Martin's continuation of my Onslaught and the Rubber Runner story has a couple of major flaws. Obviously in his campaign that is what happened however I would like to point out the following:
Backround:-
As the priest of minor cult shrine dedicated to Eurmal the Rubble Runner (Gluton Subaspect) Selwi has gained 20 points of the Swallow divine magic. The swallow spell is necessary to obtain the Become Rubble Runner spell as the scarifice for each spell requires the receipient to eat their size in Rubble Runners and Selwi is too much of a fop to chew his way through 20 Size of Rubble Runners (they taste foul and he has no intention of ruining his carefully developed palette).
Selwi has been the priest of the HRT shrine since he was seven years old. As a Rubble waif he has been able to survive on his own (or with a little help) from a very early age. When looking for food one day Selwi sneaked into a rubble runner hole hoping to find eggs or young??? Instead he found a strange debris strewn room with colourful frescoes of rubble runners and people with rubble runner heads. There were also mystic runes carved into the stone walls and floors. While in poor repair the long forgotten Trickster shrine was a treasure and delight to a young boy. He kept the place secret and used to visit it regularly, clearing the rubbish and even attempting (quite well) to repaint the frescoes.
Curiously, while the rubble runner returned it never attacked him and often would sit and watch or bring him food (not exactly gormet, but filling). Finally, the day dawned when Selwi became seven and he realized that:
Since that day Selwi has religiously celebrated his birthday at the shrine even though sometimes he has wandered away from the Rubble for long periods. He always converts any increases in mana gained from worship at the shrine into divine spells from it. The spells available at the shrine are: Worship Eurmal (Glutton Aspect), Become Rubble Runner and Swallow. Hence, his very high Swallow 20 and several uses of Become RR.
His magical powers have helped Selwi amass a reasonable stash and he can afford to live well. While he continues to live in a ramshackle Rubble mansion (restored internally) he can occassionally be found in the better inns of Pavis. Paradoxically, while generally preferring the good-life he has the capacity to slum it as only a Rubble waif can. He also has an extensive informal information network, based around the *feeding station* for Rubble kids that he runs from behind his mansion. While aloof he is a reasonably popular figure in the human Rubble community as he takes care of the kids and has provided warning of impending troll raids in the past.
Selwi loves eating (remember he was always starving as a kid) and thus has been able to make friends with the Rubble trolls. He loves to indulge in eating and drinking contests with them and often wins (using Swallow, remember tricksters Cheat!). Once he managed to accompany some of them to a Giant Beehive and got to eat some Royal Jelly (yum, yum!). Despite his early years Selwi has affected refinement and prefers to eat gormet cuisine although he hates Noveau Cuisine and prefers to eat its supporters rather than their microscopic portions.
Finally, and most irritatingly, despite his excessive eating habits Selwi does not appear to get fat! Perhaps his hyperactive personality and the fact that he is often chased by people he has irritated help...
Cheers
Lewis
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