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.
- Psychic: <name> makes your opponent laugh until they cry, causing X (psychic) damage.
- Fire: <name> assaults your opponent 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 blocking your opponent:
<name> sings a bawdy song while pantomiming actions so suggestive your opponent can't really concentrate.
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 PP-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
- As in the rest of Twilight Heroes, "Spell" refers to the damage-dealing powers of the Elemental and Psion classes.
- 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."
- (currently unknown): "Nothing can come of nothing: combat again, or hold thy element."
- In addition, some items will tune the jester to some bonus effect. This includes Healing, PP-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 | Healing |
bandolier | bandolier | Physical |
big rock | rock | Physical |
bubble wrap | bubble wrap | Sonic |
clamp of stairvoyance | clamp | Physical |
combat paperclip | paperclip | Physical or Blocks |
corroded battery grenade | corroded battery grenade | Acid, Electric |
cracked nut shells | cracked nut shells | Physical |
crystal for scrying out loud | crystal for scrying out loud | Sonic |
disposable instant camera | camera | Psychic, XP |
ectoplasmic bowling ball | ectoplasmic bowling ball | Ice |
ectoplasmic chains | ectoplasmic chains | Ice |
ectoplasmic glove | ectoplasmic glove | Ice |
ectoplasmic pumpkin | ectoplasmic pumpkin | Ice |
endless handkerchief | endless handkerchief | Blocks |
enerbun globule | enerbun globule | Physical |
explosive briefing | explosive briefing | Fire |
fire bladder | fire bladder | Fire |
fizzler | fizzler | Fire |
flash-restore capsule | flash-restore capsule | Healing |
foul fowl | foul fowl | Acid |
frowny sticker | sticker | Psychic |
fruitcake | fruitcake | Physical |
frusion speck | frusion speck | PP-Restore |
glob of goo | glob of goo | Physical |
goat horns | goat horns | Sonic, Blocks |
gross bag | gross bag | Acid |
hands-free pan | hands-free pan | Fire |
holiday wreath | holiday wreath | Blocks |
ichor | ichor | Acid |
insta-salve, small, insta-salve, large | salve | Healing |
insta-charge ampoule | ampoule | PP-Restore |
Justin's magic wand | Justin's magic wand | Psychic or Healing |
kablammo kabomb | kablammo kabomb | Physical |
letter of pre-recognition | letter | Fire, XP |
lip blam | lip blam | Fire |
magic deck of cards | magic deck of cards | Blocks |
memory box | box | Psychic, XP |
Mister Ick-er sticker | Mister Ick-er sticker | Acid |
pan handle | pan handle | Physical, Chips |
power pak | pak | Electric |
pun gas | pun gas | Physical, Blocks |
rank bun | rank bun | Physical, Blocks |
razor dove | razor dove | Physical |
really big shoe | really big shoe | Physical |
recognizer bot | recognizer bot | (currently unknown) |
refound marbles | refound marbles | Physical |
road flare | road flare | Fire |
roman candle wand | roman candle wand | Fire |
scorched coffee | coffee | Fire |
shocker pen | pen | Electric, Blocks |
sleet bucket | bucket | Ice |
snowball | snowball | Ice |
sour coating | coating | Acid |
spark plug | spark plug | Electric |
sparkle bomb | sparkle bomb | Fire |
sparkler | sparkler | Fire |
specter snare | snare | Ice, Healing |
squidopus ink | squidopus ink | Blocks |
the bomb | the bomb | Physical |
throwing star - black hole | throwing star - black hole | Psychic |
throwing star - blue giant | throwing star - blue giant | Ice |
throwing star - magnetar | throwing star - magnetar | Electric |
throwing star - pulsar | throwing star - pulsar | Sonic |
throwing star - red dwarf | throwing star - red dwarf | Fire |
Ticketmaster's ticket punch | ticket[sic?] | Physical, XP |
TNT | TNT | Physical, Blocks |
webbed sand | webbed sand | Blocks |
- 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 a 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."
- The (currently unknown) message refers to a quote by the title character in King Lear. "Nothing will come of nothing. Speak again."
- The end-of combat healing message refers to The Joker's contradictory tales of how he got his scars in the movie The Dark Knight.