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Muste
Rarity ★★★ | Illithid Magic Developer| Level 1
Appearance:
Muste is an illithid, a species of extraplanar monsters who subsist on the brains of other creatures. While he can subsist on non-sentient brains, they taste like plain white bread to him, and so he has a desire to eat the brains of sentient and especially intelligent creatures. However, he doesn’t need the brains to be completely fresh either: corpses would also suffice, though those taste like a cold pizza from the fridge.
Illithids have a natural affinity for the mystical arts, and have potential for both magic, and even psionics. However, they are physically frailer than humans, and will easily fall to any adventurer in close combat even at higher ranks. Hopefully by then he has learned enough spells to keep them at bay…Or delegated the task to someone from another floor of the dungeon.
While in the dungeon, he tends to dress very casual, something unusual for an illithid. For trips beyond the dungeon, he dresses more sensibly, with a coat, hat and walking cane.
Personality:
Muste is your typical salaryman in temperament: he works hard to manage the dungeon and its occupants through scrolls, but feels like he doesn’t earn enough respect for what he does, causing him stress. He likes to improve efficiency through magical means, but such experiments often end up blowing up in his face. He enjoys reading books and scrolls whenever his tentacles end up grasping one, and has a problem of staying up late reading, aware that he has to wake up early for his work. Due to his abnormal appearance, he often ends up shunned by other monsters, which can cause friction when he is trying to round them up for a visit outside the dungeon or other tasks.
Abilities:
Muste is an illithid, a species of extraplanar monsters who subsist on the brains of other creatures. While he can subsist on non-sentient brains, they taste like plain white bread to him, and so he has a desire to eat the brains of sentient and especially intelligent creatures. However, he doesn’t need the brains to be completely fresh either: corpses would also suffice, though those taste like a cold pizza from the fridge.
Illithids have a natural affinity for the mystical arts, and have potential for both magic, and even psionics. However, they are physically frailer than humans, and will easily fall to any adventurer in close combat even at higher ranks. Hopefully by then he has learned enough spells to keep them at bay…Or delegated the task to someone from another floor of the dungeon.
While in the dungeon, he tends to dress very casual, something unusual for an illithid. For trips beyond the dungeon, he dresses more sensibly, with a coat, hat and walking cane.
Personality:
Muste is your typical salaryman in temperament: he works hard to manage the dungeon and its occupants through scrolls, but feels like he doesn’t earn enough respect for what he does, causing him stress. He likes to improve efficiency through magical means, but such experiments often end up blowing up in his face. He enjoys reading books and scrolls whenever his tentacles end up grasping one, and has a problem of staying up late reading, aware that he has to wake up early for his work. Due to his abnormal appearance, he often ends up shunned by other monsters, which can cause friction when he is trying to round them up for a visit outside the dungeon or other tasks.
Abilities:
- Magic Proficiency: Muste has a professional level of skill with all things magical, from general knowledge of magic and types of spells, researching and developing spells and magical artifacts to applying the knowledge in a practical way. However, his pool of spell knowledge is limited at first, and requires collected arcane lore from grimoires and spelltomes to improve further.
- Lvl1 Spells: Muste can cast basic spells designated as level 1. More spells become available given the chance for magical development, arcane knowledge accrued and other limitations.
Example spells:
-Create Scroll: using leaves and plants as a physical component, Muste creates a scroll that can be wrapped up into a tube or opened for reading.
-Enchant Item: upon touch, enchants a physical object with a magical effect.
-Detect Magic: detects magic in an area.
-Magic Missile: lobs a projectile made from magical energy. - Artifact Crafting: Muste can construct magical artifacts and other items with specific effects. However, what he can craft is dependent on both materials, the amount of mana available and his knowledge on the subject, all of which are limited at start.
- Psionic: Muste is capable of using the power of his mind to great effect…At some point in the future. In the future he has the potential to learn more psionics given sufficient arcane lore. At start, he only has two psionic abilities.
-Telekinesis: only powerful enough to send scrolls to other monsters at start.
-Telepathy: for giving messages like reminders to monsters to perform their tasks. Could develop into something more powerful like mind reading or even mind control of weak-willed targets later down the line.
-Mind Blast: As a last resort, Muste can unleash a psionic attack that deals minor psychic damage and stuns targets with brains in a small area, similar to a flashbang. At start, can only do once a day, and it fatigues him. Could develop into something potent. - Tentacles: Muste possesses facial tentacles that can eat brains from creatures like they were cups of coffee. His hands, while resembling tentacles in shape and dexterity, lack this quality.
