Dungeon Cast: Granny Gossa and Fluffy
A big part of my work on the Entombed Palace of the Crazed Artificer is depicting the many whacky dungeon delvers you can encounter, recruit, antagonize, or play as!
I have a fondness for this strange couple, because they existed already in the abandoned #dungeon23 incarnation of this project.
They are loosely inspired by characters in the beautiful T. Kingfisher’s novel Nettle and Bone 1
Granny Gossa
Kids this days, they don’t appreciate all the hard work involved in making good dungeon soup *whacks mysterious meat with a cleaver*
A plump old woman, with milky eyes and a sour breath. Always smiling and humming to herself while petting a strange looking chicken. Her blood stained leather apron detracts somewhat from her rustic charm.
She made a pact with a minor demon when she was younger, exchanging a part of her soul and the promise of a corporeal body for eldritch alchemical knowledge.
Wants: rare ingredients for her potions, elixirs, and grisly amulets. All manner of magical things live in the dark corners of the world, just waiting for a skilled cook.
AP 1 (AC 12), LVL 2, HP 8, attack 1 (either cleaver 1d6 or wooden spoon 1d4), MOV 40’, MRL 7, NA Unique.
Spells and potions: see “companion” equipment
As companion: Level 2, HP 2d6, INT 2, CON 3, WIS 1, careers: Butcher
| - | Inventory slots |
|---|---|
| 01 | Dessiccated dragon hearth (as spellbook: greed) |
| 02 | Eye of a Lamia under spirit (as spellbook: hypnotize) |
| 03 | Potion: disassemble |
| 04 | Potion: true acid |
| 05 | Potion: mud breathing |
| 06 | Alchemical preservatives |
| 07 | Cleaver (d6) |
| 08 | Wooden spoon (d4) |
| 09 | Cauldron |
| 10 | 40 coins |
| 11 | |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Fluffy’s soulbinding (permanent wound) |
Fluffy, demon ridden chicken
Cluck *death stare*
A fierce looking brown hen, with a strange spark in its beady eyes. It struts around, pecking meaty bits off of Granny’s bloody leftovers.
A demon inhabits this fowl body, making it ageless, sturdy, and quite dangerous.
Wants: to experience corporeal pleasures, to excess if left to its own device. It will do whatever it takes to defend Gossa and continue this blissful existence.
AP 1 (AC 12), LVL 1, HP 4, ATK 1 peck (1d4 poison), MOV 40’, MRL 10, NA Unique. Can see the spirit world. Can breath a paralyzing fog once per day (CON check vs. Gossa’s INT). Soulbound to Gossa: if Gossa dies she will be expelled from the chicken body and become incorporeal again. If she dies Gossa will suffer 1d6 soul-rending direct damage.
Please don’t use my amateurish writing as a metric to judge the excellent quality of T. Kingfisher’s work!↩︎