Comma Chameleon Messages (R-Z)

The Comma Chameleon familiar can consume Familiar Equipment to gain the functionality of other familiars. Each piece of equipment has a unique message when fed to a Chameleon, and another when the effect wears off.

Equipment Messages

R

• radioactive chew toy (Pair of Ragged Claws)
  • When eaten:

    %fn^[sic] eats the chew toy, and begins nervously pacing around, leaving a trail of slime behind her.

  • When effect wears off:

    %fn^[sic] belches, looking much less nervous and slimy than she previously did.

• rainbow tie (Personal Raincloud)
  • When eaten:

    <name> snaps up the rainbow tie, and swallows it. She hovers above your head, raining on you. Don't ask.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> hiccups and falls to the ground, but at least she's not "raining" anymore.

• ramekin of space nuts (Twitching Space Critter)
  • When eaten:

    <name> eats the ramekin of nuts. After her fast is broken, she begins to sprout a thick coat of fur.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> belches, and all her fur falls right out.******

• rat tooth polish (Smiling Rat)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the tin of tooth powder and a massive grin spreads across her face.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> belches up a little cloud of powder and her smile fades.

• rattlesnake enrager (Baby Mutant Rattlesnake)
  • When eaten:

    <name> sucks on the enrager. Her fangs grow longer and her tail grows a rattle.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> finally swallows the enrager. Her tail stops rattling (thank goodness), and her fangs retract.

• really tiny cocktail shaker (Miniature Sword & Martini Guy)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the really tiny cocktail shaker. She stands upright, and one hand sprouts a sword while the other grows a martini glass. How iconic!

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> slumps back onto four legs, the sword and martini glass somehow reabsorbing into her body. Chameleons are weird.******

• rhesus monkey (Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the rhesus monkey, not even dividing it into pieces first. She starts to karate-chop robotically, while a back leg turns into wood and she starts to decompose.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> burps loudly, squeaks "brrraaa--wait, what?" and is back to normal.

• rhinestone cowhorn (Restless Cow Skull)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the rhinestone horn and turns ashen and surly.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> burps and returns to her normal color and temperament.******

• ribcage rollcage (Mini-Skulldozer)
  • When eaten:

    <name> turns gray and starts making a weird rumbling noise.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> lets out a thunderous, rumbling burp, then falls silent.******

S

• school spirit socket set (Steam-Powered Cheerleader)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the socket set. Steam puffs out of her ears as she lifts a pair of pom-poms.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> burps and hiccups. The steam stops seeping out from under her claws, and she puts down her pom-poms.******

• security blankie (Grinning Turtle)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the security blankie. Her eyes suddenly widen as the forgotton^[sic] horrors and tragedies of her past return unbidden to the fore.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> shouts, "It's Charlie! He's in the trees!", hiccups, and swallows hard. "...What was I talking about?" she asks, blinking dizzily.

• self-dribbling basketball (Machine Elf)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the basketball and becomes a self-dribbling <name>.

  • When effect wears off:

    "Stop dribbling yourself," you say to <name>, and she does.******

• shiny brass tailfeathers (Mechanical Songbird)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the feathers, gags a little, takes on a deep bronze color, and begins to whistle.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> burps softly and stops whistling.******

• shiny gold fronts (Hovering Skull)
  • When eaten:

    <name> eats the shiny gold fronts, and turns chalky-white. She begins to hover in the air and make sarcastic wisecracks about your activities.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> suddenly belches, and drops to the floor. Looks like she's getting her color back.******

• shock collar (Stab Bat)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the shock collar, and her skin turns black. She gets decidedly more pointy, which is good, since she was fairly pointless before.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> belches loudly and swallows hard. Her skin turns back to its normal color and her little pointy bits disappear. At least now she won't be attacking you.

• six-armed sweater (Cuddlefish)
  • When eaten:

    <Name> swallows the sweater and then gives you a big hug.

  • When effect wears off:

    <Name> belches and moves slightly further away from you.

• skewer-mounted razor blade (Ghost Pickle on a Stick)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the skewer-mounted razor blade in one gulp. I can't imagine that's going to be any good for her, digestive-wise. She glows brightly, and starts to drool corrosive pickle-juice.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> squeaks in pain, then seems to shake it off. She stops glowing and drooling acid, which is generally regarded as a hopeful sign in the medical community.

