Frumious Bandersnatch
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| Frumious Bandersnatch |
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| Galumphing monster takes his lead from what you do what a frabjous beast! |
Does all sorts of beamish stuff
Ability: Acts as a volleyball (but tuned to a specific stat by its equipment) and improves your combat skills in a variety of ways.
Throne/Bjorn: +2 Stat(s) Per Fight, sometimes deals 2-4 Prismatic Damage.
Hatchling: 
Apathargic Bandersnatch
Familiar-Specific Equipment: 
aquaviolet jub-jub bird, charpuce jub-jub bird, crimsilion jub-jub bird
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Ultimate Cage Match | Scavenger Hunt | Obstacle Course | Hide and Seek |
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+15% Meat Drop 6-10 MP +4 Muscle statgain +15% Item Drop +4 Mysticality statgain 8-10 HP +2 Moxie statgain
Bleeding damage*
*Hover for details
 Cannot breathe underwater
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Combat Messages
- 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. It's just as well, though. Your butt is getting pretty sore.
- (An adventure is used)
- Enthroned in the Crown of Thrones:
- Bjornified in the Buddy Bjorn:
- 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.
- Normally
Arena Messages
- When entered in Hide and Seek:
- Like jabberwockies[sic], bandersnatches can't stop burbling long enough to hide effectively.
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.
| Skill | Message | Result |
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| Clobber | <name> gufflauds enthusiastically at your skillful clobber. Your opponent looks embarrassed. | Delevel |
| Thrust-Smack | Your thrust-smack kicks up some dust and <name> sneezes, brealtching fire all over your opponent and dealing X damage. | Hot Damage |
| Furious Wallop | <name> gufflauds enthusiastically at your skillful wallop. Your opponent looks embarrassed. | Delevel |
| Club Foot | Your blow kicks up some dust and <name> sneezes, brealtching fire all over your opponent and dealing X damage. | Hot Damage |
| Lunging Thrust-Smack | <name> is surpartled by your lunge and beaffets the air with his wings. Your opponents are obscured behind a cloud of smust. If smust has been used this combat: |
Smust (stuns enemy for 2 rounds) If smust has been used this combat: |
| Toss | <name> tosses you, sending you crasheening into your opponent, bowling him over and leaving him dazed and confused. | Delevel 5-10 Attack and 5-10 Defense |
| Headbutt | <name> celebrates your headbutt with a high, kwaining howl. Your opponent shivers and takes X damage from the spooky sound. | Spooky Damage |
| Shell Up | <name> embarrasses your opponent by guffaughing at it as your potent shell materializes around you. | Delevel 7-11 |
| Spirit Snap | <name> gufflauds enthusiastically as you unleash the power of the Turtle Spirits. Your opponent looks embarrassed. | Delevel 4-9 |
| Kneebutt | <name> snorfles with delight at your kneebutt, letting loose a gout of flame that singes your opponent for X | Hot Damage |
| Shieldbutt | With a queftick swipe of his hugantic claw, <name> smacks your shield and sends you spyrating around, raising a thick cloud of smust. If smust has been used this combat: |
Smust (stuns enemy for 2 rounds) If smust has been used this combat: |
| Salsaball | <name> chases the salsaball and stompedes over your opponent, leaving him a little bruised and battered. Bruittered, you might say. | Delevel 1 |
| Curse of Vichyssoise | <name> gufflauds enthusiastically as you curse your opponent who now looks quite embarrassed. | Delevel 1 |
| Stream of Sauce | <name> licks some of the extra sauce off your opponent, giving it a thorough tongue-lashing for X damage. | Physical damage |
| Saucy Salve | <name> sees you're wounded and gentlicately licks your wounds. Or maybe he just smelled the saucy salve. Either way, you feel better. | Restores X HP (Does not occur when the spell is "quick.") Removes all negative effects |
| Saucestorm | <name> turns his slaverous mouth to the sky, gulbling extra sauce. He looks a little heavier when he's done. | +1 familiar experience |
| Curse of Marinara | <name> gufflauds enthusiastically as you curse your opponent who now looks quite embarrassed. | Delevel 1 |
| Wave of Sauce | <name> slurbbles up a bit of extra sauce and looks a little heavier. | +1 familiar experience |
| Curse of the Thousand Islands | <name> gufflauds enthusiastically as you curse your opponent who now looks quite embarrassed. | Delevel 1 |
| Saucecicle | <name> chetes some frozen sauce off the blunt end of the saucecicle sticking out of your opponent, which also happens to drive the spike deeper into it for X damage. | Cold Damage |
| Saucegeyser | <name> stares enchansfixed at the geyser of sauce, and begins to hum a snatch of an ancient Sauceror song. Mystical forces roible around you as you listen. | Restores 14 MP |
| Curse of Weaksauce | Determined to show you that he is not weaksauce himself, <name> smacks your opponent doing X damage. | Damage |
| Spaghetti Spear | <name> bandersnatches the spaghetti spear and trips your opponent with it. <name> chortles joyfully as your your[sic] opponent gets back up, shakily, looking somewhat the worse for wear. | Delevel |
| Utensil Twist | <name> gufflauds enthusiastically at your skillful use of a common kitchen utensil. (Well, maybe not all that common.) Your opponent looks embarrassed. | Delevel |
