Mutant Cactus Bud

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Familiar number: 98
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Mutant Cactus Bud

Sharp spines, creepy eye be wary of this cactus you hardly know us!

Attacks enemies and increases Meat drops from monsters

Ability: Inflicts passive damage; Attacks 20% of the time, dealing damage like a lime and poisoning the opponent; Increases meat drops like a Leprechaun. The meat drop bonus is multiplied by a factor that depends on the moon phase.

Throne/Bjorn: +20% Meat from Monsters, sometimes deals 15-25 poison damage

Hatchling: mutant cactus bud

	Ultimate Cage Match	Scavenger Hunt	Obstacle Course	Hide and Seek

Cannot breathe underwater

Combat Messages

Regular messages:
<Name> bumps into <it>, dealing X damage with his little poisonous spines.

Your opponent brushes up against <name> and gets poked by prickly needles for X damage.
After combat:
<name> floats lazily in front of you, blinking its single, malevolent eye.
Enthroned in the Crown of Thrones:
<name> stabs him with its poison spines, dealing (15-25 poison) damage. Every rose may have its thorn, but cacti are all thorn.
Bjornified in the Buddy Bjorn:
You and your opponent are both surprised to discover that you have a shoulder-mounted turret that fires 15-25%-damage%^[sic] venomous cactus spines.
With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:
<name> twirls the Tam O'Shanter on one of its spines, briefly covering its eye.
With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:
<name> floats rapidly around the Maypole, looking like a spiny tetherball.
With wax lips equipped:
<name> sticks the Wax Lips onto its spines. The overall effect is less than cheery.

Arena Message

When entered in a Scavenger Hunt:
<name> lacks the depth perception necessary to truly excel in a scavenger hunt.

The multiplier for the meat drop bonus is equal to 1.30–(0.15*(grimace darkness)). Note that this multiplier is applied after you calculate the meat drop bonus from the familiar's weight, not to the weight itself.
After being attacked by the Mutant Cactus Bud, an enemy will be poisoned. Poison damage is 80% of the attack damage (rounded down) on the first round, and then is halved each subsequent round, unless the Mutant Cactus Bud attacks again. The opponent will take the damage with the message
Your opponent writhes as <it> takes X damage from the poison.
This familiar also does a small amount of passive damage when an opponent successfully attacks you.

The last line of the description is a variant on a classic bad wordplay joke where when someone says something ending with an "-er" sound (like "tractor") someone would reply "tract-'er? I hardly know her!". On rare occasions this is actually funny.

	Grimacite prizes - edit
Grimacite Generation 1	glaive Weapon (2H) Mus/Weapon	goggles Hat Mys/Adv	greaves Pants Mox/Init	guayabera Shirt ML	gorget Accessory Mus/Items	garter Accessory Mys/Spell	galoshes Accessory Mox/Meat
Grimacite Generation 2	gasmask Hat Mus/Weapon	gaiters Pants Mys/Adv	gat Weapon (1H) Mox/Init	gown Shirt ML	gauntlets Accessory Mus/Meat	girdle Accessory Mys/Spell	go-go boots Accessory Mox/Items
Depleted Grimacite	(plans) shinguards Pants Mus/PvP	(plans) gravy boat Off-Hand Mys/Adv	(plans) ninja mask Hat Mox/PvP	(plans) hammer Weapon (2H) ML/Smithing	(plans) weightlifting belt Accessory Mus/Adv	(plans) astrolabe Accessory Mys/PvP	(plans) grappling hook Accessory Mox/Adv
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