Cosmic jester

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Sidekick ID: 22
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Cosmic jester

What fools be we, mortals you and me, when caught by jest: tee-hee, tee-hee!
Level cap: 20

How Obtained

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Full-time sidekick.
Obtained from: Rigoletto's Compleat Jester kit

Behavior

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Ability: Attacks, boosts spell damage, other benefits tuned by combat items

Messages

During combat the sidekick will sometimes attack, according to how it was tuned:

• Physical: <name> bops your opponent over the head with a rubber mallet. It seems innocent, but this rubber mallet is coated in lead. Your opponent takes X damage.
• Psychic: <name> makes your opponent laugh until they cry, causing X (psychic) damage.
• Fire: <name> assaults your opponent with a barrage of flaming juggling pins, dealing X (fire) damage.
• Sonic: <name> sings loudly and badly off tune. You're used to it, but your opponent isn't. They take X (sonic) damage.
• Acid: <name> burns your opponent with a caustic wit X (acid) damage.
• Ice: <name> dumps a bucket of icewater down your opponent's back, pranking them for X (ice) damage.
• Electric: <name> utters a shockingly frank statement, as jesters are wont to do. Your opponent is shocked for X (electric) damage.

When you perform a damage spell:

• <name> performs a magic trick, making a five-chip piece disappear and reappear someplace unexpected. The opening act makes your own skill appear all that much more impressive.

When blocking your opponent:

• <name> sings a bawdy song while pantomiming actions so suggestive your opponent can't really concentrate.

When tuned to Healing, sometimes at the end of combat:

• <name> tells you a long and funny story about how he got this one scar. The story changes every time, and every time you laugh. Laughter, being the best medicine, gains you Y HP.

When tuned to PP-Restore, sometimes at the end of combat:

• <name> swigs from a flask and staggers around drunkenly before proffering you the same flask. Hesitantly you take a sip, but it's just cold, refreshing water. You gain Z PP.

When tuned to XP, sometimes at the end of combat:

• <name> gives an impromptu speech on the pompatus of love. Who better than a joker to speak deep truths? It's mostly confusing gibberish, but it's deep gibberish. You gain Q XP.

When tuned to Chips, sometimes at the end of combat:

• <name> does some acrobatics. Even defeated, your opponent is compelled by the motley fool's finery to cough up X more chips.

or

• <name> does some acrobatics, but your opponent doesn't even tip. Tough crowd.

Notes

• As in the rest of Twilight Heroes, "Spell" refers to the damage-dealing powers of the Elemental and Psion classes.
• Using some combat items gives a special message and tunes the sidekick:

When you produce the <item>, <name> grabs it, works it into a juggling routine, cavorting and saying <saying>

• A combat item doing elemental damage tunes the jester to do elemental damage. This tuning remains until a new item is used and changes the tuning.
  • Items tuning to Physical damage show the saying: "The most kindest cut of all is a jest that will not scar."
  • Items tuning to Psychic damage show the saying: "A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, shall all our foes be soon."
  • Items tuning to Fire damage show the saying: "As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of crime with words. Real fire works much better."
  • Items tuning to Sonic damage show the saying: "It is a tale told by a jester, full of sound and fury, signifying decibels."
  • Items tuning to Acid damage show the saying: "He that is proud eats up himself; that substance right here eats up the foe."
  • Items tuning to Ice damage show the saying: "For this comic relif much thanks: 't is bitter cold, and I am jesting at heart."
  • Items tuning to Electric damage show the saying: "Come the villains of Twilight in arms, and we shall shock them: nought shall make us rue."
  • (currently unknown): "Nothing can come of nothing: combat again, or hold thy element."
• In addition, some items will tune the jester to some bonus effect. This includes Healing, PP-Restore, Chips, Distracting, or XP. A bonus effect remains active for three hours, or until the jester is tuned to another bonus effect.

