Grue

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Familiar number: 11
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Grue
In darkness is strength Thrill me, chill me, fulfill me Creature of the night.

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Ability: Attacks opponent, depending on amount of moonlight, and does spooky damage.

Throne/Bjorn: Unknown

Hatchling: grue egg

Familiar-Specific Equipment: moonglasses

	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> attempts to bite it, but misses.
  • <name> bites it for X damage.

• When there is too much moonlight:
  • <name> cowers, shielding its eyes against the bright light.

• With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:

<name> latches its teeth onto your slain foe's wallet and spits out some extra meat.

• With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:

You think you see <name> dancing around the maypole, but it's too dark to really tell.

• With wax lips equipped:

A gleam of white (and bright red) in the dark indicate that <name> is smiling with his wax lips.

Arena Messages

• When entered in a Scavenger Hunt:

<name>'s vision isn't very good in this light. Or any light, for that matter.

Notes

• The Grue will attack if there are 5 units of moonlight or less, meaning it can attack during 71.590% of the moon cycle.
• The Grue's damage equation consists of two parts: weight and moonlight. Its weight-based damage ranges from (weight/2) to (weight). Its light-based damage ranges from (2 + (5 - X) * 1.5) to (2 + (5 - X) * 3), where X is the number of lit moon segments.
• When it can attack, the grue will attempt to attack every round. The grue will hit 10% + 10*(ceiling(weight/4))%, regardless of moonlight. At 33 pounds, the grue will not miss.

References

• In the game Zork if you were in a dark area without a source of light, you were likely to be eaten by a Grue.
• Grues first appeared in the Dying Earth series of books by Jack Vance, and were later incorporated into the Zork series of games.
• The last two lines of this familiar's haiku are lyrics from the refrain of the song Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me from the The Rocky Horror Picture Show: "Touch-a touch-a touch-a touch me / I wanna be dirty / Thrill me, chill me, fulfill me / Creature of the night."
• The reference to white and bright red in the dark may be a reference to the opening scene of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, where a mouth with bright white teeth and bright red lips on a black background sings "Science Fiction Double Feature".