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Levitating Potato

An eye for an eye Hey, hovering potato Might trip up your foes.

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

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

Hatchling: potato sprout

	Ultimate Cage Match	Scavenger Hunt	Obstacle Course	Hide and Seek

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.

When entered in an Ultimate Cage Match
<name> is a lover, not a fighter. Well, not really -- potatoes just suck at this event.

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.

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 Crown of Thrones message refers to the foot massage discussion from Pulp Fiction.

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 *The second line of the haiku references the song ''[[TMBW:Hovering Sombrero|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 '''''"[[Wikipedia:An eye for an eye|an eye for an eye]], a tooth for a tooth"''''' from the [[Wikipedia:Bible|Bible]] (Exodus 21:24).
-*The special arena message is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Lazy Lester|Lazy Lester]] song ''I'm a Lover Not a Fighter''.
+*The Crown of Thrones message refers to the foot massage discussion from [[Wikipedia:Pulp Fiction|Pulp Fiction]].
-*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.