Toy problem

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Description

Simple though it may sound, it is a bugger to understand. It may be a tool, it may on the other hand also be an explanation. Why not beat the crap out of it anyway?

Opponent Level Information

Opponent Level:

Power Level:

Attack Rating:

Defence Rating:

Scaling

• Does this opponent scale to you? No
• Subpoints Gain: Does this scale with player stats? No
• Opponent Level: Does this scale with player stats? No
• HP: Does this scale with player stats? No
• Elemental Damage Reduction: Y/N? If So What Kind
• Elemental Weakness: Y/N? If So What Kind
• Physical Resistance: Y/N?

Combat Messages

Initiative Message(s)

• A whole flock of applicants for a secretarial position begin pestering you to decide which one is best suited for the job. While they're distracted, you get the jump.
• You stumble over a chessboard and fall face-first onto the eight queens riveted onto it. Funny, none of them share the same row, column or diagonal. On a side note: your opponent gets the jump.

Successful Attack

• It bashes you repeatedly for X DAMAGE. There is no optimal stopping!
• You are hit by a bunch of secretaries sequentially on random body parts, with each order being equally likely. OUCH! X DAMAGE!
• Out of nowhere a monkey sudenly shambles up to you, bashing you with a bunch of bananas for X DAMAGE!

Miss Message(s)

• Several secretaries attempt to hit you sequentially on random body parts, but step on each others toes before reaching you.
• The eight queens are currently busy with arguing among each other.
• A couple of secretaries have wandered off and are busily inspecting their fingernails.
• Suddenly a monkey comes along, pushing a box. It ignores you completely.

Location(s)

• Trigonopolymonomathopathology Lab

Rewards

• You acquire an item: topsy-turvy toffee (20%?)
• You acquire an item: heavy handbag (25%?)

Stats:

• You gain 9-15 brawn subpoints
• You gain 5-8 brains subpoints
• You gain 5-8 bravado subpoints

Notes

• Quoted from wikipedia: A toy problem is a problem that is not of immediate scientific interest, yet is used as an expository device to illustrate a trait that may be shared by other, more complicated, instances of the problem, or as a way to explain a particular, more general, problem solving technique.
• The messages are logical references to either the Secretary Problem, Eight queens puzzle, or the Monkey and banana problem.
• Optimal stopping is the action of mathematically ending a random sequential sequence that would yield you the best result for the answer you are seeking.