Cold bat

cold bat

You are fighting a cold bat.

You run into what looks like another bold cat, until it unwings its furls--unfurls its wings. Old care--er, cold air--buffets you. That's not a bold cat, that there is a cold bat!
Your opponent attacks ...

Hit messages:

• The bat squeaks piercingly. It hurts like chalk on a fingerboard. No, like board on a fingerchalk. Well, something like that. damage+ (sonic) damage
• The cold bat lights you on the beg--bites you on the leg. A shill runs down your chin. Make that a chill and your shin. damage+ (ice) damage
• The bat dive-bombs you and hands in your lair. Er, lands in your hair. In your panic you brain yourself with your weapon trying to get it out.

It hits you for X damage.

Critical hit message:

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

Miss messages:

• As the bat swoops toward you, you point to one side and shout "Book, it's Latman!" The bat becomes confused by your strange talk and pulls up short.
• It whaps its flings at you--flaps its wings--but doesn't do any damage.
• The bat flashes a dire fang, but you fend it off with a dang fire.

Fumble messages:

Your foe fumbles! It takes X damage.

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

You gain 23 experience.

You got an item: dark arts (20.3 ± 2.3%)
You got an item: rank bun (10.3 ± 1.8%)

Known resistances/weaknesses

50% resistant to ice damage.
100% weak to fire damage.

Locations

• Dank and Rusty Maze
  

Notes

This enemy is an animal.

• Occurs only while wearing skeptic sandals.

References

• Once de-spoonerized, the first miss messages refers to Batman.