This is a little wad of robin's-egg-blue taffy. Let's hope it's not robin's egg flavored, too.
Type: potion (can also be used in combat) Selling Price: 5 Meat. Effect: Blue Swayed (10 Adventures)+X/10 to Familiar Weight +X/5 Familiar Experience Per Combat
You eat the blue taffy. It doesn't taste like much of anything, but after you eat it, you realize you can psychically command your familiars to do your bidding.
You toss the taffy, and the salt water soaks into it. A hairtriggerfish swims up, eats it, and begins to dart in circles around you.
If you've already summoned a taffy fish this fight:
You've already fed a fish some taffy this fight. And you know what they say: "Feed a fish a taffy, he'll be your friend for a fight. Feed a different fish a taffy during the same fight, you can't do that."
Otherwise:
You toss the taffy into the air, but nothing happens. You remember people talking about how great salt-water taffy is -- maybe if you tried using this underwater...
Notes
When you go to attack a monster, the hairtriggerfish will sometimes help you out and make your hits critical:
"The hairtriggerfish slaps your opponent with his tail, exposing a vulnerable part."
The first hit you deal after summoning the hairtriggerfish is guaranteed to be critical; after that the hairtriggerfish will force 22.5% of all additional attacks (even fumbles) to be critical for the duration of combat.