Levitating Potato

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Familiar number: 3
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Levitating Potato
An eye for an eye Hey, hovering potato Might trip up your foes.

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Ability: Trips your foe, might make them miss their attack

Throne/Bjorn: Combat Initiative +20%, sometimes restores 5-6 HP and 3-4MP in combat

Hatchling: potato sprout

Familiar-Specific Equipment: many-eyed glasses

	Ultimate Cage Match	Scavenger Hunt	Obstacle Course	Hide and Seek

Mumming Trunk Abilities:

*Hover for details

Cannot breathe underwater

Combat Messages

• Regular message:

  <name> entangles your opponent with powerful vines, preventing <it> from attacking you.

• Enthroned in the Crown of Thrones:

  <Name> uses his vines to give you an invigorating head massage. It's not the same as giving you a foot massage, but it's in the same ballpark.

  You gain 5−6 hit points.

  You gain 3−4 Mana Points.

• With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:

  <name> eyes your slain foe and finds some extra meat it had hidden away.

• With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:

  <name> grabs the maypole with a vine and swings around it.

• With wax lips equipped:

  <name> smiles a tuberiffic, tubular smile with his wax lips.

Arena Messages

• When entered in an Ultimate Cage Match

  <name> is a lover, not a fighter. Well, not really -- potatoes just suck at this event.

Notes

• Blocking occurs 1.5 × wt% of the time, with a maximum of 90% (attained at 60 pounds and above), where "wt" is the weight of the familiar.
• Monster criticals do not bypass the potato's ability.
• If initiative is lost, then the potato will never block on that first round. It blocks normally on the rest of the rounds though.

References

• A "Levitating Potato" is very similar to the hovering potato which Bender has to peel blindfolded, in the episode entitled "30% Iron Chef" of the animated television series Futurama.
• The second line of the haiku references the song Hovering Sombrero by They Might Be Giants. (Note that this familiar predates the introduction of the Hovering Sombrero familiar.)
• The first line of the haiku refers to the quote "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" from the Bible (Exodus 21:24).
• The special arena message is a reference to the Lazy Lester song I'm a Lover Not a Fighter.
• The wrapping of tentacles may be a reference to the "Archie's Weird Mysteries #3" in which a giant potato uses tentacle vines to turn people into mindless slaves.