Difference between revisions of "Cosmic jester"

What fools be we, mortals you and me, when caught by jest: tee-hee, tee-hee!

Level cap: 20

Full-time sidekick.
Obtained from: Rigoletto's Compleat Jester kit

Ability: Attacks, boosts spell damage, other benefits tuned by combat items

Messages

During combat the sidekick will sometimes attack, according to how it was tuned:

• Physical: <name> bops your opponent over the head with a rubber mallet. It seems innocent, but this rubber mallet is coated in lead. Your opponent takes X damage..^[sic]
• Psychic: <name> makes your opponent laugh until they cry, causing X (psychic) damage.
• Fire: <name> assautls^[sic] your opponet^[sic] with a barrage of flaming juggling pins, dealing X (fire) damage.
• Sonic: <name> sings loudly and badly off tune. You're used to it, but your opponent isn't. They take X (sonic) damage.
• Acid: <name> burns your opponent with a caustic wit X (acid) damage.
• Ice: <name> dumps a bucket of icewater down your opponent's back, pranking them for X (ice) damage.

When you perform a damage spell:

<name> performs a magic trick, making a five-chip piece disappear and reappear someplace unexpected. The opening act makes your own skill appear all that much more impressive.

When tuned to Healing, sometimes at the end of combat:

<name> tells you a long and funny story about how he got this one scar. The story changes every time, and every time you laugh. Laughter, being the best medicine, gains you Y HP.

When tuned to MP-Restore, sometimes at the end of combat:

<name> swigs from a flask and staggers around drunkenly before proffering you the same flask. Hesitantly you take a sip, but it's just cold, refreshing water. You gain Z PP.

Notes

• Using a combat item gives a special message and tunes the sidekick:

When you produce the <item>, <name> grabs it, works it into a juggling routine, cavorting and saying <saying>

• Tuning remains until a new item is used and changes the tuning.
• Items tuning to Physical damage show the saying: "The most kindest cut of all is a jest that will not scar."
• Items tuning to Psychic damage show the saying: "A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, shall all our foes be soon."
• Items tuning to Fire damage show the saying: "As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of crime with words. Real fire works much better."
• Items tuning to Sonic damage show the saying: "It is a tale told by a jester, full of sound and fury, signifying decibels."
• Items tuning to Acid damage show the saying: "He that is proud eats up himself; that substance right here eats up the foe."
• Items tuning to Ice damage show the saying: "For this comic relif much thanks: 't is bitter cold, and I am jesting at heart."

• Combat items not tuning the jester:

• bungee lasso
• drowsing rod
• EMP device
• flash powder
• holiday wreath
• Justin's magic wand
• lack of pies
• squidopus ink
• throwing star - black hole
• throwing star - blue giant
• throwing star - magnetar
• throwing star - pulsar
• throwing star - red dwarf