- Ink Gland: Like an octopus, Muste can produce ink. In his case, he can either carefully drip it into a suitable container, or spray it in an emergency. Very useful for writing scrolls.
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Schnupfen
2★ | Shadow | Level 1
Appearance: Schnupfun is a murky, semi-amorphous humanoid mass of darkness about the size of an average person. His typical form is the upper half of a hooded figure clag in dark rags just light enough to contrast the abyssal blackness within, which spills out from the bottom of his threadbare garb in an ever-shifting, formless plume. Though he lacks a face, the shadows within his hood bear one feature, most easily observable in profile: a huge nose, which protrudes outward like a great beak. The arms that Schnupfen manifests are scrawny and clawed, while the eyes he manifests boggle outwards in bulbous, glassy globes, with concentric rings of black highlighted in eerie pink and cyan ever collapsing inward
Personality: As ghosts go, Schnupfen is an interesting one. For starters, he’s a ‘naturalborn’ ghost, and was never human at any point to begin with. Despite this, he has some exceptionally human quirks. He is a humorless, obsessive-compulsive hypochondriac somewhat flanderized by his magic allergy, highly concerned with neatness, cleanliness, order, and organization. He’s reasonably intelligent, fairly passive-aggressive, somewhat paranoid, and very given to complaining, but he’s not entirely antisocial and can easily bond with others through commiseration. Since he’s not great at fighting due to his low attack power and highly abusable weakness, he prefers tricks to straight combat, but within the dungeon he’s quite competent at his other jobs, most notably communication, reconnaissance, spying, and distraction. He takes pride in doing a good job, to the point where he doesn’t mind being compared to a butler, and is quick to criticize those he views as incompetent or lazy, and get into their business; one might say that he is 'nosy'. He’s actually somewhat creative as well, not just in dungeon affairs but also when it comes to dealing with adventurers. He likes clear air, pleasant smells, and anti-magic measures
Abilities:
Notes: By default, Schnupfen has a slight German accent and a reedy, nasal voice, as if he’s always got a slight cold. His physical stats are on par with (or slightly below) an average human male, and as one might expect, he has a magic deficiency. The fluid he produces when suffering from an allergic reaction is ectoplasm, and it has some valuable magical and alchemical properties. I imagine his tier progression goes Poltergeist -> Shadow -> Nightmare -> Bogeyman -> The Dark Itself
Personality: As ghosts go, Schnupfen is an interesting one. For starters, he’s a ‘naturalborn’ ghost, and was never human at any point to begin with. Despite this, he has some exceptionally human quirks. He is a humorless, obsessive-compulsive hypochondriac somewhat flanderized by his magic allergy, highly concerned with neatness, cleanliness, order, and organization. He’s reasonably intelligent, fairly passive-aggressive, somewhat paranoid, and very given to complaining, but he’s not entirely antisocial and can easily bond with others through commiseration. Since he’s not great at fighting due to his low attack power and highly abusable weakness, he prefers tricks to straight combat, but within the dungeon he’s quite competent at his other jobs, most notably communication, reconnaissance, spying, and distraction. He takes pride in doing a good job, to the point where he doesn’t mind being compared to a butler, and is quick to criticize those he views as incompetent or lazy, and get into their business; one might say that he is 'nosy'. He’s actually somewhat creative as well, not just in dungeon affairs but also when it comes to dealing with adventurers. He likes clear air, pleasant smells, and anti-magic measures
Abilities:
- Manifest - Having a malleable form, Schnupfen can create new eyes, mouths, arms, and even noses wherever on his body he wants them, and he can coordinate the use of a remarkable number of them at once. Unfortunately, said structures have no superhuman abilities outside of his senses
- Special Eyes - Even without any eyes manifested, Schnupfun possesses blindsight on par with a human's regular vision. By manifesting eyes, though, he gains perfect, long-distance night vision. They're also a bit psychadelic, and while they have no hypnotic abilities, they can induce seizures in a very small minority of humans
- Wunderschnoz - Schnupfen has an excellent sense of smell and can detect all sorts of details invisible to the naked eye
- Incorporeality - Being a ghost, Schnupfen can not only float, but phase through walls as long as he’s in shadow form, giving him peerless speed and ease of travel within the dungeon. He’s also practically immune to physical attacks in shadow form, although any kind of magic (even dark magic) can still hit him
- Shadow Puppetry - Schnupfen is adept at creating all kinds of shadow figures with his hands, making use of Manifest to utilize as many hands as needed. The shadows he casts in this manner assume can assume an uncanny level of realism if he’s focused enough. These shadow puppets are purely visual, of course, and can’t act on their own or attack at all, but they can be pretty scary
