Shoe swarm

shoe swarm

You are fighting the shoe swarm.

Unwanted and unloved, this collection of uncompleted shoes has grown increasingly angry during the decades they've been abandoned.
Your opponent attacks ...

Hit messages:

• The swarm does a little soft shoe routine, which would be quite endearing if it weren't on your head.
• The shoes affix you with their pathetic eyelets, gazing up at you lovingly as though they just want a good home. The shoestring garotte as you try to adopt them is more shocking than painful. damage + (psychic) damage
• These shoes are made for walking, but nobody's using them for that and they're taking their anger out on you.

They hit you for X damage.

Critical hit message:

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

Miss messages:

• The swarm does a little soft shoe routine, which is quite endearing as long as you manage to stay out of their way.
• The shoes affix you with their pathetic eyelets, gazing up at you lovingly as though they just want a good home. But, really, your inventory is so full already... and they keep whispering about garotting you with shoestrings.
• These shoes are made for walking, but all they can really manage to do is hop around chasing after you.

Fumble messages:

Your foe fumbles! They takes X damage.

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

You gain 160 experience.

You got an item: shoelaces (50.4 ± 2.8%)
You got an item: shoefly (48.8 ± 2.8%)
You got an item: dismantled shoe (18.9 ± 2.2%)
You got an item: swarming shoes (8.8 ± 1.6%)

Known resistances/weaknesses

Unspecified

Locations

• Abandoned Shoe Factory