Gruesome phantasm

gruesome phantasm

You are fighting a gruesome phantasm.

It's hard to describe this creature other than to note that she's somewhat transparent and utterly gruesome.
Your opponent attacks ...

Hit messages:

All the lights go out. You aren't just likely to be eaten by a grue, one is currently doing so!
She slavers. Did you know that phantasms have salvitory glands? Or at least something analogous to them. Anyway she has highly acidic drool. Which is now dripping all over you. damage+ (acid) damage
A shadowy appendage shoots out and fills your head with the complete works of Herschell Gordon Lewis. The horror. The horror. (psychic) damage

She hits you for X damage.

Critical hit message:

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

Miss messages:

All the lights go out, but you use your cell phone as a flashlight and catch her in the process of practicing at the barre. Hey, we're trying to have a fight here!
She drools all over you, but phantom acid is just icky, not caustic.
She flows around you and tries to fill your head with horrible images, but you once went to a Troma movie marathon so you're just fine.

Fumble messages:

Your foe fumbles! She takes X damage.

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

You gain 100 experience.

You got an item: cosmic crystals (31.2 ± 3.5%)
You got an item: glob of goo (25 ± 3.3%)

Known resistances/weaknesses

50% resistant to acid damage.
50% weak to ice damage.

The first hit message refers to the grue, a ferocious monster in the Zork computer games.
Herschell Gordon Lewis, mentioned in the third hit message, made many "splatter" horror movies.
The end of the third hit message refers to the last words of Mr. Kurtz in the novel Heart of Darkness.
The third miss message refers to the many horror movies produced by Troma Entertainment.