| Ravioli Shurikens | <name> snicker-snacks on the filling of one of your shurikens, then spits the shell at your opponent for X damage. | Physical damage |
| Entangling Noodles | <name> grabs the end of one of the noodles in his mouth and gleerfully stromples around your opponent, pulling the noodles even tighter. | Increases duration by 1-2 rounds. |
| Lasagna Bandages | <name> sees that you're hurt and licks your wounds enthusiassonately. Or maybe he just smelled the lasagna. Either way, you feel better. | Restores X HP Removes all negative effects |
| Cannelloni Cannon | <name> snabbles up some of the extra filling, and looks a little heavier. | +1 familiar experience |
| Stuffed Mortar Shell | <name> slavernously snorfs up the extra stuffed mortar shell that you apparently accidentally summoned, and looks heavier. | +2 familiar experience |
| Weapon of the Pastalord | <name> raises his shaggedy head and sings a snatch of an ancient Pastalord song. You feel mystic forces swindering around you. | Restores 8 MP |
| Suckerpunch | <name> fluppers his wings glappily in an attempt to imitate your suckerpunch. It stirs up a thick cloud of smust. If smust has been used this combat: |
Smust [only Disco Bandits] (stuns enemy for 2 rounds) If smust has been used this combat: |
| Disco Eye-Poke | <name> chaughles so hard at your opponent that he sneezes flame out of his nose, doing X damage. | Hot Damage |
| Disco Dance of Doom | <name> adds to the disco inferno by breathing broisting flame all over your opponent for X damage. | Hot Damage |
| Disco Dance II: Electric Boogaloo | <name> makes your dancing a little less safe by belching fire all over your opponent, charscorching <it> for for X damage. | Hot Damage |
| Disco Dance 3: Back in the Habit | <name> lights your opponent's night on fire, charscorching him for X damage. | Hot Damage |
| Disco Face Stab | <name> screowls in sympathetic pain. It's a ululating, unnatural sound, and scares approximately X bejeezuses (bejeezi?) out of your opponent. | Spooky Damage |
| Disco Inferno | <name> adds to the disco inferno by breathing broisting flame all over your opponent for X damage. | Hot Damage |
| Disco Shank | <name> is impressed by your knife work and kisugs you. It warms your heart and makes you feel better. | Restores HP |
| Knife in the Dark | <name> is impressed by your knife work and kisugs you. It warms your heart and makes you feel better. | Restores HP |
| Sing | <name> joins in the singing, at such skull-smunching volume that your opponent looks thoroughly discomratulated when he's done. | Delevel |
| Dissonant Riff | <name> griminces so hard at your dissonant chords that he sneezes flame out of his nose, doing X damage to your opponent. | Hot Damage |
| Cadenza | <name> is movspired to unleash his inner strength on your opponent, resulting in X damage for it. | Physical damage |
| Accordion Bash | <name> throws a bash of his own and twirls your opponent around until they thoroughly discomratulated. | Delevel |
| Concerto de los Muertos | <name> screowls along with the concerto. It's a ululating, unnatural sound, and scares approximately X bejeezuses (bejeezi?) out of your opponent. | Spooky Damage |
| Bawdy Refrain | <name> joins in the singing, at such skull-smunching volume that your opponent looks thoroughly discomratulated when he's done. | Delevel |
| Cone of Zydeco | <name> is surpartled by your powerful Zydecone and beaffets the air with his wings. Your opponents are obscured behind a cloud of smust. If smust has been used this combat: |
Smust (stuns enemy for 2 rounds) If smust has been used this combat: |
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. (So underwater-only weight buffs will indeed give you extra run-aways.)
- This free-run functionality is determined by a flag set by a start-of-combat message. Monster Changing effects (such as CLEESH) will unfortunately reset this flag, removing the possibility of a bander-assisted free run that fight. Logging out/in will similarly reset this flag.
- The free runaways provided by the Bandersnatch share the same "Familiar-aided Runaways" counter that tracks the Pair of Stomping Boots' free run-aways.
- 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.
- HP restored by the Bandersnatch varies between X/2 and X, where X is the Bandersnatch's weight.
- Deleveling done by the Bandersnatch varies between X/4 and X/2, 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.
- Smust-triggering skills do not actually have to hit the monster in order to trigger smust.
- There exists a stuffed version of this familiar.
History
- On November 14, 2013 new interactions were introduced for the guild skills added during the class revamps. Further, some existing interactions changed:
- The message for Stuffed Mortar Shell was:
- <name> slavernously snorfs up some of the shrapnel, and looks heavier.
- The action for Weapon of the Pastalord previously restored 12 MP.
- The action for Wave of Sauce previously gave +2 familiar experience (instead of the current +1).
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 jubjub bird is another fictional monster from "Jabberwocky," thus the familiar equipments. "Frabjous" is another of Carroll's made-up words.
- 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.
- While a great many of the words in this familiars messages are portmanteaus, e.g. "higgulping" and "hiccelping", "hiccough" is just the way the British spell "hiccup".
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Frumious Bandersnatch | Pair of Stomping Boots |
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