The Chicken Heart That Ate the World
Damned If Anybody Knows What This Started Out As
Corporeal Forces: 6
Strength: 12
Agility: 12
Ethereal Forces: 1
Intelligence: 2
Precision: 2
Celestial Forces: 0
Will: 0
Perception: 0
Vessel/6, Charisma -2, Toughness/2
Body Hits: 168
Skills: Dodge/6, Fighting/6, Move Silently/3,
Tactics/6
Songs: Corporeal Healing/6, Numinous Corpus/6 (Acid)
Discord: Ugly/6, Vulnerable/3 (Extreme Flame and/or
cold)
Have I ever mentioned that Sparky shotguns Maalox?
Well, can you blame him? Just when he thinks that
he's got a handle on things, something like...
something like... something like this... comes boiling
out of the woodwork. The worse bit was, of course,
that the Balseraph was sure that radio plays were
safe. Vapula's always been a visual sort of Prince:
take away the eyeball candy, and surely he won't get
any ideas.
Oops.
The worst bit is, not even Vapula was really able to
tell a frantic Sparky just what the HELL this thing is
made out of. It isn't Undead; it isn't a construct;
it certainly isn't celestial and/or ethereal. If he
didn't know better, the Balseraph would swear that
it's just an incredibly disgusting, foul-smelling pile
of chicken heart tissue that's somehow learned to move
around and eat things. Of course, if things were that
simple, Sparky wouldn't have that annoying triple eye
tick problem...
The problem is, of course, that the Damned thing isn't
easy to put down. It's not quite as problematical as,
say, a Shoggoth (theoretical physical similarities
aside): it's vulnerable to cold and heat and not
immune to bullets. Unfortunately, it has to be
extreme heat, bitter cold and/or lots of bullets.
Worse and worse, you had better get every single atom
of the stuff, or it'll just come back after it eats
enough mass. Cleaning it up took forever... and, of
course, once he finally got all of it, Vapula
absolutely refused to let him annihilate it.
Apparently, the Genius Prince thought that it was
'cute'. Thankfully, Sparky was allowed to dump the
CHTAtW into a thirty-gallon drum, seal it and put it
in corporeal cold storage (in every sense of the
term). Not an optimal solution, but better than
nothing...
What do you mean, the storage facility was trashed
during the last Lightning raid?
No, just leave the case of Maalox on the desk.
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