Fireball or Custard?

Fireball or Custard? is a small cardboard scratch-off lottery ticket with five scratch spots. The ticket is red on one side and pink on the other, and a cartoon dragon sits in the corner, holding a spoon and licking its lips.[1]

AI Description

Scratch off a spot in the midst of battle, and this zany ticket casts a spell at the closest red-tagged mob! Each spot has a 50/50 chance. Will it cast a level-15 Fireball? Will it cast a glob of delicious, healing Strawberry Custard? Who knows! Either way, the results will be a hoot! Thirty minute cooldown between scratches.[2]

Description

The user may scratch off one spot of this relatively high-value ticket[3] every thirty (30) minutes.[1] The spot reveals a tiny icon, which flashes back and forth from a red fireball to a pink glob for several seconds before settling on the result.[4]

Custard

Custard. Yummy![5]

The booming announcement is delivered in a deep, bass-heavy voice like the announcer in the Candy Crush mobile game. A beachball-sized ball of custard splatters into the red-tagged mob, healing it.[4]

Fire

Fireball. Spicy![6]

The user casts a Level 15 Fireball Spell from their hand.

Gallery

Story

All uses through Book 7
Book Situation Result
Book 2 Fighting Heather the Bear Custard
Book 2 Fighting Krasue in the Administrative Building Basement [7] Fireball

Book 1

After fighting the Rage Elemental on the Second Floor, Carl received the Fireball or Custard? scratch-off ticket in a Platinum Lucky Bastard Box awarded for the Like a Moth to the Flame Achievement.[1]

Book 2

While fighting Heather the Bear, Carl uses the scratch off ticket and gets the custard option. [4]

When investigating Magistrate Featherfall's corpse Carl uses it again and gets Fireball. [7]

Book 3

He scratched off two spots on the Third Floor, and briefly moved the ticket to his hot list on the Fourth Floor, but still has three (3) spots remaining.[8]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Dinniman, Matt. Dungeon Crawler Carl (Chapter 39)
  2. Dinniman, Matt. Dungeon Crawler Carl (Chapter 39) (pp. 336-337). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.
  3. Dinniman, Matt. Dungeon Crawler Carl (Chapter 41)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Dinniman, Matt. Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Chapter 9)
  5. Dinniman, Matt. Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Chapter 9) (p. 108). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.
  6. Dinniman, Matt. Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Chapter 22) (p. 298). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.
  7. 7.0 7.1 Dinniman, Matt. Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Chapter 22)
  8. Dinniman, Matt. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Chapter 1)