Green Pixie

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Familiar number: 70
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Green Pixie
Fighting, dancing sprite Dinnae try tae cross his path Ye'll get yer heid broke.

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Ability: Acts as a Fairy, attacks and drops up to five tiny bottles of absinthe a day.

Throne/Bjorn: Unknown

Hatchling: bottled green pixie

Familiar-Specific Equipment: green pixie spog

	Ultimate Cage Match	Scavenger Hunt	Obstacle Course	Hide and Seek

Mumming Trunk Abilities:

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Cannot breathe underwater

Combat Messages

• Regular Messages:

During combat

<name> shouts "Dinnae fash yersel' about this schemie, I can handle it!" and headbutts your opponent for x damage.

<name> shouts "Oh, waily waily waily! You'll ne'er win this fight wi'oot me helpin' ye!" and pummels your enemy for X damage.

<name> shouts "Oi, ye bunch o' jobbies! How's aboot a face full of heid, ye scunner!" and headbutts your enemy for X damage.

After combat

<name> does a high-stepping highland dance. You avert your eyes as his kilt comes dangerously close to his waist level.

<name> throws his arms over his head and does a little tip-toe ballet. You'd laugh, but you like having all your bones intact.

<name> does some combination of a jig and a reel. He looks mainly like a guy in an invisible mosh pit.

<name> looks at you, horrified. "Crivens, mate!" he says. "You're no' tryin' to battle completely sober, are ye? Have a heidfull o' this!" He tosses you a bottle of absinthe.

You acquire an item: tiny bottle of absinthe

• With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:

<name> winks at you from under the Tam O'Shanter, pleased that it's the same tartan as his kilt.

• With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:

<name> does a little riverdance around the maypole, periodically head-butting it for good measure.

• With wax lips equipped:

<name> says "Crivens! I can barely breathe wi' these thingies on!" from under the wax lips.

Arena Messages

• When entered in an Obstacle Course:

The general green pixie approach to an obstacle is to headbutt it until it ceases to become an obstacle, which isn't an optimal strategy here.

Notes

• The bottles of absinthe drop a maximum of five times a day.
• The Green Pixie doesn't drop absinthe if you're already under the Absinthe-Minded effect.
• This familiar will attack 1/3 of the time, regardless of the weight. It does int(X/2) to X in damage (regardless of the message seen) where X is the familiar's weight. The three attack messages are equally likely.

References

• The familiar, including its image filename (pictsie.gif), is a reference to the Nac Mac Feegle, a type of fairy found in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett.
• The name of the familiar and the absinthe ability are references to another name for absinthe, La Fée Verte, French for "The Green Fairy".
• The haiku and the familiar's speech reflect a heavy highland Scottish brogue or accent, which is consistent with Pratchett's Nac Mac Feegle. Dinnae = do not, Heid = head, Fash = worry, etc.
• Jigs and reels are both popular Scottish and Irish folk dances.
• A tartan is a pattern of plaid, historically used especially in Scotland and other Celtic countries to indicate clan and family.
• Riverdance, noted for helping to popularize Irish culture especially in the mid-'90s, is a theatrical show composed largely of rapid-movement Irish step dances.
• "Crivens" is a mild Scottish oath popularized by Oor Wullie, a comic book character central to Scottish culture since 1937.
• The "schemie" referred to in the first quote is an insult prevalent in the Edinburgh area to denote those of a lower class or intellectual level, who usually live in a Council Housing Scheme, known for being poor or rough areas.