- Impressions - With a voice almost as malleable as his form, Schnupfen is good at mimicking other people’s voices, and even the noises made by various beasts. Combining this talent with his Shadow Puppetry, he can play some pretty convincing tricks, whether to deceive or just to scare
- Sunlight Weakness - Schnupfen is extremely weakened by exposure to sunlight (as well as holy light) and can’t use any of his abilities in their presence, even floating; he’s forced to drag himself along by whatever hands he had manifested prior to exposure
- Magic Allergy - Schnupfen has a severe magic allergy. Even being in its presence congests and discomforts him, while direct exposure to magic causes an allergic reaction. He starts sneezing, his nose starts running, his eyes start watering, and he can no longer assume shadow form, which also renders him vulnerable to physical attacks. It takes at least five minutes with no exposure to magic for him to recover and use his abilities again
Notes: By default, Schnupfen has a slight German accent and a reedy, nasal voice, as if he’s always got a slight cold. His physical stats are on par with (or slightly below) an average human male, and as one might expect, he has a magic deficiency. The fluid he produces when suffering from an allergic reaction is ectoplasm, and it has some valuable magical and alchemical properties. I imagine his tier progression goes Poltergeist -> Shadow -> Nightmare -> Bogeyman -> The Dark Itself
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Swarm of Rats
or to friends, colleagues and that one guy in middle management who actually remembers them (thank you it means a lot to them), simply,
Rats
1★ | Rats | Level 1
Appearance: They look exactly the way you imagine them to; a mischief of pretty regular-looking rats in various shades of grey, black and brown. There's seven at the moment, six if we ignore Larry (we usually ignore Larry).
Personality: The hivemind known as Rats consists of multiple different bodies that each share a (fairly simple) mind — which, for the most part, is concerned about survival and its various aspects. That doesn't mean Rats are selfish or lack the ability to work in a group however; quite on the contrary. Because while food and water are important for survival, so is fighting off the creatures trying to invade your home and avoiding getting exterminated by someone angry at upper management — or worse, getting fired in this job market. So while Rats can be overly curious and certainly overly greedy when it comes to things they can devour (and if you ask them, they think they can devour quite a lot of things), they're also diligent and resourceful workers who do their best to follow orders — the way they interpret them, anyhow.
Constantly scurrying about doing something they deem important, Rats are very rarely caught resting (are they actually just regular rats...?) and seem to be at their happiest when they have a project to work on. If they aren't handed one, they make one up for themselves, and that usually means they're the only ones happy though, so it's best to make sure their grubby little hands are occupied at all times. Otherwise you might find them rearranging every rock from the Entrance to the Core, usually in a way that's quite a tripping hazard.
Famously, they also have a knack for avoiding trouble, being very good at running away and having developed quite a heartwarming apology dance (Larry notwithstanding).
Abilities:
Personality: The hivemind known as Rats consists of multiple different bodies that each share a (fairly simple) mind — which, for the most part, is concerned about survival and its various aspects. That doesn't mean Rats are selfish or lack the ability to work in a group however; quite on the contrary. Because while food and water are important for survival, so is fighting off the creatures trying to invade your home and avoiding getting exterminated by someone angry at upper management — or worse, getting fired in this job market. So while Rats can be overly curious and certainly overly greedy when it comes to things they can devour (and if you ask them, they think they can devour quite a lot of things), they're also diligent and resourceful workers who do their best to follow orders — the way they interpret them, anyhow.
Constantly scurrying about doing something they deem important, Rats are very rarely caught resting (are they actually just regular rats...?) and seem to be at their happiest when they have a project to work on. If they aren't handed one, they make one up for themselves, and that usually means they're the only ones happy though, so it's best to make sure their grubby little hands are occupied at all times. Otherwise you might find them rearranging every rock from the Entrance to the Core, usually in a way that's quite a tripping hazard.
Famously, they also have a knack for avoiding trouble, being very good at running away and having developed quite a heartwarming apology dance (Larry notwithstanding).
Abilities:
[We are Rat] ➤ in the good, the bad and certainly the ugly. But this is the abilities section, so we don't need to point out the obvious downsides of being rats in here. Instead, we're going to focus on how keen their sense of smell is, how they can squeeze through tight spaces, move quickly and quietly, and apparently scare the shit out of elephants. Pretty useful stuff.
