Pocket Professor

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Pocket Professor
Plastic Professor Knows about space, time, and more You will learn a lot

Items, MP, and Exciting Lectures!

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Ability: Increases item drop, regens MP after combat and grants the skills %fn, lecture on relativity, %fn, lecture on mass, %fn, lecture on velocity and %fn, deliver your thesis! in combat, Lecture uses are based on buffed familiar weight.

Throne/Bjorn: +1 Stat(s) per fight and restores some MP during the first 3 turns of combat.

Hatchling: packaged Pocket Professor

Familiar-Specific Equipment: Pocket Professor memory chip

	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	+3 Mysticality statgain	18-20HP	+2 Moxie statgain
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Cannot breathe underwater

Combat Messages

• After Combat, granting +items:

  <name> displays "WHEEEEEE."

  <name> displays "PHYSICS IS THE DANCE OF THE UNIVERSE."

  <name> displays "MATHEMATICS IS THE DANCING OF SCIENCE."

• After Combat, restoring MP:

  To avoid overloading its circuits, <name> dumps some excess electricity into you.

  You reach out to grab <name> and receive a jolt from the battery.

  <name> quantum-shifts you to a nearby universe where everything is the same except you have more MP.

You gain some Mana Points.

• Enthroned in the Crown of Thrones:

  You get a little shock from <name>'s battery.

You gain some Mana Points.

• Bjornified in the Buddy Bjorn:

  You get a little shock from <name>'s battery.

You gain some Mana Points.

• With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:

  The LCD screen on <name> flashes on and off under the Tam.

• With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:

  <name> spins around the maypole.

• With wax lips equipped:

  You see the wax lips stuck to the <name>'s LCD screen.

Arena Messages

None. The Pocket Professor cannot compete at the Ultimate Cage Match, but does not have a message to reflect this.

Notes

• Restores MP at the end of combat (like a Ghuol Whelp) using the formula floor((weight+5)/2 to weight+5) after every combat.
• Lecture on velocity delevels monster attack and defense. It also gives an approximately equal amount of substats in your character's mainstat, capped at 150.
• Lecture on mass seems to assist item drop chance by attempting each item drop roll an additional two times (items are not duplicated).
• Lecture on relativity creates a chained combat with the same opponent after the current combat if you win, similar to One Crazy Random Summer's clingy modifier.
• All three lecture skills share a daily limit determined by the Professor's current buffed Familiar Weight using the formula n^2 + 1, where n is the number of casts already used today.
  

The relationship between familiar weight and Lecture charges is shown in the table below.

Lectures	Weight	Additional weight required
1	1 lbs.	n/a
2	2?	1
3	5	3
4	10	5
5	17	7
6	26	9
7	37	11
8	50	13
9	65	15
10	82	17
11	101	19
12	122	21
13	145	23
14	170	25
15	197	27
16	226	29
17	257	31
18	290	33
19	325	35
20	362	37

• An equipped Pocket Professor memory chip lets you exceed your current weight-Lecture number by 2. For example, you are allowed 12 normal Lectures at 122 pounds and and 2 memory chip Lectures, unequipping the chip requires you to reach 197 weight for a 15th Lecture (but having the chip equipped allows 17 Lectures at 197 weight).
• The skill %fn, deliver your thesis! defeats the enemy, gives extra adventures based on the monster's HP, and reduces the Professor's experience by 200. This skill only appears if your Pocket Professor has 400 or more experience, and does not share a counter with the Lecture skills, simply only being usable once per day.
• The relationship between monster HP and adventures gained is depicted as follows:

Monster HP	Adventures gained
1 - 15	2
16 - 80	4
81 - 255	6
256 - 624	8
625 - 1295	10
1296+	11

History

Prior to a trivial update on 2019/09/25, Pocket Professor granted 1 Lecture per ~6.62 pounds. This was tweaked to be more generous at low weight and less... obviously broken at mega weight:

Lectures per day	Weight with memory chip	Weight without memory chip
1	0 lbs.	0 lbs.
2	0	7
3	0	14
4	7	20
5	14	27
6	20	34
7	27	40
8	34	47
9	40	54
10	47	60
11	54	67
12	60	73
13	67	80
14	73	87
15	80	93
16	87	100
17	93	107
18	100	113
19	107	120
20	113	126
100	649	662