Gnoph-keh

Gnoph-keh

How Obtained

Sidekick/companion obtained from item.
Item: spiral horn
Duration: 240 min.

Behavior

Ability: attacks and prevents opponent from attacking

Your gnoph-keh rears up and hits your opponent with one, two, three, four! Four mighty paws! Ah! Ah! Ah! It does 13-19 + 13-19 damage.
Your gnoph-keh charges your opponent, stabbing with its rime-encrusted (Ryme-entrusted?) horn, dealing 12-15 + 12-15 damage.
Your gnoph-keh batters your opponents like a cat playing with a toy mouse. It's cute, in a horrifying way, but largely ineffective.
Your gnoph-keh charges past your opponent, leaving a rime encrusted hole in a nearby wall.
Your gnoph-keh howls loudly, summoning up a gale of blinding snow, completely distracting your opponent.

If you have a sidekick that already blocks attacks then:

Dismissal Message: You decide you're better off without a sidekick and shoo yours away.

Notes

Both attacks do an equal base amount of physical and ice damage. Attack rate is about (53.2% ± 3.1%).
The howl message stuns opponent for one round (the round in which it was seen). Block rate is about (20.6% ± 2.5%).
Can have both an howl and an attack at the same round. If a blocking sidekick is present only the howl is affected.

Gnoph-keh are a fictional species of non-humans in the Cthulhu Mythos. They have an affinity for cold, ice and snow, and artwork portrays them as similar to very large six-legged polar bears, with a narwhal-like horn.
The first attack message is a reference to the character of Count von Count on the children's show Sesame Street (the Count's catch phrase is to count objects and then say, "ah, ah, ah!").
The second attack message is, of course, an obvious reference to Ryme.