[We are Many] ➤ one rat isn't very strong. Two rats aren't very strong. Many rats—— are still not very strong, but they sure are annoying. To kill them, you need to kill every rat, and that sucks if you don't have reliable AoE or don't want to waste it all on the first floor of that dungeon you're trying to raid. They're pretty good at fighting together too, so it's easier for them to land hits when there are multiple of them focusing the same target. Most annoyingly, their numbers also seem to replenish in time, so they are never not many for long.
[We are Hungry] ➤ their bite hurts some, but you know what hurts way worse? Hunger, and they're pretty good at causing it, even if unintentionally. So you'd better keep your eyes on everything edible on your person, otherwise, those rations in your bag? Gone. That snack bar you forgot in your back pocket until it melted there? Gone. Whatever monster you happened to turn into a gourmet meal recently? Dude, not cool, but also gone.
[We are Heard] ➤ in your head, multiple times, whenever you want to communicate with them — that is, if you're a monster. Their weird hivemind telepathy doesn't seem to work on humans. So yeah, while their fellow monsters get to communicate with them fairly effortlessly, humans are stuck listening to squeaks and enjoying their — continuously improving, mind — pantomiming routine.
[We have Trenchoat] ➤ it's true, they do. It's pretty neat, looted from some fashion-unconscious adventurer or something. If enough of them pile up inside, they can pass as a human. An itchy, twitchy, squeaky human, but that's hardly the weirdest human you've ever seen, now is it? Be honest.
[We are Plague] ➤ well, not literally the plague (not at level 1, anyway), but they don't exactly wash themselves, and like we learned in an earlier ability description, they kind of eat everything remotely edible without a care for expiration dates. So if they bite you or otherwise hang around your foodstuff, you aren't going to feel very good for very long.
[We are Many] ➤ one rat isn't very strong. Two rats aren't very strong. Many rats—— are still not very strong, but they sure are annoying. To kill them, you need to kill every rat, and that sucks if you don't have reliable AoE or don't want to waste it all on the first floor of that dungeon you're trying to raid. They're pretty good at fighting together too, so it's easier for them to land hits when there are multiple of them focusing the same target. Most annoyingly, their numbers also seem to replenish in time, so they are never not many for long.
[We are Hungry] ➤ their bite hurts some, but you know what hurts way worse? Hunger, and they're pretty good at causing it, even if unintentionally. So you'd better keep your eyes on everything edible on your person, otherwise, those rations in your bag? Gone. That snack bar you forgot in your back pocket until it melted there? Gone. Whatever monster you happened to turn into a gourmet meal recently? Dude, not cool, but also gone.
[We are Heard] ➤ in your head, multiple times, whenever you want to communicate with them — that is, if you're a monster. Their weird hivemind telepathy doesn't seem to work on humans. So yeah, while their fellow monsters get to communicate with them fairly effortlessly, humans are stuck listening to squeaks and enjoying their — continuously improving, mind — pantomiming routine.
[We have Trenchoat] ➤ it's true, they do. It's pretty neat, looted from some fashion-unconscious adventurer or something. If enough of them pile up inside, they can pass as a human. An itchy, twitchy, squeaky human, but that's hardly the weirdest human you've ever seen, now is it? Be honest.
[We are Plague] ➤ well, not literally the plague (not at level 1, anyway), but they don't exactly wash themselves, and like we learned in an earlier ability description, they kind of eat everything remotely edible without a care for expiration dates. So if they bite you or otherwise hang around your foodstuff, you aren't going to feel very good for very long.
[You are Us] ➤ eventually, once they've gorged on enough juicy exp, they'll be able to make you — yes, you, human, join them. How? The way vampires and werewolves do it, except the end result is less a Majestic Creature of the Night and more another nameless vermin added to the pile. But hey, you'll never, ever be alone again.
... So yeah, better either avoid getting bitten or get working on that constitution.
[TBA] ➤ ... go grind first.
... So yeah, better either avoid getting bitten or get working on that constitution.
[TBA] ➤ ... go grind first.
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Appearance: About what you'd expect out of a common goblin. Scrawny limbs with a potbelly, and yellowed eyes that feature the pupils of a goat. Zogi's hooked nose is surprisingly wartless, which makes him relatively handsome by goblin metrics. He stands at 3'2, and weighs 48 lbs.
