Briar Thistleblossom

Briar's Token

Briar Thistleblossom was one of the main player characters within the Out of the Abyss campaign after the death of Misupheles.

## Description

Briar Thistleblossom was a very, very small fairy with pallid skin - but rosy-cheeked, gaunt muscles - but nimble movements, and scrawny torso - but too large mouth. Haunted eyes loom ever-too-large on his face.

Briar wore leafy green garb that looked more like blades of grass than woven clothing. He wore an acorn's cap on his head, and hung shiny baubles and trinkets from gold chain that tied around his belt.

His raven-black hair hung wildly down to his shoulder blades and his tattered wings were purple and blue with a delicate, almost entirely washed away pattern.

He stared at people far too often and usually was hunched over with posture like a gargoyle.

## Background

Briar Thistleblossom was a Pixie of the Cloak Wood.  The Druids of Seniyad had welcomed the Fair Folk and Fey-aligned creatures into their forest with kindness at first.  Aside from a few more troublesome fey (korreds, stirges, and satyrs) who caused a little too much ruckus from time to time, the fey of Cloak Wood lived peacefully and happily dipping between the Feywild and the Material Plane.

Before coming to the Cloak Wood, Briar was a young Pixie in the court of Dulcinea, an Archfey.  There he had heard the prophecy of the six goblins.  Inebriated by the dew of a honeysuckle plant, Briar had made a little jingle mocking the prophecy and it caught on a little too well.  The song made it back to Dulcinea and there was the wrath of an Archfey to contend with when she discovered who penned it.  A few too many bad jokes at the expense of Dulcinea's interest(s) brought Briar the ire of our great and terrible Lady.  He fled right around when he felt a chill down his spine that told him Dulcinea had heard his mocking tune.

In the Cloak Wood, things went well for Briar and he was even able to stay in touch with a few fey friends in Dulcinea's court.  That changed the day the Cloak Wood's rivers, streams, and brooks were flooded with salt water as the ocean brought the minions of the Demogorgon directly to the forest.  With the roar of a horrendous beast and a single "Hey Buddies," the chaos began.

Minions began cutting at the roots of plants, hunting the animals as well as fey, and the Demogorgon, trailing behind them all, consumed and destroyed anything that was left.  Briar Thistlebottom ran and hid as best he could as he saw his friends eaten, killed, and absorbed into horrid demons and smiling monsters of the deep.  Spotting Briar in the tree hollow he had hidden in, one of the Demogorgon's heads said, "Shhhhh, don't worry.  If you want to run away, that's fine.  I won't tell him [nods to other head].  Go on now, it'll be our little secret."  Briar ran.

With the end of his world upon him, he thought of how foolish he was to ignore the prophecy that Dulcinea was so keenly interested. Briar took it upon himself to find the chosen goblins and assist them in their prophecy.

Briar asked Peter the Pear & Paul the Pecan to aid him in finding these goblins.  On his journey to find them, he traveled through:

•Gauntlgrym into the Underdark

•The fungal growths of Neverlight

•An abandoned crystal grotto

•the ruins of Gracklstugh (where he ran into Pelek who told him the goblins might have journeyed to Mantol Dereth)

•Mantol Dereth (which we do not speak of)

•Past Blingdenstone (Pelek and I left that path because marauding demons were in the way)

•Into the Wormwrithings (where we caught up with the party)

## Friends Lost Along the way

Allie the Acorn
August the Apple
Berry the Blueberry
Benny the Berryblossom
Cherry the Cherryblossom
Cinnamon the Cicada
Cindy the Citrus
Derrie the Doppler
Desmond the Dragonfly
Ernie the Elk
Ethel the Elderberry
Fennic the Flickerfox
Fernjacket the Ferret
Gertruda the Glow Worm
Henwick the Huckleberry
Ignatius the Igniter
Indigo the Iris of Ivy
Jamie the Jellycap
Juniper the Jaguar
Kyanne the Kakapo
Kiki the Kodkod
Lotuswind the Lightning Lilly
Mitah the Morel
Moon the Merry Mango
Nebula the Nightingale
Onyx the Ox
Penelope the Purple Plum
Quicksilver the Quokka
Raine the Rose
Robbie the Rabbit
Simon the Sweetpea
Summer the Sable
Stu the Strawberry
Thisbe the Thistlewhistle
Tulip the Turnip
Tomas the Turtle
Una the Ursine
Ulysses the Umbrellabird
Viennetta the Vulture
Winona the Willow
Whittaker the Whisperwisp
Xena the Xerophyllum
Yavia the Yarrow
Yancy the Yellow Bell
Zane the Zenobia
Zoe the Zebra

# Mechanics

## Personality Traits

 I know my future is written and that anything I do will lead to a prophesied end.

## Features and Traits

* Alert (Feat)
* Creature Type: Fey
* Cunning Action
* Evasion
* Fairy Flight
* Fairy Magic
* Fey Passage
* Fey Touched (Feat)
* Heart of Darkness
* Reliable Talent
* Skill Expert (Feat)
* Skilled (Feat)
* Sneak Attack
* Steady Aim
* Thieves' Cant
* Tokens of the Departed
* Uncanny Dodge
* Wails from the Grave
* Whispers of the Dead

## Skills and Proficiencies

* +9 Acrobatics (Dex)
* +4 Arcana (Int)
* +6 Decepetion (Cha)
* +8 Insight (Wis)
* +10 Intimidation (Cha)
* +8 Nature (Int)
* +12 Perception (Wis)
* +6 Performance (Cha)
* +9 Sleight of Hand (Dex)
* +13 Stealth (Dex)
* +12 Survival (Wis)

* Thieves' Tools

* Armor: Light Armor
* Languages: Abyssal, Common, Sylvan, Thieves' Cant, Undercommon
* Weapons: Hand Crossbow, Longsword, Raper, Shortsword, Simple Weapons

## Items

### Weapons

* Rapier +2 - Thistle-Blessed Blade
	+ The hilt is a blossoming thistle, the cross-guard is covered in thorny spikes, and the blade is purple (like the flower of the thistle plant).

### Magic Items

* Amulet of Health (Att)
	+ Last Dewdrop of the Cloak Woods
* Cloak of Protection
	+ Kakapo Feather Cloak
* Glamour Studded Leather
	+ Ironwood and Poppy Tunic
* Holy Water
	+ Vial of Moon's Tears
* Ring of Protection
	+ Pixe-Ring (braided preserved Mycena mushrooms)
* Ring of Free Action (given to Tremble)

### Tokens of the Departed

* (Black Pudding) glass orb filled with moving smoke
* (Minotaur) a silver spoon w/ an M engraved on the handle
* (Gargoyle) a fan that, when unfolded, shows a sleeping gargoyle
* (Shadow Demon) an enormous scale, perhaps from a dragon

### Mundane Items

* 1 sp
* +1 Skriss Weed
* x2 Dagger
* Holy Symbol (Dulcinea)
* Shortbow
* Explorer's Pack
	+ 50 ft. Hempen Rope
	+ Backpack
	+ Bedroll
	+ Mess Kit
	+ x13 Torch
	+ x10 Rations
	+ Waterskin
* Monster Hunter's Pack
	+ Crowbar
	+ Hammer
	+ x3 Wooden Stakes
	+ Manacles
	+ Steel Mirror
	+ x2 Tinderbox
* Thieves' Tools