Bukbuk Chook

A Hausen witches hut made from an enchanted shed and a chicken's egg. Very stupid, very loving, very flammable.

## Personality

Is a chicken. Trusting, hopeful, curious, likes to try and hatch round things. Likes to sit on things that might not want to be sat on. Sometimes forget that they are a house and try to follow people indoors without shrinking first.

## Appearance

A chicken-legged hut! Entirely black and white, and a hybrid of stop-motion (the hut) and rubberhose cel animation overlay (the legs, eye and feathers). Can also transform into a small, boxy wooden chicken- entirely stop motion save the eyes.

## Backstory

Bukbuk was built and brought to life by the kindly-but-eccentric witch Goody Chook. After assembling the little wooden shack with her own two hands (or at least, by her own two hands and a dab or two of extremely powerful magic), Goody engraved the central support beam of Bukbuk's roof with many intricate sigils and symbols before infusing it with ink, a hug, and one healthy free-range egg. Now a living, walking, talking, fully sentient if somewhat cerebrally challenged magical shed, Bukbuk spent a contented two years with his 'Mama' in the woods of Teivos- a wild, unpredictable stretch of land to the far North East of Einquell (located close to the Well of Inspiration and home to some of the most varied, bizarre and occasionally downright spooky things the continent had to offer). Despite the strangeness of the bleak and oily landscape Bukbuk was never afraid of the woods, lacking the sense to be so and being made of the wood themselves. Besides, with the powerful witch Goody Chook alongside, not a thing in the forest dared to make Bukbuk have reason to be anything but happy.

Alas, this idyllic life was not to last, as one day Witch Chook told Bukbuk to wait at their usual spot by the river while she went in search of certain ingredients in a region of the woods that was too dangerous for them both to venture. Bukbuk waited. Bukbuk waited for seventeen sunsets, and seventeen sunrises, but Mama never came back. Mama had often said that things were going awry in the land of Einquell, and had been doing her own research in an attempt to find the reason behind the terrible Draining afflicting the world, and Goody Chook knew how dangerous this research was likely to be. Therefore, after faithfully waiting for seventeen days through rain, wind and snow, Bukbuk followed the instructions that Mama had given them should a time come that she did not return within this pre-agreed stretch of time. So Bukbuk hefted their creaking boards out of the ice and earth, shook off the icicles, and walked. Up and over hills, across vast green spaces, and fearlessly, curiously, innocently onwards to the strange land wherein they hoped to find the support needed to relocated their precious witch. The place only known to the life-given hut as... Toontown.

Bukbuk- being a witch's familiar as well as a portable house- has been imbued with a great deal of knowledge and wisdom that they do not understand, but one such instruction is that they should not seek to find and rescue Goody Chook “until the doors of the cupboard in the loft open”. There is indeed a finely decorated alpine-style cupboard in the upper portion of Bukbuk's interior, which appears to be impossible to open with magic or lockpicking of any type. This will only open when Bukbuk is of a sufficiently high level, and has enough friends, to take on the task.

## Shenanigans

Bukbuk's first adventure (game untitled thusfar) involved capturing a small Warne lion for a strange lady who Bukbuk did not like, and after the lion was safely delivered Bukbuk fell out with the group who helped to capture it, having made an insight check that confirmed this was a bad lady! However, shortly after this the entire group find out that she is indeed a bad lady, and go to see what they can do to bust the operation. Sadly the lion has already been transformed into an expressionless uncanny-valley CGI replica, and the group have to fight duplicates of themselves, as well as the bad lady herself! They win and break out of the building by having Bukbuk smash through the wall. They escape with the captured bad lady but are now wanted fugitives! This is very exciting.

Bukbuk has no idea what a fugitive is.

In Bukbuk's second appearance they find themselves transported into a very strange house with three new friends; Bisig, Ryleigh and Benjamin-Herman Boingo Higgins. Bukbuk and Bisig become very good friends very quickly, which is surprising considering Bukbuk almost completely squashed all three to start out. They all investigate the spooky house and Bukbuk makes another friend, Little May, who is very small and mischievous and definitely the best. After some puzzlement as to how to get upstairs, and some Gordian-Knot style solutions, there is enough evidence for the house inside a house to realize that this house is in fact a doll's house. Whether it is a very big one, or they are very small, is not yet clear, but if Benjamin-Herman Boingo Higgins unmaking reality by breaking the clock in the hallway is anything to go by there are some very odd things afoot...