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graboid

You are fighting a graboid.

Bursting up from the floor, attracted by the sound of your footsteps, is the horrific graboid. Well, that's what you call it. Regardless, it looks like a large sand squid and appears to be covered in slime. It's the cosmic horror trifecta: huge size, tentacles, and slime.
Your opponent attacks ...

Hit messages:

• You shiver as it starts sending you thoughts. It's in your head! (psychic) damage
• It dives underground, causing a small tremor, knocking you to the ground and causing rocks to fall on you. You don't have any dynamite to drive it off a cliff.
• It wraps some of those tentacles around you, squeezing and crushing. Why does everything you find while using the clock seem to have tentacles?

Special Attack: You find yourself slowed by the assault from the graboid. You acquire an effect: Sluggish. (Added for 30 minutes.)

it hits you for X damage.

Critical hit message:

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

Miss messages:

• It starts sending you thoughts, but it seems to be trying to make small talk.
• It dives underground, and you hear yells and guns being fired and someone screaming about breaking into the wrong rec room. Strange.
• It wraps some of those tentacles around you, but you hop in your vehicle and floor it, pulling a tentacle loose in your escape.

Fumble messages:

Your foe fumbles! it takes X damage.

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

You gain 770 experience.

You got an item: milk of Shupnikkurat (13.8 ± 2.6%)
You got an item: glass of Leng (25.8 ± 3.3%)

Known resistances/weaknesses

Verified to have no resistances or weaknesses.

Locations

• The Ancient Crypts‎
  

References

• Graboids are fictional creatures from the Tremors film series. The second hit message also refers to a scene in these movies.
• Image source.