Hovering Skull

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Familiar number: 163
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Hovering Skull
Skulls can't help but grin; in addition to that, he sure does talk a lot.

Increases stat gains from combat.

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Ability: Increases stat gains from combat like a Blood-Faced Volleyball and attacks like a Sabre-Toothed Lime.

Throne/Bjorn: +2 Moxie Stats Per Fight, sometimes deals 15-25 Sleaze Damage.

Hatchling: talkative skull

Familiar-Specific Equipment: shiny gold fronts

	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
Delevel 25%*		Staggers*
*Hover for details

Cannot breathe underwater

Combat Messages

• Regular messages:

  <name> rants about his plans to take over the world, but since his mouth is full of your opponent, you can't understand him. (Incidentally, he does X damage.)

  <name> bites your opponent for X damage. "What's eatin' you, Chief?" he chortles.

  With a hollow *clonk*, <name> headbutts your foe for X damage.

  "What a perfectly good waste of arms and legs, or analogues thereof," <name> sneers at your opponent, before biting them for X damage.

  <name> lays into your opponent with a string of elaborate curses and put-downs, dealing X damage to their ego.

• After combat:

  <name> searches around for some undead babes to leer at. He's very good at leering.

  <name> makes a few oblique references to the fact that the two of you have been friends for thousands of years, even though you're pretty sure that's not actually the case.

  <name> hums a few snatches of old pirate sea shanties.

  <name> rants a little about all the changes he'll make when he rules the world. You refrain from asking how he intends to do that without any arms.

  "Alas, poor <name>..."

  "What? I'm right here."

  "Oh, sorry."

• Enthroned in the Crown of Thrones:

  From atop your hat, <name> makes some incredibly lewd accusations about your opponent's mother. He blushes and takes 15-25 damage.

• Bjornified in the Buddy Bjorn:

  <name> appears over your shoulder and starts making lewd suggestions and wolf-whistling at your opponent. It takes 15-25 damage from embarrassment and horror.

• With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:

  <name> has no eyelids to wink, but he looks very dapper in his Tam

• With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:

  <name> hovers around the maypole, complaining that it's no fun without any girls.

• With wax lips equipped:
  

  "Pucker up, ladies!" <name> leers. "These lips were made for kissing!"

Notes

• Damage inflicted ranges from (w+2)/2 to (w+2), where w is the weight of the familiar.
• action rate: floor(wt/6)*10+11%

References

• The familiar is an homage to Morte from Planescape: Torment.
• This familiar is also an homage to Murray, the talking skull from The Curse of Monkey Island.
• This item isn't an homage to Bob, a character from The Dresden Files, but may become so once Riff gets around to reading those books and maybe adding something.