Personality: Zogi is a sniveling coward and a simpering henchman, always eager to kowtow and rub the shoulders (or calves) of his betters. Possessing an inhuman capacity for shamelessness, he will always bend the knee to the stronger power, and will undoubtedly be his current boss's best hypeman and frontman. Need a lowly henchman to saunter up to the foolish adventurers and announce just how doomed they are? Need a goblin grunt to bait idiotic adventurers into a boss chamber by mooning them? Need a buffoonish charlatan to make self-deprecating jokes to pass the time while waiting for adventurers to enter the dungeon? Zogi is your guy! And he will always be your guy...so long as a bigger, badder monster doesn't come along to take your place.
He is, after all, just another goblin out of many, forgettable and expendable.
BUT THIS IS ALL JUST A PART OF HIS PLOY, HIS ACT, HIS PRETENCE!!! FOR IT IS THE GOBLIN'S PLACE TO PLUNDER AND USURP, TO UTILIZE THEIR 5,000 IQ AND THE MUSCLEHEADED STUPIDITY OF THOSE FOOLISH DRAGONS AND OGRES AND DEMONS TO PAVE THE WAY AND PLAY AS DISTRACTIONS, WHILE THE SHADOW COUNCIL OF GOBLINS WORM THEIR WAY INTO SEATS OF TRUE POWER. WHAT IS INDIVIDUAL STRENGTH IN THE FACE OF A COUNTLESS HORDE?! WHAT IS DESTRUCTIVE MAGICS IN THE FACE OF LEGISLATION AND CAPITAL?! A TIDE IS RISING, A TIDE OF GREEN, TO CLAIM THE ENTIRETY OF THE DUNGEON FOR GOBLINKIND, TO REVERSE THE FORTUNES OF THE DOWNTRODDEN!
Enjoy your seats while you can. Keep it warm for the Green Lord.
Abilities:
Personality: Zogi is a sniveling coward and a simpering henchman, always eager to kowtow and rub the shoulders (or calves) of his betters. Possessing an inhuman capacity for shamelessness, he will always bend the knee to the stronger power, and will undoubtedly be his current boss's best hypeman and frontman. Need a lowly henchman to saunter up to the foolish adventurers and announce just how doomed they are? Need a goblin grunt to bait idiotic adventurers into a boss chamber by mooning them? Need a buffoonish charlatan to make self-deprecating jokes to pass the time while waiting for adventurers to enter the dungeon? Zogi is your guy! And he will always be your guy...so long as a bigger, badder monster doesn't come along to take your place.
He is, after all, just another goblin out of many, forgettable and expendable.
BUT THIS IS ALL JUST A PART OF HIS PLOY, HIS ACT, HIS PRETENCE!!! FOR IT IS THE GOBLIN'S PLACE TO PLUNDER AND USURP, TO UTILIZE THEIR 5,000 IQ AND THE MUSCLEHEADED STUPIDITY OF THOSE FOOLISH DRAGONS AND OGRES AND DEMONS TO PAVE THE WAY AND PLAY AS DISTRACTIONS, WHILE THE SHADOW COUNCIL OF GOBLINS WORM THEIR WAY INTO SEATS OF TRUE POWER. WHAT IS INDIVIDUAL STRENGTH IN THE FACE OF A COUNTLESS HORDE?! WHAT IS DESTRUCTIVE MAGICS IN THE FACE OF LEGISLATION AND CAPITAL?! A TIDE IS RISING, A TIDE OF GREEN, TO CLAIM THE ENTIRETY OF THE DUNGEON FOR GOBLINKIND, TO REVERSE THE FORTUNES OF THE DOWNTRODDEN!
Enjoy your seats while you can. Keep it warm for the Green Lord.
Abilities:
- It's a Goblin's Life Five minutes after getting killed, Zogi's corpse disintegrates, and he respawns back in his den.
- Solo Goblining Any Hero who slays Zogi will, without exception, level up.
- [DATA EXPUNGED]
- [REDACTED]
- [CLASSIFIED]
- [INFORMATION HIDDEN]
- [NULL VALUE]
- [Dummy Entry]
- [Error: Data Not Found]
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Salbjorg of the Deep
3★ | Shahmaran | Level 2
Appearance: Sal is a humanoid creature with snake-like features. At a distance she might pass for a human, but upon getting closer it's easy to notice something is amiss. Her pupils are long like daggers, her ears are too short for an elf, and her mouth houses fangs and a forked tongue. The rest of her is similar. Her feet are heavily scaled and her hair has fluorescent qualities. It's nearly black at her scalp, but gets greener as it ages until the tips of her locks are a vibrant green. She’s also quite tall and is a head above the tallest human adventurers. She prefers to wear ceremonial robes interwoven with gold and bone jewelry. When taken in all at once it’s hard not to assume she's a powerful monster.
