Jick

This guy is a volleyball whose equipment (foldable jub-jub birds) tunes him to a particular stat.

He also does things in response to you using combat skills. It varies by skill, and only applies to base class skills (starting and guild.)

There's also a kind of easter egg function, whereby if you start a combat with Ode to Booze active, you can get a number of free run-aways per day up to the Bandersnatch's weight / 5.

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RabidWombat

Sundays new IotM announced a bit early?

fixer

And I'm in freakin' Cat Moon. Nooooooooo! This sounds like so much fun!

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Erich

... I'm going to pee off the wine I just drank. When I come back, I want something in this thread that says "yes, this is the March FotM".

That is all.

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StDoodle

If this means visiting the cake arena will become optimal, it will be a very strange day.

So is this the IotM for March or something? I'm a bit confused...

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stupac2

...That sounds too good, I wonder if we're being messed with, and to what end.

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Melon

Looks like Jick meant to post this in a secret forum so he could move it here when the familiar is released, or in a secret dev forum for them to read.

Ooopsie!

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orbrisa

I don't know if I can help you with the shunning ... he sounds quite interesting.

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Rudd

Jick is trolling gameplay?

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So Very Invisible

Poor spades. No fun.

Edit: Also, best IotM speculation thread. Ever.

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rotting flesh

April Fools day isn't for another month, Jick.

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godsinjustice

Are you sure the familiar is that insane? Because this familiar sounds too good to be true

me_myself_andi

That sounds AWESOME.

EDIT: Woo, unlucky post!

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John Keel (#1685757)

great teacher onizuka

This has to be a test.

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Erich

Bandersnatch will be available for 11 minutes, and then thats it.

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Viridinia

Wait... What? O.o

I missed something.

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Raymond_Kinger

Spoil much?

WhiskeyJack

Make-A-KoL

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Erich

I agree w/ melon

... or it could be make-a-kol in Jick form

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It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over. ~Frank O'Hara

Tiny Plastic Sheik

1. this is an amazing sounding familiar
2. really?
3. dont let this be a lie plz plz

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playhavock

posting in an epic confusing thred!

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plumber

About time they made Ode worthwhile.

Raymond_Kinger

If he`s screwed up and was meant to post it in the hidden forum, I`m fine...

Coppied into notepad, printed and framed...

Erich

quoted for blatant sarcasm

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It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over. ~Frank O'Hara

VanDamien

How much did they drink during the show last night to still be drunk?

Ponder Stibbons

Win.
As a denizen of HCN, let me assure you that drunken posting does not look like that. *cough* Jerbu and Rentboy *cough*

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great teacher onizuka

They could still be drinking.

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WhiskeyJack

As long as they don't hit the delete button on the database AND somehow blow up the building housing the backups...we should be okay.

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So Very Invisible

Just enough to crash the gold ferrari. Repairs are expensive, you know.

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Half a tin of Grizzly

Wow...

What a cool idea! I think I'll get me one.

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mikemar

free runaways in HC, i'm down!

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Melon

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

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So, how about an easter egg if you have a vorpal sword equipped?

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vor

ssssshuuuun

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rotting flesh

We're on a bridge Charlieeeeee!

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silentounce

Naw, gold is very mallable, so it's easy to fix.

Yes, I know it's spelled malleable.

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zarufan1

This sounds so good that, Jick must still be fucking wasted out of his mind. The only reason he's even able to type coherently (or log on the internet, for that matter) is because of the pure literary, text-based awesome that flows from his fingertips. He probably didn't even write that spoiler consciously; he probably passed out and his Magick Fingerz filled in the blanks.

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Originally Posted by mr skullhead : And it's a half-volleyball that spits. C'mon, that's just cool.

rotting flesh

Gold is worthless. Jick needs to make his next Ferrarri out of meat.

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stupac2

Actually, now that I've been thinking about it, it's not as overpowered as it initially sounds. The pixie, llama, or putty are all better, this is just so different it seems game-breaking. But it's not really.

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GothicWonder

Read the asym twitter for how drunk he got http://twitter.com/asym

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GoldS

For what it's worth, there's a bandersnatch image...

stupac2

I's seen it wat with my own eyes. A hideous beast eh twas.

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haxors legit

WHeres this image you speak of?

Rabid

Dammit

Ruined another perfectly good pair of panties..

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silentounce

images.kingdomofloathing.com/itemimages/bandersnatch.gif You'll have to add the http etc etc in front yourself, else it'll peak through the spoiler tags

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silentounce

Wow, sorry for the double post, but wow!

I think this shit is for real.

images.kingdomofloathing.com/itemimages/jubjubbird.gif

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Monty65536

Jick, how drunk are you right now?

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Magikal Muffin Top

please don't take him away now daddy..I wanna keep him!!

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Phreddrickk

also

http://images.kingdomofloathing.com/itemimages/bandersnatch.gif

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silentounce

Yeah, why don't you look at the post before the one you quoted?

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SweeneyTodd

Someone with less degrees of separation from Jick ask how to get #68 quick!
TIME IS RUNNING OUT HES USING SOBER PILLS HE HACKED FROM THE DATABASE!!!

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noway258

Yay for free runaways! Y'know I thought the familiar was supposed to be released late, not early!

Crunchy Hamster

Well, he did it with the http, so there.

This is awesome and hilarious.

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Thok

lern 2 use spoiler boxes, n00b

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silentounce

So, how many people are going to name theirs Shun?

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smoove

About time you guys worked a solid jabberwocky reference into the game. I've only been waiting for that, ohhh... five-ish years now. If this turns out to be a misfired hangover post rather than "see what people think", I will start a riot on the 1st.

By "free run away" I'm assuming you mean it won't cost an adventure to escape. That's pretty awesome.

This looks like a pretty situationally powerful familiar. Have to wait and see on how the focusing mechanic works exactly before anything else can be judged (like whether it will be worth it in some situations to get the equipment for it), but the potential is there for more in the way of strategic decisions.

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