Cocoabo

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Familiar number: 16
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Cocoabo
Chocolate feathers Healing, fighting scavenging Give monsters the bird.

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Ability: Restores equal amounts of HP and MP, attacks the enemy, confuses the enemy, or finds meat.

Throne/Bjorn: Unknown

Hatchling: cocoa egg

Familiar-Specific Equipment: chocolate spurs

	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> coos softly, and nuzzles you with his beak.

    You gain X hit points.

    You gain X Mana Points.

  • <name> paws at the ground for a second, and then charges your opponent, bashing him for X damage.
  • <name> squawks loudly and runs in a circle around your opponent. He looks a little bit confused.
  • <name> roots around in the ground, and comes up with some Meat. He wings it to you.

You gain X Meat.

• With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:

<name> scratches on the ground and finds some meat your foe dropped in all the excitement.

• With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:

<name> does The Funky Chicken around the maypole.

• With wax lips equipped:

<name> smiles uncomfortably with his wax lips. If anyone asks, "do cocoabos have lips?", now the answer is "yes."

Arena Messages

• When entered in an Obstacle Course:

<name> is no good at the obstacle course race. Nobody is quite sure why.

Notes

• Healing: The Cocoabo heals between X+6 to X+8 HP and MP, where X is the Cocoabo's weight.

• Damage: The Cocoabo deals X+1 to X+3 damage.

• Confusion: The Cocoabo delevels an opponent by (X+1)/3 and can have a range if weight returns a fractional number.

• Meat: An estimated formula for the meat obtained is A(X+B), where A is a random value from 3 to 5 and B is a random value from 1 to 3. This produces a range of 3X+3 to 5X+15.

It averages at 4X+8 meat dropped without the affect of limit breaks. Above 16 lbs (accounting for limit breaks) it averages ax+b with a = 5.4 ± 0.1, and b = -8.8 ± 2.6.

• When the Cocoabo gets a LIMIT BREAK!, its action is increased in effectiveness.

• • For healing, the range becomes 2X+7 to 2X+11. (To be more exact, the base rate for the Cocoabo is X+5+1d3. When there is a limit break, the X and 1d3 are doubled, but not the 5. At 20 pounds, the Cocoabo restores 26-28 HP/MP, but 47, 49, or 51 HP/MP on a limit break.)
  • For all other actions, the effectiveness is doubled.
  • LIMIT BREAKs occur when the Cocoabo is 17 pounds or greater.
• The Cocoabo is a weaker version of the Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot. The only difference is that the NPZR can also stun a foe by pummeling it in the head with a piece of toast (and that all the NPZR's attacks are about twice as effective, except from the meatgain attack, heals and mp restores)
• There exists a stuffed version of this familiar.

References

• This familiar is a chocolatey play on the Chocobo from the Final Fantasy video game series.
• Cocoabos also occasionally have a LIMIT BREAK! These also have their origins in Final Fantasy (specifically, in the seventh installment), as special combat moves. Though really only used in Final Fantasy VII and the American version of Final Fantasy VIII (in Japanese FF8, Limit Breaks were called simply Special Attacks), the term "Limit Break" has become slang for powerful attacks in many RPGs.
• The maypole message mentions the Funky Chicken, a novelty dance invented by Rufus Thomas in 1969. (It also refers to the fact that a Chocobo resembles a chicken).
• The Arena message upon entering a Cocoabo in the obstacle course race is likely a reference to the difficulty of piloting Chocobos in Final Fantasy X minigames. It may also be a reference to the game Chocobo Racing.
• To "Give someone the bird" is to present the middle finger to them, a very rude gesture, though overused.
• The wax lips message is a reference to the Imponderables book "Do Penguins Have Knees?".