Pygmy shaman

Pygmy shaman
Monster ID	1428
Locations	The Hidden Apartment Building
Hit Points	150
Attack	148
Defense	140
Initiative	40
Meat	100-150
Phylum	dude
Elements	None
Resistance	?
Monster Parts	arm, head, leg, torso
Drops colorful toad, crude voodoo doll, smirking shrunken head
Manuel	voodoo glowskull
Manuel Entry
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 You're fighting a pygmy shaman

This apartment must belong to one of the tribe's shamans. (Shamen? Shapeople?) You can tell by the smoking braziers full of odd-smelling leaves, the walls covered with animal pelts and brightly-colored feathers, and the statue in the corner wearing an ugly, leering, angry-looking mask.

Oh, wait -- that isn't a statue. Or a mask.

Hit Message(s):

She rattles a rat skull full of beans. A light fixture falls from the ceiling and cleans your clock. Argh! Ouch!

She reads your palm. Then she cuts it with a handmade shiv. Dag! Ooh! Ooh!

She spins her staff and mutters under her breath. You get a headache, right behind one of your eyes, the kind you just know will linger all damn day. Ooh! Ouch!

She throws some animal bones on the ground and makes a complicated hand gesture over them. You feel a stabbing pain in your <knee>. Ouch! Ow!

She lights some incense, then pokes you with the burning end. Ow! Ugh! (hot damage)

She cracks open an egg and it's full of blood. Freaky! Then she throws it at you. Gross! Oof! Ouch! (sleaze damage)

Critical Hit Message:

She guts you and then reads your future in your own entrails. It's an unsurprisingly brief future. Ouch! Ooh!

Miss Message(s):

She hums and chants, but nothing happens.

She reads your palm. You have a long lifeline, a short love line, and a really long "believe in utter nonsense" line.

She spins her staff and mutters under her breath. You feel your sinuses clear, which is probably not what she was trying to do.

She throws some animal bones on the ground to tell your future. Apparently it's, "you're not getting hit this round."

She lights some incense. It smells pretty nice, but it's not that great an attack.

She cracks open an egg, and looks mystified when it contains another, smaller egg inside. What kind of omen is that?

Fumble Message:

She notices that the crystal on her staff is not properly attuned for fighting someone your size and pauses to recalibrate it. (FUMBLE!)

Special Move(s):

The shaman waves some feathers in your face and makes some offensive ooga booga noises.

You acquire an effect: Once-Cursed (duration: 10 Adventures)

or, if you have Once-Cursed

You lose an effect: Once-Cursed

You acquire an effect: Twice-Cursed (duration: 10 Adventures)

or, if you have Twice-Cursed

You lose an effect: Twice-Cursed

You acquire an effect: Thrice-Cursed (duration: 10 Adventures)

or, if you have Thrice-Cursed

You acquire an effect: Thrice-Cursed (duration: 10 Adventures)

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After Combat

You gain 100-150 Meat (average: 125, stdev: 10.61)*

You acquire an item: smirking shrunken head (? chance)*

You acquire an item: colorful toad (? chance)*

You acquire an item: crude voodoo doll (? chance)*

You gain some <substat>.

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Occurs in The Hidden Apartment Building.