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From: jvw@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Draco Spiritus)
Subject: 101 familiars you would have been better off without.
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1.  A common garden slug

2.  A curious basalisk

3.  Fluffy, the queen's dearly loved and highly prized cat

					Chet Tidwell,
					(tidwell@quark.phys.andrews.edu)


4.  Giant Garden slug
5.  Giant War Dog in Heat
                        Brian
                        n36ia@pnet16.cts.com (Et3 Francis)

6.  Mold (any type)
7.  Green Slime (No boy! Down! Don't touch my leg.... *squish*)
                        scythe@stein2.u.washington.edu (The Grim Reaper)


8.  Rot Grub
9.  Giant Cockroach
10. Intellect Devourer
11. Ear Seeker
                        arxt@quads.uchicago.edu (Dave Palmer)

12. Disenchanter
                        aevans@nmt.edu (Alex Evans)

13. Haddock.
14. Dormouse.
15. Penguin.
16. Flea.
17. Bee.
                        jvw@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (J.V.Williams)

18. Smurf
19. Skunk
20. Rust Monster  (Your familiar ate WHAT!)
21. Disenchanter Beast (Your familiar did WHAT!!!!!)
22. Trapper, Mimic (Here Fluffy, dang it, where
    is that mangy beast?)
23. Bookworm.
    (Dang, Hungry again?  ,<looking closely>  Fluffy,
    have you been at my Libram of Ineffable Darkness
    again?  Why are your eyes glowing?)
24. Wil-o-wisp  (Fluffy, fetch my shoes, dammit!)
                        mehawk@agora.rain.com (Michael Sandy)

25.  Juggernaut  (Your familiar rolled over WHAT!!!)
26.  Giant Centipede
                        mlandaue@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael C Landauer)

27. The ex-apprentice of the wizard on the otherside of
    the street. (Why horrible? Look in one of the other lists :)
                        richard@cs.vu.nl (Berwald Richard)

28. "You have developed a strong empathic link to a small blob of surprisingly
    intelligent green slime."  :-)


    The best bit:  He can't kill it, 'cause it's his familliar.  And he's got
    to feed it, and it grows every time he feeds it, so this is soon going to
    be a er, sticky situation.
                        dant@cs.utexas.edu (Dan Alexander Thompson)

29. Tarrasque (Your Familliar ate What? Waterdeep?)
                        HC61@lafibm.lafayette.edu (HC61000)

30. Red or Gold dragon 'Ah cant remembah the last time ah got an experience     point... '
                        esmorodi@prism.poly.edu (Elliot Smorodinsky)


31. How about a Magebane?
                        s892804@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Robert Winkel)

32. Chaos Ball. (Has to be fed magic items or party members......)
                        jvw@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (J.V.Williams)

                                   Draco.

                           jvw@dcs.warwick.ac.uk

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Message 39/41  From B12@vax1.mankato.msus.edu             Jun 2, 95 01:01:29 pm -0600


Date: Fri, 02 Jun 1995 13:01:29 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Commenting from file
To: alex
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X-Personal_name: Wyatt Edwards
From: B12@Mkvax1.mankato.msus.edu
Subject: 101 Familiars...

Here's something to add to your list of "101 familiars you would be better
off without:"


A wicker basket ("Well, it used to be a treant until my apprentice needed
some firewood")

Use it if you want (hey, it might even be good enough to add to your
apprentice jokes).

Wyatt ("They call me Mister X in my part of town")