Levitating Potato

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Levitating Potato
An eye for an eye Hey, hovering potato Might trip up your foes.

Prevents enemies from attacking you

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Ability: Trips your foe, might make them miss their attack

Throne/Bjorn: Combat Initiative +20%, sometimes restores 5-6 HP and 3-4 MP in combat

Hatchling: potato sprout

Familiar-Specific Equipment: many-eyed glasses

	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
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Cannot breathe underwater

Combat Messages

• Regular message:

  <name> entangles your opponent with powerful vines, preventing <it> from attacking you.

• Enthroned in the Crown of Thrones:

  <name> uses his vines to give you an invigorating head massage. It's not the same as giving you a foot massage, but it's in the same ballpark.

You gain 5−6 hit points.

You gain 3−4 Mana Points.

• Bjornified in the Buddy Bjorn:

  <name> uses his vines to give you an invigorating shoulder massage, then pats you on the back as if to say "You can do it, buddy!" Good ol' <name>.

You gain 5−6 hit points.

You gain 3−4 Mana Points.

• With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:

  <name> eyes your slain foe and finds some extra meat it had hidden away.

• With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:

  <name> grabs the maypole with a vine and swings around it.

• With wax lips equipped:

  <name> smiles a tuberiffic, tubular smile with his wax lips.

Arena Messages

• When entered in an Ultimate Cage Match:

  <name> is a lover, not a fighter. Well, not really -- potatoes just suck at this event.

Notes

• Blocking occurs 1.5 × wt% of the time, with a maximum of 90% (attained at 60 pounds and above), where "wt" is the weight of the familiar.
• Monster criticals do not bypass the potato's ability.
• If initiative is lost, then the potato will never block on that first round. It can block normally on the rest of the rounds in that combat, however.
• The Sorceress' Levitating Potato was one of the pets which appeared in The Sorceress's Chamber.

References

• The Levitating Potato is very similar to the hovering potato which Bender has to peel blindfolded, in the episode entitled "The 30% Iron Chef", of the animated television series Futurama.
• The second line of the haiku references the song Hovering Sombrero, by They Might Be Giants. (Note that this familiar predates the introduction of the Hovering Sombrero familiar.)
• The first line of the haiku refers to the phrase "eye for an eye", from the Hebrew Bible.
• The Crown of Thrones message refers to the foot massage discussion from Pulp Fiction.
• The wax lips message puns on "tubers" being the name for the plant structure that makes a potato.