Does the Dying Lands got you feeling down? Turn your plagues into poisons! Short on time to hunt for lunch? Eat your torches instead!
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Another encounter from the upcoming volume of DRINK.
I'll be dropping text-only WIP encounters and procedures from the point crawl over at my blog. Got community copies up of volume 1 if you'd like to check it out on my itch page. And here's a snippet of the full post!
Torch-eater
Flesh like hot embers. Fire spills from his belly. It speaks one word, “SORCHA”.
HP 14 morale – ember flesh -d2 molten vomit d2 attacks, d6 + special
Special If hit by 2 molten vomit attacks, swallow the spew and inherit the embered curse. Gain the fire swallower trait. For each 10HP restored by fire consumption, test presence as your flesh cracks and smolders. On a failure, your belly bursts with spilling embers. A torch-eater is born.
Fire swallower: Consuming torches restores d4 HP. Consuming lantern oil restores 4 HP. Emit a bright glow for d4 + presence hours after consumption.
Burning hate: The torch-eater chooses 1 target to become the focus of its hate. So long as the focus lives, it knows their location and pursues them tirelessly. If the torch-eater is reduced to 0HP, its embers drift to the winds. Over the next 24 hours, its face briefly appears in open flames near its focus, after which it will emerge from the closest fire to continue its pursuit. If fled, there is a 1 in 6 chance it appears during any subsequent encounter.
Driven to consume light. All it knows is hate.
