Jooge the Red

**Jooge the Red**, known by most of Silverymoon as **The Bloody Barber**, was a clone of the barber-surgeon Jooge Nopsmoth, created when the original Jooge was forced to tear out some of magical hair of his korred friend Bezoar by the annis hag Errevastica. Jooge the Red, unlike his fellow clone, was evil and was taken on by the annis hag as a warlock. In the following weeks, Jooge the Red was behind a string of kidnappings and murders, which eventually drew the attention of adventurers in Silverymoon

Jooge the Red was an NPC present in the completed two-shot *The Barber of Silverymoon*, where he served the role of secondary antagonist.

## Description

Jooge was a slightly-balding human man with malicious smile, brown eyes, and stubble on his face. He stood tall at 5 feet and 7 inches (1.7 meters), and weighed about 200 pounds (90.7 kilograms). He wore a hat to hide the fact that he was balding, much like his fellow clone and his original counterpart. He often wore a large variety of outfits in comparison to his good-aligned counterparts, having ruined countless outfits to bloodstains brought about by his horrific experiments.

## Personality

Completely unlike the original Jooge Nopsmoth, Jooge the Red was a cruel, selfish, and murderous man. He lacked all the fatherly traits of his original counterpart, having physically and verbally abused his daughter Mops during their few interactions. The Bloody Barber was obsessed with creating perfect hair and hair-related projects, and derived most of his joy from dental and hair-related tortures that usually resulted in dead subjects. Despite being granted a great amount of power by his patron Errevastica, he hoped to one day kill her and keep the korred Bezoar to himself.

## History

Jooge the Red came into existence as a result of an unfortunate string of events experienced by the original Jooge Nopsmoth. After the original Jooge found himself heavily indebted to the Night Blades, a criminal guild in the city of Silverymoon, he drew the interest of an annis hag named Errevastica, who wished to use the barber-surgeon to get a hold of the magical korred Bezoar. Bezoar's hair, when cut, would become whatever material it was cut with, having the capability to even create completely sentient clones of mortal beings. Errevastica, in the guise of a noble woman, bought the original Jooge's debt off the Night Blades and then used the captive barber to lure Bezoar in for Errevastica to imprison. Before he himself was cast aside and thrown in an oubliette, Errevastica had the original Jooge tear out large chunks of Bezoar's hair with both of his hands. The large chunk of untainted hair became a faithful copy of the original barber, 'Jooge the Blue'. The other chunk of hair, which had been corrupted by *Errevastica's evil comb*, became an evil copy of Jooge, 'Jooge the Red'.

Once the original Jooge was cast into an oubliette, the good-aligned copy was enthralled to run the barber shop during the day, allowing Jooge the Red to use it during the night. Almost all who came in at night would be experimented on and murdered by the newly-created clone, who had been instilled with the eldritch powers of the annis hag. In a cellar that had once been a storage room, the Bloody Barber created his 'Barbershop of Evil', filled with the heads of subjects still wearing the fabulous hair he had given them before their deaths. As Errevastica had her xvart minions expand the cellar to connect it into a cave system, Jooge the Red's operation only grew.

Before he was stopped, the murderous Jooge had spent two tendays picking off victims, and freeing a few amnesiac subjects to roam the world with fabulous hairstyles. During this time he had also acquired a few prisoners, including three grung he'd used for making magical hair dye, a tabaxi sailor by the name of Two-Llamas-Running, and an abjurer from the Arcane Brotherhood by the name of Bernadette Wavesilver. With the aid of the captive Bernadette, Jooge constructed his magnum opus: the *prismatic coloring machine*, which allowed him to imbue the hair or fur of a creature with the various elements of the *prismatic spray* spell- although he was only one with any sort of control over the actual results of the machine.

After two tendays of murders, kidnappings, and experiments, the Bloody Barber's actions brought the attention of adventurers in Silverymoon who had received a tip from a disgruntled member of the city guard. These adventurers first met with the 'Good' Jooge, and later were met with the murderous clone when the warrior Komaruuk knocked on the barbershop door at night. They were allowed inside by a rude and annoyed Jooge, who then trapped Komaruuk in his seat and sent him down into the Barbershop of Evil while his xvart minions came out to deal with the others. In the chaotic combat that followed, Jooge the Red followed his subject into the underground barbershop, while the rest of the adventurers had to deal with many cloned xvart minions. Komaruuk eventually freed himself, and in the chaotic combat that involved the Bloody Barber wielding fey magics, thrown mimic wigs, and dental mask, he perished at the hands of the fire genasi wizard Lucifer.