Velvet underground dweller
| Velvet underground dweller | |
|---|---|
| Monster ID | 710 |
| Locations | Mt. Molehill |
| Hit Points | Scales with player stats |
| Attack | Scales with player stats (Base Moxie + 5) |
| Defense | Scales with player stats |
| Initiative | 0 |
| Meat | None |
| Phylum | humanoid |
| Elements | None |
| Resistance | None |
| Monster Parts | head, arm, leg, torso |
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| Bounty | pop art banana peel |
| Manuel Entry | |
| refreshedit data | |
You're fighting a velvet underground dwellerThis is a member of a smooth, suave, and understated tribe of the underground dwellers. Nobody knows what they do, but it seems to involve a lot of hypodermic needles and off-key warbling. Be careful, though, because she's no sweet Jane -- she's a femme fatale!
Hit Message(s):
She says, "taste the whip, in love not given lightly," and soundly thrashes you. Ow!
She blasts you with some white light/white heat. Argh!
She whips you with her black velvet belt, in that slow, southern style. Ow!
She stands around waiting for the Man. When the Man doesn't show up, she bludgeons you out of disappointment. Argh!
She smacks you with a velvet hand. Ow!
She slowly peels a banana and drops the peel in your path. You slip and fall in what is technically a hilarious fashion. Ouch!
She pulls out a lump of plastic and throws it at you. The plastic explodes, which was probably inevitable, showering you with razor-sharp shrapnel. Ow! Oof! Oof!
She says "taste the whip, in love not given lightly," but you decline to taste it. It probably tastes like an old shoe, anyway.
She tries to blast you with white light/white heat, but you dodge.
She tries to whip you with a black velvet belt, but you drop to your knees and she misses.
She stands around waiting for the Man instead of attacking.
She smacks you with a velvet hand, but you're well acquainted with the touch of a velvet hand.
She slowly peels a banana and drops the peel, but you pick it up and toss it in the trash.
She throws a lump of plastic at you. You're sure it's inevitable that the plastic will explode, so you take shelter until it's done. (FUMBLE!)
- If you are on the appropriate bounty hunt:
 | You acquire a bounty item: pop art banana peel |
| You gain Y <substat>. |
Occurs at Mt. Molehill.
References
- The Velvet Underground were a Sixties art-rock collective and inhabitants of Andy Warhol's Factory, and this is shot through with references to them.
- The Exploding Plastic Inevitable was a series of multimedia events organized by Andy Warhol and featuring the Velvets.
- Their sometime singer, Nico, was famously incapable of carrying a tune and was thereby pretty nearly always off-key.
- Many of their songs dealt with drugs, particularly heroin and its injection, hence the needles.
- The cover of their eponymous first album featured a peel-off banana.
- White Light/White Heat is the name of their second album.
- "Sweet Jane", "Femme Fatale" and "I’m Waiting for the Man" are all songs of theirs.
- "Taste the whip, in love not given lightly," is a quote from the song "Venus in Furs".
- "Well acquainted with the touch of a velvet hand" is a lyric from The Beatles' song "Happiness is a Warm Gun."
- The messages involving black velvet refer to the Alannah Myles song of the same name, which includes the phrases "slow southern style" and "bring you to your knees".
