Sports utility ZOM-V

sports utility ZOM-V

You are fighting a sports utility ZOM-V.

A massive vehicle makes its way around the track. It doesn't have a driver and not in that cute new self-driving way... or in that old car that turns into a robot sort of way.

It seems more like that newer car that's been retrofitted with cybernetic components to... well, you're not sure why. That's probably why they don't call them sane scientists.
Your opponent attacks ...

Hit messages:

• The ZOM-V revs its engine, engulfing you in a cloud of superheated plasma. (fire) damage
• The ZOM-V demonstrates its utility in sports: tackling opposing heroes.
• The ZOM-V's rear hatch opens, releasing eight of its friends and their SUVs. They run you down like a pack of gas-hungry wolves.

It hits you for X damage.

Critical hit message:

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

Miss messages:

• The ZOM-V revs its engine, but you stay well clear of the exhaust pipe.
• The ZOM-V demonstrates its sports utility: kicking extra points. You congratulate it, just to be polite if nothing else.
• The ZOM-V's rear hatch opens, releasing eight of its friends and their SUVs. But they just sit there and bicker about who'll get the gas.

Fumble messages:

Your foe fumbles! It takes X damage.

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

You gain 160 experience.

You got an item: brazier of coals (Unspecified Drop rate)
You got an item: water basin (Unspecified Drop rate)
You got an item: rusty hinge (Unspecified Drop rate)
You got an item: cybernetic kayak (Unspecified Drop rate)

Known resistances/weaknesses

50% resistant to psychic damage.

Locations

• Underground Racetrack
  

Notes

• Sometimes, at the end of a round of combat:

The cars zip closer to you, getting closer than you're comfortable slow-dancing.

foe becomes "Close"

or, with a ranged weapon equipped

The cars zip closer to you, getting closer than you're comfortable slow-dancing. That'll make it pretty hard to use your <ranged weapon>.

foe becomes "Close"

• If the foe is "Close", your next ranged attack attack is replaced by:

You rush back, opening up some distance between you and your opponent.