Boby

Boby after loosing his feathers

## Statistics

*See #Abilities for additional details.*

**Boby** was a chicken who was rescued from Morgantha's Coven at the Old Bonegrinder by Elleanor Skull. He was known for his striking appearance, and being able to explode into a ball of flames.

## Description

### Appearance

Boby underwent many changes to his appearance over his lifetime. Before being rescued, Boby ressemble an average, slightly underweight rooster. After being hit by a *thunderwave*, Boby lost all of his feathers. His appearance changed once more when he ate part of Izek Strazni's fiendish arm. Barbed spines began to sprout where his feathers once were. Because of his monsterous condition, Boby could easily be confused with a cockatrice.

Elleanor Skull knit Boby a green sweater with his name on the front.

### Personality

Boby was a simple creature. He could be easily agitated, but just as easily comforted by the right person. If Boby became too agitated, he would burst into flames, often times harming nearby people, plants, and structures.

## Biography

### Rescue

Boby was initially owned by Morgantha's Coven, and was kept in a cage on the ground floor of the Old Bonegrinder. He was the only rooster in a coop with three other chickens.

In 735 BC (1490 DR), an adventuring party known as the Tourists visited Morgantha's Coven in the Old Bonegrinder. After combat began bewteen the two parties, Elleanor Skull rescued Boby and placed him within their wagon. As the conflict continued outside, the wagon was hit with a *thunderwave*, the shock of which caused Boby to loose all of his feathers.

Very early on, Boby had become the responsibilty of Elleanor Skull within group. She took care of the chicken — as a sort of mother — and even knitted him a green sweater. While in Vallaki, the Tourists had lost track of Skull's "pet", and it became Skull utmost priority to save him. She eventually tracked Boby down to a stall of butchers, who — after tense argument — returned Boby in exchange for money.

### Fiendish Gift

After the Tourists' exhile from Vallaki, Boby was left unattended once again — this time, with the nectrotic severed arm of Izek Stranzi. Starving, Boby began to nibble on the arm. He was discovered and scolded by Skull, but it was already too late — a part of the arm had been ingested. A few days later, barbed spines — not unlike those on Izek Strazni's fiendish arm — started to grow all over Boby's body where his feathers used to be.

When party arrived at Krezk, the group was split. In order to gain entrance to the village, most of the group left to investigate the Wizard of Wines and the missing delivery. Meanwhile, Shin Navarick and Ireena Kolyana stayed behind at the village, with Ancemore and Boby. During this time, the wagon burst into flames. Fearing the worst, Shin and Ireena hurried to the winery where Merwin extinguished the flames. With Boby in the center of the wagon, the Tourists rapidly learnt that he had developed the ability to burst flames all around him, much like Izek Strazni, albeit uncontrollably.

In Krezk, after Ireena Kolyana disappearance within the blessed pool, Strahd's appearance in the clouds, and the subsequent lightning strike, Boby had been startled and burst into flames. The trees within the walls of Krezk began to burn, and once again Merwin was present to extinguish them.

### Wildfire

When Shin discovered Isaac Newtan had been turned into a vampire by Strahd, he and Skull were separated from group and Boby. Later, while leaving the Vallaki Vistani Camp in the Svalich Woods, the Tourists encountered a revenant from Argynsvostholt. Without Skull to comfort Boby, he exploded into flames, burning group's wagon, along with most of their possessions. Together, they decided to abandon Boby in the woods.

When party was reunited, Skull inquired about Boby's disappearance, and took it upon herself to save him. She left into the dark woods alone. After a long night of hopeless searching and fighting, Skull came up upon a part of the Svalich Woods in flames. She cried out for Boby to return to her, and even sacrificed her homunculus servant Picato in the flames to find him. With sheer luck, Boby heard her desperate cries and returned to Skull hastely. Their bond strengthened greatly that night.

### Death

On the night of the full moon, while inside the Amber Temple, Skull transformed into a werewolf. The altercation caused Boby to panic, as usual. As the group tried to squeeze through a crevasse and escape the werewolf, Boby made for the crevasse as well. Fearing Boby would explode and cause the tunnel to crumble, Eboshi kicked him out and in front of the temple, landing beside Stan-Islav-Anna-Ivan. Without hesitation, Stan-Islav-Anna-Ivan cast *chill touch* on the bomb that was Boby. The skeletal hand of the cantrip grasped Boby and sent nectrotic engergy through him, causing him to explode. Boby was reduced to ash in front of the Amber Temple.

### Legacy

When Skull returned to the site of Boby's death, she was solemn. She took a moment to think about her feathered friend, buried beneath the snow.

## Abilities

### Fiendish Gift

After eating Izek Strazni's fiendish arm, Boby gained the following abilities:

* He had an immunity to fire damage.
* He could explode into a ball of green flames, harming those nearby. Killing Boby caused him to explode as a *fireball*, leaving behind nothing but ashes.