• S.L.E.I.G.H.B.E.L.L.S. (Robot Reindeer)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the S.L.E.I.G.H.B.E.L.L.S. Her eyes turn into little cameras, her nose glows, and she starts chirping chiptune Crimbo carols.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> belches loudly, and finally stops playing Crimbo carols through her external speakers, which then turn back into ears.

• slightly thicker filthy rags (Feral Kobold)
  • When eaten:

    <name> rips the rag to shreds with her mouth, then hunches over and starts barking in a gravelly, almost human voice.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> makes a noise that starts as a bark and finishes as a belch. She calms down significantly.

• smile-sharpening stone (Cheshire Bat)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the smile-sharpening stone, and vanishes, except for her smile, then reappears again. Who would have thought a comma chameleon would come and go like that?

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> hiccups, burps, and finally stops disappearing and reappearing, staying her regular red, gold, and green.

• smiley-face sticker (Untamed Turtle)
  • When eaten:

    <name> snags the sticker with her tongue and swallows it. Then she crawls underneath a large rock and refuses to come out.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> crawls out from under her rock, and blinks at you, shaking her head.

• snow halo (Snow Angel)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the halo, turns light blue, and starts floating just above the ground with a serene glow on her face.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> burps angelically and floats back to the ground.

• solid state loom (Dataspider)
  • When eaten:

    <name> vanishes for a minute, and then pops back into existence more or less the same. Slightly bluer. And glowing a little. It's probably fine.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> burps, looking noticably^[sic] dimmer and less blue for having done so.

• space jellybicycle (Space Jellyfish)
  • When eaten:

    <name> eats the spacejellybicycle and turns into a transparent blob, which is some high-level chameleoning, let me tell you.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> belches and resumes a more ordinary terrestrial form.******

• spoon! (Nervous Tick)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the spoon!, careful not to gag on it. She sprouts antennae and starts to twitch.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> twitches once more, then her stomach gurgles and she settles down.

• spruce juice (Bloovian Groose)
  • When eaten:

    (no message)

  • When effect wears off:

    ****** (no other message)

• S.S. Ticket (Helix Fossil)
  • When eaten:

    <name> eats the S.S. Ticket, and her eyes widen. "START9!" she shrieks wildly. "ANARCHY FOREVER!"

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> hiccups, belches, and stops ranting about anarchy. ******

• Stembridge sidearm (Adventurous Spelunker)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the pistol and grins a charming, crooked grin.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> burps up a little cloud of gunsmoke and returns to normal.******

• stick-on mini solar panels (Autonomous Disco Ball)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the mini solar panels, and becomes rather shinier. And groovier. And hover...ier.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> drops back onto the ground and comments on what a long, strange trip it's been. Which is not an entirely appropriate reference, but hey.

• stomp box (Pair of Stomping Boots)
  • When eaten:

    <name> crunches the stomp box in one bite. Her skin turns to black leather, silver buckles sprout on her legs, and she begins stomping agitatedly.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> hiccups and spits out a splinter. Her skin turns green again, and she stops stomping around like a lunatic.

• string of dingle balls (Baby Sandworm)
  • When eaten:

    <name> scarfs down the dingle balls and starts bellowing "Ayiyiyiyiyi!"

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> lets out a belch redolent of refried beans.

• sucky decal (Barrrnacle)
  • When eaten:

    <name> licks the sucky decal off of her side, and swallows it. Her skin turns into a hard shell, but she's probably still chewy on the inside (like the Millenium^[sic] Falcon).

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> coughs and swallows hard. Her skin turns back into scales -- major scales, if you must ask. Looks like she's going to suck a lot less, now.

T

• targeting chip (MagiMechTech MicroMechaMech)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the targeting chip, and she starts stomping around and shooting little laser beams out of her eyes, and missiles out of her mouth.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> belches and fires one last missile, then returns to normal.

• tasteful black bow tie (Penguin Goodfella)
  • When eaten:

    <name> snaps up the bow tie in one bite. Her front legs turn into flippers and she looks for dandelions to tromp through.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> gulps and looks queasy. Her flippers turn into legs again, and she looks less likely to leave a horse's head in your bed.

• teddy bear sewing kit (Teddy Bear)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the teddy bear sewing kit, and her scales turn into fur. Must have been a pretty big kit, because now she looks stuffed!

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> rubs her stomach with one claw, burps, and her fur turns back into scales again.

