Snowy Owl

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Familiar number: 46
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Snowy Owl
How many talons Does it take to thrash a foe? Let's ask Mr. Owl.

Attacks enemies and looks smart

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Ability: Attacks enemies.

Throne/Bjorn: Mysticality +15%, sometimes heals 5-6 HP and 3-4 MP.

Hatchling: sleeping snowy owl

Familiar-Specific Equipment: Pretty Predator Clawicure Kit

	Ultimate Cage Match	Scavenger Hunt	Obstacle Course	Hide and Seek

Mumming Trunk Abilities:

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Cannot breathe underwater

Combat Messages

• Regular Message(s):

  <name> claws <him/her/it/them> for "X" damage.

  <name> attempts to sink its talons into <him/her/it/them>, but misses.

• Enthroned in the Crown of Thrones:

  <Name> flies off and returns with a letter for you. It says you may already be a winner! You feel hope surging through your blood, like little carbonated bubbles of potentiality, soon to be popped by cruel, cruel reality.

  You gain 5−6 hit points.

  You gain 3−4 Mana Points.

• With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:

  <name> rotates its head 180 degrees and winks at you from under the Tam O'Shanter.

• With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:

  <name> dances around the maypole to the smash rock hit "Who Let the Owls Out?"

• With wax lips equipped:

  <name> pokes its beak through the wax lips and says something that sounds like "O RLY?".

Arena Messages

• None - familiar has no weaknesses.

Notes

• Damage ranges from int(X/2)+5 to X+5 where X is the weight of the familiar.
• The owl will attempt to attack every round. It will be successful ceiling(X/6)*10 + 20% of the time, where X is the familiar's weight. (At 1 pound, it attacks 30% of the time; at 42 pounds, it attacks 90% of the time.)

References

• "Let's ask Mr. Owl" in the haiku is a reference to a classic commercial for Tootsie Pops, where a kid is told to "Ask Mr. Owl" for the answer to the question "How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?"
• The maypole attack message is a pun on the Baha Men song "Who Let The Dogs Out".
• The wax lips attack message derives from an Internet meme and image macro that features a photo of a snowy owl with the words "O RLY?" superimposed over it.
• The Lucky Tam O'Shanter message refers to the fact that snowy owls can turn their heads up to 270 degrees.