"Quizz"

“Quizz” is a female formian worker in the Om campaign

“Quizz” is a formian that was captured and magically charmed into helping the Fate Fighters destroy the formian queen in the Silvercliff mines.

## Background

“Quizz” is a formian that is part of the hive that was stumbled upon by the miners of Silvercliff. As the hive attacked and enslaved the miners, a group of Gildornian guardsmen led by Elias Young went into the mines and captured a Formian for Elias to study. Elias soon gave that formian a nickname, “Quizz.”

Aided by a *Charm Monster* spell, Elias was able to gain "Quizz’s" trust and created a pair of circlets that allowed telepathic communication between the two (and therefore granted Elias access to the hive mind as well.)

Aided by these circlets the two struck up something of a friendship and while Elias planned to use Quizz to destroy the formian queen and reopen access to the mines, he grew fond of Quizz and did not wish her any harm.

## Into the Mines

Elias, no adventurer, was not equipped to enter the mines himself again, and he found no support from Captain Riggs or his men to accompany him. This left him with a decent plan to use “Quizz” to get to the queen, but no one to execute it.

On the 3rd of Minstrel, 465, the Fate Fighters offered to take up the mission. Elias gave  the circlet to Jasper Conroy and asked him to try to ensure “Quizz” did not come to any harm if possible.

“Quizz” and the Fate Fighters entered the mines, but almost immediately Jasper’s thoughts of killing the queen caused the hive mind to go on high alert and “Quizz”, naturally protective of the queen, attacked along with a nearby formian warrior.

Though the Fate Fighters defeated the warrior, Wu Xen took the circlet from Jasper and used it to convince “Quizz” that this was a mistake and cease her attack, proving his good intentions by binding the wounds on the warrior so it would not die.

“Quizz agreed to take the Fate Fighters to his Taskmaster, as the hive commanded him to do, and they accompanied. Before they went before the Taskmaster, however, the Fate Fighters moved to hide their weapons, which resulted in Fern trying to place an item with extra-dimensional space into another such item. The resulting magical mishap opened a portal to the Astral Plane which sucked in “Quizz” and all of the Fate Fighters except for Wu.

## On the Astral Plane

"Quizz" and the rest of the Fate Fighters, except for Wu Xen, found themselves on the Astral Plane. "Quizz", cut off from the Hive Mind for the first time in her life and in such an alien environment, Panicked almost immediately. The other Fate Fighters had barely managed to calm "Quizz" and looped a rope around her and themselves to keep anyone from getting lost when they were attacked by a Nabusu. "Quizz" again panicked and attempted to flee the scene, but was stymied by both the strange nature of travel in the Astral Plane as well as being bound to the other Fate Fighters.

The Fate Fighters, led by a strange native of the Astral Plane named Xarth, made their way to a wizard called Wyrllish for assistance and "Quizz" followed along, avoiding the combats that followed as the Fate Fighters were attacked several times.

After their meeting with Wryllish, the Fate Fighters left again, naturally taking "Quizz" with them. During the journey, however, they were hit with an Astral Storm, which had a strange effect on "Quizz", allowing her to communicate with in the Common Tongue, allowing her to talk to the Fate Fighters in their own language for the first time.

## Death

Unfortunately while on the Astral Plane "Quizz" was slain. She helped the Fate Fighters battle the liche Ranaxx, during which she was heavily wounded. When Jasper Conroy promptly used a magical rune to travel into an arena to do battle with a collection of monsters that Ranaxx kept to fight for his pleasure, "Quizz" rushed to help in spite of her injuries. This proved to be the undoing of "Quizz" as she appeared near an aboleth, which promptly ate her.