Personality: Sal has a regal air about her. She’s overly reserved, to the point where she can take jokes at face value and smiles less frequently than a stone golem. Perhaps in a past life she was a princess, if not a queen. It’s not like she would know. What she does know is monster resources, and she runs a tight ship. When upper management makes a request it becomes her duty to make sure they can deliver. She will deliver the bad news when rations are cut, or to get on middle management’s case when productivity slips behind projections. Though she’s also there to provide training, dealing with employee conflict resolution, and let upper management know when morale is slipping. Perhaps it is the need to both be an employee's friend and nemesis that has her seem withdrawn emotionally. One moment she's providing assistance, the next she's injecting employees with “enthusiasm” to improve their lackluster performance. It's not clear if she enjoys bringing others to their full potential or only cares about making sure the dungeon is efficient enough for upper management. Maybe Sal is as joyless as she looks. Who can tell with a snake?
Though Sal cares about things other than efficiency. She likes beautiful things, be they pretty baubles, clothes, or even adventurers that storm the dungeon. Despite having potent claws to rend things with, she prefers to as little damage to the outside of their bodies as possible. Sal has a preference for using poison, suffocation, or similar methods to preserve the adventurers. She claims it makes them more likely return to the dungeon again, as priests don't charge as much to resurrect them if they're in one piece. Though this is not rigidly enforced as it is not part of upper management's guidelines.
Additionally she really likes eggs and hasn’t found one she couldn’t swallow yet.
Abilities:
Personality: Sal has a regal air about her. She’s overly reserved, to the point where she can take jokes at face value and smiles less frequently than a stone golem. Perhaps in a past life she was a princess, if not a queen. It’s not like she would know. What she does know is monster resources, and she runs a tight ship. When upper management makes a request it becomes her duty to make sure they can deliver. She will deliver the bad news when rations are cut, or to get on middle management’s case when productivity slips behind projections. Though she’s also there to provide training, dealing with employee conflict resolution, and let upper management know when morale is slipping. Perhaps it is the need to both be an employee's friend and nemesis that has her seem withdrawn emotionally. One moment she's providing assistance, the next she's injecting employees with “enthusiasm” to improve their lackluster performance. It's not clear if she enjoys bringing others to their full potential or only cares about making sure the dungeon is efficient enough for upper management. Maybe Sal is as joyless as she looks. Who can tell with a snake?
Though Sal cares about things other than efficiency. She likes beautiful things, be they pretty baubles, clothes, or even adventurers that storm the dungeon. Despite having potent claws to rend things with, she prefers to as little damage to the outside of their bodies as possible. Sal has a preference for using poison, suffocation, or similar methods to preserve the adventurers. She claims it makes them more likely return to the dungeon again, as priests don't charge as much to resurrect them if they're in one piece. Though this is not rigidly enforced as it is not part of upper management's guidelines.
Additionally she really likes eggs and hasn’t found one she couldn’t swallow yet.
Abilities:
Snake Physiology: Sal has some features you might find on a snake, such as poisonous fangs, heat sensing capabilities, a jaw that can dislodge itself to swallow large items, etc. Additionally, Sal is cold blooded and prefers warm, damp areas of the dungeon as opposed to cool and dry ones.
Bone Melding: A basic branch of necromancy that deals with shaping and conjuring bone. Since she doesn't believe in stabbing adventurers with bone spears, she uses it to fabricate tools. One of her more common uses for bone melding is to make whiteboards for discussions with upper and middle management. Though she also makes smaller placards to communicate sometimes. Sal doesn’t like speaking due to her lisssssssssp so she prefers to display written messages when she can. Sal is also there to provide pens, cups, really any hard bodied object that isn't made of complicated parts. The most complicated thing she can manufacture is a syringe, which uses cartilage as a plunger to push fluids through a hollowed bone.
Toxin Brewing: Sal can take her venom and brew specific poisons. Anything from a poison that tires people out to causing organ failure are on the table. But a far more important utility is to brew up various corrosive toxins of different colors. They can be used to chemically burn colored illustrations onto her white boards for the purpose of making great presentations. She's also experimenting with dying textiles, but that's still in development. She’s also capable of brewing a “helpful toxin” called enthusiasm. Its effects are a bit like drinking coffee, only it’s much more painful when administered.
