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

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

Throne/Bjorn: Unknown

Hatchling: nervous tick egg

	Ultimate Cage Match	Scavenger Hunt	Obstacle Course	Hide and Seek

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.

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.