Scary Death Orb

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Familiar number: 56
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Scary Death Orb
shiny ball of death cuts, slices, eviscerates who? it's not picky

Attacks your enemies (and occasionally you)

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Ability: Attacks either your foe (inflicting spooky damage) or you, a la Stab Bat.

Throne/Bjorn: Mysticality +15%, sometimes gives 5-6 MP.

Hatchling: scary death orb

Familiar-Specific Equipment: tuning fork

	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	+3 Mysticality statgain	18-20HP	+2 Moxie statgain
			Bleeding damage*		Deals damage & 10% Delevel*
*Hover for details

Cannot breathe underwater

Combat Messages

• Regular message(s):

  <name> drills into your skull and siphons out some of your blood, to the tune of X damage.

  <name> swoops at your head, but you duck just in time.

  <name> drills into <his/her/its> skull (or skull-analogue) and siphons out X HP worth of its blood.

  <name> swoops at <him/her/it>, but misses.

• Enthroned in the Crown of Thrones:

  <name> drills into your skull, clearing out the pathways where mystical energy enters your third eye.

  You gain 5−6 Mana Points.

• Bjornified in the Buddy Bjorn:

  <name> plugs itself into your ear in a way you're *really* not comfortable with, but you can't argue with the results.

  You gain 5−6 Mana Points.

• With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:

  <name> drills into your opponent's wallet and siphons out some extra meat.

• With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:

  <name> floats around the maypole a few times, whirring musically.

• With wax lips equipped:

  <name> bobs up and down in the air, with the wax lips stuck to its front. This is not the strangest thing you've ever seen, but it's close.

Arena Messages

• When entered in Hide and Seek:

  <name> doesn't seem to be very good at hiding -- it keeps swooping out at anything it thinks looks like an ice-cream man. Which is most things, apparently.

Notes

• There exists a stuffed version of this familiar.
• Acts every round.
  • Without a tuning fork, this familiar attacks the monster 66% of the time, and the player 33% of the time.
  • With a tuning fork equipped, this familiar attacks the monster 80% of the time, and the player 20% of the time.
  • It will succeed in its attack 10 * ceiling(X/6)% of the time, where X is the familiar's weight. This means between 1 and 6 pounds, it hits 10% of the time; from 13-18 it hits 30% of the time. Theoretically, a 55-pound Scary Death Orb will not miss.
• Regardless of opponent, a Scary Death Orb will do int(X/2)+2 to X+2 in damage, where X is the weight of the familiar.
  • Damage to monsters is (spooky damage).
  • Damage to players is physical.

References

• The familiar is an homage to the shiny, flying kill-bit-sporting death balls called Sentinel Spheres by fans of the Phantasm horror movie series from which they originate.
• The arena message given when entering the Scary Death Orb into Hide and Seek is likely a reference to one of Phantasm's protagonists, Reggie (played by Reggie Bannister), who works as an ice cream vendor.
• The Scary Death Orb could also be an homage to Rover, a balloon-like security sentinel from the 1967 British Sci-fi program The Prisoner. It chases and kills or pacifies individuals who attempt to leave "the Village" and is a primary antagonist for Number Six. It was parodied on The Simpsons at least two times.
• Additionally, The Scary Death Orb could be a reference to the IT-O Interrogator in the Star Wars movie Star Wars: A New Hope
• Due to the Tuning Fork familiar equipment, this is a reference to Phantasm, as the tuning fork is a key plot device in this movie.