Pair of Ragged Claws

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Familiar number: 103
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Pair of Ragged Claws

Merry Crimbo, kids! It's sort of like a puppy, but more... horrific.

Weakens and attacks enemies

Ability: Attacks enemies + Barrrnacle

Throne/Bjorn: +5 to Familiar Weight, sometimes staggers opponent

Hatchling: pair of ragged claws

	Ultimate Cage Match	Scavenger Hunt	Obstacle Course	Hide and Seek


+30% Meat Drop	4-5 MP	+3 Muscle statgain	+15% Item Drop	+3 Mysticality statgain	8-10 HP	+2 Moxie statgain
Delevel 25%*			Bleeding damage*		Deals damage & 10% Delevel*
*Hover for details

Cannot breathe underwater

Combat Messages

Regular messages:
<name> latches onto your opponent's face with his wriggling tentacles.

Monster attack power reduced by X

Monster defense reduced by X

<name> snaps at your opponent with his sharp claws, dealing X (+Y) damage.
Enthroned in the Crown of Thrones:
<name> embroils it in a tedious argument of insidious intent: to make it too engrossed in discussion to attack this round. And hey, it worked!
Bjornified in the Buddy Bjorn:
<name> leaps out of the Buddy Bjorn and makes clackety-clack! noises as it chases your startled opponent around the battlefield.
At the end of combat:
- With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:
  <name> flips the Tam from one of its claws to the other, then back.
- With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:
  <name> slithers in a circle, leaving a trail of ooze around the maypole.
- With wax lips equipped:
  <name> runs his tentacles over the wax lips, leaving little trails of slime behind.

Notes

The value of X and Y are 1 to floor(weight/2). This is similar to an Imitation Crab, but unlike the crab, X and Y are calculated separately for each attack.
This familiar attacks about 50% of the time.
This familiar can delevel an opponent floor(weight/2) levels at the beginning of combat, exactly like a Barrrnacle.
This familiar is not available in Zombie Slayer runs, even though it does activate the delevelling ability of The Captain costume from the mumming trunk.

The familiar is a reference to T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", which contains the famous lines "I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas."