Cosmic jester
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What fools be we, mortals you and me, when caught by jest: tee-hee, tee-hee!
Level cap: 20
How Obtained
Full-time sidekick.
Obtained from: Rigoletto's Compleat Jester kit
Behavior
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.
- Electric: <name> utters a shockingly frank statement, as jesters are wont to do. Your opponent is shocked for X (electric) 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.
When tuned to XP, sometimes at the end of combat:
<name> gives an impromptu speech on the pompatus of love. Who better than a joker to speak deep truths? It's mostly confusing gibberish, but it's deep gibberish. You gain Q XP.
When tuned to Chips, sometimes at the end of combat:
Your jester sidekick does some acrobatics. Even defeated, your opponent is compelled by the motley fool's finery to cough up some more chips.
Notes
- Using some combat items 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>
- A combat item doing elemental damage tunes the jester to do elemental damage. This 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."
- Items tuning to Electric damage show the saying: "Come the villains of Twilight in arms, and we shall shock them: nought shall make us rue."
- In addition, some items will tune the jester to some bonus effect. This includes Healing, MP-Restore, Chips, Distracting, or XP. A bonus effect remains active for three hours, or until the jester is tuned to another bonus effect.
| Item | <item> | Tunes to |
|---|---|---|
| atomic wedge | wedge | Physical |
| badly bent knife | knife | Physical |
| band-aid | band-aid | Physical, Healing |
| bandolier | bandolier | Physical |
| big rock | rock | Physical |
| bubble wrap | bubble wrap | Sonic |
| clamp of stairvoyance | clamp | Physical |
| combat paperclip | paperclip | Physical |
| disposable instant camera | camera | Psychic, XP |
| frowny sticker | sticker | Psychic |
| frusion speck | frusion speck | Physical, MP-Restore |
| glob of goo | glob of goo | Physical |
| hands-free pan | hands-free pan | Fire |
| insta-salve, small, insta-salve, large | salve | Physical, Healing |
| insta-charge ampoule | ampoule | Physical, MP-Restore |
| letter of pre-recognition | letter | Fire |
| memory box | box | Psychic, XP |
| pan handle | pan handle | Physical, Chips |
| scorched coffee | coffee | Fire |
| shocker pen | pen | Electric |
| sleet bucket | bucket | Ice |
| snowball | snowball | Ice |
| sour coating | coating | Acid |
| sparkle bomb | sparkle bomb | Fire |
| the bomb | the bomb | Physical |
| TNT | tnt[sic?] | Physical |
| webbed sand | webbed sand | Physical |
| spark plug | spark plug | Electric |
| specter snare | snare | Ice, Healing |
| Ticketmaster's ticket punch | ticket[sic?] | Physical |
| power pak | pak | Electric |
- Combat items which are not consumed when used are ignored.
- Combat items which come from Items of the Month may tune the jester's elemental attack, but they do not tune the special bonus.
- Other combat items which are ignored:
References
- The pompatus of love is a reference to Steve Miller's song "The Joker", which fits the jester.
- The description and combat messages contain references to plays by William Shakespeare.
- The description refers to a quote by Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream. "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
- The physical damage item message refers to a quote by Marcus Antonius in Julius Caesar. "This was the most unkindest cut of all"
- The psychic damage item message refers to a quote by Adriana in The Comedy of Errors. "A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,/ We bid be quiet when we hear it cry."
- The fire damage item message refers to quote by Julia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. "Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow/ As seek to quench the fire of love with words."
- The sonic damage item message refers to quote by Macbeth in Macbeth. "[I]t is a tale/ Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury/ Signifying nothing."
- The acid damage item message refers to quote by Agamemnon in Troilus and Cressida. "He that is proud eats up himself"
- The ice damage message refers to a quote by Francisco in Hamlet. "For this relief much thanks: 'tis bitter cold,/ And I am sick at heart."
- The electric damage message refers to quote by the character known as The Bastard in The Life and Death of King John. "Now these her princes are come home again,/ Come the three corners of the world in arms,/ And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue,/ If England to itself do rest but true."
