Dredmor taxon/monster specific puns

The ones I have so far are "You fight like an pox-infested undead diggle" for undead, but other than that I'm looking for MOAR PUNZ.

 

Wait, are you saying Speech.xml is working? I loaded about 50 of them into that file, and they never spoke a word of them. I assumed it was abandoned functionality.

 

I'm actually using it to set up a whole heap of triggers onplayerhit (or whatever one it is where you hit a monster, heh) on a skill so when you hit, say, a diggle you get "You fight like a pox-infested undead diggle", whereas if you hit, say, a Thrusty specifically you might get "Shame you can't parry MY thrusts" <-- which is terrible.

Code:

    <ability name="Punishing Strike" icon="skills/swashbuckler2l.png" skill="6446" level="1">
        <description text="By spouting off a pun when you strike a foe, your sheer caddishness offends their senses."/>
        <targetHitEffectBuff percentage="100" taxa="animal" name="needs a name" />
        <targetHitEffectBuff percentage="100" taxa="construct" name="I've got another dramatic entrance ready; right through your armor!" />
        <targetHitEffectBuff percentage="100" taxa="demon" name="needs a name" />
        <targetHitEffectBuff percentage="100" taxa="other" name="needs a name" />
        <targetHitEffectBuff percentage="100" taxa="undead" name="You fight like a Pox-infected undead cow." />
        <targetHitEffectBuff percentage="100" taxa="vegetable" name="needs a name" />
    </ability>

For example, see above.

 

Wow. That is a cool idea.

 

I've got some more time up my sleeve as of late, yet no more puns have materialized. You guys are creative, come at me with all your creativity, bros.

 

For demons: "Darn you to heck!"
For diggles: "Cuteness won't save you now, you murderous bag of pixels!"
For slimes: "You're geography!"

 

Deths could say "cower, brief mortals", as a reference to Discworld, maybe?

 

These are things the players say at the monsters.

 

Puns are only as difficult as you want them to be non-cringe-inducing!

Diggles: "I'm digging this!" Sickly Diggle: "I guess this fight really flu away from you?" Lil Battys: "You must be batty to keep fighting!" Evil Magic Potatoes: "Eyes to meet you." Gnomes: "There's gnome way you're escaping now!" Amazonian Bumblebeepeople: "A pity you couldn't float like a butterfly." Common Cave Ravens: "Everyone's ravin' about my attacks!" Blobbys: "You're in acid-tuation now, huh?"