Frumious Bandersnatch

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Familiar number: 105
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Frumious Bandersnatch
Galumphing monster takes his lead from what you do what a frabjous beast!

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Ability: Acts as a volleyball (but tuned to a specific stat by its equipment) and augproves your combat skills in a varyad of ways.

Throne/Bjorn: +2 Stat(s) Per Fight, sometimes deals 2-4 Prismatic Damage.

Hatchling: Apathargic Bandersnatch

Familiar-Specific Equipment: aquaviolet jub-jub bird, charpuce jub-jub bird, crimsilion jub-jub bird

	Ultimate Cage Match	Scavenger Hunt	Obstacle Course	Hide and Seek

Mumming Trunk Abilities:

*Hover for details

Cannot breathe underwater

Combat Messages

• At the start of combat, if Ode to Booze is active:

  <name> hums a snatch of Ode to Booze and hiccoughs loudly.

• During combat, if Ode to Booze is active:

  <name> sumgers sideways, trips over his own feet, and crashes to the ground, higgulping.

  (The familiar fails to react to skill use when affected by Ode)

• Upon running away with Ode to Booze active, if the Bandersnatch can provide a free escape:

  <name> snatches you up in his jaws, tosses you onto his back, and flooms away, weaving slightly and hiccelping fire. You shout "Yeeeeeah!" as the combat becomes a small dot, far below you.

  (No adventure loss)

• Upon running away with Ode to Booze active, if the Bandersnatch is out of free escapes:

  <name> slumsily tosses you onto his back, but he's waggerving so much that you fall off pretty quickly. You escape the fight, but just barely.

  (An adventure is used)

• Enthroned in the Crown of Thrones:

  <name> groars and leamps into the frattle, doing a painbow of 2-4 (+2-4) (+2-4) (+2-4) (+2-4) (+2-4) damage.

• At the end of combat:
  • Normally

    <name> greams happily, baring a mouthful of scarpy teeth.

  • With aquaviolet jub-jub bird equipped:

    <name> smaughs happily while the jub-jub bird makes a mystic hand gesture at you. Okay, well, more of a wing gesture.

  • With charpuce jub-jub bird equipped:

    <name> bares his frightious teeth in a broad grile, while the jub-jub bird gives you a feathery thumbs-up.

  • With crimsilion jub-jub bird equipped:

    <name> smims beamishly, while the jub-jub bird flexes its wings like a little bird bodybuilder. Birdybuilder?

  • With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:

    <name> outgrabes beneath the Tam O'Shanter.

  • With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:

    <name> goes whiffling around the Maypole, burbling as he comes.

  • With wax lips equipped:

    <name> gets all beamish beneath the Wax Lips.

Arena Messages

• When entered in Hide and Seek:

  Like jabberwockies ^[sic], bandersnatches can't stop burbling long enough to hide effectively.

Skill-related actions

The Bandersnatch will perform a certain action each time the player uses a combat skill. However, the effect Ode to Booze prevents the familiar from performing these actions.

Only basic class skills provoke a reaction; other skills (such as Spookyraven or Hobopolis skills) do not.

