Copperhead Club bartender

Copperhead Club bartender
Monster ID	1510
Locations	The Copperhead Club
Hit Points	150
Attack	140
Defense	140
Initiative	25
Meat	80-120
Phylum	dude
Elements	None
Resistance	None
Monster Parts	arm, head, leg, torso
Drops unnamed cocktail, handful of tips, unrequired jacket
Bounty	filthy rag
Manuel	electric copperhead potion
Manuel Entry
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 You're fighting Walter Collins the bartender

This guy spent six months at Bartending Academy, then four more years doing graduate study work in Mixology. He's got a lot of bold ideas for new cocktails made with vacuum infusion, blowtorching, freezing with liquid nitrogen, electric shock, and actually using that dusty bottle of Galliano in the back of the bar.

So he's understandably annoyed that the local clientele order nothing but martinis, and only tip in ricocheted bullets.

Hit Message(s):

He knocks you on the head with the bottle of Galliano, perhaps mistaking you for a Harvey Wall. Ow! Ouch!

He freezes your head in liquid nitrogen and shatters it with a muddling stick. Brrrrrrrrrrr. (cold damage)

He lights a maraschino cherry on fire and cherry-bombs you with it. Oof! Oof! (hot damage)

He hits you with his creme brulee torch, making a carmelized crust on your <giblets>. Oof! Ouch! (hot damage)

He uses his vacuum infuser to add some garlic to your <solar plexus>. It's surprisingly painful. Argh! Eek!

He runs some electric current through a maraschino cherry, then throws it at you, zapping you with an electro-cherry-bomb. Ouch! Ow!

Critical Hit Message:

He uses a centrifuge, a vacuum infuser, a liquid nitrogen bath, and a muddling stick to mix up an incredibly complex cocktail with subtle and nuanced flavors. Then he lights it on fire and throws it at you. Oof! Eek! (hot damage)

Miss Message(s):

He swings a bottle of Galliano at you, but can't bang you with it since your name isn't Harvey.

He tries to hit you with a muddling stick, but is too muddle-headed to pull it off.

He tries to light a drink on fire and throw it at you, but he can't get the stem to act as a wick.

He tries to torch you with his creme brulee torch, but fails.

He tries to use his vacuum infuser on you, but you know how much that would suck.

He tries to zap you with some electric current, but you're up on current events enough to dodge.

Fumble Message:

You order a gin and tonic, and he spends half an hour trying to infuse the gin with cinnamon and put dry ice in the tonic to over-carbonate it. (FUMBLE!)

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After Combat

You gain 80-120 Meat (average: 100, stdev: 8.56)*

You acquire an item: handful of tips (20% chance)*

You acquire an item: unnamed cocktail (15% chance)*

You acquire an item: unrequired jacket (?% chance)*

You acquire a bounty item: filthy rag

(X of 8 found)

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Occurs at The Copperhead Club.

Notes

• The name of the bartender is generated according to this template.
• Using Fat stacks of cash against a the bartender triggers a special message:

The bartender takes the cash, and his expression softens for a minute. He's apparently not used to tips this big. "Boy, thanks," he says. "You wouldn't believe the clientele around here. If they're not shooting you, they're ordering drinks that don't exist, like <drink name>. can[sic] you believe it? They didn't teach me how to make <drink name> in bartending school, I'll tell you that for sure." A moment later he remembers that he's still in combat with you, and starts being aggressive again.

References

• The item drops are mostly associated with people or things called Collins.
  • Wilkie wrote No Name.
  • Tom is a cocktail.
  • Phil released the album No Jacket Required.
• A Harvey Wallbanger is made with Galliano.