Whirling Maple Leaf

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• Regular messages:

  <name> whirls up to your opponent and slices into it for X damage

  <name> flutters above you, sprinkling you with maple syrup.

  You gain Y Mana Points.

• With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:

<name> slices through your foe's pockets like a canadian tornado. Or a tornadian canado.

• With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:

<name> whirls and reels around the maypole, eh? You got maple on my maypole!

• With wax lips equipped:

<name> smiles all aboot with his wax lips, eh? Ya hoser.

[edit] Arena Messages

• When entered in a game of Hide and Seek:

<name> can't hide very well, because it can't stop rustling.

[edit] Notes

• Damage ranges from int(X+1)/2 to X+1, where X is the weight of the familiar. It will attack roughly 25% of the time.
• MP restore ranges from int(X+5)/2 to X+5, where X is the weight of the familiar. It will restore MP roughly 35% of the time.

[edit] References

• The second line of the haiku is a play on the title of the song "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground", by The White Stripes.
• The ability to restore MP by sprinkling you with maple syrup may be a reference to the game Paper Mario, in which Mario can heal FP by drinking maple syrup.
• The message given with the wax lips equipped quotes the television characters Bob and Doug McKenzie from Second City Television, played by actors Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas.
• The attacking Maple Leaf may be a reference to John Bellairs' novel "The Face in the Frost" where such a leaf attacks wizard and main character Prospero.