Stringozzi Serpent

Stringozzi Serpent

Type: Combat Spell
MP Cost: 16

This spell allows you to conjure up a venomous serpent made of wriggling noodles.

Source:	A Beginner's Guide to Charming Snakes
Price:	N/A
Class:	Pastamancer
Level:	N/A
Effect:	Deals (16-32)+(0.25*Mys) damage, hard capped at 75. Deals poison damage equal to damage dealt, halving every round (rounded down).
When Used:

You call forth a serpent made of stringozzi. The serpent is subtil, and bites your opponent for X damage, poisoning it.

Your opponent writhes as he takes X_R damage from the poison.

Notes

Bringing Up the Rear increases the cap to 150 damage for Pastamancers with an active Pasta thrall.
Damage type is physical and cannot be changed.
Opponents take additional poison damage beginning the same round as it was cast. If the spell is cast more than once in a single combat, only the most recent cast's poison damage is applied.
Round R's damage dealt X_R = floor(X/2^(R-1)). (That is, the poison damage starts out equal to the spell damage, and is halved each round.)
After the damage per round drops to 1, there are no messages.
Bonus spell damage is capped at 30 (or 60 for Pastamancers).

"The serpent is subtil" is a reference to the video for "Jeremy" by Pearl Jam, in which the phrase "The serpent was subtil" is written on a chalkboard.
- Which, in turn, is a reference to the King James Bible: "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made." (Genesis 3:1)

Prior the Pastamancer/Sauceror dual-revamp on November 14, 2013, this skill did (16-40)+(0.25*Mys) damage, cost 13 MP, had no hard cap, had bonus spell damage capped at +60 for Pastamancers and +50 for other classes, and the poison formula was floor(X/2^R).