Ant sickle

ant sickle

This is a frozen ant on a stick. Oh, wait, that'd be spelled differently. This is a farm implement the ants used to use on their ant farms. It's largely been replaced by ant combines, but the ant-thropomorphic personification of Ant Death still uses it to reap ant souls. It practically glows with spookiness from beyond the ant grave. Ant ant ant.

Type: familiar equipment
Familiar: unknown
Selling Price: 75 Meat.

Your familiar will sow pain and reap Meat.

(In-game plural: ant sickles)

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Drop Location

• The Arid, Extra-Dry Desert

Messages

Attack Messages

• <name> reaps (no anagrams, please) your enemy for 10-12 damage.

After Combat

• <name> reaps some extra Meat from your foe and gives it to you.

Notes

• Deals Spooky Damage and adds +10-15 to meat drops at the end of combat.
• Combat familiars can do their normal attacks and a sickle attack in the same round of combat.
• If the monster does not drop meat, you will not get the extra meat gain

References

• "No anagrams, please" refers to the fact that "reaps" is an anagram of "rapes."
• This item inexplicably links the "ant-thropomorphic personification of Ant Death" with a Sickle instead of a Scythe, which is what all other "Death"s are seen carrying. This could be a reference to the Dungeons and Dragons conceit that characters who would normally wield a scythe but are in the small size category may wield a sickle instead. Conversely, it is possible the development team do not know the difference between a sickle and a scythe - something which is true of many non-rural people in the modern age.
• "Ant Death" is a reference to a similar construct in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series -- "Death of Rats."

See Also

• Meat from Monsters
• Bonus Melee Damage

Collection

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