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otikik ◴[] No.44456740[source]
This reminds me of the "Dual Octo-cat Flail", invented by a friend of mine.

A flail is basically a stick with a pointy ball chained to one end. It does one attack per turn.

A dual flail attacks twice (it has two balls).

Now replace each ball by an octopus. And each octopi is holding a cat on each of its 8 tentacles. So when you attack, the cephalopods attack, and that means that 16 angry felines attack. I think at the time they came up with this animals had some sort of guaranteed damage exception in some cases (perhaps in a previous DND version?).

Anyway it was completely OP.

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dexwiz ◴[] No.44456770[source]
How do you explain an octopus holding 8 cats, let alone keeping the octopodes alive for more than a day?
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1. otikik ◴[] No.44464683[source]
The cats are attached to the octopi same way the octopi are attached to the flail, obviously.

As per keeping them alive: they take short rests, like everyone else