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)