Turtle Tamer

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Description

(Male:) The Turtle Tamer's mystical connection with his terrapin brethren imbues him with great power. He excels at moving very slowly and winning footraces with smug satisfaction. His Muscle is the key to his success, and to his long lifespan.
(Female:) The Turtle Tamer's mystical connection with her terrapin sisters imbues her with great power. She excels at moving very slowly and winning footraces with smug satisfaction. Her Muscle is the key to her success, and to her long lifespan.

Skills

Most Turtle Tamer skills are learned from The Brotherhood of the Smackdown. The skills from levels 1-4 cost 200, 800, 1800, and 3200 Meat respectively to learn, while all higher level skills cost 1,000 per level. All Turtle Tamers begin with the free skill Patience of the Tortoise. Completing the Spookyraven Manor Quest grants you the Spectral Snapper skill.

Level	Skill	Description	Effect	Type	MP Cost
0	Patience of the Tortoise	By reflecting on the nature of the Tortoise, you can gain temporary enlightenment. Your Strengthliness and maximum HP will increase for a period of time.	Patience of the Tortoise (+1 Muscle and +4 HP) (5 Adventures)	Non-combat	1
0	Toss	This skill allows you to toss your familiar, if you have one, or something else, if you don't. Just make sure that something else isn't a dwarf -- nobody does that, y'know?	Damage	Combat	1
1	Headbutt	This skill allows you to follow up a successful attack with a vicious headbutt to your opponent. The damage done by the headbutt is increased if you're wearing any kind of turtle as a helmet.	Increased Melee Damage	Combat	3
2	Skin of the Leatherback	This skill makes it so your back is thick, like leather. Like a leather back. Like a leatherback. You'll take less damage from enemy attacks.	Reduces damage taken by floor((level-2)/2), minimum 1	Passive	N/A
3	Amphibian Sympathy	Being sympathetic to the ins and outs of the amphibian lifestyle makes you more sympathetic to the lifestyles of all creatures. Your familiars will be more sympathetic and more powerful as a result of your powerful sympathy.	+5 to Familiar Weight -5 pounds to Inflatable Dodecapede	Passive	N/A
4	Ghostly Shell	This skill conjures the shell of a ghostly tortoise, which envelops you (or another player) in a protective shield, greatly reducing damage taken in combat.	Ghostly Shell (+80 Damage Absorption) (X Adventures)	Buff	6
5	Armorcraftiness	This skill allows you to make advanced helmets and pants. Advanced pants.	Allows you to make advanced Helmets, Pants, Shirts and Bucklers at the cost of 1 Adventure	Passive	N/A
6	Tenacity of the Snapper	This skill makes you (or another player) relentless in combat, like the fierce Snapping Turtles of the Days of Old. It will increase the damage done by each strike.	Tenacity of the Snapper (+8 Weapon Damage) (X Adventures)	Buff	8
7	Kneebutt	If you can almost hear your opponent thinking "I need you to knee me," this is the perfect skill for you. Nothing takes an opponent down a notch (MAB!) more than a well-placed knee to the naughty bits.	Damage Bonus to hit Chance to stun opponent	Combat	4
8	Empathy of the Newt	This skill makes you (or another person) temporarily gain an uncanny empathy towards your (or their) familiar	Empathy (+5 to Familiar Weight) (X Adventures)	Buff	15
9	Reptilian Fortitude	By imbuing you with the physical strength of 1000 snakes and lizards, this skill temporarily boosts your maximum HP.	Reptilian Fortitude (+30 HP) (X Adventures)	Buff	10
10	Shieldbutt	We all know that a shield is primarily used to, y'know, shield one from damage. With this skill, though, your shield becomes a powerful weapon as well. Your attacks will do extra damage based on your shield power. Just try and resist the urge to change into a blue leotard with little wings on the cowl.	Damage Can weaken opponent Never misses Must be wearing a shield as your off-hand item	Combat	5
11	Wisdom of the Elder Tortoises	You have achieved a level of awareness that almost matches that of the Elder Tortoises in the Days of Old. Your maximum MP is dramatically increased.	+50% MP	Passive	N/A
12	Astral Shell	This is a vastly improved version of the Ghostly Shell skill. It increases the amount of damage absorbed by your (or another player's) hat and pants in combat. Additionally, it will protect you (to a limited degree) from the elements of heat, cold, stench, spookiness, and sleaziness.	Astral Shell (+80 Damage Absorption) Slight resistance to all elemental damage (X Adventures)	Buff	10
13	Cold-Blooded Fearlessness	Ever wonder why turtles never run? It's because they're not afraid of anything, man. This skill will make you more like them -- spooky stuff won't spook you as much.	So-So Spooky Resistance	Passive	N/A
14	Hero of the Half-Shell	Your mastery of shields has elevated you to hero-like status amongst your tortoise brethren. Your skills have the beauty and balance of a Renaissance painting. As such, whenever you take damage in combat, your Muscle will be used to reduce the damage you take instead of Moxie, whenever you are wielding a shield. NOTE: This will only take effect if your Muscle is higher than your Moxie.	Damage Reduction normally influenced by Moxie is based on Muscle when wearing a shield (Unless your Moxie is higher)	Passive	N/A
15	Tao of the Terrapin	Like hippies, turtles live in their clothes. Unlike hippies, turtles' clothes provide a hard protective shell for their sensitive innards. Well, unlike hippies who are only on day fifteen of a new outfit. You have sufficiently pondered the mystery of the turtle, whose clothes are both home and protection, to understand how to imbue your clothing with the same properties. As such, any hat or pants you equip will be doubled in power. Now go take a shower, hippy.	Doubles power of hats and pants for the purposes of calculating Damage Absorption	Passive	N/A
Spookyraven Manor Quest Skill
N/A	Spectral Snapper	This skill allows you to summon the spirit of a deceased snapping turtle.	(10-40) + (Muscle/5) Spooky Damage	Combat	20
Sea Floor Skill
N/A	Summon Leviatuga	You've learned to call upon Leviatuga, the Great Turtle of the Deep. He'll heed your call, and bite your enemies with his ancient, powerful jaws.	Deals damage to an opponent.	Combat	40

