Bleat

Bleat was a member of the Earbeford town guard, who kept watch over the town council chambers with Grabella. He thought the council members idiotic and useless fools and dreamed of replacing them with a new world order in a revolution he would one day organise.Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords, Section 11, p.57-58 His new political party would be made of the disaffected, disenfranchised, and dissolute--who he considered the majority of the town's citizens. He dreamed of the reforms he would institute after arresting his opposition.Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords, Section 17, p.74-75
Guardsman Bleat spent his evenings writing political pamphlets and tracts by the light of a lone candle. His most recent manifesto "amounted to six hundred and eighteen pages of tight script choppily scratched along eye-streamingly shallow lines from page-edge to page-edge" and was littered with annotations and accompanied by an extensive bibliography of his earlier essays. His previous works were characterised by his Blue Period, his Yellow Years, and his "Collected Musings on Indigo Nights". He was sometimes impressed by his own genius.
He was aware that among his flaws was the inability to keep his mouth shut. He also became incontinent when he let his fears override his sense.Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords, Section 11, p.59 When deep in thought concerning his ambitions, he could be observed mouthing the words of potential slogans.Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords, Section 11, p.60
Bleat had a testy relationship with his fellow guard, Grabella. Her constant ridicule of his ambitions might have brought him to violence if he did not fear she could punch him harder. Anavalistia thought him a bit of a toady, who had some good points but possessed a hint of bloodlust. She noted he always conducted his agitating out of earshot of anyone important.Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords, Section 11, p.61
He wore a leather jerkin.Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords, Section 22, p.84
==In Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords==
Bleat stood watch over the Earbeford council as they negotiated with Bauchelain for the town's protection from the undead army of The Tearful Three. The guardsman was infuriated that the council so readily agreed to pay the necromancer for his dubious services. Bleat had that coin already earmarked in his mind to pay for the reforms needed once he led the successful revolution against the town's government.Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords, Section 17, p.73-74
He later stood at the head of a small company of city guard near Bauchelain, Chancellor Gullyb, and the councilmembers as they surveyed the army of ten thousand undead arrayed against the city. The chancellor pled with Bauchelain not to double his asking fee because it would bankrupt the town. When Bauchelain argued that the town would need to observe several generations of severe austerity for their past excesses, Bleat loudly balked and interrupted him. A perturbed Bauchelain ordered Korbal Broach to kill the guardsman, which he did by magically disemboweling him.Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords, Section 22, p.83-84Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords, Section 1, p.3
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