Grappling Frog

[Nuala Byrne]

Name: Ao Tree Frog
Description: An adorable, oversized tree frog, approximately 7 inches long. It is extremely dense for its size, weighing about 3 pounds. Its body is bright green and bright blue in color with wide mottling, with a pale underbelly and softly-glowing golden eyes. Its tongue is a bold dark blue color. It clings to its owner's body and has a perpetually cheerful, slightly spaced-out expression. That could just be how frog faces look.
Class: Equal to owner
Item Type: Utility Pet
Item Power (IP): 250 at Class 8 + 50 per Class
Offense Type: Spiritual
Durability: x2 frog, x3 tongue
Bonuses: This frog clings to its owner's body, and is capable of crawling all over them at a Speed of half its Item Power. When mentally prompted by its owner, it creates a glowing blue spiritual tongue and fires it at a target within 15 feet of itself per Class of its owner, at a Speed of 600. When the spiritual tongue strikes a target, it sticks to them and tethers the owner to the target. On another mental command, the frog will either attempt to reel in the target, or release the target from its grip. The frog has a gripping and pulling Strength and Speed equal to its Item Power. Destroying the frog's spiritual tongue has no impact on its ability to form another tongue, but does break a tether.

Despite not being a fish, a Ao Tree Frog can eat an entire Midwater Fish Tablet to benefit from its effects, conferring any toxic effects onto the frog's spiritual tongue and making them contact-type, since it has no teeth.
Drawbacks: The frog draws on its owner's spiritual aura for powering its tongue. It cannot fire or maintain its spiritual tongue unless it is clinging to its owner. Wielding a frog with any significant accuracy requires ranks in the Whispering Mononoke skill.
Cost: 10,000 Ryo
Crafting Skills: Crafting 1-3 or Genetics 1-3
Donated to Urahara's: No

[Crystal Tokei]

I shall be your first grader!

I'm good with the overall ability, however,  to make things clear I'd like it specified that the 275 starting item power is Class 8. I'd also like the frogs cost to be raised to 15000 considering the price doesn't scale with class.

Once those changes are done let me know!

[Nuala Byrne]

I made some changes. I brought down the item power and standardized the tongue speed.

[Crystal Tokei]

After a discussion in VC, I am allowing the cost to remain at 10000 ryo, however the item power max has been dropped to 600 with the tongues speed following normal site projectile rules. As the befining item power has also been clarified to be Class 8 I'm happy to give my 1/2!

[Shizuka Sanamizu ✮]

When mentally prompted by its owner, it creates a glowing blue spiritual tongue and fires it at a target within 15 feet of itself per Class of its owner, at normal projectile speeds.

I think we can afford to say the speed is a static 600 for this!

Despite not being a fish, a Ao Tree Frog can eat an entire Midwater Fish Tablet to benefit from its effects, conferring any toxic effects onto the frog's spiritual tongue and making them contact-type, since it has no teeth.

I don't really love that it can eat the fish items that are made for, you know, fish. But the only alternative idea I have is making the frog a toxic frog type since those exist in nature anyway. I'm not saying no to the frog having some level of toxicity for that reason, but I'm just stuck on the frog eating fish food for some reason because of thematics, ha!

Let's fix the first part and just let me know your thoughts on the second part, and even if it matters. Just trying to make it a bit more thematically solid, I think.

[Nuala Byrne]

I changed the first part, no issues there.

On that second note, this just so happens to be a really interesting thing about frogs in biology! If the diet type is carnivorous, frogs in captivity are normally fed fish food as it replaces the part of their natural diet that is composed of small fish in nature, and this (plus frog toxicity) was the source of that note on the item in the first place. So, thematically, having the frog eat those midwater fish tablets is in fact truth reflected in art! I was considering making the other carnivorous fish foods available to the frog, but I reasoned it would be too complex to allow and disallow things line-item like that.

[Shizuka Sanamizu ✮]

My sister and I had fire-belly toads as pets when we were little and actually fed them live crickets (they lived for ten years while we had them but the poor things had an illness later in life), so that was part of why I suggested just making the frogs toxic. If you prefer feeding them fish food and you get the same effect but spend extra money on it, that's fine with me!

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