Harpoon!

Harpoon! Type: Combat MP Cost: 30 While underwater, you're capable of fashioning any weapon into a makeshift harpoon, and throwing it with deadly accuracy.

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Source:	Not a Micro Fish
Price:	N/A
Class:	Seal Clubber
Level:	N/A
Effect:	Deals damage, according to this formula (where Mus is your buffed Muscle, capped at 800): floor(Mus/4) + [(10% to 20% of Weapon Power + 0 to 1) ] + floor(1.5*Bonus Weapon Damage) + 1.5*(Bonus Hot Damage) + 1.5*(Bonus Cold Damage) + 1.5*(Bonus Stench Damage) + 1.5*(Bonus Spooky Damage) + 1.5*(Bonus Sleaze Damage)
When Used:

You hastily bend your <weapon> into a harpoon, and hurl it at your opponent, dealing X damage. Then you retrieve it and bend it back into a <weapon>. With a cozy scimitar equipped and underwater (first time only per fight): Huh. The scimitar came back with a bunch of scales stuck in the cozy. You acquire 1-4 dull fish scales You acquire 1-2 rough fish scales

Notes

• Despite the description, the skill can be used without being underwater.
• Trying to use this skill while not wielding a weapon gives the message:

You can't use that skill without having a weapon equipped.

• Can be used with ranged weapons.
• The Weapon Power of your off-hand weapon does not affect damage done.
• During fights with multiple opponents the text is modified:

Two opponents:

You hastily bend your <weapon> into a harpoon, and hurl it at your opponents, skewering both of them and dealing X damage. Then you retrieve it and bend it back into a <weapon>.

Three or more opponents:

You hastily bend your <weapon> into a harpoon, and hurl it at your opponents, skewering three of them and dealing X damage. Then you retrieve it and bend it back into a <weapon>.

• Casting this skill can randomly be required by Mayor Ghost (Hard Mode).

History

• Prior to around December 22, 2010 this skill was only usable underwater. If used on land, it gave the message:

That skill only works underwater.

References

• In the 2000 Playstation JRPG The Legend of Dragoon, one of the first RPGs to include voice acting, the character Lavitz Slambert shouts "Harpoon!" when utilizing a special ability of the same name during combat. It is used (and therefore the audio is repeated) extremely often, leading it to become a meme within the RPG community.