Nightgaunt

nightgaunt

You are fighting a nightgaunt.

A black, leathery, humanoid creature, with huge wings, a barbed tail, and a blank space where you would expect its face to be. It looks like something out of a nightmare and it swoops down at you, claws extended.
Your opponent attacks ...

Hit messages:

• It grabs you firmly, giving you an up-close look at its featureless face. Trust me, it's really creepy. Well, you've probably seen the Matrix, so it's like that, but with less face.

Special Attack: The nightgaunt's attack leaves you mentally shaken. You acquire an effect: distracted. (Added for 30 minutes.)

• It swipes at you with its claws, gouging and cutting you. That's got to be marginally better than being coughed and gutted.
• It holds you tight and lashes you with its barbed tail. The "one to grow on" at the end smarts the most.

it hits you for X damage.

Critical hit message:

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

Miss messages:

• It grabs you firmly, giving you an up-close look at its featureless face. It's a little creepy, but you've seen worse, like "the man with no name" or "the bathroom stall with no door."
• It swipes at you with its claws, but it recently had them trimmed, so it doesn't hurt too much.
• It holds you tight and lashes you with its tail, but it really just tickles. Tee-hee.

Fumble messages:

Your foe fumbles! it takes X damage.

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

You gain 575 experience.

You got an item: shan carapace (20.5 ± 3%)
You got an item: space mead (10.1 ± 2.3%)
You got an item: CTHULHU disc: Book of Hidden Things (19.5 ± 3%)

Known resistances/weaknesses

50% resistant to sonic damage.

Locations

• The Depths of Space
  

References

• Nightgaunts are a fictional race in the Cthulhu Mythos.
• The first hit message refers to the movie The Matrix.
• The first miss message refers to The Man with No Name, a character played by Clint Eastwood.