Joe B.

Troika Tuesday: 3 Bedsits

Rent has been frozen at 1p a year for thirty centuries.1 Landlords get around this by receiving payment in services.

Fettle

Blimp sized ball of roots. Manned by the industrious horse-sized termites that came with it when it crash-landed in the southwest corner of Saint's Park three years ago. Their warped wooden periscopes scan the Hump-Backed Sky for their glimmering Queen, detached and afloat in the Beyond.

Rent is but a single, one-time fee: A pheroreceptor implanted in the cervical spine. These remain dormant until the day the Queen is discovered at which point a small army of ex- and current tenants will be conscripted into retrieval efforts. Most tenants assume the Queen is long obliterated, or that they will have died long before She is found.

Brng, Termite Astrologer
As Lizard Man
Damage as Modest Beast or Pistolet(formic acid)
special Tunnels through wood at 5' every ten minutes.

MIEN -- roll in addition to Mien for Lizard-Man

  1. Breaks telescope, tries to blind himself
  2. Eats a plank; sleepy
  3. Moults carapace; irritable and fragile
  4. Operates on a tenant's spine
  5. Evicts an irresponsible tenant (smoked indoors)
  6. Pines for the Queen

The Mr. Mippipery

Home of the popular 5 Second Pizza. A vast oven is constantly stocked to torturous temperatures, fed by volatile waters piped in directly from the Demon Sea. Dorms in the attic are sweltering year-round.

Tenants get as many Provisions as they want, but must spend 30 hours a week at bellows or siphon.2

Mr. Mippipi
As Khaibit, Damage as Pistolet
special Knows the spell Explode.

MIEN -- roll in addition to Mien for Khaibit

  1. Explodes a lazy tenant (as Orc)
  2. Deeply focused; 10' wide pizza spins mid air
  3. Evicts a Demon(as Harpy) from the ovens
  4. Stuck Upside Down in a Bucket of Flour
  5. Negotiates with the Hell's Marischals, local street toughs
  6. Berates godson Mervin for not ordering enough cheese

Vamp Casino Apartments

Abuts a den of iniquity. Brown wallpaper. Thick pile carpets. The stench and stain of tobacco. It's not the nicest, but it ain't the worst. There's room service and cable tele-orbvision.

The beds' headboards are fitted with large drafty grilles. The Grugglus snuffles from grille to grille via metallic ducts, sucks up Luck, and dispenses it to the blackjack dealers net door.3

Grugglus
as Alzabo
special Absorbs 1 Luck from target on a hit -- can be spent to improve an attack or Test of Skill in the future.

  1. The Bill of Rent Control was lost in the Great Wurmquake. Its fervent seekers are the Circle of Meisters, all seventh sons of land baron lineages.↩

  2. For every week of residence, tick Strength and test to advance. If successful, decrement any other Adv. Skill by 1.↩

  3. Lose 1 Luck per night spent here.↩

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