Water spider

water spider

You are fighting water spider.

Rumor has it this robotic spider is hiding from a robotic old lady who swallowed a robotic fly. No, I don't know why she swallowed the fly. Keep your morbid suppositions to yourself.
Your opponent attacks ...

Hit messages:

• You try to read the spider's eyes for some clue about his next move, but you've only got two eyes, and he's got eight, and while you're watching the wrong ones he pounces and bites.X (acid) damage
• Spider bot, spider bot, does whatever a spider ought. Spins a web, any size, catches you, bites your thighs. X (acid) damage
• You try to fend it off with some insect repellent, but the spider isn't an insect, so it charges on through. X (acid) 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 spider wraps you up in silk, from which it takes a while to get free, but apparently forgets to bite you.
• Instead of attacking you, the spider chases off a girl sitting on a nearby footstool.
• The spider races up a nearby water spout. Some rain comes down and washes it out before it can finish whatever attack it was planning.

Fumble messages:

Your foe fumbles! It takes X damage.

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

You gain scaling experience.

You got an item: Aquasson logo (6.1 ± 1.8%)
You got an item: strut bar (6 ± 1.8%)
You got an item: superconductor chip (19.9 ± 1.1%)

Known resistances/weaknesses

Immune to acid damage.

Locations

• Sector 7-Gamma
  

This enemy is a robot with an electronic brain.

References

• The description is a reference to the children's song There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.
• The second hit message is a reference to Spider-Man theme song: "Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can! / Spins a web any size, catches thieves just like flies!"
• The second miss message refers to the nursery rhyme Little Miss Muffet.
• The third miss message refers to the nursery rhyme Itsy Bitsy Spider.