Ideas for new familiars

[Gadgetwrench]

Yes actually. Sounds cool.

[MrsWoman2]

OOOOH! for kamikaze duck: squeaky explosives

[Darkrift]

Needs to be a familiar that that has all three of the following:
Increase in item, meat, and stat drop/gain.

Yeah.
Hopefully a little sexy gnauga like myself will be this familiar.
I'd like to give a shoutout to my good friend, Oversouled_God (#71219), who is the leader of the Yeti Legions of KoL. He is lucky enough to have a familiar after his great race. I would wish to have the same.

[MrsWoman2]

Domesticated gnauga.

<Name> dashes over to your opponent and bites it for X damage. Oooooowwch.

<Name> grins a huge gnauga grin. You feed it a steak when it opens its mouth.

<Name> mauls your opponent's carcass, and uncovers a few items you hadn't noticed.

<Name> eats your opponent's carcass, but spits out the stuff that tastes bad.

[Darkrift]

Feel free to sex me up anytime, MrsWoman, cause that was just beautiful.
Brilliant.

[Darkrift]

Speaking of familiars, tell me why that jerk BoozerBear had to go and steal all the yuletide trolls. I was unnable to donate to get one at the time, and was saving up enough meat to get one presently. Now I know I can't get one.
*pouts* :[

[burns14hs]

I talked about this with a work buddy and he thought it was an outstanding idea for more than one reason so I'll float it by the peoples....

A gunslinger familiar - you can "load" 1 piece of familiar equipment into each of 2 guns that it carries (much like a double chameleon)... The effects last about 60 turns (about 1.5 times the chameleon) and the familiar then acts as 1/2 its weight for each piece of equipment... after the 60ish turns, he could "run out of ammo"... these do not have to happen at the same time...

odd weights would round down

it could steal equipment at gunpoint in the same manner as the the chameleon does (every other turn, or every 5 turns, or hell, every 10 like everything else)... unimportant really...

EXAMPLE: you equip a toupee and an eye-pod on your 20lb. gunslinger... THE FIRST piece of equipment used adds its customary 5lbs. giving you a 25lb. gunslinger
thus, you have a 12lb. volleyball and a 12lb. fairy

Cast leash, empathy, own sympathy, put on a plexiglass helmet, and use a snowcone and you can have 25lbs of each!!!

the bonuses i see for this include:

you can now have ANY 2 familiars in the game combined (which is great for those longing for the volleybally/fairy that doesn't soak your MP that has been deemed "too powerful") but it tames down each effect to 1/2

it "wastes" more familiar equipment, hopefully bringing mall prices back up to a somewhat "normal" level (i only say this because WITHOUT a chameleon, it costs a minimum of 1000 meat to get equipment... there shouldn't be thousands of pieces of equipment selling for 150... yes, i know this is personal opinion... yes i also take advantage of this by stocking up on cheap equipment for my chameleon... but that doesn't make it right, LOL )

yeah, that was a lot to read.... ummm... penny for your thoughts?

[MrsWoman2]

That's actually a pretty damn good idea. Only, instead of how the chameleon behaves, he should be able to do something without equipment besides sit around eating.

Ive also been meaning to suggest a drug addict familiar, that acts different depending on which drug it had last.

Drugs/effects:
Goofballs= Hyper (Attacks, incapacitates, item/meat drops)
Herbal brownies= Hippyish (Restores MP, increases statgains, thinks it's a chicken in a barnyard [inspired by my dad's reaction to a Frank Zappa concert when he was a teen and on pot])
Steroids= Muscular w/ a side of organ failure (Attacks, stuns, buffs, and restores HP extra-powerfully, but acts less frequently due to its constant organ failure.
Can't think of anymore right now, since I can't remember any more drugs that are on kol

[Darkrift]

The Domesticated Gnauga and the Depressed Bot are good ideas.

[MrsWoman2]

Indeed. In fact, I like ALL of these familiars.

*ahem* well, also...
Gambler! Increases/decreases meat drops randomly, increases item drops, attacks opponent, may find ten-leaf clovers. Can be given a ten-leaf clover to burn, which improves his weight well (and with it, his luck).