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Dag's Discount Henchmen: Halfling Warrior
"Dag, I see you have brought us ... a one-armed halfling in full mail and a greathelm today. Where do you find these guys?"
"You know, I get around." "Is he? ... she? Any good?" "She. And oh yeah, don't let the size fool you, she's pretty deadly, and a bargain to boot!" "I'm not worried about the size. Known too many halflings to worry about the size. The armor is promising too. I'm just worried about ... well ... one arm and a butcher knife. I guess we'll have to spar a bit." "Hey Bumi, come and show Yvor what you got. He's interested in hiring you." ... "Not bad at all ... Booty is it?" "Bumi." "Ok, Bumi, you're pretty deadly with that knife of yours. Ok Dag, I'm interested in this one. How much?" Notes: The alert reader may have noticed that Bumi lacks many basic halfling characteristics, and in fact so has the halfling community. They are not sure what she is, but support her since she supports them and "seems nice". However, SHE is not sure what she is either, and only the fact that she is so private and quiet about everything has prevented others from noticing. The astute reader may be thinking "That's probably a good thing, because she's clearly some sort of variant Doomchild and the fact that she is running around town unsupervised would make the authorities freak out." Well thought gentle reader, well thought; the authorities WOULD freak out, and there would probably be violence, explosions, and terrible embarrassment. It would probably be even worse if the wizard's guild got a hold of her – they'd be really really curious about what happened to create a free-willed morally uncompromised doomchild. Like willing to exploit the fact that vivisection of demons is perfectly legal curious. They'd be very careful of course ... all wizards worth their scrolls know vivisecting a Doomchild is ... tricky. This is probably not going to matter, however. As a ~125 pt berserk henchman with HT 11 on serious delves, her expected future lifespan is actually pretty low. If she is wearing her mail when she dies (and she almost certainly will be) her 3d Doomchild death blast will do 2d-1 shrapnel damage instead of the usual 1d. Players appreciate that sort of attention to detail. Last edited by martinl; 02-01-2020 at 11:04 AM. |
02-01-2020, 12:51 PM | #2 |
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02-01-2020, 01:36 PM | #3 |
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Idiots. If anyone manages to get her story, the first thing to do is to trace Granny Cherrybottom, which gets you the approximate area where someone was making doomchildren. Why try to reverse-engineer a armed bomb when you have a chance of getting the blueprints?
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02-01-2020, 04:03 PM | #4 |
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02-01-2020, 04:43 PM | #6 |
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You already get the student magicians who fail the financial part of their exams, and all the zombies you can bring home. You want more?
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02-01-2020, 07:00 PM | #7 |
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02-04-2020, 12:51 PM | #8 |
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I love this one. Great concept and story. I’ll need to have this one show up at the hiring spot :)
“Boomy” hehe
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