Skill	Message	Result
Clobber	<name> gufflauds enthusiastically at your skillful clobber. Your opponent looks embarrassed.	Delevel?
Thrust-Smack	Your thrust-smack kicks up some dust and <name> sneezes, brealtching fire all over your opponent and dealing X damage.	Hot Damage
Lunging Thrust-Smack	<name> is surpartled by your lunge and beaffets the air with his wings. Your opponents are obscured behind a cloud of smust. If smust has been used this combat: <name> is starprisled by your sudden lunge (its vision, like a prostitute's, is based on movement), and it beaffets the air with its wings. And by "the air," I mean, "your opponent," for X damage.	Smust (stuns enemy for 2 rounds) If smust has been used this combat: Deals X physical damage.
Toss	<name> tosses you, sending you crasheening into your opponent, bowling him over and leaving him dazed and confused.	Delevel?
Headbutt	<name> celebrates your headbutt with a high, kwaining howl. Your opponent shivers and takes X damage from the spooky sound.	Spooky Damage
Kneebutt	<name> snorfles with delight at your kneebutt, letting loose a gout of flame that singes your opponent for X	Hot Damage
Shieldbutt	With a queftick swipe of his hugantic claw, <name> smacks your shield and sends you spyrating around, raising a thick cloud of smust. If smust has been used this combat: With a quick swipe of one monscular wing, <name> smacks your shield and sends you spinning back into your opponent, doing X damage.	Smust (stuns enemy for 2 rounds) If smust has been used this combat: Deals X physical damage.
Salsaball	<name> chases the salsaball and stompedes over your opponent, leaving him a little bruised and battered. Bruittered, you might say.	Delevel?
Stream of Sauce	<name> licks some of the extra sauce off your opponent, giving it a thorough tongue-lashing for X damage.	Physical damage
Saucy Salve	<name> sees you're wounded and gentlicately licks your wounds. Or maybe he just smelled the saucy salve. Either way, you feel better.	Gain X HP (Does not occur when the spell is "quick.") Removes all(?) negative effects
Saucestorm	<name> turns his slaverous mouth to the sky, gulbling extra sauce. He looks a little heavier when he's done.	+1 familiar experience
Wave of Sauce	<name> slurbbles up some of the extra sauce and looks heavier.	+2 familiar experience
Saucegeyser	<name> stares enchansfixed at the geyser of sauce, and begins to hum a snatch of an ancient Sauceror song. Mystical forces roible around you as you listen.	Gain 14 MP
Spaghetti Spear	<name> bandersnatches the spaghetti spear and trips your opponent with it. <name> chortles joyfully as your your opponent gets back up, shakily, looking somewhat the worse for wear.	Delevel?
Ravioli Shurikens	<name> snicker-snacks on the filling of one of your shurikens, then spits the shell at your opponent for X damage.	Physical damage
Entangling Noodles	<name> grabs the end of one of the noodles in his mouth and gleerfully stromples around your opponent, pulling the noodles even tighter.	Increases duration by 1-2 rounds.
Lasagna Bandages	<name> sees that you're hurt and licks your wounds enthusiassonately. Or maybe he just smelled the lasagna. Either way, you feel better.	Restores X HP Removes all(?) negative effects
Cannelloni Cannon	<name> snabbles up some of the extra filling, and looks a little heavier.	+1 familiar experience
Stuffed Mortar Shell	<name> slavernously snorfs up some of the shrapnel, and looks heavier.	+2 familiar experience
Weapon of the Pastalord	<name> raises his shaggedy head and sings a snatch of an ancient Pastalord song. You feel mystic forces swindering around you.	Gain 12 MP
Sing	<name> joins in the singing, at such skull-smunching volume that your opponent looks thoroughly discomratulated when he's done.	Delevel?
Suckerpunch	<name> fluppers his wings glappily in an attempt to imitate your suckerpunch. It stirs up a thick cloud of smust. If smust has been used this combat: <name> follows up your suckerpunch with a brucious punch of his own, dealing X damage.	Smust [only Disco Bandits] (stuns enemy for 2 rounds) If smust has been used this combat: Deals X physical damage.
Disco Eye-Poke	<name> chaughles so hard at your opponent that he sneezes flame out of his nose, doing X damage.	Hot Damage
Disco Dance of Doom	<name> adds to the disco inferno by breathing broisting flame all over your opponent for X damage.	Hot Damage
Disco Dance II: Electric Boogaloo	<name> makes your dancing a little less safe by belching fire all over your opponent, charscorching <it> for for X damage.	Hot Damage
Disco Face Stab	<name> screowls in sympathetic pain. It's a ululating, unnatural sound, and scares approximately X bejeezuses (bejeezi?) out of your opponent.	Spooky Damage

Notes

• If the player starts combat with Ode to Booze active, the familiar can provide a free run-away, escaping combat without using an adventure. It can provide this function a limited number of times per day up to the Bandersnatch's weight / 5. Whether any free run-aways are available depends on the familiar's buffed weight during the current combat. (So underwater-only weight buffs will indeed give you extra run-aways.) The familiar does not try to give free runaways against CLEESHed monsters.
• Each bird color tunes the player's end-of-combat stat gains to a specific stat. This means that all substats gained from the familiar will correspond to that stat.

• Crimsilion is Muscle
• Aquaviolet is Mysticality
• Charpuce is Moxie

• Smust stuns the enemy for 2 rounds and this message is displayed:

Your opponent can't see you through the cloud of smust.

• After two rounds it clears:

The cloud of smust around your opponent clears.

• Smust can only fire once per combat. All subsequent uses of smust-triggering skills will result in the Bandersnatch causing physical damage.
• Damage done by the Bandersnatch varies between X/2 and X, where X is the Bandersnatch's weight.
• Combat skills that increase familiar experience can be used multiple times in a fight to massively boost familiar experience.

References

• This familiar is a reference to the fictional monster mentioned in Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky" which appeared in his novel Through the Looking-Glass. The prevalence of invented portmanteau words in the combat messages is similar to the use of language in the poem.
• The line "its vision, like a prostitute's, is based on movement," is a reference to a joke from Family Guy, which in turn references Jurassic Park.
• The Disco Dance II message about making "dancing a little less safe" is a reference to "The Safety Dance."
• The Bandersnatch's flight, and response to the flight, is a reference to The Neverending Story.