Grappling Mastery: Like the dommy mommy she is, Sal is strong enough to wrestle monsters. She can go toe to toe with foes larger than she is, and she's already quite tall. Her own principles prevent her from using her claws to rend her targets, but she has no issue tumbling with anyone and putting them in a choke hold. This obviously has benefits when fighting adventurers, but it's also useful on unruly employees who need to know their place or resist being administered with enthusiasm.
Shifting: Sal can pass as a human if she wishes. In this guise, she is of average height, has no monstrous features, and can speak normally. However this form is uncomfortable to maintain, like wearing a corset that fits too tight. She has to actively maintain this form through focus or risk reverting back into her original shape.
Karaoke Queen: Sal's pretty good at singing, and her speech impediment disappears when she does.
Zoppy
1★ | Goblin Meatshield Merchant | Level 1
Appearance: Zoppy is a scrawny, female goblin, standing 2.6 feet short. She has long, messy greenish/black hair that hangs down to her knees and often envelopes more of her emaciated body than the tattered, patchwork rags that pass for her clothes. Her vibrant green eyes are bright and full of life, while her pointy teeth filled mouth often forms a cheerful smile, despite the pathetic state of her existence. Like most goblins, she has green skin, large, pointed ears, and sharp claws on her hands and feet. Well, on one hand and foot. Her left hand and right foot are both badly deformed, giving her a limp, and an inability to viably hold things with anything other than one hand.
Personality: Zoppy is cheerful, upbeat, and extraordinarily optimistic, especially for someone with her various… issues. She loves “shiniez” (which can be gold coins, but mostly just shiny objects in general) and has decided the best way to get them is to open her own shop at the bottom of the dungeon, just outside the final boss room, in order to sell her amazing wares to any adventurers that make it that far. Unfortunately for the enterprising little merchant, she’s far too stupid to be able to effectively run such an ambitious operation. While she has a shop, it’s more of a small cave, filled with a cluttered assortment of “stuff fer adventurerz”, which mostly amounts to “lucky rockz”, “lucky stickz”, jars of “lucky dirt”, and other such useless items, with price points ranging from “lotz” to “many many many lotz”. Of course, that doesn’t stop her from enthusiastically trying to promote her worthless wares, even to her fellow monsters, and she can frequently be seen excitedly scampering around her shop, tripping and crashing into things as she tries to find her latest “nicest nice fing” to show off. That said, she can equally often be seen taking a nap on the floor after overexerting her frail body, or due to a self inflicted concussion.
Abilities:
Exceptionally Low Strength: This is a bad thing, because it makes it hard for her to carry anything heaver than a pebble or several small twigs without passing out from the strain.
Exceptionally Low Stamina/Vitality: This is also a bad thing, since it causes her to get winded extremely quickly, and causes her to badly bruise after only getting bumped or poked with even the most minimal of force.
Exceptionally Low Intelligence: This, too, is a bad thing, because it leads to her making incredibly poor decisions and easily being taken advantage of.
Exceptionally High Visual Acuity: This is actually a bad thing, because she has a hard time focusing on things and becomes easily overwhelmed and distracted, making her dizzy.
Exceptionally High Auditory Acuity: This is also actually a bad thing, because she often gets overwhelmed in even moderate noise level environments, such as when more than one person is talking, which makes her head hurt.
Excels at Failure: Take a guess if this is a good or bad thing.
Walking Joke: Self explanatory.
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The Oracle of (dungeon name here)
Rarity★★★★ | Void Angel| Level 1
Appearance:
The Oracle is a 20 meters long translucent semi insectile creature with a set of hand-like wings large enough to hold a person in a single one. The outsides consist of a softly teal glowing membrane sporting a singular large red eyespot. Any damage to the membrane will heal rapidly, with the new material emerging from the void within rather than from the surrounding membrane, meaning it could be skinned alive only for its skin to remember after a few moments.
Its insides meanwhile seem to be mostly filled with distant stars and this is entirely true, as is indeed what is in there, at least as far as any analysis known to mortal kind can ascertain. Functionally and mechanically however, it is mostly filled with nothing, and any object passing through this void will act as if it is moving through vacuum.
Membrane and void alike, can pass through matter as if it wasn’t there, which is convenient when operating in the cramped corridors of a dungeon.
