Digital ghost

digital ghost

You are fighting a digital ghost.

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Your opponent attacks ...

Hit messages:

• The ghost crashes into you. It hurts like the dickens and you get a '1' stuck in your teeth.
• The ghost drops a floating point on your head.
• The ghost buffets you with a gust of wind from a particularly chilly corner of Usenet. What's a Usenet? (ice) damage

It hits you for X damage.

Critical hit message:

Your opponent has a critical hit! It hits you for X damage.

Miss messages:

• The ghost crashes. So now you know what happens when you get an afterlife in your screens of death.
• The ghost tries to drop a floating point on your head, but you dodge between the digits.
• The ghost opens a portal to Usenet, allowing you to relive the sci-fi flame wars of years past.

Fumble messages:

Your foe fumbles! It takes X damage.

Victory! You beat up your foe and win the combat!

You gain (?*Level, cap 250) experience.

You got an item: forgotten meme (See Notes)
You got an item: data fragment (See Notes)
You got an item: spilled tea (See Notes)
You got an item: yesterday's news (See Notes)
You got an item: pinched penny (See Notes)
You got an item: half a clue (See Notes)
You got an item: unfinished road snacks (See Notes)
You got an item: Astral junk bonds (See Notes)
You got an item: scratched SQUID disk (See Notes)
You got an item: interstellar VCR instructions (See Notes)

Known resistances/weaknesses

Verified to have no resistances or weaknesses.

Locations

• haunted computer
  

Notes

• Only one item drops at a time.

References

• The image is based on a ghost in Pac-Man.
• The first miss message refers to the Blue Screen of Death.
• Some Usenet newsgroups were infamous for their flamewars.