Piccolo

PICCOLO [LVL 5]
H Rapier master (DEX or STR ): 8
Fleet: Opponents have disadvantage on pursuit
attempts.
Doom die (d6): Piccolo has a Doom die, which she
uses to activate some of her attacks. Each time
she uses one, roll her Doom. When her Doom die is
lost, she can no longer use abilities that rely on it,
and players have advantage on rolls against her.
Attacks:

• Ligotti's defence: any missed attack on her

gives her a riposte targeting WIS and doing 4
damage. Roll Doom.

• Metricio's Second Form: Inflict disarm, push, or

pin down on any successful attack. Resisted with
DEX. Roll Doom.

• Calvino's feint: Any attack she misses grants

her a feint token against that character. She can
spend it to impose disadvantage on an attack or
defence against her.
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THE JOURNEY
Escaping the desert means travelling along
the line of blue-skull lamps to the bone arch
that leads back to the player characters'
world. This takes about a day. As they travel,
the rag-wraiths pursue the party,
stealing their being with every attribute test
they make and becoming gradually more
substantial and dangerous.
The GM may use any of the following events
in whatever order they choose.
1. A Long Trek: There is no day and no night.
Occasionally, a corpse-breath of wind stirs
the air, or an earth tremor shudders the
sands.
H Everyone makes a CON test. Anyone who
fails stresses an attribute of their choice,
taking disadvantage on tests using it. This
lasts until they have had a proper rest (that is,
when they have left this horrendous world).
2. A Field of Thanatoliths: Thanatoliths are
skyscraper-sized gravestones, each with the
skeletons of a continent's worth of the dead
baked into them.
H Each thanatolith is marked with a great
spiral and countless lines of text written in
unknowable alphabets – the names of the
dead.
H Where a thanatolith has cracked open, out
pours a tide of bones. The skeletons aren't
quite human – three-fingered handsand
elongated skulls with one eye socket.
3. The Selenian Cataract: Here, one of the
broken moons pours its selenian humours
into the desert below, creating a sludgy,
marshy lake. The humours of the lake are
the colour and consistency of molten lead,
but are cold and pocked by heavy, gelatinous
bubbles.
H A spur of the lake has extended between
the dunes, flooding the path of the skull-
lamps.
H The shores are prickled with scrawny, bare,
birch-like trees. Their bark is metallic; their
branches, serpentine. They have become the
roost of oversized moths.
H The party has a couple of choices, or may be
able to come up with alternatives.

• They might be able to make a raft from

the trees and cross the lake that way. This
would be quicker and grants some reprieve
from the rag-wraiths (which will not go
over the liquid) but means enduring the
song of the moon-beasts that wallow in the
humours.

• Alternately, they could leave the safety of the

lamps and take the longer, slower route around
the lakeshore, where the sands have become a
violet bog. The rag-wraiths look for an oppor-
tunity to harry the heroes on the way, attemp-
ting to tempt them into feats of skill or wit
(therefore testing their attributes – see below).
The bog gives disadvantage on defence tests.