#RPGaDay2024 Day 28 – Mimic

Day 28 of #RPGaDay2024. T-Minus four days! I stuck to posting about the alternative prompt challenge list by Skala Wyzwania for this entire month. For more information on RPG a Day, see David Chapman’s Autocratik blog post for 2024.

The RPG challenge theme for today is Mimic. Rolling a 1d10 for the quest. The result is 5: Write a legend or rumor.

An excerpt of the famed Treatise on the Origin of Mimics

Presented to the Assembly of Scholars in Veriall,

on the Summer of the17th Year of the New Dynasty

“While many explorers and scholars may know of the common Mimic, a creature with a mutable shape that can assume the appearance and texture of inanimate objects. While a chest is a familiar image of the beast, there are stories of larger Mimics, some as large as a house. However, the recently unearthed secret tomes of the Cabal of the Masters of Sakai propose the origin of Mimics.

These fallen warlocks propose that Mimics are related to the Fleshmasters of Ravall. They are similar creatures created by the Aye Eye master of the skyship the Great Reaver that crashed to Ravall in antiquity and came to form the great dungeon under the capital of that long-ago kingdom. These creatures were taken by tomb robbers who made their way to the ruins of Ravall, taking them to other lands and spreading them throughout the world.

However, a story claims that the ancient skyship the Great Reaver was an amalgam of metal and flesh and that large parts of the ship were alive. To validate these claims, those who adhere to this theory refer to the events of the destruction of the Great Engine in Ravall and the Rise of the Wyrms twenty-three years ago.

The stories claim the man who has come to be known to us as The Tracker was hiding in the ruins of Ravall, in the tunnels of the Great Reaver, and that the profane Lich Necromancer Karuthos, servant of the Darkness, had awakened the remains of the Fleshmasters to hunt and destroy The Tracker.

The foul undead creature that Karuthos had created hunted The Tracker, finally cornering him in the grand corridor that led to the Great Engine in the depths of Ravall. The Lich and their monstrosity were set to consume the mortal the Darkness feared most. But as they prepared for their final blow, the corridor shook. The ruin itself was not made of stone or metal. It was a living creature that consumed the Necromancer and the animated amalgam of the Fleshmaster. Allowing the Tracker to Escape and reach his final destination.”

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