Headbutt

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Headbutt

Type: Combat
MP Cost: 3

This skill allows you to follow up a successful attack with a vicious headbutt to your opponent. The damage done by the headbutt is increased if you're wearing any kind of turtle as a helmet.

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Skill number: 2003

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Source:	Guild Trainer
Price:	125 Meat
Class:	Turtle Tamer
Level:	1
Effect:	Deals (helmet power/10) to (helmet power/5) damage (1 if no helmet equipped) in addition to your regular weapon attack. Its effects are enhanced by blessings.
When Used:

You follow up the attack with a vicious headbutt, delivering X additional damage. or You head off your opponent's recovery with a vicious headbutt, for X damage. or You add injury to injury, headbutting for X damage. or You make like a turtle at a heavy metal concert and headbutt for X damage. or You headbutt it for X damage, somehow managing not to knock yourself silly, too. or You headbutt the butthead you're fighting for X damage. or You snarl, "what are you looking at, butthead?" and headbutt it for X damage. or You know that part in the Avengers where Thor headbutts Iron Man? That was awesome. You do something like that, for X damage. or You know the way to succeed in battle is to use your head, so you headbutt for X damage. or You headbutt your opponent like a mighty loggerhead turtle, doing X damage. or You indulge in a little celebratory head-banging, banging your head into him for X damage. With a Blessing of the War Snapper: The War Snapper's bloodlust suffuses you as you headbutt for Y damage. or You know that war is hell, and the War Snapper's power helps you headbutt for a hellish Y damage. or In your head, in your head the War Snapper is fighting, and you whip your head into your opponent's head for Y damage. or War Snapper! Ugh! What is it good for? Well, headbutting for Y damage, for starters. or The War Snapper's blind fury possesses you, and you headbutt harder than you've ever butted heads before, hitting for Y damage. or The War Snapper's fury makes a red mist appear before your eyes, and your headbutt makes a red mist out of your opponents, for Y damage. With a Blessing of She-Who-Was: She-Who-Was whispers in your mind as you headbutt your foe, dealing Z damage. or You clear your mind and hear She-Who-Was whispering, encouraging you to butt some heads. You headbutt your foe for Z damage. or A still, small voice in your mind encourages you to headbutt harder than you've butted before, doing Z damage. or She-Who-Was whispers the lyrics to an ancient head-butting song in your mind as you headbutt for Z damage. or She-Who-Was whispers an ancient enchantment in your mind, making your neck whip forward harder than before, doing Z damage with your headbutt. or The spirit of She-Who-Was fills your mind, emptying your fears and replacing them with the urge to headbutt for Z damage. or A consciousness older than the stars whispers in your mind, propelling you to headbutt your opponent for Z damage. or In the stillness after your attack, She-Who-Was whispers in your mind, encouraging a follow-up headbutt. You bang your head against your opponent for Z damage. With a Blessing of the Storm Tortoise: The power of the Storm Tortoise brings the sturm und drang as you headbutt for A (+B) damage. or The power of the Storm Tortoise calls down the thunder as you headbutt your foe for A (+B) damage. or Emboldened by the power of the Storm Tortoise, you unleash a blitzkrieg headbutt, hitting for A (+B) damage. or Quickened by the power of the Storm Tortoise, you follow up your attack with two lightning-fast headbutts, dealing A (+B) damage. or Like the rolling thunder chasing the wind, the power of the Storm Tortoise compels you into a devastating headbutt for A (+B) damage. or You channel the power of the Storm Tortoise, hitting with a massive headbutt that leaves your opponent thunderstruck (and missing A (+B) hit points). or The power of the Storm Tortoise enables you to headbutt harder than ever before, your head colliding with your opponent like a thunderclap, doing A (+B) damage. or You call down the power of the Storm Tortoise. The thunderbolt and lightning is very, very frightening, but your vicious headbutt is the most effective, doing A (+B) damage. or The power of the Storm Tortoise compels you to make a lame joke about a frog getting struck by lightning, but then also to headbutt for A (+B) damage.

Notes

• The bonus damage dealt by a helmet turtle varies on the exact nature of the turtle:

Helmet Turtle	Damage	Power
helmet turtle	5	10
knobby helmet turtle	6	20
skeletortoise	6	30
samurai turtle helmet	6	25
ancient turtle shell helmet	9	35
turtle wax helmet	10	40
Elder Turtle Shell	10	100
furry green turtle	11	45
bubblewrap bottlecap turtleban	12	70
meaty helmet turtle	14	70
asbestos helmet turtle	15	80
chrome helmet turtle	15	120
linoleum helmet turtle	15	100
turtlemail coif	16	80
spiky turtle helmet	20	130
stainless steel skullcap	20	90
plexiglass pith helmet	25	180

• The power doubling from Tao of the Terrapin does apply to the damage from this skill.
  • If the numeric power of the hat is odd (such as the samurai turtle helmet or irate sombrero), the doubling will add +1 to the upper end of damage. A hat of 45 will do 9 to 19 damage, for example.
• With a Blessing of the War Snapper active, this skill deals increased physical damage.
• With a Blessing of She-Who-Was active, this skill deals Spooky Damage instead of physical damage. The amount of damage scales with both hat power and the magnitude of the blessing.
• With a Blessing of the Storm Tortoise active, this skill causes two attacks of physical damage. The amount of damage scales with both hat power and the magnitude of the blessing.
• With a gabardine garland equipped, this skill restores HP.

History

• Previously cost 200 meat. An update on July 19, 2010, changed this.
• Prior to the Turtle Tamer revamp on November 7, 2013, other butting skills could be used in combination with this skill, but only as a Turtle Tamer.
• Prior to the 2013 revamp, attempting to use this skill with a ranged weapon produced the following message:

You can't use Headbutt with a ranged weapon. Because, y'know, that's not how ranged weapons work.

References

• Headbutting is a fighting technique that uses the cranium to strike an opponent to cause injury or a knockout.