Deranged mutant

deranged mutant

You are fighting a deranged mutant.

Investigating the twisting halls of the Sanatarium you encounter a deranged monstrosity of a mutant, kept here as much to protect it from the public as to protect the public from it. You just wish someone had taken a moment to consider your safety.
Your opponent attacks ...

Hit messages:

• The mutant exposes you to some of the same radiation that caused him to mutate. Unfortunately your mutation is unstable, and chunks of your flesh turn into water. (psychic) damage
• The mutant spits some swiftly-hardening goo on you. You have to smash it with your own weapon to break it loose. Naturally this involves smashing your own tender flesh that's underneath the goo. damage+ (psychic) damage
• The mutant sniffs the air. "There's too much iron in your blood," he says, and then slashes you so that some of it can drain out.

Special Attack: The foul touch of the deranged mutant seems to wither your very soul. You lose X XP.

It hits you for X damage.

Critical hit message:

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

Miss messages:

• The mutant tries to expose you to mutation-causing radiation, but some men and women in black leather suits foil his plot.
• The mutant tries to frighten you by revealing his true form, but as his true form looks a lot like a smurf you're more bemused than traumatized.
• The mutant tries to set you on fire, but his lighter goes out and he has to pause to get it lit again.

Fumble messages:

Your foe fumbles! It takes X damage.

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

You gain 130 experience.

During The Oldest and Strongest Emotion:

You also find something just a little unusual ...

You got an item: clock face

or

You got an item: large coffin

or

You got an item: short clock hand

or

You got an item: long clock hand

or

You got an item: very long clock hand

or

You got an item: inexplicable clock hand

or

You got an item: keyless lock

Known resistances/weaknesses

Immune to fire damage.
50% weak to psychic damage.

Locations

• Shiloh Sanatarium
  

References

Several of the messages reference the X-Men in general and the X-Men movies.

• The first hit message references Senator Kelly melting into water in the first movie.
• The second hit message references the The Toad's goo-spiting attack.
• The third hit message references a comment Magneto made to a guard in the second movie.
• The first miss message is a rather general reference to the first movie.
• The second miss message references Mystique, a shapeshifting mutant whose true form is blue.
• The third miss message references the character Pyro who used a lighter to fuel his fire powers in both movies.