Flaming familiar doppelgänger

flaming familiar doppelgänger

This is a tiny life-form molded out of magical frozen flame. When a familiar holds it, it forms itself into a miniature replica of the familiar. As the doppelgänger mimics the familiar's movements, it transmutes the experience it gains to the familiar. Unfortunately, the doppelgänger's mute mimicry tends to enrage monsters. No one's sure why.

The upshot of this is, of course, that your familiar gains more experience per combat, and fights angrier monsters, when it has the doppelgänger as its equipment. That such an insanely useful creature should exist has been widely regarded as the definitive argument against the existence of God.

Type: familiar equipment
Familiar: unknown
Cannot be discarded

+5 to Monster Level

NOTE: This item cannot be equipped while in Hardcore.

(In-game plural: flaming familiar doppelgängers)

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Notes

• Equips on any familiar except the Comma Chameleon.
• Can be randomly received from squeezing any other Great Ball of Frozen Fire item.
• Appears to add +1 or +2 XP to familiar XP gain, either in combat, or at the Cake-Shaped Arena. This only increases the familiar's XP gain, but not its total kills.

References

• The line "That such an insanely useful creature should exist has been widely regarded as the definitive argument against the existence of God." is a reference to the Babel fish from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where the Babel fish is used as an argument against God.
• The line about "Mute Mimicry" probably refers to Mimes