• teddy borg sewing kit (Teddy Borg)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the teddy borg sewing kit. Her scales turn into fur and her eyes glow red. Must have been a pretty big kit, because now she looks stuffed!

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> rubs her stomach with one claw, burps, and her fur turns back into scales again. She's a lot less creepy now, too.

• tiny baby scorpion (Bark Scorpion)
  • When eaten:

    <name> eats the tiny baby scorpion. Her tongue swells up as she drops to all sixes.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> burps and her tongue returns to its normal size.******

• tiny ballet slippers (Sugar Fruit Fairy)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the shoes, slurping down the laces like errant strands of spaghetti. She looks at you with a saccharine smile.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> lets loose a sweet-smelling burp, then sighs with ennui.

• tiny balloon knife (Howling Balloon Monkey)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the tiny balloon knife, accidentally popping it on her fangs. Her body swells, and she starts squeaking excitedly.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> hiccups, and her balloon body starts to deflate. At least she'll stop squeaking, now.

• tiny bindle (Hobo Monkey)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the bindle, then lights a tiny cigar.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> hiccups and accidentally swallows her cigar. She then turns a rather sickly shade of green.

• tiny bust of Pallas (Reassembled Blackbird)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the bust of Pallas, then coughs up a few feathers.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> belches, and gazes at you. The look in here^[sic] eyes seems to say "Nevermore."

• tiny cell phone (Purse Rat)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the phone, and immediately starts yapping like crazy.

  • When effect wears off:

    With an annoying and disgusting combiation^[sic] of burp and yap, <name> calms down.

• tiny domino mask (Rockin' Robin)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the mask, then starts tapping her foot and whistling.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> emits a particularly sonorous burp, then stops tapping her feet.******

• tiny do-rag (Tickle-Me Emilio)
  • When eaten:

    %familiar name^[sic] eats the do-rag, growing furrier and more vulgar with every bite.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> belches one last bit of foul language as her fur shrinks away to nothing.******^[sic]

• tiny knife and fork (Ghuol Whelp)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the tiny knife and fork, and you watch her appetites change. It's an interesting process, visually -- too bad you can't see it.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> belches loudly, producing an unspeakable stench. Fortunately, it looks like she's lost her appetite for decaying flesh.

• tiny makeup kit (Doppelshifter)
  • When eaten:

    <name> blinks at you, and squeaks "are you trying to kill me?" but she swallows the tiny makeup kit, and starts to rapidly change shapes.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> gags violently, finally dislodging the makeup kit from her throat. She swallows it and stops doppelshifting, at least for now.

• tiny maracas (Hovering Sombrero)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the tiny maracas, rattling herself pretty good in the process. She rises off the ground, looking like Hunter S. Thompson's piñata.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> belches a spicy Bordertown belch, and falls to the ground. She blinks at you, confused.

• tiny Mountie hat (Whirling Maple Leaf)
  • When eaten:

    <name> licks the tiny Mountie hat off of her head, and swallows it. She starts spinning around, squeaking, "what's that aboot, eh?"

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> sneezes loudly, and spins more slowly until she finally comes to a stop, and looks comically dizzy.

• tiny nose-bone fetish (Pygmy Bugbear Shaman)
  • When eaten:

    <name> blinks at the fetish, snags it with her tongue, and swallows it. She grins at you, and her eyes flash octarine.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> belches an ovaltine-laced belch, and the octarine light fades from her eyes.

• tiny prop sword (Dramatic Hedgehog)
  • When eaten:

    <name> picks her teeth with the sword, then gulps it down. She grows spines on her back, and squeaks a dramatic monologue.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> hiccups, squeaks " . . . not to be," and turns back into her reptile self.

• tiny shaker of salt (Sabre-Toothed Lime)
  • When eaten:

    You search for your tiny shaker of salt and, having found it, give it to <name>. She grins and you watch her front teeth get longer, while her scales turn a little citrusy.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> belches loudly and looks embarrassed. Her green skin fades, and her sabre-teeth retract into her gums.

• tiny sombrero (Mariachi Chihuahua)
  • When eaten:

    <name> eats the tiny sombrero. Her eyes bulge out and she starts to growl and foam at the mouth, but she doesn't say anything because chihuahuas. Do. Not. Talk.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> belches, and starts to settle down a bit, wiping the foam from her mouth.

