Ant sickle

ant sickle

This is a frozen ant on a stick. Oh, wait, that'd be spelled differently. This is a farm implement the ants used to use on their ant farms. It's largely been replaced by ant combines, but the ant-thropomorphic personification of Ant Death still uses it to reap ant souls. It practically glows with spookiness from beyond the ant grave. Ant ant ant.

Type: familiar equipment
Familiar: any
Selling Price: 75 Meat.

Your familiar will sow pain and reap Meat.

(In-game plural: ant sickles)

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Obtained From

The Arid, Extra-Dry Desert

swarm of fire ants

Messages

Attack Messages

• <name> reaps your enemy for 10-12 damage.

After Combat

• <name> reaps some extra Meat from your foe and gives it to you.

Notes

• Deals Spooky Damage and adds +10-15 to Meat drops at the end of combat.
• If the monster does not drop Meat, you will not get the extra Meat gain.
• Combat familiars can do their normal attacks and a sickle attack in the same round of combat.
• Does not otherwise remove your familiars' normal abilities.
• Familiar will make a sickle attack approximately 40% of the time.
• An unknown time ago, the attack message was changed. The old message was:

• <name> reaps (no anagrams, please) your enemy for 10-12 damage.

References

• Although Death is now most often portrayed as carrying a scythe, he has also historically been portrayed with a sickle.
• "Ant Death" is a reference to a similar construct in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series -- "Death of Rats." Also, in the series, characters like "Death of Rats" and "The Hogfather" are referred to as "anthropomorphic personifications."

See Also

• Meat from Monsters
• Passive Damage

Collection

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