Doppelshifter

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Familiar number: 40
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Doppelshifter
This amorphous blob Can take on so many forms Strange, yet familiar.

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Ability: Shifts its shape into a random other familiar every fight.

Throne/Bjorn: Unknown

Hatchling: doppelshifter egg

Familiar-Specific Equipment: tiny makeup kit

	Ultimate Cage Match	Scavenger Hunt	Obstacle Course	Hide and Seek

Mumming Trunk Abilities:

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Cannot breathe underwater

Combat Messages

• At beginning of combat:

  <name> changes into a <familiar type>.

• Regular combat message:

  <<familiar type>'s combat message(s)>

• With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:

  <<familiar type>'s lucky Tam O'Shanter message>

• With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:

  <<familiar type>'s miniature gravy-covered maypole message>

• With wax lips equipped:

  <<familiar type>'s wax lips message>

• At end of combat:

  <name> reverts to an amorphous blob.

Arena Messages

• None - familiar has no weaknesses.

Notes

• October 2005's special of the month from Mr. Store.
• Changes into almost any familiar, not just the ones you own. It will not change into the Comma Chameleon, Reassembled Blackbird or into itself.
• Due to White Wednesday, the Doppelshifter was in Mr. Store for over a month (closer to 40 days), making it the longest-running Mr. Store familiar as of September 2007.
• The Doppelshifter is sometimes a familiar of choice for PvPers as its +15 equipment can be advantageous in the "Familiar Weight" minigame. The tiny costume wardrobe raises its weight by +25, making this even more advantageous.
• If all the right buffs and equipment are used, this familiar can have the highest weight of any other familiar due to this +25 bonus to familiar weight.
• Does give extra adventures when transformed into the Temporal Riftlet.
• Also does sometimes buff you when transformed into the Sweet Nutcracker.
• It can also give extra adventures as the Wild Hare.
• Can give toast when transformed into the Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot.
• Can give an astral mushroom when transformed into the Astral Badger.
• Can give disintegrating sheet music when transformed into the Ancient Yuletide Troll.
• If you give your Spirit Hobo booze and then use your Doppelshifter and it shifts into a hobo, it will attack and "use up" some of the Hobo's booze supply. This is also the same with the Gluttonous Green Ghost if you have one.
• When a Penguin Goodfella, will drop contracts and will react appropriately when one is used.
• Can give tiny bottles of absinthe when transformed into a Green Pixie.

References

• The name of this familiar is a combination of the words "doppelgänger" and "shapeshifter".
• The name also appears to be a play on the phrase "Doppler shift", another way of describing the Doppler effect.
• The doppelshifter has a lot in common with Red Dwarf's Polymorph, a genetically engineered shape-shifting creature that popped up in 2 episodes. The Polymorph frequently changed shape, imitating everyday objects and other members of the crew, and would "revert to an amorphous blob" in-between shape-changes.