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This idea for a holopet reared its head in chat the other night.

Hatchling: Facecloth With Innocuous Spots

Holopet: Scabies

During combat
When monsters attack you, they run an increasing risk of receiving their own dose of scabies, which acts as a blocking effect. The monsters become distracted, scratching themselves with furious rage and causing self-harm damage as they rip off chunks of their own skin.
Up to 5 times a day, Scabies will drop a fungal grenade.

After combat
Victory! (Your Holopet) fires all of its guns at once and takes your world in a love embrace. Your skin ripples with fiery prowess. You gain 100 Bravado!
A dozen new-born scabies mites devour their first meal, leaving you with a net gain of 3 bravado substats.
You lose 2 HP.

too much stuff. even the 2 token pets only attack/block/3 shards at best. "holopet" names should be singular and show alliteration with special content pets being the only exception.

I personally like the thought of a pet that drops combat items though, something we don't exactly have right now.

and as much as I would like to see another useful pet that does stat gains, one that does it with attacking or blocking would become a reset staple, but the Text you wrote up about the gain doesn't exactly link in successfully for me.

all in all,
too stronk, little doge

Interesting concept. Not entirely sure what the reference is though. Might have to go back through the chat logs.

PLEASE DONT LOOK AT THE LOGS..........

The disccusion was disgusting despite my best efforts...........

LordCretin wrote: After combat
Victory! (Your Holopet) fires all of its guns at once and takes your world in a love embrace. Your skin ripples with fiery prowess. You gain 100 Bravado!
A dozen new-born scabies mites devour their first meal, leaving you with a net gain of 3 bravado substats.
You lose 2 HP.

How about instead of this, something more interesting:

You gain 4 bravado subpoints.
You lose 5 HP.

Every combat.

Would be hard to sustain, but if you could, rapid stat gain.

I kind of like Cowboy's input...the stat/HP loss should scale to your current stats/HP though, so it is at least somewhat sustainable over the short term.

I also do agree that the default names for holopets are an untapped market for puns and references.

-jB