Gallinazo

## Overview

Always on the lookout from high places to dive down in and grab a bounty, he is relentlessly hunting his targets. Bounty hunter through and through, always looking for coin.

## Physical Appearance

With a dark blue skin like the night sky, white hair, yellow eyes and big black wings, Gallinazo is an imposing sight and usually stands out. He's always carrying weapons, though favors non-lethal ones since alive bounties are usually worth more.

## Background

Gallinazo has been a bounty hunter for nearly a decade and has been around Calor for many jobs, mostly the eastern and southern halves. He carries a variety of weapons and equipment to help capture his bounties, either dead or alive, whatever is needed. His enemies, or targets, often refer to him as 'The Vulture', not only for his looks but for his ability to dive down from some height and swoop in for a fat reward. Despite his lust for coin, choosing between jobs he'll pick the better paying one, he doesn't show a lot of wealth. Lately he has been completing some bounties for The Riversong Dirge and caught a few Cazeks for them.

## Campaigns

### Stagnant waters

#### Hungry Bog Town

Just coming back from a bounty, and with a meager reward from his contact, Gallinazo visits the inn in the town of Karana. Here he hopes to find some leads or some coin. Sure enough the innkeep Vardane is talking with some adventurers who need a guide up into the First Mountains, but he also takes Gallinazo to some place private to show him a map. After a quick glance, our bounty hunter sees the mark of The Cazek Fratery in a cave somewhere and decides to split some of the bounty with the innkeep in exchange for the map. A map, that must be added, was probably not obtained fairly.

Back at the inn, Gallinazo meets the adventurers; Doutek, Ronoc and Minnea. They want to go up the mountain, most of them for chasing the star they had in some dream. The strix needs to go up instead and tries to persuade to guide them for some coin, but ultimately has the payment deferred to after they are where they need to go. After all, they might be useful.

During the evening, Gallinazo works as a bouncer. As it's very busy, he has to throw out a lot of drunk guests, occassionaly emptying a coin pouch. Most people here seem to want to travel up the mountain as well, so Gallinazo prods the others not to drink too much so they could leave early. Just before closing however, an armored figure is heard walking around and he starts nailing something to the outside of the inn. While Ronoc and Minnea hide by Vardana, Ronoc and Gallinazo walk forward, hoping to identify and deter the intruder.

#### Who comes knocking?

After opening the door, Ronoc, Gallinazo, Doutek and Minnea find themselves acros from some unliving creatures. They quickly take them out, with Gallinazo in the center drawing in most of them and taking most blows. As quickly as they came, as quickly do they perish. They later find out they have been hammering some nails to the door, not only of the tavern, but for more buildings. Gallinazo touches one, but it stings and has some rune light up. The party quickly goes around and gathers all the nails before the villagers wake up. The trail seems to disappear into the bog to the north.

Following up, the party goes to their beds in the tavern and wake up to see Vardane has cleaned everything. Next thing on their list is going on the road, but not before our Strix pays a visit to their contact called 'the Croc'. With some more information on a bounty, they're well on their way and after a short trek up the road they secretly go offroad, cutting through the mountains in order to win some time and tackle the bounties.

#### The Resurrection of Tybald

Not long after going offroad, heavy raindrops start to fall. The party each try to find shelter on their own way, and while Gallinazo fails to find a good shelter, Ronoc stumbles upon a hidden entryway. After a quick look deeper inside by Doutek and Gallinazo, it seems safe enough to go inside.

While Minnea lights a fire in the middle, Doutek starts expirimenting with an altar in the room, which somehow seems to activate something. Despite the efforts of the party, some strange rune (which Doutek claims has Loch origins) starts lighting up in the room and makes the fire green and show a face. The face tells the party he owes them all and his name is Tybald of the Green Flame. It appears he has been locked here a few hunderd years ago by some heroes, but offers them his patronage and luxuries as a token of gratitude. While he does seem evil, it does not seem to have any direct connection to the Cazek Fratery, but it is curious that a lot of occult stuff is happening right here on these mountains.

#### Building Bridges

With the gold divided, Gallinazo takes the armor and plans to use it in the next dangerous combat. Little does he know, that comes sooner rather than later. But first, they'll have to travel up the road. While taking a look back, they see black buildings near the village that they should have crossed, but haven't seen. Not long after their departure from Tybalds crypt, they come across a broken rope bridge. With a little hesitation our Strix runs up and jumps across the 25ft gap with relative ease. Together with the rest the bridge gets restored and the party can walk back.

After another good walk, they come across an abandoned campsite. At first glance, it looks okay. There are a few skeletons down the cliff, which are inspected by Doutek and Minnea. In fact, Minnea manages to activate another rune bringing life to these skeletons! In a quick move to attempt to rescue Minnea, Gallinazo gets gravely injured. However, the skeletons don't seem keen on simply killing, instead detecting the presense of the spikes. While negotiating, the skeleton tells his name, Ruslan Ward. Doutek drops some spikes, which Ruslan touches and he dissapears into dust, same as the other skeletons. That was a ride!

#### Red Brick Road

The party decides to sleep in the abandoned campsite, with rotating watches. Our bounty hunter needs the rest and is the last to do a watch. First he catches some squirrels for breakfast and then resumes the rounds. He comes upon a scorchmark in the shape of a palm print in a tree, and two heavy set footprints with no tracks leading to or from. It turns out Ronoc thought he was being watched from that very same spot, which makes him even more paranoid.

They all decide to press forward, with Doutek wanting to be at the top of the mountain in two days because of some aligning of the stars. Of course, next fork in the road which is accidentily discoverd by Ronoc, instead of following the path we take the new hidden path. This path is made of red bricks and leads to a brick archway into the mountain. Upon arriving, Gallinazo pushes open the heavy door and they find another stone table like the one used to ressurect Tybald. As tempting as it is, the party decides to travel the spiral staircase leading up.

#### Creepy Crawlies

Traveling up the staircase, Gallinazo quickly sees all kinds of side passages. But the bridges towards them were broken long time ago. Further along, the staircase started to lean a little, along the mountain. However, soon cobwebs appeared. First small, but more and larger along the way. It didn't seem much, so Gallinazo prompted Minnea to test them with fire, which promptly set the whole webs ablaze. This raised some alarm within the ranks of whatever was living there, so the party traveled down a little and into a side passage, waiting out the fire to die down.

The rest of the party was down in some larger room first, and when our Strix entered two large arachnids came down, with one immediatly going for Gallinazo. The bite introduced some form of poison into his bloodstream, but luckily enough Gallinazo and the rest of the group took down the spiders quickly enough. While Gallinazo tried to counteract the poison, and got healed by Ronoc, Doutek checked another door. Which, of course, contained a gigantic other spider also trying to squeeze into the passageway. With a healing potion from Minnea, Gallinazo, who briefly lost consciousness, got up on his feet again and they quickly traveled up. Halfway up, they heard the massive spider coming after them, along with a bunch of smaller ones. They left through the door at the top, with the party frantically trying to close it. Ronoc closed it, but from within, so Gallinazo helped open the door from the outside. At the last second, Ronoc managed to escape as well, with the spiders hopefully trapped behind the door.