Welcome Home, Old Friend

[Aeolius]

The book it is mine,
While there on the spine,
The Tome of Horrors anew.
I flip through the paper,
Like a drunk with a rapier,
Your status quite precedes you.

Your frequency rare,
Not a creature compared,
A simple saucer floater,
Alignment of lawful,
Though some thought you awful,
With your attacks of odor.

Of odd floating eyes,
And weird giant flies,
You have some brand new neighbors.
It used to be flinds,
And the horned forlarren,
Unless my memory wavers.

You were quite the rage,
On the thirty-ninth page,
Of Ian and Douglas was seen.
And now you look fine,
On page one thirty nine,
With thanks to a certain Scott Greene.

While people may stare,
At your countenance there,
And others may sneer or harrumph.
My mouth open wide,
I will shout it with pride,
Behold, my friend the flumph!

 

[EricNoah]

Behold, my friend the flumph!

You are now officially on Piratecat's you-know-what list!

 

[ColonelHardisson]

I like flumphs. As I've said before, they make for a great, truly alien race, much unlike the hordes of funny-looking humans that take up so much space in monster books. I was really happy to see them in the Tome of Horrors.

 

[Aeolius]

...they make for a great, truly alien race, much unlike the hordes of funny-looking humans that take up so much space in monster books...

In my 1e AD&D games, I had several subspecies of flumph; including the spitter, gatherer, balancer, surveyor, mediator, and annihilator. There was also the flumph goddess, known as the Great Illuminator (you known that small “sun” over the Rainbow Vale?)

In my 3e game, I call them uphlum. They are related to both the ilithid and aboleth. While they resemble the flumph in form and alignment, their abilities are quite different. They still squirt foul-smelling liquid, though.

 

[Airwolf]

Re: Re: Welcome Home, Old Friend

You are now officially on Piratecat's you-know-what list!

Is that a good thing?

 

[tarchon]

Thought floats into mind.
Saucerlike, weirdly tempting.
A half-flumph template.

 

[Tewligan]

They still squirt foul-smelling liquid, though.

Well heck, I do that, and no one has seen fit to stat me up for a monster book yet. Lousy flumphs and their preferential treatment...

 

[Piratecat]

Glorious poetry.

Gospog, here on the boards, made me a flumph miniature from scratch. He's my hero!

 

[Eridanis]

Well, I'm impressed!

(However, the thought crosses my mind that in days gone by, poets were inspired by beauty, virtue, heroism, and the divine. Seems our generation is more easily titillated. )

In all seriousness, I'm glad to see the flumph back, too. I always felt bad for the only LG critter in FF 1e...

I look forward to a limited-edition chapbook with more of Aeolius' ToH-inspired poetry!

 

[Tewligan]

Gospog, here on the boards, made me a flumph miniature from scratch. He's my hero!

Piratecat, there must be a reason that you don't have a picture of this homemade miniature up on the minis forum, but I'm drawing a blank as to what that reason might be. I like scratchbuilt models, and I like flumphs (as do all decent folk). Let's see it!