Robot Reindeer

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Familiar number: 143
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Robot Reindeer
Metal ungulate customizability is its reindeer game.

Is programmable, confusing, unpopular

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Ability: Behaves as a Mosquito, changes/adds abilities depending on programming.

Throne/Bjorn: +10 to all stats, sometimes drops eggnog, candy canes, gingerbread bugbear, fruitcake

Hatchling: hibernating robot reindeer

Familiar-Specific Equipment: S.L.E.I.G.H.B.E.L.L.S.

	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	18-20HP	+2 Moxie statgain
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Cannot breathe underwater

Combat Messages

• Regular message:

  <name> unreels a needle-tipped tube from its mouth, and another from its -- er, the opposite of its mouth. It sticks one end into you, the other end into it, and pumps life out of it and into you. Happy Crimbo!

  You gain some hit points.

• After combat:

  <name> chimes and says, "protocol download complete." A big black disk slides out of his front loading slot.

You acquire an item: robot reindeer protocol B.L.I.T.Z.E.N.

or

You acquire an item: robot reindeer protocol C.O.M.E.T.

or

You acquire an item: robot reindeer protocol C.U.P.I.D.

or

You acquire an item: robot reindeer protocol D.A.N.C.E.R.

or

You acquire an item: robot reindeer protocol D.A.S.H.E.R.

or

You acquire an item: robot reindeer protocol D.O.N.N.E.R.

or

You acquire an item: robot reindeer protocol O.L.I.V.E.

or

You acquire an item: robot reindeer protocol P.R.A.N.C.E.R.

or

You acquire an item: robot reindeer protocol R.U.D.O.L.P.H.

or

You acquire an item: robot reindeer protocol V.I.X.E.N.

• B.L.I.T.Z.E.N. Protocol

  A Jacob's Ladder of electricity arcs between <name>'s antlers. The hairs on your neck stand up.

  You gain X Mana Points.

• C.O.M.E.T. Protocol

  <name> swoops high into the sky, then dive-bombs him like a comet. Since comets are mostly made of ice (the more you know!), he takes a chilly X damage.

• C.U.P.I.D. Protocol

  <name> strings a bowstring between his antlers, and uses it (along with a few servo arms) to fire a poison-tipped arrow at them. They look weaker.

  Monster attack power reduced by X

  Monster defense reduced by Y

• D.A.N.C.E.R. Protocol

  <name> does a soft-shoe routine. Soft-hoof? Or is that a disease? Anyway, the robot reindeer was dancing, is the point.

• D.A.S.H.E.R. Protocol

  <name> dashes him against the rocks (you know, those rocks over there) for ?? damage.

• D.O.N.N.E.R. Protocol

  <name> left eye quickly irises in and out, then shoots a red laser beam to some meat you had overlooked.

• P.R.A.N.C.E.R. Protocol

  <name> prances across the heads (or whatever passes for same in this instance) of your opponents, dazing them with a panoply of hoofbeats.

  Monster attack power reduced by X

  Monster defense reduced by Y

• R.U.D.O.L.P.H. Protocol

  <name> holds out an old-fashioned monochrome CRT monitor with :-D displayed on it, then rotates it 90 degrees clockwise.

• V.I.X.E.N. Protocol

  <name> seductively pushes you to the ground, then flips you over and walks back and forth across your spine a few times. You feel relaxed and refreshed.

  You gain X hit points.

  You gain Y Mana Points.

• Enthroned in the Crown of Thrones:

  <name> says, "backup data dump complete," and ejects something out of its front loading slot into your hand.

You acquire an item: candy cane

or

You acquire an item: eggnog

or

You acquire an item: fruitcake

or

You acquire an item: gingerbread bugbear

• Bjornified in the Buddy Bjorn:

  <name> bleeps, "Extraneous matter discovered. Recompiling." and something pops out of the Buddy Bjorn. Wait... what 'extraneous matter', exactly?

You acquire an item: candy cane

or

You acquire an item: eggnog

or

You acquire an item: fruitcake

or

You acquire an item: gingerbread bugbear

• With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:

  <name> irises one ocular camera in and out beneath the Tam O'Shanter.

• With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:

  <name> loads up a Broadway hoofer routine and executes it beneath the Maypole.

• With wax lips equipped:

  <name> says, "semi-colon hyphen capital d" beneath the Wax Lips.

Notes

• With no protocol disks used, the familiar simply acts like a Mosquito. Disks are randomly dropped by the familiar after combats, and when used, they give the familiar that power for 10 combats. Disks can be combined to get the powers from multiple disks at once. The powers given are:
  • Blitzen - Starfish
  • Comet - Cold damage
  • Cupid - Skeleton-deleveling
  • Dancer - Fairy
  • Dasher - Lime
  • Donner - Leprechaun
  • Prancer - Barrrnacle
  • Rudolph - Volleyball
  • Vixen - Ghoul Whelp
• The name of the protocol your reindeer is using will consist of either the first half or last half of all active protocols in the same order as the song Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolph).
• If all of the protocols are used, the reindeer will operate under the O.L.I.V.E. Protocol, a reference to how "all of (olive) the other reindeer used to laugh and call him (rudolph) names"
• If one protocol is used, and another is used before the first expires, when the first protocol expires, the expiration message will include the combined protocol name. The second protocol will still be active.

References

• For our younger readers, the image for the protocols is of a 5.25-inch floppy disk.