Fou Chou

Art by Ashley Lange

**Fou Chou** is a female Ancient Glien Jiangshi who appears in the *Lost at Sea* campaign.

## Description

### Appearance

Fou Chou appears as a bluish green skin female humanoid with long nail claws. She wears a long red dress.

## History

### Rescue

Stinkler Smelgore, The Goker, Coots Robin, Dirst the First, and Mori Suzuki move on forward and find a stone that appears to have a peculiar piece of flesh on it. As they peer closer, they see a woman’s face almost trapped inside. Goker talks to the rock and as he does the person in the rock animates a worried face and struggles as though she is trapped. Mori unsheathes his sword and as he slices at the flesh on the rock, a woman falls forward from the rock. The woman slowly rises; she wears a once ornate red gown, now stained. Her hands have long fingered claws at the end of them and once she raises her head, they see a tag tied to her forehead, she pulls a black hat from her back and places it on her head.

She speaks to them in an Ancient Glein tongue but Mori requests for her to speak to them in modern. She claims to be an Ancient Jiangshi, and her imprisonment was caused by this strange corruption that took root 50 years ago, and infected her home. Her sisters have fallen to the corruption of the hive mind that calls itself the Silver King. She hopes that the party will be able to fight off the corruption to clear out the dome that covers them from the sun, and states that it is her duty to ensure that the area is guarded. They ask her about the Eclipse, and she knows only that it is a small clan. She laments that the infection of her sisters is complete, and they need to be slain. Doing so would see their powers return to her, giving her a chance to open the way to the core of the infection.

After defeating the infected sister, they go back to report to the Jiangshi that tasked them to kill her sisters, and she requests for any possible possession they got off them two. She takes one of the masks of the first ones and a jade pin from the second one. She clasps them together and crushes them together turning them into dust and inhaling them. She asks them to follow her, and they do so warily, as the woman has been oddly malicious the entire time. She talks of her time here, of people she lived with, and children she sired. The infection here is possibly that of the silver king but she has no idea what it is, only that it has taken everything from her and her sisters. She implores them to free these flowing lands for the sake of the people here, as if they do not stop the corruption here, it will spread too far to be controlled. She decides to make one last gamble. She rips the tag off her head and starts convulsing and bleeding from her face. She claims that the monster should be like her, an undead creature. The tag should be able to help them, but if she goes for long enough without it then she will also become a thrashing flesh monster; so they need to return the tag to her once they are done. She opens a portal for them and before the party there appears a swirling gate to the catacombs under the flesh forest, the home of the Jiangshi Sisters and now, a host for a Depthar lieutenant. They stand before the portal, hesitating for a moment, but as a party they step into the heart of the corruption.