Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot

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Familiar number: 48
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Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot
Hi-yaa, yarrr, braaaaains, bleep Schizophrenic familiar Four bastards in one

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Ability: Either heals your MP and HP, attacks your enemy, gives you Meat, delevels your opponent, or stuns them and gives you toast

Throne/Bjorn: Unknown

Hatchling: ninja pirate zombie robot

Familiar-Specific Equipment: rhesus monkey

	Ultimate Cage Match	Scavenger Hunt	Obstacle Course	Hide and Seek

Mumming Trunk Abilities:

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Cannot breathe underwater

Combat Messages

• Regular messages:
  • <name> bleeps, "MEDICAL SYSTEMS ACTIVATED," and fires a dart into your neck. You suddenly feel much better.

    You gain some hit points.

    You gain some Mana Points.

  • <name> shambles up to your opponent with a "Graaaaagh," and bites him on the head. He seems a little dazed by the experience.
  • You hear a faint howling of wind, and <name> suddenly appears out of the shadows, holding your opponent's meat pouch.

    You gain some Meat.

  • <name> shouts "Yarrrr!" and battens your opponent's hatches for him. Violently. For X damage.
  • <name> does a pelvic thrust at your opponent. A piece of toast ricochets off his head, momentarily stunning him (and/or driving him insa-a-a-a-ane.)
    

    You acquire an item: toast

• With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:
  

<name> ravages your slain foe in a variety of ways, and discovers some extra meat.

• With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:
  

<name> does a stealthy, jerky, shambling jig around the maypole.

• With wax lips equipped:
  

<name> grins at you with the wax lips stuck to the outside of his mask. The effect is, on the whole, disturbing.

Arena Messages

• None - familiar has no weaknesses.

Notes

• Four ninja pirate zombie robots were given to balam (#31632), TedPro (#28312), Nytmare (#56672) and Vida Londres (#9035) to thank them for their work in running the LARP at KoLCon II. The secret to creating them was not divulged at that time, prompting one of the biggest spade races in KoL history as clans and individuals alike sought to unravel its riddle. After a highly competitive and closely followed race, members of Noblesse Oblige were the first to crack it, followed closely by Iocaine Powder leader Chrono Mage. The recipe became public shortly after it was discovered by a cross-clan coalition of largely newer players named The Inter-Clan Spade Foundation.
• For weight X, damage done will be int((X+1d3)*1.5).
• For weight X, HP/MP healed will be int((X+1d3)*1.5)+5.
• In the formula for Meat stolen, X is approximately (6*weight)+10, and is independent of the area and monster. The range of Meat gain is approximately (3*weight)+10, and thefts are distributed evenly over the range. As of February 9th, 2008, the NPZR can only give Meat in the first ten rounds.
• When the familiar bites your opponent on the head, it delevels the opponent.
• For weight X, Deleveling done by the "Graaagh" attack is -X/2 ML, floored.
• The familiar acts approximately 50% of the time, regardless of its weight.
• The familiar gives toast only about half as often as it does any other action. (There's about an 11% chance each to heal, bite, attack, or steal Meat, but only 6% to give toast.)
• Since the amount of Meat stolen is determined by the NPZR weight, regardless of which monster you are fighting, it can be used to effectively farm for Meat.

References

• The familiar's name refers to the Ninjapiratezombierobot Clan.
• The pelvic thrust message in combat refers to the song "The Time Warp", from the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show, as well as "driving him insa-a-a-a-ane" which is what the pelvic thrust does according to the song. The toast derives from the ritual of throwing toast when Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry) proposes a toast over the meal of roast Eddie (Meat Loaf).
• The message given when the robotic aspect of the familiar activates possibly draws from the British comedy series Look Around You, where in one episode a medical robot delivers anesthesia to a patient via a blowgun dart to the neck.
• The description of the familiar dancing around the miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped may be based on the "Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot Dance" made up by Jick and Skipperic. You can watch Jick performing it here.