Item	<item>	Tunes to
atomic wedge	wedge	Physical
badly bent knife	knife	Physical
ball o' fire	ball o' fire	Fire
band-aid	band-aid	Healing
bandolier	bandolier	Physical
bent paperclip	bent paperclip	Psychic, Blocks
big rock	rock	Physical
black card	black card	Psychic
bubble wrap	bubble wrap	Sonic
cashmere yarn	cashmere yarn	Blocks
clamp of stairvoyance	clamp	Physical
combat paperclip	paperclip	Physical or Blocks
corroded battery grenade	corroded battery grenade	Electric
cracked nut shells	cracked nut shells	Physical
crystal for scrying out loud	crystal for scrying out loud	Sonic
degausser	degausser	Physical
disposable instant camera	camera	Psychic, XP
ectoplasmic bowling ball	ectoplasmic bowling ball	Ice
ectoplasmic chains	ectoplasmic chains	Ice
ectoplasmic glove	ectoplasmic glove	Ice
ectoplasmic pumpkin	ectoplasmic pumpkin	Ice
EMP device	EMP device	Physical, Blocks
endless handkerchief	endless handkerchief	Blocks
enerbun globule	enerbun globule	Physical
explosive briefing	explosive briefing	Fire
extendable hand	extendable hand	Chips
fire bladder	fire bladder	Fire
fizzler	fizzler	Fire
flash-restore capsule	flash-restore capsule	Healing
foul fowl	foul fowl	Acid
freeze frame	freeze frame	Ice, XP
frowny sticker	sticker	Psychic
fruitcake	fruitcake	Physical
frusion speck	frusion speck	PP-Restore
goat horns	goat horns	Sonic, Blocks
gross bag	gross bag	Acid
hands-free pan	hands-free pan	Fire
holiday wreath	holiday wreath	Blocks
ichor	ichor	Acid
ion	ion	Electric, PP-Restore
insta-salve, small, insta-salve, large	salve	Healing
insta-charge ampoule	ampoule	PP-Restore
Justin's magic wand	Justin's magic wand	Psychic or Healing
kablammo kabomb	kablammo kabomb	Physical
letter of pre-recognition	letter	Fire, XP
lip blam	lip blam	Fire
magic deck of cards	magic deck of cards	Blocks
memory box	box	Psychic, XP
Mister Ick-er sticker	Mister Ick-er sticker	Acid
pan handle	pan handle	Chips
power pak	pak	Electric
pun gas	pun gas	Physical, Blocks
rank bun	rank bun	Physical, Blocks
razor dove	razor dove	Physical
really big shoe	really big shoe	Physical
recognizer bot	recognizer bot	(currently unknown)
refound marbles	refound marbles	Physical
road flare	road flare	Fire
roman candle wand	roman candle wand	Fire
scorched coffee	coffee	Fire
shocker pen	pen	Electric, Blocks
sleet bucket	bucket	Ice
snowball	snowball	Ice
sour coating	coating	Acid
spark plug	spark plug	Electric
sparkle bomb	sparkle bomb	Fire
sparkler	sparkler	Fire
specter snare	snare	Ice, Healing
squidopus ink	squidopus ink	Blocks
the bomb	the bomb	Physical
throwing star - black hole	throwing star - black hole	Psychic
throwing star - blue giant	throwing star - blue giant	Ice
throwing star - magnetar	throwing star - magnetar	Electric
throwing star - pulsar	throwing star - pulsar	Sonic
throwing star - red dwarf	throwing star - red dwarf	Fire
Ticketmaster's ticket punch	ticket[sic?]	Physical, XP
TNT	TNT	Physical, Blocks
webbed sand	webbed sand	Blocks

• Combat items that inflict multiple types of damage will tune the jester to the final type applied.
• Combat items with differing effects only tune based on the message given. A combat paperclip can tune to Physical or Blocking based on the outcome and the EMP device must have a valid target to tune correctly.
• Reusable Items of the Month combat items from the exotic throwing stars gift set and ectoplasmic container may tune the jester's elemental attack, but they do not tune the special bonus.
• Other combat items which are ignored:
  • bionic bolas
  • bungee lasso
  • byeon
  • deja voodoo doll
  • drowsing rod
  • ecofriendly body oil
  • flash powder
  • glob of goo
  • goat latte
  • lack of pies
  • mint goat milk
  • red-eye mind trick
  • smoke bomb
  • super-cute bunny

References

• The pompatus of love is a reference to Steve Miller's song "The Joker", which fits the jester.
• The description and combat messages contain references to plays by William Shakespeare.
  • The description refers to a quote by Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream. "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
  • The physical damage item message refers to a quote by Marcus Antonius in Julius Caesar. "This was the most unkindest cut of all"
  • The psychic damage item message refers to a quote by Adriana in The Comedy of Errors. "A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,/ We bid be quiet when we hear it cry."
  • The fire damage item message refers to quote by Julia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. "Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow/ As seek to quench the fire of love with words."
  • The sonic damage item message refers to quote by Macbeth in Macbeth. "[I]t is a tale/ Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury/ Signifying nothing."
  • The acid damage item message refers to quote by Agamemnon in Troilus and Cressida. "He that is proud eats up himself"
  • The ice damage message refers to a quote by Francisco in Hamlet. "For this relief much thanks: 'tis bitter cold,/ And I am sick at heart."
  • The electric damage message refers to a quote by the character known as The Bastard in The Life and Death of King John. "Now these her princes are come home again,/ Come the three corners of the world in arms,/ And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue,/ If England to itself do rest but true."
  • The (currently unknown) message refers to a quote by the title character in King Lear. "Nothing will come of nothing. Speak again."
• The end-of combat healing message refers to The Joker's contradictory tales of how he got his scars in the movie The Dark Knight.