Cocoabo

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Cocoabo
Chocolate feathers Healing, fighting scavenging Give monsters the bird.

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Ability: Restores equal amounts of HP and MP, attacks the enemy, confuses the enemy, or finds meat.

Throne/Bjorn: Unknown

Hatchling: cocoa egg

Familiar-Specific Equipment: chocolate spurs

	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> coos softly, and nuzzles you with his beak.
  • <name> paws at the ground for a second, and then charges your opponent, bashing him for X damage.
  • <name> squawks loudly and runs in a circle around your opponent. He looks a little bit confused.
  • <name> roots around in the ground, and comes up with some Meat. He wings it to you.

• With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:

<name> scratches on the ground and finds some meat your foe dropped in all the excitement.

• With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:

<name> does The Funky Chicken around the maypole.

• With wax lips equipped:

<name> smiles uncomfortably with his wax lips. If anyone asks, "do cocoabos have lips?", now the answer is "yes."

Arena Messages

• When entered in an Obstacle Course:

<name> is no good at the obstacle course race. Nobody is quite sure why.

Notes

• The Cocoabo's abilities are almost identical to those of the Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot's. The only difference is that the NPZR can also stun a foe by pummeling it in the head with a piece of toast (and that all the NPZR's attacks are about twice as effective)
• When the Cocoabo gets a LIMIT BREAK!, this increases the effect of whichever combat effect it performed that round by +100% (or +80% for restoration, apparently). That is, a LIMIT BREAK!, for the most part, doubles effectiveness.
• Either weight has some influence of the frequency of limit breaks (doubtful), or limit breaks simply do not happen at weights of 10 lbs or less.
• The Confusion result Delevels an opponent by (Weight+1)/3. This seems to be doubled by Limit Breaks, and can have a range if weight returns a fractional number.

References

• This familiar is a chocolatey play on the Chocobo from the Final Fantasy video game series.
• Cocoabos also occasionally have a LIMIT BREAK! These also have their origins in Final Fantasy (specificially, in the seventh installment), as special combat moves. Though really only used in Final Fantasy VII and the American version of Final Fantasy VIII (in Japanese FF8, Limit Breaks were called simply Special Attacks), the term "Limit Break" has become slang for powerful attacks in many RPGs.
• The maypole message mentions the Funky Chicken, a novelty dance invented by Rufus Thomas in 1969. (It also referes to the fact that a Chocobo resembles a chicken).
• The Arena message upon entering a Cocoabo in the obstacle course race is likely a reference to the difficulty of piloting Chocobos in Final Fantasy X minigames. It may also be a reference to the game Chocobo Racing.