Gelatinous Cubeling

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Gelatinous Cubeling
Gelatinous Cube Great for sweeping dungeon floors and dungeon monsters.

Weakens enemies before combat,
and helps you pick up items.

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Ability: Reduces monster level at start of combat, increases item drops like a fairy.

Throne/Bjorn: +5 Familiar Weight, 10-30 damage.

Hatchling: dried gelatinous cube

Familiar-Specific Equipment: pile of dungeon junk

	Ultimate Cage Match	Scavenger Hunt	Obstacle Course	Hide and Seek

Mumming Trunk Abilities:

+15% Meat Drop	4-5 MP	+3 Muscle statgain	+15% Item Drop	+4 Mysticality statgain	8-10 HP	+2 Moxie statgain
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Cannot breathe underwater

Combat Messages

• At start of combat:

  <name> dissolved some of your opponent's flesh, making him a bit weaker. Now you know what these cubes are for: making awesome skeletons.

  <name> dissolves some of your opponent's more important bits, leaving him weaker.

  <name> slurps up some of your opponent's armor. He doesn't look nearly as impressive without pants. (Or pants-analogues.)

  Your opponent gets his arm stuck in <name>, which dissolves it down to the bone. Your foe is somewhat weaker now, but on the bright side, sweet skeleton arm, dude.

Monster attack power reduced by X

Monster defense reduced by X

• At end of combat:

  <name> oozes around, picking up bits of debris from the battle.

  <name> plops wetly around the scene, helping you pick stuff up.

  <name> slurps around, picking up discarded trash and bits.

  <name> vacuums up some loose trash and stuff. Man, getting the useful stuff out of there is going to be so gross.

  You watch <name> slime around picking up loose debris, and wonder if it's worth checking if there's anything good in there.

  Sometimes, additionally:

  <name> shudders and disgorges an item with a wet squelch.

You acquire... something. [[Data:{{{item}}}]]

• Enthroned in the Crown of Thrones:

  <name> ejects a random piece of dungeon detritus at your opponent, making a disgusting shlurrrrp sound and dealing Y damage.

• Bjornified in the Buddy Bjorn:

  Your opponent suddenly steps in <name> with a glorp and takes Y damage from the acid. How did it even get out of the Buddy Bjorn, anyway?

• With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:

  <name> makes a sort of burbling noise as your Tam O'Shanter floats around inside it. Ugh, you aren't looking forward to cleaning that.

• With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:

  <name> slimes its way around the maypole, leaving behind a shiny trail of gross.

• With wax lips equipped:

  You look at the wax lips floating around inside <name>, and feel bad for the next familiar that has to wear them.

Arena Messages

• <Name> keeps getting stuck to all the obstacles.

Notes

• X, the amount of the delevel, is half of the familiar's weight (rounded down).
• Y, the amount of damage dealt while in the Crown of Thrones, is between 10 and 30.
• After combat wins, it may produce an item. Three of its drops are once-per-ascension and scheduled:
  • 6th combat: Eleven-foot pole
  • 9th combat: ring of Detect Boring Doors
  • 12th combat: Pick-O-Matic lockpicks
• Other items are dropped every 3rd combat, chosen randomly from:
  • anti-anti-antidote
  • Doc Galaktik's Ailment Ointment
  • Knob Goblin firecracker
  • razor-sharp can lid
  • soda water
  • spider web

References

• The Gelatinous Cube was an original monster from Dungeons & Dragons, invented by Gary Gygax, designed to fit neatly (and ridiculously) into 10' x 10' dungeon corridors. It initially showed up in the original "White Box" D&D set.