SERVANT

A demon that speaks in a droning, almost mechanical voice. The party encounters him in The Trashlands while he is possessing the corpse of a half-eaten dire coyote. He states himself that his name is spelled with all capitals. He mostly speaks in stiff ravings about the insignificance of flesh and time.

The party comes across a swarm of vultures surrounding a dead dire coyote, only for the birds to flee when it eerily animates and addresses the party as “victims.” Frederick de Bonesby runs it over with The Shish Kebab Express, only for the possessed corpse to get back up unimpeded. It shows little signs of aggression at first, answering their questions. He states that he serves no master despite his name, and that they are not truly his victims so much as this is the state of reality.

Despite this, he ultimately launches his tongue out of his mouth to try and strangle Stirfry. The party enters a brief struggle before Cordelia turns invisible and shoves two of her demonic coins into SERVANT’s eyes. The body immediately goes still and collapses, but SERVANT’s voice comes out of a cow skull instead. The party decides to leave him behind, but as de Bonesby turns his goblin truck around to run the skull over, he finds SERVANT is nowhere to be seen.

He returns to possess a cow skeleton at Thirsty Falls, demanding that the party remains in The Trashlands rather than continue their quest. It smashes its body against the bridge with incredible force, damaging it beyond repair. Cordelia dispatches him with another set of coins as the party runs past him in a desperate escape. SERVANT possesses several more of the falling skeletons to drag them back into the falls, leaping from body to dead body to force the party to stay away from Polaris. He is ultimately baited into possessing Ivan Gretsky, who is technically dead. Ivan exposes himself to sunlight, killing himself with SERVANT stuck inside.

## Abilities

SERVANT's main ability is to possess dead things. This makes him incredibly resistant to harm, remaining able to animate his body after being crushed and mangled repeatedly. The state of his physical body appears to have no affect on his unseen form, but appears to be able to be damaged beyond usefulness. Being disabled by Cordelia's demonic coins only cause him to jump into a less useful form (the nearby cow skull). He also appears incredibly strong while in a physical form, decimating a stone bridge while in the body of a cow skeleton. He is unable to possess people with a semblance of life in them, such as Frederick, but can possess creatures that are fully undead.

While in his coyote body, SERVANT can extend his tongue to strangle people, even after it has been detached. He can also animate individual parts of his body, sending his brain out of his skull to remove and throw Stirfry’s knife.

## Trivia

* SERVANT seems very knowledgeable about the world of demons and otherworldly creatures. He recognizes all the demons that the party names, and when de Bonesby names some he immediately calls them out as imposters and conmen.
* SERVANT only appears able to interact with the physical world by possessing bodies, similar to Cheddar. SERVANT is only seen possessing dead things while Cheddar inhabits the living, though this does cause discomfort or even death to the living person. It is unclear if this classifies SERVANT as a wandering demon like Cheddar.