Chromodynamic jay

chromodynamic jay

You are fighting a chromodynamic jay.

This used to be a blue jay, you think, but now that it's gone quantum chromodynamic you're a little confused about what color to call it. 'Top,' possibly, or maybe 'charm,' if that's a color. Perhaps 'strange.' Yeah, it does seem 'strange' colored.
Your opponent attacks ...

Hit messages:

• The jay lands on your head and does its best Woody Woodpecker impression. Heh-heh-heh-heh!
• It pecks your eye out. Well, it would have, but being frusion it just sucks energy out through your face. Still not good, all things considered.
• It divebombs you, flying right through your torso. That's a little disturbing, to say the least.

It drains some of your energy, stealing X PP.

Miss messages:

• The bird takes a few minutes off to go on a quest and find out what the J stands for. Turns out it stands for jay.
• Like a blackbird, it just sings in the dead of night. It's kind of pretty, really.
• A frusion cat chases the jay around for a while. How come none of the non-frusion opponents ever interrupt each other while they're fighting you?

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

You gain 40 experience.

You got an item: frusion speck (Unspecified Drop rate)
You got an item: frusion speck (Unspecified Drop rate)
You got an item: frusion filament (Unspecified Drop rate)
You got an item: frusion tendril (Unspecified Drop rate)

Known resistances/weaknesses

Immune to all damage types.

Locations

• Hyde Park streets
  

References

• The name and description refer to quantum chromodynamics and the Top, Charm, and Strange Quarks.
• The first hit message refers to Woody Woodpecker.
• The first miss message refers to the cartoon creator Jay Ward, and to the many cartoon characters that have a middle name J. as a tribute to him, e.g. Rocket J. Squirrel, Bullwinkle J. Moose, Homer J. Simpson and his father Abraham J. Simpson, and many more.
  • In the "D'oh-in' in the Wind" episode of The Simpsons, Homer goes on a quest to find out what his middle initial stands for.
• The second miss message refers to the Beatles song "Blackbird".