Creatures of Fey

== Chapter One: Redcaps ==
Threat Rank D (Local Threat)
=== Description ===
Redcaps are evil, murderous fey with an insatiable bloodlust. They resemble undersized elderly gnomes, standing three to four feet tall and weighing roughly fifty pounds. Their backs are hunched and their skin is leathery, stretched over wiry muscles. Their mouths are filled with sharp, protruding teeth.
They wear heavy iron boots, leather clothing, and of course the bright red hats they are named for. Their hats are always soaked in the blood of dozens to hundreds of different creatures.
Abilities
Redcaps' lives are sustained by absorbing the essence of everything they kill, by soaking their hats in the blood of their victims. If they do not soak their cap at least once every three days, they simply cease to exist, which they are very aware of. The more often they soak their hats, the most powerful their physical abilities become, increasing their resilience and durability. The only weapons capable of overcoming their unnatural durability are those made from cold iron. Elder Redcaps that have survived for long enough and grown from the countless kills such a feat requires and practically invulnerable.
Despite their stature and scrawny build, Redcaps are fairly strong and capable of wielding even large human weaponry. Their heavy boots may make them noisy, but they do not slow the monsters down, and with them they are able to kick a target down and seriously injure them. They are also able to hurl bullets from their slings, causing them to be enhanced with a greenish-blue eldritch energy and strike harder than normal.
When a Redcap dies, it vanishes almost completely, only leaving behind a single tooth. Anyone wearing a Redcap tooth is seen a little more favorably in the eyes of other Fey.
=== Combat ===
Redcaps prefer to set up ambushes, attacking their victims when they are about to settle down for an evening. They open with their slings, but will attempt to swiftly close the gap and enter a melee. They show no mercy to their victims, indulging in wanton butchery. Elder Redcaps also track wounded prey for miles and miles until they relax their guard before they strike.
=== Lifecycle ===
Redcaps can live up to one hundred and fifty years, though few tend to survive for that long. They are asexual, budding once or twice in their lifetime. These buds grow in a hump on their back for six months, before eventually falling off, with a head and limbs popping out. They then grow to full size in less than a year.
=== Personality ===
They are vicious and insane serial killers who thrive on the pain of their victims, drenching their caps in the blood of those they have murdered. They desire only to murder and cause carnage and mayhem. Their instinct to survive and their need to soak their hats in fresh blood is the root of this murderous nature. They lack any subtlety, rushing headfirst into the slaughter.
== Chapter Two: Boggles ==
Threat Rank D (Local Threat)
=== Description ===
Boggles are trickster fey that delight in pranking the beings of the material world. They are rarely actually seen, and if they are they are often mistaken as figments of the witness' imagination, thanks to their dimension warping abilities.
Boggles stand at an average of three feet tall and are humanoid in shape, with large bulbous heads, big sagging ears, and rubbery hairless flesh that is surprisingly stretchy and ranges from blackish-blue to dark gray in coloration. They walk hunched over with their knuckles dragging across the ground. Some Boggles have claws but those that lack them frequently just pummel their assailants with their fists.
Aside from these few commonalities, nearly every Boggle is uniquely disproportionate, with their limbs, appendages, torso, and facial features all being seemingly random sizes, which makes each Boggle very distinct. Boggles are naturally bouncy, though this fades with age as older Boggles become less elastic.
=== Abilities ===
Boggles all possess a strange array of powers that help them with their escapades. Their sweat is a slippery black substance that they can produce on demand. It is also secreted accidentally when they are nervous. This natural oil gives them flame and heat resistance. They can also produce the opposite, secreting a thick and sticky ooze instead. This ooze is sticky enough to allow them to climb on walls and latch onto people, or stick them to the ground and steal things.
Boggles also possess very strong senses, with a sharp sense of smell regardless of the actual shape or existance of a nose on their freakish faces. They are able to easily sniff out invisible creatures because of this. On top of this their ears are equally keen, comparable to a dog's sense of hearing.
Their most enigmatic power is their ability to turn any complete frame, that is any rigid structure with a completely enclosed hole in it, into a dimensional portal. These portals are invisible and last only a few seconds, but that is more than enough time for the Boggle's needs. They can use these portals to appear in any similar frame within a few dozen feet. These can be holes in walls, open windows, doorways, bags and pockets, and even cage bars. These frames do not even need to be part of the same object. The underside of a legged object like a bed or chair constitutes a frame with the floor as one side.
=== Combat ===
Boggles are difficult to pin down in a fight due to their teleportation powers and their literal slipperiness. Blunt force does little to the surprisingly bouncy creatures- the best way to deal with Boggles is traps or negotiation.
=== Lifecycle ===
Very little is known about the Boggle lifecycle. Other Fey refuse to speak about it universally. All that is known is that they are allegedly born from crude mischief itself, whatever that means.
=== Personality ===
Boggles, despite their crude and disruptive nature, are among the more amicable of Fey monsters. They bear no ill will in their actions, seeking only to inconvenience and annoy for their own amusement. In some cases they have even shown remorse when their actions result in actual injury. They have even been known to return limbs lost in accidents by individuals reaching through their portals as they close, though this rarely does much good.
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