This idea for a holopet reared its head in chat the other night.
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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.
Possible Holopets Ideas
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Re: Possible Holopets Ideas
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
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
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Re: Possible Holopets Ideas
Interesting concept. Not entirely sure what the reference is though. Might have to go back through the chat logs.
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PLEASE DONT LOOK AT THE LOGS..........
The disccusion was disgusting despite my best efforts...........
The disccusion was disgusting despite my best efforts...........
Re: Possible Holopets Ideas
How about instead of this, something more interesting: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.
You gain 4 bravado subpoints.
You lose 5 HP.
Every combat.
Would be hard to sustain, but if you could, rapid stat gain.
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Re: Possible Holopets Ideas
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
I also do agree that the default names for holopets are an untapped market for puns and references.
-jB