• tiny top hat and cane (Li'l Xenomorph)
  • When eaten:

    <name> snaps up the top hat and swallows the cane lengthwise. She starts drooling viscous goo and another set of jaws pokes out of her mouth.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> hiccups and rubs her stomach. Her second set of jaws turns back into a tongue, and her drool output drops considerably.

• toggle switch (Bartend), toggle switch (Bounce) (Robortender)
  • When eaten:

    <name> eats the remote-control, turns bright green, and pulls out a cocktail shaker. Where was she keeping that?

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> belches and drops her cocktail shaker.******

• topiary noseplugs (Topiary Skunk)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the noseplugs, turns green, and starts moving much more slowly.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> releases an extremely foul-smelling belch and returns to her normal color.******

• toy six-seater hovercraft (Inflatable Dodecapede)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the hovercraft, and begins to hover. Sharp plastic seams appear along her sides, as do a couple more vestigial legs.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> hiccups and crashes to the ground, her sharp seams melting into her scales. At least she's gotten rid of those extra legs.

• tuning fork (Scary Death Orb)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the tuning fork, and her skin gets shinier. Then she starts hovering around your head and menacing you with her pointy claws. It's a little disconcerting.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> belches loudly and swallows hard. Her skin turns back to its normal color and she falls back to the ground, looking a little dizzy.

U

• undissolvable contact lenses (Slimeling)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the contact lenses. Her skin becomes slimy, and she starts poking around you sack looking for equipment to eat.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> burps and wipes herself off.

• unspeakable lozenges (Squamous Gibberer)
  • When eaten:

    <name> gulps down the lozenges and starts whispering to herself in forbidden tongues.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> belches and stop whispering.

V

• velvet choker (Feather Boa Constrictor)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the velvet choker, only briefly choking on it. She gets longer, skinnier, and her scales sprout feathers.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> gets a bad case of the hiccups, which is indecently cute. When she's done, she's turned back into a chameleon again.

W

• warbear drone codes (Warbear Drone)
  • When eaten:

    <name> eats the codes. Her eyes go blank and she begins to hover a few inches off the ground.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> belches, blinks, and settles softly back to the ground.******

• weegee sqouija (Spirit Hobo)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the weegee sqouija, and turns translucent. She floats in the air in front of you, hiccuping occasionally.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name>'s tummy rumbles, and she goes opaque again and crashes to the ground. Looks like she's going to have a little hangover.

• woimbook (Oily Woim)
  • When eaten:

    <name> eats the book, one page at a time, getting oilier and faster with every chapter.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> belches and wipes all the oil off of her skin.

• woolen cravat (Dandy Lion)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the cravat, and puts on a monocle and posh accent. "Tally ho, old bean!"

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> hiccups, and her monocle flies off.

X

• Xiblaxian holo-bowtie (Xiblaxian Holo-Companion)
  • When eaten:

    <name> swallows the nonexistent bowtie and develops a glowing green outline.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> burps and her glowing outline fades away.******

Z

• zen motorcycle (Llama Lama)
  • When eaten:

    <name> flicks out her tongue and swallows the motorcycle. She closes her eyes and assumes the lotus position, then hovers a few feet off the ground.

  • When effect wears off:

    <name> hiccups, and falls back to the ground. She spends a few adorable minutes trying to extricate herself from the lotus position.

References

• The message for the rhesus monkey mentions that she doesn't cut it into pieces first. This refers to the candy product Reese's Pieces.
• The "gag" mention in the message for the spoon! is a reference to Frank Zappa song "Valley Girl", which features Moon Unit Zappa's distinctive stylings of "lyrics" such as "Gag me with a spoon".
• The message for the sucky decal is a reference to Star Wars, "Chewie" being a nickname for Han Solo's Wookiee partner/co-pilot Chewbacca, and the Millennium Falcon being their ship.
• The tasteful black bowtie consumption message is a reference to the character Opus from Berkeley Breathed's comic Bloom County. Opus later appeared in Breathed's strips Outland and now the self-titled Opus. Opus, the large-nosed penguin, is known for his appreciation of dandelions and kicking through fields of them.
• The message for the tiny maracas mentions Hunter S. Thompson, which may be a reference to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, in which the main character has an acid trip in a bar and sees the patrons as giant lizards.
• The message for the tiny shaker of salt, like its description, references the Jimmy Buffett song "Margaritaville," specifically the line "Searching for my lost shaker of salt."

Comma Chameleon Equipment Consumption Messages
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