MS Paint Adventures Wiki
Advertisement
For the menu used in battle by Homestuck characters, see Strife Techniques.
Battle Menu

Problem Sleuth's Battle Menu.

The Battle Menu is a multi-purpose interface used by Problem Sleuth, Pickle Inspector and Ace Dick. It keeps track of the following statistics and resources:

And provides access to the following abilities for use in battle:

  • Aggress
  • Battle Technique
  • Combat Operandi
  • Persuade (for PS) / Perplex (for PI) / Perturb (for AD)
  • Mollify (for PS) / Confound (for PI) / Exacerbate (for AD)
  • Abscond

More Battle Techniques and Combat Operandi, as well as higher levels of old Techniques and Operandi, are accrued as characters unlock higher levels and excel to higher ratings. Many Techniques and Operandi cost certain resources to use, though the exact resource cost of each ability is very rarely made clear.

Besides the occasional Abscond, the only ability beyond the top three on the Menu ever used in Problem Sleuth is MollifyPS icon, which, unlike most of the Sleuth's similarly-named abilities, actually lives up to its nonviolent moniker, suggesting that Confound and Exacerbate may work along similar lines.

Battle Techniques[]

Problem Sleuth[]

Main article: Problem Sleuth's special attacks

Problem Sleuth looks for a peaceful, diplomatic solutionPS icon to conflict in his list of Battle Techniques, and as such his Techniques tend to be (misleadingly) named after diplomatic moves rather than combat maneuvers.

Ace Dick[]

Main article: Ace Dick's special attacks
  • Truffle Shuffle, first used herePS icon, level 2 accrued herePS icon
  • Torso Flail, used herePS icon

Pickle Inspector[]

Main article: Pickle Inspector's special attacks
  • Disconcerting Ogle, level 5 accrued herePS icon, level 48 used herePS icon

Mobster Kingpin[]

Main article: Mobster Kingpin's special attacks

Though his own Battle Menu is not seen, Mobster Kingpin's various forms also have access to Battle Techniques and Combat Operandi. His Techniques mostly seem to focus on increasing or "buffing" his own stats.

  • Running Numbers, first used herePS icon
  • Hit the Mattresses, used herePS icon
  • Extortion, first used herePS icon
  • Hooched-Up Bootlegger, used herePS icon

Demonhead Mobster Kingpin[]

Main article: Demonhead Mobster Kingpin's special attacks
  • Vexatious Glower, first used herePS icon

Other[]

Several other characters whose Battle Menus have not been seen have also been able to employ Techniques of their own:

Combat Operandi[]

Problem Sleuth[]

Ace Dick[]

Pickle Inspector[]

  • Pickle Replicsimile, used herePS icon
  • Temporal Replicsimile, accrued at Piquant AristocratPS icon rating and first used herePS icon
  • Abstracted Thought, accrued at Piquant Aristocrat and used herePS icon

Mobster Kingpin[]

Demonhead Mobster Kingpin[]

  • Abstracted Thought, used herePS icon
  • Cinder Ablockalypse, used herePS icon
  • Clownstorm, used herePS icon

Other[]

Comb Raves[]

The exact relationship between the options presented by the Battle Menu and the abilities offered by Impetus Combs is unclear; however, as two of the known Comb Raves - namely the (Triple) Truffle ShufflePS icon and Sepulchritude - previously appeared as Battle Menu abilities, it is possible the Comb serves as a way of boosting an ability already on the Menu, rather than providing a new ability entirely.

Advertisement