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Cyber punk

You are fighting a Cyber punk.

In the rancid days of ruin, his body's sweating toxins of his own demise. When the night comes, he gets deranged by some strange alchemy. There's nothing pure in this world and ... wait, let me start over. It's a nice day to start again, right?
Your opponent attacks ...

Hit messages:

• He says, "Welcome to my mind," and then he goes psyko-sonik on you. He starts his teknojihad by delivering a serious shock on the wire that lays you flat. Down on the ground, you realize you should have read more William Gibson.
• It's the age of destruction in a world of corruption. It's the age of destruction and he hands you oblivion. Oblivion, as it turns out, involves more pain and less numbness than you would have expected.
• He delivers a shock to your system. It feels good, well all right. No, actually, it doesn't feel good at all. Yeah.

He hits you for X damage.

Critical hit message:

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

Miss messages:

• He's in his head, man. He's off in a wasteland. You try reaching through the madness to the other side, but he just looks at you and asks, "Mony?" Apparently he thinks you're someone else.
• He's the neuromancer, and he's trancing. Trancing. Trancing. And he's trancing. He seems to be stuck in that trance.
• Night is all around him; stars are in his hair. He's entangled in the secrets that he's found hidden there. He struggles vigorously but fails to get untangled.

Fumble messages:

Your foe fumbles! He takes X damage.

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

You gain 27-49 chips.

You gain 35 experience.

You got an item: digital voice recorder (Unspecified Drop rate)
You got an item: smart juice (Unspecified Drop rate)

Known resistances/weaknesses

Unspecified

Locations

• Campus: Investigate a Retro Rave
  

References

• Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction, in which William Gibson (1st hit message) is a pioneer. Neuromancer (2nd miss message) is one of his most well-known novels.
• The first hit message refers to the band Psykosonik whose lyrics often contained cyberpunk themes. "Welcome to My Mind", "Teknojihad", "Shock on the Wire", and "Down on the Ground" are all titles of their songs.
• There are several references and quotes to Billy Idol's songs, especially from the album Cyberpunk.

• The first miss messages mentions Wasteland, quotes "Mother Dawn", and mentions Mony Mony. The first two songs are from "Cyberpunk".
• The second miss message both mentions and quotes ("Trancing") the song "Neuromancer" from "Cyberpunk". The second hit message also quotes the same song.
• The third miss message quotes "Mother Dawn" in length.

• The enemy's image is an example of cyberpunk fashion.