“Good thing you don’t wear boots, your Goatship!” echoes the gnome’s taunting voice from the greenery.
“With rope-tying skills like the ones you just tried on me, you’d be tripping over your boot laces all day!”
Out from the bushes steps the most outlandish-looking gnome you’ve ever seen. He wears flashy and slightly psychedelic clothes, some of it colorful but most in dark and raw tones. From the neck down he’s covered with evocative brooches, badges, patches, and medallions, in addition to a host of other assorted tidbits, tokens, and gadgets – not all of them having an immediately recognizable use.
What really draws attention, however, is the extraordinarily bizarre hair that crowns him like a huge, wild, and curly puzzle. Knots, braids, and other hairdos poke out seemingly at random, though his head is dominated by rolled up sizeable segments, particularly with regards to his sideburns. The main feature is his impossibly long goatee, however, unrolled and somehow attached to serve as the “strings” on the instrument in his hands – something that can vaguely be described as a wicked, six-stringed lute.
Well-nested in his hair sits the tiny stone creature you’ve been spotting glimpses of. It currently holds on to two braids like some sort of reins, resembling an undersized gargoyle riding a steed into battle.
“Ouchies!” it utters while pointing at Derien’s battered frame.
Rhole whips up a snappy riff on the instrument, giving off a characteristic amplified sound that a lute would never be able to produce on its own. Derien feels himself being so awestruck by the display that he forgets all about his pain and grief and must move his feet to the beat.
“Will you look at that! The Great Ultra-Intense Thundering Audio Ripper just went off all by itself!”
Finally, Rhole turns to the boar and shoos it off.
“Hey, keep your tusks away from him you stumbling sack of unroasted bacon!”
[sblock=Actions]Move: To I8.
Minor: Majestic Word on Derien to heal him surge + 5 hp, and slide him to G12 (or another spot of his choice)
Standard: Vicious Mockery on boar, that
misses spectacularly.
Sorry guys, must have dragged the Natural Uno Curse in from the Closed Eye.
Rhole – Gnome Bard 1
Passive Perception 15, Passive Insight 11
AC 17, Fort 11, Reflex 15, Will 16
Resist 5 fire
HP 24/24, Bloodied 12, Surge Value 6, Surges 8/8
Speed 5, Initiative +1
Action Points: 1,
Second Wind
Powers:
Cutting Words, Vicious Mockery;
Focused Sound, Majestic Word: 1/2, Words of Friendship; Fade Away, Ghost Sound;
Stirring Shout
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