Catoblepas

catoblepas

You are fighting a catoblepas.

This nightmare creature is loathsome beyond description and has no redeeming features. Unless being the love child of a warthog, a snake, and a smelly buffalo is redeeming to you.
Your opponent attacks ...

Hit messages:

• The catoblepas breathes on you. Turns out its breath is worse than its bite. damage + (acid) damage
• The catoblepas raises its massive head and looks at you. That's all it takes. damage or (psychic) damage
• You catch an unfortunate whiff of catoblepas scent and feel lifeless, languid, lethargic... you know, listless.

Special Attack: You find yourself slowed by the assault from the catoblepas. You acquire an effect: Listless. (Added for 30 minutes.)

It hits you for X damage.

Critical hit message:

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

Miss messages:

• The catoblepas breathes on you. Thankfully, you find some crusty old mint in your pocket to "fresh make."
• The catoblepas lifts its massive head, but you're long gone by the time it looks where you were.
• You catch an unfortunate whiff of catoblepas scent, but stop to smell the early flowering plants. Mmm, Cretaceous.

Fumble messages:

Your foe fumbles! It takes X damage.

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

You gain 180 experience.

You got an item: lump of carmot (77.9 ± 2.1%)

Known resistances/weaknesses

50% resistant to sonic damage.
50% resistant to acid damage.

Locations

• Triassic Park and Bestiary
  

This enemy is an animal.

References

• The catoblepas is a legendary creature from Ethiopia. Is is said to have the body of a buffalo, the head of a hog, and scales on the back.
• The first miss message refers to Mentos, the Freshmaker!