Nervous Tick

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Familiar number: 58
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Nervous Tick
hang ten for justice! get some extra stats and meat from this twitchy bug

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Ability: Has the properties of both a Leprechaun and a Blood-Faced Volleyball

Throne/Bjorn: Unknown

Hatchling: nervous tick egg

Familiar-Specific Equipment: spoon!

	Ultimate Cage Match	Scavenger Hunt	Obstacle Course	Hide and Seek

Mumming Trunk Abilities:

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Cannot breathe underwater

Combat Messages

• Regular combat messages:
  • <name> stares blankly at you. "I just -- I just -- I can't -- I don't --" he sputters, compulsively winking and grinning a nervous grin.
  • <name> complains, "My spoon is toooo biiiig."

• With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:
  • <name> winks convulsively under the Tam O'Shanter, twitching so hard the hat barely stays on his head.

• With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:
  • <name> does a twitchy, flailing dance around the maypole. Someone should get him a giant business suit.

• With wax lips equipped:
  • The wax lips bounce up and down as <name> twitches uncontrollably behind them.

Arena Messages

• When entered in an Ultimate Cage Match:
  

<name> doesn't really like fighting. It makes him nervous.

Notes

• Starting in October 2006, this familiar became available in Mr. Store for two Mr. Accessories.

References

• The familiar's name and combat messages are a play on the term nervous tic.
• "Hang ten for justice!", from the first line of the familiar haiku, is a direct quote from The Tick cartoon.
• The Tick's battlecry is "SPOOOOOOOON!"
• The phrase 'My spoon is too big' comes from Don Hertzfeldt's short film Rejected, which also includes a scene where angry ticks fire out of a character's nipples.
• The Maypole combat message is a reference to the movie Stop Making Sense. In the film, a concert movie featuring Talking Heads, David Byrne does some twitchy, flailing dancing in a big suit.