	Notes
One Crazy Random Summer	Path	Just being in the path
Curse of Randomness	Effect	From monsters with the cursed modifier (10 turns), or using Powdered dice (100 turns)
dice ring	Accessory	Reward for completing One Crazy Random Summer as a Seal Clubber May not equip more than one
dice belt buckle	Accessory	Reward for completing One Crazy Random Summer as a Turtle Tamer May not equip more than one
dice-print pajama pants	Pants	Reward for completing One Crazy Random Summer as a Pastamancer
dice-shaped backpack	Back Item	Reward for completing One Crazy Random Summer as a Sauceror
dice-print do-rag	Hat	Reward for completing One Crazy Random Summer as a Disco Bandit
dice sunglasses	Accessory	Reward for completing One Crazy Random Summer as an Accordion Thief May not equip more than one
Insani Tea	Effect	Obtained from cuppa Insani tea (30 Adventures) +3 Random Monster Modifiers
kill screen	Familiar equipment	Dropped by Puck Man or Ms. Puck Man after 256 kills Can be equipped by most familiars

Notes

• Bosses are only affected by some modifiers. As such, these monsters will never be clingy (because they cannot be copied otherwise), and also cannot be fragile, nor unlucky, among other effects.
  • Additionally, monsters that cannot be copied (but are not bosses) will also never be clingy, but can be unlucky or fragile.
• Modifiers that cause additional items to drop (clowning, drunk, fratty, pixellated, tie-dyed, yuletide) stack, dropping in the following order: tie-dyed, fratty, clowning, drunk, pixellated, and yuletide.
• Modifiers that alter hit sound effects (Australian, American, pixellated, quacking) do not overlap: American takes precedence, then pixellated, then quacking, then Australian.
• A monster that is both shaky and cloned will attack 3 times in total.
• A monster that is both ticking and cloned or shaky will only count down once per unstunned round, even though it acts twice.

Modifiers that adjust a monster's stats take effect before adjustments for Monster Level.

• Modifiers that alter the monster's attack, defense, and HP will overlap. A monster that is both turgid and throbbing will have 10x HP, a turgid and short monster will have 2.5x HP.
• Scaling monsters are unaffected by modifiers that alter monster attack, defense, or HP.
  • Monsters with scaling attack/defense but fixed HP will still have their HP modified by turgid, cloned, etc.
• Fragile overrides all other modifiers that affect HP, except for unlucky.
• Unlucky overrides all other modifiers that affect attack, defense and HP, including fragile. (Thus, a fragile unlucky monster will have 13 HP instead of 1 HP).
• Modifiers that affect the monster's elemental alignment are mutually exclusive. Modifiers that add an elemental damage aura can overlap.
• Encounters with clingy monsters are not considered underwater, so the sea cowbell will strangely not work on a clingy sea cow's copy.