Stab Bat

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Familiar number: 10
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Stab Bat
Man, that's wicked sharp: Self-swinging bloodthirsty sword But it cuts both ways.

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Ability: Attacks either your foe or you.

Throne/Bjorn: Muscle +15%, deals damage to both you and your opponent

Hatchling: rewinged stab bat

Familiar-Specific Equipment: shock collar

	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> stabs you for X damage.

  <name> tries to stab you, but misses.

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

  <name> tries to stab <him/her/it/them>, but misses.

• Enthroned in the Crown of Thrones:

  <Name> leaps out of the hat and stabs <him> for (X=20-30) damage. You applaud, which causes it to stab you, too.

  You lose floor(X/2) hit points.

• With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:

  <name> drives its tail deep into your slain foe's wallet.

• With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:

  <name> does a very unsafe dance around the maypole. You can't dance if you want to.

• With wax lips equipped:

  <name> grins a bloodthirsty, untrustworthy grin with his wax lips.

Arena Messages

• When entered in a game of Hide and Seek:

  <name> has no interest in hiding. <name> only has an interest in stabbing things.

Notes

• There exists both a monster and a stuffed version of this familiar.
• Acts every round.
  • Without a shock collar, this familiar attacks the monster 66% of the time, and the player 33% of the time.
  • With a shock collar equipped, this familiar attacks the monster 80% of the time, and the player 20% of the time.
  • It will succeed in its attack 10 * ceiling(X/6)% of the time, where X is the familiar's weight. This means between 1 and 6 pounds, it hits 10% of the time; from 13-18 it hits 30% of the time. Theoretically, a 55-pound Stab Bat will not miss.
• Regardless of opponent, a Stab Bat will do int(X/2)+2 to X+2 in damage, where X is the weight of the familiar.
• In The Cake-Shaped Arena the Stab Bat never stabs you.
• In NS 11, ascending with a 20-pound Stab Bat makes you eligible for the Slice and Dice trophy. As of NS 13, this trophy is still available, but the requirements have changed.

References

• The miniature gravy-covered maypole combat message refers to the 1982 song "Safety Dance", by Men Without Hats, in which the line "we can dance if we want to" recurs. Since the Stab Bat is performing an unsafe dance, it stands to reason that "you can't dance if you want to".