Levels

The amount of Muscle required to attain level L follows the formula Muscle = L² - 2L+ 5.

Turtle Tamer Level Titles
Level	Title	Muscle
1	Toad Coach	n/a
2	Skink Trainer	5
3	Frog Director	8
4	Gecko Supervisor	13
5	Newt Herder	20
6	Frog Boss	29
7	Iguana Driver	40
8	Salamander Subduer	53
9	Bullfrog Overseer	68
10	Rattlesnake Chief	85
11	Crocodile Lord	104
12	Cobra Commander	125
13	Alligator Subjugator	148
14	Asp Master	173
15	Turtle Tamer	200

Class Gear

Turtle Tamers start with a helmet turtle and a turtle totem in their inventory.
The Turtle Tamer's Epic Weapon is the Mace of the Tortoise.
The Turtle Tamer's Legendary Epic Weapon is the Chelonian Morningstar.
The Turtle Tamer's Epic Hat is the Elder Turtle Shell.
The Turtle Tamer's Hardcore ascension reward is the stainless steel skullcap.
The Turtle Tamer's Hardcore Oxygenarian ascension reward is the plexiglass pith helmet.
The Turtle Tamer's Bad Moon ascension reward is the Brimstone Bunker.
Turtle Tamers can get a washboard shield from the Hobo Marketplace.
The chintzy turtle brooch confers its enchantment bonus only to Turtle Tamers.
The Dire Drifter Duds and its components confer their enchantment bonuses only to Turtle Tamers.
The Turtle Tamer's level 30 trophy is the Tzar of Turtles.

Notes

Turtle Tamers -- and only Turtle Tamers -- can combine Head-, Shield-, and/or Kneebutt into one attack, with all the effects of each part of the combo. The MP cost for any combo equals the individual cost of all skills involved plus 1. This is affected only once by Skill MP Cost Modifiers.
Turtle Tamers have an innate 50% bonus to their maximum HP.
Turtles Tamers have the ability to tame turtles.

Buffs

Turtle Tamer buffs must be cast using a totem -- the totem used determines the number of adventures granted per cast:
- turtle totem -- 5 Adventures
- Mace of the Tortoise -- 10 Adventures
- Chelonian Morningstar -- 15 Adventures
If a specific totem is wielded, it will be used to cast all buffs. Otherwise, the best totem in the player's inventory will be automatically selected.

References

The description of this class refers to the classic fable, "The Tortoise and the Hare," in which a slow and steady tortoise defeats a boastful hare in a race.
The level 5 title, Newt Herder, may allude to a quote from the Star Wars movie The Empire Strikes Back, in which Princess Leia calls Han Solo a "scruffy-looking nerf herder." Also, Nerf Herder is the name of the band that is best known for the theme song to Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
The level 12 title, Cobra Commander, is also the name of the masked nemesis of the G.I. Joe team and the leader of Cobra Command.
The level 14 title, Asp Master, refers to the insult "Assmaster."

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