The corpse, however, cannot do this.
This headless, sexless, nonliving yet perfectly preserved hominid body of otherwise unremarkable composition floating in its core where its heart probably would be is entirely, mundanely, physical, restricting its movements and representing the only way to inflict true death upon it.
Personality:
The Oracle speaks in confusing religious jargon that can be difficult to parse at times, particularly given that it claims to speak for the god of fate itself, with all the frivolous randomness that entails.
It's also prone to performing illogical actions or making nonsensical changes to the dungeon in the name of ‘nudging the hand of fate into rolling a favorable outcome’ which often revolve around the holy number 8.
Naturally, as a (supposed) voice of their god, it thinks its demands and desires are incredibly important and is prone to either sulking or decrying that doom is upon them if things do not go its way. It will however quickly get over this and move on to the next new thing that totally actually needs to be done in order to gain the favor of fate. Also, fortunately, these demands, while odd, are often fairly simple, and might even be beneficial. Maybe. Certainly it will claim any good fortune is because of its efforts at any rate.
Given that its most reliable form of utility is as a healer, it's probably a good idea to keep it at least somewhat appeased.
Abilities:
The Oracle is a 20 meters long translucent semi insectile creature with a set of hand-like wings large enough to hold a person in a single one. The outsides consist of a softly teal glowing membrane sporting a singular large red eyespot. Any damage to the membrane will heal rapidly, with the new material emerging from the void within rather than from the surrounding membrane, meaning it could be skinned alive only for its skin to remember after a few moments.
Its insides meanwhile seem to be mostly filled with distant stars and this is entirely true, as is indeed what is in there, at least as far as any analysis known to mortal kind can ascertain. Functionally and mechanically however, it is mostly filled with nothing, and any object passing through this void will act as if it is moving through vacuum.
Membrane and void alike, can pass through matter as if it wasn’t there, which is convenient when operating in the cramped corridors of a dungeon.
The corpse, however, cannot do this.
This headless, sexless, nonliving yet perfectly preserved hominid body of otherwise unremarkable composition floating in its core where its heart probably would be is entirely, mundanely, physical, restricting its movements and representing the only way to inflict true death upon it.
Personality:
The Oracle speaks in confusing religious jargon that can be difficult to parse at times, particularly given that it claims to speak for the god of fate itself, with all the frivolous randomness that entails.
It's also prone to performing illogical actions or making nonsensical changes to the dungeon in the name of ‘nudging the hand of fate into rolling a favorable outcome’ which often revolve around the holy number 8.
Naturally, as a (supposed) voice of their god, it thinks its demands and desires are incredibly important and is prone to either sulking or decrying that doom is upon them if things do not go its way. It will however quickly get over this and move on to the next new thing that totally actually needs to be done in order to gain the favor of fate. Also, fortunately, these demands, while odd, are often fairly simple, and might even be beneficial. Maybe. Certainly it will claim any good fortune is because of its efforts at any rate.
Given that its most reliable form of utility is as a healer, it's probably a good idea to keep it at least somewhat appeased.
Abilities:
- Ocular ray: the void angel can shoot a beam of heat out of its singular eye. This can be used to either inflict or cauterize wounds at a distance.
- Restoration: the void angel can phase its smaller hands into wounds and manually close them up, forcibly fusing flesh back to flesh to repair any damage. Be it internal or external damage, or even poisons or plagues, the void angel can set things back to the way they were. It cannot replace lost flesh however, and so that must be re-attached if possible. This is delicate work that requires the patient to stay still while it is done, making it an impractical method of dealing damage or performing burst healing.
- Incorporeality: the void angel only touches this world when it wants to, rendering the majority of its body invulnerable to harm other than when it is interacting with the world (such as if it is holding something, attacking something or intentionally blocking the way to, say, its core). The corpse in its body is fully physical however, restricting its ability to just float through the terrain, though its sheer size means it can attack from the next tunnel over with relative ease.
- Large: the void angel would be more at home in the ocean than on land size wise, and so has a great deal of reach as a result. It is relatively slow however, most often floating lazily through reality as if it has all the time in the world (which it probably does).
- Roll the dice: the void angel can manifest dice out of nowhere, which it often uses to interpret the will of fate. Usually D8s. It can pray to the god of fate for a favorable outcome while rolling, which will result in stuff happening. Just. Stuff. Anything really. Probably beneficial. Hopefully. Try not to lose any limbs if you don’t want to end up with an ‘interesting’ replacement is all I am saying.
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