Pitch-black knight

pitch-black knight

You are fighting a pitch-black knight.

You ready your weapon and step up. "Have at you!" the knight roars, charging you.
Your opponent attacks ...

Hit messages:

• The knight slashes your arm with his sword, leaving you glad it's still attached.
• The knight slice and dices you. The slices hurt, but it's actually the dice that deal the damage.
• The knight stands there, refusing to let you pass, until you make a break for it and he catches you with a gauntlet.

He hits you for X damage.

Critical hit message:

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

Miss messages:

• The knight slashes your arm with his sword, but it was just a flesh wound.
• The knight tries to slice and dice you, even make Julienne fries, but is wielding completely the wrong sort of weapon for it.
• The knight stands there, refusing to let you pass, so you content yourself with beating him up.

Fumble messages:

Your foe fumbles! He takes X damage.

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

You gain 60-100 chips.

You gain 80 experience.

You got an item: special wooden cup (Semi-rare)
You got an item: two coconut halves (30.6 ± 3.5%)

Known resistances/weaknesses

Verified to have no resistances or weaknesses.

Locations

• Glove Slap, Baby
  

Notes

Deafeating this foe with a Bedraggled Squire sidekick active OR a horse / Red Hex / pegasus / armored pegasus / Night Mare / frog's court horse / sleepy draft horse / nameless horse equipped while having 4150 XP or more at the end of the fight initiates the Riding in the Lists Quest.

References

• References the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail in several ways.
  • The foe resembles the Black Knight, and the line "Have at you!" is also spoken by him.
  • The emblem on his chest is the white Rabbit of Caerbannog.
  • The wooden cup dropped is off course the Holy Grail.