Crimbo Elf

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Crimbo Elf
Crimbo gifts for you: Smackdown and shakedown for loot Ho ho ho ki yay.

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Ability: Fights like a Sabre-Toothed Lime, loots like a Baby Gravy Fairy.

Throne/Bjorn: Unknown

Hatchling: crimbo elfling

Familiar-Specific Equipment: dental pliers

	Ultimate Cage Match	Scavenger Hunt	Obstacle Course	Hide and Seek

Mumming Trunk Abilities:

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Cannot breathe underwater

Combat Messages

• Regular message:

<name> does a little elf dance.

<name> leaps up and smacks <him/her> in the knee for X damage.

• With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:

<name> kicks your slain foe repeatedly in the shins, dislodging some extra meat.

• With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:

<name> does a little dance around the maypole, while singing "La la, la la" to a slightly disturbing tune.

• With wax lips equipped:

<name> smiles reluctantly with his wax lips.

Notes

• Familiar of the month for December, 2004.

References

• The haiku for this familiar ends with a holiday version of a the cowboy exclamation "yippe-io-ki-ay". Bruce Willis's character, John McClane, in the 1988 movie Die Hard, popularized this saying, adding an infamous expletive to it.

• The dental pliers are a reference to the claymation Christmas special Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, whose sidekick was an elf who wanted to be a dentist and saved the day with a pair of pliers.

• The miniature gravy-covered maypole text is a reference to the haunting melody sung by the elves in The Nightmare Before Christmas.