Frumious Bandersnatch

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Frumious Bandersnatch
Galumphing monster takes his lead from what you do what a frabjous beast!

Ability: Acts as a volleyball (but tuned to a specific stat by its equipment) and augproves your combat skills in a varyad of ways.

Hatchling: Apathargic Bandersnatch Apathargic Bandersnatch

Familiar-Specific Equipment: aquaviolet jub-jub bird aquaviolet jub-jub bird, charpuce jub-jub bird charpuce jub-jub bird, crimsilion jub-jub bird crimsilion jub-jub bird

The Cake-Shaped Arena	Ultimate Cage Match	Scavenger Hunt	Obstacle Course	Hide and Seek
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• At the start of combat, if Ode to Booze is active:

  <name> hums a snatch of Ode to Booze and hiccoughs loudly.

• During combat, if Ode to Booze is active:

  <name> sumgers sideways, trips over his own feet, and crashes to the ground, higgulping.

  (The familiar fails to react to skill use when affected by Ode)

• Upon running away with Ode to Booze active, if the Bandersnatch can provide a free escape:

  <name> snatches you up in his jaws, tosses you onto his back, and flooms away, weaving slightly and hiccelping fire. You shout "Yeeeeeah!" as the combat becomes a small dot, far below you.

  (No adventure loss)

• Upon running away with Ode to Booze active, if the Bandersnatch is out of free escapes:

  <name> slumsily tosses you onto his back, but he's waggerving so much that you fall off pretty quickly. You escape the fight, but just barely.

  (An adventure is used)

• At the end of combat:
  • Normally

    <name> greams happily, baring a mouthful of scarpy teeth.

  • With aquaviolet jub-jub bird equipped:

    <name> smaughs happily while the jub-jub bird makes a mystic hand gesture at you. Okay, well, more of a wing gesture.

  • With charpuce jub-jub bird equipped:

    <name> bares his frightious teeth in a broad grile, while the jub-jub bird gives you a feathery thumbs-up.

  • With crimsilion jub-jub bird equipped:

    <name> smims beamishly, while the jub-jub bird flexes its wings like a little bird bodybuilder. Birdybuilder?

  • With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:

    <name> outgrabes beneath the Tam O'Shanter.

  • With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:

    <name> goes whiffling around the Maypole, burbling as he comes.

  • With wax lips equipped:

    <name> gets all beamish beneath the Wax Lips.

Arena Messages

• When entered in Hide and Seek:

  Like jabberwockies ^[sic], bandersnatches can't stop burbling long enough to hide effectively.

Skill-related actions

The Bandersnatch will perform a certain action each time the player uses a combat skill. However, the effect Ode to Booze prevents the familiar from performing these actions.

Only basic class skills provoke a reaction; other skills (such as Spookyraven or Hobopolis skills) do not.

Notes

• If the player starts combat with Ode to Booze active, the familiar can provide a free run-away, escaping combat without using an adventure. It can provide this function a limited number of times per day up to the Bandersnatch's weight / 5. Whether any free run-aways are available depends on the familiar's buffed weight during the current combat. The familiar does not try to give free runaways against CLEESHed monsters.
• Each bird color tunes the player's end-of-combat stat gains to a specific stat. This means that all substats gained from the familiar will correspond to that stat.

• Crimsilion is Muscle
• Aquaviolet is Mysticality
• Charpuce is Moxie

• Smust stuns the enemy for 2 rounds and this message is displayed:

Your opponent can't see you through the cloud of smust.

• After two rounds it clears:

The cloud of smust around your opponent clears.

• Smust can only fire once per combat. All subsequent uses of smust-triggering skills will result in the Bandersnatch causing physical damage.
• Damage done by the Bandersnatch varies between X/2 and X, where X is the Bandersnatch's weight.
• Combat skills that increase familiar experience can be used multiple times in a fight to massively boost familiar experience.

References

• This familiar is a reference to the fictional monster mentioned in Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky" which appeared in his novel Through the Looking-Glass. The prevalence of invented portmanteau words in the combat messages is similar to the use of language in the poem.
• The line "its vision, like a prostitute's, is based on movement," is a reference to a joke from Family Guy, which in turn references Jurassic Park.
• The Disco Dance II message about making "dancing a little less safe" is a reference to "The Safety Dance."
• The Bandersnatch's flight, and response to the flight, is a reference to The Neverending Story.