Killer Bee

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Familiar number: 20
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Killer Bee
Hovers like a b ASCII and ye shall receive Several nasty stings. - Warpeth of Zonee

Attacks enemies and gives you strength

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Ability: Stings enemies and feeds you royal jelly

Throne/Bjorn: +2 Muscle Stat(s) Per Fight, sometimes heals you for 8-10 HP

Hatchling: baby killer bee

Familiar-Specific Equipment: brass stinger

	Ultimate Cage Match	Scavenger Hunt	Obstacle Course	Hide and Seek

Mumming Trunk Abilities:

+15% Meat Drop	6-10 MP	+4 Muscle statgain	+15% Item Drop	+3 Mysticality statgain	8-10 HP	+2 Moxie statgain
			Bleeding damage*	Boosts combat Initiative	Deals damage & 10% Delevel*	Deals Sleaze damage*
*Hover for details

Cannot breathe underwater

Combat Messages

• Regular messages:

  <name> repeatedly stings your opponent, doing Z damage.

  <name> produces a small amount of royal jelly, and feeds it to you intravenously. Feel the burn!

  You lose 1 hit point.

  You gain Y + X Strongness.

• Enthroned in the Crown of Thrones:

  <Name> rubs a little beeswax on your lips. Even though it's really none of your beeswax, it's pretty refreshing.

  You gain 8-10 hit points.

• Bjornified in the Buddy Bjorn:

  <name> injects some royal jelly into the back of your neck, healing you slightly. At least, you hope that's what was going on back there.

  You gain 8-10 hit points.

• With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:

  <name> stings your slain foe's wallet and shakes loose some more meat.

• With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:

  <name> buzzes and swoops around the maypole.

• With wax lips equipped:

  <name> smiles predatorially with his wax lips.

Arena Messages

• When entered in a game of Hide and Seek:

  <name> buzzes too loudly to stay hidden very well.

Notes

• The damage done in an attack, Z, ranges from 1 to weight/2.
• In the Muscle gain formula, Y is the number of Muscle substats you would normally have gained, while the bonus value X is between 1 and ceiling(weight/4).
• The bonus stat gain does not appear as a separate line, but is rolled into your normal stat gain information at the bottom of the combat.
• The bee does not feed you jelly every battle; this ability triggers only some of the time, and only at the end of combat. Activation seems to occur about 1/3 of the time.
• The bee also attacks in combat approximately 1/3 of the time, regardless of its weight.
• The damage from the jelly ability occurs after the end of a combat but effects are decremented and before equipment or effect HP regeneration. So if the player has 1 HP s/he will get three turns of Beaten Up even if the HP is restored immediately.

References

• ASCII, which is used in the haiku as a replacement for "ask", is a character set and a character encoding based on the Roman alphabet as used in modern English. The phonetic pronunciation of "ASCII" is "ASK-ee".
• "ASCII and ye shall receive" refers to John 16:24 (KJV): "ask, and ye shall receive".
• This familiar, its art (a lowercase a), and the royal jelly are references to the game NetHack, in which the monster class "insects" are represented by lowercase as.