His Majesty The Worm Monster Mash: The Triplets

 

The Triplets are a pair of Dark Elf twins raised in a Church orphanage and a Brain Spider who “adopted” them after they aged-out of the program. They like the dungeon because nobody charges them rent or makes them perform religious rituals, and if someone hits you you’re allowed to hit them back. They’re like the Guild, completing Contracts while pursuing personal motivations. They’re tough and confident adventurers but lack emotional maturity.

 

BRAIN SPIDER - Beast Strategist
Brain Spider considers himself the adult in the room, responsible for the welfare of his brother and sister, but is easily distracted. In dialogues with strange creatures he acts as their interpreter, translating telepathically.
Attributes: Swords 1 | Pentacles 4 | Cups 2 | Wands 3
Health/Defense: 3/3 (Carapace)
Likes: Eating Brains, Puzzles and Riddles
Hates: Paladins, Feeling Stupid

• Notes
• Telepathic. Brain spider can telepathically communicate with anyone, regardless of the languages they speak.
• Lesser dooms
• Great Leap. Brain spider can jump 2 zones when Dashing. This avoids intervening obstacles (pits, hazardous terrain, adventurers blocking the way..)
• Wall Crawling. Brain spider can effortlessly climb on walls. This can avoid adventurers and leave the area (unless the adventurers have some way to keep up).
• Greater dooms
• Tactics. Discard a greater doom card to turn an Action into an interrupt.
• Web. Discard a greater doom alongside an attack to web a single target. If successful, the Attack deals no damage but the target is webbed. They can free one limb at a time by Recovering and are Rooted until all limbs have been freed.

CRIBELLA - Man Minion
Raised by humans in accordance to the Monad religion, Cribella has embraced the Elven faith in the Trinity to fight back against her upbringing. She wants to be like the Crone because she believes she’s too cruel and impatient to embody the Maiden or Mother.
Attributes: Swords 3 | Pentacles 1 | Cups 1 | Wands 2
Health/Defense: 3/1 (Red and purple buffcoat)
Likes: Being feared, Spider silk (lets her pretend she’s an Elf princess), Whips and chains
Hates: Cleaning things, Long speeches, Nuns

• Lesser dooms 
• Whip of punishment. When Cribella successfully Attacks with her whip, the target is Displaced one zone in addition to taking damage.
• Greater dooms
• Withering. Discard a Greater Doom alongside a successful Attack to Wither the target with the magic of the Crone. They lose 1 from the stat at the top of the Minor Arcana discard pile. This doesn’t work on Fey.

Cribella wears 75 GP in silk. Her whip keeps its displacement effect if someone else grabs it.

FOVEAN - Man Minion
Fovean knows he’s too trusting of other adventurers, but as far as he’s concerned they’re all on the same side. Get treasure, fuck the All-Watch and fuck the Church. He carries a scapular with a Magician card under his robes, concealed from his siblings.
Attributes: Swords 1 | Pentacles 1 | Cups 2 | Wands 3
Health/Defense: 3/0
Likes: Casting spells, Muscular men, Chubby women
Hates: Waking up early, Mistreatment of children, Priests

• Notes
• Weird wizard. Fovean carries Reagents for all the normal Path of the Weird spells, but doesn’t use them in combat because he prefers to shoot energy blasts. He can use them during dungeon exploration as normal.
• Lesser dooms 
• Combustion. Fovean can Speak Incantations vs the initiative of a single target in his Zone to deal a point of Magic damage and incinerate one item on their belt.
• Greater dooms
• Blaster caster. Discard a Greater Doom to charge a magic energy ball. 
• On a subsequent action or minor action, play a Lesser Doom to Speak Incantations vs the Initiative of every target in a zone, tossing the ball at them for one damage.
• If Fovean is damaged or Roughhoused while holding the ball, he must Test Wands or drop it on himself, damaging him and everyone in his zone.

Fovean wears a uranium glass ring as a reagent for his Path of the Weird energy ball spell. His sister has impressed on him not to share the spell, since unscrupulous mages might rob or kill him for the ring.

The twins with Chelicera Venom In The Strings

 

THE MAKING OF 

This is a monster stat block I made for the restocking table of my Pile of Blades dungeon. I got to play with them at the very end of the adventure. The Guild honey trapped Fovean into following them around, which prompted Cribella and Brain Spider to follow. One of the guild decided to marry him instead of robbing and killing his family. When a fight broke out I dealt an initiative card for Fovean. When the card came up he either charged his energy ball or made an Attack with the value of his initiative card against a monster who wasn't engaged with the players. This is the only acceptable way I found to run NPC allies. The game has a blanket ban on the players getting help but I didn't want to tell the players "the rules prohibit such an action" when they came up with a fun way to manipulate an NPC that played to their and his motivations.