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the Parachutist's pants
Plural: hammers of Parachutist's pants
Back in the Silver Age of Twilight, there was a really underrated hero who went by the name of the Parachutist. Originally a stunt pilot, one day he found a pair of high tech pants that allowed him to make massive leaps (as well as land safely, something Tarhiel never learned). Regardless, it turns out the technology behind the pants actually belonged to a foreign power that the country was at war with back then. His heroics seemed rather unimpressive compared to other heroes, but that was probably because he spent so much of his time dealing with foreign powers, federal authorities, aviation moguls and, of course, the mob.

While these aren't his specific pants (those are in the Museum of Superheroics in Frog Jump, Tennessee), they're a really good copy. So good, in fact, that you'd never be able to tell the difference. They'll make you quick and let you leap in and out of combat like... um... some kind... of... jumping... um, thing. Look, metaphors are hard, okay?

March 2013 Item of the Month

Pants
Power: 52
Item cannot be auto-sold
Item cannot be worn in runs with a 'no pulls' restriction

+10% dodging ability
-10 seconds to the duration of each turn***
Grants wearer the ability for super jumps
Parachute Drop (super jump with a melee weapon in combat)

*** Maximum time benefit of -60 seconds, total, including Heroic Efficiency.

The Wok of Stars

• Available for 10 silver stars during March of 2013.
  

Wearing this grants you the skill Parachute Drop (10 PP):

First time per round with a melee weapon:

You jump very high and parachute down towards fist-first.

They didn't see that one coming!

You attack ... <regular weapon attack message>

Your opponent is too stunned to act.

Subsequent times with melee weapon:

You jump very high and parachute down towards fist-first.

You attack ... <regular weapon attack message>

First time per round with a ranged weapon:

You jump very high away your opponent and parachute back down.

They didn't see that one coming!

Your opponent is too stunned to act.

Subsequent times with melee weapon:

You jump very high away your opponent and parachute back down.

They seemed to see that coming.

Notes

• Using the skills with a melee weapon deals 2.5 times the damage a normal attack would have dealt.
• When bought: The shopkeeper takes 10 silver stars and drops you the Parachutist's pants.

References

• Refers to Parachute pants, the loose brightly-colored kind, not the tight-fitting drab colored kind with lots of zippers.
• The plural refers to MC Hammer's many performances while wearing a version of parachute pants known as Hammer pants.
• The first paragraph of the description refers to The Rocketeer.