Llama Lama

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Familiar number: 90
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Llama Lama
Ungulate guru: frequent enlightened advice, occasional spit

Increases stat gains and unlocks enlightening new content

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Ability: Acts as a half-weight Volleyball, spits (delevel defense by 1 to lb/4), and drops up to 5 gongs a day that let you go on spiritual journeys

Throne/Bjorn: Maximum HP/MP +10, sometimes restores 5-6 MP

Hatchling: llama lama cria

Familiar-Specific Equipment: zen motorcycle

	Ultimate Cage Match	Scavenger Hunt	Obstacle Course	Hide and Seek

Mumming Trunk Abilities:

+15% Meat Drop	4-5 MP	+4 Muscle statgain	+15% Item Drop	+4 Mysticality statgain	8-10 HP	+2 Moxie statgain
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Cannot breathe underwater

Combat Messages

• During combat:

  <name> spits on your opponent. Yech.

Monster defense reduced by 1-N

• After combat:

  A smile crosses <name>'s serene countenance.

  <name> smiles at you, a knowing gleam in his eye.

  <name> regards you with a warm smile.

• Occasionally, after combat (up to 5 times per day):

  <name> looks deep into your eyes. "I see you are too preoccupied with the woes of this world," he says, "This gong will enable you to see things from a different perspective."

  You acquire an item: llama lama gong

• Enthroned in the Crown of Thrones:

  <name> says "From up here, I can see that your mind is not clear. Contemplate. Meditate. Cogitate." You do what he says, even though you're not sure what the third word means.

  You gain 5−6 Mana Points.

• Bjornified in the Buddy Bjorn:

  "Ommmmm," intones <name> inside his Buddy Bjorn while ringing some kind of weird bell. "Ommmmmmmmm..." It's actually kind of... refreshing? Bizarre.

  You gain 5−6 Mana Points.

• With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:

  The llama winks at you from beneath his hat, despite the fact that he is far beyond such mundane concerns as material wealth.

• With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:

  <name> progresses through several different incarnations of himself, each of which is in a different position around the maypole.

• With wax lips equipped:

  The garish smile of the wax lips conceal <name>'s far more subdued and enlightened actual smile.

Notes

• The llama spits 20% of the time in combat, deleveling opponents' defense from 1 to int(X/4) levels, where X is the weight of the llama.
• Similar to the other Content Familiars, the base drop rate on llama lama gongs per day decreases for every additional gong you get, but for each turn you spend and do not get a gong, the drop rate for that gong increases by 5 percentage points.
• Equipping the zen motorcycle increases the base drop rate of dropping a gong by 5 percentage points.

llama lama gong Drop Rates

	gong #	1	2	3	4	5
with zen motorcycle	Drop Rate	25% + 5%*N	20% + 5%*N	15% + 5%*N	10% + 5%*N	10% + 5%*N
	Expected combats from last drop	3.03	3.42	3.91	4.52	4.52
without zen motorcycle	Drop Rate	20% + 5%*N	15% + 5%*N	10% + 5%*N	5% + 5%*N	5% + 5%*N
	Expected combats from last drop	3.42	3.91	4.52	5.29	5.29

• Unlike the Green Pixie with tiny bottles of absinthe, the llama will continue to drop gongs if you are already on a trip.
• Prior to approximately January 8, 2011, the deleveling by spit was not explicitly shown.

References

• This familiar references both "llama", an animal, and "lama", a Tibetan Buddhist teacher.
• The maypole message refers to the Buddhist belief in reincarnation, specifically it likely refers to the concept of the Wheel of Life, or Bhavacakra, which symbolizes how beings reincarnate over and over again in various forms, each with their own limitations which lead them back around the wheel again unless one breaks free by attaining Nirvana.

See Also

• Monster Level
• Stat Gains from Fights